Magical inferiority: quantum control Chapter 020

In this magic practice room, a girl with a numb expression stood, while the boy opposite her stared at her with a perverted look, as if he was about to pounce.

In reality, the boy opposite was just continuously spouting a large number of new theories, his eyes completely devoid of interest in the girl’s beautiful appearance.

Shiba Miyuki initially found it interesting, but gradually she stopped understanding, and finally, she became numb.

Ten minutes! A full ten minutes!

Do you know how I spent these ten minutes?!

“Um, Chiba Yoru-kun?”

Shiba Miyuki carefully tried to interrupt the spell.

Shiba Miyuki actually admired Chiba Yoru’s leap-forward thinking. Hearing his new theories, she gained something, and he also shared these new concepts with her without hesitation, which made her feel grateful, but!

She really didn’t understand why Chiba Yoru became like this after encountering new things?

Completely like a mad scientist from the last century, the change was too drastic, wasn’t it?

The art style has changed!

“Uh, cough, cough, cough!”

“Um, I got a bit too excited, sorry!”

Chiba Yoru suddenly snapped back to reality, thinking about his excited state just now, he probably scared her.

“Um, can you please take your hand off my shoulder?”

The girl said with a blush, head bowed, her voice as faint as a mosquito’s.

“Oh!”

“I forgot!”

Chiba Yoru hastily released the girl’s shoulders.

“The magic you just experimented with was ‘Frost Mist Kingdom,’ right?”

Chiba Yoru changed the subject.

“Mm, that’s right. Let’s go look at the data.”

Shiba Miyuki only remembered that she hadn’t looked at the data after Chiba Yoru’s reminder.

The two walked to the screen, looking at the various data analyses of Frost Mist Kingdom.

“Whoa!”

“Not bad!”

“It’s almost reaching ‘Extreme Low Temperature’!”

Chiba Yoru looked at the data with surprise.

He knew that ‘Frost Mist Kingdom’ was a relatively high-ranking large-area destructive magic among A-class spells, but he didn’t expect Shiba Miyuki to be able to cast it to such an extent.

‘Extreme Low Temperature’ is not magic, but a temperature state, first proposed by Cyril Sia of France. It is also the highest recorded temperature threshold within the controllable range of psions. Its specific state refers to the temperature at which living organisms are insensitive to low temperatures. This temperature doesn’t mean it has no effect on organisms; rather, it causes severe frostbite, but the organism’s brain cannot feedback information about the frostbite. At this point, the temperature is considered ‘Extreme Low Temperature’.

This state is very difficult to achieve. It requires the magic’s interference with objects to reach an extremely abnormal level, with drastic changes in psion influence on air temperature, and extremely demanding requirements for the magician themselves, otherwise, this level simply cannot be reached.

“Mm, but it’s still a bit off, and I’m still not proficient in temperature control, adjustment, and the magic’s coverage area. I can’t fully master it.”

Shiba Miyuki looked at the data in front of her, stating calmly.

She had some understanding of her own shortcomings, and the problems she mentioned were difficulties she had been working hard to overcome. Although Shiba Miyuki felt she was diligent enough, this kind of thing truly wasn’t just about effort. For the first time, she had the illusion that her praised magical talent had failed.

The magic ‘Frost Mist Kingdom’ could be said to be relatively easy to cast among A-class spells, but it was also the most difficult to thoroughly master among A-class spells.

Proficiently mastering temperature control, adjustment, and magic coverage area—these are all fine-tuning details that require extensive magic practice for meticulous research. It’s indeed not a goal that can be achieved overnight.

“I say, what made you think of coming with me?”

“Your two little fangirls… er, they seem to be your brother’s fangirls.”

The ones Chiba Yoru was referring to were naturally Mitsui Honoka and Kitayama Shizuku.

“Little fangirls… little home-wreckers… bad women…”

Upon hearing about her brother’s little fangirls, Shiba Miyuki’s smiling face instantly darkened, looking as if it were about to drip water, muttering incessantly, and the psions around her body began to rampage.

“Hey, your brother isn’t here. You can lecture him when you get home!”

Chiba Yoru helplessly patted Shiba Miyuki’s shoulder, trying to calm her down.

“You’re right, I’ll lecture him when I get home.”

Shiba Miyuki snapped back to reality, nodding calmly, indicating her agreement with Chiba Yoru’s words.

“………”

Chiba Yoru was speechless. This truly was a biological sister!

“Mitsui Honoka and Kitayama Shizuku, they didn’t ask you to come along?”

Chiba Yoru asked curiously.

According to Chiba Yoru’s understanding of Shiba Miyuki’s personality, this girl was a severe brother-complex. Aside from her brother, she rarely—no, almost never—actively contacted other males. Chiba Yoru wouldn’t believe that just because he transmigrated, any pretty girl with status would throw herself at him!

Chiba Yoru was more willing to believe that Shiba Miyuki wanted to gain something from him or that he could help her in some way.

“They did look for me just now, but I refused.”

Shiba Miyuki glanced at Chiba Yoru.

“Then what made you think of looking for me?”

Chiba Yoru had been walking alone at the very back just now; Shiba Miyuki had only found him later.

“They and I only just met once. How could that compare to you!”

A faint smile appeared on the girl’s face.

“Why don’t I believe that!”

“We’ve only met… 5, 6, 7, 8 times, er, we’ve indeed met many times.”

Chiba Yoru calculated in his mind. They indeed met frequently. Perhaps, aside from Shiba Tatsuya, Shiba Miyuki was basically always with him, even if it was just an occasional two sentences. That was still a lot; at least on the surface, they could be considered familiar.

“See, told you?”

Shiba Miyuki’s smile deepened.

“Alright!”

Chiba Yoru said helplessly.

He also knew that although they were familiar, they weren’t familiar enough to ask or say anything. He understood the principle of not speaking too deeply when the relationship was shallow.

“Look, I always struggle with these three aspects. Do you have any good suggestions?”

Shiba Miyuki pointed at the data on the screen, asking Chiba Yoru for ways to compensate for her shortcomings.

“Hmm, this requires more practice. Isn’t there any simulation facility?”

Chiba Yoru asked curiously, crossing his arms.

Upon hearing that Chiba Yoru didn’t directly refuse, Shiba Miyuki’s eyes instantly lit up.

Not saying there was no way meant there was a way!

“Do you think simulating A-class magic is that simple?”

“Besides the magician’s own psion storage, the magician’s familiarity with magic, the degree of magic interference with objects, temperature, range, etc., are all unknown variables. Even a B-class magic isn’t that easy to simulate, not to mention that magicians are constantly improving. Many things can’t be done by simulation; at least, not yet.”

Shiba Miyuki explained.

“Can’t be done?”

Chiba Yoru was a bit confused. These things were indeed significant factors, but couldn’t they just be read if they were known?

Shiba Tatsuya should be quite good at this, right?

“Because there’s no way to simultaneously read and process massive amounts of data.”

Shiba Miyuki seemed to have seen Chiba Yoru’s question and stated directly.

“I see.”

Chiba Yoru nodded.

“So, can you tell me your method?”

Shiba Miyuki looked at Chiba Yoru with some expectation.

“Come on, go to that circular platform. You prepare to activate the magic, and I’ll help you feel your magic.”

Chiba Yoru finished speaking and led the way onto the circular platform.

Shiba Miyuki followed suit, then the CAD started to activate. Suddenly, a hand appeared on her shoulder, almost interrupting her.

“Concentrate!”

Chiba Yoru quickly reminded her.

Upon hearing this, Shiba Miyuki immediately focused her attention on casting the magic.

“Slow down the activation sequence!”

Chiba Yoru said again.

Shiba Miyuki was clearly stunned for a moment, then complied.

She didn’t understand the meaning of doing this. Modern magicians, unless from an ancient magic family, basically pursued activation speed. The faster the magic release speed, the more they could seize the initiative and achieve a preemptive strike.

After all, in a battle between two magicians, the one who could release magic first would definitely have the advantage.

“Quantum Domain Expansion!”

“Activate Magic: ‘Situational Awareness’”

“Activate Magic: ‘State Link’”

Chiba Yoru linked his microscopic world vision of psions and magic to Shiba Miyuki’s vision.

“This!”

Shiba Miyuki was stunned!

In her sight, the entire world underwent drastic changes. Colorful psions, spirits, activating magic sequences, and so on, all became clearly visible. It was as if everything invisible to the naked eye was placed directly before her. This sense of shock made Shiba Miyuki feel for a moment that she was dreaming.

This was a vibrant world she had never seen before, or rather, probably no one could see such a dreamlike world. She had never imagined what the microscopic world of psions looked like.

Even more terrifying was that Shiba Miyuki could not only see the manifestations of the microscopic world but also the constantly changing data within it, including the activation sequence she was currently releasing.

“Whew!”

Shiba Miyuki exhaled softly and began to concentrate on her activating magic.

As Shiba Miyuki continuously varied the psion injection amount, activation method, and intensity for the magic, ‘Frost Mist Kingdom’ constantly changed.

“Shrink your ‘Frost Mist Kingdom’ to one square meter!”

“Otherwise, with your internal psion storage, you won’t be able to practice multiple times!”

“And it’s too exhausting.”

“Start with the small aspects, control the range first.”

Chiba Yoru looked at the massive magic in the testing ground and couldn’t help but remind her.

“Mm.”

Shiba Miyuki nodded, controlling the magic to shrink its range.

The massive magic in the testing ground began to shrink, eventually only enveloping a single magic experiment pillar.

“Maintain this range, and start adjusting the low temperature of ‘Frost Mist Kingdom’!”

Chiba Yoru saw that the range of ‘Frost Mist Kingdom’ began to stabilize and prompted her again.

“Okay!”