Chapter 197: 200

Translated by Cardmar Ace of Spades

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Chapter 200 - Papers and Letters

"Hey, what are you doing, Ars-nii? Aren't you supposed to be moving from Barcania to Fontana City?"

"Oh, Kyle. Of course, I will be moving to Fontana City, but there are no mansions or houses built there yet.

"Are you sure you don't want to go over there as soon as possible? You have to construct a new place to live in, don't you?"

"No, I don't have to go out there and do it myself this time. I'll leave it to the others."

"I see. Well, it's difficult to move suddenly, isn't it?"

"Hmm, we have Kyle, so it's relatively easy for us to take care of that. You have a good track record of maintaining order in the territory while I'm away fighting, so I can leave it to you without worry."

"I don't know if you should be expecting that much from me, but with the Graham family member gone, we're shorthanded."

"I'm counting on you, Kyle. Hector-nii was happy to not have to leave Eira-nee, and I hope you and him can work together to run Barcania."

"Yes, I understand, niisan. By the way, what have you been doing ...... for a while now? You seem to be writing on a piece of paper all the time. Are you going to make a book?"

"Oh, this. No, it's not really a book of my own, but I'm trying to transcribe what I've learned from [Memory Preservation]."

　The battle between the Uruks and the Arbalests is over, and I have returned to Barcania.

　Even though I will have to live in Fontana City from now on, it will take a certain amount of preparation.

　Carlos wasn't so devilish as to ask the knights in his territory to move there immediately, so he gave us some time to prepare.

　So I sat in my office at Barcan Castle in Barcania, writing words incessantly.

　What I was doing was copying from a book.

　However, it doesn't mean that I had another book at hand and was copying from it.

　I was using [Memory Preservation] to transcribe the contents of a book I had read onto paper.

　Why would I do such a thing?

　It's because the book I memorized has already disappeared from this world.

　In the battle against the House of Arbalest in the west, I marched westward through Arbalest territory, destroying one Arbalest knight's house after another.

　I led Baito-nii in a cavalry charge and attacked every knight's house I could find.

　After replenishing our food in the mansions, we set fire to them.

　This was because I thought that by causing as much damage as possible to the Arbalest territory, we might be able to attract the attention of the Arbalest family's army that was advancing towards the Fontana territory.

　However, I also felt that it would be a waste to set fire to the knights' houses.

　Every knight in charge of territory has a certain amount of history, and they often have a variety of valuable items.

　Naturally, books were among them.

　If it was a valuable item, we might be able to take some of it with us.

　If it was a weapon, we could use it ourselves.

　But we couldn't take out the books.

　We were in enemy territory, and there was no way we could carry bulky parchment books in the middle of an ongoing raid.

　But burning the books wasn't the best.

　There might be something historically or academically important in them.

　So, I had no choice but to preserve them in my mind.

　I used the [Memory Preservation] spell which allows you to completely memorize what you see in an instant.

　However, there was a major drawback to this action.

　In order to bring the contents of the books back to life, I had to write it down with my own hands.

　To put it bluntly, it was a horrible hassle.

　There are a lot of sentences with aristocratic expressions of this world, and I had to write completely unfamiliar sentences without making any mistakes.

　In addition, since I was using paper and ink, it was difficult to correct typos immediately as with a computer.

　To be honest, I was already on the verge of losing my mind at the beginning.

"That's why I'm going to be spending a lot of time on writing for a while. If there's an emergency, give me a shout, Kyle."

"That's fine. Can I ask you one question, Ars-nii?"

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"What?"

"I've always wondered why you use ink to write on the botanical paper. Is there a reason?"

"What? What do you mean? Do you mean that I should write with something else instead of ink? Are you suggesting that I use a pencil or some other writing utensil?"

"No, I'm not saying that. I mean, you can write without ink, right?"

"...... I don't get what you're talking about, Kyle. What do you mean?"

"So, if you pass mana through the paper like this, it can write, right? You don't need any writing utensils."

　Eh?

　What is that?

　Kyle picked up a sheet of paper with his bare hand and passed his mana through it.

　Then, letters were written on the paper.

　What kind of spell is that?

　I hurriedly took the paper from Kyle and stared at it.

　It's not like ...... ink, it looks more like letters that have been burned into the paper and printed.

　Was it a reaction to Kyle's magic?

　Could it have something to do with the fact that Mana Recovery Medicine was being used to make the botanical papers?

"I'm not sure how you can do that, Kyle."

"It's just that I did it. Can't you do that normally?"

"I've always known that you need ink to write on paper. I didn't even think of passing magic through it. I'm amazed you figured it out, Kyle."

"No, the inspiration came from the people who are transcribing records in the library. I've been told by them that their arms and shoulders get sore from too much writing. So I thought of a way to write without using your hands."

"I see. But this is easy. It's a lot less work to just pass mana through the paper than when you write by hand."

"Yeah, that's right. When I turned it into a spell, everyone was happy."

"....Ara? What do you mean by turning it into a spell, Kyle?"

"Yeah, so I made magic for writing. It's a spell that allows you to write down what you think in your head on a piece of paper. It's called [Thoughtography].

　[Thoughtography].

　The magic of picking up a piece of paper and thinking of a sentence to be written out which makes it be written on the paper.

　It seems that Kyle had already made it a spell.

　It was during the time that we were battling the pincer attacks.

　Seriously?

　That's amazing, Kyle.

　I imitated him and sent mana into the paper bit by bit, writing out a copy of the text I had stored in my memory.

　Although it requires the technique of controlling the mana to match the letters, it is a terribly efficient way of working because you don't have to write by hand.

　Also, if Kyle has created [Thoughtography], then everyone in the Reed family can use it.

　This is how I realized that Barca had created a spell that replaced printing technology without me even knowing it.

CadmarLegend Yay! We have achieved 200 chapters of translations, folks! Now, although I say that, I'm only responsible for 194 of the translated chapters. There were 6 chapters already translated before I picked the series up. However, I'm still glad we've gotten to TWO hundred chappies! I am happy that readers have stuck around for so long, and that you have supported me for this long length of time!

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