"Yeah, let's."

So she does that. Try enough stuff and eventually it'll work, right?

...maybe? It seems to be taking rather a long time for anything to make sense, there.

She already figured out it's a book. There's only so many ways she could possibly poke it to 'read' it. She keeps trying.

Eventually, after over an hour, she does crack it.

"Ooh!"

Has Kaede managed it? What does the one she randomly selected 'say'?

Kaede seems to not have noticed her success, and continues staring at the tablets while the one she's looking at starts emitting more light and showing an incorporeal representation of its contents: a user manual of sorts.

...She can't read it.

Great.

She gives a great big yawn instead. It's probably like four am to her internal clock...

She she sets gear and head down in a corner and naps.

After a couple of hours what can best be described as a light show starts happening inside the room.

She jerks awake and reaches for her knife by reflex-

Where's Kaede?

Amidst the light show, looking enchanted. There are symbols and words everywhere, and directly in front of him a semi-transparent representation of—something, diagrams and maths—floats, made of floating light.

She floats over. "Turns out I can't read your language."

"—oh, of course. Er, that one my magic can't really fix."

"You got an alphabet, or is it more like Ujijo, with the thousands of different characters?"

"Yeah we have an alphabet."

"Would you terribly mind telepathing at me while reading things?"

"Telepathing the alphabet at you? I can do that. Could also telepath you what I was reading directly, though."

"Either, both, then I take notes. I learned to read through rote memorization once," an image leaks through of dozens, maybe hundreds, of eleven year old girls lined up in a big schoolhouse, all silent. "...Oops. I can just do that again anyway."

"Might be easier if I just bounce the meanings of the words as well as the letters themselves. I can restart reading from the top."

"I was thinking about generalizing the reading skill but yes please do so."

"Right, I mean that this would probably help you learn how to read faster."

He does something—magically, not with his body—and the lights shift and rewind, in a way. The various diagrams floating about disappear and there is now only text, in front of him. He starts rereading, and it seems to be an introduction to a cross between an engineering textbook, a user manual, and an arcane book of spells. It starts going about defining what a golem is (magical automaton), known range of complexity (from not doing anything in particular to fully automating certain construction tasks), and mentioning by name a couple of construction techniques (which are mostly named after people).

This is really confusing! She is very much not an engineer and it feels a lot like engineering. But she is good at copying magic and this has everything to do with magic.

She feels conflicted as she follows along and tries to absorb the information.

It soon delves into technicalities about mana conservation and previous attempts and task definitions.

????????

...She takes paper notes in English about it, anyway.

It proceeds to get even more technical than that. On the bright side, this process does help a lot with learning to read the language.