The Magic Academy's Physicist-Chapter 207: From Master to Slave (8)
Chapter 207: From Master to Slave (8)
How could she help Klais learn Elec Magic faster?
As Aether thought about it, the idea she came up with was simpler than expected.
“Time for a test.”
“...Again?”
“Are you complaining?”
“N-no.”
She spoke softly, but perhaps she was fatigued by research as it was mixed with a bit of irritation.
Rubbing her eyes, Aether took away the book that Klais was reading.
“Let’s see how far you’ve gotten in five days.”
She called it a test, but it was a simple question-and-answer format.
When Aether used to be Klais’ slave, Klais hadn’t quizzed her like this. This was purely Aether’s way of teaching her.
There’d be these light mental jabs at her whenever she got something wrong, but it wasn’t anything unbearable.
The problem was that she was being tested way too many times.
Five times a day was a given, and some days they’d do it more than ten times. Klais’ heart clenched every time it happened.
It felt like she was back to when her father would educate her.
“The intuitive implications of electromagnetic equations.”
Aether asked without even opening the book, and after a moment of hesitation, Klais soon answered.
“Electric charges make magnetic fields. Magnets cannot exist as an odd pole....”
The curriculum of first year university by another world’s standards.
It was infinitely easy for Aether, or ‘Aether’, but for Klais who was learning it for the first time, it was all new.
Klais was even being forced to self-study the book the Aether wrote without help from anyone.
Perhaps that was why?
Even the things that she thought were easy took a long time to learn.
“When a magnetic field changes, an electric field is formed. When an electric field changes... a magnetic field is formed?”
“Why is it a question.”
Again with the mental jabs.
They were small scoldings, but to Klais who was at her wits end, it was a reprimand that left her mouth dry.
“Uh, uh.......”
Her pupils trembled.
It was going to be bad if she couldn’t answer here.
Because she wasn’t going to be given anything to eat.
“Th-there was something else besides this....”
“That’s right.”
“Ah.... a magnetic field forms even when a current flows......?”
Klais finally recited the implications of Maxwell’s Equation. Although it wasn’t detailed, it was a satisfying accomplishment for her first time.
She still had a ways to go, but it didn’t matter. It hadn’t been that long since she learned the theory of electromagnetism so it was enough to give a passing grade.
Aether took out cherry tomatoes from the bag.
“Not bad.”
Klais stuffed the tomatoes in her mouth as soon as she got them.
The sweet and sour taste and refreshing juiciness blew her mind.
Even Klais who normally went around with a hard face grinned like a teenage girl at this time, enjoying this little happiness.
Licking her lips while savoring the juice, Klais urged her subtly.
“Is, is there no more?”
“I’m going to ask a few more questions.”
The difficulty went up after that, but Klais answered the best she could.
It was only difficult at first because of nerves, but once she caught fire, she could answer right away and get tomatoes.
The quizzing continued until the near-hundred tomatoes that she packed were about half gone.
“At this rate, it won’t be long until the main research.”
A fact that had been overlooked. Klais was originally a genius in human society.
Not only was her level of general physics impressive, it was a considerable skill getting through a key Chapter of electromagnetism in only five days.
If it had been any other human, they wouldn’t even have made it this far in time.
At the thought of being able to use her soon as a superconductivity research assistant, Aether’s lips slowly tilted upwards.
“This is it for today. Rest for the day and we’ll move onto the next step tomorrow.”
“Ah.......”
Once she was full thanks to all the tomatoes, Klais was hit with reality once more.
She realized that the part where she got food as a reward for following orders properly was no different than a master training their dog.
It was so shameful she could die. She was no dog.
But this was the only other way to sate her hunger besides eating the porridge, and that was how Klais justified herself.
**The teaching of Klais continued.
‘Aether’ wasn’t that good a teacher, not teaching something directly herself by default.
If it had to be categorized, it was a laissez-faire type of education like in graduate school.
No, she didn’t know if it could even be called an education as she had to do all the learning herself and all Aether did was evaluate.
This half-assed education was continuing even today.
“Huu....”
Klais was etching a scroll with a frown.
A laborious process that had sweat beading on her forehead.
This, too, was ordered by Aether. An order to make a scroll that will work even at high temperatures using the properties of electrical elements that she learned about.
She didn’t exactly know why she was told to do this.
But she was able to deduce immediately that it was because Aether was going to use her as a research assistant.
Klais also went through this kind of process when she first took Aether as a slave. Teaching her the bare minimum since she didn’t have time, and making her learn the rest herself so she could assist her research.... That was how it was.
Now that she was experiencing the opposite, she felt like dying. Somehow it was harder than her graduate school days.
“I’ll be back.”
“.......”
“Answer.”
“...Have a good day.”
She didn’t use the title ‘Master’ until the end, wanting to preserve the last of her dignity.
She wasn’t sure if Aether knew or not, but she never pointed out that she wasn’t using the title ‘Master’.
“Uhuhuhu!”
As soon as Aether closed the door behind her, she heard a strange laugh.
“Gilach.”
The silver-haired High Elf with hooks for arms, ‘Clear Moon’ Gilach came up to her grinning.
“It’s been a while! Huhaha!”
“And your laugh still sounds like shit, ruins my mood this morning.”
“It hurts if you say such hard words. Huhuhu!”
He wasn’t picking a fight first for some reason.
This meant one thing.
“Why are you so happy.”
“Look behind me. Huhuhuhuhu!”
As her gaze followed the chain that Gilach was holding, there was a human slave.
“I’ve also taken a slave. Hahahaha!”
After seeing the slave, Aether immediately looked down, more curious about how he was holding the chain with his hook than what the slave looked like.
“You hold the chain well with your fucked up hands.”
“Hm? Is that what interests you? That’s no fun.”
“This one has no intentions of going along with your hobby either.”
“Don’t be like that and take a look at my toy. This one’s a real prize!”
Gilach stepped slightly to the side. When he did, an incredible-looking woman glared at Aether with her teeth clenched.
“...Now what are you trying to insult me with!”
The woman spoke in a raised voice.
Both despair and stubbornness could be seen in her eyes that glittered like carnelians. As Aether looked, she observed closely.
She’d seen that face somewhere.
It was probably a useless guess. There were countless blond-haired, red-eyed people in the world.
As Aether smirked and was about to continue on her way–
Gilach stepped in front of her.
“Is there anything special about her?”
“What.”
“This slave! Don’t you sense any special energy from her unlike yours?”
“I did tell you repeatedly that I would chop you into pieces if you bother me during research.”
She threatened, but she would actually lose if they fought.
Because Gilach specialized in frontline battle while Aether was far from direct combat.
Both Heavens knew this, which was why it could be just taken as a curse said in jest.
As she was about to ignore him and move on again, the woman spoke to Aether.
“You......are you also a Beast.”
Wasn’t that obvious?
She thought the woman weird. Aether was going to leave without even answering.
That is, until Gilach stabbed his hook into the woman’s thigh.
“Ha, ugh, haaargh...!”
An unrefined scream like that of a hissing cat filled the corridor.
The right crescent-looking hook pierced exactly through the thigh. Grasping her leg, the woman lost her balance and fell down.
It made the wound rip open diagonally and bleed profusely.
“Who said you could talk to another without my permission?”
Snickering, Gilach pulled out the hook that had been stuck deep like a giant nail. Bad blood splattered everywhere.
The floor instantly pooled with blood.
The woman sent a deathly glare at Gilach while holding her leg tight.
“You piece of garbage.......”
“Still have enough energy to talk, hm?”
The second and third strikes followed immediately. As her other leg was also pierced, the woman screamed like she was dying.
Gilach grabbed the woman’s clothes with his right hook and dragged her, the blood from her two legs decorating the hallway with skid marks.
The woman’s eyes were glassy like they were dead.
Clicking his tongue, Gilach spouted words that were hard to tell if they were a compliment or mockery.
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“Wow, you still won’t bring out the Elementals? That’s quite the stubbornness.”
Because it was obvious that she could bleed to death if left this way, Gilach raised his left hook and dug it into the wounded area.
The woman who had fainted opened her eyes into slits and vomited blood.
“Ha, agh....... Aargh...! Stop, it....... Please...!”
Despite her desperate cries for help, the leg that had been stabbed with the left hook was slowly healing.
The form corresponding to the waning moon.
Quick heal.
If Gilach’s right hook was the one that wounded the target, the left one was the one that healed.
While there was mental pain that came with the healing process, the wound would heal cleanly so it was a perfect technique for torturing prisoners.
Dumping the woman on the ground, Gilach laughed wickedly.
“Yes, you have to be this resilient for it to be fun.”
“What a pig.”
“What do you mean? It’s nothing compared to what the humans did in the past. Huhahahaha!”
The way the Demon Army treated prisoners was usually like this.
They tortured others cruelly and reveled in their pain. Then when they became damaged beyond use, they discarded them for the next one.
It was similar to how Akasha and Rosemary had beaten Klais badly at the Eight Formations and dragged her off.
No one else there at the time had called them out, as that was the nature of a corrupted Beast.
“It’s unpleasant.”
But there were exceptions everywhere.
“I say you’re a pig because you torture when it brings no results. What benefits do your actions just now bring to our kind?”
Even in the Demon Army there was someone who saw this with disapproval.
