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That was the reason why I chose Reversi from the several board games back from the previous world.

As planned, the girls were memorizing the rules immediately.

The first to challenge me was Snow.

Of course, she chose white.

「Snow, you take the first turn.」

「If I beat Lute-kun, he will be doing the role of a golden MaruMaru today.」

What the heck is a golden marumaru…?

Snow is joyfully painting over the black ones.

First, I let her change the black stones to white so that she took some credit.

「Lute-kun, you are we~ak! Even though you made it yourself.」

Snow got caught up in the moment and was under the a.s.sumption that she was winning.

The dog ears were twitching proudly.

「Hahaha. Snow, make it funnier if you are going to tell a joke. Snow still can’t do addition and subtraction, how can I lose in this game of intellect?」

「Muuu… I have a feeling I’m being made fun of… Fine! If Lute-kun loses, he has to listen to another order besides being a golden marumaru!」

「As you wish… But if I win, I’ll touch your fluffy dog ears and tail to my hearts content!」

「It’s not dog ears! …It’s wolf ears! Because Snow is from White Wolf tribe!」

「I know… and don’t forget the promise.」

『*deep breath*』Snow who got angry a while ago regained her composure and focused her look at the surface of the board. As usual, she changed black pieces without thinking.

Snow had misunderstood.

Those who had the most same colored pieces are the winner in Reversi.

There’s no point in boasting in the amount of your pieces in the middle of a game.

I had to switch to counter-attack since the white stone were already dominant.

A corner was seized by me and the white stones were changed to black.

Since a corner was seized, Snow could no longer change the color of the stones at that side anymore.

In an instant, black stones dominated the board.

「Uuuu… I lost…」

「Yeah, I won! Don’t forget the promise, okay?.」

「I know… I’ll let you touch it when we’re about to sleep at night…」

「O-ok.」

Snow agreed while she folded her ears down and shyly looked her upturned eyes down.

The figure of her in low spirit was so pretty that I felt shy.

Hey, Snow! The way you talk feels like… you made a lewd promise to me…

「What’s the matter, Lute-kun? Your face is red. Did you catch a cold? 」

「N-no it’s nothing. So… who’s the next opponent?」

I shook my head to drop the dirty thoughts and continued to challenge them.

Snow sulks with pouting cheeks at the edge of my vision.

I did not know the reason to why she was sulking though.

Is it because I won too childishly? Then next time, I will go a bit easier on her…

While I was pondering, I forgot there were two remaining opponents left.

Naturally, I won quite easily like against Snow.

Snow and the others requested to borrow the Reversi after the match.

They had to become strong enough to defeat me so that I could take the role of a pet in their house playing.

So that they could have their chance, I tender-heartedly lend them the Reversi.

The girls had forgotten playing house and started practicing Reversi.

As a matter of fact, Snow and the others challenged me to a Reversi game the next day.

As they practiced, their skill rose fairly well but there were no other opponents on their level they could compete with.

I dared to choose Reversi among the other games because other than『the rules were easy to remember』, it attracted the crowds rather easily.

During my highschool days, I stayed indoors and occasionally absorbed myself in playing casual pc board games to kill time because i had no friends to play with.

Among them, Reversi was the only one where the computer opponent would no longer satisfy me and I thought to seriously attend a regular game.

In the end, I did not partic.i.p.ate because of the fear to meet strangers.

Such 4-year-old children, who had little amount of practice, could never win against me. The girls had suffered a crus.h.i.+ng defeat against me.

Although my appearance was a 4-year-old child as well, my mental age was about to become 31 by the end of this year!

Even if that was not the case, I was not weak enough to be beaten by a child!

Eh? Why…? Is… water flowing in my eyes?

I was challenged for a few day again but won them all lightly.

Snow and the other girls noticed the difference in ability from the games with me, and no longer came to challenge me. They had more fun playing with themselves.

After putting the children to sleep, Snow and the others were playing Reversi while alternating themselves.

Furthermore, Reversi was even popular among the children older than us.

I noticed that the imitated Reversi board and piece were often played with.

Even El-sensei and the volunteering oba-chans showed interest; the popularity was well received.

Probably because, the rules were easy to remember and was simple enough to do, and anyone could play it.

I, who was suddenly been freed from the role of Snow and others’ pet, could strive again to make an effort for my secret training.

And it took about 30 days to learn moving my Maryoku quickly in a straight line like a thread throughout the body.

When I got used to it, it was unexpectedly easy.

Furthermore, there were things i noticed while training.

One thing I noticed was,『from the ma.s.s of Maryoku, it won’t disappear even if a fragment were separated』.

From the ma.s.s of Maryoku, I separated a fragment and moved it to the index finger of my right hand.

Then, I moved it to my middle finger, ring finger and little finger.

Unless it was released outside the body, Maryoku will not be consumed even if it movesanywhere in the body.

This technique would also be handy if I wanted to temporarily strengthen a part of my body.

For example, if I wanted to temporarily strengthen my right arm, I needed 3 seconds to cut off a part from the ma.s.s of Maryoku and move it to my right arm.

Then I would wrap my right arm with Maryoku.

Another thing is that,『the more strength increases, the more Maryoku is wrapped』.

However, the Maryoku consumption is high by just doing that.

In case you wanted to strengthen it moderately, you only have to use little Maryoku.

After magic control training was finished, I started to study and train the resistance formation.

What I had understood in my study in the resistance formation was: you can simply release the Maryoku in the air in large qualities like a magician with talent.

For example: if the resistance formation was made by pus.h.i.+ng the Maryoku out of the right while using the palm as starting point, consumption could be held down rather than draining it out straight in the air.

When I found about this fact, I was amazed. The difference in the absolute amount of Maryoku from those people who are B- rank and above were a cla.s.s on their own.

They could use the body strengthening technique and resistance formation without reallyworrying about it all.

Furthermore, because they could use attack magic as well, the difference in talent was clear.

I remembered during the time I was shocked to hear that Magician based cla.s.ses were limited.

The overwhelming wall called talent was like a different world.

One could a.s.sume that they are also doing the method to reduce consumption of Maryoku in long duration battles.

But because of the difference in the amount of Maryoku—I was conserving it like someone who was on tiptoes holding a candle for lighting: they could freely ignore like someone who just found a 100-yen discount at the supermarket earlier.

With this, I understand the reason why people that are judged as 『having no talent』 would not be able to overcome the magician rank of B-.

The amount of Maryoku was fundamentally different.

Anyway, by pus.h.i.+ng out the smallest amount of Maryoku at my palm, I could release and produce a resistance formation instantly.

I ended up using one year to finish this study experiment and training.

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