「Fufu, you’re quite right.
Wearing such a mask, my movements must be unusual.
It is as if──that I could see.」
Wanting to take a look──I looked and saw Sonya’s eye give out a bewitching allure and a chill went down my spine.
This too must have something to do with how she recognises the terrain.
Depending on how one saw it, it was a provocative/lascivious gaze (latter is better I think). But, I could feel no malice in those eyes.──It seems even here, there are strange people.
「If it’s fine, could you tell me how you did it?」
「Sure, I don’t mind.」
I directed my question after regaining my cool from her question that seemed to see right through me.
Don’t hide anything──this was Sonya’s implication, in a somewhat fun manner. (TLN: 別に隠す事でもない──言外にそう語るソーニャは、どこか楽しそうであった。)
Anyways, it’s to be appreciated if she’s simply going to answer my questions.
While soothing Cheryl, who was slightly panicked from the heat of the cocoa, I wait for Sonya’s reply.
Looking at us, she smiled gently.
When Cheryl finally settled down, Sonya opened her mouth.
「To speak in simple terms, I used everything except my eyes to feel all sorts of things.」
The meaning behind Sonya’s words took some time for me to digest.
My mind didn’t work too quickly even in my previous life. Well let’s first start with what she said.
Sonya just matter-of-factly said 「I used everything except my eyes to feel all sorts of things」.
What’s everything except my eyes? If she’s talking in terms of the five sense, then…nose, ears──such an abstract answer makes me confused.
As though laughing at my confusion, Sonya continued.
「I wonder if that was a little too broad?
Well to be more precise, it’s the smell and the noise. Feeling the flow of the wind, I can sense the magic emanating from everything──putting all together I can grasp the surroundings.
Sounds and the wind help me tell the distance, smell tells me the form. This world is full of information. If one takes in all that information, then seeing is not impossible. At least in normal life, it wouldn’t look unnatural even with your eyes closed.
Thus if I properly sensed, I would have noticed your ears but, when sensing living things, magic is enough to get a rough sense of the shape and figure.
The reason I mistook you for a human was because the colour and wavelength of your magic is very much similar to that of a human.」(Wandering: Wut? How does smell help one tell form? o.O)
Sonya’s answer was beyond my imagination.
Putting together smell and sound, feeling the flow of wind and magic, is it?
The amount of information that is needed, I could not imagine.
Eyes would be enough to just look at a person, just what exactly is this girl──
「Sonya-dono──」
「Sonya is fine. Somehow, towards you, I feel that you are older than I am.
Having said that, to change your manner of speaking at this stage must be tough, so I guess I’m fine with this either ways?」
Now, I wonder what she saw?
At this age, she’s a young elf, yet she possesses such talent.
To even see through me. Bearing such grainy feelings, I continued acting calmly.
「──Aa, I’ll do that.
Then, if Sonya can see with her eyes, then why would you blind yourself?」(Wandering: He’s referring to her offer to talk to her without honorifics)
「It’s for Skywatching. In order to grasp the air, relying on sight alone is insufficient.
To grasp the air, the direction and strength of the wind, the smell and others are a big hint.
Thus, I sealed my reliance on my sight on a daily basis, in order to train my other senses.」
Though Sonya says it indifferently, it’s likely that the training is a gruesome task.
The slight shadow in her eye was something I didn’t miss.
….Somehow, there seems to be another reason she doesn’t wish to talk about. I won’t continue questioning but, to cause a beautiful young girl to go to such extents──it certainly is an unusual circumstance.