12 CHAPTER X -- NEARLY 8




 
 It's been almost two years since the emperor's visit.
 I'll be eight years old in a few days.

 I've been practicing my creative magic for the past two years.
 I would reshape the mithril with my creation magic and then use it as an ingredient for more creation magic and practice again.

 But I only used the magic stone once because it was a waste of time.
 That time I couldn't resist because I had an ingredient I wanted to try out.

 The material was my father's handkerchief, the one you used to make Misanga for growth.
 Now I know what the handkerchiefs are made of: ....

<Magic Silk.
 High quality silk that contains very magical powers
 The silkworm cocoons are made from silkworm cocoons that only live in areas with a high concentration of magic.

 By the way, the silkworms that make magic silk were found only in the Devil's Forest, so they were very expensive.
 It was priced at four 500 gram white gold coins at a material store (about 10 million yen).

 I bought it, though!

 So what I built: .....
 I wanted to build an inter-space storage backpack .

 I've been wanting a spatial storage device ever since I appraised my grandma and grandpa, but I didn't want to make it with half-hearted materials or magic stones because it would fail.

 The object made with magic silk and magical stones was
<A rucksack with pockets for extra space storage.
 You open the backpack and remind yourself to put the item you want to put in and it goes into the pocket inside.
 The capacity of the pockets is proportional to the amount of magic the user first poured into the backpack.
 The user is the one who poured the magic into it in the first place.
 Only the user or those who poured their magic into the backpack at the same time.
 Created by Leons Forster

 No way the ability has gone to the pocket: .....
 Pockets or... The Fourth Dimension.... Nope, nothing.
 But the security features are awesome...
 It's awesome that you can't have it: ....

 Finally, my magic is getting to be a bit of a mess.

 Leons Forster Lv.1

 Age: 7
 Race: Human race
 Profession : Creator

 Strength: 5/5
 Magic power: 31400/31400

 Power: 5
 Speed: 6
 Luck: 1000
 Attributes: nothingness, creation
 skill
 Appraisal Creation magic Lv.3
 Non-attribute magic Lv.1 Magic manipulation Lv.5
 Mindlessness Lv.2

 Title
 The one who has memories of another world.
 mage

 The growth value of magic power seems to increase at an accelerated rate, and I've noticed that it's a very bad match with my Misanga.
 For example, if we normally take the start as 10 and 10+1+(1+1)+(2+1)+...=10+1+2+3+...
 In my case, 10+1 x 2+(2+1)x 2+(6+1)x 2+(6+1)x 2+... = 10+2+6+14... .

 However, lately it's getting harder and harder to use up, so it's hard to grow because the magic training has become less efficient.

 Also, magic control reached level 5.
.
 You can manipulate magic inside your body.
 The higher the level, the faster and wider you can move.
 Using this skill will increase your magic.
 You can get it if you work hard enough.
 Lv.5... easily manipulates magic outside of itself.

 Also, I got a new 'Mushin'.
 This, as you might have guessed, I found out when I checked after Shelley left.

<Mindlessness Lv.2.
 You can be absent-minded.
 The higher the level, the more unmoved by anything.
 Lv.2... can make a poker face unless it's a very good one.


 Now, the plan is to go to the Imperial City for your 8th birthday party.
 Aristocrats in the Empire usually hold their birthday parties at their mansions in the capital and invite other noblemen of the same or lower class as themselves.
 That's why, as a duke, I'll be inviting a huge number of people to my party.
 So I want to run away from them now: .....

 And although I was born in July, my grandfather and grandmother will train me in the imperial city from January until school starts.
 So I will live in Teito from the age of 8.
 I can't wait to see what kind of training is waiting for me!

<One week later.

 I finished getting ready to leave for the Imperial City .
 Well, I put all my stuff in that backpack, so it wasn't long before I was ready.

Then let's get going.

Yeah, okay.

Don't be so lonely. You'll be back home again.

 It's not that I'm lonely: .....
 I just hate parties!




 <In those days, in Teito.

'Dad, I want to go celebrate Leo's birthday!'
 Shelley said as she ran up to the Emperor.

But who told you that...

That's not important. I want to go!

No. That's why I didn't tell you.
 Then the emperor puts his head in his hands.

'Why not? That's nice.

'If I only attend Leo-kun's when I haven't attended any of the other noblemen's parties, it would mean that the royal family is favoring the Forster family, wouldn't it?

It's true.

Oh, yeah? And if they did, if Shelia goes this time, you're going to have to admit it.

Yeah, I want to go.

So why don't you invite Leo-kun to the castle unofficially on the day before or after his birthday?
 Then the Emperor grinned.

How can you do that?
 Shelly shot the Emperor a half-doubting look.

In short, just call me a friend of Shelia's and I won't care about the royal family.

Okay, I'll take it.

All right, now all that's left to do is wait for Leo-kun to get to Teito.


 The carriage heading to the Imperial City in those days

(shuddering)
 Huh? I'm getting chills all of a sudden.

'Oh, I don't want to go to the Imperial City!
 I couldn't help but say it out loud.

Don't say that. I haven't seen my sisters in years.

 You know, I haven't seen my sister in two years and I haven't seen my brothers since my first birthday.
 Are they all grown up?

 I had a little fun going to the Imperial City, but I can't get over how much I hate the party .

 Haha, that's really depressing: .....


 About a week later, we finally arrived in Teito.

 Maybe it's because I experienced a carriage ride when I was five years old, but I didn't get sick this time.

 But it was really boring.
 There was nothing else to do but look around.

 But just before arriving at the imperial capital, I kept calling in my head "I want to go home, don't arrive yet.

 But I arrived safely at the imperial residence .....