"Nii-san is amazing. You can do so many things."
"Kyle will soon also be able to do a lot of things. You're still a kid, so why not play?"
"Even if you say that, Nii-san, you are also a child. You're only two years older than me."
"Well, I can't argue when you say it like that..."
"Hey, teach me magic! Baito-nii told me that you taught him magic."
"Hmm. That's right ... and that made mother a bit sad."
"Eh? Is that correct? What happened?"
Recently, my younger brother Kyle often helps out at my parents' house in the village, while I am away immersed in the settlement.
Apparently he came to visit me today.
I was always cultivating the fields and rarely went home during the day, and we didn't talk much late at night.
Is that why?
And we just started talking here.
But I didn't expect to be asked to teach him magic.
It reminds me of a long time ago.
That was when I was still improving the variety of vegetables I could grow, such as Hatsuka, in a small field behind my parents' house.
It was when I, who was still small, was cultivating a field and pouring water into it with a large tub.
My elder brother asked me.
'Why are you able to carry something so heavy, even though it's way larger than you?'
At that time, I was just trying to use magical power by trial and error, and it was the time when I started using [Body Strengthening].
I used my body as an experimental material to check the effects, but I was wondering if other people could get the same effect.
So, as this was just the perfect time to test the limits of the magic I knew, I taught Baito-nii how to use magic and how to control it.
Baito-nii couldn't do the type of magic that exerts a magical effect on something like [Soil Improvement] that I taught him.
However, it became possible for Baito-nii to strengthen his body in a relatively short period of time.
It is a magic that solidifys the magical power that has been elaborated in your body and strengthens your physical strength as a whole.
It could be done without having to cast it as a spell, and it might have been easier to understand because it was about one's own body.
Baito-nii, who liked the magic, had been practicing physical strengthening ever since. (TLN: So, [Body Strengthening] isn't really a spell, per se, but is a type of magic, so I am putting it in brackets. Just easier to distinguish. And, to those having questions, [Body Strengthening] is just like you lathering yourself in strength. You are covering your body with magic that you've already built up throughout your life. So, you do not really need a spell to use it. You just need to control your magic to cover it over you. And, as Ars has shown, if done with effort, you can do it. Now, please get back to reading the story! Sorry for the interruption...)
But I didn't understand what it meant to be able to use magic at that time.
When I look back on it later, I am completely remorseful about that time.
* * *
What did Nii-san, who had improved physical strength, use the magic to do?
That was the problem.
When I taught him magic, I was willing to ask for help with watering if he could strengthen his body.
However, Baito-nii then began to quarrel with the children in the village, making full use of his strengthened body.
Baito-nii was still in the same generation as most children would be.
Of course, a physical quarrel may start with a casual word between children. (TLN: Fist fights, basically.)
However, Baito-nii always continued to win the quarrels.
Nii-san became invincible in his generation.
But of course there were children who don't find it amusing.
What happened was that they asked for reinforcements.
For children older than themselves.
However, Baito-nii won those fights as well.
Perhaps his body was originally bigger and stronger than most humans.
To be honest, Nii-san's magical technique at that time should not have been able to strengthen him so much.
Though, the fact is that he won those fights as well.
For older people, that was crushing their face, by losing to a child who is better than them.
However, they would not win one-on-one.
Then what would you do?
Multiple people started to quarrel with Baito-nii.
It seems that he couldn't win this.
It's not uncommon for him to be bruised and come home.
However, the greatness of Baito-nii was in his terrifying will.
Normally, if the battles get tough, others will shrink back and try not to quarrel.
However, no matter how many times he lost, Baito-nii faced the older people.
And that experience led to the improvement of the fighting ability of my Nii-san
Gradually, even if multiple people came, he could repel them.
Having continued such a life, no one in the village could compete with my elder brother.
But it wasn't a trivial matter up to that point.
Baito-nii, who skipped field work every day and repeated fights, repeated the same thing no matter how careful he was at not starting a quarallel.
One day, that made my mother start crying.
She said that he wasn't raised well and that they should have done better.
When I heard this, I really endured it.
Just teaching the magic of strengthening the body will cause the family to collapse.
This may be the reason why the church sets the teaching of life magic to the villagers at the minimum when they are about 6 years old.
Anyway, it made me realize that it's not good to teach magic unnecessarily.
"That happened, so I can't teach Kyle magic."
"That happened..."
"Well, if Kyle still wants to learn magic, I'll tell you. Unlike a muscle head like Baito-nii, Kyle is smart. I'll tell you if you will learn magic that makes you smarter."
"What? Is that okay?"
"If you promise not to quarrel."
"Yeah, I promise. I won't quarrel, so tell me the magic!"
"Okay, I understand. Then, let's train now."
Well, I may regret it in the future, but I don't regret it right now.
The reason why my Baito-nii is able to use the villagers well to help with the field work is also because of the strong fighting.
As a result, all right, everything went well in the end.
I would like Kyle not to devote all his magical power to his muscles like his brother, but to put it into his brain.
Concentrating magical power on the brain improves brain functions such as thinking ability and calculation ability in addition to memorizing ability.
Unlike before, I am now able to give my younger brother more time to study.
I want Kyle to do his best to learn letters and calculations and become an expert in office work that is not in this village.
I dreamed of helping Kyle, who grew up in the future, to work, and taught me how to learn magic.