Episode 7. Lecture 1 (3)

“What are you doing? come out.”

“ah… . Yep!”

Mina ran to the podium where Professor Ian was standing in a cold sweat.

The overwhelming size of the auditorium made even the 80 students look like a small number, but Mina’s body twisted when all eyes were on her.

‘Why are you doing this to me? How many times has this already been called… . Could it be that I was filmed?’

Usually, professors didn’t pay much attention to her, a hopeless inferior student. Mina, who was not interested, tried calling the professor at school for the first time today.

Originally, he was in a position to be grateful for such interest, but the problem was that Professor Ian, who kept appointing him, was the school’s best trouble maker who was organizing the ranks against the princess.

To be able to go out like this, even the notorious Professor Dana couldn’t be pushed back!

‘No, maybe even more…’ ?’

Since the goal of the professors here is usually to advance to the Imperial Family Society, most professors were frantic about making at least one point of contact with the Imperial Family.

So, even though she was in E class like Mina, all the professors flattered and flattered Princess Frill.

‘Because the princess is also a student here, is she late… . What are all these people? Aren’t you afraid of the imperial family?’

Got caught by a strange person

Looking at the pitying eyes of the other students on the podium, it seemed that he was not alone in thinking this way.

‘Why me… .’

Do you really want to check your capabilities to see if the feeling of expulsion is right? Or because I was being cheeky at the office?

I couldn’t understand his intention clearly, so I looked at Professor Ian with complicated eyes, but he continued the class regardless of whether Mina was looking at him or not.

* * *

“Magic is the rearrangement of indiscriminately scattered mana, and in order to rearrange the mana, the first thing to do is to react the mana. The factors that mana reacts to are, first, the caster’s perception. Second, there is the magic language. … The student who just yawned there. yes you Don’t look around, because you are.”

I asked the frozen male student as if embarrassed.

“Can you perceive mana?”

“yet… . It has not reached that level.”

“But you’re yawning during the lecture. It’s because the second year still doesn’t recognize mana… . In my eyes, I can see your future being crushed by freshmen, but are your eyelids closing now at the subject that is far behind?”

I could see the princess who had been bombed together in the wide-area provocation making a sad face, but I wasn’t doing this without thinking.

frilly princess.

i know her

She was a character who plays the role of licorice in this novel.

He has a bad head and a strong sense of pride, but he is not an evil character.

It is enough to explain that the character is mild-tempered, an evil young lady who comes to her senses after being scolded by the main character while carrying out a shallow plot that anyone can easily understand.

Since the emperor, who knows that Frill is mentally still very young, does not readily accept her childishness as part of his discipline, Frill does not cause a big incident or change the flow of the novel by claiming that he is a princess. don’t

If you think positively, he was the only person who could find a human side despite the stern image of the imperial family.

That’s why, it won’t happen that Frill destroys my life by asserting the authority of a princess.

Since this happened, I had to endure the rumors to a certain extent and maintain a consistent and cool teaching concept even in this class.

Since he had already raised his head to the princess, it would look even weirder if he suddenly started to squirm.

“If you know, so you can focus. Coming back to the lecture, if talent and proficiency do not support it, it is clear that mana cannot be felt. Even so, how can you use magic?”

“… I use it by chanting the magic language.”

“yes. Even if you can’t recognize Mana, if you chant the magic language, Mana will respond on its own. Since the magic language is the words of the Bible, the mana from the Goddess reacts to the spoken words of the Bible. Spearmint?”

“… Yeah?”

I asked her to cast a simple spell.

As everyone’s eyes turned to her again, the Mint student looked back at me and gave me a look of despair.

He seemed to have given up on the fact that there was nowhere to hide in front or behind.

‘sorry… . Even if I want to show it myself, it’s because I don’t know how to use magic.’

I couldn’t do the magic demonstration for her, so in the end, she asked in a sullen voice.

“Would it be okay if it was a fairy light… ?”

“Does not matter. Instead, raise your voice when you sing so that other classmates can refer to it.”

“yes… .”

Perhaps it was the first time he had raised his voice so loudly in class and received everyone’s attention, Mint’s legs trembled even while casting his magic.

Everyone was watching her like a lamb on a scaffold.

“Eid when saif inear gaien… .”

I was very nervous, but the magic was demonstrated brilliantly. After staring at the little scarlet light she created for a moment, I told everyone.

“It worked well, but it took quite a while. If it was a wizard at a level that could recognize mana, it would have taken less than three seconds.”

“ah… .”

“If you can recognize mana, you don’t even need to speak the magic language out loud. If the magic language combination formula is well embedded in your head, it is possible to cast magic just by recalling it correctly.”

The students’ concentration, which had been disturbed by the appearance of frills, returned a lot. Maybe he’s focusing on the Mint student suffering… . As expected, showing everything directly seemed to focus better.

Leaving behind the student who started fiddling with the blue bow hairpin as if asking when he would return it, I slowly pointed out the main point of this lesson.

“In other words, awareness of mana makes the use of mana much more free. If so, how the hell can mana be recognized? If you memorize the magic language 100 times and cast magic repeatedly, will you be able to recognize mana? Well, maybe, but… .”

Actually, this is the training method the main character did, so how is it? It’s not even patented.

“If you focus on ‘me,’ you will get to that level faster.”

* * *

“Think of the magic you learned here. You guys are memorizing and combining countless magic languages, but you can’t just go to that level. Even if you improve your skills and learn a higher level of magic, the framework will remain the same, only the magic formula will become more complicated.”

Ian looked at Mina again.

“Your magic is extremely boring.”

“… .”

“It’s boring, hard, especially… . There is no room for your thoughts to intervene. If you continue to walk the path of magic with that attitude, even if you rot in the Mage Tower for 10 years, you will still be memorizing the magic language combination formula made by others.”

Mina unconsciously nodded. The longing for magic that she had had turned into an embarrassing fantasy when she actually learned magic.

“Memorizing the magic language and interpreting the combination formula. That’s the most efficient way to catch up in the footsteps of the previous mages. however! Now, while chasing efficiency, we have forgotten even the fundamentals.”

Ian chuckled when he found Princess Frill eagerly agreeing that magic was boring.

“Princess Frill. How about this student’s butterfly hairpin?”

“It is commonplace. It’s not my taste.”

Ian glanced at Mina, who blushed, and then spoke to Princess Frill again.

“I see. It doesn’t look bad to me.”

“The taste is pretty cheap.”

“Maybe it is. Now, even though the princess and I saw the same thing, we felt different. Where does this difference in ‘perception’ come from?”

As if not expecting an answer, Ian immediately asked Mina, who was fiddling with a hairpin.

“Niagmin, the founder of the magical language, said that mana is ‘blurred and bright’. The third emperor also referred to mana as a melody. Do you know why this difference occurs?”

“uh… . that… .”

“You seem to have never thought about it. Did the refined learning method take away even contemplation?”

“sorry… .”

Ian told everyone.

“The point to note here is that even if you have a sense to recognize mana, it is very different for each person.”

Ian pointed to Mina’s blue bow hairpin and said.

“The reason the senses are different is simple. Because we are all different.”

Because everyone has lived a different life, each human has a unique worldview.

“Give me an example. There may be people who have lived without any worries, encountering only the bright side of the world in a peaceful and prosperous environment, but on the contrary, there will be people who have suffered all kinds of humiliation and harbored anger and hurt since childhood. The two of them are taking classes in the same space and at the same time, but their impressions will be different. It has to be. Because we have lived in different worlds.”

Professor Ian said that the perception of mana is influenced by this worldview.

“Students with a bright worldview and students with a negative worldview will feel mana with opposite senses. Mana feels different depending on who you are.”

Mina thought.

‘I have a lot of scars on my mana, and I think I have a dark and dull appearance.’

“The biggest reality of current magic education is that while learning about magic, which is greatly influenced by one’s personality, the explanation of the relationship between ‘me’ and mana is not important.”

Magic is not hard.

Mana is a drawing paper on which you can draw the world you see with your own eyes, and magic is a picture drawn that way.

The yearning for magic that you had as a child is not a fiction.

However, since almost all magic research institutes access mana only through the standardized magic language, all magic now loses its individuality. And because of that wrong approach, you, so many people, end their lives at the bottom of the mage tower without even feeling mana.

Ian’s teaching came as a great shock to Mina, who had always memorized it.

“Spearmint.”

“… Yeah.”

“Do you remember the first question?”

what is mana to you

Mina, who finally fully understood the question, responded to Ian.

“I don’t think I can give you an answer to that yet.”

I had never imagined what mana would feel like, and I had never recognized mana before.

“is it? If so, let’s try it.”

“Yeah?”

“Cast a mini-blitz. By reducing the current discharge to the level of static electricity.”

“uh… .”

“Get started. Also, close your eyes during casting.”

* * *

“Hey! hey! Elma!”

‘Call me?’

“Yeah, I’m in a hurry right now. So, what kind of ability is my tinnitus?”

‘I’m sorry, I’m fine… .’

“No, you gave it to me, so why don’t you know?”

‘That tinnitus manifests itself differently for each person. So, originally, after observing people who will receive tinnitus for a long time, I give them a name that seems to fit them best.’

“By the way?”

‘It’s the first time I met the teacher. I didn’t have a chance to observe.’

“Then you’re saying you need to use it to know what ability it is?”

‘Yes! If you just want to use it, it will be activated naturally.”

Although she complained that she was too unwilling than she thought she was as a goddess, anyway, tinnitus is a very big strength for me.

Now I can’t even use magic, and I don’t know a single thing about etiquette or culture that I need to know as a noble. Truly, every moment is a crisis situation.

Put on the edge of a cliff, tinnitus now felt like a lifeline to me.

This is the only situation. I had to make good use of this. I don’t know what… !

“Close your eyes.”

“Yeah.”

Through the training method of the main character in the novel, I plan to experiment with my tinnitus once.

It is said that I am a true teacher, but my tinnitus will not have a bad effect.

I approached a Mint student who was casting a mini-blitz.

“Mina Spearmint. Have you ever thought about who you are With your eyes closed, focus on your mind. What kind of life have you lived?”

The Mint student, who had been concentrating on the chant with his eyes closed, flinched when I spoke to him, but continued casting his magic.

“Remember your values or your dreams. Childhood is good too. As you go through life, think about how you are now standing on this podium as Mina Spearmint.”

* * *

“Define yourself. What is mana to Mina Spearmint?”

What kind of life have I lived

I always pretended to be okay and bright, but I lived alone with all kinds of worries, and I lived fiercely, but in the end I decided to quit magic.

It was miserable.

I chased my dream and jumped into the sky, but I kept getting stuck on the ground.

If you haven’t started doing magic from scratch.

If that was the case, there would be no separation from my parents, who were good believers, and there would never have been a day when my muscle pain would not go away, and I wouldn’t have given 80% of my money to magic tutoring swindlers.

And, I wouldn’t have shed tears at all kinds of discrimination and humiliation at school… .

But why?

I should be relieved, but why am I not happy at the thought of quitting this boring magic?

In the end, I was given the opportunity to drop out. Why did I get depressed so quickly?

His passion for magic did not cool even if he wanted to cool it down. Even though he suffered as if his whole body was about to burn, his desire blossomed as he continued to burn her to ashes.

Even though everything about me was crumbling, I still wanted to spread my wings.

I wanted to fly.

Something inside me kept holding onto me and not letting go. like fate.

aaa!!!

“swimming?”

* * *

It was the most beautiful lightning I had ever seen.

The emerald-colored current that came out like a bursting blue flower was discharged in a range of 10m, even at a rough estimate. Fortunately, there were no casualties… .

“Advanced discharge… ? It’s a magic that only the seniors of the third year should use or not?”

“It’s not even that, I’ve never seen anything like that in my life… .”

Where the lightning passed through, instead of soot, a garden that smelled like forest remained, and a pleasant mist instead of acrid smoke covered the surroundings.

Beautiful flowers bloomed where it collapsed after being struck by lightning, and fragrant grasses grew where it burned and melted due to the high temperature.

There was a truly dreamy garden, with dark blue butterflies flying around.

“ah… .”

My eyes met with the Mint student who was sitting down.

The blue butterfly hairpin was now flapping its wings as a butterfly bigger than her head.

Where it sat, liquid like melted emeralds flowed like blood, running down her face.

A glowing greenish liquid formed on his chin and landed on the floor, and a flower bloomed in its place.

paper weave-

There were still sparks running through her body, but the auditorium was instantly filled with a sweet and spicy scent.

“professor… sir? what the hell is this… .”

A huge blue butterfly spread its wings with all its might, casting shadow all over her face. Everyone stared at the beautiful wings, speechless.

I never expected that things would turn out like this. At least, I hoped that Mint students would be able to recognize mana.

“… Reinterpretation of mana and the world in one’s own colors. That is the essence and true value of mana. Today’s class is over.”

it’s a big accident

It was too late to clean it up. I quickly ran out of the auditorium.

By the way… .

“professor! Wait a minute, Professor!”

The butterfly hairpin, which had grown like a monster, returned to its original state, and Mint, who had regained his senses, started chasing after me.

There are many things you want to ask. Me too, but what do you think?

“Professor Ian!!!”

I ignored it and ran into the office.