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"I'm hungry."

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　It has been several years since I started my new life in this world.

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　I am now three years old.

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　As a baby, I had nothing to do, so I spent all my time training for magic.

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　As a result, I have learned something.

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　It seems that there are two kinds of magical powers, one inside of me and the other outside of me.

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　It seems that there is magic in the air.

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　He can take in such magic outside his body through his mouth and fuse it with the magic inside his body.

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　Since I realized this, I have been trying to control the fusion of the two kinds of magic power in my stomach, about a little below my belly, and to spread it all over my body.

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　Thanks to this, I am now able to naturally mix the two kinds of magic power.

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　But there was one problem.

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　I still can't use magic.

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　It seems that the magic that my mother used to use can only be used by going to the "church".

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　When the child grows up to a certain degree, the child is taken to the church and undergoes a ritual.

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　Then, they will be able to use simple life magic such as lighting, igniting fire, and drinking water.

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　In other words, if the child does not go to the church, he/she will not be able to use magic.

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　This is why I could not learn to use magic, even though I asked my parents who could not use any magic except for daily life magic.

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　But that did not mean I could give up.

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　I wanted to try magic as soon as possible, but I guess it was because I had been self-conscious since I was so young that I couldn't move very much.

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　I also had a lot of free time.

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　I had been trying to use magic somehow, through trial and error.

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　After I became able to speak, I kept trying desperately to see if the magic would work by mumbling a bunch of random words.

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　Finally, recently, I began to feel a response.

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　It all started when I went out to the fields.

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　I was in the field, and I was able to see the magic in the air.

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　My new home was not a very wealthy one.

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　In fact, it would be safe to say that I was rather poor.

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　I had seen the house since I was a baby, and I thought that the farmer who lived in a shabby house was my family of birth.

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　They live in the same old ragged clothes every day and earn their living by growing wheat in the fields.

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　However, since most of the crops I produce are taken away as taxes, I have very little to eat every day.

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　I have never seen them eat a full meal.

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　I was so hungry that I left my shabby house and came to the fields.

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　But alas.

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　There was nothing to eat at that time.

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　But I couldn't give up just because there was nothing to eat.

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　I wanted to eat whatever I could, so I decided to try growing my own crops.

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　I set up my own space at the edge of the field behind my house.

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　I crouched down, put my little hands on the ground and closed my eyes.

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　He takes a deep breath in and then exhales.

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　With the intention of replacing all the air in your body, take a deep breath and turn your attention to your body.

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　Slowly and gradually but surely mixing the magic power from the outside, he kneads the magic power.

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　The magic power that has been sufficiently kneaded under the navel is now brought up to the chest and pushed down toward the head, hands, and feet.

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　The magic that has been pushed down reaches the edge of the body, and from there it returns to the torso.

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　Carefully and without any stagnation, the magic begins to flow slowly and smoothly.

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　And it was repeated over and over again.

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　How many deep breaths did I take?

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　The amount of magic in my torso had grown to the point where it had nowhere else to go.

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　Now I bring it to my palms on the ground.

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　When it existed in the air, it was like an invisible, light gas like oxygen.

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　However, the magic that has been kneaded inside the body is transformed into the image of a sticky liquid.

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　However, since it is not actually a liquid, water does not drip from the hand.

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　However, such magical power seeps into the soil of the field through the palm of your hand.

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　The magic in your body, which you have kneaded up, you let it all spread to the soil in a way that it becomes familiar with it.

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　Calm down.

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　Don't lose your concentration here.

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　I tell myself.

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　I've done this before.

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　This is the response I've been getting to the magic.

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　But from this point on we've failed.

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　I guessed that the reason for my failure was that I had lost my concentration here before.

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　The life magic taught in the church seemed to be easy to perform when I cast a spell.

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　I had that impression in my mind, so I guess I made a mistake in casting the spells with appropriate words.

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　The magical power that I had worked so hard to develop and to make it fit into the land quickly fizzled out.

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　This time, we will not try to cast spells easily based on this reflection.

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　Just like when we are trying to create magic, it is important to have a clear image of what we are doing.

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　In a previous life, I helped my grandmother work in the fields in the countryside.

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　She was a kind of dual-income farmer who had other jobs, but she had fields and paddies of a reasonable size, and I remember that I used to look at fertilizers and such.

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　It is no exaggeration to say that the basis of a field is good soil.

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　Soft, fluffy, slightly warm to the touch, nourishing soil.

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　The field I'm in now is not a good soil by any means.

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　In fact, I am not sure if I can really call it a farmer's field at all.

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　I guess they are just moving out the big stones that disturb the soil and cultivating the soil to the minimum extent that vegetables can be planted.

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　Perhaps the agricultural technology is not as advanced as it is in the 21st century.

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　It is not surprising to think so.

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　There is no such thing as a machine in sight, even though there is a small magic of life in the area of effect.

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　While looking at such a field in front of me, I remember in my brain the field where my grandma used to grow vegetables, and I imagine the soil there.

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　The dark soil with versatile fertilizers that can be used for many vegetables that she used most often.

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　A field that has been well tilled, softened, cleared of all unnecessary weeds, and ridged for good drainage and sunlight.

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　I imagine the field in this state and direct my magical power to the soil.

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　I wonder how much time has passed.

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　I don't know exactly how long.

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　But it seems that I crouched on the field with my eyes closed for a long time, so long that I became completely thirsty.

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　All the magic in my body was consumed, and I couldn't think of anything else.

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　Only a few meters square of the field had changed its shape.

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　A space with three ridges of nourishing soil had been created, completely different from the rest of the ground.

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　Thus, I had succeeded in my first magic.

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