Chương 30: Surprise Discovery
Airi stared at Nagisa for a good long second and pondered where to start.
"Well…?" Nagisa asked.
However Airi was not responding at all. She placed one hand over her chin and when a thought suddenly popped into her head she clapped her hands together.
"Ah, I got it!" Airi took out a notepad and began scribbling a couple of weird looking symbols and things.
Nagisa became impatient and leaned over, but could not read nor understand anything upside down. Therefore he chose to get up and sit next to Airi then leaned in close to her face, casually to look into the textbook.
"Okay done!" Airi turned her head to the right and their lips almost kissed.
"Wh-wh--aat do you think you are doing?!" Airi slapped Nagisa away.
"That is my line! Why did you do that for? I am just trying to read what you wrote down!" Nagisa complained while covering his left cheek with his hand.
Airi blushed a bit.
"You were too close!" She complained.
"Wait… what do you mean, read?" Airi now realized Nagisa's comment since half of it was written in Elvish.
Nagisa leaned in once more and pointed with his finger.
"Yeah… you talk about how humans usually confuse elves with Nature Magic and such here… but it derives from something you call "Lost Magic" like you told me back in the sewer tunnels," Nagisa talked without realizing.
Airi started writing a new couple of sentences.
"Can you read this?" She tested it one more time to make sure.
Nagisa read them just fine as if it was nothing out of the ordinary. Airi gave him a weird look.
"What?" Nagisa questioned her odd behavior.
"Do not 'what' me! Since when can you read Elvish?!"
Still being confused Nagisa took a step back in his seat and laughed slightly.
"Me, read Elvish? What kind of a joke is that?" Nagisa thought her accusation was outrageous.
In response, Airi grabbed her pen and pressed it against some of the symbols.
"This is Elvish… and this… and this… do not they appear different to you?" Airi explained and questioned.
After shaking his head and eyes once, Nagisa took a more careful look. Now that he paid attention her writing of certain symbols and letters did in fact appear different.
"How…" Nagisa turned to Airi.
"Why are you looking at me for?" Airi replied back.
There was only one thought that would make sense in this situation. Perhaps his Arcane ability allowed him more than just to analyze structures, but also decrypt and read different languages.
Nagisa asked Airi if this was true, however, she shook her head and said it was news to her as well concerning Arcane Magic. Airi ran a few more tests and it checked out to be true. No matter what she wrote, Nagisa could easily decrypt and read it.
"How about you start learning Elvish then?" Airi suggested, "I could teach you…" she fiddled with her thumbs.
"Sure that would be great!" Nagisa smiled and it caused a happy reaction and a smile from Airi.
But first things first, Airi decided to explain a bit more about Lost Magic and what she knew of Arcane Magic. Apart from what she mentioned in the sewers about them being prominent demon hunters, the rest of her information was about foresight and analyzing structures. This affirmed Nagisa what he already knew previously about his abilities.
She then moved on to Lost Magic. Like Nagisa managed to read, most people confuse it with Nature Magic or something else. Lost Magic is a form where you use your inner mana pool and combine it with your surroundings, and it allows you to use any element and enchant it if you are skilled.
High-elves automatically unlocked all elements and enchantments by their high potency for magic, as for regular ones, they could use up to two or three elements. The important thing for them was to practice how to use it and decide on their combat-style. Besides the bow, Airi revealed that she preferred a short sword and a dagger.
Afterwards Airi moved on to teach Nagisa Elvish. There were two kinds, the regular and the ancient one. She drew up the different alphabets and introduced smaller phrases. They decided to learn the ancient one later as it appeared Nagisa was processing and learning the language at rapid speed.
A few hours passed and Nagisa could already speak at a basic level of Elvish.
"I think my Arcane powers allow me also to memorize and store things better in my mind… somehow I cannot seem to forget all this information, it is just… kind of stuck in there? I never realized since I was already blessed with a good memory," Nagisa explained his thoughts.
The more he learned, the more he realized about his Arcane Magic. It was not even just creating medicinal vials, blacksmithing, or combat, it could be applied to learning as well. This made Nagisa genuinely happy now that he had discovered more usages of his Arcane powers, which could be helpful to him in the future.
The afternoon had passed and since the evening was growing late, Airi closed the book to end their session.
"We stop here for today, let's continue from time to time and slowly teach you both languages," Airi stopped her teaching.
"Really…" Nagisa slightly pouted, he was already really into it and all excited to learn more without realizing the time.
"Come on, let's head on out and meet up with Chisa, okay?" Airi tapped the orb and they exited the library together to head downstairs.
They found Chisa outside and she complained how she had spent an entire hour waiting for them. The two of them apologized and lied about losing themselves in a new book they found that could aid them with their studies. Chisa chose to not ask more, she was not fond of overstudying.
"Let's head back to Nagisa's room! I am famished!" Chisa stretched out her arms and smiled.
"Imagine if you girls could cook for me one day instead…" Nagisa complained slightly.
"You would love that, would you not?" Chisa replied back.
"Actually… yeah!" Nagisa grinned.
And they both responded by hitting the back of his head lightly.
"Really…?" Nagisa sighed and scratched his head.
They began heading for the dormitory and Airi tugged at his uniform for some slight attention.
"What?" Nagisa whispered.
"Do not tell Chisa about learning Elvish or anyone else! It will be our little secret," Airi whispered back behind Chisa's back.
Nagisa nodded, it was best to not anyone else know about this matter or him getting more familiar with other languages. However, Nagisa thought it was tiring that he now had yet another secret to keep.
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