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"Mister Alphonse, I want you to see something, that I do. What do you think of this magic circle?"

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"Ah, Happy New Year, Mr. Banagher. It's all right to be enthusiastic about magic circles, but why don't you relax at least for the New Year's celebration?"

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"Oh, I beg your pardon. But we cannot say so, that we cannot. I am not the only one, but I am sure that the artisans in this city who have gained knowledge of magic are still working hard, that I am not the only one. To take a break at this time now would mean to open a gap with the others, that it would not.

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"Is that so?　I think it's okay because Mr. Banagher has been studying magic scripts and has enough knowledge to create the magic bow Orient."

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That is not true, that it is not. Technology is an explosion, that it is not. When a new technology is introduced and spread, that technology improves at once and at an accelerated rate, that it does. If you take it easy, you will be left behind, that you will be left behind.

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　The new year dawned.

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　As usual, I will be celebrating on this day.

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　But it was a little different from the past years.

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　I am now at home in the new Barca district.

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　Until now, I have been visiting Banagher's house in the Orient for New Year's celebrations.

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　This is related to the customs of the United Kingdom of Fontana.

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　It was customary for knights to celebrate the New Year by visiting the masters they served.

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　Banagher was not my lord, but he was the most important person in this country, and he was also my guarantor.

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　But that was until last year.

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　I became a Protector last year.

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　This is not a senator, but it is a position that can be considered as a higher status than that of a senator because it is a position that can be involved in the whole military.

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　So, from this year, I have decided to stay at home instead of visiting Banagher's house.

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　And it is not disrespectful to Banagher.

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　In fact, it is normal in this country.

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　It is not a common custom to visit a superior's house just because it is the New Year, but to spend a leisurely time with the family.

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　Well, if you have a family relationship, you may come and go.

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　Therefore, there was no need for me to go to Banagher's house, nor was there any reason for Banagher to come to my house.

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　But Banagher is here now.

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　He had come all the way from the Orient in the cold to the new Barca town.

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　His purpose was in the magic circle.

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　It seems that Banagher has been studying magic circles even more since Ai's lecture.

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　He claims to have succeeded in improving the magic circle used in the magic bow Orient, and as a result of demonstration tests, it has been confirmed that the distance and accuracy of the magic circle have been improved.

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　However, it seems that they are not satisfied with the results, and they are thinking about the possibility of making magic tools using magic circles other than magic bows.

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　He is now spreading out in front of me a sheet of paper with newly drawn magic circle and asking for my opinion.

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　I am a little bit chuckling at that.

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　Even though the Orient is experiencing an unprecedented trend of magic tools, I didn't expect it to go this far.

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　I've seen the popularity of magical tools in the cities over there.

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　Craftsmen who have learned from Ai's teachings are making magic tools one after another with the spirit of "let's just make something for the time being", even though I don't really know what they are good for.

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　They make magic tools with magic circles painted on them, so that they may start up, but whether they are useful or not seems to be of secondary importance.

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　For those who live in the city, they would be more grateful for magical tools that are useful in their daily lives, such as earthenware pots.

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　However, all that was produced were experimental machines that could hardly be called prototypes.

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　However, even so, experimental prototype magical tools are said to be selling very well.

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　After all, craftsmen are always taking on new challenges.

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　It takes money to make something that has never been made before.

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　If you keep making magical tools with the materials you have at hand, you will run out of materials.

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　Some people are so eager to use expensive materials to make magical tools that no one has ever made before, that their financial situation deteriorates.

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　For this reason, many of them immediately sold the magical tools they made for cash.

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　Such magic tools, which may or may not be useful, began to appear on the market.

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　Normally, there would be no buyers for such things.

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　But that was not the case this time.

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　Even magic tools that were of no use at all were being bought.

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　There is a reason for this.

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　The reason was that not everyone who wanted to attend Ai's lectures could attend them.

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　Rather, only a limited number of people were able to attend his lectures.

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　For this reason, there were many people who purchased even experimental magical tools, and who wanted to study them themselves.

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　In fact, some of them were not encrypted properly and some information could be obtained from them.

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　And the buyers did not stop there.

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　Merchants also began to buy.

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　Skilled craftsmen were buying all kinds of new magical tools.

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　They were bought from the very first day they were put up for sale, even at high prices.

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　Or rather, no one knows if they are really useless or not.

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　Because they are quickly bought up before they can be tried out.

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　And not all of them were useless.

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　Among the many experimental works, there were indeed some magical tools with surprising effects.

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　What would a merchant think when he hears such a story?

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　It is not surprising that there are those who would like to get one too.

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　Or rather.

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　As a merchant, it does not really matter whether it is useful or not.

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　Their point of view was whether they could make money or not.

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　In other words, they were only interested in whether or not they could make a profit, and magical tools were a profitable commodity.

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　In any case, when they were offered for sale, craftsmen would buy them without regard for money.

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　What would happen if they got their hands on the tools before the artisans who wanted them?

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　The artisans who want to study the tools will buy them from the merchants.

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　In other words, resale.

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　If one buys an experimental magical tool from a craftsman who has made it, without worrying about what effect it will have, he is sure to make a profit.

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　It was enough to move a lot of money.

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　Thus, the Orient was in an unprecedented fashion.

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　Craftsmen who wanted to make magical tools, merchants who wanted to make money, and many others who wanted to take advantage of this frenzy.

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　Are you okay?

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　It was me and Ai who started it, but we never thought it would turn out this way.

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　However, there is one thing that I can understand from taking a step back from the frenzy.

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　I think we are all losing our cool a little bit.

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　It is strange that a magic tool, which is of no use in any way, is sold at a higher price than the earthenware pot type magic tools that had been sold until then.

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　I hope nothing strange will happen to them.

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　I was worried about such things as I looked at Banagher's excited face I saw at the beginning of the New Year.

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