Chapter 8 – First Lesson (4)
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Until he calls my name
I just
It was nothing more than a gesture.
When he called my name
I go to him
Has become a flower
Like he called my name
Suitable for his color and scent
Someone call my name
Go to him and
I want to be his flower.
We are all
What do you want to be
He to me I to him
I want to become an unforgettable trace.
〈 A poem by an unknown poet 〉
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My vision is blurry. Where am I now?
Is it a dream It’s too clear to be a dream.
Is it real? It is too opaque to be real.
Wherever I am, where am I right now?
You can see the ceiling. What kind of room
I woke up and found myself in the bedroom.
Looking at the interior that couldn’t have been in my room, it probably wasn’t my room.
Move your limbs around.
The arms move… But the weight is placed on the legs.
It makes a crackling sound. All right? Was this really the sound from the legs of a person who had just woken up?
When I lifted the blanket, there was something like a black chain on my leg.
Incarceration? Who? Why?
As questions continued, someone opened the door.
“Ed, did you sleep well?”
It was a woman’s voice. I just couldn’t figure out who it was.
“What is this on my leg?”
“Oh, is that it? Ed kept telling me to leave me, so I couldn’t help it.”
“You can live here with me for the rest of your life…❤”
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It was a dream.
A life of confinement in an unknown space for the rest of your life?
Just imagining it makes me go crazy.
Why am I dreaming like this? I haven’t had a dream in about 5 years.
Did you have this dream because of the story I told you yesterday?
What the professor said yesterday runs through my head. Normally, I would have just laughed it off.
Even if I try to deny it, I try to live in a corner of my head.
No matter how much I thought about it, there were not one or two strange things.
Is Miss Seria really obsessed with me? If yes, why? With what motive?
Cause-and-effect relationships that don’t fit tell you to put your thoughts back.
Considering the possibility at a contradiction like this was the same as saying that I would use magic instead of using mana.
It would be more reasonable to say that the stress accumulated over the past 10 years has now exploded.
What I chose was to just dismiss it as a dog dream and pass it on.
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After rationalizing that a dream is a dream, if you get paid, you have to work.
I was on my way to the mansion today.
Quite familiar paths, familiar gates, and familiar people
I was getting used to this daily life before I knew it.
“Hello teacher”
“Hello, Miss Seria.”
“Let’s start our classes in earnest from today.”
“Yes, teacher”
“I decided to do 3 classes on weekdays, every other week, once on the weekend, so I’ll do one main subject on weekdays and other subjects on weekends.”
“Today, then, let’s start with geometry. The textbook will be the [Geometry] Book used by the academy.
You will have to buy it anyway, and you will have to memorize the basics there.”
“The general progress will be like this, but is there anything you don’t like or would like more of this to be done?”
“I don’t have anything on my mind right now. I think it’s better to do that first.”
“What is the subject of geometry?”
Geometry deals with shapes. There are many magics in the world, but most of them are first learned in geometry.
It does not deviate greatly from the structure of points, lines, planes, and solids. Simple spells usually have a linear structure,
Figures also belong to faces. If you go to a higher level of magic, you will now see a magical structure using three-dimensional and higher dimensions.
However, if you only finish the academy, you probably won’t see it until you die.
“Hmm…Isn’t it dealing with shapes?”
“That’s only half correct.”
To put it another way, geometry deals with the structure of magic.
Circuit studies is about learning how to create a structural formula and how to create a circuit that allows magical energy to flow after formulating a structure.
Based on those two, now we are going to create a full-fledged ordering ceremony.
“To be precise, it is the study of learning the structure of magic formulas.”
“Most people use the 1st level of geometric magic well, even if they don’t know the structure.”
“Take light magic as an example.”
I wrote the word ‘lux’ on a practice sheet.
“From the point of view of geometry, not only this simple magic, but also this dangerous and high-magic spell is the same level of magic.”
‘Tenebris, excitare’
“What kind of magic is this?”
“It’s a dark magic that was used a long time ago. It’ll probably come out in the first exam of the second year anyway.”
“Can I submit that?”
“It’s structurally simple, but the activation conditions are really tricky, so even if you write a formula and put magic here, it won’t activate.”
It looks really simple, but that formula has complex triggering conditions. So it has become almost a private culture, but from the test taker’s point of view, it is
Since there is no formula like that among the elements, it is a problem that always changes its appearance. I was also wrong when I first encountered that expression.
“It’s famous because of its singularity. If you go to college for dark magic studies, you’ll probably learn to analyze that formula first.”
Perhaps, for an academy student, how this is presented is more important than that.
“Do you have the book now?”
“No, I haven’t bought it yet.”
“Then write down what I tell you somewhere. These are the types that can come out of the test.
It will be easier to study later if you move it to the appropriate part of the book.”
‘A case where the geometric hierarchy differs from the spelling hierarchy’
‘Example) lux, Tenebris, and excitare are the same geometric first order, but there is a difference in spelling.”
I glanced at her while she transcribed, and her expression brightened.
It might not be fun, but I wonder if it’s fun.
It seemed that she would have become a more accomplished wizard had she not let go of the theory.
Just when she thought that life at the academy was painful, her words broke her thoughts.
“I wrote everything down.”
Anyway, I just had to raise my grades, so I put my thoughts aside for a while and continued the class again.
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As a result of taking classes in earnest, teaching was more difficult than I thought.
It was a private tutoring, so even though I only taught certain parts in depth, it was never easy to teach something to others.
To put it in an extreme way, even if I teach only the parts that can come out, I teach from beginning to end.
Professors have become more respectful.
“Today’s lesson ends here.”
Upon hearing that, she let out a sigh and put down her pen.
“What are you doing?”
First of all, it was the first day of full-scale class, so I did it my way.
If there was anything I didn’t like, I would have to fix it.
“No, I just think I let go too much.”
“You can do it slowly. We have some time until the semester starts.”
“Is there anything else you would like me to do or do?”
“I think it’s okay as it is. Thank you, sir.”
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It seems to be going well. It would be correct to say that we are on the right track.
I think I can finish most of this before the semester and finish this tutoring.
Upon leaving the mansion’s door, there was a familiar yet unexpected person.
“Why are you here?”
The one I saw after coming out of the gate was Heina Thorlern.
“I came here because I had work nearby, and then I saw the mansion where you were tutoring.
I wonder if we can have dinner if we wait.”
I don’t think they told me when it would end, but how did they know?
“You told me the other day when you were drinking.”
“It’s kind of angry that you only look at the expression and reply.”
Am I expressing my thoughts so well on my face, or does he know me well because he has seen me for a long time.
“So dinner?”
“Where.”
“I always go”
After that, the two of us moved towards the restaurant without saying who came first.
However, I felt a strange gaze and turned around.
“Why?”
“Suddenly, because of something.”
“Aren’t you sleeping these days?”
“Okay. Let’s go quickly.”
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Peroz Mansion.
Seria Peroz was following Edward Weiss’ back with her eyes.
Lately, she’s been in a great mood.
She didn’t go to school so she didn’t have to face the students’ eyes, and more so because her latest class was so much fun.
The content of her class was a theoretical subject that Seria avoided, but it didn’t matter to her recently.
Because she enjoyed learning from him. In fact she didn’t even know herself why she was having fun when she talked to him.
Is it a human feeling? It would be better to think so now.
So after he left, watching his back through the window was a very insignificant act, but she enjoyed even that.
The problem was after that.
Another woman appeared in front of him. I couldn’t hear what she was saying, but I could see her expression and behavior.
It seemed pretty close.
I felt bad all of a sudden. It wouldn’t be wrong for him to talk to other people either, but for her now, it’s just
She was perceived only as a bad person who took away her own interlocutor.
She herself did not understand her own feelings. Clearly, his relationship with her must be that of a simple teacher and student.
Then why did this unknown feeling arise now?
As his thoughts grew muddy, he suddenly turned around.
She instinctively sat down and was able to cool down a little.
It was only later that she realized that her feelings were jealousy.
