Chapter 77 – Anna Is Red

After cleaning her room with her Dania, he sent her back to her house.

I did that last night, and after waking up, my body wasn’t heavy for being sucked again.
I must have slept quite deeply.

Dania took a shower before going back, but I was still there, so I washed up right away and had breakfast.

Then I sat down on the sofa in the living room and there was nothing to do.

… I decided to meet Dania in the evening.

Until then, it means being free, but I can’t come up with anything to do.

Michelle probably won’t have time this weekend.
She said that the teacher’s work piled up to the point where she had to invest weekends.

Although she is called a teacher, she is essentially a university professor, and she has a lot to do besides teaching her students.

… So what do you do until evening?

She usually casually watches TV or YouTube, does sports or studies.

The game didn’t do much.
Because she likes games, she became a programmer at a game company, but because of her hellish work schedule, she began to hate playing games outside of the company.

“Aha.”

Fortunately, she remembered something to do.
She went into her room, took out a book from the deepest part of the bookshelf, and spread it on the desk.

It was a magic book of seduction.

… I haven’t seen it in a while, so let’s read it for a while.

Of course, that doesn’t mean she’s been lounging around all these years.
Because of the practical exam, I practiced mana manipulation magic hard.
Since his ability to deal with mana has improved compared to before, it will surely help him learn seduction magic.

“…”

I read the open book in silence.

If you ask me what I’m doing, of course I’m learning magic.

In this world, there is a concept called a magic circuit.

It’s like a formula for activating a kind of magic, and each magic has its own magic circuit.

If you fully develop a magic circuit of a specific magic with mana, your body will remember that circuit and you will be able to use magic.

The magic circuit looks like a top down view of a very complicated maze.
It means that many lines or patterns are meanderingly intertwined.

Of course, each line or pattern has a meaning, and only when you understand and develop all the meanings can you obtain magic.

So simple magic has a simple magic circuit, and difficult magic has a complicated structure.

Among them, the magic of seduction was very difficult.
It was one of the reasons why there were only two seduction spells I had learned so far.

… It would have been much better without all of his stat-reducing debuffs.

Anyway, for that reason, in order to understand the complicated magic circuit drawn in the book, I was staring at the book like a stone.

Originally, if you ask if magic can be learned just by looking at it, of course it is not.

Because the magic circuit is complicated, even if it fails, you have to learn it by yourself by repeatedly developing it yourself.

The way I study now is the same as reading theoretical books without running myself in order to be good at soccer.

However, my aptitude for seduction magic is S rank.
Due to the existence of Anna, who has an SS rank for mana manipulation, her dignity is a little off, but in fact, her S rank is also a great level that is rare in the whole school.

So I was able to learn the magic circuit just by investing time and diligently looking at it with my eyes.

Of course, that doesn’t mean you literally have to stare at them for long periods of time.
Even in the midst of this, complicated calculations were going on in my head.

… Being able to conserve the lack of mana and train your body comfortably is such a scary thing to be called a talent.

Along with that thought, what I was looking at was a magic circuit called ‘Search eyes’.

Search Eyes is a magic that allows you to determine the level of your opponent’s charm resistance.

If you have this, you can tell the difference between people who can use seduction magic and people who can’t.
It was a magic that I had been studying for a long time, thinking that it would be useful after discovering it belatedly at the back of the book.

… Somehow, it’s easier to understand than when I saw it before.

Thanks to the practice of mana manipulation, it seems that it is thanks to the fact that he has become more familiar with mana than before.

I diligently read the magic circuit drawn in the book and the detailed explanations next to it, but my head was definitely less tired than before.

“Oh, was this it?”

The hardest and most complicated part was finally understood.
After holding on for another hour like that, I finally got a complete picture of Search Eyes’ magic circuit.

OK, let’s do it right away.

Stretch your hand forward to concentrate mana.
The collected mana is dispersed into the air to develop a magic circuit.

Just as ink spreads in clean water, the mana carved complex patterns in the air as they searched for their respective positions.

“…”

The room wasn’t even hot, but beads of sweat slid down the sides of her face.

Deploying the magic circuit required a high degree of concentration as it had to understand and perfectly apply the meaning of each line and figure as well as the shape.

Finally, the completed magic circuit emitted a bright light and came to me and permeated into my body.

… Great. It’s properly added to the skill window on my phone.
But how do I check it?

I don’t feel any special changes in my body, and the only thing I can see with my eyes is the text on the screen of my phone, so it doesn’t touch me.

When I learned the other spells, it’s hard to explain in words, but I felt the sense that I had them, but for some reason Search Eyes didn’t have any of that.

Shall we go out and check it out?

At this point, I’m going to try going out alone.
When I was at work, I was so tired during the holidays that I only slept, so I’ve never been able to walk around comfortably by myself.

It was one of my small wishes to go out leisurely and without thinking, but even after I came to this world and was released from the company, when I was alone, I was only in the dormitory.

Okay, let’s kill time until evening and get some fresh air.

While I’m out, if there’s something I like, I’ll buy it.

Having made up my mind like that, I prepared to leave without hesitation.

—

I was standing on a busy street.

Sky-high buildings and crowds of people filled the streets.
The atmosphere of the city was created by the mixing of car horns and the music played by various stores to solicit customers.

People everywhere are going their own way.
Thanks to the indifference of those around me, I was able to enjoy the cozy feeling of being alone even though I was among many people.
Occasionally women glanced at me, but not to the point of being intrusive.

… Oh, sure the performance.

I stood in the middle of the road and looked around.

If I had the will to use Search Eyes, I could see red or green light around people who came into my field of vision.

The red light meant that I had a higher resistance than my seduction magic level, and the green light meant the opposite.

To put it simply, I can only use seduction magic on people who emit green light.

Most of the people in downtown were green.
Unlike magicians, ordinary people do not have mana in their bodies, so they do not have magic resistance to charm.
The reason most people are green is probably because there are far more ordinary people than wizards in this world.

Even though he is a wizard, he has a lower level of resistance than my level, so it could be that it looks green.
However, it was impossible to distinguish with Search Eyes alone.

… It would be nice to know something like resistance rank.

Unfortunately, only whether or not Search Eyes is magic or whether my proficiency is lacking or whether the magic of deception works is displayed.

I looked around once more with the thought that there was nothing I could do about it.
Green lights filled in front of my eyes.
It feels strange that I can fool so many people with my seduction magic.

By the way, I have no intention of doing anything unfair by using seduction magic.
I will not seek financial gain, nor will I seek power or prestige.

Of course, it has been used for dirty work a few times so far, and it may continue to do so, but its original purpose is to prepare for unexpected dangers.

So I didn’t want to hurt innocent people.
Just as an ordinary commoner, my dream is to keep my conscience and enjoy small happiness.

… There are also wizards.

Red light was often seen through the green light that filled the streets, but it was so conspicuous that once I saw it, I followed it with my gaze without realizing it.

At that time, my eyes were fixed on the red light I accidentally discovered.
It was a familiar silhouette, so I loosened my search eyes and narrowed my eyes as I looked closely.

… Anna?

She was alone with her head down and heading somewhere.
It’s nice to meet you by chance outside school, especially on the main street.

I was thinking of pretending to know by running like this, but I got playful and took out her cell phone.

She hid behind her wall, out of sight of her, and pressed her call button with only her head sticking out.

After a while, she saw Anna, who was walking in the distance, startled to see her cell phone, and then she stopped and answered her phone.

-Hello… ?

The voice over the phone trembles slightly.
Even though we usually exchange messages, it’s our first time on the phone, so it seems nervous.

“Anna.”
-Yes? Uh, what’s going on?

Anna didn’t even know she was spying on her, and was holding onto her phone.
I held back the laughter that was about to come out.

“I’m behind you now.”