| Author: Eltria | Original Source: Syosetu |
| Translator: Mui | English Source: Re:Library |
| Editor(s): Robinxen | |
“Nice to meet you, I’m Alfe Clifford.”
Alfe said that and bowed slightly. Life at the elementary school, which began the day after the entrance ceremony, felt like an extension of the affiliated kindergarten. However, Alfe and I had been classified as special students since our kindergarten days, so we started by memorizing the faces and names of our classmates.
For our classmates, it was enough to remember Alfe and me, but it was a hassle for us to remember everyone else. Amidst simple self-introductions and applause, I skimmed over the textbooks and supplementary teaching materials given to us.
I glanced at Alfe, who seemed a bit nervous but was listening attentively to everyone’s conversations.
Should I bother remembering the faces and names of my classmates a little…?
I wavered, but quickly gave up. It was my first time in a basic education institution, but the relationships formed here probably wouldn’t have a significant impact on my future life. After all, it was just a class sorted by age and ability.
Among the distributed textbooks, there was also alchemy. Geared towards elementary school students, it was written from a very basic standpoint, but by the end of this academic year, the content of the textbook indicated that a considerable mastery of advanced techniques would be required.
Come to think of it, how is research on homunculi progressing now? According to the stories of those goddesses, it wouldn’t be surprising if it’s prohibited…
Curious, I decided to look it up in the index and opened the pages at the end of the book.
“…What is this…?”
As I traced the list of keywords with my eyes, I couldn’t help but be astonished. Incredibly, the name of my past life—Glass Dimelia—was listed in the index at the end. There should be no achievements worthy of being in a textbook. All the accomplishments from my research had been usurped by influential figures in the Alchemy Society1.
In a hurry, I flipped to the page indicated in the index, and there, unmistakably, my achievements were recorded as my own.
Glass Dimelia. The great alchemist who conceived the concept of Code Alchemy. Code Alchemy brought significant advancements to alchemy, and Glass Dimelia, who created its foundational concepts, was bestowed with the title Grandee.
Code Alchemy involved applying mathematics to the alchemical process, systematizing it with unique formulas. Glass had developed this method, enabling logical predictions and control through numerical values.
With this, I had aimed to elevate alchemy, previously a sensory experience, to a highly reproducible phenomenon. It seems that today, this method was widely used.
However, regarding this achievement, the Alchemy Society had tampered with my research papers, presenting them as the society’s research results. I didn’t know the circumstances or the reasons behind it, but the fact that such achievements were recorded in a textbook meant that something must have happened in the 300 years after my death.
What exactly occurred during that time was something I had no way of knowing2.
