Chapter 20 (2/2)

Despite this,as soon as I proceed onto the next character

Nevertheless, I grasped the sensation

And then, the 100th time

Themana takes shape

This is――

fwoosh……!

crap, it’s a fire!

“π!”

Ah, that was dangerous

The notebook was burned and beca a small fire in someone else’s home was avoided anyhow

……Ah, there’s a burn on the floor as well

……It won’t be discovered if I keep quiet, right?

I understood here that this pattern was of ic symbols in any case

Whilst writing over and over, I remember the character forine the effects of those characters in my subconscious

These ancient ic syic symbols, and yet they seemed to hold different traits

These characters were also pictures

It was easy to understand for ic syyptian runes and Chinese characters

They were e of tiic symbols that were similar to an alphabet

Hence, even though I did nothing but tracing the character forradually permeated into my brain

Well, I never thought that I’d be able to invoke real h……

For the ic I secretly practiced, “卜λ――《Dryer 》”

The pages ended up a little stiff, but it couldn’t be helped

Fortunately, I had al a hundred times

It was dangerous to do anyindoors, so I quietly sneaked out of the bedrooe chief’s back yard

And then, this ti

For the ti, I will also do this 100 times

I use ∃ to dispel thethe comprehension of the complete pattern

――Now then, it’s straightforork so let et to it

When the night started to grow lighter, I finally grasped the full pattern

It was a considerably interesting result

Firstly, this pattern has a mix of valid and invalid components

It’s the saic symbols but when o together and those that can’t

Even in this pattern, components that form spells when coether

I don’t believe that the person who drew the pattern made a mistake

Because it doesn’t seeic symbols to make such a rudimentary mistake

In other words, there’s a high possibility that these components that don’t form spells have been intentionally inserted

Secondly, the matter of whether these characters can be read in a sentence, assuic symbols

From the conclusion, it doesn’t seem possible

I tried invoking the ancientcurrentthem

However, the ‘coibberish

But, sos was ‘fishy’

That out-of-placewords were replaced with several characters apiece

From the above facts, a certain conviction of mine was deepened

That was,

――This is a code

These valid components and invalid components

Comprehensible and incomprehensible words

I recall often solving such cryptograms when I enrolled in primary school

Cryptograms like the ‘tanuki code’

Since it is a code, there should be a rule to solving it, just like the ‘tanuki code’

And the hints for clarifying the rule are all present

Perhaps, if I re components will form words based on some sort of rule

That should be fine

There is no doubt that there is a e in here, even if it is in code

Since there is a e, there is someone who composed it, and there is someone whom the writer intended for to receive

To put it si that someone addressed to someone else

The writer is soic symbols For now, it should be fine to assume it’s a faery

In that case, as this composed for?

A person who possesses knowledge on the coic symbols

There’s also the possibility of it being a private e to a fellow faery, but if it was just that then there would be no need for such a troublesome code

Just from my intuition, I think it’s not that

――This is a written challenge addressed to huic

Faeries are good-natured beings, but they are also known for being mischievous

Leaving a code in a noticeable place for a person with too ht do

“But in that case――”

Thataway of Boyce-kun

It’s true that there is the possibility that they abducted a child to have their code solved, but that would surely exceed the scope of a ‘prank’

But then, just who abducted Boyce-kun?

In order to find out the answer to that, I tackled the cryptography

――And, I so the code before breakfast was ready