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[bestworstdad]

Τὸ συμβόλαιον δια-

δ....δ...

The heck? How am I even supposed to memorize that?!

[Nagi madly flips through his spell book, flopped out on a mushroom on the third floor, wearing his black shirt and pants. More like angrily laying on it, unable to keep this stuff in his mind long enough to memorize it. It took him years to memorize his lightning spells. Having to relearn to ice was just as difficult. And yes, his pronunciation was horrific and stilted in a way only a person with a English accent could pull off.]

Does Greek really need to be that hard??

Fine, next! Latin...

....god, I'm still bad at Latin too.

Immitte. Okay, I can remember that word. Immitte. Immitte. Immitte. Got it.

Maybe?

[He finally gives up, yelling loudly to anyone who can hear.]

Tell me someone around can speak Latin or ancient Greek! I'm about to die over here!

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[knight_king]

[Why must he be so boisterous? Saber is trying her best to ignore him and continue with her meditation. She has been on the area first, sitting seiza-style near the mushrooms when he has begun talking to himself. Aloud. Persistently.

Her formerly relaxed facial muscles begin to twitch when he starts shouting.]

...

[There is no silencing him.]

Guh- Could you be silent for a minute?

[She speaks up without moving from her position yet or opening her eyes.]

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[bestworstdad]

Learnin' is a loud thing, get over it!

[Getting up to stand on his mushroom table!]

Besides, where's that helpin' attitude you had earlier? "I'll help anyone in need." [With the quoted part said like Saber, again.]

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[knight_king]

You are not in any genuine perceived distress.

[But hearing her own words repeated in a tone she recognizes make her open her eyes to glare at him for mocking her again. She considers bargaining with him in order to get her serenity back.]

If I help you with the Latin, would you be silent?

[Britain was a part of the Roman Empire, even if she was born after its fall, Latin was spoken as a common tongue there.]

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[bestworstdad]

[See, his demeanor already turns upside down. Nagi was an easy man to please. About as easy to please as he was to frustrate.]

Yeah, I can deal with that! Let's see how good your dead language skills are!

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[knight_king]

[She wants an apology for his mockery but she does not think he is even aware of what he has done. She rises immediately and, looking displeased, walks toward him. There are things she wants to ask. About his memory loss, she has taken care of her problem, so now it's his turn to look after his.

But this will wait.]

What are you trying to decipher?

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[bestworstdad]

[He opens his book and shows off the page he's on. It quite clearly says

'Immitte, Gelida Halitus! Nivis Casus!' (Frozen Breath, Fire! Falling Snow!)

in his handwriting.]

Give me some tips on how to memorize that!

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[knight_king]

This spell to summon snow?

[She reads and wonders about his request. If she beats him on the head until he memorizes the phrase, would that help? Saber's a poor teacher sometimes.]

Is the wording that complicated to recall? Hm. Do you know the meaning of the words? Perhaps that will help you.

[2wei]

I don't know how to speak either of those. [ Hi, Nagi, it's your new student who's just managed to stumble upon this... ]

But is it really that hard?

[bestworstdad]

You know what they say in school. Latin is a dead language and learnin' it will kill you.

[Yes, it's really that hard. Thankfully, he's just teaching her how to use magic in combat and not new spells. Lord.]

[2wei]

Fujimura-sensei never said anything like that at school... though I only know two languages. [ They kind of taught her German when she was young. ]

[bestworstdad]

Oh yeah? What two languages does this kid know?

[2wei]

Just German and Japanese. Fujimura-sensei's been teaching me English, but I don't know that much English...

[bestworstdad]

Oh? I can speak Japanese and English. Test me, test me!

[evantuality]

[He manages to startle a young man a few mushrooms over, bent over his own precious sheets of paper and intermittently muttering to himself.

Evan looks up, his face a portrait of surprise and indignation at being interrupted. However when the words sink in he can't quite help himself at the opportunity to show off knowledge. He calls from his own mushroom.]

I know a small amount of Latin. And I can conjugate -- or I could last time I tried. I haven't had to in a while. What do you need?

[bestworstdad]

Conju-what?

Look, just tell me a way to remember these words better.

[He waves his spellbook around, not even caring that the words written in them are impossible to see like that.]

[evantuality]

[Evan sighs, feeling put-upon, but he gathers his papers and tucks them in half and takes himself all the way over to this noisy stranger.]

Conjugate. Extrapolate the different forms of a verb based on its root. You know, 'he goes, I go, they go', that. What are you trying to memorize?

[By then he's all the way over, craning to peer at the spellbook that's being flailed so enthusiastically.]

[bestworstdad]

It's an incantation. You know, to cast a spell. Yeah, sure, I could read it straight out of the book just fine but it's more handy to memorize.

Don't tell me you're gonna be the type to think that's crazy though.

[evantuality]

[Evan snorts, looking sourly amused.]

I suppose that's the trouble of being thrown into a mix with peoples from plenty of other worlds. No, magic exists where I come from, though I'm not really familiar with incantations as such.

[He's more of a do-by-willpower sort.]

So do you need to understand what you're saying, or just be able to pronounce it right?

[bestworstdad]

Well look at this.

[He opens it to a page and speaks the words outloud. And yes, he carries quite an English accent with it as the words are spoken haltingly.]

Immitte, Gelida Halitus. Nivis Casus. I can tell you that means "Frozen Breath, Fire. Falling Snow." but hell if I can remember that without staring at the book.

[celena]

My knowledge of Latin extends only as far as being able to write out the letters of that script. Is it wise to share your magic spells around so freely?

[bestworstdad]

If you can write it, that means you can help memorize it....right?

[MAYBE?]

I don't think anyone is gonna steal spells. It's not like knowin' the words will help cast it.

[celena]

[She winces, embarrassed to admit this]

I, ahh, I may have to be reminded how to pronounce all of the letters. It's a tongue from another world used only by Sorcerers and others who seek hidden knowledge. I was never given more than the briefest education.

Are you really planning to cast magic ice in here? [Having just heard this struggle of his, she's not got much confidence that he'd be able to control any spell he casts]

[bestworstdad]

I'm not exactly the teacher you're looking for here.

Besides, I need to cast it 'cause I can't use any of my electric magic. I've got those spells memorized but they're kinda worthless here. Since, somehow, my affinity got changed to ice, I gotta memorize those spells.

[celena]

So those thousand spells you knew were all for different forms of lightning? [She frowned as she realised that number and his current struggle didn't quite tally] I assume they're easier to master?

[bestworstdad]

That's kind of a dumb conclusion to make....both of'em.