The Diary of a Middle-Aged Sage’s Carefree Life in Another World: Volume 3 by Kotobuki Yasukiyo

Author:Kotobuki Yasukiyo [KOTOBUKI, YASUKIYO]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2024-07-30T00:00:00+00:00

He hadn’t actually given it much thought in the first place, though. He’d given them the task on the assumption that they’d fail. But the students, knowing him as a Great Sage, assumed that there must be some kind of mysterious, grand design behind his actions.

“Besides, do you really think you’ll get that far with remaking our heirloom magic without honing your skills on some more basic spells first? This isn’t the kind of thing you’ll be able to do just because you’ve learned a little bit about magic formulas.”

Croesus’s siblings responded together: “Wha—?!”

From somewhere in the back of their minds, they remembered Zelos saying: If you manage to improve some other spells too, that’s even better. In other words, he’d been laying the groundwork to push them toward researching other spells in the name of optimizing their family’s heirloom spell.

Of course there was no way that mages with barely more knowledge than amateurs would be able to improve on such an absurdly complicated spell. But they were understanding, now, that the task had been a pretext to get them to first research other spells—to build up the experience that would allow them to create more intricate formulas down the line.

The two of them had been so entranced by the promise of the finest magic conduits a Great Sage could make that they’d overlooked that very substantial detail.

“You’ve got a nasty way of doing things, Teach...”

“So he knew it would be impossible in the first place, did he? Which is why he tried to encourage us to study other spells too...”

“I don’t entirely understand what’s going on, but I think I can empathize with him. If researching magic was so easy, our country would’ve become a superpower by now, I imagine. Research isn’t something you can succeed at in just a day.”

“You’re kind of a hermit yourself... I bet you can empathize with him, yeah. Guess Teach tricked us.”

Both Croesus and Zelos were shut-ins, in a way.

The main difference was just that the former stayed holed up researching the whole time, while the latter liked to be self-sufficient and do a little part-time work to earn some money with which to get by. But both of them were essentially cut from the same cloth, finding things like wealth and fame to be pointless.

Sure, most people wouldn’t be able to sympathize with Zelos. But there were a decent number of people out there with warped mindsets like his.

One of the two felt a great sense of worth in doing research, and threw away everything else to indulge himself in it. The other one had lost that sense of worth; a loss that had twisted him, brought him to despair, and driven him to wish for a quiet life. But they were two sides of the same coin.

“Just what kind of person is this master of yours?”

“He’s amazing—but he’s a crazy guy. Like he’s got a screw loose somewhere.”

“I’d say he’s...strict? Especially on himself. Though...yes, ‘crazy’ is right.”

In short, he was someone with a broken, warped personality.

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