Chapter 5: Three Years Old

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"Today I turned 3 years old meaning today is my birthday."

It was early morning.

My parents were helping each other in the kitchen.

I told them about me going outside to play and headed to backyard.

Even though today is my birthday, there's no intimation of any kind of celebration nor it was when I turned one or two.

I think people in this world probably don't celebrate their birthdays annually or maybe there's no such tradition like celebrating birthday every year like my former world or they don't even celebrate birthdays.

Well, I actually don't really care.

I myself had never celebrated my birthday in my past life.

And I have zero interest for it.

I was at the backyard, playing with ducks by showering them with water in a very very safe manner.

Water somewhat spherical in shape with no any mana accumulated into it is like a drop of rain so it was safe to hit them with it.

I always practiced magic by either showering trees or shooting out ice of random shape or snowball towards trees as and by flowing a stream of water towards ducks to make them wet.

Talking of which I don't think it's bullying when they just actually play themselves with stream of water when they encountered it and if they avoid I stop.

I also used flying birds for target practice.

But I never managed to hit one.

As long as I didn't accumulate any mana into any of either snowball or ice of random shape or water of roughly spherical in shape, there's no any damage so it is safe.

As I was shooting snowball, ice of random shape and spraying water toward different trees and their branches I noticed bird flying in the sky.

"Hit it."

"…"

As I saw the bird I shoot out squishy-squishy ice as to hit it but it didn't hit it since the bird changed its direction.

"Is there any way to make it pursue the target?"

I questioned myself.

"Hmm…"

I started thinking deeply.

In order to archive that first I've to know how to control my attacks in mid air after shooting it out.

Then I've to practice it till I master it.

Whenever I create either snow ball or stone or ice or water, it seemed to float on my hand so I've to find a way to control it while it's floating.

Next I've learn to control it in mid air after shooting it out.

That way hitting moving targets would get easier however I don't know a thing related to controlling magic attacks plus there's nothing written about it in the book too.

How am I going to archive it?

"Guess It can't be help. I've to research about it by myself."

"…"

"But how?"

Think…think…

Mana is mandatory to use magic.

"So… controlling it can be the key to successfully governing over magical attacks."

"Is that so?"

"But how can I control my mana?"

"Maybe by… meditation…"

"No, by meditation I can only feel mana. Controlling it by meditating is out of question."

"And I need something like… like a… keyboard and mouse, or a controller to guide water ball just like how we use keyboard or mouse or controllers to control character in game."

"What? How can I get something like that in this era? Are you kidding me?"

"Wait…"

"That's right, I can be keyboard and mouse or a controller by myself however I'm useless if I'm not connected to any of the spells through any means."

I was standing under the tree.

To achieve that I need something like a cable or I can make both myself and water ball to support Bluetooth in order to communicate wirelessly and guide water ball.

"It's useless…"

"Talking about wireless things in this medieval era where there's no any sign of electricity is useless. So it's not worth thinking."

"I should be thinking about mana."

"That's right, mana is the only thing that can link me with magic spell."

Mana is also invisible so calling it wireless is no problem at all so two stone with one bird… wait that's not right… two birds with one stone is correct.

So I'm a controller, mana is a cable that links me and magic spell and all I've to use myself to guide the magic spell.

But the question is how?

The sound of word 'how' echoed in my head.

Okay, only thing I can do now is to experiment with mana.

As I created squishy-squishy ice I started thinking.

The link between me and this squishy-squishy ice is connected however it gets broken right after I shoot it out, right?

So all I need to do is to find a way to not to break my connection with it once it gets linked, right?

Let's try something.

As I shoot out ice towards the sky I thought of experimenting with it while creating it.

I created ice and as I closed my eyes I started concentrating on my mana.

"....."

I started to feel something was getting pulled out of me through the palm and fingers of my hand.

"....."

It got weaker as I kept concentrating but the feeling didn't vanish.

"....."

I suddenly saw vision of line glowing however all of sudden it got pitch back like sudden light striking and disappearing in the night sky and the vision disappeared.

I opened my eyes.

"What is that vision suggesting?"

"Like always it's floating on my hand without touching my palm… the feeling, it's is not getting vanished, why? I thought it would get disappear after I break my concentration."

I was observing the ice.

"But it still exists… does it mean I just discovered something?"

I got thrilled.

"But what this feeling is suggesting."

"Something is getting pulled out of my body. Could it be my mana?"

"I think so."

"But… but for what reason?"

"And why is it not disappearing like it always do?"

I let it fall on the ground.

The feeling got vanished as it touched the ground.

I tried again but with different approach.

"..."

As I closed my eyes I started concentrating on my mana while simultaneously imagining ice spherical in shape in order to create ice ball.

"...."

As I was imagining I started to see vision.

It looked as if a thread was moving continuously toward indefinite darkness and only thing that beaming was the thread however after some time glow of light slowly started to appear from indefinite distance.

As the thread got nearer and nearer to the glowing light I started feeling the same feeling I felt earlier and it got stronger as the thread got closer to the glowing light.

And all of a sudden I saw ice spherical in shape floating.

The feeling got weaker.

I opened my eyes as to observe.

The moment I opened my eyes I saw vision of thread that looked like a horizontal line and kept seeing it.

"What the thread is suggesting."

"Is it a link between me and my magic spell?"

"If it is then let's see if I can control it after shooting it out."

I shoot it out and tried guiding it.

"Ohhhh.."

It was moving around like the way I wanted.

I kept seeing vision of the thread continuously.

As I noticed a bird flying in the sky I thought of hitting it.

So I create water somewhat spherical in shape by doing the same process and guide towards the bird.

The bird changed its direction but there's no point in doing it since I was guiding it.

The moment it hit the bird the thread broke and the vision got vanished from my head.

"So the thread is like a link that connects me with my magic spell."

I confirmed it by repeating it again and also found out that the thread seemed to connect with water or any other spell like ice or stone or snow in the vision.

I decided to go outside near the stream as to do some experiment with its running water.

As I was moving to the front yard from side of the house I saw young a girl, a beautiful and cute young girl with white skin and long, cerulean colored hair and eyes celeste in color was coming towards our house from the gate.

"Wow…"

My eyes were widely opened.

Her boobs were normal size, not smaller or bigger than average of girls of her age. Her hair was held in bunches by white ribbons on each side of upper side of her ears. It looked so cute.

I guessed her age to be sixteen.

She was holding something that looked like stick but its appearances was abnormal.

I ran towards her as to talk to her.

"Hello…"

I said that with smile on my face.

She's so pretty and cute too.

She lowered herself as to talk with me while petting my head.

"Where's your parents?"

She asked.

"Oh my parents, they're inside making meal."

I answered.

"Can you do a little favor for me?"

"Yes of course. Anything for you!"

She got astonished.

"… um, can you-"

I interpreted her since I knew she was looking for my parents.

"Yes, wait here, I'll be right back with my parents."

As I said that I ran inside the house to tell my parents about her and I took my parents outside to meet with her.

"You're… do we know you?"

My dad began.

"Hello, I'm Iris the tutor you hired."

She looked confident as she talked.

Tutor… what she meant by that?

My father.

"Oh, the magic teacher, right?"

Magic teacher?

"Yeah."

My mother.

"Well, we've been waiting for you to show up. By the way I'm Selene Eylvis and he's my husband Joe Eylvis and he's our son."

"Hello, I'm Jason Eylvis. It's nice to meet you."

"Yeah it's nice to meet you too. So, I'm going to be his tutor, am I correct?"

"Yep so why don't you come inside? There are lot of things we want to talk with you."

"Yeah but first I want to examine his magic skills."

"Okay then. We'll be waiting inside."

My parents proceeded inside the house.