I Surrendered My Sword for a New Life as a Mage: Volume 4 [Parts 1 to 4] by Shin Kouduki

Author:Shin Kouduki
Language: eng
Format: epub

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Though Soma had failed to acquire magic using a sword, he honestly wasn’t that disappointed. He’d been prepared for that possibility; in fact, he’d half-expected it from the beginning.

And he’d gotten a good hint from Carine. Now that he thought about it, it was obvious that he shouldn’t apply common sense when thinking about how he could use magic. He should have started by trying different things on his own rather than relying on books or dungeons.

If he could have learned magic the common-sense way, he already would have. Given that he hadn’t, the proper mindset was to start regarding that common sense with suspicion.

“It’s good to have a teacher at times such as these.”

However, it wouldn’t do to bother others by taking drastic action, and there were limits to what he could accomplish during class. In the end, all he could do during lectures was read books, just like he had been doing all this time.

“Personally, I think it’s an option to take them by surprise and start taking class seriously,” Sylvia suggested.

“Taking them by surprise would neither give me the ability to use magic nor help me come upon any good ideas.”

“Who’d that even surprise?” Aina retorted.

“Umm... The, the instructors?”

“Then it would be even more pointless.”

“No use, huh...” Sylvia pouted.

Soma smiled crookedly at her. When they’d first started school, all she had done if she had a problem with his behavior was give him resentful looks. The fact that she was now talking to him about it meant that they’d gotten significantly closer.

However, he didn’t know whether that change would be a positive for Sylvia, Soma thought as he stood up.

All of their classes for the day were already over, so it was time to leave.

“All right... Do the three of you plan to go to the practice area as usual?”

“Yeah... I do, at least,” Aina replied.

“Me too, I guess,” agreed Sylvia.

“I’m, I’m going too... Are you not, Soma?” Helen asked with a tinge of nervousness in her voice. Her eyes were quivering in fear, and Sylvia’s, too, seemed to be questioning whether that was the case.

It was only Aina who didn’t have anything of the sort in her eyes, but that was likely for the simple reason that her situation was different. Sylvia and Helen had just come out of a suspension, and privately, they were nervous, just as they had been this morning, that things would change even if they seemed the same.

They both wanted things to go back to how they were before, but that couldn’t happen now that Lars was out, which made them even more sensitive to the possibility that something else would change━such as Soma deciding to drop out.

Soma could have been attributing too much of their anxiety to himself, but judging by their reactions, he was probably right. But even with that understanding━or perhaps precisely because he understood━he simply gave them a puzzled look.

“Well, I have some errands to attend to. I may not be able to come to the practice area for some time.

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