In the village of Azca, almost no one uses umbrellas.

I heard that umbrellas are also used in Ibro City, but in the village, almost no one uses them except for the village chief.

Umbrellas are still expensive items.

On rainy days, villagers move around in hard raincoats that are waterproof with sap or woven straw hats.

The head and body may be protected with these, but the ground is difficult to walk.

The streets of Ibro are paved with earth magic, but most of the roads in Azca are unpaved, so they become muddy when it rains.

We cats basically don't wear shoes.

Although clogs, leather shoes, and sandals are sold, they perform better barefoot.

What would happen if you licked my balls and paws?

I don't want to go out on a rainy day because I don't wear shoes.

As a normal cat, I also want to try to avoid getting wet with hair.

So, I don't work on rainy days.

I saved a little from collecting herbs and catching voles, which was small but enough to stay at home, but my parents called me to school.

They don't talk about this kind of thing when they usually work, and adults are really the same in every world.

"Umbrellas, and pedals."

If you don't have an umbrella, then make your own, and don't step on the road if it's not easy to walk.

I used null magic to create a dome-shaped roof, and then used pedals to make it impossible to step on muddy feet.

Unlike the actual umbrella, this one does not require a handle and has a much better view than a plastic umbrella.

I've also made improvements to the pedals, the surface is no longer smooth, but some bumps have been added to make it less slippery.

It's inevitable that the moisture will make the hair sticky, but the rain and mud aren't scary to me anymore.

It's just that as long as my magic runs out, it's useless, but it's pretty good for training.

"Eh, what's going on?"

"Wow, Ines. No, don't fight."

"I'm sorry"

On the way to school, I met Ines, a sheep man of the same age, and she rushed over, but unfortunately her umbrella was broken.

Something made with the Null attribute is very resistant to magical attacks, but it is still relatively vulnerable to physical shocks.

Thanks to her help, even though I was a black cat, I got wet.

"Umbrella?"

"Is this the chant of this magic?"

"That's pretty much it"

This time I made a slightly larger dome that could fit two people.

The pedals are also a little higher and can be walked side by side with Ines.

"I'm still practicing, so don't hit me."

"I see. But that's really nice, so you don't have to get wet in the rain, right? "

The current "umbrella" magic is more like a glass umbrella than a plastic umbrella.

I've been thinking about strength reinforcement = stiffness increase before, but the situation may need to consider better elasticity.

In the past, I had been trying to improve my nullity magic, but basically, a clear image was important.

For example, when Miguel uses fire magic, it activates a fireball about 50 centimeters in diameter, which is activated intuitively.

While the Intuition Method is easy to activate, a 50 cm diameter fireball is too large to use as a tinder.

Stable use requires focusing the mana on the right size, which requires practice, otherwise the flames are too strong and suddenly a strong wind blows, and the surroundings will be flooded, which is possible.

In contrast, magic items only need to inject mana to stabilize the output.

Even if you try to inject too much mana, the amount of mana that can be injected is limited due to the structure, so there is basically no problem with excessive output.

From the point of view of ease of use, magic props are more convenient, and most importantly, in addition to the attributes they originally have, they can also use magic with other attributes, which is very convenient.

The school in Azka is right next to the village chief's house.

There are only a maximum of six students in a grade, sometimes only one student, and there are only 21 students in the whole school, but the number of students who attend school each day can only be counted.

This school is more like a private school in the village, there are no classrooms divided by grade, and the number of days of attendance varies too much, resulting in a large gap in academic ability.

There are three teachers in the school, and the students are divided into three groups: honor students, ordinary students, and problem students, and I naturally belong to the problem student group.

Most of the children born in the village of Azca will grow up in the village and spend their lives in the village.

Very few people are able to leave the village, and it is not uncommon for a once-in-a-lifetime "awakening ceremony" to occur.

These people don't seem to feel the need to learn too much.

On the contrary, there is also a group of people who are very passionate about learning.

The second or third son of the farmer family had to leave the house to ease the burden on the family.

Although there are limited opportunities to work in the village after leaving home, finding a job in the city requires academic skills.

I'm also the third son of a farmer, so sooner or later I'll have to leave home, but to be honest, classes are boring.

Literacy and reading were learned from the old woman in the drugstore, Calissa, and calculation was the memory of a past life.

I was very interested in the social situation, but instead of attending lectures, I felt that it was fresher to ask for information from merchants, and I was not interested in the history of the royal family at all.

I want to hone my magic skills and become an adventurer as soon as possible.

If there were a course on magic, I would be happy to listen to it, but it seems that knowledge about magic circles and the like is only taught in high-level schools or the magician academy in the royal capital.

In other words, I want to go home as soon as I get to school.

I couldn't help it, I pretended to listen to the lecture, but in fact I was practicing magic on the side.

The task now was on the issue of flexibility.

I tried to fix a board like a ruler with about 15 centimeters of air.

In the past, the method was to compress with all your strength to increase the strength, and then hold both ends to apply force, and as a result, the board creaked and broke apart.

This time I imagined a rubber sheet that holds the air in the same shape.

Holding both ends and applying force, the board bends but does not break, but the elastic force is not enough, and it remains bent.

This looks more like a rubber rope with a wide band.

Try to hold both ends and pull, it can stretch without breaking.

It was much more fun than taking a class, and I was immersed in the study of flexibility and resilience.

As a result, I can make various materials such as resin sheet hard, resin sheet soft, rubber sheet hard, rubber sheet soft, plastic sheet, rubber rope, etc.

With these materials, I feel that I can make tough knives, armor with strong defense, etc.

From now on, I intend to revisit the material when using magic.

Classes at school end in the morning.

I had planned to go home while practicing magic, but I saw Miguel and Dareth whispering something at the door.

I watched their attempt, and one of the students tripped over Dareth and fell heavily into the mud.

The student with a muddy face was a black and white spotted cat, my second brother Fox.

Just as he was about to stand up with his hands on the ground, Miguel stepped on his back and buried his face in the mud again.

"Hmph, it's really a hindrance to climb such a low place!"