Lilianne of the Anguish
"… So it was no good, after all."

(… Yes.)

"It's all messed up…"

The video output of the Kutipad was all messed up due to the rain.
That is one of the problems.

The momentum of the rain is on the same level as a drizzle.
However, even a rain of this degree has disrupted nearly all of the strengthened Magicprint Search waves.
Although the visualization is somewhat possible if the momentum of the rain is reduced to a minimum, the image is still worse than a view in a downpour.

It can no longer be called a video image with a momentum of drizzle, so it won't be able to visualize at all with something beyond a drizzle.
It will exceed the processing capacity of Kutipad.

I think using an umbrella during a rain could technically solve the problem, but that would only visualize the area where rain doesn't reach, so it would have an extremely short range.
It would be then difficult to replace it for my eyes.
We had an idea of blowing the rain clouds away with sorcery, but there's no way we can do that every time.
There was also an idea of preparing a huge umbrella, but it's not realistic to bring something like that with me every time it rains. There's no problem in terms of cash, though.

We also thought of repelling the rain with sorcery, but this would also be difficult to do every time.
In existing sorcery, a rain-repelling type of a barrier is defensive sorcery of advanced level.
Although we thought of using a magic tool for this, it wouldn't solve the fundamental problem.

"Stage two was catastrophic as expected. Let's move onto stage three."

(… Yes. Stage three, standby.)

"Standby. All green. All hands hoay."

The sorcery rain ceases, the image turns back and stage three sorcery activates.
This time, the wind blew slowly across the testing field as its speed increased little by little.
The anemometer on Kutipad was gradually raising.
The anemometer was closing on the numerical value from the results of our experiments so far, and the image was getting gradually rougher.
As predicted, when the value on the anemometer reached slightly above the previous testing's value, the image stopped and displayed the screen for exceeding the processing capacity.

"It went mostly as planned."

(… Yes.)

"Well… it hasn't changed much, huhh…"

A tear flowed down from Captain Kuti's eyepatch as she hung her head dejectedly.
Kuti is also doing her best. She's doing her best, but there has not been a single result so far.

The experiment of Stage three is to measure the limit of processing capacity during windy weather.
The processing capacity can withstand wind speed stronger than rain, but it's still not good enough.

"Let's move onto stage four."

(… Yes… Stage four, standby.)

"Standby. All green. All hands hoay."

Captain Kuti signaled departure, but the next experiment ended in no time.
This time, it was a combined experiment of wind and rain.
It's not going well when done one at a time, yet we used both at the same time. It was a natural result.

"Well… we knew this was going to happen, but it's still sad."

(Wind and rain often go hand in hand… there's no point if it can't withstand this…)

"The future is full of difficulties…"

This time's experiment was the same as the previous ones, the development is stagnant because of the numerous challenges.
All three of us were downhearted, but we cannot end feeling this gloomy.

(We are not done. We can still do it. We can definitely do it!)

"Fuu… indeed. There are still many measures we can take, why don't we take it easy?"

"True! We still have the last resort of making Lily the girl who causes the weather to become sunny when she goes out, so we still have ways to go!"

Right, the last resort is a ridiculous method of stopping rain and ceasing the wind from blowing when I go outside.
However, what's amazing is that this is not just a funny joke.

However, that is simply the last resort.
It's not fundamentally a problem-solving, so we just use it to brighten the atmosphere when we are feeling down, probably.

After all, the main goal is to finish the sorcery to the degree it can cope with any situation.

"Shall we continue with the filter for now?"

(Let's do that. I'm going to work on the 47-8.)

"Then, I'm going to focus on 78-2.)

"Aight, I'm going to continue working on the 89-99."

The number of filters has increased considerably.
There might be so many now, but it's still not enough for the number we have in mind.
We will probably continue working on the filter indefinitely.
I'd like to simplify this area, but I don't have time to create sorcery for that as of now.

The fairies took their Kutipads and resumed working on the filters immediately.
Seeing them like that, I took my Kutipad and started working on the filters, while parallelly figuring out the measures to our problems.

I'm thinking about something entirely different at the same time, but working on the filters is not difficult as I am already aware of the outline.

Today, the number of filters increased as I was coming up with measures to our difficult problems.