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"You guys are great. They can do so many things."

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"You'll be able to do a lot of things in time, Kyle. He's just a kid. Why don't you just play with him?

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You're a child, too. You're only two years older than me.

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"Well, I guess you could say that."

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Hey, can you teach me magic too? My part-time brother said that you taught him magic.

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"Hmm. I know. ....... You know, I used to break my mom's heart about that."

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"Huh?　Oh, yeah. What's wrong?"

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　Lately, I've been spending most of my time in the settlements, while my younger brother Kyle has been helping out at his parents' house in the village.

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　Today he came to visit me.

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　He is always in the pioneer area and rarely comes home during the day, and we don't talk much at night.

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　Maybe that's why.

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　He talks to me here and there.

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　But I never thought he would ask me to teach him magic.

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　It reminds me of the past.

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　It was when I was still working in the small field behind my parents' house, breeding vegetables such as hutka.

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　I was still a small boy, plowing the field and pouring water into a big tub.

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　My part-time brother asked me.

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　Why do you carry around so much weight when you are so much smaller than me?

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　At that time, I was just experimenting with the use of magic power, and had begun to use body enhancement.

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　I had been checking the effect of the enhancement by using my own body as an experimental material, and I suddenly wondered if I could get the same effect on other people.

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　Then, I decided that this was the right time to teach my part-time brother how to mix magic power and how to use magic.

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　He couldn't do any of the magic I had taught him that had a magical effect on things like soil improvement.

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　However, he became able to strengthen his body in a rather short period of time.

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　It is a magic that fills one's body with a concoction of magical power and strengthens one's physicality as a whole.

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　It can be done without chanting it as a spell, and perhaps it was easier to understand it because it was related to his own body.

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　My brother Byte, who liked this magic, had been practicing physical strengthening ever since.

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　However, I did not understand what it meant to be able to use magic at that time.

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　I regretted it later on.

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　I was not able to understand what it meant to be able to use magic at that time.

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　What did the physically enhanced Bite brother come to do with his magic?

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　That was the question.

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　When I taught him the magic, I had casually thought that if he could strengthen his body, I would let him help me with watering and so on.

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　But after that, Bite-Brother started to fight with the children of the village using his enhanced body.

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　He was still a child, and all the children around him were of the same age.

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　It is natural for children to start fights with one another with a casual remark.

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　However, Byte-brother always won those fights.

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　He became an invincible force among the children of his generation.

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　However, there are naturally some children who do not find this amusing.

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　They asked for reinforcements.

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　They asked for help from children who were older than they were.

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　But even with the older kids, Byte wins the fights.

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　Perhaps he was always bigger and stronger than others.

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　To be honest, his magical skills at that time could not have enhanced him that much.

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　But he won.

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　For the older generation, to be defeated by a child who was younger than them was a complete loss.

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　However, they might not be able to beat him in a one-on-one fight.

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　Then, what should we do?

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　They started to fight with each other to get into a fight with the part-time worker brother.

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　They could not win this fight, apparently.

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　It was not unusual for them to come home in tatters.

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　But the greatest thing about Byte-brother was his terrifying mentality.

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　Normally, when you are beaten up, you shrink and try not to fight.

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　But no matter how many times he was beaten, he stood up to it.

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　And this experience led to the improvement of my brother Byte's fighting ability.

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　Gradually, he became able to fight back even if more than one person came at him.

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　He continued such a life for a long time, and there was no one in the village who could compete with him.

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　However, it was no ordinary feat to reach that point.

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　Every day he would skip work in the fields and fight with his brothers, and no matter how many times he was warned, he would repeat the same thing over and over again.

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　One day, my mother started crying about it.

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　She said that maybe she had not raised him well enough.

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　When I heard this, it was hard for me to bear.

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　Teaching them magic to strengthen their bodies was the cause of the breakup of the family.

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　Maybe this is the reason why the church teaches life magic to the villagers when they are at least six years old, when they start to have a sense of what they are doing.

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　Anyway, it made me realize that it is not good to teach magic carelessly.

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I had a feeling that it was not a good idea to teach magic unnecessarily. That's why I didn't teach Kyle magic."

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"I didn't know that happened."

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"Well, if Kyle still wants to learn magic, I'll teach him. Unlike my brother Byte, Kyle is a smart guy. If it's magic that makes you smarter, I'll teach you.

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"What?　Are you sure?"

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"Only if you promise not to fight."

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"Yes, I promise. I won't fight, so teach me your magic!"

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"All right, all right. Then let's start training now."

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　Well, I'm sorry, but I don't regret it.

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　The fact that Baito is able to use the people in the village to help him work the fields is partly because he is a strong fighter.

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　It is a good thing that everything turns out all right.

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　I hope that Kyle will not put all of his magical power into his muscles like his brother Byte does, but put it into his brain.

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　Concentrating magic power in the brain improves not only memory but also brain functions such as thinking and calculating ability.

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　Unlike before, you can now make time for your brother to study.

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　I hope that Kyle will do his best to learn letters and calculations and become an expert in clerical work, something that does not exist in this village.

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　I dream of having Kyle help me with my work in the future as he grows up and I teach him how to master magic.

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