The Mage’s Tower is harder to spot. It has the appearance of a resolute disregard for the fortification technology of this era.
Like an inverted pyramid, a building that gets wider as you go upstairs.
A mage might give a lengthy explanation about the ‘importance of the basics’ over this, but it was hard for me to think of anything else because of the voice I heard.
“Evangeles.”
“yes?”
“Is there any among our riders who ended up going to the Wizard’s Tower?”
“Wizard’s Tower? Is this your first time hearing it?”
If the wizard had appeared, there was no way the news wouldn’t have spread.
The song that ended was repeated from the beginning again.
– I don’t need anything nice, and I don’t need anything pretty.
– If you are going to present me a flower, please hide a bee in it.
– Your refreshing prank will make me laugh more than your awkward confession.
It is a famous song in this world. A nursery rhyme about mischievous beings.
Evangeles snapped his fingers.
“It’s goblin love.”
I nodded.
Recalling the original scenario of ‘The Savior from Another World’.
In the year the protagonist enters the academy, one character is always given a magical talent. And that wizard will be the key to future events.
This was the reason I looked closely at students during swordsmanship classes and additional aptitude tests. However, none of their system logs indicated that they had magical talents.
– No need to decorate. You don’t have to be fancy.
– No need to be nice, smart or respectable.
– Isn’t that kind of fun?
– The things that pop out rather than the ones that are made will entertain us.
– So if you love me, I’ll ask you with your mouth wide open.
Evangeles said heheh with a smile.
“Is the song strange? Was that what you originally called it?”
“I guess it’s because he’s a wizard.”
I could understand Evangeles’ surprise.
What should I say about that voice?
It was like a roaring proclamation to a quiet world.
‘This is my voice’.
‘I will speak of myself with this sound and sing of myself’.
– Give it up.
– Reflected in my eyes, caught in my hand, you as you are.
– I’m going to take a bite of that delicious idea.
– I will make that fresh laugh together.
– You will feel me as you look at me reflected in those eyes of struggle with disease.
– Give me that kind of you.
The song has reached its climax.
– Then, give me!
I could see now why I couldn’t find anyone with magical talent.
The owner of that song was a wizard who would be born this year. And I know the owner of that clear voice.
Those who are not students of the academy.
Originally, he was supposed to be a fugitive by some evil soldier.
A person who stayed with him for a while, and now lives with Bastia.
John said his name to Evangeles.
“Have you ever heard of Arien?”
“Ari, what? … Are you listening?”
don’t know
There’s no way that Arien went to the Wizard’s Tower alone. Bastia must have identified her talent and tried her hand.
And yet she hadn’t passed through the first door.
In this worldview, the appearance of a new wizard is received as a blessing, and therefore a celebration takes place. Through this, everyone in Frantimo learns about the existence of a newly appeared wizard.
And I came to know that this moment is a historic moment in this worldview.
– Uh, Bastia? open!
Along with Arien’s voice at the end of the song, a bright light burst from the first floor of the Wizard Tower.
***
It was late.
When Piralo left the school gates, her husband was furious.
“Why are you here so late?!”
“It happened.”
“You thought you would die of old age waiting.”
“If you don’t want to come, go to the inn first, have you been waiting?”
“Room key, you are holding it.”
“Oh right… . Here it is.”
“you-“
The man sniffed lightly and said.
“-Did you meet a guy?”
“under. what a man I came to meet you, kid.”
“Really?”
“Well, it is real. I never thought I’d wait here. I’m sorry, Noguchi.”
Pirallo’s aegyo could not melt her husband’s face.
“If we decided to meet here after finishing, we should meet here, of course. What are you doing late?”
“Well. Because that happened.”
“So what?”
Piralo felt a little tired at her husband’s urging.
She was realizing a truth about married life. A crisis in married life never arises because of an age difference of more than 10 years.
‘It’s caused by a man who passed his youth 10 years earlier.’
After thinking for a moment, she remembered that this was an inevitable subject anyway. Before they were a couple, they were wizards who peered into destiny in the same way.
Piralo, who was biting his lips, spoke softly.
“Cheonggi leak.”
“… what? really? to whom?”
The hardened husband’s face contorted again.
“I have. school here. It’s Johann Esperts.”
It was a name that neither family nor people knew.
“… It must have been an aptitude test. What did you steal?”
Piralo knew why her husband was asking that question. It would be a big deal if he pulled out a tile like Earthquake or Flood. Pirallo silently recited the names of the stolen cards.
“Neropotamu. Neima. Rurudokibos.”
“In that order?”
“yes.”
“Neropotamu, Niima, and Rurudokibos… .”
The couple writes their own cards. However, the composition of the card hand was the same. After counting the cards his wife said in his head, Noguchi finally cleared his chest. Fortunately, it wasn’t a bad omen.
“Apanenoshi (reunion) yes.”
“yes.”
“Are your parents coming to visit you?”
“I don’t know… . Anyway, so I was late because I had to redo all the aptitude tests I saw after that.”
Only then did Noguchi understand.
Why is my wife late?
There are many different types of wizards in the world, but all wizards have one common covenant.
Compliance with Transactions.
It is not a superstition to say that one should not carelessly deal with wizards.
They make the deal even better than the merchants. It is a deal with a wizard that you make an outrageous contract out of haste and eventually pay the price.
“but. Academy Dean, I’ve seen this company for several years, but it’s a bit rough.”
“I know yeah.”
At the same time, this is also the distance that wizards have towards the world.
Wizards are basically writers who do not understand the words ‘my friend Ai’.
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Noguchi nodded slowly and came to mind of one person.
“Then there is only one problem left… .”
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Noguchi checked his wife’s expression. Then it was clear that she was also thinking of the same person.
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Noguchi whispered.
“Will it bounce like this?”
“Of course.”
“What about luggage?”
“Get it quickly.”
The two quickened their steps.
The inn they stayed in had important magic tools.
The couple overcame the temptation of a late-night snack and moved to the inn. It was a luxury inn. The couple, who had passed the counter quickly, were sweating the moment they opened the door to the inn.
The person they wanted to avoid was in the room first.
It was only 3 years.
“S… Master.”
The old man’s white eyebrows rose slightly. It was a misnomer. In the past, even if you learned magic from him, once you are recognized as a wizard, your relationship as a priest also disappears. While the nervous Piralo was parenting, Noguchi spoke first.
“Ong, did you find the light?”
The master, who was sitting on the bed in a light green robe, got up. A magician who reads fate by looking at the stars in the night sky instead of using a secondary tool called a card.
He was a great wizard who went beyond the stage of foreseeing the future and broke down the walls of time. His white beard hung all the way down to the floor, and his appearance was just foreign in a neatly organized inn room.
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Noguchi remembered the moment he left.
‘I have to go look for the light.’
The day Ong acknowledged the two couples as wizards, he suddenly left with those words. The two couples thought the meaning of the word was ‘I will leave to study the interpretation of the stars’.
After brushing his long beard a few times, Ong said right away without saying hello.
“There was a star that I couldn’t see. explain.”
Wizards are basically individualists.
They are people who are moving toward their own ideals, and the desire for that ideal is impossible for ordinary people to even imagine. This is also the reason why they refuse to meddle in each other’s ideals.
Because if it is confirmed that each other’s ideals are hindering each other, they will try to kill each other.
There were two conditions for Ong to teach magic to Piralo and Noguchi.
abide by the deal.
And don’t lose your card.
And the couple knew the reason for the latter. Reading fate is special. What one reads necessarily affects what the other reads. As if Ong had foreseen this, he left after imprinting it on them.
‘It sucks.’
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Noguchi gritted his teeth.
Ong, his mentor, was as famous for his eccentric personality as for his feats as a wizard.
‘I could die.’
To a wizard, being old doesn’t mean much. Even more so, the opponent is Ong, a wizard who can read the stars. I’m sure there is no magician in the entire empire who can defeat the yong of the starry night.
As Piralo thought of several absurd excuses, Noguchi chose to attack head-on.
“I received 300 gold from the dean and conducted an aptitude test for 100 children. It’s something my husband and I have been doing every year. In the meantime, one child… He stole my wife’s card.”
“Who is that?”
“that… Who was it?”
As Noguchi looked at Piralo, Piralo spoke quickly.
“Yo, John! I am a child of the Espertz family. But there really wasn’t any bad luck series. honey? did i say Didn’t I tell you when I came earlier?”
“Calm down, Piralo… . Yes. Fortunately, ‘Reunion’ appeared.”
Ong listened without prompting. Towards Ong, Pirallo spoke eagerly like a man with an open mouth.
About what happened during the aptitude test process.
And about John stealing the card and leaving.
So, about the work of reexamining twenty children again.
And until her story was over, Ong’s expression didn’t change.
After she finished speaking, a moment of silence fell in the inn room. Piralo said, ‘I… This is sweet,’ said Ong, quietly closing his eyes.
“I was looking for the light.”
“… You said that when we parted.”
“And it looks like you found it.”
Ong slowly turned around and opened the window of the inn room. It was an exceptionally starry night. The couple glanced at each other and waited for Ong’s next words.
Ong said impassively.
“What do you think cheating is?”
“… Are you cheating?”
It was a question out of context. Pirallo mouthed Noguchi, saying, ‘Honey, answer me’.
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Noguchi thought for a moment and then said.
“Speaking of cheating… Isn’t that an act that makes people not see it properly?”
“Wrong.”
“… And what?”
“It’s what people see.”
It was kind of like a play on words.
“… What do you mean?”
“What you want.”
Piralo rubbed his chest. It was because Ong, who showed his back, seemed to have no intention of fighting.
But Ong’s strange explanation continued.
“And the eyes, see the light.”
Ong looked up at the night sky and remembered a star from long ago.
The day I decided to teach two disciples.
The stars in the night sky he gazed at.
“So, deceiving your eyes means… .”
Ong couldn’t contain the joy that surged from the depths of his heart.
“… It means to make your own light.”
Ong’s fists clenched. Then, his shoulders shook slightly.
“There really is light in this land.”
Ong hasn’t played a card since he was 30. Instead, he would mainly observe the movement of the stars and read things beyond time. And in the night sky a long time ago, there was a revelation the stars gave to themselves.
‘Your disciple will come to the light.’
And at this moment, that revelation was becoming a reality.
The wizard couple did not know that Ong was crying.
With reverence as if reciting a prayer, Ong said.
“You said John of the Espertz family, right? That child is the light I was looking for.”