The Prodigy Sefiria’s Overpowering Program

0 Years, 8 Months, 1 - Decrypting the Magic Book

"What!?

It's been a long time since I've been here to decipher the Apocalypse, and I accidentally shouted.

Your brother and mother look back in amazement at my shouting.

"... Sefi?

"What's wrong, Sefi?

Listening to the two voices worrying about me, but I even forgot to react to them and stared at them to eat in.

Yes, no...

But... no way...

I was given a "chunk of charcoal” and a "dry skin” that your mother picked up from the outside that day.

I guess he remembered that he used to take notes on the ground with a stick of wood, thinking that he would still sometimes not just follow the letters with his eyes. Pens and paper are such a luxury item.

It was kind of like a cheap item for enemy characters to drop at the beginning of the story, but I was very happy with how your mother felt, and those were actually very helpful.

... It's rather too helpful, enough to make things difficult.

Having obtained the writing equipment for the memorial, I first decided to turn in turn from the first page of the Apocalypse and write down all the letters one letter at a time.

How many letters in this world are there in total? I thought knowing that was the first step toward decryption.

Twenty-six characters for alphabets, and fifty-second letters for uppercase and lowercase letters.

If you speak Japanese, it will be a big deal if Hiragana or Katakana alone loosely exceeds a hundred characters and even includes kanji.

Fortunately, though, as far as I glanced through the strings of the Apocalypse, I apparently felt the number of characters wasn't that high. I think it's about the alphabet at best.

I was a fragment of crushed charcoal and wrote it down one letter at a time on dry skin.

By the way, the brother who saw it had his mouth open with Pocan, and his mother something touched and freaked out, and he had it all figured out.... Mother, please, be more calm.

I was about five pages ahead and apparently finished writing down all the letters.

I continued, trying to find the letter and regularity to find out what kind of grammar it was all about and turned the book around with paralysis.

And there.

"... Huh?

I stopped by accident on one page.

Because the letters on that page were written in letters that didn't apply to any of the letters I just wrote down.

But that's just the page on the left, and the page on the right consists of just the letters I've already written down.

Conversely, the letters on the page on the left never appeared on the page on the right.

Besides, it's just a feeling to look at it thoroughly, but the grammatical structure also looks completely different.

… this book describes “two languages”?

When I thought about it so much, I remembered what the owner of this book was like.

It was The Mage who had this book.

And this book is The Book of Magic.

I had goosebumps deliberately on my hand as I was turning the book, on my arm.

Looking into it, the language written on the first few pages accounted for more than 90% of the entire book.

The other language only appears about once a dozen pages.

Perhaps this book is about 'describing one elusive language in another, more generally'?

... If I say it more terminally, isn't it 'explaining the magic spell' content?

Until now, it was a vague presumption: "It means a book left by the sorcerer, so it must be a book of magic".

But coming here, at last, I was almost certain that this book was truly a book of magic.

Russia, feeling the motivation to decipher burns, I turn the page with a trembling hand by excitement.

What opened was a page that would have 'Spells' written on it.

There won't be much point in looking at a page of commentary at this stage. Because I can't read it.

Of course, when it comes to being able to read spells, that's not true.

But if you can't read the same thing, it's a prerequisite to keep an eye on the spell.

At the bottom of the spell page, there was a small painting.

If you look closely, it looks like a 'flame'.

There are different pictures at the bottom of the other pages, apparently illustrating what a spell this is with any consequences.

Until now, I had no idea what it depicted, but if you look at the assumption that this is a painting that explains the spell, it's strange because it somehow looks like 'flame' or 'water'.

In that sense, you can also take it as an exquisite painting that you can't read unless you understand what this book is.... Maybe the author of this book was simply a painter.

Looking for a short spell that seemed easy for now, apparently that was like a 'wind' spell. It's a painting that feels like "boo wow" from something like a hand, and I think maybe this is the wind. At least it doesn't look like a "spell that makes your hands smell like natto" or anything.

Quickly, I'll take a look at that page.

ๅ ๅ ╞ ๏ ╠ ๅ Ƃ ๅ Ƃ ₀ ₀ ₀ ₀ Ƃ ๅ ๅ Ƃ

Um, I have no idea what it says.

Oh, but look closely, there's a subtle separation between letters and letters. Is this the smallest unit of sentence?

For now, if you separate each word and let it go, it might be a little easier to see.

When I wrote the spell on my dry skin, I rearranged it in fine chisels.

ๅ ๅ ╞ ๏ ╠ ๅ Ƃ ₀ ₀ ₀ Ƃ ๅ ๅ Ƃ

...... you have no idea yet.

But I've found that the same line of letters has appeared several times.

Is that it? Something like there are letters that are used in parentheses (cool)... Could this be a symbol, not a letter?

I've decided to divide the spell I've torn apart into letters that aren't bracketed and letters that are bracketed.

ๅ ๅ ๏ ๏ ๅ ๅ ๅ ๅ ๅ ๅ ๅ ๅ ๅ ๅ ๅ ๅ ๅ ๅ ๅ ๅ ๅ ๅ ๅ ๅ ๅ \3653

╠ ๅ Ƃ ₀ ₀ ₀ Ƃ ๅ ๅ Ƃ Ƃ

Mm-hmm. I think I see the whole structure a little bit.

Oh, there's a letter in the parenthesis below that sticks after the word and appears again and again!

Is it a coincidence? Or is it possibly a punctuation like symbol?

Then break this down a bit too...

Fine-tune the position and height for easy viewing.

... Is that it?

ๅ ๅ ๏ ๏ ๅ ๅ ๅ ๅ ๅ ๅ ๅ ๅ ๅ ๅ ๅ ๅ ๅ ๅ ๅ ๅ ๅ ๅ ๅ ๅ ๅ \3653

3653; 386;

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€3653; €386;

"- Huh!?

The moment I saw this sentence, I screamed at the beginning.

Instead of my arms, I got goosebumps all over my body.

My throat dries up and my swallowed saliva makes a loud noise of "sagging".

"I..."

I was unconsciously leaking words with trembling lips as I watched the sorted spells.

"... ok (...)...!!"