Chapter 14: You Are A Talented Young Lady

“Hey Mana!”

“Yes, Young Lady?”

“Why does Sleeping Beauty have to be kissed by a prince to wake up?”

Today, the pure young lady’s question attack starts from the morning.

Children of this age are naturally full of questions and have a lot to say.

“Um, is it because the kiss has the power to break the curse?”

Actually, I can’t say that it’s all just a fairy tale allowance, so it’s really hard to give a plausible answer while protecting her innocence.

“A kiss breaks the curse?!”

“Um… wouldn’t it?”

“The witch put a bad curse on the princess to make her fall asleep, right?”

“Witches are bad…”

“Well, there might be good witches somewhere.”

“Really?”

“Well? Wouldn’t there be one out of ten thousand people?”

“One out of ten thousand..? One..two..three..four…”

Of course, there’s no such thing as a good witch.

If she could sense mana in the first place, she would have become a mage.

Witches are created by people who can’t become mages, trying to do something, anything.

…Come to think of it, does the young lady have mana?

They say that the time of mana awakening differs for each person, but it’s usually before adulthood.

“Mana!”

“Let’s read this together!”

“The title is… The Frog Prince.”

“Okay!”

I slowly read the storybook that the young lady brought and fall into thought.

If the young lady has mana…

I’ll have to invite a magic teacher.

I don’t know the first thing about magic.

“Mana, Mana!”

“Why is the frog a prince? Um… frogs have princes too!”

“It’s not that the frog is a prince, it’s a frog, but it’s a prince!”

“Huh?”

“I don’t understand!”

“There are many frogs, so among them, there’s one that rules the frogs well…”

First, I need to think after today’s reading time is over.

Afternoon after lunch.

These days, the young lady’s afternoon hobby has been decided to be drawing.

“Are you going to draw again today?”

“Yes!!”

“I’m going to draw Mana!”

…I wonder if she just likes drawing me.

“Th, then how about drawing a moment when we were together?”

“A moment when we were together?”

“Yes, capture a beautiful and lovely moment in a drawing!”

“Okay!”

“I’ll do it!”

She now uses crayons and colored pencils very freely.

For a hobby that’s only been around for a week, her skills have improved a lot.

“What are you drawing?”

“Yes!”

“When we went to see the blue things with Mana!”

“Ah, when we went to that hill?”

“That’s right!”

Come to think of it, in about a week, the full moon will rise.

It’s been over a month since I came to this house.

Time flies so fast.

Seeing the young lady growing little by little, I feel that time is passing quickly.

“Like this… like this…”

“The world is all blue?”

“Yes!”

“It’s very blue there!”

Flowers are blue, the sky is blue.

“And it’s sparkly!”

“Like stars?”

“Yes! Like stars!”

The young lady diligently draws a picture of me holding her and sitting on a rock.

At this level of drawing skill, I wouldn’t believe that an 8-year-old drew it.

Perhaps the young lady has a great talent.

Especially, the detail is felt in the way she draws small things.

Hmm?

“Young Lady, what’s the blue on the flower petals?”

“Blue sparkles!”

“Sparkles?”

“Yes!”

“Blue sparkles pop out of the flowers!”

“It was so pretty!”

“I want to go there again with Mana!”

Was there.. such a thing?

“So I liked it because there was a lot of blue at that time!”

…Anyway, the young lady is really.

“If you like it that much, let’s go again next time.”

“Yes!”

So, the young lady finished her first drawing and draws the next one.

“This is?”

“It’s Mana reading a book with me!”

It’s a scene of me and the young lady reading a book.

The young lady smiling happily in my arms is cute.

“Hmm?”

“There are blue sparkles here too?”

“Yes! Sparkles are flying around!”

…Was she really that happy?

With a puzzled thought, I receive a few more drawings from the young lady.

But every picture has the so-called ‘blue sparkles’.

They’re on the lights, on the oven…

They’re also on the necklace and hairpin that the young lady is wearing.

…?

“Young Lady, do you still see blue sparkles now?”

“Yes!”

“But I don’t usually see them!”

“I see them when I want to see them!”

..Have you always been able to see them?”

“No?”

“I first saw them when I went to the flower field with Mana last time!”

“I’ve been seeing them ever since!”

“Young Lady, just a moment?”

“Huh?”

“Why?”

…It’s not a problem with her eyes.

It doesn’t seem like a burn or anything like that.

If so…

“Just a moment, Young Lady!!”

“Huh?”

“Where are you going, Mana!”

This this this this this..!

Clatter, I quickly go down to my room and bring a large glass ball.

“Mana?”

“Young Lady!”

“I’m going to do a test for a moment!”

“What’s that??”

“This is called a magic crystal ball!”

“Magic crystal…ball!”

“Can you see blue sparkles here too?”

“Yes!”

As expected..!

I think she’s probably seeing mana!

I need to test whether the young lady definitely has magical talent.

If she has it, it’s good, and if she doesn’t, she can live her life without it.

“What’s a magic crystal ball?”

“Yes, it’s a very interesting item.”

This large glass ball-like thing is often known as a tool used by street fortune tellers, but in fact, it’s the easiest magic item to determine whether you have mana sensitivity, that is, the talent to learn magic.

It’s a great item that easily shows various talents besides magic.

It’s also very easy to use.

“If you touch the ball like this, the color changes.”

“Ta-da~”

When I, who has no mana sensitivity and no mana in my body, touch it, the transparent ball turns gray.

…It’s bitter to see again.

At first, I thought that since I transmigrated to another world, I would naturally get a special perk.

But there was nothing.

“The color changed!”

When I take my finger off, the crystal ball returns to its transparent color.

“Would you like to try touching it, Young Lady?”

“Yes! Yes! I’ll try it!”

Where.. what talent does the young lady have?

When the young lady touches the ball with her finger, colors begin to faintly bloom inside the ball.

“Wow!”

“Oh..!”

Blue, red, white.

The three colors move around inside the ball, like dye in water, and spread.

It’s here..!

“Wow!”

“Mana, look at this!”

“It’s so pretty!”

“It’s amazing!”

“Wow!”

“What is this??”

“It shows that you have various talents, Young Lady.”

“Talents?”

“Yes! Wonderful talents!”

As expected, is she different because she’s a child of a noble family?

Blue, red, white

Even if only one color appears, people say ‘It’s amazing’ and make them a mage, but the young lady has three colors.

The realm of talent and lineage, as they say.

The young lady knows mana.

I wondered why she was staring blankly at something strangely from some time ago, it was this..!

“You could become a wonderful mage in the future, Young Lady?”

“Really?”

“Then I’ll become a wonderful mage!”

“First, let’s try to focus on the crystal ball?”

“It’s not over just because colors appeared.”

“Put both hands on it!”

“Yes!”

The young lady stares blankly at the crystal ball that starts to shine brightly.

This also has a taste like fire gazing.

“Someday, there will be a time when your talents bloom.”

“When that time comes, I’ll bring a magic teacher.”

“With three talents, I’m sure everyone will want to teach you!”

“Then will I become strong like a prince?”

“Hmm, you might!”

As the young lady keeps her hands on the crystal ball, the three colors draw their own special shapes.

The blue one looks like a cube.

The white one is like a flower,

The red one… what is that? It’s round, but it’s not a circle.

According to the manual that came with the crystal ball, red is usually a talent that comes from strong emotions.

It’s a talent that greatly affects the user’s personality, like blood magic and fire magic, but it exerts powerful power.

Hmm… but it’s very small.

If it’s that level of talent, it’s fine to develop it or not.

Instead, she has the most common mana talent of blue and the purity talent of white, so she can go that way..!

It’s inevitable that I want to raise the young lady as a mage when it’s like this.

Because I can brag, “Here, my young lady is a mage!”

“But Mana.. then am I becoming a witch?”

“Huh?”

“No?”

“You’re becoming a mage?”

“Isn’t a woman who uses magic a witch?”

..Ah?

“In storybooks, the witch says ‘Change!’ and people turn into pigs and frogs.”

“I thought the frog prince was actually a person too.”

“Pfft!”

“That’s a witch, Young Lady.”

“Not a mage.”

“Don’t worry.”

“You’ll become a wonderful mage.”

“Mage..!”

“But we won’t learn it right away.”

“After all, a mage is half talent, if you have talent, you can learn some magic anytime…”

“And?”

More than anything.

We don’t have enough time to play together yet, right?

“If you learn magic, a new person will come and teach you magic.”

“Are you okay with that?”

“…Can’t Mana teach me?”

“Um… I don’t know how to use magic.”

“I can’t use it either.”

“…Other people are scary.”

Ah….

The young lady takes her hands off the crystal ball.

“…If Mana doesn’t teach me, I won’t learn magic.”

“I don’t need it.”

“I want to be with Mana.”

“Young Lady…”

…Was it a little too early?

Later, shall I call a teacher a little later, when time has passed?”

“Um. I’ll be with Mana.”

“Th, then…”

“…I don’t want to.”

Sigh…

It seems that the young lady is nervous because I said I would call someone else.

..But it’s better to have a solid teacher.

“…Mana can teach me.”

…Of course, I enjoyed this novel, Young Lady.

Of course, I was angry because the mage, a member of the hero’s party, took up an entire chapter explaining magic every day.

…Is that why I came to this world?

Was it wrong of me to complain that the magic settings I made a long time ago don’t match the current ones?

Maybe it is?!

“Ah, anyway, I only need Mana.”

“I’m scared of other people…”

“…I might not be able to teach you well, Young Lady.”

“Mana is an elite maid!”

“You can teach me well!”

…Yes, because I’ve been arguing with the author about this and that, I roughly know how magic works in this world.

Even if I teach you theoretically, your outstanding talent might do something.

More than that, the young lady is looking at me with 100% trust… it’s a bit burdensome, but it also gives me courage.

“Th, then, although I’m humble, I’ll try to teach you, Young Lady.”

“Yes!”

“Thank you, Mana!”

So, I, who ended up taking on magic lessons that weren’t even on the schedule, spent a week reading all the magic books in the study in my spare time.

And then I found out.

As expected, the author was right to set up the magic setting roughly.

This.. might be teachable.

“Mana!”

“I drew another picture!”

“What is this?”

“It’s me and Mana taking a bath in the bathroom!”

Hmm..!

I, I can’t show this to other people.

“You drew it well, Young Lady!”

“Hehe.. pat me more!”

Pat pat~