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Chapter 151 - Billy

 

　A boy named Billy was given an important role in this egg hatching project.

　Although he had attended school, he was unable to write or do math.

　In spite of this, Kyle agreed to give his magic to Billy.

　This was partly due to Billy's strong desire, but it was also probably an experiment.

　Kyle wanted to see what would happen if he gave his spells to someone who didn't understand letters or numbers.

　This was probably the reason why he himself had named Billy.

　However, Kyle also probably had his own feelings about Billy.

　Billy was unique at best, and eccentric at worst.

　In short, Billy was the kind of person that those around him thought would never be able to live properly in this society.

　Billy was small and not strong at all.

　He was such a thin boy that he could not even work in the fields.

　Moreover, he was the youngest son in his family, not the eldest, and could not take over the family business.

　In order to survive, he would have to get credit on the battlefield and somehow own his own land.

　The people around him agreed that it would probably be difficult.

　Furthermore, until he went to school, even helping out at home was useless.

　When his family asked him to tend to the fields, he spent his time staring at the insects crawling on the ground, and they had to tell him he was wasting his time.

　When his family heard that I had started to build a school and provide lunch, they sent Billy off to school, saying that I should stop helping in the fields and go to school.

　The reason why Billy caught Kyle's attention was because of his concentration.

　Apparently, when Billy is passionate about something, he becomes so absorbed in it that he even blocks out the sounds around him and concentrates on it.

　When he started going to school, he became addicted to the educational products I had made and left for the students.

　I had left some toys at the school, such as a wisdom circle, puzzles, and blocks, which I had remembered from my previous life.

　The purpose of the school was to help students learn how to write and do math, but that was just the end goal.

　First of all, we wanted to increase the number of students attending the school, so we prepared a variety of toys.

　Billy seemed to love these toys so much that he spent a lot of time playing with them, so much that he was the first one to arrive and the last one to leave.

　Kyle had seen him playing with it, and had talked with him for a while.

　As he was building a good relationship with Kyle, Kyle decided to set up the Reed family and give him magic.

　Billy himself probably knew that he was not suited for farming or battle.

　So I asked Kyle to give him a name.

"Billy has been studying hard since he got his name, huh." (Ars)

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"Yes, he seems to be doing well, but he doesn't like transcribing books very much. I was just wondering if there was another job for him." (Kyle)

"Well, if he likes the puzzles, he can combine ratios, no? If he's enthusiastic about it, he'll do the job right? You are sure we can entrust the work to Billy?" (Ars)

"Don't worry, Ars-nii, I'll support him as well." (Kyle)

"All right. I don't know much about Billy, but I trust Kyle. Let's hope it works out."

　And so, we decided to rent a room in Barcan Castle to Billy as a laboratory and entrust him with the management of the eggs.

***

"So, what do you think, Billy? What are your research results?"

"Oh, yes. Here is the list of eggs that have hatched, Ars-sama."

"Oh, you're keeping a record by making a table, aren't you? As I told you, it's easier to understand the results in a table than just writing them down, right?"

"Yes, that's right. I think it's easier to understand, yes."

"So, how's the research going on ...... do you think it will be difficult to get [Spawn]?"

"Y-yes. I think it is difficult at present. The probability is still very low."

"Hmm, so it would be difficult for me to handle hatching them alone. Is it a good idea to just get eggs that were created by a Familiar that could already use [Spawn] and then go from there?"

"I'm not sure yet, but I will do it! As long as I have a little more time, I might be able to do something about it. I'll make sure that the money spent won't be wasted!"

"Oh, is that true, Billy? By the way, even if the research fails, it doesn't mean you have to pay for the eggs."

"No, that's not good, Ars-sama. My family can't even afford to pay for one egg here."

"I'm not going to be that tyrannical. So, is it true what you said? That you might be able to do something about it?"

"Oh, yes. We don't have enough data right now, however. Once we have more data, we may be able to hatch a familiar with the traits we want."

"...... What kind of data do you have, by the way? Can we really create Familiars with targeted traits?"

"It is theoretically possible to create a Familiar with a specific trait. The traits of Familiars depend on the mana the egg absorbs. I have a feeling that each person's mana has a characteristic that determines what kind of beast will hatch. I think there is a possibility of hatching specific Familiars if we find out what these characteristics are."

"In other words, is there a law that says the magic power of the one that hatches a Knight-type is more likely to produce the characteristics of a Knight-type when combined with the mana of other people?"

"Ah, yes. Well, roughly speaking, it's something like that. I can't say for sure until we have more data, though."

"If we want to make a beast that can spawn, we need to use mana that hatches a Familiar that can use magic, at its base. However, I don't think that a Familiar could hatch this conveniently..."

"Huh?"

"Hmm? What is it, Billy? Did I say something strange?"

"Yeah you did. The Valkyries that are hatched from Ars-sama's mana are a Magic type of Familiars and can use magic. So, I think that their ability to use magic are based on Ars-sama's magic power, right?"

"Yeah? Oh, I think you've misunderstood something, Billy. The Valkyries are not a type of Familiars that can use magic in the purest sense. Just between you and me, I just named them and gave them magic, but Valkyries are just normal Knight-type Familiars. I'm sorry if you were expecting them to be Demon-types."

"No, no, a Valkyrie is definitely a Magic-type, Ars-sama. It doesn't matter what kind of name you give them, they are Magic-types that can use magic from birth!"

　What?

　No, it can't be.

　It's because Valkyrie became able to use magic after I named her.

　If I hadn't named her, she and the others would have been just normal Familiars.

　However, when Billy said this with conviction, I froze in surprise, not knowing what to say.

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