Management of a Novice Alchemist: Volume 3 [Complete] by Mizuho Itsuki

Author:Mizuho Itsuki
Language: eng
Format: epub

Episode 4: The Unexpected Visitor

“Come to think of it, Shopkeeper-dono, how have Kate and Lorea been doing with their magic?” Iris-san asked one day at lunch.

Her tone was full of expectation, but much as I hated to break it to her...

“They’re not going to get results that quickly. If it were easy, then there would be a lot more mages in the world.”

“Hmm. Is that how it is?”

Iris-san nodded. Kate-san and Lorea-chan smiled sheepishly.

“Yeah,” Kate-san acknowledged. “We do feel like we’re starting to get somewhere, though... Right, Lorea-chan?”

“Yes. But it’s still a bit hard to get a sense of.”

“How’s your training, Iris? Going smoothly?” Kate-san asked.

“Mine? I think it’s going fairly well, but...what would you say, Shopkeeper-dono?”

Iris-san had joined the other two for their magic practice at the very beginning, but while she did have magical power, she didn’t have much of a gift for releasing it.

Quickly changing course, she had turned to focus on physical enhancement, which she could do without letting the magical power out of her body.

Being athletic to begin with, Iris-san had shown potential in this new direction, but it hadn’t been that long since she’d started practicing it.

Iris-san looked smug, but if I were to give a summary of her performance...

“Maybe try a little harder?”

“Whuh?! A-Am I that hopeless?”

“You’re not hopeless, but you’re not up to the level where you can get practical use out of it... You aren’t able to do it at-will, and even when you manage to pull it off, you quickly exhaust all of your magical power.”

During our mock battles, she’d suddenly get faster, then just as suddenly collapse.

That was hard for me to handle as her sparring partner. I was worried I was going to injure her.

So long as I kept an eye on the movement of Iris-san’s magical power, I could sort of predict when it was going to happen. I even felt like the practice was helping me to improve my ability to see magical power.

“Don’t go trying to do it in an actual fight, okay? You could get badly hurt,” I warned her.

“I-I know that. If you weren’t my opponent, I’d likely have been hurt in our mock battles by now. Yeah. But forget that, let’s talk about their progress!”

With a wry smile at the way that Iris-san hurriedly tried to bring us back to the previous topic once she realized things weren’t going her way, I took a moment to consider her question.

“Well, the two of them can feel magic, and are able to manipulate it. Now it’s a matter of learning detailed control and activation, but it will take them a while.”

The first stumbling block for anyone who hadn’t touched magic before was being able to “feel” it.

It was hard to perceive something you couldn’t see with your eyes, but everyone, Iris-san included, had easily met this requirement.

They probably had a natural aptitude for it, but regular contact with my artifacts, and living in a house which always had magical power flowing through its seals, likely had some influence on them too.

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