CH 3

3  Magic Cheat On Hold

TN : 3/15

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I had turned three years old now.

I repeat. I, Theodore Golberg, had turned three years old this year! Furthermore, I had an unexpected discovery for you guys. Don’t be surprised, but I found out that I was actually the eldest son of a marquis house! This meant… I was part of the nobility in this life!

I was definitely a winner in life!

And this time around, at the very least, I definitely wouldn’t be mistaken for another person. After all, my identity should be pretty prominent in this life. So, the chance of my love confession being rejected like in the last life would be very low! (It’s not like I have ever confessed to that bitch though)

Anyhow, that did not matter. Because my current identity now was the eldest son of a marquis’s house. I was a chad! And my life, around 90 percent of it at least, was literally a winner’s life. YAAAAAAAY!

That aside, I had finally confirmed that I was reincarnated to another world. Alas, the heart-throbbing Status-san I expected wouldn’t show itself; not even after I called it with pronunciation.

Dammit. Since that’s the case, then fine by me. I’ll live my life without Status-san. I mean, it was no different from my previous life, so I’m used to it already.

But… bu~t… I still couldn’t use magic.

And yeah, you didn’t hear wrong. I did say magic. When I heard that it existed in this heart, I couldn’t help but inwardly let out a squeal of delight.

YES! HOW THRILLING! MAGIC EXIST IN THIS WORLD!

I was sure of this fact since it came from my wet nurse, Martha, when she read the picture book for me. Because when I told her that ‘I wanted to use magic like the one shown in this picture book’, she replied with ‘Yes, you can do that once you grew up’.

What? Did you just think that she was simply trying to pacify me when she told me that? I would think the same if not for her telling me the magic ceremony in detail.

She told me that anyone could use magic as long as they offered their prayer toward God in the closest temple during the ceremony. And considering that I was the eldest son of a marquis house, I would participate in the ceremony held in the royal capital’s grand temple.

However, one would only be eligible to participate in the ceremony once they turned ten years old! From what I was told, it was some sort of safety measure against the misuse of magic by the children.

Well, by this point, you should have gotten the gist of the situation, right?

This was just like how the parents acted in my previous life. They would scold their young children when they saw them playing with power buttons, lighter, scissors, and other things without understanding its danger towards them.

Based on this understanding, it was easy for me to imagine what would happen when a normal child my age was allowed to use magic. For example, making a fire at the size of a lighter, and losing control. It would surely turn into a disaster, especially if said child tossed around the fire when they threw a tantrum.

However, even though I understood the reasoning, I still wished that I could have my ceremony right now. Because I’m too thrilled to wait. Aah!!! Please give me the ceremony right now!!! Waiting for seven years was simply too much for me.

No, wait a minute, no matter how I think about it… shouldn’t it be fine if I try to get magic cheat with your own efforts? There was nothing wrong with that, right?

When I realized this, I got pumped up. Although I had stopped my training to raise my magical power as soon as I realized that it was a waste of time, now I had a clear goal in mind. So, let’s continue that training.

After all, my life as a mob had ended in the previous life. My life now was that of the main character!

Fufufu. Yosh, let’s start!

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Anyhow, let’s skip to the conclusion I got. Turned out it really was a waste of time.

Eh? That’s strange you asked?

Peerless cheats were supposed to come with reincarnation to another world you said?

Well, it didn’t. And stop. I also wanted to ask God why nothing happened.

I really wanted to ask. Why couldn’t I feel something along the line of ‘the power from inside my body’ or ‘strange sensation inside my body’? However, even without asking, I could understand what that meant… It simply meant that I couldn’t use magic unless I underwent the ceremony in the temple.

And this was further supported by Martha’s enlightenment. According to her, the ceremony was the key to open the lock. When I heard that, I had to wonder to myself.

Was that to prevent magic from being misused thoughtlessly by children?

Still, I didn’t wait for an answer, because I was sure that that must be it. That must be the reason why there was a need for a ceremony to unlock the magic inside me.

Since magic was no good, the only thing left was THAT. Yes, THAT.

Let me show you my unparalleled genius in swordsmanship!