Chapter 7 - Another world?!

Uhh…..Smartphone-san?

I’m what?

[You’re an infant.]

Yeah.

Apparently, I didn’t mishear.

Why an infant?

Not a toddler, but an infant?

[It’s the body of a 0-year-old child.]

Oh….

What is going on…..And where am I?

[We’re inside the Great Atlas Maze.]

The Great Atlas Maze?

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What country?

I’ve never heard of anything like that on Earth.

[Current position, out of Earth.]

Yeah, well, I had a hunch that was the case.

Like the reindeer and the wolf that is still fighting there, there is no way on earth that such a monster could exist.

I was watching this while talking to the smartphone, the wolf’s mouth is spewing fire, and the reindeer’s sword-like antlers have cracks in them.

I’d have no choice but to give up if I see a fight like this in front of me.

Ah, the wolf won.

Of course, he’s going to come to me afterward…

This is bad, Smartphone, do we have Tenshiki?

[It’s already installed.]

Then it’ll last a while?

But if I can’t move my body, eventually Tenshiki won’t be able to hold on.

What should I do?

[Shinobu can be activated.]

Shinobu?!

But that thing hasn’t been activated at all since I got sick, right?

[It’s fine.]

Well, if Smartphone says so, let’s give it a try.

And it looks like that’s the only way to do it either way.

——The name of the secret technique passed down from generation to generation in the Hattori family, our ninja clan, is “Shinobi Shobuki”

The name of this mysterious power has been used since ancient times and is referred to as ki, aura, chakra, or divine power.

By reading, feeling, and cloaking your body with this invisible power inside your body, you can enhance your physical abilities to the extreme.

As a young child, I was only able to handle a handful of these powers.

Even so, when I was only six years old, my body was strengthened to the point where I could survive being pushed off a cliff or having rocks rain down on me from above.

I was still really close to dying, though?!

My mother pushed her only daughter off a cliff with a smile and said, “A woman has guts.”!?

My father, who shouted, “Take my love” as he made rocks rain down on his daughter as she fell off the cliff, made me want to kill him?!

It was in that extreme situation that I was able to activate the secret technique.

That’s why I’m going to do it now!

First, find the power that sleeps in my body.

My power is characterized by a cherry-red, torrential liquid-like ki.

I’m going to concentrate my consciousness like I used to do, and find it.

There it is!

This is the first time in a long time that I’ve felt this power, and it feels a little different from my past, but I imagine gathering it to the center of my chest.

The fact that I naturally adopted the unique pose of clasping my hands together in front of my chest and pointing only my first finger upwards is proof that I successfully activated my power.

My…body moved.

Okay, power activated!

Shinobi energy overflowed from inside my body, and a cherry blossom-colored aura covered my body.

The aura startled the wolf, and he hurriedly distanced himself from me and ran away.

“Sakuya-sama. In your current form, there are about three throttles of power available for power activation, and you can only last about five minutes, so please be careful.”

When I saw it in my vision, I immediately released my power.

Then my body stopped moving at all again, and my head fell to the ground.

Oof!

If I hadn’t been protected by Tenshiki, I would have been in trouble.

This is what happens when you can’t hold your head up……

There is——

If the previous one was 3 throttles, I’ll try 1……0.5 throttles and see if my body moves.

Oh, I’m moving pretty heavily, but it works!

But then again….This is how a baby can move.

Huh?!

Smartphone, where are you?!

I don’t have you on me!

“Sakuya-sama, my lady, I’ll always be inside you.”

No, no, no, I don’t understand what you mean.

Does that mean it’s implanted in my body?

What’s that? It’s scary.

Besides, didn’t you just display it in my field of vision as well as with voice?

Do I have eye lenses?

“Yes.”

…..Is it really attached?

Ouch?!

It’s not attached at all!

Does that mean it’s buried in my eye?

What is that? That’s really scary.

For now, I’m hungry.

I haven’t eaten anything, come to think of it.

The first thing I need to do to escape this cave is to survive3, right?

There is no point in surviving in this world without Otoha, but I might as well stay alive until I find out what I’m up against.

Well, it’s such a strange and incomprehensible world.

I’m just going to try my best.

By the way, Smartphone, how much do you know about this world?

[I think I have a certain amount of knowledge. There are traces that someone installed it on me.]

Is it because of that someone that I’m in this situation?

I don’t like the feeling that something is being done to me without my knowledge.

I think I’m going to collapse from hunger.

Oh, I’ve already collapsed……On my head.

“Detected a plant that appears to be a fruit in the vicinity. The position is displayed on the eye lens.”

If we’re going there, is that a relatively safe path?

If we can get around it well, we’re unlikely to encounter aunty demons.

I think I can get there in the time I can move.

That’s why I’ll use three throttles of Ninki!

I had activated it at 0.5 throttles earlier, so I had less than four minutes left in which I could move.

It’s convenient to be able to see the remaining amount of time with the eye lenses.

I’m still a baby, thinking about it.

It’s not normal to be able to walk in such a condition.

No matter how much of a ninja I am, that would have never happened in the real world.

Well, for now, I’m thinking about food.

I’m hungry and that’s all I can think about.