The Magic Academy's Physicist-Chapter 93: The Golden-Eyed And The Humans (2)

Chapter 93: The Golden-Eyed And The Humans (2)

Akasha decided to stay at the Saliere’s until the rainstorm was over.

She didn’t know why but it just happened. There had been the intention of infiltrating the mansion, of course, but who knew that things would turn out this way?

Her face still burned when she thought about how she entered this mansion. The initial plan to break in had long since disappeared from her mind, leaving only shame.

“Tsk.”

For a Great Mecha feared by everyone to be so humiliated–like this, it made her look bad as the Commander of the Demon Army.

But she wasn’t someone to remain thinking such weak thoughts. What had been done was done; dwelling on a past that couldn’t be changed wouldn’t make things any better. That would only be a waste of time.

So right now, she needed to focus on carrying out her task. Akasha pulled herself together and looked up ahead.

“This is my personal space.”

While she collected her thoughts, Lotte led Akasha to her room.

When she turned the knob and opened, the inside could be seen in a glance–a large room with two beds and desks. Of the two beds, Lotte pointed to the one closer to the window.

“That’s the bed you’ll be using. It was originally lent to Aether but I guess this is what it is now.”

With an embarrassed smile, Lotte scratched at her cheek.

The other members of the house mistook Akasha for Aether. Lotte was currently the only one who was aware that this girl and Aether were two separate beings.

For the sake of maintaining a peaceful household, she needed to keep this savage girl in the same room. That way, she could watch her to see if she attempted something.

Akasha looked around with curiosity. At some point, she looked out the window and made an impressed sound.

“That’s a great view. You can see the whole Pitchblende Mountain.”

“But it’s raining out.”

The sky was mourning like a woman who lost the man she loved. In such heavy rain, you couldn’t even see the city let alone Falling Dragon Peak.

But to be seeing the mountain...

The white-haired girl turned around. Akasha’s golden eyes glowed softly within the dark, sunless room.

Flash–just then, the dark clouds spit out a bolt of lightning.

“Figuratively speaking, I mean.”

Perhaps it was due to the ground going cold from the rainfall, but the day was particularly cold for summer.

“Why are you standing there all stiff? I’m bored so let’s talk.”

Let’s not think about the Golden-Eyed. She was going to think of the girl before her eyes as  a normal person her age.

Lotte’s throat moved like she’d swallowed a large pill. It wasn’t difficult for her to strike a conversation with someone she’d never met because she’d followed her father to social gatherings and tea parties since she was young.

Let’s see. What kind of topic would this girl enjoy?

She wasn’t given time to think. Looking around the room, Akasha spotted a pile of paper on the desk and picked it up with interest.

“Isn’t this interesting.”

The girl let out a subtle sigh. It was an exhale of amazement, or something more than that.

Akasha had picked up a sheet of calculations containing a complicated array of complex equations. It was what Aether had written some time ago and left here. She had said not to throw it out so Lotte hadn’t touched it.

“It’s a multidimensional flow equation.”

It was something that Lotte had heard of as well.

Only heard, of course. Had it been Advanced Water Magic? It had been something of an advanced content taught in that subject so Lotte couldn’t and didn’t need to know what the formula looked like.

“You know what’s written on there?”

“Yeah, it’s something of a memory for me. I used to try to solve this with my sister.”

“You found the solution?”

“No, we didn’t get there far. Didn’t know if there was even a general solution or not. I gave up partway and Aether tried for another week or so before giving up as well, probably.”

Lotte was given a piece of paper from Akasha. Complicated formulas were spread all over the page.

Lotte was fairly studied in math but she couldn’t parse it at all. A lot of the symbols were ones she’d never seen before, and there were a few places that had skipped the middle steps.

Akasha nodded and asked.

“You wrote this?”

“No, Aether was working on it.”

At Lotte’s response, the girl let out a hum.

“The writing is completely different from my sister’s.”

At least, it wasn’t the soft, rounded kind of handwriting to come from a girl who’d just entered the Academy. Rather, it looked like chicken scratch written by a drunken man in their thirties.

“But the way the formulas unfold is the same.”

“How do you even know something like that?”

“Because we’re identical twins. This is weirdly alike; the part especially where the integration variable is just a scrawl is the same as ever. See, look here.”

Akasha showed her a line of a partial differential equation.

“Do you see this line under here? The numerical solution of the upper line is in the line right below. That means she skipped all the middle steps and wrote the answer as soon as she saw it. Most Golden-Eyed aren’t capable of doing it right away like this.”

The multidimensional flow equation had four independent variables alone. It could never, no matter what, be calculated by the human mind.

“... What a monster.”

This only put up Lotte’s guard even more.

**From the time Akasha was let into the house, Lotte didn’t leave her side for even a moment.

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Not because she wanted to. It was the opposite, rather.

Lotte couldn’t fully trust Akasha. No, she started having these inexplicable suspicions about the Golden-Eyed as a whole.

She was most curious about how Akasha had subdued the Calamity Fenrir, and two of them at that. But she felt that she wouldn’t be safe if she asked.

“Um, what are you going to do today?”

“Prep for second semester.”

About a week had passed of spending their days together.

In that meantime, Akasha would talk to Lotte every chance she got, usually about ordinary things. And Lotte would respond with the bare minimum of words each time.

This was all to eliminate uncertainties.

“You’re being boring again. I’m getting sick of just smelling books from being stuck in the study everyday.”

“A noble has duties to study diligently for the sake of the country’s future.”

“The country’s future?”

Akasha snorted.

“Sure, do your best.”

Then she took a few books from the nearby shelf and sat across from Lotte. When she glanced at them, they were all novels.

They were mostly romance novels that her older sister had collected.

Stories about the forbidden love between a prince and princess of enemy countries who’d meet in secret, a young man who traveled all over the continent in search of the ‘thousand-year-old dogwood fruit’ to save a young noble lady from dying of an incurable disease, the medieval princess of a nation devastated by a revolt who’d fallen to her death from the spire of the palace while playing the violin, etc.

They were all stories that Lotte had read at least once from being influenced by her sister. Each one had been a masterpiece.

“Do you like romance novels?”

“Not really, they pass the time.”

It was a rare sight to see a non-expressive Golden-Eyed read romance novels.

Akasha smiled every few pages. The fact that she was showing emotion while reading meant that she at least had some humanity to her.

“So this is how they portrayed her.”

“Hm?”

“No, this princess who played the violin, I mean. The ending’s a bit different from the one I know.”

“The story changes sometimes depending on the publisher. How did it end in the one that you read?”

“Uh, um.”

Akasha pursed her lips, seeming as if she was debating if she should tell or not.

The story of the princess of the fallen kingdom who’d taken her own life to preserve her integrity and loyalty. It was one that Lotte had enjoyed quite a bit so she was rather curious about the other ending that Akasha knew about.

“It’s the same up to her fall.”

“But?”

“She doesn’t die.”

“What is that?”

Lotte huffed a laugh at the lame answer.

“And what happens next?”

“An entity called the Demonic One appears to the princess whose whole body became paralyzed from the impact of the fall. The Demonic One is supposed to be the ego of a traitorous Elemental King as well as a kind of grim reaper who only appears to those full of lingering attachments.”

The Demonic One slowly approached the dying princess. She picked up the violin that had been thrown down along with the princess’ body, fixing it in an instant, and began playing a requiem on it.

Requiem. A song to comfort those who were already dead or dying. The princess threw up blood as she listened.

“And this is what she said on that spot.”

─ O Demonic One. I will offer you my soul so grant me a body that will never die in return.

“What, where is the story going? What happened to the commoner man who was dating in secret? Why does it go like that?”

“I don’t know.”

Akasha shrugged and closed the book. With no signs of getting tired, she opened up an even thicker book this time.

Let’s see. This one was....

[6974(Uncensored version) ─ Georgey Oill]Wait.

“Y-you, what is that...! Where did you get it from!”

“This? It was in the corner over there.”

“That’s an erotic novel! Go put it back right now...!”

“An erotic novel? What’s that?”

“Th-th-that...! Anyway, it’s something!”

“I can’t stand being curious.”

Akasha ignored Lotte’s warning and flipped open the thick hardcover book.

“Okay, hm. It was a bright cold day in April, and the dil.......”

“Stooooop─!!”

Standing abruptly from her seat, Lotte snatched the book away. The memory of having read this as a child who didn’t know better was another kind of trauma for her. Hearing the first line alone had her going red in the face.

“You’ll seriously regret it if you read this!”

“Alright. I got it so give it back; I’ll go put it back where it was.”

“I’ll come with you.”

The library in the Saliere house was large enough to take up an entire floor in most libraries and contained as many books, so they had to walk for close to a minute to take this taboo literature back.

“It was here in this corner.”

“Are you sure it’s around here?”

“I don’t remember the exact spot; I’ll just put it wherever.”

Taking the book from Lotte, Akasha found a roughly suitable place and pushed it straight into the shelf. Then something clicked inside the book that slid right in.

“Hm?”

It was definitely the sound of a switch or something.

Her instincts weren’t wrong. A bookshelf at her back dragged along the floor and revealed a space about 13 m2 wide within

“This is....”

An object that Lotte had already seen once before.

“Why is this here?”

A machine that turns raw pitchblende into yellow powder, and the culmination of the family technology which could very well be described as the essence of the Count Saliere family’s magitek.

The refiner.