Since When Did You Have The Illusion That You Don’t Have Magical Powers?! - CH 1.2

“Damn it, ouch…….”

I winced at the dull pain in my body.

“Perfectio kun, are you awake? You’ve been hit hard all over, you don’t need to force yourself to get up.”

I smell medicinal herbs. And why does my whole body hurt so much?

And what Perfectio? I don’t have a name like that. I’m Sinistra. Fortis Sinistra.

No, no. That’s the name of the legendary great magician who defeated the Black Flame Dragon of Calamity.

“I” am Sapphiras Perfectio……

Huh? “I”? No, wait, I’m not a ‘I1‘!

……That’s strange. There’s something wrong with ‘me’. What’s going on?

“Ah…….”

With a thump, I remembered the dream I had just had. I see, that’s what this is. This is the ‘chance’ that Fortina was talking about. Am I already living a different life? I don’t know what happened to this body, but the pain reminded me of my previous life. In addition, the interaction with the goddess. It seems that in Sapphiras, where the memories of his previous life were revived, the personality of ‘boku’, who lived for 14 years, has been more or less eaten up by ‘ore’. After all, ‘ore’, who is Fortis, died at the age of 25. I guess it can’t be helped if the personality of an adult with a lot of life experience comes out. But I wish I’d remembered that earlier if it was going to happen anyway.

Up until now, Sapphiras has been a pitiful child.

Every child of a noble family has to be enrolled at the Royal Creare High School in the royal capital of this country. It is said that this is the custom of the nobility in this country.

I was born to a small merchant family in the countryside in my previous life, so there was no way I knew anything about noble schools. And since I left home at the age of 14 to become an adventurer, I had nothing to do with the schools that commoners attend.

The main thing you learn at the academy is magic, but of course there are children without magic power, so you also learn arithmetic, foreign languages, history and culture. If they wanted, they could also learn swordsmanship.

Even if Sapphiras could not use magic, he could have been educated to develop other talents. My parents didn’t do that.

I am not an illegitimate child, I do indeed have Perfectio’s blood running through my veins, there is a great possibility that there will be another child born without magic somewhere else. It’s also possible that my older brother’s or younger brother’s child has no magic power. With me as an example, I can’t say for certain that it won’t happen.

If such a child is born, will they be isolated from the family again like I was? I would like to say that magic and money won’t last forever.

However, I am not a dropout who can’t use magic. Even now, as I am doing this, I feel enough magic inside me that I will be able to use magic just as I did in my previous life. That is why I am not at all convinced that I was judged to have no magic powers.

Commoners don’t go out of their way to judge magic power. When I was Fortis, before I knew it, I found myself using magic, and I didn’t even wonder about it. My parents didn’t treat me any differently. At best, they just said, ‘Wow, you can do that, that’s really convenient.” I wasn’t surprised or afraid. They were very generous, or rather, they were very open-minded parents that were unfazed by most things. They were very different from my parents in this life.

I touched that crystal for the first time when I was five years old in this life, but that crystal didn’t glow with my magic power. My magic power is a blessing given by a goddess, so it must be a fundamentally different kind of power.

Even if that was true, it’s fine if I can’t make it shine, but my pride won’t allow a former great magician to be called magic-less.

If my personality had been awakened at the time of the magic appraisal, I could have made the crystal glow like the sun with magic, and I could have made it explode in a big explosion.

Magic is of course something that can be used if you have magical power. So if you are told by an authoritative organisation with the backing of a country that you don’t have magical power, you can’t use magic, both ‘I’ myself and those around me will also think so. Even so, if I had been brought up in a decent home, even Sapphiras without magic power would have lived a happy life. Because he had a lousy family, Sapphiras has been forced to live a pitiful life. But my awakening changed Sapphiras’ ‘Fate Fortuna’. This must be the blessing of luck that Fortina gave me.

After all, I am an extraordinary magician.

It is no exaggeration to say that my magical power is bottomless. As long as I myself am alive, I can use magic like hot water. Therefore, no matter how big the magic I use, I won’t fall into the situation of running out of magic power.

Furthermore, I don’t need incantations, which are required to use magic. Incantations? What is that? Is it fun? I just said that. As far as I am concerned, I was so out of the ordinary that my life was too interesting. As expected of the goddess’ blessing.

To Sapphiras up till today, I am truly sorry for sleeping until now.

Originally, I would have been the most respected in the family, and I would have lived a good life every day. If I had wanted to, I could have destroyed the shitty family tradition.

It’s a little late, but I’m really glad I remembered my previous life.

But if the memories of the past come back like this, I have absolutely no confidence that I’ll be able to get on with my family, who have always slighted me. I didn’t get on well with them in the first place.

Up until now, the 14-year-old ‘me’ has been living with a narrow shoulder and holding his breath. But as a great magician, I am a pretty easily happy person.

I did what I wanted to do as much as I wanted and avoided what I didn’t want to do. I always got involved in the fun and interesting things. I didn’t fit in at all with the strict Perfectio family culture. ‘I’ was quiet and serious. I was always afraid of my father and fiancé, and I was always shrinking away. I couldn’t even open up to my brothers. They both looked at ‘me’ like I was dust, because I couldn’t use magic.

Everyone has strengths and weaknesses. No one lives alone. And even more so if you are family, shouldn’t they make up for each other’s shortcomings? I think it’s a shame that people forget that and think that we, a family with strong magical powers, are special.

In my previous life as an adventurer, people like that were usually shunned by their friends. If you’re going to form a party, it has to be with someone you can trust, respect and admire. In that respect, I can’t have such feelings towards my family. Naturally, they wouldn’t have any such feelings towards me.

Even though I owe them a debt of gratitude for raising me for 14 years, I have no memory of being loved at all, so I have no feelings towards my family. Even my mother treated me as if I did not exist, as if she could not bear the responsibility for giving birth to an incompetent child.

Naturally, Sapphiras was hurt. It’s not his fault that he doesn’t have magic. (Actually, he does have magical powers.) How much pain Sapphiras must have suffered to be blamed for something he couldn’t do anything about through his own efforts.

A child’s world is small. Not only is the field of vision narrow, but there is actually nowhere to escape. Only loving my brothers and treating ‘me’ like a child who doesn’t exist. No one in the mansion gave me a helping hand.

But don’t worry, Sapphiras, from today onwards! I’ve been to many countries as an adventurer, so my life experience is overwhelming. No matter what my father says, I won’t flinch.

I was thinking about my future self when I regained consciousness, but all the commotion at the academy while I was talking to the goddess was blamed on me, and my engagement was dissolved for bringing shame to Gilliam, the son of the Marquess. I guess they couldn’t pretend that everything their son had done had never happened. After all, it seems that Gilliam’s attitude at the academy was not good at all to begin with, and after I entered the school, Gilliam’s attitude towards me was frowned upon by those around me. You can’t put a door on a people’s mouths. That’s why, in consideration of the Earl’s family, they probably decided to have a dissolution rather than an annulment2 of the engagement.

As for me, I was relieved that my engagement to such a man had been dissolved, even though it had cost me a great deal of pain and suffering, but my father did not think so.

I had just regained consciousness and was called in, and instead of being worried about me, I was beaten and abused. He really is a terrible parent.

There is no place for me in this house. For now, I’m going to spend as long as I can at the academy, and when I graduate, I’m going to become an adventurer. I have almost invincible magic now, so I can do well solo. I already have the means to live on my own without relying on my parents. In time, I might meet people I get on well with, like my old comrades.

Student life is only four years. Since I’m going to spend my time at the academy, I really want to enjoy my youth. In my previous life, I was a commoner, so I didn’t go to school. I was the third son, but thanks to my parents’ laissez-faire attitude, I grew up free and easy. It wasn’t bad in its own right, but I’d like to experience being a student properly once. With that in mind, I started looking forward to my time at the academy.

Everything up to now is just up to now. I’m only 14 years old, I can make up for it. I can enjoy my life from now on.

Let’s make 100 friends and eat sandwiches on Mount Paluum.

With a quick change of heart, I spit out bloody saliva at the entrance, rubbed my swollen face and returned to the academy dormitory with a transfer3.

Fortis refers to himself as 俺 (ore) which is informal and mostly used with close people, while Sapphiras uses 僕 (boku) which is a bit more formal and most commonly used. Up till now, boku has been used. There’s a part later that’s going to be a bit confusing so I’m just gonna use boku and ore for that part.

both means to cancel the engagement but an annulment is unilateral whereas a dissolution is upon the agreement of both parties

he teleported