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"Wow, you're still dirty. Kili, are you there?

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"Hmm, wait a minute. I'm busy.

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"No, you always say that. Just show your face. I don't know where you are.

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"What the hell? Oh, Ars... It's been a while. What's wrong?　Is Kyle-kun not here today?"

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"Kyle's not here. I need to talk to you. Get out of that pile of paperwork, Kili."

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　As soon as I got back to Vulcania and talked to Gran, I headed for a place.

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　It was a place called the observatory, one of the buildings in the southeast area of the city of Vulcania.

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　In the southeast area, there is a church, an orphanage, a school, and a vocational training center.

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　There is also a library there, and around the library live various researchers and the like.

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　Once, they used to gather people from all over the area with a particular skill, using Kyle's surname Reed as bait.

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　A painter and a doctor meme came to the library.

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　One of them was Kiri, whom I've just come to see.

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　Kili was an astrologer, a student of star-gazing.

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　Originally, he was hired by some noble family to look at the stars and tell fortunes for a living.

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　However, this astrology is not magic.

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　It was a kind of divination by looking at the stars, and did not have any magical effect.

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　There was a method of divination by looking at the stars, but it was necessary to be skilled enough to avoid offending the nobles.

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　Kiri was born into a family of astrologers, but he was known as an eccentric even within his own family.

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　This is because Kili was a woman.

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　Apparently, learning astrology and dealing with the nobility was a job for male siblings, and Kili could not succeed them.

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　But that did not seem to matter to Kili.

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　Kiri was simply an astronomy fool who enjoyed following the movement of the stars.

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　One day, Kili heard that the Barca Knights were recruiting people for their new territory in Fontana, the northernmost territory in the farthest north of the country.

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　They were looking for people with the right skills, and if they could meet the Barca knight's expectations, he would give them magic as well.

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　Hearing this story, Kili decided to take the chance.

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　Apparently, Kiri's knowledge of the celestial bodies was beyond anyone else in Kiri's family.

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　He was so good that some of the family members were not able to keep him.

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　When her parents heard that Kili wanted to go to Barka, they thought that there was no way that Kili, a woman, could be given the name, even if it was a low-class name with no offensive magic.

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　So I thought I would send her off to Barca and let her come back after a frustrating experience.

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　Then, he thought that she would calm down and be ready to get married.

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　However, contrary to the family's thoughts, I decided to hire Kiri immediately after meeting with her in person in Barca, and I even prepared a special laboratory for her.

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　Even after just a short conversation, I felt that Kiri's knowledge of celestial bodies was very deep.

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　Kiri, on the other hand, was very pleased that I had come to Barka.

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　This was because in Barka, there were binoculars that allowed us to see far into the distance.

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　Kili was so excited when I showed him the binoculars that he connected with a lens maker in Balkania and began researching astronomical telescopes.

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　As a result, he completed a prototype of a large aperture astronomical telescope with a single tube instead of binoculars, as I had advised him to do.

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"...... So, now that I'm going to make a high-precision clock, I'd like to know a solid calendar. Can you provide me with the data?"

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"Hmmm, can you really make a clock with such high precision?　Besides, there are many kinds of calendars, which you, Ars, a layman, may not understand. Which calendar do you use?

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"No, actually I don't really know which one is the correct calendar. Which one is the most accurate?

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I guess so. The most popular and easy-to-understand calendar is the moon-based calendar, but it deviates quite a bit from the moon-based calendar. It is easy to understand that the day of the new moon when there is no moonlight and the day of the next new moon are the end of the year, but the number of days shifts by a few days throughout the year, so once every few years it is necessary to add one month in the year. In that sense, it is easy to use, but it is not accurate!

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"Then why not a solar-based calendar instead of a lunar one?　It's not something that even an uneducated peasant could figure out like the phases of the moon, but you could make it a little more accurate, couldn't you?"

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"Oh, you know your stuff, Mr. Ars. Yes, a sun-based calendar is more accurate than a lunar one. But there is still a margin of error, you see. Every few years we have to adjust the number of days in a year."

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"...... isn't that acceptable?"

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"What are you talking about!　You're the one who said you wanted an accurate calendar, Ars. What are you going to do if you give up now? Go on, ask him if there isn't a more accurate calendar than the one based on the moon and the sun."

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"Oh, let me ask the genius astronomer Kili-sama. Please grant me, this uneducated person, a more accurate calendar.

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"Well, you're in a good mood, Mr. Ars. Well then, let me make an announcement. I have a calendar that can only be used here in Barca now that the telescope has been completed.

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"Hm?　A calendar that can be used because of the telescope?"

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That's right. Actually, there are some stars that are invisible to the naked eye. The calendar based on them is more accurate than that of the moon and the sun. It is an ancient calendar that was used in ancient times, but is no longer in use.

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"They used to use it a long time ago, but it fell into disuse. I mean, wasn't there some kind of problem with it?"

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No, it's not like that. No, it's not like that. In fact, it seems that my family used to be a noble family too. Though the magic has been lost. And there used to be a calendar that used my family's magic to observe the unseen stars and use them as a standard. But our family's magic is gone, and because of that, that calendar is no longer in use.

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"Oh, Kiri's family was originally a noble family. But if the calendar itself is correct, why didn't they just use it as it is?

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"Ha-ha-ha, that's right. But some calendars are discontinued for the convenience of those in power, you know. But some calendars are discontinued for the convenience of those in power. They tried hard to revive it, but it was difficult to make a calendar based on invisible stars be recognized as a calendar again.

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"I see. That's why he was so happy to see the binoculars. So, are you going to be able to prove the accuracy of Kili's calendar with that telescope?"

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"Hmmm. Actually, I was thinking of bringing this up with Mr. Ars. Look, look at this. These are the eclipses and lunar eclipses that have occurred in the last few years, but there are some discrepancies in the dates of the eclipses and other eclipses that are predicted by the lunar and solar calendars. But the prehistoric calendar has no discrepancy.

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"Hmmm, I see. The more accurate the prediction of the next solar eclipse is, the more accurate the calendar is. Hmmm...it seems to be a little off based on the moon or the sun, doesn't it?

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"Right. So, there will be another eclipse in a little while. And this time, it will be a total solar eclipse, in which the sun will be completely hidden. I don't know, Mr. Ars. If it happens as I predict, how about using our calendar in Barca?"

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　Seriously, will there be a total solar eclipse in the near future?

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　As I read the documents Kiri showed me, I found that each calendar has a slightly different record of solar and lunar eclipses, and it seems that the prehistoric calendar is more accurate.

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　I wish I had known this information earlier.

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　I might have missed it if I had not.

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　I was surprised at the information Kiri had given me, but I felt that this was probably a correct event.

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　I told Kili that I would restore the calendar if a total solar eclipse occurred, and hurried back to my office in the city of Fontana.

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