## Chapter 393 – Unintentional Intent (13)
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“It’s a bit complex, but through the formula I mentioned earlier, the mana-arrayed liquid metal can be etched with magic circles!
Now, are there any questions?”
“However, liquid metal with high fluidity cannot maintain the shape of a magic circle, can it?
Is there a magical basis for how that is possible?”
“Professor Eloise, who advises us, has been a great help in that area.
The magic circle etching is processed through mana manipulation, not physical form!
So that it has properties that allow the form of the magic circle to be almost maintained even if it loses its shape!”
“Hmm… So that means…
Isn’t this more of a technology in the field of magic than the liquid metal itself?
Wouldn’t it be better to call it fusion magic engineering…?”
Eyes filled with disappointment and suspicion at the reality of the expected technology.
However, without being discouraged, she wore a slight smile on her face, and then opened the box prepared on the side table, taking out two beakers from inside.
“I thought you might see it that way, so I prepared this.
This is ordinary liquid metal, mercury.
If you look, if you go through the same process here…”
While everyone’s attention was focused on a magician standing next to her raising his hand and casting the prepared magic.
Eventually, even though the light disappeared, unlike one beaker that started to move.
“Hoo… It’s not being processed…
It seems there is a difference between them.
I guess it’s an alloy mixed in a special ratio.”
Seeing that the contents of the opposite side did not move even slightly, the scholars each expressed surprise and stared intently at the beaker.
With that as the final blow, the girl with her unique bright smile appealed to the distinctiveness of her research as if driving a wedge.
“That’s right!
If I had only received help from magic, I might not have been able to exhibit it?
Because magic etching is only possible with alloys mixed in a specific ratio.
You can think of it as liquid metal processing based on that!!”
“If that’s the case, there’s no room for further objection.
It must be a formula created through countless failures and challenges.
It’s an exceptionally great talent.”
Starting with one person, applause filled the room, and Karla, with a bright smile, bowed her head and gave her final greeting.
Shortly after, Karla, who finished her presentation and went behind the stage to clean up, was approached by a large shadow.
“You worked hard, Karla.”
“Brother! How was it?”
“Of course it was the best.
The old geezers’ eyes were wide open.
Whose research is it that they’re so suspicious of?”
“You said suspicion is the key to finding clues for creation!!”
“Of course, that’s true, but…
Karla’s research is nothing but perfect.
Yup! That’s right!”
Antonio, as always, indulging in his sister complex, stroked her head, and Karla smiled and accepted the pleasant touch.
But perhaps because there was a bit of regret in that touch.
Karla blinked her eyes and closed her mouth tightly at the hand that was withdrawn and the voice that followed.
“But is it okay?
In some ways, it’s a very precious opportunity.
I’m worried that you’re throwing it away.”
“It’s not like that…”
“Karla…”
Even with Antonio’s worried question, Karla didn’t change her expression and just smiled brightly.
“Brother is here now, right?
I just want to do the same…!!”
At Karla’s confident answer, Antonio eventually nodded his head.
“Okay. Then I’ll persuade our parents.
If your will is so firm, they will surely understand.”
Karla, who was waving her hand at Antonio who was turning around and leaving, took a deep breath as she watched the stage where the amplified voice was coming out due to the amplifying magic tool.
“Because I still like it here more…”
The day after the successful presentation visited by the Barmhausen delegation.
Karla, who finished her engineering building class early, had been staying in the workshop for a long time due to preparing for the presentation, and was about to return to the dormitory for the first time in a while.
“Hmm, I found you.”
“Huh? Brother?
Why suddenly… Heuk!!”
Antonio, who appeared in front of her, immediately picked her up and took her to his house and workshop.
“Brother! Explain it to me!!”
“I already know what choice you made.
I was thinking of hearing about what you’re going to do in the future.”
“In the future……”
“To be honest, I already contacted our parents yesterday.
But they seem to be angry about your choice this time.
Our parents also know that this matter depends entirely on your choice.
But whether you can take responsibility for your choice is another matter.”
Antonio sat Karla on the sofa, then pulled a chair from the opposite side and sat down in front of her.
“I didn’t think it would be this much either.
I think they seem to be quite heartbroken.
It seems like they’re thinking of cutting off all support except for tuition.
I’m curious if you have any countermeasures prepared for that.”
Karla’s voice, which slightly trailed off at Antonio’s question, trembled, and she slowly lowered her eyes.
In order to understand the current situation, it is necessary to hear the details of how the situation has progressed so far.
To put it simply, Karla had flatly rejected the admission to the Mechanian Engineering Academy proposed by Barmhausen’s home country.
Moreover, it was a bonus that she rejected a fairly luxurious offer that included a scholarship and partial support for research funds.
What is the Mechanian Engineering Academy?
It is the center of engineering research in Barmhausen.
Various talents dominate engineering journals that pour out every day, establishing theories, developing new technologies, and presenting them.
In some ways, it was a land of opportunity for alchemists and engineers where they could encounter engineering technology one step above Saint Flanicina Academy.
If Saint Flanicina Academy is loved as a place of study as a repository of comprehensive knowledge of the three human-inhabited areas, the Mechanian Engineering Academy itself is a training ground for engineers in the home country to hone their capabilities to the extreme.
Therefore, it would be understandable for everyone that one’s own opinion is the most important, but there are also those who feel frustrated that they cannot seize the opportunity while watching that scene.
Perhaps her parents were such cases in this case.
“Tuition and dormitory fees are included, so there will be no problem with housing.
But the remaining living expenses will be the last this month.
I want to help if possible, but I can’t say I don’t understand my parents’ feelings.”
The Sterben family was always a harmonious family, and they loved their daughter Karla as much as their eldest son Antonio.
However, perhaps her parents’ feelings of disappointment about their daughter Karla lightly missing out on this ‘opportunity’ were inevitable.
At least Antonio was confident that his parents, who were temporarily heartbroken, would soon understand their daughter’s choice, but at least that was not the fact needed for Karla right now.
As the older brother of his precious younger sister, he always overprotected her.
If you had to be picky, he wanted to take the child out of the dormitory right away and feed her only good and delicious things three times a day, and stay right next to her to help her study.
Antonio also knew that he could not live in this harsh world in that way, so he was treating his younger sister in front of him as an engineer and alchemist.
“Don’t you have anything you’ve thought about how to do?”
“……”
In fact, Karla suddenly felt fear at her parents’ decision to cut off overall support, starting with living expenses, excluding academy tuition.
Looking down at Karla, who couldn’t say anything and was groaning, Antonio paused for a moment, then clapped his hands together and continued speaking to her.
“You have to show that you can do it.
You’ll have to do it with your own ability for the time being.
Find a sponsor, Karla.”
“Sponsor…?”
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“He told me to find a sponsor…
I don’t know how to do it…”
“What…? Sponsor……?
Did Karla’s brother really say that…?”
“Huh? Why?”
“It’s… It’s dirty…!! Without affection…!!
Just lusting after the body with money…!!”
“Yui? What is that? Aren’t you misunderstanding something?
A sponsor is short for sponsor.
It’s about finding someone who will support me by seeing the potential of my abilities.”
At Yui’s reaction, who was making a fuss, Karla, who was sitting next to her on the bedside, blinked her eyes as if it was strange and continued to explain to Yui.
“Hmm…! Ah… I knew it…!!
Karla must have misheard me!”
What can you do if that’s what she says?
Karla, who nodded her head to Yui as if that was the case, continued to tell Yui what her concerns were.
“Ugh… Ugh… Anyway…!!
I have to find a sponsor…
My brother has a few places he recommended, though?
He told me to go there and persuade the sponsors.”
“Then isn’t that what you should do?”
“Actually… They’re all my brother’s friends’ families…”
Come to think of it, Antonio couldn’t completely let go of his worries about his sister, so he had chosen people he could trust among the people he knew in advance.
In fact, Yui’s words were somewhat valid. In fact, if you dig into the word sponsor, there were sometimes dirty relationships involving money.
Just like the relationship between Serkov and Verdi, the representative cockroach couple of the nest, who are now no less than lovebirds, in the early days.
Instead of receiving tuition or other support that allows them to attend the academy with sponsorship, female students often fall into the role of sex toys for wealthy nobles or wealthy people among female commoner students who lack financial resources.
Rather, the Serkov and Verdi couple were lucky that the end was pure love(?), but the treatment Verdi received at the beginning was literally a trash can for emotions, as well as a convenient sperm receptacle.
However, unlike the two couples who became happy together after their hearts connected.
Some commoner female students were different in that they wasted their bodies and did not produce as much output as they attended the academy.
They become secret concubines of aristocratic families at the same time as graduation, or their economic sense is plunged into the mud because of the money they can receive as long as they pay with their bodies.
Not only do they fail to use what they have learned as a job, but they gradually fall into the abyss, and in the end, they take the whore tech tree, where they have no choice but to sell their bodies.
Therefore, Antonio wanted to provide Karla with the safest method possible without being caught by her parents.
The places Antonio recommended were generally aristocratic families to which people who were friendly to Antonio belonged, and they had already received tacit requests and were willing to treat Karla well as long as she came.
Therefore, if she just goes and pretends to persuade them, Karla can actually finish her academy life and graduate without having to worry about anything after that.
Yui, who seemed to know the reason why Karla seemed hesitant, smiled faintly and sat down next to Karla, hugging her waist tightly.
“You want to do it properly if possible, right?”
“Hehe… I know I’m in a desperate situation…
But I can’t just gloss over it, can I?
I have pride as an alchemist!!”
Listening to Karla’s determination as she clenched her cute fist, Yui burst into a gentle laugh and buried her face in her shoulder.
Then, Yui suddenly became curious about Karla’s thoughts.
“But I’m curious, Karla.
Why did you reject admission to the Mechanian Engineering Academy?
It’s good news for Karla…
In fact, if you had just done that, you wouldn’t have to worry about this…”
Perhaps it was a very fundamental question.
Karla seemed to have never even thought of asking such a question, and she was organizing her thoughts as if she was momentarily speechless.
“Ah… That… That’s because……?”
“What is it? Tell me quickly…!”
Looking at Karla’s appearance, Yui wondered if Karla had some great plan in mind, and she was watching Karla’s lips move with a pounding heart.
But at Karla’s voice, who seemed to be thinking for a moment and then continued to speak lightly, Yui opened her mouth slightly and made a blank expression.
“But, Yui is here, right?
I want to graduate with Yui?”
Then Yui thought.
Her best friend may be more hopeless than expected.
“Hehe!! Karla is such an idiot.
You’re asking for trouble because of that…
Aha ha ha!! Ahat!!”
“Eh…? Did Yui want to break up with me?
That’s too much…!! I stayed because I wanted to be with Yui!!
Don’t laugh!!! I’m not going to talk to Yui anymore!!”
“Really?”
“Really!!”
“Hmm? You answered?”
“Eiiiiit!!”
But that’s why she’s even more precious to her.
While the two girls were laughing and talking brightly, something wriggling inside one girl’s stomach was quietly listening to their story.
Of course, it was only natural that the four pairs of eyes of that being were twinkling as if they had heard an interesting story.
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