"It's getting bigger. Is it about time?
I snapped as I saw the eggs in the net lying on my waist.
It's a servant beast egg.
At first, it was about the size of an M size egg sold at the supermarket.
However, while seeing the magic contained in the egg every day, I grew the egg while injecting magic.
Now, it has grown to about twice its original size.
The magic that can be seen around the eggs is also changing from a light blue feeling to a dark blue.
I hope it's time to be born.
"What are you doing? I'm leaving soon."
Looking at the eggs like that, my mother called out.
Looks like it's about time.
I will be six this year.
And at the age of six, there's a baptism ceremony at the church.
Today is the baptism ceremony.
In my previous life, I didn't have much opportunity to go to church.
Perhaps in my previous life, I was not very happy to hear that I would go to the baptism ceremony.
But not this time.
After all, you get magic.
It's not the original magic I've been using.
The Church is bestowed with life magic that is very useful in everyday life.
Once baptized in the church, you will be able to use this life magic.
Once upon a time, humans lived in fear of the shadows of monsters.
This has led to an increase in the number of living quarters as humans struggle with each other.
Why is that?
It was magic that became the driving force behind the human leap.
Especially life magic was very good.
Magic like Lighting and Drinking Ignition Washing is in life magic.
They're all very small enough to turn on the lights and light up drinking water and firewood.
However, the fact that many people can use this magic has greatly expanded the range of human behavior.
Perhaps living like a primitive person is suddenly able to use electric gas and water plumbing.
Thanks to this, even humans who can't be strong monsters on their own are able to increase their numbers and expand their survival space.
That's why every year the church gathered its six-year-old children for a baptism ceremony, where they were given life magic.
The church can acquire believers at that time, people can acquire life magic, and powerful people can get a residential register from the church.
We have a system in place that benefits everyone.
Yeah, I'm coming.
I replied and walked towards the church with a candle.
The only church in the village.
We came to an abominably shaped building with a triangular roof made of bricks.
When I entered, there was a room where I placed a bench as if I could hold the wedding as it were.
Beyond some benches, there were low steps like in front of the school blackboard, and something like a table was placed.
Perhaps the priest will stand there and preach.
Sit on the appropriate bench with your parents and wait.
Is it because it is not such a big village?
It seems that not a dozen children will be six this year.
I watched as the priest and Sister came in through the back door, climbed the stairs, and gazed at us as we sat.
"Now, let's start the baptism ceremony."
The priest says so and starts talking about the establishment of the church.
In general, the book describes how mankind has been saved by the Church from the history of misery and has prospered as it is today.
In a village like this with little entertainment, just listening to such stories is a good stimulus, but there are many stories that I know.
But the priest in this village, despite his relatively young age, seemed to have a tale of humor and talking to keep him from getting bored.
It was as if they had actually seen the history of humanity with their eyes, and the children gathered also kept their eyes sparkling and listening to the story.
"Now, let's finish with the naming ritual. I will guide you one by one in turn, so please come to the back room."
That's what the priest said when he finished talking for a long time and engaging everyone.
It seems that the naming ceremony will begin.
The ritual of naming is the ritual of naming the name.
Actually, I still didn't have a proper personal name.
Because here, for the first time since I was six years old, I get a name from the church pointing to an individual.
Until now, they used to call me wherever I was and how many children there were.
I wondered what inconvenience it was when I first found out about this, but if they told me it was such a decision, I had no choice.
But if it's the name you were given when you were born, maybe some people would get mad at you if you were given a nasty name at this age?
It's hard to live here without a name, but I'm the only one who thinks it might be a lot of trouble to give a name.
And when I thought so, it was my turn.
Separate from your parents and head to the back door by yourself.
There is a heavy wooden desk in the middle of the room through which the priest sits.
He sat face to face with his desk on a prepared chair.
"Now let's do the naming ritual. This name will protect you from the Lord and allow you to use your magic. However, this magic is only given to enrich people's lives. Can you swear not to misuse it too much?
"Yes, I swear."
Okay.
I am told and agree to precautions such as the stereotype.
Then the priest put his hand on the book on the desk.
Looks like a pretty precious book.
It looks like a book made of parchment, and around the cover is reinforced with metal and decorated with jewelry.
I slowly turned the page with my hands on the parchment book.
It seems a lot heavy, but don't you have a book of botanical paper?
When you open a book, there is a fine array of characters.
... maybe this book is a name dictionary?
I somehow looked at the contents of the book and thought so.
I thought how I would do it if I named people every year, so I think that's even more true.
It may not have been a mistake all along.
I wonder if the priest's gaze was set on a letter, because the ceremony progressed.
"Assila and Marie's third child. You are named by Paul, the priest of the Church of the Holy Light. Thou shalt live with the LORD as Arus, and with sincerity and purity. Then the LORD will give thee protection and watch over thee."
Father Paul spins the words of the ritual.
At that time, I was curious and activated magic.
I focused my eyes on the magic that I had developed inside my body.
Father Paul spins the words of the ritual with his left hand attached to the book and his right hand extended towards me.
Magic gathers from the priest's body in his hand.
When I saw it, I thought to myself,
Perhaps this is the preparation before the magic is activated.
I thought Father Paul was trying to concentrate his magic on the palm of his hand and activate some kind of magic, just as I put my hands on the ground and sent magic into the earth.
I think so, carefully observe the magic movements.
Then the magic gathered in Father Paul's hand changed shape.
The priest is using a technique I've never tried on my own before.
The magic spreads from the palm of your hand into the space, creating a shape.
It draws a circle and writes complex symbols inside it.
I wonder if this is magical.
"Memory Storage"
Seeing the magic formation, I whispered so as not to be heard by the priest.
This is the original magic I developed.
Focus your eyes on magic and you can see the flow of magic that you can't see.
Then it was magic that arose from the question of what happens when you concentrate magic on your brain, not on your eyes.
The result became the magic of instant memory.
That's just the magic of being able to input exactly the memories you want to remember.
But that was helpful this time.
A terribly complicated magical formation cannot be accurately remembered at a glance.
But by using this magic, we were able to instantly save it as a complete memory.
"Uhh...."
And the moment I remembered the magic team, new information was input into the brain apart from that memory.
Information about life magic.
I understood that magic such as [lighting] and [ignition] could be used strangely, no matter how much I practiced until then.
This is how I acquired the magic of life.
At the same time, I learned about the existence of magical formations at baptism ceremonies that I didn't normally know about.