Chapter 39

I've arrived at the training facility again.

Everyone wants to learn the magic I named "life magic."

Even Director Tailsuia is here.

The intelligent yakuza teacher seemed uninterested at first, but after I cast the cleaning spell, he seemed to take a bit of interest.

Director Tailsuia only knew cooking magic, so when I cast the cleaning spell, he was incredibly surprised.

Now, I'll start teaching the magic.

Well, it's not that difficult; you just mix a water sphere with wind magic to create microbubbles, and then cover your head with it. When I explained this, everyone looked disappointed.

First, Director Tailsuia said,

"Listen, Keta-sama, there are fewer than ten people in this country who can use two types of magic simultaneously!"

"Is that so?"

"Yes! Using two types of magic simultaneously, mixing them, and activating them is called high-level magic!"

"Isn't temperature control with water magic considered heat magic?"

"…? Heat magic? I've never heard of it, but now that you mention it, changing the temperature of water could be considered heat magic…"

He started muttering to himself.

Since Director Tailsuia had gone off into his own world, I returned to Arlshein.

"Want to try it?"

"Director Tailsuia said it's impossible, but let's give it a shot!"

"Sure, sure, even without wind magic, if you vibrate the water sphere, it will become foamy."

I actually took out a water sphere and made it vibrate in my palm.

After a while, the water sphere turned white.

When I showed it to everyone, they all stuck their fingers in and seemed convinced.

Immediately, everyone started practicing with their own water spheres.

It seemed difficult to keep the sphere in place while vibrating it, as the intelligent yakuza teacher blew his water sphere away, hitting Director Tailsuia.

When Director Tailsuia returned from his solo journey and saw everyone, he was convinced and started practicing too.

As expected of the head of the Magic Bureau, he completed it without much time. I then taught the dryer spell.

Yugram, Shell, Arlshein, and Digray all completed it smoothly.

Digray forgot to heat the water and ended up with cold water, making him teary-eyed.

The dryer spell wasn't that difficult, so everyone completed it successfully.

The intelligent yakuza teacher kept blowing his water sphere away, causing Director Tailsuia to sigh in exasperation.

Shell and Director Tailsuia insisted on learning cooking magic, but when I told them it uses fire, barrier, and wind magic, they were stumped.

Yugram asked what kind of magic it was, so I explained that you use a barrier as a pot and cook with fire magic.

The moment Digray said he wanted to see it, Shell handed me the ingredients for pudding.

And he had three times the amount of ingredients from the morning.

Director Tailsuia looked at me with great anticipation.

You guys just want to eat, don't you!

I made it.

In a huge barrier bowl, I thought about it while making it in the morning: you don't need fire magic if you heat the water to boiling with water magic from the start.

I took out a large, deep dish, put it in the barrier steamer, and the result was a giant pudding.

A pudding 10 cm deep and 50 cm in diameter.

It was quite surreal.

Shell distributed spoons to everyone, but I stopped them with a barrier as they all tried to dig in at once!

I raised my hand to calm the disappointed looks.

"This will taste even better when chilled."

I imagined the barrier cooling it, and it glowed softly, completing the process.

I removed the lid barrier, took a spoonful, and it was delicious!

I smiled and said, "Everyone, dig in!" and everyone started digging in.

Shell and Director Tailsuia, who had already eaten in the morning, were shocked by the change in flavor when chilled and froze with their spoons in their mouths. The others were similarly frozen.

I took advantage of this moment to portion out a large serving for myself in a small dish made with a barrier and moved a bit away from the group.

Everyone snapped out of it almost simultaneously, and a silent battle ensued.

Six well-built men gathered and silently fought over the pudding, which was quite a rough sight.

Despite being quite popular, the girls at the training facility were put off and whispered among themselves, but the men, oblivious to the whispers, were completely focused on the pudding.

When I finished my portion, the men had almost finished the giant pudding and, with great enthusiasm, started practicing cooking magic.

Even the intelligent yakuza teacher, who had struggled earlier, easily mastered the cleaning and dryer spells and joined the others in practicing cooking magic.

First, we practiced freely changing the temperature of the water and maintaining it for an hour, as it would be inconvenient for cooking magic otherwise.

Once that was done, we practiced maintaining the water temperature while casting a barrier.

Finally, we practiced changing the water temperature while shaping the barrier according to our imagination.

Everyone practiced with a seriousness they don't usually show.

Director Tailsuia easily managed the water temperature and barrier simultaneously but struggled with shaping the barrier as he doesn't usually cook.

He kept imagining the giant deep dish I made earlier.

If he keeps making that much pudding, he'll probably get diabetes soon.

He should eat a little at a time and store the rest in a magic bag, but seeing his enthusiasm, I'm worried he might eat it all.

The same goes for everyone else.

Despite their enthusiasm, the magic was quite difficult, and no one fully mastered it. Director Tailsuia was close, just needing to shape the barrier.

Yugram managed to adjust the water temperature and cast a barrier a few times.

Shell and Arlshein found it difficult to adjust the temperature while maintaining the barrier and kept making the water sphere burst.

Digray was struggling with the simultaneous casting.

The intelligent yakuza teacher was having trouble adjusting the water temperature.

I suggested custom-made pots to make it easier with just fire magic, but everyone rejected it.

They felt like they would be losing if they used anything other than magic.

Surprisingly, everyone was quite competitive.

Although they hadn't fully mastered it, they had made some progress, so we ended the session for the day.

The members, except for the two teachers, headed to the cafeteria.

Everyone seemed more tired than usual.

We arrived at the cafeteria, which was a bit later than usual, and the usual drama of the two-timing girls was playing out, but today they lacked the energy to continue and quietly moved to a corner, quickly ordering their meals.

Since they didn't want to be seen, I cast a barrier to make them less visible to others.

Yugram was impressed and asked for an explanation, which I provided, and he was even more impressed by my frequent use of magic.

"Keta-sama, you use magic too easily!"

"What do you mean?"

"It's a sign of respect! You've kind of broken my concept of magic!"

"Oh, really?"

"No, no, no! I'm not underestimating you, but I was fooled by your cute appearance!"

"Everyone, you should reconsider your perception of magic."

"What do you mean?"

"Can everyone change the temperature of the water sphere?"

"Yes, even students at the elementary school can do that."

"Water magic is for water, and temperature control is heat magic, right? Can you do both simultaneously?"

"… I've never heard of heat magic, but Director Tailsuia said the same thing."

"Magic is about imagination, right? Freezing water or making it boil, all these are based on what you've seen, right?"

"Indeed, we learned water magic, heat magic, and others without distinguishing them when we were young."

"The same goes for the dryer, which uses heat and wind, right?"

"Ah, yes! If you think about using wind and heat magic simultaneously, it is simultaneous casting!"

"Eh? So we've been doing simultaneous casting since we were kids?"

"Sure, sure."

"Don't overthink it… just imagine boiling water in a pot…"

Digray, inspired by my words, created a pot with a barrier and filled it with boiling water.

The water was boiling and maintaining its temperature.

"… So, this means I've succeeded?"

"Sure, sure."

"Is it really this easy…"

Yugram was disappointed.

Arlshein and Shell also succeeded like Digray.

Yugram was even more disappointed.

After the meal, when Yugram tried it again, he succeeded but looked a bit regretful.

That's it for today.