<strong> To do list (3)</strong>


    I headed straight to the library as soon as the ss ended, due to La’s request for a two-person y.


    It wasn’t particrly difficult, and Ipleted it in 30 minutes, tailored to La’s level of Latinel.


    [Thank you!!! As expected !!!]


    [Here’s the remaining 1,500 Ren~ ^-^!!]


    I had asked for 3,000 Ren. Of course, she would have happily given twice as much if I had asked.


    But, there’s something I realized while navigating the underworld.


    If you poke a baby bear, the mother beares out, and if you eat too much, you get a stomachache.


    The Hilton family is dangerous. They are one of the wealthiest families on the continent, but I had never heard any rumors about the Hiltons while navigating the underworld.


    A family with no good or bad reputation. A family instinctively avoided and shunned by the residents of the underworld.


    It’s best to only take as much as you give.


    [I know a guy who’s really pathetic, and you’re much better than him~~ He’s really pathetic!!!! His name is Shion Ascal, a total idiot lol. If he ever requests something from you, please reject him rofl.]


    [Wait a minute?!]


    [Did Shion Ascal request something from you first? His Latinel was suspiciously good!!!! ?_?]


    “……I should have asked for 5,000 Ren.”


    Anyway, I finished writing for La, and looked at the study material I had to work on.


    「From Magic to Mana Forms」


    It’s a second-level Magic book. This textbook isbeled as ‘Magic High School 2nd grade level’, but it’s probably a 1st grade course by Endex standards.


    I opened the cover.


    [Introduction]


    [Magic leads to mana forms. Of course, the development of Magic is not a mana form. Magic is a pure academic discipline, and mana forms are empirical. Magic merely helps to understand mana forms more easily……]


    To put it in a metaphor, mana forms are machines. Simple machines. Mana spells areplex machines.


    On the other hand, Magic is a tool that interprets those machines and teaches how to use them.


    Some geniuses possess the ‘intuition’ to handle these machines without tools, but the rest of us need these tools.


    [Chapter 1: Basics of Circuit Diagrams]


    The reason why Magic is a tool is because of this ‘circuit diagram’.


    [The most meaningful utility of Magic lies in discovering the ‘circuit’ of mana forms. It’s about using the tool of Magic to analyze mana forms and construct circuit diagrams……]


    If only a mana form is left, it’s nothing more than a geometric pattern. Shapes and lines are mixed chaotically.


    But when you analyze them with Magic, you can finally see the ‘circuit’, and the blueprint that represents it is called a ‘circuit diagram’.


    The circuit diagram tells the order of mana to implement the mana form. Like an electrical circuit diagram.


    A mage can implement a mana form only by manipting mana without deviating from this circuit diagram.


    [Example 1: The mana form 「Generation: Fire」, and the Magic equation that exins the mana form. Pleaseplete the circuit diagram.]


    [TIP: It’s important to find the starting point first.]


    “……”


    Example.


    I stared nkly at it.


    There was a mana form. Onerge circle, onerge triangle inscribed in the circle, three small circles attached to therge triangle, and several lines connecting them.


    Underneath the mana form was an equation expressed in Magic. It seemed that solving this would yield the circuit diagram.


    “What is this?”


    I had no idea about the Magic equation, so naturally, I wouldn’t know the circuit diagram of the mana form, right?


    I should know, right?


    “What the…”


    My eyes widened.


    I could see it.


    Suddenly, I could see the circuit diagram of this 「Ignition: Fire」.


    The example mana form in the textbook. Suddenly, a ‘starting point’ shed blue on the symbol-less form, and from there, a blue stem originated, winding around the mana form in the correct order.


    I did nothing, but the circuit diagram of the mana form naturally ‘became known’ to me.


    “…Why?”


    I blinked nkly. I didn’t understand what was happening, but naturally, I suspected the 「Notepad」.


    [93 / 103 (-1)]


    ■ Diary


    ■ Memory


    └Perion


    └Heart


    └Latinel Ⅰ


    └SZX-9500


    └Paper Sparrow


    Capacity history within thest 24 hours 0


    It’s the same.


    The capacity is the same, the Memory list is the same.


    Then what on earth… wait a minute.


    “Paper Sparrow?”


    Paper Sparrow.


    The magic form of Asillen, the person in charge, which I left without deleting just in case, or to be honest, I forgot to delete.


    Could it be because of this?


    “…Wait a minute.”


    It’s obvious.


    I ‘Memoried’ the ‘magic form’ of the Paper Sparrow. Not just the shape, but the entire movement of the magic circting in the form.


    And the magic form is superior to the mana form. The magic form itself includes the mana form, a broader and moreplex concept.


    Let’s think about it here.


    If someone can understand the circuit diagram of a magic form, wouldn’t they naturally be able to understand that of a much simpler mana form? Shouldn’t it be so?


    Whether it’s a magic form or a mana form, they both operate on the same magical principle.


    “Like branches spreading out…”


    Simply put.


    Like the proverb, “know one and you know ten,” the process of interpreting the mana form was intuitively carried out by applying the Paper Sparrow of the 「Notepad」.


    In other words, the Paper Sparrow of the 「Notepad」 became the base of my intuition.


    It’s a ‘database’.


    “But why didn’t the group assignment… Ah, I see.”


    The magic form of the group assignment is muchrger and moreplex than the Paper Sparrow. This Paper Sparrow is made up of four mana forms, while the group assignment has six? No maybe even more than that.


    Anyway.


    I understood the circuit diagram.


    Unexpectedly, not in the way of a prodigy, but in the way of a genius—’intuitively’.


    “…I wonder if it will work.”


    Nevertheless, there is a problem left. The next step after understanding is implementation.


    It’s not that I’ve never seeded in implementing a mana form before. I didn’t even know what a circuit diagram was while going back and forth between the hospital and school, and I didn’t have the money to buy textbooks, let alone private lessons.


    I had just been scraping by, hoping to somehow finish my third year, cheating with 「Notepad」. In my own way, I was a physical type, having a father who was a knight, and indulging in self-gratification.


    It was a sick body, a sick mind.


    “Phew….”


    I raised my finger. On it, I invoked the magic form of 「Ignition: Fire」 as it was in the circuit diagram.


    Whoosh-!


    A small me sprouted. The magic power was reasonably consumed.


    “……It works.”


    A hollowugh escaped me.


    Something I’ve never done in my life, yet so simple.


    Silently, I lit a fire on my finger.


    Extinguished it.


    Lit it.


    Extinguished it.


    I repeated this dozens of times.


    “……Perhaps?”


    Suddenly, I became interested.


    If this works, wouldn’t it be possible to implement a paper sparrow directly into Asillen’s 「Notepad」 memory?


    I ced my hand on the paper with anticipation.


    “Ah, no, it won’t work.”


    I gave up immediately.


    There’s not enough magic power. It’s absurdly insufficient.


    After all, memory and implementation arepletely different stories.


    It’s only natural that ‘implementing’ is more difficult.


    “Ugh….”


    I stretched out.


    “I’ll do the rest tomorrow.”


    I’ve done enough for today. My head hurts like hell.


    As I got up, I noticed a person on the other side.


    A man who was an art and sculpture in himself, engrossed in reading a book propped up at an angle, Gerkhen Kal Doon Kal Doon.


    When did hee?


    I looked at the book he was reading.


    “Explorer’s Dictionary”


    It was an Explorer’s Dictionary. Is he preparing for Friday’s group project?


    I slowly approached him.


    “Hey.”


    “……”


    Rustle- Gerkhen Kal Doon looked up at me as he turned the page.


    “Where’s your team’s exploration area?”


    If it’s Mist Mountain, that’s a bit…


    “C.”


    Fortunately, it’s not.


    “It doesn’t ovep. Where did you get that book? Let me read it too.”


    “Everyone else borrowed them, this is all that’s left.”


    “……Ah, really? Can you read it as quickly as possible and give it to me?”


    I almost pleaded. Gerkhen Kal Doon exhaled with a calm, expressionless face.


    Whether he likes it or not.


    There’s no other way.


    “I’ll give you this in return.”


    I offered him the chocte I had saved for when I was low on sugar.


    It’s a foreign chocte given by the owner of a meat restaurant. He said he bought it when he went to the Kingdom of Balliast winter.


    “How about it?”


    “……”


    Gerkhen Kal Doon looked at the chocte.


    For reference, this guy loves sweet food. Chocte, hotteok, ice cream, slush, anything sweet. Thanks to his master, I know his habits and eating habits quite well.


    Even when eating popcorn, what was it, caramel popcorn? He alone would eat all of it.


    “This is a foreign chocte. Look, the packaging isn’t even in Edsi’smonnguage-”


    “I understand.”


    “Okay. When will you finish reading? As soon as possible-”


    “Thursday. I’ll give it to you during the Swordsmanship ss.”


    “Deal.”


    I handed over the chocte as a token. Gerkhen Kal Doon epted it without a word.


    “I’m leaving.”


    Rustle- As I heard the sound of the wrapper being torn, rustle-rustle- I left the library.


    Rustle-rustle-rustle-!


    He’s tearing it up quite noisily.


    Is he already done eating and tearing up the wrapper?


    I returned to the old building. Even though I had only been studying, my whole body was exhausted.


    This is why they say using your brain is also work.


    “……Huh?”


    However, on the path leading to the old building, there was the old man Belthos.


    It’s natural for the old man to be there, but why is he cutting a tree on adder?


    “What are you doing, old man?”


    “……Can’t you see? I’m managing the trees.”


    “But it’s just the old building.”


    The old building used to be a ssroom building. So, the arrangement of the trees leading to the entrance is quite straight. The problem is that they’ve been neglected for so long that they’ve grown like ghosts.


    “If they grow too wild, magical energy can inhabit the forest.”


    He’s right. Trees, like humans, breathe and absorb mana.


    That’s why mountains are the mostmon ces for magical phenomena.


    “True. Don’t you have more tools? I’ll help you.”


    “You helping is you staying still.”


    “Hey. You don’t know me. They’re in the basement, right? Wait and see.”


    I searched for [Gardener] on YouTV and went down to the basement of the old building. There was a video titled [Find the Master: Gardener Edition].


    Holding adder and garden shears in one hand, I went back outside while watching the video.


    “……”


    I sat down with a thud after cing the tools on the ground. I fixed my eyes on the smartphone screen.


    —When cutting branches, the starting point is important. You have to cut from the main branches of the tree. Considering the direction of growth and bnce.


    “What are you doing, kid.”


    Belthos old man called me from below.


    “Wait a minute. I’ll do it after I finish watching this.”


    I need to acquire some know-how. It’s a one-hour video, so it should be enough.


    —When cutting branches, it’s good to cut at a 45-degree angle. It helps the branch regenerate and creates a more natural shape……


    Hmm.


    Nodding my head, pretending to understand, and admiring the work created by the gardener for an hour.


    “I’m done watching.”


    I turned off my smartphone and set up thedder. I climbed up and began to snip-snip- with the shears.


    As I’ve said repeatedly, ‘Look-See-Do’ doesn’t mean you can do everything well just by watching. It’s just that the starting point—technically called the Floor—is at a much higher level than the average person.


    So, you can skip the beginner stage as soon as you learn and be an intermediate right away.


    Thanks to this, I can almost instantly acquire movements and senses below the intermediate level in any field, but to be like the master I just watched on YouTV, I have to put in proper effort.


    Of course, I can momentarily upgrade my level by infusing magic, but it’s only temporary, so it’s more convenient to put in effort like this.


    From the start, I need much less effort than others, and I can reach high levels much more easily. Once I see something, I won’t forget it and can naturally incorporate it into my body.


    Some might say I’m taking too much for granted, but isn’t this much okay?


    I’m on borrowed time.


    Snip-snip-


    I wiped the sweat flowing down as I trimmed the tree.


    This is surprisingly fun. I could make it a hobby.


    “Done. Old man, how is it? I finished one.”


    I called the old man after 15 minutes. One tree was well trimmed into a mushroom shape.


    “Stop making noise- Huh?!”


    The old man turned to look at me and his eyes widened. He almost fell off thedder.


    “Whoa. Be careful.”


    “……What is this?”


    Old man Belthospared the tree I had trimmed and the tree he had just trimmed.


    Honestly, I did a little better.


    “What are you? Where did you learn that?”


    The flustered old man even spat out a dialect. I pulled out my smartphone from my pocket and grinned.


    “It’s called YouTV. Old man, you should take a look too.”