CH 5

5. Magic Practice ①

Magic practice begins today.

I couldn’t sleep at all last night because of the excitement. I felt like a primary school student before going on a field trip.

There were dark circles under my eyes.

But I am okay.

I’m a bit drowsy, but not sleepy at all.

My eyes are perfectly sharp.

Within the mansion, there is an open space where we meet.

And so, with great anticipation, I came face to face with my magic teacher.

“Nice to meet you. I’m Owen Pepper.”

I bowed my head properly.

From now on, I am going to be taught magic.

Let us treat each other with the utmost sincerity.

“… this is very different from the child I was expecting,” The teacher lady muttered.

She still looks young, probably in her early twenties.

Her hair is shiny, and her eyes are kind.

She is a calm, beautiful woman.

“What kind of person did you expect?”

Owen is famous for being a scumbag.

Perhaps she had come to believe that he was a selfish child.

But I am Owen, not him.

The new Owen!

“Oh, no. It is nothing. My name is Katherina. It’s nice to meet you,” She greeted as she bowed her head.

“Now, please teach me magic!” I exclaimed, still looking down.

I cannot control my excitement. I am so excited.

Because now I’ll be able to use magic.

I cannot wait to see what kind of magic I’ll do in the future.

“I understand. That is why I’m here. —First of all, before we can use magic, we need to understand it.”

“Yes! Katherina-sensei”

“Sensei…？“

“As a person who teaches magic, it is natural to be a sensei!”

You can call it a Sage instead of a sensei.

“Oh, I see. Let us take a quick look at magic…”

With that, Katherina-sensei started her lesson about magic.

First, it seems that imagination is essential to the activation of magic.

And when I say imagine, I do not mean vaguely.

If you do not have a solid understanding of the events, you cannot use magic.

They say that if you do not know what water is, you cannot create water with magic.

Furthermore, even if you say water, the clearer you are about how much and what shape it is, the smoother the magic will work.

Secondly, magic requires magical power to be used.

Incidentally, it seems that only nobles or some commoners have magical powers.

I have magic power too.

When I was five years old, I had my magical powers measured.

If it were not for the magic, I would have been disowned by now.

Magic is what makes a noble a noble.

By the way, Katherina-sensei has a lower rank than me and is the daughter of a baronet.

I have gotten a little off track, but magic is the ability to materialize what you imagine with magical power.

To add to this, chanting can make it easier to activate the magic.

“Now, let us start with moving the magic. Just to confirm, Owen-sama, are you able to sense the magic power?”

“I can’t feel it.”

“Then you can start by sensing the magic power. First, breathe in slowly, and then breathe out slowly. During this time, do not think about anything else, just concentrate on breathing.”

This is similar to meditation.

I am good at it because I used to meditate in my previous life.

Booo~ Buuu~ Booo~ Buuu~

‘What is that noise?’

You are probably wondering what it is.

I am wondering the same thing.

I am just breathing; how can I make this sound?

What are you, a pig?

Are you a pig?

Even a pig does not breathe like that!

I am breathing normally, but a strange sound comes out.

“To begin with, what does magic feel like?”

I could not concentrate because of the noise of my breathing, so I asked Katherina-sensei.

“Yes… Everyone feels it differently, but I feel it as something warm!” she answered.

“Something warm…?”

“The warmth around the navel. That is magical power. It usually takes about a week to detect magical power, so don’t be in a hurry and look for it slowly.”

This is going to take a week.

I do not think I can wait that long.

I want to use it now.

I would like to fly.

Well, but they say that even a journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.

Let’s do this steadily.

I rubbed my stomach, muttering, “Something warm, something warm.”

My belly is flabby.

No, it is more than just flabby.

It is bouncing around.

I can’t just poke it; I can grab it.

Even though there is a lot of fat.

…wait a minute.

I have memories of my past life.

I can compare it with the memories of that previous life and look for things that aren’t in there. 

I try to meditate again.

The sound of breathing was as loud as ever, but I tried not to worry about it.

Bring awareness to the depths of your body.

Is it something that has never existed before …?

What do you mean, warm?

Hmmm…?

Hmmmmmm…?

Hmmmmmmmm …?

There is something in my stomach.

I can feel it!

I can feel it!!!

It is like if…

“I found it … magic!”

“What, that easy?”

Katherina-sensei looked at me surprised.

Well, I did cheat and use a memory from my previous life.

It is hard to notice what is there from the beginning, but it’s easy to find what wasn’t there.

“This kid … might have a ridiculous talent.”

Katherina-sensei seemed to have muttered something, but I was so impressed by the magic that I did not notice.