Disguised As A Teacher In Magic Academy

Chapter 49 - Element Properties Class (3)

I looked at Aidan who was pouting and somewhat brought back inside.

'What's wrong with him?'

At first, I thought he would rebel against me.

Did he express his subtle dissatisfaction because I had sent him away with wind magic when he asked me to stop at that moment and remember him?

'Looking at his reaction, I don't think that's the case.'

He couldn't act with his face that looked like he was really sorry and didn't know what to do.

In other words, Aidan really did not know how to release his property, which was the basis of elemental property magic.

I can't believe it.

A rare Rare Magic owner could not do such a fundamental thing?

Isn't that like saying that a child who is able to do somersaults can't even walk properly?

'What should I do with this?'

I think he told me to look forward to it, but I don't think it happened when I saw him stuck.

Was it because of his Unusual Magic that he was able to enter the Soeren from the very beginning?

'I can ignore it like this ...'

I don't need to pay attention to those who can't even follow the basic lessons.

The more I did that, the more I wasted the precious time of other students.

Didn't I say something when I let the first and second years take my classes together?

I do not intend to consider students who cannot attend my lessons.

It might be good for me that Aidan, who probably knew my secret, was left in my class alone.

Yep…

I don't need to show him affection.

The world, naturally, is a very cold place.

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“Aidan. What are you trying to do now?"

Aidan closed his eyes tightly thinking that the time had come.

"Eh, that…."

"You didn't even implement any elements. Are you going to rebel against me now?"

All eyes were on Aidan and Ludger.

Ludger frowned and looked back at the students.

"Has the disciples who were watching over me and Aidan already perfected the application of your own element so that you could turn away from it? Then I'll have to remember your face and check it myself."

Heeek!

The students immediately turned their heads and began to focus on their elements again.

Aidan was bathed in cold sweat and confused what to do.

Ludger spoke while folding his hands behind his back.

"Aidan."

"…Yes?"

"Aren't you able to cast your element correctly yet?"

"…Yes. It's shameful."

Aidan wants to hide in the rat hole.

All the other students who had entered had taken the class brilliantly, and he felt like he was left behind and something was holding his ankle.

Aidan could also enter Soen because of some kind of 'exclusion' applied to him, he still lacked the basic things that others could do naturally.

"What properties can you use? You know that, don't you?"

“Fire, water, and wind.”

“Three, yes. That's normal."

Ludger thought he would specialize in more elements because he was capable of handling Unusual Magic, but that was not the case.

It was basic common sense that the more talented people were, the more elements they could handle.

"Then let's start with fire."

"Yes, sorry?"

Aidan thought he had misheard Ludger's words. It was the same for Leo, who was sitting next to Aidan, and Tessie, who was sitting behind him.

"That means I'll teach you. I can't let students be left behind because they can't follow my teachings from the first lesson."

“T-but I..”.

"I really hate the idea of having such a person in my class. I don't accept differences of opinion. Focus."

"Ah yes!"

“Gather manamu. You can do basic casting, right?”

"Yes." Yeah."

Aidan nodded and made a ball of mana.

It was a basic process that could not even be called first-rate magic that anyone could do once they were introduced to magic.

"Think about changing where it is to an element. Like I just said before, it's a flame."

"I'll try to do it."

Aidan stared at his mana ball intensely as if that was all he could do.

Tessie and Leo gave Aidan a cheering look without saying a word.

"Hnng."

However, it was difficult for Aidan to properly implement the fire property, no matter how big the focus was.

As soon as he thought that it would not work out like that, Ludger opened his mouth after noticing him in silence.

“Please your mind; don't think too much about it. No matter how hard you try to think about the fire in your head, it will still be difficult at first, so don't just think about it with your head, but feel it with your senses." - WEB."

“Indra..?”

"You can compare the characteristics of a flame with your individual senses. The first is vision. Imagine the figure of a burning fire. Close your eyes and focus."

"Yes." Yeah."

Aidan focused on the picture of the fire in his head after listening to Ludger's suggestion.

However, it was not easy to think of the fire form that kept swaying in his head.

"Focused. Remember the time when the fire was strongest in your memory."

"Yes yes."

Because Ludger said that, Aidan felt he had an idea of what to do.

Aidan who was focusing his mind was slowly able to bring up the most impressive moment in his memory.

—When he was burning firewood in his country house, the feeling he felt back then.

A fire that burns in the fireplace.

His own family watched it.

The red flames at that moment vibrated and vibrated from within the heater.

Ludger's voice rang out in his ear.

"Now think of the sound of fire."

Instead of answering, Aidan followed Ludger's instructions.

Crackers crackers.

The sound of fire and burning firewood was blown by the wind.

The sound of fluttering embers ended the calm and cold of the cold air.

Ludger's voice sounded again.

"Next is the sense of smell."

No, it almost guided him deep into his inner side.

Aidan wanders deep into his unconsciousness.

The smoky smell of the fire burning firewood.At the same time, he could detect the delicate aroma of charcoal.

Aidan's family even cooked a stew on that fire.

"Since fire has no sense of taste, think of its senses. Remember the senses in your skin when you face fire."

Following Ludger's guidance, Aidan evokes memories of his past as if he were staring at a painting.

His guided senses one by one clearly recalled the memories of his past.

And he can remember…

Eight years earlier…

In winter when it snows…

It was a day with a raging snowstorm over the dark blue window outside.

Clad in thick clothes to avoid the cold, he had put firewood into the heater so that the burning fire did not go out.

His two younger sisters clung to Aidan while whining that they were cold.

Her sisters chattered, her mother nagged, and her father smiled gently as he watched such a scene.

—Although they cannot eat fancy food and there is a cold wind blowing through the gaps of their clothes that are not sewn properly. Clearly, the memory of that time was so vivid as if it had just happened.

The fire is not hot.

He's not even afraid of it.

Just…

The flame she felt at that moment was so warm.

He remembered that he could spend a warm winter because of it.

"Frightly so."

"Ah."

As if it was a ripple in the calm water, Aidan opened his eyes after hearing Ludger's voice.

And then he saw it…

A small fireball lit up before his eyes.

“…!”

Aidan opened his eyes wide in disbelief.

It seemed to have summoned the warm fire that was in his memory.

The flame is closer to warm than hot, and closer to soft than destructive.

'Am I really applying this?'

"That's pretty good."

Aidan is stunned by Ludger's praise.

This was the first time that Ludger, who brutally showed the weaknesses of students called geniuses instead of praising them, praised someone.

Aidan did not know if he could call it a compliment, but Ludger uttered a positive sentence from his mouth.

Other students who pretended not to notice while sharpening their ears were also surprised by Ludger's words.

"Fire turns beyond ordinary elements into your own fire. Instead of imitating others and blindly applying only what others have taught you, you are showing the fire element that you feel for yourself. Aidan's. It's your own magic."

"This ... My own magic?"

Aidan stared at the fireball he had created like a man who had sent half his soul flying away.

Was it because he lost his concentration?

Fwoosh's.

The fire disappeared like a mirage without a trace.

But it felt like the scent that was left was still in the air.

"Aidan."

"Yes, Professor."

"Don't forget that taste."

Ludger left such words and proceeded to approach the next student.

Aidan still felt like he was dreaming.

Leo and Tessie, who were watching nervously from his side, patted Aidan's arm.

“Aidan. You're Amazing!"

"How did you do it just now?"

"Huh, huh?"

Ludger's praise for Aidan fueled the motivation of those students who had not been evaluated.

Ludger glanced at the students and opened his mouth.

"I'm sure you've realized it, but this is the method I want to teach you before I get into this class."

All the students sharpened their ears.

"It is the application of your senses through your own experience."

The students wait for the next explanation after the word “sensoryapplication”.

"Element properties should be based on a basic understanding of the related elements. Even a three-year-old knew that the fire was hot and the ice was cold. If you're a real witch, you've got to put something special in it."

"Something special?"

"Think of the elements that you want to display as intense moments that you actually encounter, not as vague memories. Not only your vision, but your five senses must also sense those elements."

—Do not just follow with your eyes.

—Feel elements with your five senses.

As they followed his advice, the students responded with delight.

“Oh, ooh? It worked!"

“Wah! It's so much better than before!"

The students who were happy to learn such magic, were more focused on not forgetting the lesson.

Ludger's words were not lies.

Their memories and experiences are combined so that the elements are remembered and implemented more carefully, so that the elements are much more intense than those previously implemented.

Even the feelings of the elements themselves change depending on their experiences and tendencies.

The element was painted in its own color.

At that moment, a loud cry sounded from somewhere.

“Wah. Maddened. What'sthat?"

"Overlapping elements? Can you use it?"

Flora Lumos was in the middle of that shocked gaze.

He had created that element with a confident expression.

To be exact, it was a combination of two elements.

Fire and ice.

The flaming shape of the flame had turned into light blue-colored ice, but the ice was still slightly swaying.

It's called a frozen fire.

'Hmph. It's nothing.'

At first, Flora intended to apply just one element correctly.

Because he thought it was enough for him not to be rejected by Ludger.

He had already learned how to apply elements through his five senses, and because of his unique magical synesthesia, he was able to apply properties far more complete than others.

But when Ludger carefully taught the first-year students and even gave him credit at the end…

Something has heated up in Flora's heart.

His pride did not approve of the situation.

'Let's see if he'll praise me too.'

It was not enough for him to implement only one element completely.

Answered.

Biting his lips, he could only desperately suppress the uncontrollable mana.

… But it's starting to get harder.

'I have to block it, no matter what!'

At that rate, it will explode.

With the determination to at least avoid the damage around her, Flora installed a magic protector around her.

Even if the magic were to explode, the magic storm would not spread outside.

Then, Flora closed her eyes tightly.

At that time…

His hand touched something warm.

"Oh?"

Flora opened her eyes.

Ludger stood in front of him.

While facing her, her hand gently wrapped around the back of her hand as she held the magic as tightly as possible.

'How can it be?' He was sure he had spread the magic barrier.

Ludger, who easily shattered the magic barrier, spoke while adding mana.

"Focus, Flora Lumos."

"Pr-Professor?"

"Don't give up; control your man."

Flora stared blankly into Ludger's eyes.

Regardless of which explosion was to come, Ludger's eyes showed no signs of fear.

"Because I'm gonna help you."