I Can’t Run Away From the Girl Who Saved Me

25 – Training (3)

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Of course I thought I would be tired.

After moving my body so much that I hadn’t done a full workout for nearly a month, I can’t help but feel tired.

However, the fatigue I felt on the way back to the cabin was not normal.

Maybe it was because I was relaxed, and all the fatigue that I had been holding down in my head until now seemed to come all at once.

In fact, if I had succeeded even once, Mr. Sylvia would have gone hunting after today’s training.

But in the end, she continued to watch my training without leaving the hunt until the sky darkened.

So, in the end, this fatigue is my fault for not being as talented as I could have imagined.

As soon as I returned to the cabin after training, I sliced the meat of the smoked bird and baked it in a cornmeal batter with some berries.

It was a kind of simple meat pie.

Originally, I was supposed to eat the leftover bear meat for dinner tonight, but now that I was so tired and exhausted, I didn’t want to eat that meat that was hard to cook, smelled bad, and was even tough.

As soon as I finished eating, I went straight to bed without paying attention to digestion or anything.

Ms. Sylvia insinuatedly asked me if I would sleep with her today, but I shook my head.

Maybe because I ate the bear that was trying to eat me,

I don’t know if it’s because I felt Sylvia-san’s physical strength, which is scarier than a bear, all day long, but I didn’t care about the sounds of the forest anymore.

I was just very tired.

“Okay…you’ll be tired, good night.”

Seeing me lying down on the bed, Sylvia licked her lips as if feeling sorry for me, then greeted me for the night with a smile as if she had given up.

“good night…”

As soon as I answered her, I immediately fell asleep as if I had passed out.

And a second later, Mr. Sylvia woke me up.

“ash. good morning,”

“…Oh, my God.”

I fell asleep, but it felt like I really closed my eyes once and then opened them, so honestly, I was thinking or expecting a little bit that she might be making fun of me.

But seeing as the sky clears up, it seems she wasn’t lying.

As soon as she opened her eyes, she took me to a lake in the woods with a colander tucked under her side.

Yesterday’s training location was a nearby river, so it didn’t matter much, but going into the woods was a bit scary.

Fearing that being scared even though Sylvia was with her might seem like a sign that she didn’t trust her, I tried to hide my fear as much as possible, but I couldn’t help but slow down a little.

Sylvia-san, who was leading me a little while guiding me, looked back several times to see if I was following.

Still, she didn’t hold my hand or anything.

Needless to say, the lake was much closer than I thought.

It was only a little further than the road from the cabin to the river.

As soon as Sylvia arrived, she squatted in the lake and washed her face.

I also hadn’t washed yet, so I squatted down next to her and wiped the mucus from my face with the cold lake water.

He said this was the lake she came to for fishing.

After waking up to the cold water, I took a closer look. This lake, hidden in the forest, was surrounded by trees like a crown, which gave it a beautiful yet mysterious feel.

“Isn’t it a pretty place?”

“Yes, it looks like a place where even a fairy would live.”

“…a fairy, Ash. You’re full of innocence more than you think.”

“That is what it means.”

Sylvia smiled and explained why she had brought me to the lake.

“As I said yesterday, I will take you out hunting today. On the way out, pick some herbs in this colander.”

“… Uh, is today’s hunt fish-fishing?”

“No, I came here to fill the water tank before going hunting. After hunting, you will get thirsty.”

Sylvia took out a leather water bottle from her waist and shook it.

There was a rattling sound in the tank.

It probably contains wine.

I’ve heard that adventurers drink a mixture of alcohol and water.

I have heard that it is much safer to mix water with alcohol, as there is a risk of food poisoning or infection with various parasites if you drink water from rivers or lakes.

It was a kind of experience and wisdom passed down among adventurers.

“Oh, I see.”

“And I’m going to check out your magic a little bit.”

“My magic…?”

Sylvia-san nodded.

“I don’t doubt that Ash can even use advanced magic, but I just want to see how you use magic.”

“If it’s an advanced magic that can be used here… Shall we make a golem?”

“Golem… how long does it take to cast?”

“… maybe half an hour…?”

“Where do you write that?”

“…Ugh,”

“Try this.”

She uttered an incantation so brief that it felt almost like a single word, and created a blazing ball of fire in the palm of her hand.

Basic magic with no name.

It was a magic that only created fire on the hand.

“wait a minute.”

I cast a spell and conjured a round ball of fire in the palm of my hand.

Sylvia sighed and said with one hand on her waist and the other on her forehead.

“…slow.”

“sorry.”

Certainly, I placed the order in close to 30 seconds.

However, there was a little distance to protest.

“But, in the first place, this is fire-making magic. Sylvia-san’s magic is too informal.”

The fire-making magic was magic that created spheres of fire on the palms or fingertips.

This is to be immediately connected with the intermediate magic Fire Ball, but since the sphere was the most suitable form to fly, I learned to make fire magic into a sphere as well.

If you put together a spell that fires in this state, it was a fire ball.

Of course, it wasn’t that simple.

The fireball itself was easier and more popular than other intermediate magics, but it was more complicated and difficult than I thought to mix the spells that make fire-making spells shoot without destroying them.

There were a lot of people who couldn’t get over this part and gave up on the path of a wizard.

So, Sylvia-san’s fire-making magic, which took the form of a burning bonfire, was deliberately omitted in several ways, and was informal in many ways.

To be honest, it was a type of magic that was ridiculed as a savage among wizards.

“But it is slow. If it takes that long, you can’t fight or hunt.”

“…yes…but.”

“Now, if you’re a wizard too, you’ve probably heard this before.”

“…?”

“Magic is a mathematical expression made up of letters.”

“…Ah, yes.”

That sentence was one of the most famous aphorisms about magic.

Of course, magicians who study magic deeply disliked it, saying it was an abbreviation that was too simple and violent, but it became famous because it was the best metaphor to explain what magic was like to people who couldn’t use magic.

Silvia-san continued.

“Turning fire into spheres isn’t very useful in practice. Unlike ice or soil, it is natural that fire has an irregular shape. Rather, fire is not a blow, but magic to spread the fire and burn it to death. So you can deliberately omit the spell that creates the sphere.”

“…ah,”

“In other words, Ash, you are trying to apply only the theory you have learned too much.”

I felt a ‘thump’ on my knee at Sylvia’s words.

After I made the sphere of fire in my hand disappear, I immediately opened my hand and said.

“I’ll try one more time.”

Minus the process of refining into spheres from fire crafting spells.

Wait, how do you stabilize the fire at this point?

shape retention?

Other than that, I don’t have any problems?

Ah… wait, like this, like this…

In an instant, a flame rose high above the palm of my hand, burned up, and then disappeared.

“Whoops!”

“It took longer than before. And it failed.”

“… yes…”

It took longer and even failed.

Nothing happens all at once.

Sylvia-san slowly approached me, who was depressed, and said.

“ash.”

“yes…”

“How many is 5 + 5?”

…what?

I was sure she would give me some encouragement or point out what was wrong, but Ms. Sylvia started to say something very strange.

I answered once.

“… 10, right…?”

“Did you count now?”

“…No, usually this much comes right out without any calculation… Ah,”

I realized what she meant.

Sylvia-san saw my expression as if she had realized something and said with a satisfied smile.

“Okay, come out right away. But when you use magic, it’s the same as making easy calculations that can be partially omitted while using calculation formulas.”

“…”

“1 + 1 is 2, 5 + 5 is 10, you don’t even have to think about it.”

“Yes.”

“Light a fire, increase the size of the fire, make a sphere, fix the shape, and then remove the sphere. Don’t try to calculate it this way, make fire. fix it Just think of it like this.”

I slowly spread my palms and abbreviated the spell as much as possible in my head.

After cutting out the unnecessary parts of the ordering ceremony as much as possible, only the one word that Sylvia-san used was left.

It’s not wild magic, it’s practical magic forged through experience.

I uttered the most condensed spell.

A flame burned in the palm of my hand.

“done!”

“Oh, finally… Huh?”

“…Why are you like that?”

The flames burning in his palm were irregular, but he succeeded in burning them in a consistent size.

However, Ms. Sylvia tilted her head as if wondering something and looked at the flames that appeared on my palm.

“This, the shape is strange…?”

“yes?”

At her words, I looked at the flames flickering on the palm of my hand.

I thought it was a bumpy, irregular shape, but when I looked closely, the flame took on a certain shape.

“…beast?”

The flame appeared to have four legs and a tail.

It does not wag erratically, but apparently walks on all fours and wags its tail.

The snout was not clearly visible because the palm-sized sparks shook wildly, crushing the shape, but the flower definitely had the shape of an animal.

“A wolf? No, is it a fox?”

The beast-shaped sparks swam in the air and disappeared.

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I filled the lake with water and went hunting with her.

Let’s use it one more time, the form of my flame is still the form of the beast.

Just in case, I tried using ice magic as an experiment, but the magic that summons a fixed object like ice magic couldn’t remove the magic formula that regulates the form, so it was activated the same as normal ice magic.

Throughout the hunt, the image of the flames did not disappear from my mind.

It seemed the same for Sylvia-san.

“I see there is something special about your magic.”

“…is that so?”

“At least from the common sense I know, there is no explanation other than that. The theory is Ash, you know better. Haven’t you seen anything similar in a book?”

“…well, I haven’t seen anything like it other than making a golem in animal form.”

“What the hell is that animal?”

I do not know.

fox? A wolf? Or a wild dog?

Have I ever been associated with any of those animals?

Oh, there is one wolf.

Earlier, Mr. Sylvia had told me that Lyla’s body had been eaten by wolves.

Now that I think about it, I wanted to say something like that, but at the time, Mr. Sylvia was trying to get me out of the forest as quickly as possible, so I wonder if it was some kind of dissociation or partly cold.

Suddenly, a hypothesis popped into my head.

“Could it be because of this curse?”

I said pointing to my eyes.

“Then I should use that kind of magic too.”

“That’s also true…”

Sylvia clearly refuted.

If so, no matter how much I think about it, I don’t know.

Is there some kind of animal blood flowing through my body?

…that’s a really novel and immoral idea.

Mr. Sylvia tilted her head and thought hard, then said something as if she remembered something.

“A colleague told me before, but in fact, each person has a special form of magic.”

“…Did that colleague you were close with tell you?”

“Yeah, that’s what he said when he explained magic to me. I remember being a little surprised because it was a fact that was not taught at the academy at the time.”

It’s something I’ve never seen in any book about magic either.

My sister said that to Sylvia…?

After all, is a genius a genius?

When the story about my older sister came up, I looked at Mr. Sylvia with interest.

On the other hand, Mr. Sylvia had a slightly displeased face.

“Normally, each person has a slightly different quality of magical power, and it is said that there are cases where that quality is reflected in the form.”

“Ho… It’s the first theory I’ve heard of.”

I knew that each person had a slightly more innate attribute, but a form of magical power.

It’s the first time I’ve heard such a word.

How far did my sister know the knowledge of magic that has not been revealed to this world?

“…on the other hand, I used to tease fire for being honest about fire, and ice honestly looking like ice and not imagining it.”

“…”

…sister.

That playfulness hasn’t gone away even with age.

“sorry.”

“Why are you apologizing?”

“Oh, no, just…”

Still, I felt a little better.

4 years at the academy, 2 years to subdue the demon lord, and 4 years after my sister died.

It’s been 10 years since I haven’t met Maria noona.

In my memory, Maria noona stopped at the appearance of 10 years ago.

However, the older sister Sylvia told me was still the same Maria older sister I knew, so I smiled slightly.

“Then how was his magic?”

“…Ah, Maria? He was in the shape of a neat sphere. as we learn.”

“Oh yeah?”

“He was a crazy b*tch who could complete advanced magic spells in his head in 5 seconds.”

“… you were a wonderful person.”

…That’s what genius is.

While slightly admiring, I was a little surprised that Mr. Sylvia called my sister with harsh words.

It seems that they were very close or ignorantly quarrelsome.

“Okay, stop it. Anyway, if the answer doesn’t come out after thinking about it, let’s move on.”

“…is that so?”

“The prey has appeared.”

Sylvia raised her finger and pointed somewhere in the distance.

“It’s a deer.”

“…”

No matter how much I looked at her fingertips, I couldn’t see the deer at all.

But the look on her face made it clear that she wasn’t lying.

“…I can’t see it at all, isn’t it too far away?”

“…Oh yeah?”

Sylvia took out the bow from her back and shot it in an instant.

The arrow disappeared with the sound of the wind cutting.

1 second, 2 seconds, 3 seconds,

After 3 seconds, Silvia-san said.

“Right.”

… I didn’t even hear the deer screaming.

I realized once again that her senses had gone mad.

My sister is great too, but this person is of course also great.

No, maybe all the warriors’ parties were just people like this.

Then, the demon king who destroyed almost all of the warriors’ party…

The difference was so great that it seemed like a story from another world.

“…If you want to practice my magic, please find something a little closer.”

“Oh right. Hunting was not the purpose.”

“Sylvia-san…”

“Sorry, I was a little impatient because you didn’t seem to want to eat leftover bear meat.”

Oh, if that was the case, I had to admit it.

I laughed ‘hehehe’ at her absurd excuse.

Sylvia-san also stroked my hair.

We decided to make beef jerky or smoke the deer we had just caught, just in case, and go on a hunt for other game with my own training.

After wandering around for another hour or so, she found a small rabbit hole.

she said, lowering her voice.

“Let’s try that strange fire magic of yours.”

Sylvia picked up dry grass and placed it in front of the rabbit hole.

Then, as if asking me to write, he pointed his chin down the rabbit hole and nodded.

I nodded and chanted a fireball.

As before, add the shooting formula to the abbreviated fire crafting formula.

fire ball.

“Ahh!”

“ash!”

The tremendous recoil caused me to fall backwards.

Obviously, this wasn’t a fireball.

A beast with a body of flame emerged from his hand, passed the grass in front of the rabbit hole, burrowed furiously into the hole, and exploded in the ground.

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