No Fatigue: 24-jikan Tatakaeru Otoko no Tenseitan

"Hmm, that's dark"

About half an hour after Mother Julia went out to interview her.

I walked through a forest where the sun had completely fallen, creating a small light at my fingertips ("(light)"), and I arrived at the river where Voice said you had disappeared.

The river width is about five meters. That's as wide as the fort of Lanzrac.

The water was clear, and as I brought the lights at my fingertips closer, I could see that there was a river fish at the bottom of the water.

I'd like to make it salted, but I'll make that another time.

I write three Physics and jump across the river.

Use one at the moment of leap, one at the moment of landing, and the last one is a spare for accidents.

I've been practicing in the courtyard of the mansion a few times, but it feels good not to hesitate to use the space so far.

As I jumped piompion along the river and headed upstream, I could see the fence in about ten minutes.

The river width is about the first half, but instead it's crooked.

Beside that river, there is an unnaturally open space.

In a circular space about five meters in diameter, if you want to make a first impression, something like a square?

In the form that surrounds the center of the square, a wooden fence is erected that the facial actor said.

A wooden fence, or something as simple as punching a few wooden planks into the ground and connecting them with rope.

I throw a light into the fence from the gap in the wooden fence.

"... heh"

The ground does depict patterns that are neither lettering nor pictorial.

The pattern is quite complicated.

The pattern has about thirty small clumps, which are in order.

I don't know what every little clump means, but there are some patterns of overlap.

... I mean, isn't this a sentence?

"Mahouji? Hmm, no..."

Marquecto has a common language.

This is because the magic characters used to activate magic are also used as normal characters.

Because there is a common technique called magic, it is quick to use magic characters, at least as far as letters are concerned.

Therefore, even if the spoken word is somewhat admirable, it should be world-wide and use magic characters when it comes to letters.

In short, there are no other characters in Marquecto than magic characters.

"Seriously... and more..."

I rush to open the entire book of Abaddon magic I've had.

"There it is, here it is now."

Ancient magic letters.

It is the origins (origins) of the present magical characters, powerful and refined magical characters used more than a thousand years ago.

It is said that the current magic letters are more concise and easier to handle for 10,000 people, but it seems that the ancient magic letters were much higher in terms of power than the current magic letters.

Most importantly, it is too difficult to control, and the only magical characters that are passed on to the present day are simplified magic characters.

Apparently Abaddon also did quite a bit of research on ancient magic letters, but he said he knew little about them.

However, fragments of ancient magic letters discovered by Abaddon in the ruins are simulated next to the section Ancient Magic Letters.

I push and kill excitement, and I compare the pattern in front of me to the simulation in the book.

"Hmm? No, you don't?

Assuming the ancient magic characters in the simulation are a well-scripted kanji, the pattern in front of you is like a round letter written by a girl.

There's a decoration over there, and it's hard to identify the original font.

"... in the meantime, do you want to lie down"

I wrote down the pattern in the fence on my notebook and made sure there was no mistake before heading back to the village.

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Midnight...

I get out of bed, careful not to wake up my mother sleeping comfortably next door.

Use the light intensity squeezed in the shadow of the desk (lights) and watch the pattern that has been copied again and again.

but

"... I don't know"

Since there is no mental fatigue due to the effects of [difficulty inactivity], I can keep thinking for hours.

But I don't know what I don't even know when I think about it.

It's not like I'm smarter.

There was talk that the US military had been decrypting the Japanese military code during the Pacific War, but I think that was a computer that had just been made and a mathematician with some of the world's leading brains could have come together to decrypt it.

Maybe it's impossible to decrypt an amateur me.

"Yes."

I can't believe I'm not always smart. It just started.

What are my strengths?

Yes, a simple task!

I spread my notebook under my desk and wrote it down again and again.

Ten, twenty times......

My hands don't get tired because I don't get physically tired, but I can hurt my muscles if I do too much.

Thirty, forty times with occasional breaks......

Somehow I've figured out how to write.

I think I grabbed a natural way to run a pen, like in writing order.

Fifty, sixty times......

It's time I could write letters without looking at the pattern I wrote.

Seventy, eighty more times from there......

Second, I felt like the magic in my body moved when I wrote the letters.

but when I turned to consciousness, the magic spread.

Ninety times.

Magic moves again.

Thanks. Looks like magic moves in a certain place.

But as soon as I move on to the next letter, the magic spreads.

But I got the feeling.

And a hundredth time.

Moved magic takes shape.

This is...

Bo......!

Shit, fire!

π (Aqua)!

Oh, jeopardy.

My notebook got scorched and wet, but I managed to avoid a small fire in someone else's house.

... Ah, there's a scorch on the floor too.

... If you shut up, you won't find out, will you?

Either way, now I know this pattern was a magic letter.

I guess I learned the shape within writing many times, and from the faint magical movements, I could unintentionally imagine the effect of that letter.

This ancient magical character-like character seems to be more complex than the current magical characters, while also having another property.

This letter is also a painting.

It is easy for me to understand that ancient magic characters are hieroglyphics derived from pictures like kanji and Egyptian sacred characters.

I wonder if that has been simplified over time and has become a current magic letter close to the alphabet.

So I think even if I was just looking at the shape, the image of the technique that I could activate was gradually staining my head.

Well, I didn't think I could really activate magic...

For one thing, I dry my wet notebook with the original magic I was secretly practicing, "B (Flame) λ (Wind) -" Dry Wind (Dryer) ".

It's been a little awkward, but there's nothing I can do.

Come on, thanks to doing a hundred write-ups, it was almost time to run out.

It is dangerous to do any more experiments indoors, so I leave my bedroom quietly and go out into the backyard of the village chief's house.

And now they carve patterns on the ground with affordable branches.

This is also a hundred times for now.

Magic crushes with ∃ (Illays) before activation and focuses on grasping the overall picture of the pattern.

- Well, it's an authentic task, so let me cut it a little.

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By the time the night came white, finally, the whole picture of the pattern had been grasped.

Quite an interesting result.

First of all, this pattern is mixed with a valid part and an invalid part.

This is true of current magic, but when multicharacter activation, there are characters that cannot be combined with the characters that can be combined.

There is also a mixture of parts of this pattern that combine to become magical and parts that cannot be combined.

I don't think that the person who drew the pattern made a mistake.

Because I don't think that being like knowing ancient magic letters would make such a preliminary mistake.

In other words, this unmagical part is likely intentionally inserted.

Next, if this is a magic letter, can't you read it as a sentence?

In conclusion, I don't think I can do much.

I've tried to actually activate the ancient magic characters so that the effects correspond to and replace the same current magic characters.

But the "sentences" that could be done in that way only made meaningless words line up.

but the lack of understanding of this meaning "sucks."

It has such an uncomfortable sense of passage that it replaced several existing words one letter at a time.

From the above, I had gained some certainty.

It's

- This is a cipher.

That is.

Valid part and invalid part.

Words that seem to pass and don't.

I remember when I was in elementary school I used to solve cryptographic problems like that.

You know, "sawdust," that's a common guy.

In addition to being a cipher, there should be rules for decryption so that "tattooing" is the case.

And I already have all the tips for clarifying the rules.

Perhaps remove the invalid part as magic and change the rest of the word based on some rule.

That should do it.

And even if this is a cipher, it doesn't make a difference that it's one message.

As for the message, there shall be those who wrote it, and those who wrote it, who assumed it as a reader.

In short, someone wrote it to someone.

He who writes is one who has knowledge of ancient magic letters. I think you can think of him as a fairy so far.

So, to whom was it written?

Those who can decipher ancient magic characters and have knowledge of magic character combinations.

Private messages between fairies, it's possible, but if that's all, we don't have to make it a hassle crypt so far.

I'm intuitive, but I don't think so.

- This is a challenging letter from a fairy to a person familiar with magic.

Fairies are good beings, but at the same time they are known as hoax lovers.

It sounds like you can't afford to leave a cipher in people's eyes.

"But then..."

The fairy has nothing to do with Mr. Voice's disappearance.

There is a possibility that he took a child to decrypt it, but it would be just beyond the scope of "mischief".

But then, who the hell took you, Boyce?

To find out the answer, I worked on decrypting it.

- And before we could have breakfast, we managed to finish cracking the code.