Lucy Mayril (3)
Fallen leaves bounced with every step I took.
I was wandering around the mountain as if I was half-floating, and when I ca to my senses, I was already halfway up the mountain.
I sat at the top of a vaguely visible coniferous tree and looked down at the mountain. The colors of the forest, which were once colorful, have gradually subsided.
The autumn leaves of late fall disappear one by one, and the mountains prepare to welco the next season.
The girl looks blankly at the sky.
I sniffle and take a breath, and sticky moisture sticks to my lungs.
“Is it going to rain?”
I repeated it quietly. It feels much more youthful and pure than my original voice.
A girl with a quick turn of mind becos aware as soon as she hears her own voice. Ah, this is a dream.
When I lowered my head and looked at the clothes I was wearing now, I saw that it was not the academy uniform I usually wore, but an old blouse I wore while walking in the mountains long ago.
The scenery you see is also not Aken Island.
The Raln Mountains in the northern part of the empire where I spent my childhood. An old cabin can also be seen between the spreading tree branches.
What is the reason why I dream about my childhood now?
I’m not a girl who thinks deeply enough to analyze such things. However, if it is a dream, I want to recall good mories.
What cos to mind is the owner of the cabin in that scene.
He has a bushy beard, wrinkles and a hunched back, but he is an upright man.
He calls himself an academic, but is also a top-notch wizard. All I usually do on that subject is chopping firewood, reading a book in an armchair, or playing a musical instrunt while staring blankly at the fireplace.
These are all trivial things.
An archmage who was already in the twilight of her life when a girl was just born into the world. What kind of life he has lived is completely unknown territory for the girl.
While I’m dreaming of old tis, I’ll just look at that old man’s face. With that thought in mind, the girl lightly strengthens her legs and kicks the tree.
The sound of the wind cutting through the sky and the fluttering of clothes beats on my ears.
The girl quickly jumped up and reached the front of the hut, then naturally rolled up and landed.
The sight of that old cabin makes feel like I’ve returned to my hotown.
When I look at the pretty window on one side, I can see the shadows flickering. It is not difficult to picture the back of the old man sitting in a rocking chair in front of the warm fireplace light, waiting for the girl.
The girl walks slowly and approaches the hut. For so reason, I feel excited, which is unusual for her.
– Fighting. Tuk. Tuk.
However, there is a fact that the girl overlooked. The humid air that had always made my chest feel damp. As if to recall the foreshadowing, rain soon begins to pour down.
“…”
The rain suddenly beca thicker and drenched the girl. Clothes stick to the skin because of the damp moisture. A few strands of hair stick to the cheek, showing off their presence.
The girl looked up at the pouring rain for a mont, then turned her gaze back to the cabin and swallowed her breath.
The lights are off in the cabin that seed cozy just a mont ago. The light from the bonfire visible through the window disappears in just a few seconds.
The eaves are full of spider webs, and even the neat doorknobs are covered in dust.
This is a nightmare.
Even if you realize it, you can’t help but feel tired.
I quickly opened the door and looked inside the cabin… there was soone still sitting in the rocking chair.
Dark interior. The old man turns his head little by little through the humid air.
It is a skeleton without any flesh. He grits his teeth and looks at the girl.
As ti passes, the bones have already crumbled and centipedes crawl through the holes where the eyeballs should have been.
He continues gritting his teeth and then whispers to the girl. Why didn’t you save ? Why did you pretend not to know when you had the chance?
There is no change in the girl’s expression. As always, I stare at the skeleton with blank eyes.
The skeleton curses the girl.
Don’t think that the things around you will last forever. One day, like , you will crumble away in the ravages of ti and you will be left alone, counting the days until you die. You know very well that loss cos without any warning.
After saying that, the sight of the teeth clinking together and stopping looks like a creepy smile.
The girl still doesn’t move. Little by little, the skull crumbles into powder and disappears.
The skeleton completely loses its shape, and only the clothes it was wearing remain, flopping down on the chair.
-Woe!
Lucy opened her eyes and raised her upper body.
“…”
The location is room 203 in the closed building.
The bachelor’s departnt is making every effort to restore Ofilis Hall, but it looks like it won’t be possible to move back in until at least next sester.
Until then, the old abandoned building has been decorated and used as luxuriously as possible. Still, it couldn’t be as luxurious as the Ofilis building before Banpa.
Since the situation was unavoidable, most students had no choice but to accept it.
Still, the excellent workmanship of the maids at Ofilis Hall was not lost, so the public opinion was that it was tolerable overall, except for the poor quality of the building.
Lucy wiped away the cold sweat, kicked off the blanket, and got up. Imdiately after that, I opened the window. The cool early morning air blows away the cold sweat.
The outer part of the living building and the entrance to the teaching building co into view.
The dormitory curfew has already passed. Although it was late at night, Lucy quickly put on a witch’s hat and jumped out the window without even taking off the frilly nightgown the maid had forced her to wear.
A huge amount of magical power is released throughout the body, and high-level spatial magic is manifested in an instant.
I don’t know why, but Lucy wanted to go to the northern forest right now. Lucy reached the northern forest in an instant and landed in front of an old cabin.
“….”
I took a deep breath and looked inside the window. In front of the flickering fireplace light. I saw Ed Rosstaylor sleeping in a shabby bed covered with a shabby blanket.
Lucy let out an inexplicable sigh of relief and sat down, leaning against the outer wall of the cabin.
As you stay there, you can see the entire camp view at a glance. Since Lucy has experience lying down and taking naps in quite a few places, she can imdiately notice the camp slowly losing its vitality.
The amount of firewood saved does not increase further. The sa goes for food. One of the feet of the workbench is broken, but it is not repaired. The smoker hasn’t been working for a while. All traps that should be installed in the middle of the forest are on display at the camp.
The owner of this camp is now… preparing to say goodbye to the camp.
Strictly speaking, it has nothing to do with Lucy. Nevertheless, Lucy felt empty, so she sat alone with her legs crossed and looked up at the sky.
The tracking sky also looks down on Lucy.
“Is it going to rain?”
There was no one who could specifically respond to those calm words.
* [Magic ability details]
Grade: Skilled Magician Specialty: Elent Common Magic: Quick Casting Lv 9 Mana Detection Lv 9 Fire Elent Magic: Combustion Lv 15 Wind Elent Magic: Wind Blade Lv 14 Interdiate magic can now be learned!
Spirit World Magic: Spirit Sensitivity Lv 13 Spirit Understanding Lv 13 Spirit Appearance Lv 3 Sense Sharing Lv 3 Spirit Slot: Lower Fire Spirit Mug Sensitivity Level: 3 Elental Food Efficiency: Good Unique Granted Skill: Protection of Fire (Temporary Fla Immunity Explosion) Explosion ( Lesser Explosion Magic)
Fire Magic Ability Increase Spirit Slot: Empty New Spirit Slot! : Empty
“I think I’ll soon be able to make a contract with a lieutenant spirit, Ed. rilda said I want to make a contract with Ed quickly, so if things continue like this, it might really be possible.”
The day has beco much colder.
The evaluation at the end of the second sester is also starting soon. I had already applied for the undergraduate scholarship program, but I still wanted to get a rit scholarship, so I wanted to devote so ti to my studies.
However, since discipline in other areas should not be lax, the importance of ti managent eventually surfaced again. The good news is that there are good teachers in the field of elental science.
“Ed’s growth is truly remarkable. His spirit sensitivity is already higher than that of ordinary beginner spiritists, and his basic mana sensitivity has also risen to a considerable level.”
It was a car used to practice spirit magic while sitting on a tree stump in front of a crackling bonfire.
Under Yenika’s coaching, I repeatedly mastered spirit manifestation and shared senses with Mug until I beca proficient at it.
It is said that experienced spiritists can share all five senses with spirits, but in reality, there is no need to go that far… It is said that it is efficient to train to share only the most important perspectives.
Sensory sharing is not very efficient with mana, and its effectiveness decreases rapidly when it goes beyond a certain distance, so even Yenika is not used very often unless it is needed… It feels a bit like a trick.
Still, you should learn everything you can.
[It is rewarding to gain experience by consistently giving spirit consciousness to various objects. Master Ed. ]
Mug sat on Jenica’s shoulder and jumped around. But he doesn’t look all that happy. Rather, it looks like he’s squirming as if he’s worried about sothing.
“Uh… Lucy… did I do sothing wrong…?”
Yenika is sohow smiling… but I can’t help but be concerned.
I don’t know why she’s doing that, but since morning, Lucy has been clinging to and staring at everyone who approaches with wide open eyes.
Normally, Lucy wouldn’t move unless the sun was high in the sky or she was hungry. But today, sohow, I ca to the corner of the camp early in the morning and sat down on a bed.
Usually, the maids at Ofilis Building grit their teeth and maintain a neat appearance, but today, they must have escaped from the dormitory in the wee hours of the morning and are wearing only a light frilly dress that looks like pajamas. There are definitely days in life when you feel diligent for no reason. I guess even that sweet Lucy has one or two days like that a year.
Just thinking about it, I was about to do my own thing, but suddenly he grabbed my collar and started following around.
– ‘…What?’
– ‘…’
If you look at and ask if I have anything to say, I just keep silent with a blank face. However, he doesn’t let go of his collar.
I spent the morning in such a strange state that I couldn’t even grit my teeth and shake it off.
As it was a long-awaited weekend, I decided to train early in the morning.
Now that I had a solid foundation for learning interdiate magic, I spent the morning perusing reference books on interdiate magic and wielding my magic here and there.
anwhile, Lucy lay down on her stomach on my lap and waved her feet as if in protest, refusing to fall.
When he eats an early lunch, he clings to the backboard. Afterwards, when he starts teaching himself spirit magic, he sits with his back to behind the tree stump where I am sitting and stares blankly at the sky.
Weekends are already busy.
This is a day to get all the work put off during the weekdays done because you have more free ti compared to weekdays when you are busy with the academic schedule.
When he has free ti after school or during recess before bed, he doesn’t even puff his nose… I wonder if he’s playing a trick on because he clings so persistently when there’s a lot of work to do and ti is running out.
Then, when soone appears, he suddenly changes his expression and stands erect.
When Ziggs, who was jogging, passes by, he suddenly makes a strange sound and stops him from approaching…
Belle Maia, carrying neat clothes and accessories, hurriedly cos to see him and when he tries to change, he accepts Belle’s touch surprisingly ekly.
I was wondering if he had eaten sothing wrong, so I put my hand on his forehead and asured his temperature. Instead of being hot, it was cold.
“I’ll apologize if I did sothing wrong… huh…?”
In such a strange state, by the ti lunch passed and Yenika had co to help her with elental arts mastery training, Lucy had actually beco more alert.
It feels like he’s particularly hostile toward Yenika… In fact, his expression seems closer to fear rather than hostility.
He jumps up in a cold sweat and keeps blocking Yenika from getting closer… If you ask him to explain why, he just shakes his head.
At the sa ti, I can’t tell which beat they’re asking to play because Yenika is looking at with the intention of biting as soon as I get close to within a few ters.
Yenika, who had been receiving hostility from Lucy for several days already, was just feeling unfair.
There’s sothing about being treated in that manner that makes her angry, but because Jenica’s nature is good to begin with and Lucy is giving off an unusual sense of discomfort, she just doesn’t know what to do.
“I guess I really must have eaten sothing wrong. He’s a temperantal child by nature, so if things continue like this, he’ll quickly get angry.”
I had no choice but to say that.
In the end, Lucy clung to my back like a cicada and was glaring at Yenika.
The way it wraps its arms and legs and stares at it as if telling it to go away is like a kid trying to stop soone from taking his things.
Yenika tilted her head a few tis with an anxious look on her face, then sighed and left the camp.
*
Interdiate Fire Magic ‘One Point Explosion’
is a magic developed from the ignition spell, and is an interdiate level magic that causes a small explosion by concentrating magical energy on the point of view and holding it tightly.
Firepower and scale are ultimately proportional to the amount of magical power, so depending on the user, there were cases where it ended up causing burns, and in so cases, archmages could completely destroy buildings.
It’s a spell that seems very small compared to the ignition spell, but it’s not a mid-level magic for nothing. The advantage of the one-point explosion cos from its overwhelming versatility.
Ignition magic, which has a long casting ti and clearly shows flas spreading, is easy to deal with.
However, the ‘one-point explosion’, in which flas bloom instantly from the targeted point, has an overwhelming amount of impact, and if you do not quickly catch the flow of magic power, you will be struck in an instant without any ti to react.
“I can’t learn the basics even if I spend all day… I can definitely feel that the difficulty level of learning increases significantly from interdiate level magic.”
Since it has almost no magical talent, it takes quite a while to learn mid-level magic. Is it still like this even though I did so preliminary study during the elental science lecture?
Even though I’ve been training all day using the most efficient training thod, I don’t think my na will appear in the skill window, so I’m exhausted at this point.
The sun was already setting, but I felt empty because I didn’t seem to have achieved any results.
“Ugh… let’s eat sothing.”
I closed the book on elental science and threw it around.
And then he lifted the lump of luggage on his knees.
Lucy couldn’t bear to leave, so she sat on my lap all day while I read a book on elental science and studied magic flow.
“…Ugh…!”
Lucy stretched out her small body and then spoke again with a blank expression on her face.
“…I’m hungry.”
“Go eat sothing. al ti for the Ofilis Hall students will end soon.”
“huh.”
Surprisingly, Lucy stood up without much resistance and was about to leap in the direction of the Ofilis Hall when she suddenly adjusted her posture.
He looks at while standing straight on the tree stump and then asks.
“Hey.”
“why.”
“What are you going to do when I go?”
I think it’s really weird that Lucy asks this question.
While I was gathering firewood for the bonfire to eat, Lucy looked at intently.
“I have sothing to do after eating.”
“to do?”
I quickly turned my head and looked towards the simple wooden table. Above it is the key to the secret safe that Professor Glast handed over.
Gradually, the bachelor’s investigation was completed, and the entrance to the secret laboratory that Professor Glast had created without permission was closed.
I was thinking of entering the library through the hole Lucy had drilled.
Once I entered, I had to check what the library was like… and what the contents of the safe were.
It’s too late to put it off any longer, so I’m planning to move tonight.
“Before that, we should check the bonfire and fireplace. The temperature may drop below freezing at night, so if you do sothing wrong, you could freeze to death.”
It’s ti for winter vacation.
Even though I’m wearing a lot of clothes, once the sun goes down, my breath starts to seep out. For the ti being, I plan to maintain double heating using the fla in the mug. Since there would be no need to use a large amount of magical power right away, it was wiser to save firewood.
If you join DEX, you won’t have to worry about this.
Should I join Dex Hall or live in a cabin? Both arms of the scale swing back and forth like reeds. It would be good to set a course of action for the future by at least deciding clearly before the vacation starts.
Lucy seed to be examining my expression, perhaps aware of my concerns or not…
“Let’s go together.”
It was such an incomprehensible sound.
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