5-Episode 4 Before using magic, the strongest onmyoji





Huh?

 As I open the closet to retrieve my cloak, I tilt my head back.

 It's not here.
 It's strange, I'm pretty sure I put it away here yesterday, but...
 No way.

"Seika-kun, Seika-kun...

 I turned around at the sound of a small voice and saw a girl looking at me through the doorway.
 She had dull golden cat hair. A girl about the same age and height as I am now.

What? EFA.
Well, that's...

 It was the cloak he was looking for that was presented to him over his head.
 If you look closely, you can see that there are small leaves and branches here and there. I knew it, I sighed inwardly.

 It's probably Gurai's doing.
 It's a good thing that he's still going strong after four years, and he's looked down on me and harassed me every chance he gets, but he's been more cautious lately because he's been casually getting back at me with his shikigami every time, and he doesn't do anything directly to me anymore.
 And instead, he started to do things like hiding my personal belongings and breaking them, which is too shameful.

 Do you do that to your three younger brothers?
 I'm worried about my second brother's humanity indeed.

'Thanks, Yifa. I've been looking for you.

 I thank the girl for her help and she turns her head.

 The daughter of a slave owned by the Lamprog family.
 The children born of slaves are also slaves, but the kind of slaves who are allowed to live in the house are treated well and treated much the same as servants. This area was similar to the West in the previous generation.
 Maybe it's no different for slaves that are used for large plantations and mines to be miserable.

'But how do you find them every time?'

 How many times has this been the first time I've had Yifa find something hidden?

That's.........well, it just so happens that......... I don't think this is a good idea, Seika-kun. I'll ask my husband for help. And if you do, then maybe even Gurai will stop it.

 Yifa says in a controlled voice.
 As you can tell by listening to him, he doesn't use honorifics or honorific titles only to me. At first I thought that I would be licked by a slave, but then I heard that he wanted to make friends with this outcast child, even if he was closer to my age.

 It makes me cry. It's one of the few consciences in this house.

'It's okay,'
But....
Really. I'm not afraid of this.

 In fact, it's cute like this.
 When I was an apprentice of my master, my brothers and sisters seriously tried to kill me.
 In the end, I cursed them all to death.

"No, but I knew it...
Seika! What are you doing here?

 Yifa shook her shoulders at the sudden loud voice.
 Glai, the second brother, thrusts his big leash at us and glares at Yifa, "Hey, slave!

"Hey, slave! What do you think you're doing here, man? I'm going to tell your father!
I'm sorry, sir.

 Yifa bowed her head in a frightened manner and left to run away.
 Glei sniffed and took his eyes off his back, looked at my cloak and then said with a tongue-in-cheek look on his face.

Do you want to go out and play in the grass again? That's a good sign for a concubine's child! I don't have to study magic. Oops, you couldn't do it even if you wanted to in the first place.

 Then Glai smiles a characterless smile and says.

"Well, suit yourself," he says, "because you're going to be kicked out of this house in the future. You're going to get kicked out of this house in the future. What are you going to do, Seika? Where else but the military?
Are you going to join the Imperial Guard?

 Then it's okay, I think.
 It's better than starving. I guess I'll be treated better in the army.
 But I don't think I'll be joining the army.

What's the matter with you? Didn't you know that? In the army, they make you train to the point of vomiting, and you have to obey your superiors' orders to the letter. Even if they are commoners.

 I don't know what to say.
 I don't have a reaction. It's the military.
 It's the military, and you're going to die on the field if you don't do those two things thoroughly.

 Glai's voice obviously sounded excited, as if he thought I'd lost my patience.

You should practice with your sword from now on. It's a good thing that you're a little kid like you will only die on your first battle.
He's going to grow out of it. More importantly, what are you going to do about your brother Glai?
Huh?
My brother Luft has the house, right? Isn't it the same for Brother Glei to be kicked out?

 Glai sniffs and glares at me.

"Don't go with a dropout like you! I'm going to go to a wizarding academy and become a top researcher like my father.
Magical Academy?
You don't even know about Magical Academy? You mean the Imperial Rodnea Magical Academy, a prestigious school of wizards that has produced several court wizards?

 Rodnea is, as I recall, the name of a city near the imperial capital.
 I see, there's a magical educational institution there. I'm sure it must be a large scale if it's called an academy.
 I've heard good things about it.

'Hmm. How old do you have to be to go there?''
You can only take the test when you're twelve, but I'm a rampologist. I don't need to learn the basics with uneducated people. I don't need to learn the basics with the uneducated. I can transfer to the high school when I'm fifteen! Maybe I'll be recruited by a court mage as soon as I enter the school, but then I'll be able to make a career out of it.

 I'm stunned when my second brother talks about it without any shame.
 That's a lot of confidence. Even if you have the ability, it's not easy for people to be like this.

Hey, Seika. Don't think you're going to follow in my footsteps. The Lamprog family's influence is so great that they won't let the rest of the clan follow the same path! Oh, you were a dropout with no magic power to begin with. Hmph.

 He really doesn't forget how to abuse me, huh?

"Whatever.
'Oh? What's that....
G'rai, when are you going to stop talking?

 A low, heavy sounding voice.
 A tall, mature man was standing behind Glai before he knew it.
 His second brother turned around in a hurry.

''Father!''
Luft is out. Where's the wand?
Oh, um, I'm going to...
I told you I would see the magic today.
No, no, I mean, that Seika guy...

 It's a bit too painful to blame me for this, don't you think?

 The man takes his eyes off Glei and looks down at me.

"Seika, you're going to stay in the house today.

Father.

 I'm going to stare straight at the man.
 It's not like that. That's why I had to find the cloak.

"Will you let me come with you to practice my magic?