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Chapter 6 - Magic

Time flew like wind, and Steve was already one year old.Everyday continued the same, with every relative telling him about what they did in their day and Steve training his aura.Steve had been doing his small investigation to know about that new world by enhancing his ears with aura."Ok. What do I have until now?", he asked himself. "There are four months in this world, each one of them being a season. They are: Kaitz, being summer; Stav, being autumn; Joref,

which is winter; and Aviv, which is the equivalent of spring. Each month has 83 days, which means that each year has... 332 days.

Also, I'm in a small Village in the middle of nowhere, so I'll be safe for some time.Thank you Naiko for doing your homework out loud!"Then he heard his father talking to his siblings: "Get readyyyyy! This is the monthly mana bowl check!""Mana boul? What's that?", asked Steve in his head while keeping hearing them."This time you will cast a fireball. You won't have to launch it, instead, you will maintain it as a sphere as much as you can", Asyldur continued."Ohhhh, the mana bowl is the mana tank!", Steve realized. "They dont know what a tank is.Wait. I must see this. How magic is".Then he created a platform with aura below himself, making it float and moving it to the door.After that, he created a hand to open the door he left himself in the ground and started crawling to the kitchen, where his family was.When he arrived, he was met with a wonderful view. The wonderful thing about the view wasn't the kitchen, even if Steve hadn't seen it. Steve didn't even look to the kitchen. There it was: Magic.Steve looked amazed to the fireballs that were between each of his siblings hands. He looked at how they were as bright as the sun.He looked at them for a whole hour. Naiko's one was really espherical but smaller than his sister's, which was bigger but it looked more like fire than a fireball.Gaiji's one was the one that stopped first, with Naiko stopping five minutes later. When they stopped, they looked really tired"You have grown your mana bowls quite a lot", said his father.Then they all got scared as they saw Steve sitting in the floor watching them."Shinto? When did you come here?", Gaiji asked amazed.Steve just went back to his room without even giving a sign of response.Then his mother came and saw him crawling to his room."HEY DID YOU SEE THIS!? SHINTO IS CRAWLING", she shouted excited."We know, but he really scared us before you arrived", Naiko said."Ok, come one! A baby can't scare you!", She said mocking them.They all remained silent....Then, out of nowhere, they all bursted into laughter.They all enjoyed the moment while Steve's grandfather was waching from the table without saying a word.Afterwards, Steve's mother took him to his cradle, where he laid."How do I get magic?", thought Steve in his cradle while he was left alone. "I have seen that everybody can use it, so it must be easy.", He followed in his thoughts.Steve extended his hand and compressed his baby muscles, trying to get magic out of his arm.While he was doing that, his sister suddenly broke into his room and saw him. "Shinto... Are you trying to use magic?", She asked."Mhm", Steve answered affirmatively."You just responded to me!?", She asked amazed. "Oh wait... right. You wanted to use magic", she said trying to calm herself."Ok Shinto. What you must do is not to force it, but to... like... let it flow", She explained. Steve clearly didn't understand."Gaiji! Come help me with this!", Kappanelle shouted."Sorry Shinto, I gotta go", his sister said."She isn't very good explaining things", Steve thought.After she left, Steve went back to his unsuccessful magic launching attempts.Everyday, when he woke up, he raised his hands and made as much force as he could, so to launch magic, but he was still unsuccessful."Ugh... What am I doing wrong?", Steve thought disappointed. "If I'm in a new world I should be some kind of prodigy like in mangas. Oh wait. I'm not in a manga. Right?"After an existential crisis, he resumed his unsuccessful magic launching.***A month passed, and he still wasn't able to use magic. Then, another one, and another one. And like that, a whole year passed, and he still wasn't able to use it."Ugh, I will just stop doing this. I will return to train aura.", he thought."I love aura. It's so magical. It flows like blood through my veins. It seems that the heart pumps out aura, which reaches each part of my body. Not like magic, which I can't use!" He complained angered due to not being able to use it."Wait... aura flows in the body being pumped from the heart, so where's magic?" He thought. The pieces of the puzzle were starting to come together."In games, the stat that always involves magic is intelligence, and intelligence comes from the brain, so maybe magic comes from there too!", He thought. Then he remembered his sister's words: To "let it flow".When he realized what he had been doing wrong, he felt full of confidence and tried again. There, he sat down. After that, he raised his hands and without any force he tried to imagine fire. His head was full of fire. He didn't think a thing other than fire. "Come on... Pleaseeee... a fireball", he shouted in his mind.Twenty minutes later, he laid in his bed, defeated. No fire came out of his hands."What did I do wrong?", he thought, "I didn't force the magic and I had a mental image". He didn't have enough energy to lift a single finger."I'm going to sleep", he decided.He rested really well because of how warm his cradle was. "Wait... Why is my bed warm? Normally it's really cold", he wondered. Then he opened his eyes, and there it was, floating on his right hand: fire.In that moment, every bit of energy he didn't have returned to his body. "LET'S GOOOOO! I DID IT!", he shouted in his head with joy, not caring that the intended fireball wasn't spherical. Then he extinguished the flamehe summoned and celebrated for some time jumping and dancing.After some time celebrating, he went back to sleep to his warm cradle. Then he realized the bed was getting hotter by each passing second. There he saw his blankets, burning."I f'd up!". Then he started thinking: "MY BLANKETS ARE BURNING! WHAT DO I DO? Ok... calm down. Water counters fire, so I only need a water spell. I already summoned fire, so this should be easy.".Then he put his hands in front of the burning part of the blanket and tried to summon water. But nothing came out. "What did I do wrong!? I let it flow like my sister said. I will try forcing it!... It doesn't work either!".Steve tried to do it calmly. Then forcing it. Then he tried to force it with one hand while letting it flow with the other and then he did it the other way around, but nothing worked. He couldn't summon water."Ugh...There's only one option left...", he realized. Then he took out his diapers and started peeing on the fire."I hate myself", he thought with a face of complete disappointment.Just when he extinguished the fire and put on his diapers again, someone broke into his room. It was his mother."I'm getting grounded", Steve thought.Then, Kappanelle suddenly started crying and then teleported im front of him where she hugged him. "I was so worried about you... Your brother and sister always peed on their beds when they were babies, so I was really worried about you. You have never peed on your bed. I'm so happy that you are like your brothers", she said while crying rivers.Then Steve thought while hugging her back: "Wait... First of all, why is my mother happy because I peed the bed? Secondly, WHAT DID JUST HAPPEN!? DID SHE JUST TELEPORT!? I need to learn to do that.".Then, to his mother's surprise, he stood up. Then he put his hands as if he were wielding a sword and then he swang his invisible sword."Do you want to learn swordsmanship?", she asked. The she realized WAIT, DID YOU JUST STAND UP!? HEEEEY COME HERE! SHINTO JUST STOOD UP!", She shouted to the family.While the familly came, she whispered to Steve: "Ok! I will teach you!".All the family came running and they all cheered the moment they thought were Steve's first steps.***

After everyone had gone, Steve stated: "I will never use magic. Even if I wished for it in my previous life.".

Then he resumed his aura training, rifining it, making it more powerful and faster.He also tried to create things with aura, like swords and more blankets to sleep warmer.That day, Steve's ego was so hurt, that he developed a trauma for using magic.