I was reincarnated as a famous genius with the greatest talent ever. Episode 12
4. Talent Genius of the Count of Sogres (4)
The second day’s banquet seemed to pass without any problems.
I met more nobles than yesterday, greeted them more, and ate until my stomach exploded.
I didn’t mean to listen, but I also heard whispers about Count Tyren.
“I heard that Count Tyren was kicked out of the castle?”
“How big a mistake must I have made… … .”
“It seems like he was busy wandering around here and there as he was unable to achieve his major during the last war, so after the war ended, he was left behind, but this is almost the end of it.”
“From what I heard, it seems like Count Tyren’s eldest son had an accident.”
“Then are those rumors true? “I heard that the eldest son of the summoner that Count Tyren was so proud of was scolded?”
“Shh. Be quiet. Anyway, how absurd is it that you came all the way here and were kicked out for failing to take care of your son?”
My story was heard too.
“Well, have you heard any rumors? “You know, Master Dane, he’s already a great summoner.”
“Huh, so the Count of Sogres has now become a prestigious summoning family?”
“I heard it’s not just that. “He can use magic too!”
“Oh my god, does that make sense?”
After all, rumors travel fast.
Although not all are correct.
Anyway, Count Tyren probably wouldn’t have been kicked out so unsightly if he had apologized and bowed his head from the beginning.
I don’t know if he was trying to get something out of this, but the belated apology after arguing like that was of no use.
Thanks to you, I learned one thing.
Apology rather than excuse.
The apology was immediate.
I felt this many times in my past life, but there is no better way to resolve a conflict than a quick apology.
Of course, there are times when you shouldn’t apologize.
Meanwhile, when my mother heard the news, she grabbed me and asked.
“Dane, you’re not hurt anywhere, right?”
“sure.”
“Phew, that’s a relief.”
After all, she is a mother.
Softer than my father… … .
“Have you ever used any stealth techniques?”
“… … .”
“I heard that I used a summoning spell and magic bullets, so I was just wondering.”
It seems that my father spoke in great detail.
“Yes, of course. Hiding in the grass in the garden. “I didn’t notice at all.”
My mother was very happy.
“You did very well. If you wrote it right away during your first actual battle, that’s commendable. “Mom, I guess I’ll have to teach you tracking techniques next time.”
I’m glad I don’t have older sisters.
If I had, I would have asked the same question.
Is it a good thing that I didn’t use a spear?
Anyway, the only thing I directly touched was hitting my nose with my forehead, so it didn’t seem like I had done much wrong.
Anyway, except for spearmanship, the remaining three talents were put to practical use in unexpected situations.
If you look at magic, it’s not magic, but magic bullets… … What do you think?
Since this method was inspired by the magic of flowers that my eldest sister taught me, it can be considered magic.
Anyway, there are many people who are interested in my talent.
“Oh, it’s Master Dane, whom I’ve only heard about! I am Baron Oppent. Have you heard of the Offent family in the east?”
“Yes, Baron. “I know this estate is very famous for grilled trout and sapphires.”
“Hehe, how smart you are! yes. Our Offent has the best trout and sapphires on the continent! By the way, I heard you have considerable talent in many fields!”
It was partly because of my father’s prestige, but most of the time, there were many cases where people secretly looked at me.
“It’s nothing special, I just wanted to be close to my daughter. Say hello. haha”
Something like this.
Duke Termion was truly a nobleman.
It’s a bit too much to approach the Count of Sogres and start talking, so it’s a shame to think of my younger self.
“Hi, my name is Sylvia.”
“huh. “I am Dane.”
“You will inherit the Sogress family later, right?”
Why are kids these days so active?
“I’m not sure.”
“Pretending not to know. That’s right. “I heard you have so much talent.”
“I don’t think that’s something I should think about.”
While wondering how to return Baron Oppent’s precocious daughter, I found an unexpected solution.
To be precise, a solution has arrived.
“Dane, are you here?”
It was Leila.
Sylvia jumped up in embarrassment.
“Re, Lady Leila.”
“Who is this guy?”
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Leila narrowed her eyes and glared at Sylvia as if she were a needle. Sylvia seemed embarrassed, but she soon introduced herself very casually.
“Hello, Lady Leila. “My name is Sylvia Offent, the eldest daughter of Baron Offent.”
“Oh yeah? I am Leila Termion. Nice to meet you.”
Women are scary.
Because even in that short period of time, we look at every nook and cranny of each other.
In a bloody aristocratic society, it is natural to understand one’s opponent… … .
“I’m sorry, but I’m going to borrow Dane. You made a ‘promise’ with me. Right, Dane?”
At those words, Sylvia looked at me.
Cold sweat flows.
Should I say that the moment of choice has come?
I know this very well as I have often seen the bloody wars between older and younger sisters.
In this case, you have to make the best choice.
I’m sorry, Sylvia.
I pretended I couldn’t win and got up from my seat.
“I’m sorry, let’s talk next time.”
“Uh, yeah… … .”
The daughter of a duke who boasts a power second only to the emperor in the capital.
And the daughter of an eastern baron.
It was a fight I was no match for.
Anyway, I left the main building with Leila and headed to the garden to relieve my bloated stomach.
“What did you talk about with her? Maybe something… … .”
“Perhaps something?”
“… … “Something about an engagement?”
I burst out laughing.
“curious?”
“I’m not really curious… … .”
You’re curious, right?
“I’ll tell you later if you’re curious.”
“really?”
“no.”
“Sii, are you teasing me now?”
There is a lot of fun in being made fun of.
“But did you really say something like that?”
“no. “I didn’t.”
Why does he look relieved?
Anyway, Leila and I arrived at the garden.
To be exact, it was a secret place that only those who lived here in the castle would not know about.
“You really can’t see anything from here.”
Layla looked around as if she was curious, and then her eyes shined at me.
“Now then, it’s your turn to grant your wish. “What should I do first?”
“Let me ask you a few questions first.”
“Anything! For your information, my birthday is just 4 months away!”
I simply moved on to the main topic.
“Okay. Have you ever felt magical power?”
“… … a little?”
“How much is a little?”
“that is… … “It’s not enough to form a magic core, but it’s enough to breathe and accept it?”
“Then it’s not yet the stage of release.”
Leila became sullen at those words and asked.
“So is it difficult to learn?”
“no. “You can learn from now.”
“really?”
As I rolled around on the battlefield, I naturally came into contact with magical energy.
The battlefield is a desolate space full of corpses, but paradoxically it is a place where magical energy can breathe better.
When people who know how to manipulate magic, such as knights, wizards, and summoners, die, the magic they had in their bodies gradually drains out.
There were so many corpses everywhere that it was a space that was bound to be more magical than other places.
I am going to tell you the method that I learned so naturally.
By the way, doesn’t the Duke’s family tell you about this?
It is said that affinity for magic varies greatly from person to person, but if you become a duke, you might be able to tell.
Is Duke Termion more strict than he seems?
“First of all, the priority is to feel the received magic power within your body.”
“Can you feel it inside your body?”
“huh. In order to release it outside the body, you must know how to manage the mana inside. The point is ‘imagination.’”
“If it’s your imagination… … .”
“Imagine that magical power is swirling around your body. Close your eyes and picture your body. And imagine the magic flowing like blood through every single vein of your body.”
Imagination.
To put it a little more simply, it is drawing an image.
This is an act that goes beyond manipulating magical power and is the basis for everything that can be done with magical power.
“It’s not going well… … .”
And it’s difficult at first.
It’s difficult to imagine something you’ve never seen.
“Do it slowly and calmly.”
If simply accepting magical power is a matter of affinity, then releasing what has been accepted and mixing it appropriately to create a core or circle is a matter of imagination.
The reason wizards always talk to themselves and often get lost in thought is because the Circle is much more difficult to form than the Core.
If you don’t do this, you won’t be able to create a core or circle.
And if magical power is not compressed and fixed in the form of a core or circle, it will disperse beyond a certain amount.
“profit… … .”
“It’s not going to happen just because you’re strong.”
After trying for a while, Leila ended up crying.
“It’s not going well.”
“Then let’s do it this way.”
I injected magic into the ring my eldest sister gave me. Then, a space appeared in front of her hands. Layla was startled.
“wow! “Is this subspace?”
“huh.”
I took out a mirror I had prepared in advance from the exposed subspace. It was a mirror large enough to contain Leila’s entire body.
“There are also pockets of subspace like this… … ?”
“huh. “My eldest sister made it herself this time and gave it to me as a gift.”
“oh my god… … I’m really jealous… … My brothers don’t even pay attention to me because they are busy training at the academy… … .”
Leila looked at my ring carefully and then clenched her fist as if she had made up her mind.
“I will definitely become stronger than my brothers.”
It’s none of my business what’s going on in other people’s homes, but it’s a bit weird to have an older brother and not care about my only younger sister.
“Okay, to do that, stand here in front of the mirror. “So that your whole body can be seen.”
“like this?”
“good. like that. From now on, instead of closing your eyes and imagining, you will look at your body in the mirror and create an image in your head. “It’ll probably be a lot easier.”
Imagination is difficult.
Especially if it is your own body.
But it’s much easier if you have a mirror.
It is about imagining your own body by seeing it with your own eyes.
For your information, I don’t have a mirror, so on rainy days, I quickly run to a puddle and practice.
“good. “I’ll try.”
Perhaps because she instinctively sensed that it would be easier, Layla began glaring at herself in the mirror with determination.
How much time has passed like that?
“oh.”
I let out a very low exclamation and looked at the haze rising over Leila’s whole body.
It was a flow of magical power that could not be seen except by people like me, who had an excellent affinity for magical energy, or Leila herself.
In other words, Layla is now emitting magical power throughout her entire body.
He’s talented too.
Not as much as me though.
“Hmm.”
Leila was really struggling.
The face turns bright red, the fingertips turn white, and the wide-open eyes tremble.
Then, the moment when he finally realized that he was releasing magical power.
“Pha!”
He let out a rough breath and collapsed.
The sound of breathing, almost like exhaustion.
But his expression seemed extremely happy.
“Okay, that’s enough. it’s okay! “It happened, right?”
“huh. it’s okay.”
I think it happened so quickly because I was already breathing in the magic power.
But this is just the beginning.
“It’s just the beginning.”
“Hey, starting now?”
Leila asked blankly.
“huh. It’s starting now. “Now that I have learned the sense of release, I have to go with this sense and focus that release in one place.”
“Joe, can’t you take a break for a little while?”
“What did you just hear? “I have to go with this feeling.”
Leila woke up in tears.
It seems like I’m trying to put on as pitiful an expression as I can, but it’s not hard to do.
“Ugh… … .”
Leila finally managed to get up and stand in front of the mirror again.
I smiled and nodded with satisfaction.
Then, I tried to ignore the gaze I felt from behind.
How long are you going to spy on your father?
Did you learn the art of stealth from your mother?
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“Ohh.”
Count Sogres looked at the two children and smiled with interest.
Stealth is perfect. I hid in the grass.
It seemed like it was a good thing that his wife Lily had noticed the stealth techniques she often used to hit him on the back.
‘My son is already teaching everyone else. ‘You’re all grown up.’
It was at that time that Count Sogres was showing a happy expression.
“What are you doing there?”
“It’s a surprise! Oh, no. “Duke.”
“What are you doing hiding in the grass? “Is there a late-night couple here?”
“How did you know?”
The Count of Sogres seemed very shocked when his supposed perfect hiding was suddenly revealed.
“You can see it all. How can such a sloppy hiding be called hiding? Tsk tsk. “Her wife is a legendary assassin, but her husband has learned nothing.”
“… … .”
“Anyway, what are you doing? “If the castle owner is caught hiding in the grass and spying on someone, people will criticize him.”
“My son followed me.”
“huh? Are you too? “I followed my daughter.”
Here were two rich nobles.
“Let me see too.”
Duke Termion poked his head into the garden grass and grinned as if he knew that would happen.
“It seems you like your son.”
“Does it look like that?”
“then. “It’s not common for Layla to care like that.”
“Did something happen? “He seemed like a bright kid.”
“It looks bright on the outside. Because she is the daughter of a duke. But I don’t look like a kid on the inside. “I became distant from Leila when her brothers left for the academy.”
“Such a situation… … .”
“My mother is sick and I can’t spend as much time with her as before, so the child has become lonely.”
Duke Termion sighed.
With my head in the grass.
“That’s why I thought about enrolling him in the academy right away so he can hang out with kids his age, but you know that, right? “They are just children, a miniature version of aristocratic society.”
“I know. So, I quit in the middle.”
“That’s why I brought you to this banquet. I was wondering if it would be nice to meet other kids here. however… … “It seems like I’ve found a good friend.”
Duke Termion smiled happily, as if he was glad.
With my head stuck in the grass.
“Hmm, is Dane teaching Leila how to manipulate magic? “I think that’s what it looks like when I look in the mirror.”
“I think that’s right. “Did Dane say he would tell me first?”
“Leila might have asked first. “I’ve been training on my own without saying anything, saying I need to make a magic core, and it looks like I’ve found a breakthrough like this.”
The Duke of Sogres tilted his head and then frowned.
The branches were scratching my face because I was sticking my head in the grass.
“cadet. By the way, why don’t you treat her daughter kindly?”
“… … “Did you notice?”
“It didn’t seem like he cared at all.”
“You’re doing it on purpose. Because she treated her sons like that and then they grew up as they wanted. This is especially true when training.”
“Don’t be like that. It hurts later. The same goes for magic cores. “Why would you have asked Dane?”
“… … “It reminds me of the times when you longed for me.”
Duke Termion nodded as if he had felt something, but then thought, “Oops.”
Likewise, the branches were scratching his face.
“Are you going to send your son to the capital later? “If I send you up, I’ll let you stay at the duke castle, right?”
“I will do whatever Dane tells me to do. Just like Arabella and Claire did. “If you tell me I’m going to the capital, I will definitely do that.”
“If possible, it would be a good idea for you to come up as well.”
“You want me to go there and spar all day?”
“All eyes are on me. “Eh.”
Even while the two were bickering, they did not take their eyes off the playful yet serious magic class taught by Dane and Leila, their two sons and daughters.
And there was a woman watching these two’s butts.
‘What are these gentlemen doing in the garden in such a manly manner?’
It was Lily Sogress who came to look for her missing husband and son.
Lily sighed as she saw the two buttocks twitching, trying to hide some more, and then made up her mind.
‘Let’s pretend not to know.’
fantasy,
