The owner of the general store—Vermut.
There were a few things I wanted to ask him.
He wasn't just an ordinary shopkeeper. Vermut was a capable grand magician who had once been affiliated with the Magic Tower. If anyone could give me proper advice, it was him.
Lately, I'd been stuck on a particular problem.
How to properly combine magnetism and electricity.
Individually, I could use them well enough.
But together? That was another story.
I had a strong feeling there was a breakthrough waiting just out of reach—something obvious, something elegant—but no matter how much I thought about it, I kept running into impractical or half-baked ideas.
From the bits of science I'd learned back in my previous life, there was something about electricity and magnetism being closely connected.
Electro… something.
But that was as far as my memory went.
No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't push past that vague recollection.
