"Your name is Yuto, right?"
As I looked down at the witch whose ugly face blocked my view, I thought I could finally talk to her.
Actually, there were some things I wanted to ask her, like what the magic she was using was for, but I didn't know what kind of reaction I would get, so I stayed as close to the witch as possible.
As a person who has watched dozens of anime, I know that wizards are physically weak. My current physical strength was probably high enough to kill her with a sudden attack before she could react.
"What is your name?"
"My name? My name is Slphia. Of course, if you can't pronounce the word, you can just call me Daddy."
Daddy? Tch.. fucking bitch. She's actually got her eye on my mom.
[Congratulations you have a new main mission (learn magic)
Mission content : learn magic
Term of office : 2 years
Quest reward : calculated according to how much magic you have learned (minimum reward : random, one-star sword technique)
Quest penalty : end of the path of magery
P.S. How about using the old elf in front of you for this mission. I think you should give it a shot.]
"Fuck."
"I don't understand."
"I say, can you teach me magic?"
When I saw the system's punishment, I accidentally swore out loud, but luckily they didn't understand me because I swore in the language of my previous world and not in this one.
To be honest, no matter how relaxed I was, my life would be wasted if I couldn't learn cool stuff like magic. I decided to learn some magic, even if it was something simple, from this woman while I had the chance.
"Look at this kid. So you are interested in magic. If you're so interested, come back when you're five and I'll teach you a simple healing spell."
"Ahh, please don't bother, granny pharmacist. My son can be so spoiled sometimes, I'm sure there's nothing that really interests him about magic"
Mom! Why aren't you on my side? Come to the dark side! And how can a person not be interested in magic?
"Please teach me magic, master"
"Ahaha master? Aren't you being a bit hasty, little Yuto? At least wait until you're five before I teach you how to be a magician."
"I don't wanna. I want to learn magic now. Please teach me how to do it, master. No matter how hard it is, I can handle it."
"Son, please don't be in such a hurry. Magic is much more complicated than it seems."
"Please don't say that, Mrs. Elena, I am very old. If one day I pass into the next world, I would like to leave behind me a healer who knows at least a simple healing spell."
He's standing next to me in a way that could be considered creepy. He's probably planning to use me to get close to my mom. Like I would let that happen you deceitful bitch.
"I'm sorry pharmacist granny but my son has no knowledge of magic, please tell him how magic is used before he makes a snap decision about his future. He will probably stop being a magician when he learns how magicians use magic."
What exactly are these women talking about? Is magic really an unpopular profession in this world?
But it shouldn't be. In an ancient world like this, there must have been a lot of wars, and in wars, power is a necessary thing. My guess is that magecraft is a way for people to get stronger.
"I really want to be a magician, mom."
The old witch looked at my mother like she was happy with my determination.
"There is nothing to do, if you want to be a magician, try it. But first remember why we came here. After your examination, let the pharmacist granny give you some information about magic."
"Thank you, mom."
"You're so cute when you say thank you, I wish you'd say thank you more frequently, sweetie"
Meh... I think I did it somehow.
------- ( after 15 minutes )
This time the examination was very different from the previous time and did not involve any magic. I don't know why, but Slphia used his hands like a normal doctor to check my body.
At first, when I saw her examining me with her hands, I thought she had overstepped her boundaries and turned her perverted attention to me, but she examined me normally and told my mother that I was healthy.
After the examination was over, Slphia said he wanted to test my skill in magecraft and taught me a few simple math operations. Fortunately, these math operations were simple things like addition and subtraction from my previous life.
I didn't hesitate to pretend that I didn't know anything about math before and label myself a genius. When Slphia saw that I had learned addition and subtraction in just a few minutes, she said with a surprised expression that I was a very talented child in wizardry.
Thanks to Slphia's words, my mother was also convinced that I should become a magician. After a short discussion, we decided that from now on I would come here 4 days a week in the afternoons and train until the evening.
Since our house is quite close to here, my mother didn't object and said she would bring me 4 days a week.
"Yuto, can you wait outside for a while. I'll be right back."
I didn't know how safe it was, but my instincts told me it was okay, so I went outside and waited outside the door. I made sure to swear that if this witch tried anything perverted again, this time my revenge would be merciless.
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When Elena saw her son walking out without any trouble, she turned around, her smile wiped off her face.
"Granny pharmacist! Why didn't you just reject him? Magic is not something ordinary people like us can do. Besides, he's only 3 years old, I thought someone who hasn't turned 5 can't use magic. This will only affect my son's future personality in a bad way."
Slphia managed to put on a calming smile, perfectly mimicking the expressions of an old woman, but inside she was beginning to feel worried.
"A mature woman like you, Elena, should be calmer and know how to trust the elders and leave herself in the arms of the elders and enjoy life. He's a young boy, he should feel the feeling of not succeeding and sow the seeds of his own ambition today. Besides, I saw a different fire in her eyes, maybe she really could be a sorceress."
"Don't make fun of me, Slphia-sama, we are just ordinary villagers. How can the child of an ordinary villager like us succeed in magic, where knowledge is everything?"
"It doesn't hurt to let him try. Let him try a little."
"What's the point of trying to do something that you can't succeed at?"
Slphia suddenly lunged forward and grabbed Elena's shoulders, tilted her head and asked a question in a more calm and serious voice.
"Elena, can I ask you a question?"
"I don't know why you're getting so serious, but of course you can."
Suddenly, Elena was stunned and blushed when she suddenly saw that the pharmacist granny, whom she had known for a long time and who was known as the oldest in the village, was worried about her, because Elena had always felt as comfortable as a child in front of the pharmacist granny.
But there was one thing Elena was completely wrong about. The only reason for the change in Slphia's tone was that she was looking at the bust of Elena's dress and was having trouble focusing and remembering what she had just decided to say. Of course, it is important to remember that Slphia is an elf who has lived for more than a thousand years. Thanks to her experience, at least she could say random words of motivation.
"You know you're going to die one day, don't you?"
"Yes."
"You'd live a happier life if you forgot the fact that you're going to die one day, wouldn't you?"
"Ughmm."
"Why do you try so hard to live when you know 100% you're going to die? You don't have to answer... Let your son try a little to become a magician. Your son has a chance to succeed and he doesn't know that he has a 99% chance of failing."
Well, maybe her experience was not enough, but I don't see a problem if Elena is the target.
Elena couldn't make sense of the old woman's words, but she realized that she was being too harsh on her son. She had already taught her that it was the effort that made a person human.
In the end, Slphia succeeded in convincing Elena.
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A few years later
"Master, you didn't use mathematics to measure my sorcery ability, so why are you now saying that your sorcery ability is just an innate affinity for mana.
" Ahh ihhmm... This... is... because... of..."
"You said I have the skill of a master sorcerer just to be close to my mother, didn't you?"
"Actually, it was an aptitude test that no one in the world knows about except me."
"I don't know if you've ever noticed, but you're terrible at lying, master."
"Okay, enough of this break, finish the translation of the spell book I gave you in one hour. I'm going to get some sleep."
What an amazing level of brazenness... I really hate this bitch