Shinde Hajimaru Chapter 5

The lesson about magic in chapter 4 taught me that I made some mistakes in earlier chapters, like Status is a spell, not magic.

Seriously... aren't they the same?...

Anyway, this is the new chapter.

Magic training

“We are doing some magic training.”

“Eh...?”

It was the day after I found out the reason behind my coma. It was 4 in the morning and I was still sleeping. The temptation of diving deeper into the blanket was stronger than ever, and suddenly my mother plunge herself into my room and said that (the destroyed door and wall was repaired my onii-chan, furthermore, onee-chan strengthened them. How could they do that?)

All the sudden again... what happened...? Can't you see that I'm still sleeping...

“Wake up, quickly. And you are using polite tone again, inside your heart!”

“Why are you reading my thought... can you really read it?!”

Because of the sleepiness, I accidentally used polite tone again. And just like usual, my astonishment toward mother drove away all the sleepiness.

“Who cares about that. Anyway, I have a reason to wake you up.”

“I do care...but you probably won't tell me anyway... So what is the reason?”

“This is for you to be able to walk, Alice.”

“What...did you say?”

“This is for you to be able to walk, Alice.”

“...”

Able … to... walk? Me...? Eh, but...

“Didn't my status showed that my strength is 1 yesterday? And beside that, the permanent weakness... And wasn't growth correction FFF mean that it will never change no matter how much I try...? How will I be able to walk with that...? I was really shocked, but still, I prepared my mind to accept the truth...”

Even if it was only a day.

Actually, I tried. Yesterday, mother talked about my situation with everyone else, and after taking me to my bed, she returned to her room tiredly. Alone, I killed my voice and cried continuously... “All after being given a new life, it turns out that I can never stand up...”. I was in despair... and now... is there still any hope left?

“Don't worry, you will be able to walk properly. With your quantity of magic power, you will be able to even run, and wield a sword if you want to. As a top class magician of this country, I can guarantee it.”

She said so while looking at me with heated eyes, then she embraced me gently.

“You can do it.”

Activities that every normal person can do, the me in this world can never achieve it. That thought drove me into despair once. But now, hearing that I can be normal, there is no happiness surpass how I feel now.

“...Mother... I want to stand up, I want to run, I want to swing a sword. Can you help me?”

“Isn't that obvious? I wanted to do so from the start.”

I cried myself out yesterday, but now again I found myself able to shed tears. But these are not tear of desperation, they are from the joy of hope. I cried within the warmth of mother, while listening to her heartbeat...

“I'm fine now. Thank you, mother.”

“Don't be that polite, we are a family.”

“Hmm, that's right. We are family!”

Until I stop crying, mother embraced me without saying anything more. I think I can understand the meaning of “a real family” now. Hey! I did think about everyone as family members, you know? But, after suddenly being reincarnated, thinking people I never acquainted to now as “real family”, that was kinda impossible to me... Eh? I'm good at making excuses? Fine... I'm sorry, I'm reflecting my action...

“Now, after getting Alice to cry cutely in my chest, let's do some magic training!”

“....Mother, really.... Hmm, please teach me.”

“Oh, and I'm calling Elise to join too. That child is also used to magical energy, so let's have you two training together.”

“Eh? Elise never received magic training before?”

“That's right. She doesn't have high aptitude toward magic. But instead, her physical abilities are abnormally high for a 4 years old girl... For now she is mainly receiving sword lessons to train her strength. But still, it's not like she doesn't have any aptitude for magic at all. The enchant magic we will have you learning today is also essential for close range fighting, so let's have her join in too.

Now thinking about that, Alice and Elise is completely opposite of each other, isn't it...? Alice is a genius when it come to magic, and physical ability for Elise. According to father, Elise has natural talent for martial arts. What's more, she has the aptitude for wind element, which is suitable for close combat... Elise's traits are completely of a muscle brain, isn't it?”

This mother is saying something terribly cruel to her own daughter... She may collapse if she could hear it, you know...

“A...anyway! Even for a swordman, being able to use magic will be convenient. I'm having her to train with you today. So wait here, I will go wake her up.”

So she was satisfied with her made-up reason... Well, that's fine though.

While waiting, I looked at my status in the free time.

“By my command, I look at myself. Status: Skills, Spells - Arts”

○ Skills

· All attributes magic aptitude
· Spirit magic (all) (10/10)
· Ultra magic power (10/10)
· Holy magic (0/10) - unique
· Monster taming (EX) - unique
· Sharing (link) (EX) - unique - twins
· Magic power fast recovery (10/10)
· Language knowledge (EX) - unique

○ Spells - Arts

· Spirit magic
· Self-healing
· Taming
· Five senses sharing - twins
· Magic power sharing - twins
· Telepathy - twins
· Injury sharing - twins

Hmm... 'All attributes magic aptitude'...is... just as its meaning. 'Spirit magic'... mother explained that yesterday. 'Ultra magic power'...well, as the name dictated...

Next is... 'Holy magic'? Is there anyway for me to look at its detail...

· Holy art → The unique ability to use Holy art (Unique skill). The user can cast recovery spells.

Oh, I could see it. This is truly a convenient spell.

Anyway, about this 'unique skill'... it did say unique. Does that mean no one else have it?

Unique skill → There is only one person in the world becomes the owner of such a skill. If the owner dies, the right to own the skill is transferred to the next owner. It's not depended on bloodline to transfer. The new owner that has the aptitude receive the skill since birth.

Oh! I can even use it this way?! Wonderful! Just like Wi*ipedia!

Thanks for your kindness.

!?! J...just now, did it... No! I shouldn't think about it, I shouldn't think about it! That was my imagination, imagination. Perfectly imagination. Nothing else but imagination. Yes, that was my imagination.

Now, after come back to myself, let's look at the next one. 'Taming'... maybe just as the name's meaning. It's an unique skill too. Well, let's give it a look.

Monster taming → unique ability to use magical beast. Different from using familiar, can be used with powerful magical beasts. Similar skill 'Familiar taming' is only able to command lower grade magical beasts. Monster taming is effective with high level magical beast. Furthermore, to a certain level, exchanging thought with monster is possible, this ability has various restrictions.

!? This is... With this I can have a whole fluffy paradise!!!! Hah...hah...guhehe...

Wait! What am I thinking!... anyway, next one!

Sharing (Link) → Highest rank of twin abilities. Only two people in the world possess this skill. Nobody other than twin with perfect compatibility can possess this. Twin characteristic.

Oh!! So this is saying Elise and me has perfect compatibility, isn't it?

Look at the Spells - Arts section, there are quite a lot of twin arts! That seems really convenient... I will try to talk about this with Elise later!♪

(There is no need to, onee-chan.)

“!?!?!? What's that?! Where did that voice come from just now?! Elise, where are you!?”

(Calm down! Onee-chan, you are too loud!

Did you think about me when controlling your magical energy? If you do that, we can talk to each other.)

(Li...like...this?)

(Yes! As expected from my onee-chan. Mother even said that your talent to magic is just like of a genius!♪ )

(I...I'm not a genius at all! I just imagined it like talking on telephone.)

(...Telephone...?)

(Ehmm... It's nothing significant, don't mind it please.)

(You are so strange, onee-chan. Well, anyway, this is what you just mumbled about, 'Telepathy'! How is it?! Cool, isn't it! Actually the moment you opened your eyes, I tried to talk to you like this, but you didn't know about controlling magical energy at that time, or maybe you didn't know what magic was, so we couldn't connected.)

(Did you try to talk to me in telepathy? It felt indeed like I was listening to your voice.)

So the noise at that time was Elise calling me. I thought I was making things up.

(Hmm, I tried.

For we to listen to each others' voice is thank to 'Five senses sharing' being used now. 'Magic power sharing' invoked allow this conversation of us to consume only onee-chan's MP and not mine. The consumption rate is pretty high for me ~ This spell decreases MP every second. With my MP, can't maintain it properly!)

(Does that mean you can link to me without my consent?!)

(No, it's not like that. The protection of your mind is awesome anyway.

Earlier you thought strongly about linking with me, didn't you? Because of that, if I also invoke the spell, then we will be connected. Convenient, but a little ambiguous, isn't it?

Oh, and by the way, 'Telepathy' can be activated one-way. If both of us do that then it's no different from talking right now.)

(I see... Let's leave the topic about you can use my MP freely later... Mother is coming to get you, did she get there?)

(Yes, now we are about to reach your room. Just a little more, wait for me.)

(Hmm, understood. I will be waiting.)

(I will end this, okay?)

(Yeah, see you.)

How to end it... Probably stopping the supply of magical energy will do.

This is another useful spell! So it consumes my MP. I'm about to have a magic training, so better take a look at it.

“By my command, I look at myself. Status: Status.”

○ Status

HP: 100/100

MP: 124640/140500

Eh......ehhh??

My MP increased. How? Why!? It was just a day. Is this an effect of 'Ultra magic power'...? I'm beat... The me of this world is truly a miracle... Well, the fact that I was transferred into this fantasy world is itself a miracle.

I can't do anything but to accept that fact.

Consumed is also little than yesterday, is that because I cut off the passive skills? If that's so, then the consumption of those skill was really a lot. No wonder I took lots of times to wake up.

“Alice, I brought Elise here. What were you doing?”

“Welcome back, mother. Thinking that we will do magic training from now, so I checked my status.”

“Is that so? That's good dedication you're having there.”

“Ya~ho onee-chan. Today is mother (hellish) training, let's do our best!”

“Did you added something before “training”?... Yes, let's do our best, Elise.”

Somehow... I started to feel uneasy...

“Our time is limited, so let's start now. I will have you able to cast enchant spell within today. If you can do that, you will be able to stand by yourself.

It is a high rank magic, remember the magic power consumption depends of invoking time. There is no need saying, but we are practice in chanting today. For now, you have to figure out how to invoke it.”

““I got it.””

Was magic supposed to be something you able to learn in one day...? I don't think it is that easy...? Well, this is my mother. I should let her act as she want, at least when there are only us.

“You can not invoke a spell just by chanting. Imagination is important.

Status spell also varies to people, depends on their imagination. In fact I have heard many ways of displaying, like on paper, or on water's surface. In my case, it felt like information just flew directly into my head though... Because of that, on my first time using it, the amount of information made me fainted...

Well, me aside, you must have remember something of the time you used Status. The image you used formed your own method to invoke the spell. It affects your spell greatly. Got it?”

“Yes.”

“....zzz”

“No dinner for you tonight...(forehead flick)”

“Awww!? I wasn't sleeping! Wasn't sleeping at all! Mother, please don't cut off my dinner~!”

“Hah... Elise, this is important to you in the future, you know? So listen carefully.”

“Ye~s.”

Elise seems to be bad at learning. She is alike to Airi after all... Ah.. Airi, I want to see you...

“Onee-chan, what happened to you?”

“Eh? No, it's nothing! Mother, please continue.”

“... Okay then...

And so, an image is important. An image alone can invoke the spell, that is non-chanting. Like I explained before, non-chanting spells are also called imagination spells. To reach that level, normally a lot of time is needed... but if it's Alice, I think you can do that pretty soon.”

“No...I'm not... like that at ...all?”

“Why are you making a question? Onee-chan, you are really suspicious.”

“I'm not suspicious~! Just that, I have many divine blessing that I don't understand at all, so I thought it was because of that...”

“Ah... about that, I think you don't have to care about it much. While they look cool, but it's not like you can talk to god anyway. Can I go on now?”

“I'm sorry, please continue.”

“You don't have to sorry. From the start it was me who leaded to that topic.

But anyway, the explanation is pretty much just that. Within today you don't have to do it by non-chanting, just come up with an image to invoke the spell. Granting spell (enchant) has short chant, even not-so-bright Elise can remember.”

“Mother, that's mean!... But it's not like I can deny that...”

“No, you should deny at that point...”

This younger sister of mine... hah...

“The chant is like this.

By my command, bring me the strengthening. Enchant: Strength.

That's it, now try to do that.”

Okay... let's give it a try...

(I'm sorry, onee-chan, can I have a moment?)

(...Hm? What happened?)

But before I could, Elise used telepathy to me.

(Actually, I started training wind spells by myself recently. I do have my own amount of magic power... but that's not much. So, if possible, I want to active 'Magic power sharing'. I want to use a bit of your magic power. After this I also want to do some wind spells training too.)

(I see... That's great, doing training by your own. But you should know the basic properly, or else mother will be mad at you later, you know? And, as the condition, can you teach me wind spells later?)

(Of course! Thank you, onee-chan! I love you! But I hate learning the basic!)

(Ha... what a spoiled little sister... You are welcome. I will be ending this, okay?)

(Hmm! Let's do our best!)

That was really admirable from her, to train the magic that she is not good at by herself. But well, neglecting the basics is so spoiled though.

“What happened? Try it out quickly.”

“Hm, yeah. I'm sorry, I was thinking a little bit.”

“About the image? That is different depends on each person. I can't give you any advice.

There is no way but to get it on your own... For me, I just imagine about wearing a cloak of power around my body and I'm able to invoke the spell... How about try it out for now?”

“Hmm, I got it.”

Being cloaked... I wonder which image works for me...

Strengthening... like that in Dor*emon and Saint S*iya...? Well, let's try it once, for now...

““By my command, bring me the strengthening. Enchant: Strength.””

Oh, that wasn't by purpose. Chanting at the same moment as Elise made me a bit happy.

Now, for the important part...

““Eh?...””

“Failed, it seems.”

The spell didn't invoked. I did feel my magic power decreased though. Why is that?

“Even failed magic consumes magic power. That's why in a battle, making a mistake is giving a chance to your opponent. Adding with the magic power loss, you will be facing two bad situations at once, remember that.”

““Ye~s””

So it comes to imagination after all... Which image would be suitable for me, I wonder...

Strengthen... strengthen... power? Power, huh... Thinking about power, somehow I think about fire. But wouldn't that trigger some fire spells...? This time I'm chanting out loud, so that won't be a problem, but still... Is there anything else?

Oh, come to think about it, 'power' doesn't have to relate to anything. From the start we are using the 'enchanting' spell. So, every cells, every organs, every flesh and blood, magic power flow in them... that kind of image... And then imagine converting those magic power into 'Strength'... That's it! Let's try this out!

“Failure is expected though. If you can do it that easily, then...”

“I did it!”

“Eh...ehhh?”

“My... I kinda did it!”

“What?! Just now, you didn't chant, did you?! Non-chanting! Suddenly you can do it non-chanting?! You couldn't do it just earlier, isn't that true?! No matter how to look at it, this is completely not normal!!”

“Mo...mother! Calm down, calm down, please? Can't you see that onee-chan's eyes are becoming teary... ”

“Hah?! What have I done! I'm sorry, Alice. I was too excited... So stop crying! Thinking that I made you cry makes me feel terribly sinful... I won't be able to forgive myself!”

… I am niot crying. That was because I just yawned... And mother wasn't that scary...

(TL note: not a typo.)

“Whew... I decided not to be surprised by anything you do anymore, Alice. If I surprise every times, my life span left will soon be reduced to 0.”

“Mother, don't you think that you are being mean?!”

“Not counting the first time about Status spell, after failing only one time, suddenly succeeded without chanting, and you say I'm mean? You broke too much common senses. Be more self aware about that.”

“O...okay. Anyway, Elise, you don't seem to be surprised?”

“Hm, yeah. Mother was so disturbed that I felt calm looking at her.”

“Your sentence itself made me feel complicated... Well, the result turned out well, so that's good. What's left is...Elise...Let me~ plenty~ viciously~ help you! (grinning)”

“Eh...ehhh~! O...onee-chan, he...help meeeee~~~!”

As my poor little sister becoming the victim, I turned my head away.

By the way, from the moment succeeded using enchant spell, it took Elise 8 hours more to use it. At that time, I investigated the magic power consumption and effectiveness, and completely mastered that spell.