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The Magic of Runes

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[This particular feed looks much more staged than any of her others. A table has been set up, and there's a wooden box sitting conspicuously in the center of it. Hibiki herself stands excitedly a little to the side, making it easy to see the set up.

And in the background, unintentionally, is a sleeping Cyndaquil. Whoops. BUT IMPORTANT THINGS FIRST--]

Thanks to Aladdin-san's hard work, runic magic works in the city now! There were a lot of flashing lights in the sky recently - that means the magic has returned to Asgard.

I'm probably not the most qualified person to talk about it, but... you can use runic magic to do a lot of things the powers from the gods won't. If you learn how to use them right, you can make up your own spells, too!

[She picks up the box, opening it up and showing the bottom to the screen. Inscribed there is a curious circle. In the background, the Cyndaquil gives a yawn.]

This is a spell I made. If you use it, you can conjure melon bread!

[By way of demonstration, she touches her fingers to the circle, causing it to glow a soft green mixed with gold. With a snap, she shuts the box... Only to open it again with a steaming loaf of melon bread inside. She sets the box aside and takes out the bread happily.]

See?

If anybody wants to learn more about runic magic, the magic guild Grimoire's Sigil can help teach you! It takes a little to learn, but... I'm sure everybody can do lots of wonderful things with magic like this!

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[She takes a look at the rune before looking back at Hibiki]

Okay then, let's get started! [She looks at the rune one more time before doing anything else]

Here we go, I hope that it works!

It's just for practice, so don't worry about it. Just try to mimic the lines as best as you can!

[Once again, Bianca's self-esteem was starting to come into play here. Was she really able to do this? Even if it seemed so simple, there always the chance that something could go wrong.

No, she can't think like that! Think positive, Bianca! She shook her head and just drew over the lines as best as she could!]

O-Okay, here I go!

[And the moment she finishes...]

Very good! That looks great, Bianca-san!

[She stares at it some more before finally doing the impossible, making the rune work!

Here goes!

With a green light that shined on the rune...]

Hm...did it work?

Well... it won't work with just these materials. We have to get the special paint for it.

But I think if you were able to do it exactly like that, it would work!

Hm...then, where do we get the special paint? Can we buy it here or...?

[Probably if Aladdin and Hibiki can pull it off?]

Then I'll just have to try again when that happens!

Oh special paint, special paint, I'll find you soon and just you wait! We'll have cinnamon bread soon~

Eheheh... We can't just buy it, but Aladdin and I know how to make it. We'll have to get the ingredients, but I'm sure we can mix up a new batch soon!

Ooohhhh...that explains why!

But it sounds like it must be really hard to make it we need to get ingredients for it! And for a paint like that...!

It must be pretty expensive too!

[Yeah, on second thought...]

It's not so bad! The hardest part was just learning to measure out everything correctly, but I think I can do it now...!

Hm, you can?

[giggle]

Can you show me?

Eh... Right now?

Uh...if you want?

[whoops]

You don't have to if you don't want to! You can whenever you're ready!

We'd have to go to the guild for the ingredients, so... I don't think I can make it right away.

Sorry...

Ah...it's okay, you don't have to do it right away!

If it's going to take a while, I can wait! I'm in no hurry to get bread or start this!

Um...just let me know when you are?

Of course I will! I'll let you know right away!

Mhmm, thank you, Hibiki! I look forward to when that happens!

[But, Bianca let out a small sigh]

Looks like I'll have to bake cinnamon bread the old fashion way! I'll need to bake and get all the ingredients for it!

[When she's not cursed with bad baking skills]

Is it hard to make?

Hm...I'm not sure, I never tried to bake anything that complicated before! I can't bake cookies that well so...I think making bread would be even harder!

But I can look up some instructions on how to make it though...

[More that she kept burning them]

Cookies can be tough if you don't know how to time it...

[She should know, after all the practice she had to do to get them to turn out right!]

[The joys of baking]

Really? Uh...how many times did it take you to bake them perfectly? [HM....]

Umm... I lost track. There were a couple of times when I used the same batch and kept changing the timing, but...

But...?

[She leaned just a bit closer to the girl as though she were telling a dramatic story.]

What did you find out?

...A lot of them burned.

[Sob. It took a long time for her to stop tasting charcoal with each bite.]

[Poor Hibiki, Bianca knows your pain]

B-But at least you learned how to make it better so it was all worth it in the end right?

I-I know I won't be able to bake bread but we're taking small steps so we're learning!

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