Thinking of an interesting childhood anecdote with Touko while looking in the mirror, Aozaki Aoko couldn't help but laugh out loud.
Who would have thought that the super genius Magician in training, nineteen-year-old Aozaki Touko, who is now well-read, polite, and courteous, was a scoundrel in her childhood, playing pranks on her three-year-old sister, Aozaki Aoko, who had just learned to speak, using suggestive magic?
Since her birth in this world, Aozaki Aoko has been constantly training herself.
She used her "precognitive" advantage to continuously accumulate various advantages and resources for herself. This is because she knew that in her future life, there would be countless challenges and obstacles to overcome, including even major events that, if failed, would drag the entire world down with them.
Among the many difficulties, the first and foremost was her sisterly relationship with Aozaki Touko.
More specifically, it was due to the succession rights of the Fifth Magic used by her grandfather, the Old Man Aozaki, who was the Fourth Magician.
Aozaki Touko, who had been single-mindedly striving to grow as the Magician's successor for over a decade, would face the biggest blow of her life tonight: the Old Man Aozaki would change the successor from Aozaki Touko to Aozaki Aoko.
If Aoko did nothing, this event would lead to a desperate sisterly battle two years later, possibly even resulting in the complete death of one of them.
Aozaki Aoko, as she is now, refused to accept such a future.
So, when Aoko was five, she, like her sister, asked her grandfather to teach her the Aozaki Family's magic. After much shameless persistence, the Old Man Aozaki finally sighed and agreed to Aozaki Aoko's request, making her Aozaki Touko's junior disciple.
Touko's talent in magic was undoubtedly unparalleled; even Aoko, who also possessed astonishing talent, had to admit this. The performance of the magic puppets she created was quite formidable, and this was achieved despite the Aozaki Family's research field having no relation to Creation Department magic.
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Touko was quite dismissive of some of the "unorthodox" minor magic that Aoko tinkered with, such as tricks like "creating a translucent large hand to help with chores." Touko always maintained an indifferent attitude and occasionally mocked her.
It was from that time that Aozaki Aoko intentionally approached her seemingly aloof sister, constantly playing small pranks—tricks that looked like something elementary school boys would do—to tease her sister and get her attention. Then, whenever Touko could no longer endure it and was about to explode, Aoko would soften and show weakness at the last second, acting as an obedient good sister.
Through this, Aoko thoroughly understood the various limits of her stubborn, scoundrel sister's patience and basically grasped all of her weaknesses.
Of course, constant pranks alone could not fully establish a good sisterly bond between her and her sister. Aoko also used a skill inherited from her "previous life," namely her exquisite culinary art, to conquer her sister's stomach.
Delicious pastries from various countries and never-before-seen savory dishes not only completely won over their parents but also subtly corrupted Touko, a woman who cared for nothing but becoming a Magician, with the appetite brought by various delicacies.
Of course, all these methods were merely auxiliary factors to increase the chances of success; the ultimate reason to prevent a deadly struggle between the sisters could only be Aoko's own powerful strength.
Seek peace through struggle, and peace will endure; seek peace through compromise, and peace will perish. Aozaki Aoko always remembered this.
---Dividing Line---
Today was Aoko's graduation ceremony from the junior high division of Shiritsu Asagami Girls' Academy, and Aoko would be giving a speech as the student representative.
With her knowledge from her "previous life," attending junior high in this world's Japan was incredibly easy. Even though she also had to spend a lot of time and energy studying magic and other things, achieving the top overall deviation score in school was a simple matter.
As a private aristocratic school, this junior high, invested in and built by the Asagami Group, covered an area of 335 acres with a building area of 110,000 square meters. It had all kinds of facilities, and even the uniforms were very cute. (This was Aoko's main reason for choosing Asagami Academy; it is said that worn uniforms could fetch an astonishing price on the black market.)
In addition to regular courses, the school also offered many unique courses, such as German, Chinese, and life education.
To save energy, Aoko chose Latin and German, which were helpful for studying magic, and also chose a Chinese course. In the Chinese course, she undoubtedly dominated the subject with a more authentic Chinese accent than the teacher in charge of the class.
However, because Shiritsu Asagami Girls' Academy was located next to Misaki Town, she had to wake up at six every morning to prepare and take the bus to school.
This forced Aoko, who needed eight hours of delicate sleep every day, to go to bed before ten at night, indirectly compelling her to improve her daily work and study efficiency.
As for why she insisted on eight hours of delicate sleep, it involved Aozaki Aoko's deepest secret.
Deep within her soul lay a fragment of the Magic Web Arcane from Kingdom Tenyu.
Speaking of which, a clever reader might ask, wouldn't embedding a Magic Web Arcane fragment in one's body turn one into a human nuclear bomb, like a certain Magician who dated the Goddess of Magic and then got dumped?
Aoko had also worried about this issue, but after long-term verification and attempts, this fragment remained very stable within Aoko's soul, so stable that it made her doubt whether it was truly a Magic Web Arcane fragment.
Since childhood, whenever Aoko fell asleep, her consciousness would enter this "fragment." It was a dimension beyond description; all mortal words were pale and powerless before the scenery deep within the Magic Web Arcane. However, if one had to summarize it in a sentence, it was as colorful as if one had eaten poisonous mushrooms.
Ultimately, believing this thing to be a Magic Web Arcane fragment was merely Aoko's wishful thinking. So far, she didn't want to delve deeper, because she didn't have the ability to do so.
During her nightly journeys through the Magic Web Arcane, Aoko gradually acquired a vast amount of Magic Web Arcane knowledge. She forcibly memorized this knowledge with her eidetic memory and then transcribed it into her Spellbook after waking up.
---Dividing Line---
Aoko checked her watch, confirming that she still had enough time before leaving for school. She took out a beautifully leather-bound book from her imaginary magic space.
The cover of this book was made of "dragon skin" material, which she had persistently begged the Old Man Aozaki for a long time to obtain. The inner pages were made of paper crafted from ash wood pulp mixed with a special alchemical potion, making them not only exceptionally tough but also very suitable as a base material for scrolls.
The so-called "dragons" were fantasy species that once existed in this world. These creatures, unexplainable by modern scientific theories, could not survive due to the mysterious decline of the planet's surface and changes in its rules, so most retreated to the Sea of Stars. Only a small number of unfortunate corpses remained on the planet's surface as residual cursed material, collected by Magicians as magical ingredients.
Aoko, with her intelligence and a little help from the Old Man Aozaki, created this Spellbook. Considering that she might learn more and more spells in the future, she fully allowed for future expansion and upgrades when designing this book. Currently, the book has one hundred pages, meaning Aoko can transcribe one hundred spells into this Spellbook.
As her life-saving "cheat," Aoko naturally invested a lot of effort into learning and practicing Magic Web Arcane. Under the premise of secrecy, Aoko spent a great deal of time and energy learning and practicing arcane magic, and at the very young age of fifteen, she achieved 5 Magician levels and learned a large number of Magic Network Spells.
If she had been born in Kingdom Tenyu in this life and received full Magician education, Aoko might have had a higher Magician level than she does now, but unfortunately, she did not, and this is not Kingdom Tenyu. Aoko's current achievements were entirely self-taught, and only she knew the hardships involved.
Incidentally, there is no Wizards of the Coast company in this world, nor is there a tabletop game rule called Dungeons & Dragons.
Aoko opened her Spellbook and began to meditate, preparing the spells she might need today.
Aoko's current Magician level is 5, which means she has 3 first-level, 2 second-level, and 1 third-level spell slots.
Although not high, one should never underestimate this level 5 Magician. The first third-level spell Aoko learned after gaining access to third-level spell slots was Fireball from the Evocation school. As a signature Magician skill, Fireball is renowned for its low cost, high output, and large area of effect, making it an essential spell for home travel, murder, and theft.
In addition to the very important third-level spell slot, a level 5 Magician also gains an extra feat. Aoko chose the feat: Alertness.
Because her current offensive spells are limited, and she can only personally use up to third-level spells, raising her alertness is the highest priority to prevent being ambushed, especially since there are many insidious individuals like Kiritsugu Emiya in this world.