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Chapter 29 Special Training: Healing Magic

After finishing the intense proximity practice with my father and eating lunch, I took a good two-hour nap.

In my previous life, I used to take naps only when I ate too much lunch, but with this body, naps are a necessity due to my lack of stamina.

By the way, when I get into the futon to take a nap, sometimes even Hina comes in with me. How cute.

After the nap, my mother called me to the living room with a completely clear head. The living room was a Japanese-style room with a TV and a dinning table, a rarity nowadays, which is used for eating meals.

“Itsuki. Sit there.”

“Yes!”

“Yes!”

By the way, Hina sat next to me.

Hina has nothing to do with healing magic practice, but she likes to watch magic practice. So she would sit next to me and watch me practice healing magic. She is a cute little sister.

Smiling at Hina, my mother spoke.

“Now I’m going to teach you about ‘healing magic… Actually, there are two ways to do healing magic.”

“Two?”

What does she mean?

I guess I had a “?” on my face without even realizing it.

My mother said with a wry smile.

“The first method is to use the guiding thread silvate to change the shape of the body. This is very difficult, but it consumes very little magic power and anyone can use it with training, so many exorcists who use healing magic do it this way.”

“What is the other one?”

“The other one is to pour a lot of magic power into an injured person and make it resonate. Then the injured person is healed.”

“Huh? Why?”

I became even more skeptical, and a bigger “?” floated.

The first method made immediate sense.

In other words, since magic can reproduce anything, I would connect the muscles and skin of the injured part with “trait change” and coat the broken bones. It could be called a surgical operation using magic.

That is understandable.

But the problem is the second one.

Why is it that if you pour in magic power and make it resonate, the injury will be healed?

I don’t understand the logic at all. ……

“You see, magic power is life force. Did you know that, Itsuki?”

“Life force?”

“Hmm. It’s the power we need to live, I guess. People can live because they have magic power.”

“If we lose our magic power, we will die?”

Since magic power is the same as the life force, so that’s what it’s going to be.

I was so surprised that I shrieked.

No, I’m a seventh rank so I don’t have to worry about running out of magic power.

But if running out of magic power leads to death, then isn’t managing magic power a matter of life and death for ordinary exorcists?

I thought about that, but my mother quietly shook her head.

“…Just because you run out of magic power doesn’t mean you will die. Before that, they would faint and lose the ability to use magic. But Itsuki is half right. People who are dying have very little magic power.”

“So, I should share it with them?”

“That’s right. When the reduced magic power is satisfied, the overflowing magic power will heal the body. However, it’s not enough to just share the magic power, it is necessary to make it resonate with the body, otherwise it will not become the person’s magic power.”

I don’t know whether I understand or not.

I couldn’t help but make a reluctant expression on my face.

My mother must have seen that and thought I didn’t understand half of what she was saying.

She quickly held out her hand.

“It’s better to see it than to talk about it. Itsuki you have true ‘true eyes,’ so watch me carefully.”

“Yes.”

She then took out a cutter and made a shallow cut on the belly of her finger.

“Mother!”

“It’s okay. It was just a small cut. Besides, you can get hurt when you are cooking.”

She laughed lightly and urged me to look at the red blood flowing out of her finger. As if invited by her, I looked at her fingertips.

The next moment, guiding thread silvate came out from the belly of her finger and covered the wound as if it were a surgical suture, sealing the injury.

And when the guiding thread silvate dissolved into the belly of the finger, it healed completely.

“It healed…!!”

As I watched the process, I couldn’t help but blurt out a few words.

The magic was so amazing that even Hina, who was tired of listening to her explanation and was playing with my clothes, couldn’t help but look at her magic display.

I have received healing magic from my mother several times in the past, but this was the first time for me to see the process properly, so I let out a gasp. At the same time, I sensed the obvious difficulty of the healing magic.

“When I heal an injury, not only the skin of the finger, but also the blood vessels are sealed together. This is the healing magic that anyone can do. But to use it, you have to learn a lot. Do you think you can learn it?”

I nodded in agreement with my mother’s explanation.

No, that’s right, I have to study for this for sure.

Because what I’m doing is medical treatment of my own body. I have to examine what is in my body, what is lost when I am injured, and what needs to be healed.

……This is the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do.

The hardest thing I’ve ever had to do in my magical practice has been the practice of Shijutsu, and here I feel like the hardest part of that has been updated.

But I want to use healing magic faster than anything else.

The first method may not work, but what about the second method?

If I have the magical power of the 7th rank, as long as I can make it resonate, I should be able to heal other people’s injuries.

I asked my mother.

“Hey, Mom, can I ask you something?”

“What’s that?”

“If I have so much magic power, wouldn’t the second method be better than the first?”

“Hmmm. Well, that maybe true.”

My mother nodded her head and looked convinced.

But she continued with a smile.

“I’ve never used healing magic for the second method before, so I don’t know how to do it.”

“Is that so?”

“Because I am a first rank.”

……Oh, I didn’t realize that.

The first time I learned about my mother’s rank in my five years of living.

But still, resonance?

The father said something similar when we rescued Hina, but perhaps magic is not only trait change and attribute change?

There seems to be something more profound like this.

I don’t know if that has anything to do with the transmission of the two.

“So you’re going to teach me how to do the first one?”

“Yes, I am. So let’s start with the physical study today.”

With that, my mother pulled out a number of picture books from under the dining table.

All of them are focused on the human body.

Wow, this brings back memories!

I used to read a few of them in my previous life!

“Let’s start with this “Secrets of the Body”. Hina you join too.”

“Yu!”

Hina said and sat on my mother’s lap.

Then she began to read as my mother turned the pages.

Naturally, I also looked at the illustrated book together with her.

So this is the training!

I guess the humble training has begun. ……!

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