With less than two weeks until New Year, it’s snowing.
It seems like it’s snowing a lot this year.
"The cats huddled under the kotatsu but my family are cat lovers and can't work in the fields, so they huddled in the house."
At this time, even though she was wearing clothes, she was like a big cat, so her desire to be fluffy reared its head.
I took the iron rod Mr. Zeol gave me and left the house, looking at the huddled and twisting family.
It was naturally cold outside in the snow, but not as cold as I thought because I had a flexible layer of air around my body and I had my own fur.
Getting to the mountains was a hassle, so I started swinging in the nearby snow-covered fields.
You don't have to worry about getting buried in the snow because there are steps for your feet.
Gradually, he began to relax his body, wipe away the layer of air surrounding himself, and completely immerse himself in the practice swing.
At first I felt the weight of the stick swinging from side to side, but now I have a stronger feeling that I can control and swing it.
Hit, stab, cut, sweep as if the stick becomes a part of your body, swinging it with the desired trajectory and with the required force.
The sound of sticks cutting through the cold wind accelerated my feelings.
After knocking him down directly, Miguel and others stopped intervening.
There were six people in total. Even if they grabbed a stick and hit them, they would not be able to cause any harm at all.
I haven't seen him swordfighting on the riverbed since.
The key thing is that Miguel doesn't seem to give up, so he may come up with something else, but then I'll take it back.
By the time I finished the basic swing and completed the swing to meet Zeol, the sky darkened and it started to snow.
You can continue if you use heavenly magic to make the roof, but that's it for today.
I grabbed the iron bar and ran home and took a bath in the well behind the house.
Unlike cats, cat people sweat, so if you leave them alone, they will stink.
"It's well water. Although it won't freeze, it's still very cold."
After washing myself, I broke out in a sweat. I shook my body and blew away the moisture, then went into the house and lit the fire in the fireplace.
"I don't smell bad, but people in my house smell like cats."
When I was doing farm work, I boiled bath water every day, once every two days in the off-season, and once every three days after it snowed.
I think one of the reasons people despise cat people is how bad the place stinks, but I guess it can't be fixed.
After lunch, I originally wanted to go outside to practice magic again, but the snow fell even harder, so I decided to practice inside.
"Because we were poor, the house was small, literally only two rooms."
Cat Man's house feels like a mix of old Chinese houses and Western-style architecture.
One of the rooms had a fireplace instead of a stove in a room with a raised floor connected to the dirt floor of the kitchen.
The floor has about 6 tatami, but the carpet only has about 4 tatami.
After dinner, my mother and sister started knitting as a side job, while my father and two brothers lounged on the rug.
There is another room next to it, about the size of 6 tatami mats, but more than half of it is filled with textile tools for home work.
Warp threads cover almost the entire wall and are patterned through knots of different colored yarns.
I slept every night in a hammock hanging in the corner of this room.
In my previous life in China, I had my own room. Although it had four and a half tatami mats, there was absolutely no privacy here.
Well, I'm not old enough to feel privacy is necessary, and my mother and sister look like cats, so my heart isn't excited.
While my mother and sister worked on their side jobs, I began practicing detecting magic while curled up in a hammock.
The natural solidified air has a sensory connection, so I thought of using it for detection.
The method is to harden the air into particles and spread them radially around me.
The particles are strong enough to break when touched, and distance and shape can be felt from where they impact and break.
The sound effect of acoustic sonar is replaced by air particles.
At first I couldn't even get the particles to spread out, but now I can vaguely feel the shape of things, but the movement is still slow.
If it could be deployed at any time with greater speed and sensitivity, it would be possible to compensate for the lost vision in the left eye.
After about two hours of training, I lost concentration.
“At times like this, in China, we drink coffee but we don’t even have tea at home.”
“I couldn’t get canned coffee from convenience stores or vending machines, so I would ask Grandma Carissa to help me mix tea.”
I didn't want to go out today, so I stretched, turned over and over, and started another magic practice.
This is another detection magic that can hear distant sounds.
In other words, the plan is to use magic microphones to pick up distant sounds.
At first I tried using magic to create the audio microphone itself, but without success.
I have an image of a microphone that was used in karaoke, but although I was able to make the shape, it didn't add anything.
First, they don't know what components a microphone is made of and what principles are used to convert sound into electrical signals.
"So I imagined a human ear."
The ear amplifies the vibrations of the eardrum and recognizes sounds through nerve stimulation, so I created the vibrating membrane and the part that senses the vibrations, but that didn't work either.
First, I was able to capture sound with the membrane and feel it as vibrations, but I was unable to convert the felt vibrations into sound.
After I became blind in my left eye, I kept trying and finally found the cause.
One reason why sound conversion doesn't go smoothly is that the membrane that captures the vibrations has a feel of its own.
By creating an organ that senses vibrations in addition to the diaphragm, inputs are repeated and interfere with each other, confusing the senses.
Thus, when the organ for sensing vibrations is abolished, and only the input from the membrane disappears, the confusion of the senses subsides and is finally perceived as sound.
The diameter of the current diaphragm is about 30 cm, and the sound quality reaches the level of an out-of-tune radio.
I plan to continue training to make it smaller and achieve a clearer sound quality.
I'm also trying to use sky attribute magic to capture images, but no clear prospects yet.
Particles and vibrating membranes made of nature can be called tactile organs.
Touch and vibration can be felt, but the light that is the basis of the image is difficult to capture.
For example, it's like trying to see something by raising your palm.
I wonder if I can find a breakthrough, but the solidified air of natural nature is transparent and can let light pass through.
I feel like this proves their inability to capture the light.
For the time being, let’s improve our proficiency in sonar detection magic and listening magic.
"If the levels of these two magics are increased, they will play a role in covering the blind spots."
When I was immersed in magic practice, it was already evening in the blink of an eye.
Because it was snowing, the room was darker than usual.
When it gets dark, it's time to have dinner. After eating, the family goes to bed.
Lamp oil and magic stones for lighting magic instruments are expensive items for our poor family, so we should go to bed quickly at night to save money.
"Having said that, how are you doing, second brother?"
By the New Year, I will be 15 years old. If I can't find a job in the village, I have to go to the city to find a job.
He seems to work hard at school, and I don't think there's anything wrong with his academic abilities, but regardless, public opinion of cat people is lukewarm.
My body is small and not designed for heavy work, so I have to appeal with my mind.
In my previous life, I lost my life in high school, so I took the high school entrance examination but had no experience in finding a job.
It's been ten years since I was reborn into this world, but since I only have the knowledge of a child in the village, I can't give you any advice.
"I hung out in a room with a fireplace from morning till night, so I figured I had a good chance of winning."
