"Oh! Amazing! Magic?"

"Well, rather than magic, it’s a magic trick with a hand skill."

"What hand skill is that? Can it be done by someone barely capable of using magic like me?"

I pretended to put my handkerchief in my pocket but instead placed it in my pocket space and answered, "It depends how much you practice.”

Saying so, I lightly stuck a coin between my index and middle finger and showed him. Then I quickly increased the number of coins to two, then to three, and then reduced it back to one. As the coins repeatedly increased and decreased in quantity, Flam looked at my hand in astonishment.

I gave a small smile and taught him the principles of the skill. "I hid the coins here in my sleeve, and then I used the snap of my wrist to pull them out."

Of course, the coins were originally placed in my sleeve by taking them out from my pocket space.

It was the end of the year, and New Year’s Day was in a few days, so I tried a magic trick to celebrate the New Year, but the reception was unexpectedly good. Shall I show it again at the boarding house later?

"So that’s how it was done, but it's still amazing."

As Flam and I were chatting, the civil servant in charge of my probationary training evaluation pointed...