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"I don't want to have so many bricks. At least if they had been plates or something.

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　It was a time when I had made a lot of bricks as a magic experiment and was having trouble disposing of them.

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　Looking at the pile of bricks, my mother said to me with her hand on my cheek, "Oh, dear.

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　I see.

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　I had created bricks for building, and it had never occurred to me that I had developed a magic just for making bricks.

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　But if you can make bricks out of clay, you can probably make plates out of clay.

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　Hearing my mother's words, I immediately set to work.

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　I kneaded clay and filled it with magical power to create an image in my mind.

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　It is no wonder that what I made was the rice bowl that I used every day in my previous life.

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　In this life, however, there is no rice, and bean soup is the staple food.

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　My mother's first comment when she saw the bowl was, "It looks a little strange, doesn't it? That was it.

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　It is true that the shape is difficult to use for soup.

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　So we changed it to make something more realistic.

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　Since it doesn't need to be that big, I can make as many as I want with my magical power of mass production of bricks.

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　I made plates, cups, and water bottles of various shapes and sizes, and asked my mother to use them to see how comfortable they were to use.

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　After a few days, however, we had enough dishes and no more were needed.

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　Then, it may have been natural for them to focus on quality rather than quantity.

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　At the beginning, they were making only pottery that looked like it was made by firing the clay as it was.

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　They were making things that looked like real earthenware, made by kneading clay and spinning it on a wheel, and then baking it at high heat.

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　However, I could only imagine something basically brown in color, so I soon began to make something else.

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　Next, I thought of white teacup-like tableware that would go well with tea.

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　This would have been a noble and valuable item that would have been exchanged at a high price in the history of previous generations.

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　They must have been made not only by mixing clay, but also by mixing bone meal.

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　The characteristic of this type of pottery was its beautiful white color, which had never been seen before, but it was thinner than the previous types, and it also had the advantage of not being easily broken.

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　The cups and plates were exactly as he had imagined in his mind's eye when sipping an elegant cup of tea, and he succeeded in reproducing them by magic.

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　The color of the cups and plates is very nice even though they are made from ordinary clay.

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　I felt that the restrictions on raw materials are lower in the case of magic than I had expected.

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　The white tableware was much appreciated by my mother.

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　She had been using wooden and brown earthenware.

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　Her pleasure was more than I expected, and I was surprised that she was so pleased with them.

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　Maybe that's why.

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　I decided to modify the tableware to please my mother even more.

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　And I found out that there was a serious problem with it.

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　It is "lack of taste.

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　White porcelain is beautiful not only because of its white color, but also because it can be used as a canvas for painting.

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　This is not surprising when you think about it.

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　However beautiful it may be, there would be no appreciation for a large number of similar white dishes.

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　On the other hand, even if there are pictures or patterns of flowers or grass, the same dish will give a very different impression to the user.

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　That is why I tried to make tableware with illustrations.

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　However, no matter how many I made, when I looked at the finished products, I could only see that they were made by amateurs with no sense of taste, as if they had been drawn by an amateur on the spur of the moment.

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　Even so, although they were pleased with my work, it never satisfied me.

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　I want to please my mother.

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　I may have been more than ever irritated at that time.

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　But my aesthetic sense is not good enough to satisfy me in the way I have just described.

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　Then I thought of another way.

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　If it is not possible to make a change in a white porcelain vessel by adding a pattern to it, then there must be some other way to bring about a change.

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　I had originally made something like earthenware at first, and then white porcelain.

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　Then I decided to make tableware other than white porcelain.

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　Then, glass tableware came to my mind.

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　The same plate would look completely different on transparent glass tableware.

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　If I succeeded, I am sure they would be pleased.

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　There is a question whether it is possible to make glass, but I think I have heard somewhere that glass can be made from sand from the seashore.

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　Of course, it is obvious that the raw materials are not enough, but white porcelain could be made from clay.

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　We could try it.

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　As a glass vessel, a cup easily comes to mind in my mind.

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　A long, thin, cylindrical, transparent glass.

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　In my previous life, I used to pour cold tea from the refrigerator into that glass every day and drink it.

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　I invoke the magic, remembering the familiar clear glass.

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　My magic mixed with the soil around me, in a way I don't understand, but it changed the soil in the same way it always does.

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　Thus I succeeded in making glass.

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