Editing Failing Witch:Volume2 Episode2 (section)

===Part 7===

However, all Myousou Yagoro could do was help out with the cooking.

He was not a prep school student – he was a tutor who had tagged along. Which meant he was not paying the tuition. The camping gear and food had been paid for by the hopeful witches, so he would have felt wrong eating that food.

So instead he slipped away from the group and prepared a fishing rod.

For some reason, Schanze approached him.

“What do you want?”

“You totally know that already, don’t you? I’m not paying a tuition either. I know the instructors aren’t supposed to have to pay, but I’d still feel bad eating their food.”

Salary-focused prep school instructors could be particular about these things.

“Are you using the water mirror?”

“That’s right.”

There were ways to determine the location of fish without a sonar-based fishfinder.

One magical method of searching out villains, such as someone who stole a personal item, was to complete a special process and then peer into a vessel full of water. To get back at the thief, you could stick a blade into the water to cut their face, marking them.

Although this sort of thing reminded Yagoro more of an old urban legend about searching for a marriage partner.

(If possible, I want Viocia’s group to move past using the camping gear they brought outside the forest. That would give them a situation where they can borrow the wisdom of nature itself.)

“Ohh, that’s a really cool fish reading you’re getting. Hm? But it’s moving weird. Like it’s totally used to dealing with people. I guess that’s what you get with a popular campsite. Oh, wow, that fish totally just escaped from the hook!”

“Then this calls for a bit more intervention.”

Yagoro grabbed a flat rock with his other hand and gave it a sharp toss. The rock skipped across the water’s surface, scaring the fish into a sudden change of direction that brought it right toward the hook.

The tutor boy held the rod firm and tugged hard.

“There’s one.”

“Hee hee☆ Looks like I totally won’t go hungry tonight!”

“Now, Schanze, did you do anything at all to help? You just got through nobly saying you couldn’t eat the students’ food, but now you’re going to take my food!!”