Episode 38. first button (2)

‘What kind of person is Professor Ian… ?’

Yuri gave up the meditation he loved and walked aimlessly down the hallway.

‘Someone other than me was already teaching free magic at school.’

It was fortunate that there were people who had not yet forgotten free magic, but Yuri was not happy about that.

Master said that the only thing that can show people free magic is something that only you can do… .

‘Has Master ever lied to me?’

Except for when he chopped up carrots he didn’t want to eat and secretly added them to food.

If that’s the case, it would mean that there is a person at this school that even Master could not have predicted.

It was quite a burden for Yuri to admit that his teacher, who was the meaning of life, was wrong, and to accept that he was not the only free magic user.

It wasn’t that I hated or was jealous of Ian, but… .

I couldn’t help but wonder what kind of person Professor Ian was.

That’s when Yuri decided to ask how she could meet the professor.

“Hey! They said there was a fight! Let’s go take a look!”

“Are there days when I don’t fight here? What’s wrong.”

“No, it’s a magic duel! That’s also Mina and Dabi sunbaenim-”

“What?”

Hundreds of students suddenly started pouring out of the hallways. Embarrassed by the crowd, Yuri tries to find a way out.

“Come to think of it, is this a battle between free magic and magic?”

“Professor Ian’s best-in-class student and Agoge get first place, isn’t it?”

“It’s gonna be fun! Can Mina beat Dabi?”

As soon as he heard that, Yuri naturally joined the crowd and moved on.

The thought of going to see free magic used by someone other than Master and himself made my heart tickle for some reason.

‘Did you say Mina senior? An apprentice of professor Ian who learned free magic? What kind of person is he?’

The place Yuri went to with eyes full of anticipation… . There were people who were very scary.

* * *

Dabi, who has always fought only against easy weaklings, was nervous about a duel with a proper opponent, which he was experiencing for the first time.

‘It’s brutal. Was he originally like that?’

Under the pressure of an inferior student who had been in class E all year, Darby was already starting to get a strange feeling that things were going wrong.

‘Am I scared? What about the E class?’

He didn’t want to admit that he was breaking out in a cold sweat and his fingertips were getting cold, but the 1st grade Mina who remained in Dabi’s memory and the person in front of him were completely different people.

His eyes, which were lowered, felt nothing but coldness, and only the occasional grinding of teeth could be heard without a word.

‘I’m going to run to the end to die?’

At night, more than 100 students gathered on the roof of the Agoge dormitory, which was used as a battleground for bullies, with no chairs, and wrapped Mina and Dabi in a large circle.

“mina! Okay, scold me!”

“Senior Darby, fighting-!!”

“Kill!!”

There was no sunlight in the cloudy sky, but the rooftop started to heat up with people’s heat.

Darby now realizes that there is no back. There’s no way that the student council or faculty will come to the roof of the agoge to stop the fight, so here one of them goes completely to hell!

“Mina, you really caught me today… !”

“You do it first.”

“What?”

Mina spoke to Darby in a low voice.

“I want you to attack first.”

“Are you going to give me the right to go first? am i happy? ah… ! If you get robbed by me, are you using that as an excuse?”

“Then shall I go first?”

“… !”

Zeng-

As soon as Mina finished speaking, an ice spear the size of an adult man’s forearm was embedded around Davi.

Darby didn’t even have time to react, and the people around him started to go crazy with the advanced ice spear that was deployed immediately. The coldness of the ice, like a lie, ran up Darby’s left leg.

In fact, according to the rules of a magic duel, Darby was defeated.

The magic duel was an exchange of attacks and defenses between each other without causing direct harm to the opponent, and the attacker won when the attacker’s magic broke through the defense and came within 1m of the defender.

Darby just failed the most important defense in a magic duel.

“this… . crazy… .”

“I’ll back off. Attack first.”

As Mina melted the ice spear, cold water ran down Darby’s left leg.

Darby gritted his teeth. Since I received the right to go first in this way, I don’t want to be embarrassed anymore… .

He had to prepare the strongest magic he could use.

* * *

‘The name of the black-haired senior who nagged me is Dabi… . Then, on the other side, Mina-senpai… ?’

Originally, he should have been surprised that Mina could cast the advanced ice spear, a 3rd circle magic, like a quick attack magic, but before that, Yuri cringed at her cold eyes.

“But was Mina originally like that? I don’t think I’ve ever seen him so angry.”

“They say it’s the scariest thing when a good kid turns his eyes away… .”

“If Dabi-senpai had a fight about something, would he do that? Have you ever cursed your parents?”

Deliberately ignoring the conversations around her, Darby focused on the flow of mana.

Darby, who obtained the right to go first, unfolded the magic circles he had carefully carried, as if not to miss the opportunity. In the magic duel, although the defender can keep the attacker in check, Mina let Darby do anything.

How much do you take the penalty yourself? Dabi’s expression distorted at Mina’s confident attitude, but she couldn’t kick the opportunity Mina gave her.

‘… Even if my pride hurts, the only way to win is now when that X is not paying attention!’

I just realized that I couldn’t pierce Mina with a clumsy quick attack, seeing the ice spear casting speed.

‘Now that it’s like this, I’ll take the time to press down with the number of circles.’

There was no way that the second year had already learned the magic above the 3rd circle. Of course, some of them may have learned ahead of time through private tutoring.

‘If that’s the case, there’s no way I was stuck in the E class… !’

Circle means the work of making a magic circle composed of magical languages into a three-dimensional sphere.

Depending on the number of magic circles used, the number of circle magic is determined.

As the number of magic circles used increases, it is difficult to fully weave many magic formulas on a flat surface. Therefore, in order to use high-level magic, not only memorization and understanding of magic circles, but also high-level study on space and solids was required.

‘No matter how good your knowledge is, it’s impossible to teach yourself!’

Since magic languages interact with each other, the number of cases the caster has to think about increases squarely as the number of magic circles handled at once increases.

Even the top students of Paideia could create circles in their images with the help of a portable magic circle for the magic above the 3rd circle.

‘This is real magic!’

The ultimate in rational art that realizes one of the countless possibilities by combining magic languages filled like stars in a three-dimensional spherical space.

Sorcerers liken it.

The circle is like the creation of the universe.

“Wow, how many magic circles are there?”

“Looks like five… ? Can I use such high-level magic here?”

“They do everything they can to win.”

“Why is Mina just letting her magic openly spread like that? Are you going to accept the 5th circle magic as it is?”

Darby began to form a circle, cursing inwardly at the ignorant and chattering people around him.

If a person who can feel mana is memorizing the magic formula correctly, he can cast magic just by recalling it. However, no matter how high it is, it is only possible within 2-3 circles.

normally… . It is also great to immediately unleash the 2nd circle magic.

In terms of the amount of information, the number of magical languages used in Circle 1 magic, multiplied by 30.

In other words, it is like memorizing the entire interaction of 900 magical languages.

So, wizards who usually perform high-level magic spread out the magic circles that make up it and cast magic.

Circles that have become too complex cannot be memorized in their entirety, so the drawn magic circles are placed in front of one’s eyes, intertwined and combined in one’s head, and a three-dimensional circle is put together on the spot.

‘… That advanced ice spear is a 3rd circle magic.’

Circle 3 is a level that can be cast immediately only if you memorize the cube of 30, that is, 2700 magical languages… .

‘Before the free magic blah blah, I was already out of prowess… !’

“… X feet!”

A stream of water began to spring up around Darby. It soon boiled hot to steam, and rapidly began forming clouds over her head.

It starts to rain. The wind blew in, and the surroundings began to get chilly, as if winter had forgotten something and returned.

Have Agoge students ever seen the 5th circle magic?

‘If the weather changes while preparing the magic… .’

5 circles. The onlookers around them, who were only beginning to realize the power of it, began to evacuate Honbibaeksan Mountain.

In the scene where the raindrops gradually cooled down, the only student who remained courageous was Yuri, hiding in the shade of the stairs, showing only her face.

“I also… . That you came here the hard way Don’t ignore me!!”

Darby’s stomach trembled as if he had not been able to burn the mana around him and even reacted to the mana inside his body.

My vision faltered in the cold storm, as if I was sailing in the middle of a raging sea.

Even in the midst of this, Mina, who looked relaxed like a whale in the sea, watched the raindrops falling on her palms.

“From the 5th circle onwards, the surrounding environment also changes.”

“Yes dear… ! If you don’t defend, you will die!? I do not know… !”

As the mana in the body reacted, the eyes gradually became blurred, but Darby’s burning inferiority complex did not go away even in the rain and wind.

As if an anchor landed on the floor like a miracle.

Darby, who barely lifted his closed eyes, finally formed the 5th circle magic by connecting all the 5 magic circles.

“This is it… .”

ice storm.

The wind direction was fixed toward Mina. In an instant, the rain stopped, and lightning began to appear.

The wind got stronger. Riding on the wind, sharp shining pieces of ice began to fly towards Mina from the sky.

The sky started to roar.

* * *

Many people from afar shouted at Darby to stop casting magic immediately, but Mina, who was the target of the ice storm, was inspired by them.

‘Are you attacking with wind, ice, and lightning? An ice storm is such a magic.’

To be safe, students were allowed to use high magic in a strictly limited time and space.

It was a good experience for Mina to be able to see the 5th circle magic in person, even though she had to see the 4th circle magic like the advanced fireball a few times during her school life.

“From the 5th circle on, it combines various magics.”

“Are you a little scared now? ? Don’t be bluffing, just admit you lost! Otherwise, this will never stop… !”

Instead of answering, Mina untied the butterfly hairpin and blew it away in the wind.

Darby looked at the dark blue butterfly flapping its wings freely in the wind with blank eyes.

The angry cloud that ate the fragile worm… . Before long, the sky in the Agoge Dormitory began to fill with countless colors.

The black clouds that looked like they were going to spit out lightning at any moment, and the ice fragments that were about to be blown away by the wind and rain, were scattered in various colors every moment.

“Ahh… ?”

Dabi, who had collapsed on the rainy floor, lifted her head and looked up at the unreachable sky resentfully.

Even though the new sunlight obscured her vision, the sky she looked at contained all the colors that could exist in nature.

“That’s all… .”

flock of butterflies.

The darkness she brought has now become a festival of butterflies.

Numerous types of butterflies of unknown names suddenly gathered and flew aimlessly in the blue sky, then scattered in the spring breeze as if something had suddenly come to mind.

In the corner of the roof, someone appeared and said to Darby, frightening away the butterflies that landed on the rain-soaked weeds.

“Really, I haven’t had a good windy day… .”

In the original story, at the time Yuri’s first episode begins, Ian unexpectedly heard the news that Mina and Dabi were having a magic duel, and immediately ran to the agoge.

“Davi Bianca. You cast magic of 4 circles or higher without permission on campus, subject to disciplinary action.”

“… Is it so wrong to go all out on a monster like that?”

“You act as if you are the victim. The opponent ended the rampage without inflicting any damage on you. Thank Spearmint for his excellent response against magic that could cause dozens of casualties.”

“Damn it… . who are you! Nagging in this situation… ?”

When Dabi raised her head, a young professor with cold eyes like Mina was looking down at her.

“Davi Bianca, your duel is not over yet. Wake up.”

When Darby collapsed in the muddy water he had created, Professor Ian bent his knees and looked straight into her face.

It was a look of compassion, as if looking at a bug that had been trampled on.

“Mina defended your magic. Now it’s your turn to defend against your opponent’s attack.”

Ian notified Darby without a single movement.

“Until one of the two admits defeat, no faculty members may interfere in a mutually agreed upon duel. That’s the rule.”

“Crazy old bastard… .”

“Then answer me in your name. Do you admit that you lost to Mina Spearmint, Class E, a sophomore in Magical Linguistics?”

Pride was driven to the floor by the bottomless and endlessly approaching brutal declaration, but Darby had no other choice left.

She didn’t shed a single drop of blood, but Darby nodded sadly and wept in a miserable state.

“I… . lost.”

“Shortly, the guards will take you away. So that you can state what you did.”

Ian, who looked at Darby’s condition for a bit, stood up and looked at Mina, who had loosened her hair.

Then, he glanced briefly at Yuri, who was hiding in the corner and secretly watching them… . He sighed deeply.

“Mina Spearmint.”

“Yeah… .”

“You follow me.”