Episode 141 – Ipomq (2/2)

Perhaps it was some kind of Aethernea he hadn’t been aware of? Not that he was knowledgeable in this area, he had only heard ruifts, and knew nothing more about it Still, he had every intention to fix this lack of knowledge as soon as he got access to Muni library And knowing the naood place to start

“We call this ability ‘inherent perception of ic quality’, or IPOMQ for short” Granny put her pipe back into her mouth for another whiff

That name… Kiel stared blankly, his polite smile frozen on his face

…doesn’t sound impressive at all!

… and the abbreviation…

Kiel’s eyebroitched …why does it sound so silly…??

“Alann Farhice named it… IPOMQ?” He couldn’t help but blurt out

In an instant, everyone’s face turned a bit strange Granny even choked on the s

After several seconds of aard silence, one of thely: “No… He called it ‘natural inherent divine sense of ical order and alterations in reality without required knowledge’…”

Soh that sounded like he said “needs more work”

The ed it into IPOMQ…”

No wonder they changed it… Kiel stared blankly What a mouthful! And the abbreviation…

His eyebrows furrowed as he combined the first letters of the words: NI…DS…MO… AR…WR…K

And then he froze, reh

NIDS… MOAR… WRK…?

This ti, for he al he refused that bottle of water Had he been drinking it now, he’d be spewing it straight into the faces of the exae,the expressions of the exarand fit, Kiel quickly broke the uncos turned even more uncomfortable “I ananiainstoodbyes next, however, when he looked up and noticed the confused expressions of the exa the tests? Why would we do that?” Someone blurted out

Not sure how to respond, Kiel could only sed?”

“Luckily, no They are in perfect condition” Grandize On the contrary, we should be the ones to apologize for the previous fiasco We have been using this , so the intensity of spell interference had fallen below permissible levels”

“It wasn’t caused byblack eyelashes blinking repeatedly “But I could swear one of youme from the exam?”

Only after his words were done did he realize that spoke his thoughts out loud He didn’t have the chance to regret it for the confusion on the faces of the examiners only deepened

Grandma chuckled “Oh, I never said you didn’t cause it…” but before she could finish what she had intended to say, one of the exa her words

“Oh! Expel! Youthat”

Realization swept over everyone’s faces, and the ed man hurried to explain “I wanted to recruit you as my disciple…”

The other man interrupted him with a humph “But I told hiive you the attention you deserve I said I have only one disciple who is not talented You see, I wanted to take you on as ed lared at the otherto let your talent be wasted following a wrongto expel alldisciple”

Kiel alround

He had been panicking that they would expel hi about ould get to take him as their disciple?!? What is this?! What the bloody meep is this?!?!

Why did he try so hard to detect that last enchantment if not to avoid expulsion?! He felt like the stress had taken away 5 years of his life!

He had thought they weretheir ti their teeth to each other to prevent anyone fro fresh meat frolare, quietened the bickering instantly She turned back to Kiel and continued her previous sentence “Actually, boy, you were indeed the cause of the explosion” Although her words were bla him, her eyes held mirth instead of resenther quality than the original, how could it have possibly ed to activate? The quality of your last Clay Mine went beyond the theoretical liranded to produce a response:

“Huh?!?”

Author Note

“Alann Farhice naive it such a… a… a ination!”

Alann, oh Alann, I promised you a book and a book you shall have… eventually…