Songstress of Schwarzwald: The Secret of Zoe, the Exiled Music Mage Chapter 6 : Magic, Magic, Magic♪

Selina calls herself a “great witch,” but I don’t think she’s cut out to be a teacher.

She showed two spells at the beginning, then simply left to figure things out on my own.

Every morning I wake, make porridge, give the floor a quick sweep, and after breakfast spend all day practicing magic by myself. anwhile, Selina just lies on the couch reading books.

If she at least appeared busy with sothing important, I could tolerate it... but after a whole week of failing to use magic at all, she continues to ignore completely.

“Maybe I just can’t use magic?” I complain to rry and Ben, but the two goats pay no mind. They’re just munching away at the grass.

Even though the wind’s turned cold as autumn deepens, the grass in the Great Forest remains lush and green. Selina says it’s because magical power perates the whole forest.

I don’t understand the connection between magical power and flourishing grass, but I’m only seven and have just started learning magic.

Will I understand it soday? Or will I simply accept it as “that’s how things work” and forget I ever wondered?

I’m pondering this because I’m getting tired of chanting spells. Besides Selina, only rry and Ben are around, so I sit near them to grumble, though they offer no comfort.

“I wish I could at least visit Lang Village!”

Selina lives like a hermit because she’s a witch—and a great witch at that. She claims it’s because important people constantly ask her to do things, which annoys her.

I’ve begged her several tis to “take to Lang Village!” but she just ignores . When I tried to follow her, the barrier surrounding the house stopped .

Now I can leave the barrier, but... I don’t know how far I’d need to walk to reach Lang Village, and I’m uncertain whether that animal path continues the entire way.

“I can’t buy anything even if I do reach Lang Village... I really need to learn to gather dicinal herbs!”

This is where my inability to use magic becos problematic. I could leave the barrier right away, but monsters lurk outside.

“Without magic, I can’t venture beyond the barrier... but if I’m not going to beco a witch...”

Could a seven-year-old girl survive in Lang Village? In my previous life, soone would probably have taken in. But this world isn’t so kind.

I have plenty of complaints about Selina, but I’ve gotta be grateful that she raised —a foundling baby with no connections.

Why was I abandoned? I’ve pondered this question hundreds of tis. My parents sure were terrible!

But children need dreams to survive.

When I read stories about princesses kidnapped by minions of evil... I wonder if perhaps that happened to too.

I don’t believe I’m an actual princess. I’ve read so adult books I wasn’t supposed to, and I know that kings and nobles sotis keep mistresses and have children with them.

According to Selina, few people can use magic. Almost no commoners possess the ability.

So maybe... I can’t use magic yet. But if I have the talent, maybe I have noble blood. Though, considering they abandoned in a forest like this, I doubt my parents would welco my existence.

It’s a harsh reality.

“Haah... I really need to learn magic if I want to survive.”

I sotis entertain the naive thought that maybe I could simply stay in this house and live under Selina’s care forever... but Selina seems quite old.

I’ll outlive her. Which ans eventually I’ll need to support myself.

“Phew...” Sighing won’t help practice magic.

I gather myself and begin practicing magic from the beginning. But first, having a little fun won’t hurt, right?

When Selina unsealed my magic, she also unlocked my past-life mories up to my childhood.

In that world, I was surrounded by parents and family, completely absorbed in singing and music. The language differs from here, but there are so many lodies, and they’re wonderful.

“La-la-la♪”

I want to translate the lyrics into this world’s language eventually, but right now I simply want to sing for pleasure.

My only audience consists of rry and Ben, but humming the songs I rember lifts my spirits sky-high!

“Rasonpré♪”

Still in that excited mood, I sang the spell and—amazing! A pile of tree branches appeared before !

“I did that with magic! I actually did it!”

I leap up and spin around! rry and Ben bleat “eeh!” looking rather annoyed, though.

“Next is Air Cutter. I should be able to cut those thin branches, right? Air Cutter!”

Huh? It didn’t work... That’s strange! I managed Rasonpré, so why not this? Or did I really succeed with the first spell?

“Rasonpré!”

Nothing. The branches aren’t gathering at all. It’s exactly like before. Perhaps being in that euphoric mood was what made it work?

To get pumped up, I need to sing!

Selina sotis gets drunk on wine, then starts singing. She’s a bit off-key, but it’s helpful for learning songs from this world.

After singing one song, I’m back in that excited mood.

“Air Cutter♪”

Oh! The thin branch snapped cleanly in half.

“I did it! Now I can use two spells!”

La-la-la♪

I leap and dance around. But rry and Ben appear hugely annoyed, so I stop imdiately.

Tis like this make wish I had friends.

“I have to tell Selina!”

She might be unfriendly, but we’re the only people in the Great Forest. And she is my teacher who’s trying to teach magic, after all.