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"Women are very motivated, aren't they?

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"After Miss Eira received the Reed family magic, many women followed in her footsteps. Did you not see this coming?"

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"Well, I thought there might be a few, Mr. Maddock. But the women are on the verge of becoming independent while the men are playing around."

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"Fffffo. It is indeed difficult for a girl to live independently. But her position in the family may become stronger. It will be hard for the men who are about to get married.

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"Well, that's good. I don't think it's a bad thing for women to be able to work. I didn't think that Mr. Madoc would give up his family name of Barca. I was more surprised.

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"I'm sorry. I am grateful to you for giving me the name of Barca. But I'm getting too old for this. It's hard for me to go into battle again.

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"I know, Mr. Maddock. I know, Mr. Madoc. I'm the one who should be thanking you. But even if you don't go into battle, you'll continue to work here, won't you?"

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"Mm. A judge in your charge is a little better than a judge on the battlefield. But still, there's too much paperwork. As a lumberjack, it was hard for me to read."

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"I see. So Kyle's [speed reading] means that you don't get tired of reading. Well, don't worry about it, Mr. Madoc. I'm really grateful to you, Mr. Madoc, whether you belong to the Barka family or the Reed family. I have no complaints as long as you continue to work for the Barka knighthood.

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"Thank you. For your sake, I'll have to work hard to keep up with my old bones.

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Take it easy. You're getting old.

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"Fffffffo. I'm still not as young as I used to be."

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　Named after Kyle's sister Eira, who went to Eira to help her run the new gambling house.

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　With this, Vulcania has given birth to what should be called a female wizard.

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　It was quite a shocking incident.

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　Until now, women were forced to live a life of poverty, living day by day by marrying dull men from the countryside and working in the fields while pioneering hard labor.

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　They could not wield weapons on the battlefield and had to live in such a situation, but one day that suddenly changed.

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　If they study hard, they can receive magic, though not offensive magic, and they even have a place to work.

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　There were a number of women who could not sit still after being shown such a story with examples.

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　Not all of them, of course.

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　There were those who believed that women should support the family, in accordance with the traditional values that had been handed down from their parents and grandparents.

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　However, there were some women who tried to improve their lives by their own efforts.

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　When they heard about Eira's story, they immediately went to school and started studying to learn to write and calculate.

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　And when their efforts paid off and they reached a satisfactory academic level, they were really able to receive magic from Kyle.

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　It seems that Kyle had taken notice of the fact that the school in Vulcania had been giving magic to those who had studied hard and had been recognized for their efforts.

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　And after that, he got a job in a gambling house and in the entertainment area of Vulcania.

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　Some of them began to succeed in making a living by their own efforts and without the help of men.

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　Seeing this, more and more people started to try their best to make themselves next.

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　On the other hand, some of them started to beguile their own children instead of themselves.

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　I am too old to remember things, but my child is still young enough to learn and to be gifted with magic.

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　And there is a possibility to obtain magic without risking one's life on the battlefield.

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　A mother sends her child off to school with a passion that would make a father cringe.

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　It was at a time when things were changing around me that Mr. Maddock approached me.

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　The offer was to give up the Barka surname I had given him and to receive magic from the Reed family.

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　Mr. Maddock was originally a lumberjack from the village of Barka, the oldest of the lumberjacks, and had been trading with me for years for logs to grow magic mushrooms.

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　When I had cleared the forest, he had told me that the lumberjacks were becoming dissatisfied and had prevented any friction from arising in the first place.

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　Because of this, when Carlos entrusted me with the Barca knighthood, I asked Mr. Maddock to be a judge.

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　I thought that with an elder like Mr. Madoc, it would be easier to deal with any trouble that might arise.

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　This was not a mistake.

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　As a judge, Mr. Maddock worked with the other judges, the village chiefs, to solve problems as they arose.

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　However, this job was becoming more and more difficult.

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　The reason was that the volume of documents was increasing.

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　Until then, when a problem occurred, the village head or an elderly person would often listen to the opinions of both sides and try to mediate to the mutual satisfaction of both parties.

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　But I had ordered the judge to transcribe these matters into writing so that they would become law.

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　And to add to the work, I had to rate the merchants based on their troubles.

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　Every day, a good amount of paperwork was required.

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　Mr. Madoc learned the letters from the other village chiefs and managed to create documents using only words by forcing himself to memorize them with [Memory Save].

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　However, he was reaching his limits.

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　That's when the magic of Kyle's [speed reading] and [automatic operation] appeared.

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　After much consideration, Mr. Maddock decided to give up his family name of Barka and become a Reed.

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　But the more I listened to him, the more I realized that he had decided to work for me.

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　It was not that he did not like me or that he did not want to work for me.

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　If that was the case, there was no reason for me to object.

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　I immediately prepared the money and took Kyle and Mr. Maddock to the church to perform the naming ceremony.

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　And so, with gradual changes in our relationship, the season of sparkling white snow had come to Vulcania once again.

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