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"Well, I thought magic for children was a good idea. It might be a little difficult."

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"Now you know why the Church of the Holy Light of God prescribes baptism at the age of six. It seems that the deficiency of magical power is too much of a burden for the growing human body."

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　The amount of magic a child is born with depends on the amount of magic it takes in from its mother.

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　Furthermore, it was considered in animal experiments that a growing body may be more likely to develop magic power.

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　For this reason, we thought of creating some kind of magic for children to make their growth more efficient.

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　However, we have come to realize that this is a bit of a stretch.

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　This is because we have found a problem that concerns children who are able to use magic before they are old enough to understand the meaning of things.

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　In the United Kingdom of Fontana, the Church of the Holy Light performs the naming of the inhabitants, and this is done in a baptismal ceremony for children after the age of six.

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　In the Kingdom of the Orient, however, naming was also performed for children.

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　I was told that there was a reason why the Holy Light Church did not give magic to younger children.

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　It is because there is magic such as [ignition].

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　Children do things that adults would not do.

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　For example, how could a child start a fire in his/her own house by using the magic of [ignition]?

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　Giving magic to children is dangerous.

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　That is why magic is given to children according to their age.

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　But this may have been only one aspect of things.

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　There were other dangers in giving magic to children.

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　It could kill the child.

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　A condition called "magic deficiency" may occur.

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　This is a symptom that occurs when you use up all of your magical power.

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　When you run out of magic power, you lose consciousness at that moment.

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　If you are not careful, you may not wake up for a few days.

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　It may not be so serious if the lack of magic power occurs only once or twice.

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　However, in the East, there are many children who can use magic, even children with no regard for [naming].

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　And it seems that some of those children have experienced losing consciousness repeatedly.

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　Some of them lost consciousness and never woke up again.

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　Or they may even suffer from physical problems.

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　It seems that it is more dangerous for children to be able to use magic than I thought.

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　I was thinking of creating a magic that can be used by children, especially those under the age of six, or even babies and toddlers, but maybe I should not do that.

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　Because the day I make a spell that can be used by babies when they cry "ogah", there will be a lot of children who keep crying until they run out of magic power and lose consciousness.

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　I know well from seeing small children in hospitals that there is no way to stop crying even if you tell a baby to stop crying.

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　This may be the reason why Seikou Church also set the age for baptismal ceremony.

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"So, does the Balkan religion also have a precept that [naming] should be done only after the age of six years old?"

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"Yes, it would be better to have such a rule. So, let's not let the little ones use magic too much. But instead, there should be a way to help them grow in magic. ....... Do you think that would work?"

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What is that?

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"It's a magic stone. That reddish-black magic stone you can get in the magic labyrinth in Brillia. How about putting it in a human body?

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"A magic stone in a human body? You mean like Ars Valka does with his drop-shaped magic stone?

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Yes, yes, that's it. By implanting magic stones in the bodies of soldiers, Brother Ars has increased the number of the head class in a pseudo way, right?　I was wondering if we could do the same thing."

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"I don't know. By the way, it is possible to create a magic stone obtained from an immortal bone dragon with the spell [Create Magic Stone], but there are reports that the magic stone is not compatible with the human body.

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"Yes, that seems to be the case. I thought you said that even if a magic stone filled with magic power was implanted, the magic stone disappeared before you knew it.

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"Yes. It has been confirmed that unlike drop-type magic stones, they disappear. Also, it seems that there was no effect such as an increase in the total amount of magic power by the disappearance.

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"But what about that reddish-black magic stone?　Besides, the Norns can take magic power by sucking blood. Then, by using the reddish-black magic stone and the blood that Norn contains, I wonder if it's possible to store magic power like a drop type magic stone."

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"...... we do not know at the moment. I think we need to try it out and make a decision."

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"Good. Then, let's invite applicants. This can be done by adults as well, so let's implant a magic stone in the body of anyone who raises his or her hand.

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　I remember that Ars had implanted a drop-shaped magic stone under the name of "Barca's Strengthening Technique" or something like that.

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　Then, let's call this one the Alphonse method of strengthening.

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　Using a small reddish-black magic stone and my blood with Norn in it, we'll make something like a small pearl and put it in my body.

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　Can't we store magic power in it?

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　The ritual instruments used in the church of Barca do not change in size no matter how much blood I suck in, so I wonder if this is possible.

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　Let's also see if the body will absorb it.

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　With this in mind, I approached the mercenaries in the Barka Mercenaries to discuss this.

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　I decided to apply Alphonse's method to those who raised their hands in the hope that the amount of magic power might increase.

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