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"It's getting big. Is it about time?"

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　I mumbled as I looked at the eggs in the net I carried around my waist.

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　It was a zauberbiest egg.

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　At first, it was about the size of an M-size egg from the supermarket.

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　But every day, I have been raising the egg, watching the magic contained in it and injecting some magic power into it.

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　And now, the egg has grown to twice its original size.

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　The visible magic power around the eggs has also changed from the light blue to dark blue.

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　I am hoping that it will be born soon.

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"What are you doing?　We'll be leaving soon."

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　While I was looking at the eggs like this, my mother called out to me.

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　It seems that it is time to go.

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　I will be six years old this year.

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　And when you turn six years old, you are baptized in a church.

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　Today is the baptismal ceremony.

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　In my previous life, I didn't have much of a chance to go to church.

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　Maybe in my previous life, I would not have been so happy to hear that I was going to a baptismal ceremony.

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　But this time is different.

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　After all, we have magic.

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　Magic that is not the original magic I used to use.

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　It is a life magic that is very useful in our daily lives.

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　When you are baptized in the church, you can use this life magic.

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　In the past, people lived in fear of the shadow of monsters.

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　But nowadays, they have increased their living space to the point that they even fight with each other.

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　Why is this?

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　The driving force of human progress is magic.

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　Especially, the life magic was very good.

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　The magic of daily life includes such spells as [lighting], [drinking water], [igniting fire], and [cleaning].

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　All of them are very small-scale, just to turn on a light, to drink water, or to make a fire in firewood.

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　However, the ability of many people to use this magic has greatly expanded the range of human activities.

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　Perhaps it is like a primitive man who suddenly has access to electricity, gas, and water in abundance.

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　Thanks to this, even though human beings are no match for strong monsters on their own, it became possible for them to increase their numbers and expand their sphere of existence.

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　That is why the church held a baptismal ceremony every year for children who had reached the age of six, where they were given the magic of life.

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　The church could then gain followers, the people could obtain life magic, and those in power could get a list of inhabitants from the church.

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　A system has been established in which everyone benefits.

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"Yeah, I'm on my way."

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　I replied and started walking toward the church.

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　The church was a little too far away from the main entrance.

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　The only church in the village.

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　We came to a brick building with a triangular roof.

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　Inside, there is a room with benches that look as if they could be used for a wedding ceremony.

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　Beyond the benches, there was a low step like the one in front of the blackboard at school, and a table like a teacher's table was placed on the step.

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　Perhaps a priest would stand there and give a sermon.

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　I sat down on a bench with my parents and waited.

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　It may be because it is not such a big village.

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　There were no more than 10 children who will turn 6 years old this year.

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　When we had probably all arrived, the priest and the sisters came in through the back door, climbed up on the platform, and looked around as if they were looking over us sitting there.

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"Now then, we will begin the baptismal ceremony.

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　The priest began to tell us about the origins of the church.

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　He explained how the church saved the human race from the history of suffering and made it prosperous as it is today, while explaining the books.

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　In a village like this, where there is not much entertainment, it is a good stimulus just to listen to such stories, but I have to admit that even I know many of them.

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　However, the priest in this village, though he is still relatively young, seems to have a way of telling stories with humor so that we do not get bored.

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　His stories were so realistic that it was as if he had actually seen the history of mankind with his own eyes, and the children who had gathered there continued to listen to him with sparkling eyes.

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"Now, we will conclude with the naming ceremony. I will take you one by one in turn, so please come to the back room.

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　After talking for quite a long time and telling a story that attracted everyone's attention, the priest said to us, "I'm sorry, but I can't help it.

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　The naming ceremony is about to begin.

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　The naming ceremony is, as the name implies, a naming ceremony.

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　Actually, I still don't have an official personal name.

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　Here, you don't get a personal name from the church until you're six years old.

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　Until now, they have been referred to as the "first child" of a certain place.

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　When I first learned of this, I thought how inconvenient it was, but I had no choice once I was told that this was the rule.

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　However, if the name had been given at birth, some people might be offended if they were given strange names at this age, don't you think?

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　I wonder if I am the only one who thinks that it is hard enough for people to live without names, but it is also quite troublesome for those who give names to their children.

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　As I was thinking this, it was my turn.

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　I left my parents and headed for the door at the back of the room by myself.

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　I was led into a room with a heavy wooden desk in the center and a priest sitting behind it.

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　I sat down in one of the chairs that had been prepared for me, facing him across the desk.

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"Now I will perform the naming ceremony. By this naming, you will receive the Lord's blessing and will be able to use magic. But this magic is given only to enrich people's lives. Can you swear that you will not misuse it?

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"Yes. Yes, I swear.

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"Good."

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　I agree to the canned precautions given to me.

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　Then the priest put his hand on a book on the desk.

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　It seems to be a very valuable book.

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　It seemed to be a book made of parchment, with metal reinforcements around the cover and decorated with precious stones.

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　He held the parchment book with both hands and slowly turned the pages.

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　It looked quite heavy, but I wondered if there were any books made of vegetable paper.

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　When I open the book, I find a series of small letters.

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　I wondered if this book was a dictionary of names or something like that. ......

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　Somehow I thought so when I saw the contents of the book.

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　I was wondering how they are naming people every year, which makes me think so even more.

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　Maybe I was not mistaken.

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　I thought that the priest's gaze was fixed on a certain letter, because the ritual was in progress.

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"Third child of Assyria and Marie! Paul, priest of the Church of the Holy Light, names you. From now on thou shalt live as Ars, striving with the Lord in sincerity and integrity. The Lord bless thee and watch over thee.

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　Father Paul spins the words of the ritual.

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　At that moment, I was suddenly curious and invoked my magic.

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　He concentrated the magic that he had been building up in his body into his eyes.

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　With his left hand on the book, Father Paul spins the words of the ritual with his right hand toward me.

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　In his hand, magic power is gathered from the priest's body.

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　Seeing this, I suddenly thought to myself.

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　I wondered if this might be a preparation before the magic is activated.

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　Just as I put my hands on the ground and send magic power into the soil, I thought that Father Paul was about to perform some kind of magic by concentrating magic power in his palms right now.

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　With this thought, I carefully observed the movement of the magic power.

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　Then, the magical power that had gathered in Father Paul's hand changed its shape.

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　He was using a technique that I had never tried by myself before.

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　The magic power spread into the space as if it overflowed from the palm of his hand and formed a shape.

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　It draws a circle and writes complicated symbols inside the circle.

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　It is a magic circle.

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"Memory storage."

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　When I saw the magic circle, I whispered so that Father could not hear me.

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　This is an original magic I developed.

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　When you concentrate magic power in your eyes, you can see the flow of magic power that is normally invisible.

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　This magic was born from the question of what would happen if I concentrated magic power on the brain instead of the eyes.

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　The result is the magic of instantaneous memory.

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　The result is the magic of instantaneous memory, the magic of being able to input exactly the memory you want to remember, that's all.

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　But it worked this time.

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　The magic circle is so complicated that it is usually impossible to memorize it correctly at a glance.

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　However, by using this magic, I was able to instantly store it as a complete memory.

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"c......"

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　And the moment I memorized the magic circle, new information was input into my brain apart from the memory.

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　Information about living magic.

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　I understood that I could now use magic such as [lighting] and [ignition], which I had been unable to use no matter how much I practiced until then, in a mysterious way.

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　This is how I got the life magic.

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　And at the same time, I learned about the existence of the magic circle in the baptismal ceremony, which is normally unknown to most people.

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