### Chapter 10: Can Fire Energy Waves! The Master's Warning!!
"Let's not do that. I just watched your battle. Apart from strength and reaction speed which are commendable, your technique is a complete mess.
Compared to now, I'd rather compete with you after you've undergone basic training and can display your full strength."
Feeling Erza's fiery gaze, which wasn't losing to his own, Jiro felt his *chunibyo* soul burning fiercely.
Too cool. This kind of mutual appreciation and setting up a fight is exactly like what I've seen in anime!
Immediately, he agreed without hesitation and reached out to shake hands with Erza, sealing the agreement.
Seeing this, Cana cutely put her hands behind her back, leaned close to Jiro with an expectant smile, and asked curiously:
"The battle is over too. Does Jiro feel any signs of awakening his magic?"
As the words fell, the smile on Jiro's face froze instantly.
"Uh, I seemed to have felt something just now, but I'm not sure..."
Then Jiro told the embarrassing story of practicing energy waves in the forest but letting out a fart instead, without any psychological burden.
Naturally, after receiving a burst of laughter from the three, they also enthusiastically explained their understanding.
Cana: "Grandpa Master says magic is the power of the heart, so if you use your heart, you will definitely be able to cast it."
Gray: "It feels a bit like whatever the heart desires will happen. I think about using ice, and then I can create ice blocks."
Erza: "To be more specific, magic is related to the magic power particles that exist in all things in the universe.
Mages are a group that absorbs and controls these magic power particles to fight."
Although the three were trying their best to help him understand magic power and magic.
But Jiro understood in his heart that the so-called magic was just a pretext. It was another kind of power from a different system than this world.
On Earth in the Dragon Ball world, in the system of martial artists passed down from generation to generation, that special energy was called 'Ki'.
Of course, the two had many similarities. Jiro also listened seriously to their explanations, and soon had a general concept in his heart.
"Okay, I'll try according to your methods."
Cana: "Go for it, you can definitely do it."
Gray: "Have firm conviction, believe in yourself."
Erza: "Cast aside distractions, go!"
Hearing the encouragement from the three behind him, Jiro also felt inspired.
Immediately, he stopped thinking about other things. Facing the clear green lake surface by the lake, he assumed the Kamehameha stance again, concentrating fully on perceiving and guiding the power within his body.
"Ka~ me~ ha~ me~"
Perhaps the teaching of the three really worked, or maybe he grasped the knack of it.
The next second, as if blessed by luck, he pushed his hands out forcefully. A ball of blue energy wave shot out from between his palms, flew more than ten meters under Jiro's control, and crashed into the lake surface, blasting up a splash of water 5 or 6 meters high.
The splashed water droplets fell like drizzle, wetting his clothes. As if unaware, he stared blankly at his palms with open hands.
"I did it!!"
Excited cheers came from behind. The three little ones rushed up from behind happily as if they had just learned magic themselves, surrounding Jiro in the middle.
"So amazing. Is that your magic? To have such power on the first cast."
Facing Cana's question, Jiro clenched his fists tightly, his tone unable to hide his excitement:
"Kamehameha, a type of Qi Gong wave. This is great, I can fire waves too!!"
Erza put one hand on Jiro's shoulder. She could understand his feelings. After all, she had only awakened her magic for less than half a year, so she was even happier for her friend mastering magic.
"Congratulations. To celebrate your successful casting of magic, it's my treat. I'll take you to eat my favorite strawberry cake.
Of course, I don't have much money, only enough to buy one piece."
Obviously, Erza hadn't forgotten Jiro's terrifying appetite, so she added a sentence.
Jiro's excited mood was also filled with warmth by this cute sentence.
"That's enough. It's not about how much food there is, but who you enjoy it with.
I believe it will definitely be the most delicious strawberry cake I eat in my life."
Hearing this, Gray and Cana jumped up happily one after another, cheering:
"Yay~ Let's go eat strawberry cake~~"
Like this, the four little ones left the training ground they had just arrived at not long ago with laughter.
Chatting, laughing, and bickering, they went to the bustling Magnolia commercial street, accompanying each other to buy what might be the most delicious strawberry cake in the world.
...
For the entire afternoon, Jiro followed the three little ones and visited almost all of Magnolia.
The cake shop and clothing store Erza frequented, the magic item shop where Cana bought divination cards, and the iced drink shop Gray liked best.
There were also iconic buildings such as Kardia Cathedral, South Gate Park, and Magnolia Hospital.
Helping the newly joined Jiro quickly become familiar with this city.
It wasn't until evening that the four returned to the guild together and met Makarov, who had returned from Porlyusica.
"How was it, the half-day experience in Magnolia?"
Looking at Makarov, who was sitting cross-legged on the bar with his eyes squinting as if nothing had happened before.
Jiro first nodded to his three little friends, signaling them to wait at an empty table, before walking alone to sit at the seat in front of the bar.
"Great. Not only did I awaken my magic and meet three warm-hearted friends, but I also got to know this town properly."
"Hoh, awakened magic? You brat really have a way."
Scanning Jiro with one eye half-open in surprise, Makarov exclaimed in admiration without hiding his astonishment.
But immediately, he put on a serious face and warned in advance with a heavy tone:
"Remember, magic is more of a power to protect. If I find out you abuse magic and use it to hurt ordinary people and companions...
I will kick you out of the guild without mercy and hand you over to the Council personally."
"Okay, give me one of everything on this menu.
Hmm, I'll taste each kind first. If it's not enough, I'll order more later. Thanks."
Turning a deaf ear to Makarov's warning, Jiro's stomach, which had been wandering all afternoon, was already flattened from hunger.
Picking up the menu on the bar, he couldn't wait to order a pile of food from the waitress lady guarding the bar, who didn't appear in the original work.