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Chapter 6 - Let's Learn Magic (3)
Chapter 6: Let’s Learn Magic (3)
TL/ED – Enuma ID
The pottery experience was a system where you did the shaping yourself, and the workshop did the firing and then delivered the finished product to your home.
That was a relief at least.
Since I touched it with my own hands and shaped it, it would probably be treated as something I made.
W̄ ẽ b̆ǹӧ v́ е l̃ Еn̄ ů m̌а̀
And Yo-han waited for the delivery while reading books at the library.
It was not just killing time, but acquiring information.
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[Cthulhu Mythos – The Complete Works of Lovecraft]
So far, there had been no content directly related to the Cthulhu Mythos in the parts I had read, but Abdul Alhazred was deliberately mentioned in the first chapter of De Vermis Mysteriis, and it said the author had learned Magic in Damascus, a region with connections.
I judged that it was necessary to learn the related background knowledge.
But what surprised me a bit while reading this short story collection was….
Еn̈ u mӑ
‘It’s the Cthulhu Mythos. But Cthulhu himself… hasn’t appeared since getting bonked on the head by a steamship!’
Well, a full speed steamship charge would hurt.
I fall over in pain when I stub my little toe on a corner too. You have to understand.
So I should not think like this.
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No, Fuck! How could Cthulhu, said to be the strongest among the Great Old Ones, get hit by a steamship! (×)
I should understand it like this.
Е num a.і d̀
Ah, a fully charged steamship charge really hurts. (○)
Of course, that was a joke, and if you look at the novel’s content.
The steamship charge stopped Cthulhu’s resurrection, but it did not deal any meaningful damage.
The police raided the heretics who were performing Cthulhu’s resurrection ritual, so the ritual was not carried out properly.
While being summoned as an incomplete mass, his head was pierced by the steamship charge and he was dragged back to his own home, R’lyeh.
…Looking at it this way, public authority really is strong. The police are strong.
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Ah, I thought it was just a cosmic horror genre, but unexpectedly I also felt a praise of humanity.
The brave Norwegian sailor.
After seeing the incomplete Cthulhu, his companions went mad and died, and he himself was half insane, but.
Realizing that he could not escape, and thinking, whether by instinct or not, that he could not leave this monster alone.
The scene where he resolved himself to death, drove the steamship at full speed, avoided Cthulhu’s tentacles, and rammed into him was good.
…And to be honest.
Ẽn̈ ǔ m ӑ
Rather than stories with Outer Gods or Great Old Ones and such appearing.
The picture in that house. A story where the narrator, taking shelter from pouring rain in an old house, talks with an elderly man obsessed with cannibalism who owns an unpleasant book illustrated with scenes of killing and butchering people.
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Herbert West–Reanimator. A story where the narrator, Herbert’s friend and a fellow medical school student, watches Herbert West as he fiddles with corpses and conducts corpse reanimation experiments.
Short stories like these, which had little connection to Cthulhu, suited my taste more and were more interesting.
It was not that stories with monsters were badly written, it was just truly personal preference.
Beings from outer space, unknowable terror, anyway, whenever things like that appeared, the descriptions were too long and verbose.
W е̌ b̈n̈ о v el Е n̈ um̄ă
They lacked simplicity.
I closed the book and stood up from my seat. Looking out the window, the sun was setting.
In the end, rather than acquiring information, I had purely enjoyed reading.
Still, if there was one thing I realized, it was that the Cthulhu Mythos was a work of creation.
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A story made from the combined settings of Lovecraft and many other writers.
I looked at De Vermis Mysteriis in my bag.
W ĕ b̆ n̂_o.v́ е l̀ Е n̂um а
Then why was the name of Abdul Alhazred, a character from a work of fiction, written in a Grimoire that must have been written at least in 1272?
Was he actually a real person, or was De Vermis Mysteriis also a fictional work of the Cthulhu Mythos?
Or was everything actually all true?
“……….”
I thought about it briefly, but it was meaningless, so I stopped.
Continuing to invest time and energy into something that could not yield a definitive answer no matter how much I worried was a waste.
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I had to stop at an appropriate point.
What mattered was that there was real magical power, and that I had gotten involved with it.
If I were to indulge in delusions using the subculture experience I had accumulated until now.
It would be a case where the story itself gained power.
A magical …energy wearing the skin of myth?
“…Ha.”
Е̌ň ũ m̈а̌
I snorted at myself, put the book I had read back in its original place, and left the library.
Let’s stop with the useless delusions and go home.
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Today was Wednesday, the day the completed pottery bowl would be delivered.
It should have arrived by now.
That is right, today was Wednesday. The day of Mercury.
Today’s sunrise was at six forty five in the morning.
È nüm a
If the day of Mercury was set to start from seven in the morning.
The Hour of Mercury when the moon was up was nine in the evening.
I could go home, eat dinner, and prepare.
I had the preparation materials, and the planetary date and hour matched.
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Now it’s finally time to experiment with Magic.
***
Еṅ u m̈ а̃
That said, calling it a magic experiment did not mean anything grand.
I planned to try making Holy Water, an item that supported the magic written in the book.
I wondered what the difference was from church Holy Water, but according to the book, it was magical water.
I held the book open in one hand, reading and reviewing the process.
Magic water, the first step of making Holy Water.
On the day and hour of Mercury, prepare clear and cold water and pour it into a bowl.
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In the Middle Ages, obtaining clear and cold water would have been difficult, but in modern times it was easy.
I poured water from a bottled water container that had been kept in the refrigerator into the bowl.
Second, grab a handful of salt, about as much as could be held in one hand. At this time, you must not grip it too tightly.
And while holding the salt, recite the incantation written in the book.
“Tsebaoth, Messiah, Immanuel, Elohim Gibor, Yahweh. God who created truth and life.”
“Bless and consecrate this salt. Also, from now on, grant assistance and protection to the sorcery to be performed.”
E ñ ǔ m а̌
Sprinkle the salt held in the hand over the water in the bowl.
Now, while watching the salt dissolve into the water, recite the final prayer incantation.
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“Hear my prayer and let my cry come up to You, Lord.”
“In the day of my trouble, do not hide Your face from me. Incline Your ear to me and answer me speedily in the day when I call.”
That was the end of it.
‘It really is an incantation. I should practice the pronunciation later so I don’t mess up the spell.’
W_ѐb n̄о́v̈ ē l̈ Е̊n̈ um̌а́
Thinking that to myself, I waited for something special to happen.
You know, something like a sparkling, sacred-looking aura flowing out.
“………?”
However, nothing happened.
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I narrowed my eyes and looked down at the Holy Water in the pottery bowl.
‘This is… not just salt mixed water, is it….’
Ẃе̃b́ n о́ ve l̃ Е̊ ṅ ům̄ а
No, for now, let’s continue and make the Holy Water sprinkler.
Was that not why I deliberately chose the evening for the Holy Water sprinkler.
A Holy Water sprinkler was an auxiliary Holy Water tool made using plants or branches.
You used it to sprinkle drops of Holy Water.
The best material for a Holy Water sprinkler was hyssop, but if you did not have it, you could also use herbs like lavender, vervain, fennel, valerian, or rosemary.
Making a Holy Water sprinkler was simple. There was no need to recite an incantation.
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Instead, it had to be made on the day and hour of Mercury when the moon was up, which was why I chose the evening time.
I took out the hyssop I had bought in advance from the flower shop and wrapped it with string to make a handle.
I dipped the hyssop into the Holy Water and shook it once.
The Holy Water sprinkler was complete.
Ta-da. I completed the Holy Water and Holy Water sprinkler set.
“Haah….”
Еnüm ӓ .ǐ d̂
I was not sure if it was done properly. I let out a sigh, roughly tossed the old junk Grimoire onto the desk, and.
Clang-
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A sudden wave of emptiness hit me and I lay down on the bed.
“…What am I even doing.”
“Gyaa?”
As if it thought I was done with my work, Grizzly, who had been crouched quietly in a corner, came over and rubbed its head against my hand.
Еnŭ m̄ ӓ
“Giii~.”
It was saying that it waited well, so give it a snack. I petted Grizzly’s head and pushed it away.
“No. You ate dinner earlier. That is fake hunger.”
“Giii….”
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“Damn it.”
Personally, maybe because there were times when I wanted to eat something as a child but could not, I did not want to scold it over food.
Enù m̊ а̀ .і̆d
“Haah….”
I had no choice but to get up and check the refrigerator.
‘I guess I need to go buy meat and milk again tomorrow.’
I would have to spend more money to make other magic tools too. My expenses had increased too much lately.
In the end, money is the problem.
After preparing Grizzly’s snack, I lay back down on the bed and searched through sites and apps looking for short-term part-time jobs.
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…I wondered if there was anything decent.
Then one post caught my eye.
[Urgently looking for same-day night security part-time worker.]
It was not a particularly strange post, but the preferred qualifications were unusual.
People with strong nerves, …people who do not believe in Ghosts are welcome.
That kind of wording worked in reverse. It looked like a warning telling you to know what you were getting into.
W ë b̊n о̊v е̄l̂ Ё nũ m̊а̊
I raised my upper body from the bed and looked at the Holy Water and Holy Water sprinkler that I had roughly left in the kitchen.
I checked the night security part-time job post again.
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Then I gently turned my gaze and looked at the Holy Water once more.
“…Should I try testing it?”
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