Episode 7: In the study
"You don't look like an awkward, unruly, sarcastic person. Pen Γ fun Γ Pavilion www. ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ γ info" Miss Satoru said with a smile, her eyes, which were less than half open, narrowed even more.
Stupid black and white!
"Please don't listen to the fool's magic apprentice."
"Of course."
Satoru's mind-reading eyes didn't seem to leave me before or after we sat down, but Miss Satoru didn't talk to me in a particular way, as Marisa described, but spoke to me in a very ordinary way, and you talked to me word by word, so she was really a good person with self-discipline that didn't match her appearance.
"Miss Satoru seems to know a lot, did you hear about the people and things on the ground from Marisa?"
"Partly," she said, "more from pets and Yakumo." β
"Purple's friendship is really wide, has it extended to the underworld?"
"It's just an ordinary relationship of mutual benefit, but her connections are really vast, and she is almost the complete opposite of someone like me."
"Aha, let's not talk about that annoying guy," I sipped my tea, thinking to myself that I was about the same type of person as Miss Satoru, "What I learned from Marisa about you, in addition to your inexplicable ability to read minds, is a vast knowledge comparable to that of a sage in the moon capital, hasn't Miss Satoru thought about working as a part-time magician?" β
"Why?"
"It's also very interesting to study the subject of the magician."
"If I could find some topics to study, I could already count as a part-time magician."
"Oh! What topics can you talk about? β
"It's boring, do you really want to listen?"
"Yes."
"The earliest was differential geometry and general ethics."
Differential geometry can be regarded as a prerequisite for the study of the nature of space, and it is very personal to be interested or not, but shouldn't ethics have real significance in the context of human society? Why is Miss Satoru interested in it? Moreover, the two topics are almost unrelated, at least not methodologically. β
"Yes, one is based on accurate measurements, and the other is a subject without any reference standards, and if you look at it from this point of view, the two topics can be said to be very different."
"Yes, so, the first topics that Miss Jue was interested in must have been of practical significance to you."
"Hmm."
"If it's a very private secret, such as something related to Miss Jue's race or cultivation, I won't ask any more questions." I said very consciously.
"It's not a secret, but because of the limitations of the way of communication, it's a very troublesome thing to explain sentence by sentence, because it involves the initial racial composition of the Jue Youkai and the social contradictions within the group, and if you don't talk about it in a special way, you may not be able to finish it all day."
"I see."
"I happen to be away for a while, Miss Alice can look for the books I have collected on the window side of the studyβif you are interested, there are also some books about magical envoys that may not be available to people on earth, so please wait here for a while, and I'll be back soon."
"Do the people of the underground have to work too?"
"It's really about work, Miss Alice should know that Kanako Yasaka developed my pet into an energy device without telling me, and although it was a little unpleasant at first, we have now gained a lot of benefits, and we continue to live peacefully to this day."
"Ah...... Miss Kanako's thoughts are indeed unpredictable. β
"Don't talk about the gods, I'll see you later, Miss Alice."
"Ah, please get busy."
The pink-purple girl turned and exited the study, and disappeared at the end of the corridor in a hurry, and I poured myself a cup of black tea, drank it all, and then walked to the row of bookshelves by the window that Miss Jue had pointed out.
Theoretically, there should be no wind in the underground world, because there seems to be no heat source like the sun that makes the air dense and uneven and convection, and in addition, there is no need to consider the problem of daylight underground, so the existence of the window is lost.
However, on the way from the old capital to the Earth Spirit Temple, I did not feel that the air in the underground world was largely static, and the flow was continuous, although weak. Not too far from the old capital and the Earth Spirit Temple is the lava hell, and I think the heat from the ground can also push the air to a certain extent, so the windows of the underground buildings have a real effect.
But it's not the windows that allow me to read with a book in my hand, but the fluorescent lamps that are installed on the ceiling a few meters apart. The floor was unusually clean, so I pulled out a few books of interest and sat down on the floor to read them.
The authors of these four books are not identified, so their titles are the first element that interests me, namely: "The Fall of Juecun", "Examination of Ancient Ming Dijue Literature and Art", "Notes on Differential Geometry", and "Unconscious Inquiry".
Magicians are never slow to read, and since I've only skimmed through the contents of four books, I've quickly flipped through all four of them.
Contrary to my initial imagination, "The Fall of Jue Village" is not a description of the history of war, but a genre of research on lost civilizations written in the tone of a doctoral dissertation, specifically about the history of the decline and fall of a monster race called "Jue".
However, I think the author should be Miss Koming Jiju, because I really can't imagine that any other youkai who has nothing to do with "Jue" would be interested in the history of the destruction of a race and deliberately study and write about it, and it is almost impossible for humans to have access to the relevant documents or relics of the youkai race.
As for the second book "Gu Ming Dijue Literary and Art Examination", as the title says, this is a book about cultural and artistic investigation, but it uses a diary style, and the content is extremely loose, and ordinary people probably can't stand this style and give up reading halfway. This book examines the culture and art of the Roman Empire - in fact, most of these diaries are reading notes and travel notes, most of the books read are books written during the Roman Empire and later books on ancient Rome, and the places described in the travel notes are naturally also the remains of ancient Rome - such as the Colosseum and the Arch of Constantine, although the theme is not clear, but it can also be seen that Miss Jue is very interested in the mental state of the Romans. In addition to the cultural customs and artistic achievements of the Romans, there are many statements that infer the norms of Roman behavior, such as the mind and emotions of the Romans, who held promiscuous feasts.
Overall, the book is of low academic value.
The third book, Notes on Differential Geometry, was shelved because I was not good at it, and in addition to various coordinate drawings and mathematical expressions, there were also several diaries mixed in, which contained the purpose of learning differential geometry - Miss Satoru actually tried to analyze the gap in Yakumo Purple with precise measurement methods and use it for her own use, so far it seems that she has not achieved her goal.
The fourth book, "Unconscious Inquiry", has more than ten times more gossip than serious discussion, and it is also a book that almost makes people look at it twice and throw it away. After barely flipping through it, I realized that Miss Jue's view of the unconscious and consciousness was not much different from mine, and although there was not a single mention in the book, I could imagine the purpose of Miss Jue's study of the unconscious: for the sake of her unconscious sister, of course.
Yes, the authors of these four books are all Miss Gu Ming Dijue, as for the basis of judgment, you can get a glimpse of the writing font and the title of the second book alone, why the four books I took to read happen to be the works of Miss Gu Ming Dijue? I couldn't figure it out, so I put it down to fate.
In addition, I can somewhat understand the reason why Satoru-sao is too lazy to talk about her research topic, which is indeed a bit complicated, and if I can't use my mind to communicate in a complex moment like I did with Miss Kanako in the idealistic nothingness, it will take a long time to explain the problem clearly.
As I put the four books back in place, a strong feeling of vertigo knocked me to the ground.