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“Hmmm? This is… Sensei, can I ask you something?” (Soma)
There were times when questions raised by Soma.
“Haa? What is it? Do you have something that you don’t understand? Or did you understand something again?” (Camilla)
However, the reason why Camilla indifferently replied Soma’s question was because she couldn’t answer most of his questions.
What Soma was reading was a technical report that researchers and others usually read as mentioned earlier.
Camilla went to higher education, but she didn’t progress more from that stage.
If she was asked, there was no way for her to answer his question.
And above all, she also had problem in that field.
Soma was reading a written result of a magical research.
One year ago, Soma, who hadn’t had much knowledge in magic, read such things, and it wasn’t because that he was trying hard.
She didn’t deny that Soma was working hard. In the first place, the knowledge about magic almost couldn’t be learned before the higher education.
Because of that, magic had been totally dependent on talent, and one could use magic if they had it.
There was no need for theory or knowledge.
Unless it was necessary, the people who did research on it was limited, and for that reason, the existing materials regarding magic were mostly research materials.
As a result, the reason why Soma was reading it was because he had to read it in order to gain knowledge about magic.
There were various technical terms and specialized fields since it was a reading materials for researchers, and it was necessary to know the terms.
Soma was able to read the materials because he already studied the terms. In short, it was enough to say that Soma was working hard.
However, it was impossible to learn everything of higher education in a year and his study was still going on.
Since his interest in magic was high, half of the time was like this and the other half was studying time.
Now, let’s return to the main subject.
“Hmmm, it is about what is written here. Is it true that magic basically doesn’t fail and it also can’t fail?” (Soma)
“Well, I can’t confirm because I can’t use magic, but that’s what it says. By the way, that is not limited to magic.” (Camilla)
“Hooh? You mean?” (Soma)
“Yeah, I think that this might be difficult for you to understand, but… when a person who has the skill will activate it, the skill won’t fail unless they don’t have higher rank skill than their opponent.” (Camilla)
To put it simply, as long as one had Special Rank swordsmanship skill, the blow would surely reach the opponent.
There was no exception in this matter.
For example, a slashing attack will cut through space and sliced the opponent even when the opponent escaped by moving through spaces.
Considering that it was a Special Rank skill, it wasn’t strange that the skill was possible to be used.
“…Hmm, since the rank was higher than the avoidance and inhibition rank, it is certainly not that strange when considering the situation.” (Soma)
“No, it is quite a mystery. That is the work for researcher to investigate it. For us, it’s just good enough to think about it.” (Camilla)
“…By the way, since a skill can’t fail, is it possible for skill to fail by own will?” (Soma)
“Of course, there is no exception, remember?” (Camilla)
For this reason, people must had similar rank of skill when doing matches.
In a different case, a person with higher rank skill would surely be on the defending side, and not on the offending side.
It wasn’t a match if defending was impossible.
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In other words, what Camilla did against Soma was considerably irrational, but… it didn’t count since the other party was lack of common sense.
“Hmm…” (Soma)
“What’s wrong?” (Camilla)
“Although, a skill is said impossible to fail, I just saw a failed case recently…” (Soma)
“Ooh…you did mentioned that earlier.” (Camilla)
Camilla knew that Soma continued with his daily routine, but she never accompanied him except once.
Occasionally, she heard the story during idle chat.
She had heard about Soma was seeing a girl named Aina in the Demon Forest, and she probably know what Soma did.
Soma also didn’t talk about everything, but it was possible to guess to a certain extent by the outline of his questions.
She also know that Soma was probably out of common sense existence.
“…The person himself seems to be unaware of something. He understood that skill is not everything, and yet he didn’t realize about this.” (Camilla)
“Hmm? Did you say something?” (Soma)
“I’m just talking to myself, don’t worry about it. More importantly, I was lying when I talked about why a skill fail when it shouldn’t fail. There is no exception, but those who have special rank skill are different.” (Camilla)
“A Special Rank is an exception… so there is an exception, right?” (Soma)
“It is hard to explain this matter, but… if in laymen term, those with special rank skill are those who wield power outside of common sense. That is not an exception, because they are not normal in the first place.” (Camilla)
This explanation was not that difficult.
Those who could slash a space couldn’t be included according to the common sense.
“Hmmm? If it’s about slicing space, I think that is possible if you swing a sword a little bit, but…” (Soma)
“Please check out the meaning of the word ‘normal’ and say that again. Anyway, those who have Special Rank skill can fail on purpose. The one you saw is someone who have Special Rank, correct?” (Camilla)
“Hmmm… I mentioned to her that it was caused by putting too much mana or the activation procedure exploded. So, I thought that magic would generally occurred…” (Soma)
“Or it is possible that only happen to magic. I have never heard of it. The magic research in this country is delayed, and you also well understand that matter.” (Camilla)
“Well… you are right.” (Soma)
Therefore, Soma displayed a bitter face. Most was said to be research materials on magic, but he seemed to know that it wasn’t really the case.
Actually, he knew that it was the propagation of Holy Doctrine.
Since magic was completely dependent on talent, it was hardly understand how to use it better… no, to be more specific, how to learn it was difficult to understand how to learn magic skills.
If it was swordsmanship skill, once a person swing a sword, they would learn it soon and the rank would also advance.
However, magic wasn’t well understood especially when the knowledge about learning it was mixed by the Holy Doctrine.
Nonetheless, he didn’t make that excuse. It was the result of his dead-serious research.
He even studied the purpose of the propagation.
However, although researching was originally common thing, it would be unavoidable to lose momentum if such a propagation was all over the place.
The propagation was becoming more and more, so further research wasn’t conducted.
This country fell into such a vicious circle, and the magic research hadn’t advanced that much.
In other words, there were not many things Soma could read. Even if he tried his best, it was difficult for him to get any result.
That was the reason of the bitter face.
“Even so, why would you know such a thing?” (Camilla)
When considering the situation, as emigrant from another country… or possibly, exiles, some of them probably the owner of Special Rank skills, and they should move in order to secure them as soon as possible.
Although Camilla wasn’t attached to the army, a person with Special Rank skills couldn’t help not to stand out.
If Soma could use magic like normal, someone would find him before long.
If the reason was anxiety, as long as they listen to Soma’s story, such an allegation like he was an illegal resident won’t come out. There was no need to worry about that yet.
Everywhere around here was under the Duke rules.
And since the Demon Forest was nearby, there won’t have time to worry about such a detail.
The more important thing was not to let the Demon came.
So, they won’t move unless Soma committed a crime.
In the case of Soma, he would not make a mistake about the true identity of the other person. The identity of those who lived in the vicinity of the Demon Forest was certain.
And the girl who helped him was–
“Come to think of it…” (Camilla)
Camilla suddenly remembered something.
None of the Duke’s people lived in the surrounding area of the Demon Forest.
And the small village in the Demon territory was–
“…Nah, I don’t think so.” (Camilla)
“Hmmm… lacking of common sense, is it?” (Soma)
“What’s wrong with you? Did you think something unnecessary again?” (Camilla)
“Again, huh? Am I always thinking about unnecessary things?” (Soma)
“Didn’t I say so? Are you a fool!? Stop making such a face.” (Camilla)
It was bad for her to say that, but nothing happened anyway.
“Anyway… what did you think about?” (Camilla)
“Hmm, I was thinking that if it is possible to be out of common sense, I wonder if I can learn magic.” (Soma)
“Aah.. it is certainly out of common sense, but…” (Camilla)
To teach him, who could slice space with a sword, to use magic when he didn’t have skills–
Camilla had a bitter smile while thinking which one was more out of common sense.
She had decided.
Both of them were out of common sense, and to consider the matters also was out of common sense.
There was no way for Camilla, who had been living within the bound of common sense, to give judgment.
“Well, why don’t you give a try? I mean if the other person accept it.” (Camilla)
“I will absolutely try to ask for it.” (Soma)
Camilla let out a small sigh when looking at Soma who made a lively expression as he said that.
And the bitter smile intensified because Soma himself was out of common sense.