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Chapter 32: Moving Forward

For a while after that, my father didn’t come home at all.

He said that there are a lot of monsters out there and he’s so busy that he wants to borrow a cat’s hand.

Maybe he’s so busy that I’ll be called in to ‘work’ too! I thought. But, as I am only 5 years old, I wasn’t called to work, so I stayed at home and trained hard.

What I was doing was to use a wooden doll to hurt myself.

How was it amazing? First of all, I could tell how to move my feet and the enemy would get lost.

Once I know this, I can apply it to my own footwork.

No matter what I say, it’s to the extent that I’m being deceived by seeing the movement I made, thinking, “If I do this, I can deceive you.”

I can’t wait to try it out on my father.

The next thing I learnt was, ‘How should I attack to make the enemy dislike it?’

Was it a distributor or a professional gamer who said that a competitive game is a game of forcing your opponent to do what he doesn’t like? Well, the point is the same in a fight.

However, it’s difficult to understand what the opponent doesn’t like if all you do is attack.

But through my training with myself, I have taught my body what I hate most about being attacked.

I have more cards in my hand in close combat than I did a few weeks ago.

At this rate, I want to get even stronger and surprise my father when he comes home.

It’s a bit of a surprise, but it makes me more enthusiastic about my training.

And it’s not just in close combat that I’m improving.

“Itsuki. Do you want to try doing healing magic?”

“Yes! I’ll try it!”

The training I did with my mother to study the structure of the body by looking at illustrated books was also taking shape in its own way.

Well, even so, I’ve learned quite a bit.

I may have become more familiar with the body than any other five-year-old in the country.

“But it’s dangerous to try things out on your own body, so we’re going to start by getting used to things where it won’t be a problem if you make a mistake.”

“The places where mistake isn’t a problem?

Is there such a place in the body?

I tilted my head and my mother gently told me.

“Yes, there is. For example, fingernails. Hair.”

“Ahh!”

If you ask me, that’s true.

Certainly if it were hair or nails, you could cut them off if the healing magic failed.

If you think about it, those parts are the parts of the human body that can fail. I’m afraid of healing internal organs or regenerating a cut on a finger from the beginning.

“First, let’s try to re-grow fingernails. Wrap the fingertips with ‘conductive thread silvate’.”

“Yes.”

As a demonstration, my mother wrapped the guiding thread silvate around her fingers to cover it.

But if you think about it, the other exorcists can’t see this because they don’t have true eyes. …… It’s going to be hard when practicing…..

I’m thankful for my good fortune and wrapped the guiding thread silvate around the tip of my index finger the same way my mother did.

“Did you wrap it around?”

“Yes. I’ve wrapped it properly.”

“Then, you see, the guiding thread silvate undergoes a transformation. Then, try to heal your freshly cut nails.”

“Uh!”

I did as my mother told me and regenerated my toes.

This is the reason why my mother told me to cut my nails yesterday after I got out of the bath.

After hitting a bit of a congruent point with the connection between yesterday’s events and today’s events, I quickly skipped my attention to my toenails.

…… heal.

I don’t know if stretching my toe nails can be described as a cure, but I’m not a language teacher, so that’s not important. What’s important is that I consider stretching my toe nails as regeneration.

By doing so, the “healing magic” is manifested.

The feeling of warmth in my toes.

I was convinced that I had succeeded when I felt the same sensation in my fingertips that I always felt when my mother used healing magic on me.

I unraveled the guiding thread silvate…

“Wow! It’s growing!”

“Itsuki. You did a great job.”

My fingernails had grown, though by about 1 cm.

Seeing my success, my mother smiled and gently patted my head.

I’m so happy!

It’s no exaggeration to say that healing magic is the magic of my longing.

I was stabbed to death by a street monster in my previous life.

If I had been able to use healing magic at that time, I wouldn’t have experienced that pain and suffering. But because I died, I came to this world and I can start my life all over again, and it’s not all bad, but that’s not the same thing.

If I don’t want to suffer, that’s the best thing I can do.

And I wanted to be able to use healing magic as quickly as possible as a means to avoid suffering in this world. That wish came true.

That’s an incredible step forward for me.

“I did it!  I can use it now!”

“Itsuki. I know you’re excited, but you’re still on edge, you need to practice more.”

“Ugh!”

“Try using it when you’re injured this time, and if you fail, hurry up and tell me, okay?”

“Yes!”

I nodded vigorously with a heightened sense of excitement.

No, this has to go up.

While I was jumping up and down with excitement, Hina was sitting down with a difficult expression on her face.

“Mom! It’s not moving at all!”

“I see. I think Hina might not be ready for Kaijutsu yet.”

Yes, while I was practicing healing magic, Hina finally started practicing Kaijutsu as well.

Her magic power is second rank.

Which is a very ordinary amount of magic power, but since she has magic power, it doesn’t change the fact that she can use magic.

The fact that she was practicing magic was almost a given when she was taken in by the Kisaragi family, but after I made her a dress with a trait transformation, she decided she wanted to do it herself and started practicing.

However, the magic practice that she started in this way isn’t going well.

As usual, I taught her how to sense magic by touching it, so she was able to get a feel for it right away, but it seems to be difficult for her to move it.

However, there was no sign that my mother was in a hurry to do something about it just because Hina couldn’t move the magic. Well, it’s normal for exorcists to learn Kaijutsu in the two years between the ages of three and five. There’s nothing wrong with a three year old girl not being able to use it.

I tried to teach her a few tips, but she just couldn’t get it.

I thought it was very easy to understand, “like dissolving miso when making miso soup,” but unfortunately, Hina had never made miso soup before, so she didn’t get the idea.

As I was thinking about what to do with Hina, who still had a reluctant look on her face, my mother’s phone trembled.

“Yes, hello. This is Kaede.”

Eh, a phone call. Unusual.

Even here in Japan, if it’s just a small event, we don’t call each other on the phone, but on LINE.

It’s only on rare occasions that I get a phone call.

“Yes. What? I’m totally fine with it. I don’t think Soichiro-san would say no, either. Yes. Yes.”

……Who’s she talking to?

I’m not a bright guy about my mother’s friendships, so I wonder.

However, knowing my manners to the extent that I wouldn’t ask who she was talking because she was on the phone, I kept quiet and waited for her to end the call.

“Yes. Yes. Huh? To Itsuki?”

She handed me the phone.

“Who is it?”

“You’ll know when you answer the phone.”

I looked at the screen of the phone and saw that it said Momoka-san.

No, seriously, who is this?

But she said I would know if I answered, so I picked up the phone.

“Hello? It’s Itsuki.”

“Ah! Itsuki-kun! It’s Aya!”

“Aya-chan?”

What? Aya-chan is really Momoka.

No, that can’t be…… Hm?　Ah! This is Aya-chan’s mother’s name?

In other words, it is the name of Renji-san’s wife.

I’ve never heard of her before.

“What’s wrong, Aya-chan?”

“Umm, you know……”

I waited patiently for her next reply, and then she spoke as if she had made up her mind.

“Would you like to have a Christmas party on December 24th?”

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