Ore wa Mada, Honki o Dashite Inai

At noon one day, I was, as usual, cluttered in the yard chair.

A little away from me, Midea was practicing her sword.

I feel healthy waving my sword uninterrupted, and I want to try and support you.

……

I want to give it to you, but I can't wait.

It is not very good to talk to someone and get into a messy situation.

Let's just keep watching -

"-1000! Phew, okay, let's do it a thousand more times."

Hang on a second.

Huh?

Ah.

... I just said it.

I could only look at it, but I kept my mouth shut.

Midea saw us.

I lowered my sword and turned my whole body towards me.

"What's the matter, Master?"

"No...."

"Perhaps, what will you tell me!?

Midea stared at me with her sparkling eyes.

This positivity is one of her cuteness.

Most people say, "Did something go wrong? I tend to think, but Midea is not.

If it's okay, you can take it as a positive as you are now.

That kind of place is cute as an apprentice.

"Master?"

"Mmm... mmm..."

I twisted my neck with my arms.

"Oh, no! I can't help it."

"Huh? Well, what do you mean?

"Here's the story. Rather, it looks like I've been doing it a lot more than that."

"Yes! Repetitive practice is fundamental."

"It's not wrong, but it's not good to get caught too many times. It could only serve the purpose of doing it a few times."

I see! That's my master.

I thought you didn't understand half of it... so I quit.

If you don't know, just let me guide you.

"I'm going to get you another training."

"Yes, teach me, Master."

"Nh...."

I got up and headed for Midea.

Stay close enough to reach Midea, and let her go and put her head on Midea's head.

"Master?"

Midea tilted her head.

I put my hand on Midea's head, and I gained strength.

The force seeped through Midea's body and eventually blew from the end of her fingers and the like.

"Hey, what is this!?

"Put that power all over your body. The whole body is a sword."

"Huh? Yes!

Midea concentrated in a hurry.

At her level, I can handle swordsmanship to a certain extent.

I wrapped the power I gave you in the sword that I was waving just now, using the sword technique.

"Yes!

"Okay, so shake it the way you did earlier."

Yes!

Midea nodded and swore.

Then, some of the power I gave him flew away with the momentum of the sword.

"Ahh!

"Shake it and it's hard to keep it, right? It's not your power."

"Yes...."

"Good luck with that."

"You mean focus and shake more than ever!

Midea stared at me with her sparkling eyes as usual.

Well, that's half correct.

I'll explain the other half... when I'm done.

I'll show you. Good luck.

"Yes, Master!

When I saw Midea concentrate and start waving her sword, I went back to the comfort chair and lay still to practice Midea.

Sofia was glittering with an old book in the city's large library.

"Ah, here we go. Ssshhhhh"

"Hyah!

Suddenly she was breathing in her ear, and Sofia flew in surprise.

"Ma, Maris! Stop breathing around your ears all the time!

Sofia protested with her face bright red.

Maris Despire showed up.

A woman of the same Despina clan as Sofia, her best friend at the same age.

Although they were best friends, their personalities were quite the opposite.

Sofia is a serious and tough type, and Maris is a free-flowing and untouchable type of girl.

Maris peeks into the book Sophia was looking at.

"What were you looking at?

"It's an effective way to train magic. No matter what magic you use, the absolute amount of magic will never exceed."

"That's right... that? Is this a soap punch?

As Maris turned to the page of play, one man and one woman followed, drawing a naked picture as an illustration.

"Eh, yeah...."

"What... naked and dressed to embody magic - hey, there's something like this."

……

"Do you want to do this?

"No, I'm not gonna do it. It's so lewd."

"No?

Maris looked at the book again and then turned to Sofia.

"What's so lewd?

"Well, I can't believe I'm used to being naked."

"Yeah, that's how you dress up with magic, right? Then I wouldn't be wearing clothes."

"Well, that's right...."

Sophia turned away with a bumpy face.

I understand the reasoning depicted in the book.

Don't wear regular clothes, materialize magic, dress it up and keep it on at all times.

Making magic materialize doesn't mean making it go away.

Maintaining it after making it also continues to consume magic.

In other words, you continue to consume magic while wearing the clothes.

Most magic in the world releases magic instantly.

There is hardly anything that keeps using weak magic.

The analogy is mostly short-range, with no long-range walks.

However, magic is something that grows as you use it, and it is more relaxing to keep using it longer than to use it up in an instant.

Sofia understands that it is rationally correct to dress up and practice using magic little by little to stretch it.

I understand - Sophia thinks that being naked and wrapping up her magic is similar to being naked and hiding something important just by her long hair.

Even if not, because clothes made with magic are not real clothes, I think wearing them alone is the same as painting clothes naked.

It was even embarrassing for Sofia, a mysterious girl.

It's embarrassing, though.

A girl named Maris couldn't understand such embarrassment.

"Hmm, aren't you going to do it?

"Well, that's...."

"Sophia, do you want to get better with magic? Then I have to."

"That's right... yeah, that's right."

Sofia got angry.

"Yeah, that's Sofia. That's right!"

Maris pounded and slapped her.

"Now what?

Sofia calmed down because she was hungry.

If you do that, Hermes will take a look.

"To Hermes?

"Yes, Master Hesmeth, you know magic. Let me show you."

"That's okay. Nothing. Just what it says in the book."

"Perhaps you'll praise me? You're doing well," he said.

……

I see.

Well, I'll think about it.

Though not summarily executed, Sophia, whose face was covered with vermilion, was entirely concerned at Maris' instigation.

"Ha, fu, yaah!

Midea was waving her sword in front of me.

Thanks to my focus and serious shaking, I was able to hold my sword at all costs.

All right, Midea. Next stage.

Yes!

Midea lowered her sword.

I got up and made some magic balls a little further away from Midea.

Magic balls are semi-transparent, floating up and down in the air.

I made dozens of them.

That's it.

"Master? What kind of bourbon is that?

"Cut this down the same way as before. Focused"

Yes!

Midea approached and put her sword back in place, fluffing.

I shook down my sword to slay one of the bourbon balls.

"Ugh!

The moment she touched the bourbon, Midea panicked with her sword and flew away.

Yes, that was...

"Yeah, I was focused."

What do you mean, Master?

"There are two types of balls: balls that just shake and eat power, and balls that don't. If the ball that eats power is slashed, it sucks up all the power wrapped in the sword."

"Ooh...."

"Now we can tell what's good and what's not. It's tough because you're more focused than before."

"Good luck!

When I heard that it was difficult, Midea didn't butt in at all.

Instead, I was more motivated and held my sword, fuzzy.

Slashing balls was normal.

The ball that should not be slashed was pulled at the moment the blade of the sword was shaken.

Just concentrating on it, Midea always pulled the blade at the moment of shaking.

Each time, I had minimal but only a little bit of power.

The goal of this exercise is to always (,,,) guess and stop or pull the blade just before touching it.

To guide you to that, I put strength into the ball's "eating power", and by putting out more balls, I arranged to lead you to the goal.

There it is.

"Hermes"

"Hmm? Oh, Sofia?"

Sofia's here.

She appeared with an expression that looked like she was expecting something.

"What's going on?

"There's something I'd like you to see... but more than that, what is this?

Sofia is floating in the garden, and a magical ball like a bourbon ball has appeared.

The moment I stretched out and touched one of them.

Bread!

My balls bounced.

And Sofia's clothes flew without trace.

"--ahhhhhhhh!?

Sofia became naked in an instant.

I quickly hid my important place with both hands and crouched down.

I hid it for a while, but the momentum was too strong for her movements, so her rich chest fell apart with it.

"What do you want me to see..."

"No! That's not it!

Sofia blushed her face and ran away with tears.

I dropped it off as Pocahontas.

"The remnants of magic... oh, did you wear magic clothes?"

Sophia's gone, calm down. I understood it from the situation on the ground.

I know that technique.

Sofia wanted to see the technique.

"I did it...."

Sophia, who appeared at the worst moment of Midea's training, was seen (,,,,) before being seen.