Challenge #02448-F258: Butsuri Mage
There is a famous or infamous trends that been happening in the anime community of people going to other worlds and become the most broken character in the series, called the isekai genre. So let set this up. You've been transported to another world. You had been studying some post grad physics and know a thing or two about the world. But in this world, there's magic and it is heavily influenced by how the world works in yours. Soon enough you became the most powerful mage in existence. -- Anon Guest
One moment, Shin had been browsing a crowded old curio store of the Escherian variety[1], the next, he was falling from a purple sky towards an open field of low plants. Not that he could see in that great a detail from that height. The next surprise, after coming to terms with the rapidly-approaching ground, was the animal person who rose to greet him. It was easy to tell they were an animal person. They were people-shaped, covered in fur, and had a snout and pointy ears.
...and very pointy teeth when they grinned. "You're new," they cheered, and caught Shin in a hug. "I'm helping!"
What happened next would be confusing until it was explained to him. The rate of their fall slowed, and assorted strawberries from the fields below zoomed upwards into the air around them. First, the fattest strawberries bordering on being too overripe, then the smaller and greener ones until stones and clods of earth elevated from the field. They only elevated a few inches, because by then they were safely close to ground level.
The earth fell first. The fruit fell with an interesting splat, covering them all with strawberry juices. "Hi," said the animal person, tail wagging furiously. "I'm Koinu, and we're going to be best friends." As if to prove this, they enthusiastically began licking strawberry juice off of Shin.
Shin tried to fend the creature off, still confused as to the goings on, when another impossible being appeared. They were clearly an Elf, the pointy ears and indescribable beauty were dead giveaways. "I see you've met my apprentice. Good morrow, I am Janshiru, and you are the Hero Foretold."
That was just the beginnings of Shin's bizarre adventures under the purple sky. Learning the art of Butsuri Mage. What surprised him was how easy it was to grasp the fundamentals. It was, after all, simply physics. Physics that could be pushed and pulled by the will of the wielder, but physics nonetheless. Koinu was a little bit bitchy about his fast pace of learning, and his ability to outpace her in the space of a couple of months. She couldn't help it, after all. She was a dog person.
[1] As in, the geometry of the store could have easily been drawn by M. C. Escher. One can climb three sets of stairs, whilst browsing the labyrinthine shelving, and surface near the front door. Or at least, it's easy to believe that could be possible.
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Koinu managed to be way too cute in way too short a space of time XD
Of course she did, she's still a pupper
It was that "You're new! I'm helping!" that did me in XD