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After returning home with bottles and jars, Asakura somewhat casually piled the items in his bedroom.
His home was still spacious; apart from the bedroom, which had some signs of life, there wasn't a single piece of furniture elsewhere, showing no trace of anyone living there—or so it should have been.
However, after having Yuigahama Yui and the others study diligently here for a period, and experiencing two failed potion brewing attempts that necessitated moving some items from the Clubroom here, his home finally gained a bit of a lived-in feel.
Also, due to the complex matters at the Clubroom, Asakura hadn't cleaned the house for a while—except for the bedroom, almost everywhere else showed accumulated dust, with some corners being particularly severe.
"Should I clean up a bit?"
Asakura mumbled.
Even if he didn't use other parts of the house, letting dust accumulate like this didn't seem right.
If his home was still completely empty like before, he could have spent some money to hire cleaners. However, now his home was filled with many things he didn't want others (mainly Muggles) to discover, so he couldn't simply hire someone to clean; he had to do it himself.
"…Right, maybe I can do this."
A flash of inspiration suddenly struck Asakura.
So he stood at the entrance and extended his right hand.
At his fingertips, a cluster of flames danced joyfully.
"Confine the range to prevent misfires, determine the target for incineration, and only then…"
As he murmured to himself, the flame on Asakura's fingertip continuously changed over time: "The flame indeed changes depending on the chosen carrier for the [Candle]…"
However, there was nothing strange about this, just as copper burns green, iron burns blue, and potassium burns purple. This matter is also recorded in "High School Chemistry Compulsory 1, Chapter 3, Section 2."
Moments later, after the flame's color and size finally stabilized, Asakura took a deep breath and then blew at the flame on his fingertip.
Immediately, an indigo flame, starting from Asakura's fingertip, spread throughout the entire house like splashed water, covering it in an instant.
But strangely, even though the flames crackled and seemed quite vigorous, nothing in the room was burned, not even turning yellow or slightly curling.
Just a moment later, the flame seemed to have burned out, gradually extinguishing and becoming listless, as if the earlier flames were merely a feast of illusion.
However, upon closer inspection, one would notice that much of the dust that had been in the house had completely vanished. Even some stains that Asakura couldn't clean during his previous solo cleanings, and mold spots on the wallpaper caused by water seepage, had completely disappeared.
"It really works… and it barely consumed any magic power…"
Asakura muttered to himself in surprise.
Indeed, there are differences between different Candles. Using a strangeness as a Candle consumes more magic power. If the target is only dust and grime, and the range is completely within one's control, the consumption is very minimal.
Looking at the house, which resembled a new home, Asakura nodded involuntarily: It seems he wouldn't need to work so hard cleaning the room in the future.
Of course, this wasn't entirely a good thing.
Perhaps the flame was too intense just now, so much so that it escaped through the window, and someone outside seemed to have seen a string of fire emerging from his house, getting so scared that they directly called the police.
As a result, Asakura was directly confronted by the police at his door.
He thought he had been found out and was contemplating whether to run first or put on a show and wait for an amnesty, but the police only asked him about the flame earlier.
Asakura, who then realized what happened, told them it was just a special effect light he bought.
To make it more convincing, he even ran into the house and brought out a humidifier.
He started the humidifier, and as the mist came out, he used [Candle] to add some flame effects, making it look like a special effect light at first glance.
After repeatedly confirming that there were no issues and seeing no traces of fire in the house, the police left disgruntled.
This also made Asakura more cautious. It seems that in the future, when he uses supernatural powers, it would be best to be more vigilant.
Fortunately, Japan is a country with not too many cameras, and the people he knows are relatively reliable. If he were in China, he would probably have been handed over to the state by now…
After setting his home on fire, Asakura began to organize the items he had brought back from the Clubroom.
Most of them just needed to be sorted and placed in cabinets; the remaining small items were all shoved into the desk drawer for now.
However, as he was putting things away, Asakura saw a notebook he had placed deep inside the drawer.
It was an old-looking diary, and the one who wrote it was Asakura Takuma himself.
It's worth noting that Asakura initially thought he had transmigrated into Asakura Takuma, a person whose appearance was almost identical to his younger self.
But after discovering that the birthmarks on this body were completely consistent with his own in his original world, he had reason to believe that he hadn't transmigrated his soul, but rather his physical body had directly entered this world, only having become smaller for some unknown reason.
This was good news, at least in the future when he had a girlfriend and did intimate things with her, he wouldn't feel awkward, like 'I'm amazing, I'm myself,' because he was using someone else's body.
This diary was one of the few items related to 'Asakura Takuma' that Asakura had kept. When he first transmigrated to this world, Asakura was able to live safely, not just because of the language cheat provided by the Nameless Magic Book, which saved him the headache of learning Japanese from scratch, but mainly because of this diary.
It meticulously described the mental journey of that 'Asakura Takuma'—though that's what it said, Asakura Takuma was actually just a very ordinary high school boy. Although he had a little bit of chuunibyou, there was nothing particularly special about him, and the diary mostly contained various daily trivialities.
The diary abruptly ended without further entries after Asakura Takuma's parents died in a disaster, and the boy's daily life suddenly collapsed and became a mess.
Asakura also arrived in this world at that time.
He had reason to believe that perhaps that Asakura Takuma had also replaced him in another world and was trying his best to continue his life…
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