Infinite Mage - Chapter 11

[11] The first step toward a dream (3)

“Hey Sirone. are you still here You said the work was over?”

Lian opened the door and came in, clearing her throat at the rising dust. Sirone greeted her friend with a gentle smile.

“What is the meaning of that expression? What’s good?”

Lian was bewildered by the unusual appearance of his friend. However, Sirone’s words were even more shocking.

“Learn, let me show you around your house.”

“huh? what?”

Ryan opened his eyes. To think that Sirone, who is faithful to principles and never made a foolish mistake, suddenly wants to take a tour of the house.

However, when he found a book lying next to Sirone, he came to a realization.

“You… did it?”

“huh. There is nothing more to read, at least in this library.”

nothing more to read

Ryan didn’t like the book, but he could feel how cool the words were.

For this moment, Sirone looked like an incarnation of intellect. Even the sunlight pouring through the window seemed to bless Sirone.

“Uh ha ha ha! did you really make it this bastard! You’re such a great guy man!”

Ryan was delighted with his work. Of course, in the prosecutor’s own radical way. Holding Sirone in his arms, he swayed around for a long time before snapping his fingers as if he had a good idea.

“good! You are always welcome if you want to come to our house! It just went well. To commemorate the completion of my studies, I have prepared a wonderful gift for you.”

“Suddenly, what gift? I don’t need it.”

“Anyway, follow me. Will you like it? Fuhahaha!”

Sirone was anxious. It’s strange that he prepared a gift when he knew about the bookstore just now. Moreover, it seemed that the bosom with the smile under the eyes protruding was definitely not a gift that I liked.

Seeing the mansion up close for the first time, the intimidating feeling of its size was frightening. I could see why ancient people chose huge structures to express the divinity of their gods.

“Rian, let’s go in quietly. What are you going to do if your family finds out?”

“What are you worried about? Is the contract over anyway? Besides, the whole family is gone. oh here it is quickly!”

The place Ryan was taken to was the room of a woman who smelled fragrant. A pink curtain was drawn over the balcony window, and instruments including a piano were placed.

“for a moment! Is this your sister’s room? Come out quickly! What if we go in?”

“Quack. Wait a minute. It should be somewhere around here.”

Lian opened and closed the dresser carelessly as if he had entered his room. After rummaging through the shelves at the bottom, he picked up something and threw it at Sirone with delight.

“found! Now, Sirone’s gift!”

Something fragrant and soft covered Sirone’s face. Holding it with both hands and unfolding it, it was a dainty little piece of cloth.

The bewildered Sirone’s face turned red. From the shape and size, it was clear that it was her sister’s underwear.

“hey! Are you crazy? Why are you throwing this at me!”

“Puhahaha! Look how red your face is. You are 17 now too. Look at the panties boldly. In that sense, my older brother is giving it to me as a present.”

“shut up! What’s so bold about seeing panties! Take it back quickly!”

“uh? Excited. Sirone is finally excited!”

Ryan grabbed his belly button and stomped his foot. To be honest, 90% wanted to make fun of him, but 10% was worried.

Confined to the library and endured for a year and a half, her skin was pure white and her face was still young.

Sirone is too hungry to learn. It wouldn’t hurt to use shock therapy once in a while to bring out the man in your heart.

But it didn’t work for Sirone. After returning the panties, Sirone sighed and continued nagging.

“When are you going to grow up? play a joke like this It’s not someone else, it’s my sister. put it back quickly What are you going to do if you get caught?”

“As a court musician, I only come once or twice a year. There’s nothing to take anyway. But are you really not going to have it? I don’t know if I regret it later.”

“Following you is my biggest regret in my entire life! Get it sorted out quickly.”

Ryan crumpled up his underwear and tucked it in and closed the drawer.

“Hey, does that take it?”

“When the time comes, the dedicated lady-in-waiting will organize it. By the way, it’s not fun because I’m not very excited.”

“One more time and I will break up with you.”

“ha ha ha! okay. that it was a joke Anyway, let’s go to my room.”

Ryan’s room was at the far end of the hallway. Most of the rooms were left anyway, so he said he chose the one that was comfortable for him.

Befitting a hot-blooded swordsman, wooden swords were stacked in the room, and books related to swordsmanship were lined up on the bookshelf.

However, there are not many specialized books, and most of them are novels about swordsmen in mythology.

The two sat in the room and chatted about miscellaneous things, and when they got bored, they played a card game.

Each started with the same amount of chips, but the game was over after 30 minutes. It was Lian’s complete defeat.

Sirone asked while sweeping the chips.

“One more round?”

“I will not! Shit. It’s a gamble, it’s probably just luck anyway, but I guess I’m very unlucky.”

“You seem to have a habit of moving your hand outside when an ace comes in. Also, the betting time is different between pair and no pair. Even if you know those two things, you can win.”

Lian was dazed like someone who had been scammed.

“How the hell do you find that out?”

“Observation is surprisingly easy. You cannot see it because you presume that it will happen in advance and observe it. Throw away the thought that you must find it and feel the whole. Then you can find it.”

“Hmm, don’t be obsessed with what you want to get, right? Maybe this will help you find the schema too?”

“Maybe? Because it had a big impact on my understanding of the Spirit Zone.”

Rian repeated Sirone’s words countless times. I think I know something tickling in my head, but I can’t find the core at all.

Is it because I thought about it for a long time? Drowsiness poured out as the body became tired. Lian, who stretched out, said as she lay down.

“There’s nothing to do, let’s get some sleep. In the morning, after running 100 laps, I am tired to death.”

“Then get some sleep. I will be reading a book.”

“Ugh.”

Ryan fell asleep as soon as he touched his head. Sirone burst into laughter at the sight of a comfortable friend, and took out a novel. After reading difficult history books and reading adventure stories, I did not even know how time passed.

When Lian didn’t wake up after an hour, Sirone closed the book and tidied up the room. When the sun goes down, the inside of the house gets noisy, so I thought it would be a good idea to stop going out.

As I walked down the hallway, I heard a piano playing.

Sirone was shocked and stopped walking. For him, who grew up only in the mountains, the composer’s inspired music shook his heart in a different meaning from magic.

The sound came from Lian’s sister’s room. Sirone, who unconsciously stepped forward, saw Lian’s older sister for the first time.

A face as clean as the morning dew. A woman with blue hair flowing like waves was playing the piano.

It was Ogent Raina, the second daughter of the Ogent family.

The melody Reina played was truly heavenly. Although not the youngest, he was recognized for his skills at the age of 19 and entered the royal castle, so Sirone’s evaluation was not excessive.

Mars is gradually accumulating. the run of Mars. and variations. Sirone’s mind was moving along Reina’s fingertips like a marionette caught in a melody.

It was only after the performance was over that Sirone realized where she was. Maybe it’s because the emotion was too long? When he came to his senses, Reina was already looking back and waving.

“hi? How was my piano sonata?”

I read the book, but it was the first time I heard it with my ears. Sirone did not dare to comment on Reina’s performance.

“It’s good to come here and have a look. It’s the first time I see your face Are you the butler who came in this time?”

“yes. I’m in charge of sorting the library. It’s over now.”

“aha! I heard about it. You must be very smart. Classification is not for everyone.”

Is it because you are an artist? Her words and actions were not authoritative in the slightest, but rather showed consideration.

For the first time, Sirone was jealous of Lian, who had an older sister. Then he remembered the low-level crime he had committed unintentionally. As he overlapped what he saw with Reina’s face, his cheeks burned.

“Ugh!”

“Where are you? What’s wrong with your face?”

“Oh no.”

Sirone entered the room awkwardly. The most perfect lie is to deceive yourself. Sirone hypnotized him that he had not seen anything and changed the topic.

“You mean this is sheet music?”

“huh? yes that’s right It’s the third movement of the piano sonata, ‘In the Dark’, composed by Schreiman. Have you ever played the piano?”

“No, never.”

“okay? sit over here I’ll teach you. It’s not a difficult song.”

Sirone had a crush on her for being kind. Of course, I was dumbfounded because I heard from Lian that I was a bad-tempered witch.

Sirone struck the first chord, paying attention to his fingering as he had taught him. Then, moving sparsely again, I connected it with the second chord.

“wow! your eyes are very fast The first sighting is really good.”

To play a piece of music that one has never seen before is called a first sighting. Technical talent is required rather than sensibility, and it is safe to say that a person with excellent vision has a high speed of thinking.

Sirone was happy with Reina’s praise. However, he forgot his inspiration for Reina and immersed himself in the piano. It was an unstoppable curiosity.

“I’m sorry…”

“Huh?”

“Can you play it again just once?”

At that moment, Reina discovered Sirone’s unique temperament. It is a lie invented by critics that artists like talent. Rather, artists loved passion.

“good. Then listen carefully.”

Raina encored ‘In the Dark’. Even to Sirone, an outsider, it was a much more delicate performance than the first. It was the power of schema. Her nervous system, which understands her own body, is twice as sensitive as a normal person.

When the performance was over, Reina turned her head with a satisfied face. But Sirone, like someone who hadn’t heard anything, didn’t show her expression and was lost in thought.

“Can I try it?”

“huh? uh yes.”

“Please understand even if it’s hard to hear.”

“Huh, of course. Everyone is like that when they first do it.”

Sirone’s hands gently moved up to the keyboard. The moment she thought her posture was pretty good, Sirone’s fingers started tapping the keys.

Reina smiled awkwardly as unknown music played. However, as he entered the rank of lieutenant general, he listened as if he had realized something.

‘What is this kid? What the hell are you trying to do?’

The sound was all out of tune. Completely wrong. But to my surprise…

they were perfectly similar.

I can’t really explain it, but it was true. Obviously, Sirone did not have the technical proficiency to play sheet music.

However, except for the technical part, he imitated everything of her as if he had become Reina.

It’s not a performance to show off to someone. The child had only the piano in his head.

‘A little more. A little closer.’

Sirone was desperate to infiltrate the music. Since I kept the tempo, the pace of development was too fast. He was unable to produce accurate notes with his first sighting skills.

It compressed the concentration that fluttered in seconds. The spirit of trance began to be sucked into the Spirit Zone.

Rayna swallowed her saliva. Pleasant chords intermittently intervened in the cacophony.

And finally ‘Doo-Doo-Du-Doo!’ At the climax, the performance for exactly 1.7 seconds perfectly matched the score.

Rayna held her breath in a shudder. Sirone maintained that state and entered the normal cadence.

After picking up the 1st degree, he raised both hands and struck the 5th degree like a thunderbolt. Then, I pressed the last degree with the greatest passion of my life.

Woo woo woo woo woo.

The harmonies from the past 4 minutes ago dissipated with 7 notes, spreading an infinite aftertaste.

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