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"Hey, what are you doing, Brother Ars?　Don't you have to move from Vulcania to the city of Fontana?"

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"Oh, Kyle. No, I'm moving to Fontana. But right now there's no building yet. After that's done."

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"Don't you have to stay over there?　You have to build a new building to live in, don't you?"

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Yeah, I don't have to go out and build it myself this time. I'll leave it to the others.

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"I see. Well, it's hard to move so suddenly. There's also the transfer of work from one estate to another.

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"Well, we have Kyle, so it's easier for us to deal with that. He has a track record of taking care of things while I'm away at war, so I can leave things in good hands.

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"I don't know if you expect that much from me. The Grahams are gone, too, and we're shorthanded.

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"I'm counting on you, Kyle. I'm counting on you, Kyle. Brother Hector was happy to see you and Eira stay together, and I'm sure you and your brother will be able to manage Vulcania together."

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"Yes, all right, brother Ars. What have you been doing at ......?　You seem to be writing on a piece of paper all the time, are you going to make a book?"

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"Oh, this. No, it's not exactly my book. I'm just trying to transcribe what I've learned from my memory storage.

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　The battle between the Uruks and the Arbalests is over and I have returned to Vulcania.

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　From now on I will have to live in the city of Fontana, but it will take some preparation.

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　Carlos was not so devilish as to ask the knights in his domain to move to the city immediately, so he gave them some time to prepare.

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　So there I was in my office at Barca Castle in Vulcania, writing away.

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　What I was doing was copying from a book.

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　But it does not mean that I had another book at hand and was copying from it.

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　He was transcribing the contents of the book he had memorized onto paper, using the magic of "memory storage".

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　Why did he do that?

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　It's because the book I memorized is already gone.

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　In the war against the House of Arbalest in the west, I marched westward through the territory of Arbalest and took out the houses of the knights of Arbalest one after another.

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　I led my brother Bite in a cavalry charge and took the houses of the knights I found one by one.

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　After replenishing the food supply in the houses of the fallen knights, they set fire to the houses.

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　This was done in order to cause as much damage as possible to the territory of Arbalest, and possibly attract the attention of the army of the House of Arbalest, which was advancing toward the territory of Fontana.

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　However, he also felt that it would be a waste to set fire to the knight's house.

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　Every knight who is entrusted with a territory has a certain history and often has various valuable items with him.

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　Among them, of course, were books.

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　If it is a valuable item, they may be able to take some of it with them.

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　If it was a weapon or something like that, we could use it ourselves.

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　However, we could not take out the books.

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　They could not carry bulky parchment books in enemy territory and with no time to spare while the operation was in progress.

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　However, it was a great waste to burn the books.

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　Maybe some of them might be historically or academically important.

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　So, I had no choice but to save them in my mind.

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　Using the magic of "memory storage," which allows me to memorize what I see completely in an instant.

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　However, there was a big drawback to this action.

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　In order for the contents of the book to come back to life again, he had to transcribe them by his own hand.

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　To put it bluntly, it was a terrible pain in the ass.

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　I had to write many sentences and other texts filled with aristocratic expressions of this world, which I was not familiar with at all, and I had to write them without making any mistakes.

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　Moreover, since we are using paper and ink, it is difficult to correct typos and omissions as quickly as with a computer.

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　To be honest, I was already losing heart at the beginning.

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So, I may take some time to write out my sentences for a while. If you have an emergency, give me a shout, Kyle."

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"That's fine. Can I ask you a question, Brother Ars?"

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"Hmm, what is it?"

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"I've always wondered, why do you write with ink on plant paper?　Is there a reason for that?"

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"Huh?　What do you mean?　Are you saying I should write with something else instead of ink?　Are you suggesting that I make a pencil or some other writing utensil?"

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"Well, that's not what I meant. You can write without ink, can't you?"

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"...... big brother doesn't know what Kyle is trying to say. What do you mean?"

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"So, if we pass magic power through paper like this, we can write letters, right?　Don't you have to have a writing utensil?"

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　Huh?

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　What's that?

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　Kyle took a piece of paper in his empty hand and passed his magic power through the paper.

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　The paper had words written on it.

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　What kind of magic is that?

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　I hurriedly accept the paper from Kyle and stare at the paper.

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　It looks different from the ...... ink, and the letters look more like they are printed by burning the paper.

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　Did they react to Kyle's magic?

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　Could it be related to the fact that the paper is made with a potion that restores the magic power of the paper?

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"How are you able to do that, Kyle?"

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"I don't know why, I just did it. Can't you do it normally?"

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"In my mind, writing on paper requires ink. I never thought about letting magic through. I'm surprised you noticed that, Kyle."

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"That's what the scribes at the library told me. They said their arms and shoulders were strained from too much writing. So I thought of a way to write without using my hands."

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"I see. But this is easy. It saves me a lot of trouble to be able to write just by passing the magic power through."

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"Yes, that's right. Everyone was so happy when I enchanted it."

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"...... Yes?　What do you mean by enchantment, Kyle?"

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"Yes, so it's the magic of writing. The magic of writing down what you think in your head and putting it on paper. It's called psychokinesis.

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　[Necrophotography].

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　The magic of holding a piece of paper in one's hand and writing out one's thoughts.

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　Kyle had already made it into a spell.

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　While we were moving west and east and fighting.

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　Seriously?

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　That's amazing, Kyle.

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　I imitated him and sent my magic into the paper one after another, writing out copies of the text I had [stored in my memory].

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　It takes some skill to control the magic power according to the letters, but it's a very efficient work because I don't have to write by hand.

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　I mean, if Kyle has created the magic of [telecopying], then all of the Reed family members can use it.

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　Thus, I realized that Barka had created magic instead of printing technology without my knowledge.

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