Almark – Northern Sword, Southern Wand

"Come on, let's do it."

Raido said with a calm expression.

A magic practice hall after school.

In front of Almark is a bucket full of water.

Raidow gently shook his hand at the surface of the bucket, which was also placed in front of him.

Almark also knows that magic falls from his palm to the surface of the water.

"With the image of magic flowing from the surface to the whole water"

Reido said.

"and activate the magic in the water."

"Activation"

Almark sees Reido.

"Well, in this case..."

"It's an image of magic hitting each other."

Reido answered without looking away from the surface of the water.

"Do not let go of the magic that has passed through the water."

Eventually, hot air rises from the water.

Almost there?

Reido smiled and shook his hand for a while, then raised his face and looked at Almark.

"Make sure. How's the temperature?"

Ah.

Almark nodded with his hand in the water.

"Warm. Perfect."

"It's hard to adjust."

Reido answers.

"It's so much easier to do the tricky magic of evaporating water."

I see.

Almark nodded and gently put his hand in the water in the bucket in front of him.

Cold water in winter.

"All right, I'll do it."

"Oh, come on."

Reido smiles.

Once again, Almark put his hand on the water.

Gather magic from your body in your right hand, and let it pass through the water with a twitch.

"Activate"

"Okay."

Nod at Reido's instructions.

Images of magic in the water.

Almark moved his magic.

All of a sudden the surface of the water swelled and thought it was a big wave, all the water from the bucket jumped out.

Wow.

After a proper bath of water, Almark turned away and backed away.

"Sorry, I failed."

"Yeah."

Raidow was watching it sometime in a place where there was no water.

"I thought I was going to fail, and I avoided it from the beginning, so I'm fine."

"You thought you were gonna fail."

Almark drops his shoulders.

It's hard.

"I'm sure it's something you can say about your magic in general."

Reido said gently, handing a cloth to Almark, who was dripping water from the tip of his hair.

"The image is cluttered. That's why magic always jumps."

Miscellaneous

Almark saw Raido wiping his hair.

"I'm going to be polite myself."

"Yeah."

Reido nods.

Miscellaneous, that might not have been a good word.

That's what I said and I smiled.

"In your case, the original magic must be too great."

Reido says.

"So you don't have enough detail for us to imagine. You can't control your magic without imagining it more clearly."

Sometimes it succeeds.

There must be some unevenness in the image.

Reido said.

"You know, I've been thinking about a lot of ways because I'm an uneven person."

"For example, what?"

"The best way to make an image clear is to see it with your eyes."

That's what Raido said. He brings a leather bag from the corner.

"Watch this."

When Raido turned the bag upside down, a lot of small tree nuts came out of it.

As Almark watches, Raido grabs the nut with both hands and puts it in the water of the bucket.

A lot of nuts floated on the water.

"Think this is magic."

Raidow pointed at the nuts and said so, smiling and pointing his hand at the water.

At that moment, all the nuts swaying on the water stopped moving perfectly.

"Continue to control the magic even after you let it pass through the water."

The nuts moved slowly and lined up neatly on the water surface.

"Come on, let's activate it."

Reido said that one of the nuts bumped into the next tree.

The bumped nut also hits the next tree.

And the nut of the tree will be in the next tree.

Countless tree nuts began to bump into each other at once on the surface of the water.

But Raidow must be in control. The movement is by no means untraceable. It keeps bumping into each other as if all the nuts were interlocked.

The bumped nuts change the location, but the newly bumped and bounced nuts come in, and the overall orderly arrangement does not collapse.

"This is the image of magic activation."

"This is..."

Almark keeps an eye out.

"This is the limit to what we do with nuts."

Reido says.

"In fact, you can think of it not only as a water surface, but also as a more three-dimensional, vertical movement, and doing it in the water as a whole."

Watch this move.

Almark opened his eyes and gazed at the movement of the nuts on the water.

I see.

Even once, what you actually see with your eyes is easy to imagine.

The regular movement of the nuts is engraved in Almark's brain.

Oh yeah, this is it.

Almark sparkled his eyes.

"Thank you, Raido. I can see that."

Good. I thought this was good. "

Reido nodded.

"When I teach my brother things. It's the fastest way to actually show you that."

Almark shook his hand at the surface.

Hot air rises from the water.

Reido put his finger on the water.

"Yeah."

Reido nods with a smile.

"It's still warm this time, Almark."

"Good."

Almark smiles.

Thanks to Raido's image inflation, Almark never failed his boiling technique as he practiced.

That's really quick to remember.

Reido said.

"Next time I come to teach, I'll try the other way around."

"Reverse?"

"Cool the water."

Reido said.

Can you do it?

"I've been successful."

Almark answers the question.

"I often make mistakes."

I'm sure it is.

Reido nodded and looked at Illmis and Radmar.

"It looks like it's time for the teachers to finish. Let's get this over with."

Ah.

Almark turned back to Raido.

"Thank you, Raido."

"You're welcome."

Reido smiles.

"At this pace, I think we can go to Klan Island on vacation."

"I hope so."

Almark smiled bitterly.

Then I thought of Rado.

"Speaking of which, who else is going to Klan Island?"

"Almost everybody's going. I'm not going."

Reido makes a gesture of remembering by putting his hand on his chin.

"Wallis and torque. And maybe Leila."

I see.

Almark frowned thinking of the three faces.

"I'm sorry we can't all go, but I can't help it."

"Everyone's in trouble."

Raidow laughed too.

"I can't force you to go play."

That's right.

As Almark nodded, Reido changed his expression.

"By the way, tomorrow's teacher will be tough, so rest well today."

"Tomorrow"

Almark keeps an eye out.

"Who's coming?"

Can I tell you something?

Reido leaned his neck.

Well, okay. Nelson gave me away too. "

That's what Leido tells the student the next day as a teacher.

"Leila will be here tomorrow. It looks like she was thinking hard about what to teach you, so I think you can expect it."