31. Guest (2)
When I went out, James was actually there.
A pharmacist’s employee A, who rode in the same truck during the decisive battle with the wizard and going to Landa.
He was waiting for Oliver at the factory, and he was very conspicuous because of his angular chin, brown hair that was pulled back, and his stout shoulders.
As soon as he saw Oliver, he warmly reached out and approached him.
“Ah, you gave it to me.”
Oliver reflexively took James’ hand.
“hello.”
“Yeah, nice to meet you. Is this your first time after breaking up with Randa? I worked there for a while, and when I came back, I heard interesting stories. Really?”
“I don’t know what’s funny, but I’m sure you’re right.”
James laughed hahaha.
“It’s great…. it would be like this That’s great. Should I call you Warlock?”
“No, not really…. What else did you come here for?”
Oliver asked, thinking of Filgaret.
“yes? Ahh···. It’s not a big deal, I’m here to make sure things are being produced properly. The boss is very worried. Seriously, we need to have a lot of orders for the fortress. I know it’s rude, but is there any problem?”
“Oh, if that’s the case, don’t worry. We are preparing properly.”
Oliver looked at Peter. Peter nodded as if nothing was wrong.
“Right···. Good luck.”
James nodded mechanically and scratched his chin. Like someone who has something to say.
“Perhaps···. Any other business?”
James’ feelings, which were perplexed, deepened, and then opened his mouth as if he had made up his mind.
“Remember the conversation we had when I drove you to Landa?”
“What did we talk about?”
“A-Mr….”
“No, I really don’t remember.”
“. You said if I teach you about wizards, you’ll teach me black magic, right?”
At James’ words, Peter, who was next to him, and some of his disciples were astonished. Marie is also watching Oliver from afar.
Oliver, who was the real party, was calm.
“····· Yes, it is. I remember.”
He nodded slowly and agreed.
James crossed his arms and said.
“I came to keep that promise… You?”
Just as he was about to answer, Peter interrupted.
“master? What is that…?”
“As I heard. The staff-”
“- James. my name is james Did you tell me last time? Call me James. Don’t be mean.”
“James said that he knows quite a bit about wizards, so if you teach him what he knows, I will teach him black magic too.”
All the disciples, including Peter, were astonished. To teach you black magic with just that.
“Lord, my lord . . . That’s a crazy deal. How could he only know black magic like that, and above all else, that person isn’t even a real wizard who knows exactly what to do…!”
Peter’s actions were understandable.
Although the barrier was lower than magic, the opportunity to learn black magic was actually huge.
Although most of them lived a slave life under Joseph in the past, the reason why they stayed here until the end was because being harvested by the warlock itself was a miracle.
Black magic is something you can barely learn by spending a significant part of your life as a slave or servant.
By the way, James was only trying to get his hands on that noble knowledge with a little something he had learned on the street.
Knowing that fact, he hurriedly opened his mouth.
“Since then, I have a thick bone, so I know a lot of interesting stories about wizards……. If that alone is not enough, there are other things to talk about.”
“No, what nonsense now—”
“—What are you talking about?”
Oliver interrupted Peter and said.
“Well? I was a bit quick to talk about things like solving problems, street life, and Landa’s back alley…”
James smiled awkwardly as he knew it was nonsense.
But Oliver had an unexpected reaction.
“·····. Yes, good.”
“master?!”
Peter said hurriedly.
“That is absurd. That person is cheating.”
“What····. After all, a promise is a promise.”
“········.”
Peter didn’t say anything. He seemed to realize that his and Oliver’s thinking systems were completely different.
Leaving Peter alone, Oliver said to James.
“Then, when will you start learning?”
“I don’t care right now.”
“Well······. I see. Follow me.”
***
Oliver took James down to the classroom in the basement.
On the way, everyone looked at the scene strangely, but no one dared to ask.
After arriving in the classroom, Oliver took an educational emotion from the shelf.
“First, let’s see what we can do.”
“nothing.”
“·······. Yes?”
“I said I couldn’t do anything…. No, no. don’t do it. Don’t collect emotions on your fingertips. I didn’t even see it.”
In an unexpected situation, both of them looked at each other, unable to say anything.
“·················ogue.”
“·················ogue.”
“·················ogue.”
“·················ogue.”
“·················ogue.”
“after···. Can I be honest?”
“Yes, please.”
“I have no talent for black magic.”
“Yes?”
“There’s something I didn’t tell you, but it’s not that I didn’t have many opportunities to learn black magic. Once upon a time, there was just no talent.”
“ah····. Then why?”
“Well? Still want to learn something? Even though I’m old, my heart is still hot… how? Is there no way? Are you a warlock who defeated Joseph too?”
Ahh. Now I understand what James meant.
He had come with that weak possibility, wondering if there was a way for Oliver to teach him.
To be honest, I was embarrassed.
I was looking for books on education in Joseph’s library to teach others, but I couldn’t find anything.
Because of that, all Oliver can do is point out other people’s problems and sometimes help indirectly.
Well, so far it’s been fine. Everyone was able to open their eyes, and they were able to extract it clumsily.
However, it was unknown how to teach people who couldn’t even do that.
James asked disappointingly.
“Why is there no way?”
Oliver looked at him without saying a word, then suddenly reached out and covered James’ eyes.
“Aha? What are you doing right now…”
“Wait a minute.”
Oliver shook James’ weakly resisting hand and covered his eyes again.
Oliver focused his attention on his eyes.
He wondered if his emotions were becoming clearer, so Oliver extracted some of his emotions from the test tube and then put his hand in James’ eyes again in the same way.
“What the hell…?”
“Wait.”
With those words, Oliver tightened his eyes again.
Gradually, his general vision weakened and his vision as a warlock grew stronger, but as the boundary was crossed, Oliver forced the emotions he had in his hands into James’s eyes.
“aah-!”
James felt a great pain in his eyeball and began to struggle.
Oliver never gave up.
“hurt! Damn it hurts!!”
“Yes, yes. it’s okay. Wait.”
James struggled to see if the pain had reached a critical point, and after arguing for a while, Oliver finally let go.
“Wow!”
James fell to the floor, clutching his eyes.
He crawled on the floor moaning in pain, but he couldn’t open his eyes as if he had seen a flash bomb.
“Eye···! my eyes…! What the hell did you do?!”
James screamed, grabbing his burning eyes.
However, as time passed, the pain gradually subsided and vision was restored.
“What does this look like?”
In front of James, who barely opened his eyes, Oliver asked, raising a finger.
James replied blankly.
“. circle?”
***
“·······. So, are you saying that Landa was built by wizards?”
“right····. Specifically, capitalists and wizards. However, the public is saying that it was built by wizards. Well, that’s not really a lie. Capitalists only gave money. It’s the magic of the magic that rebuilt Landa. Even a three-year-old knows.”
“ah····. I didn’t know.”
“That’s what the word means, the word…. Don’t you know the analogy, the simile?”
“········.”
“Hey, I don’t know…. Anyway, the point is that the status of wizards in Landa is great. It’s great elsewhere, but even better at Landa.”
“okay. But how do you know about wizards, Mr. James?”
“ah? Ahh···. First of all, there are a lot of stories about wizards going around in bars and on the street, and there have been a few times when they were hired by wizards. When acting as a solver.”
“Oh, right? what?”
“When you set fire to a competing wizard business, or when you assault your employees.”
“·····. Do you fight a lot with wizards?”
“uh. Smart people hate smart people. homophobia. Rather, let me ask you a question this time.”
“Yes.”
“How long do I have to do this?”
James asked, gathering his emotions into his fingertips, forming a squiggly circle.
It’s a circle because it’s easy to say, but in fact, it was embarrassing to even call it a circle.
“Until you make a perfect circle.”
“ha····. Can’t you just teach me black magic right away? a very strong one. exploding. yes?”
“If you don’t know how to make circles properly, I can’t help you either.”
At that, James gave a blatant disappointment.
Taking the first step in black magic, he was overjoyed and hurried, but Oliver calmly advised him each time.
“···. And the true power of black magic is not in its powerful power.”
“what?”
“If you look at the master’s notebook in the library, it is said that the true power of black magic is the eye that penetrates the inside of the opponent and the precise technique of using that eye to pierce the target. That’s what I think too. If you only think about strong black magic, it will be of no use.”
There was considerable dignity in the words of a boy who looked only about fifteen years old, but James stared at him, silently, without joking as usual.
“then·····.”
“- Mr. James! Everything has been moved!”
Workers who had come out of the sausage factory and loaded boxes of pilgarets into trucks shouted in the distance.
“okay! Wait a minute!”
James went back to the pharmacist’s subordinate A and took a cigarette and opened his mouth.
“Whoa…. OK. That’s all for today. I’ll stop talking nonsense and keep practicing circle making.”
“like. If you make a circle, practice making a square as it is.”
“okay···. square···. By the way, can you increase production even more? We will take care of the emotions.”
“?······. Are you already producing a lot?”
“Yeah, we’re producing a lot. But I need more.”
more? Oliver was worried.
At first, the production of pilgaret, which had increased little by little, suddenly doubled or tripled, and now it has quadrupled.
That meant an increase in Oliver’s workload.
It was not a pleasant story for Oliver, who wanted to study black magic.
Well, I was reading almost all of the books in the library anyway, so it wasn’t a big problem. still···.
“·······. Can I just think about it? It’s limited enough for the workplace now.”
“okay. I’ll tell the boss that. But if possible, think about accepting it. Your stuff is very popular right now, so you have to paddle when the water gets in.”
It was an empty story for Oliver, who was not particularly interested in money. But if there wasn’t anything interesting about it, it wasn’t.
“Is it popular?”
“okay. I did not know?”
“Yes.”
“Why do you think production has increased? Naturally, the demand is high. supply and demand. market principles. Your stuff is very popular right now. Do you want to buy things from other vendors? Just a little more exaggeration and you’re going to threaten Black Smoke.”
“·····. What is black smoke?”
“·····. Don’t you know what black smoke is? Are you kidding me?”
Oliver shook his head silently, and James was stunned.
“I’m a warlock who sells pilgarets, but don’t you know what black smoke is?”
“I never learned it.”
“Black Smoke is the most popular pilgaret brand . . . A really good quality pilgaret is what sets the brand apart. After all, your stuff is just so awesome.”
“·····. okay.”
“It’s good that the response is so consistent. How much praise do I have to give to be satisfied… Anyway, I’ll tell the boss well. See you next time.”
Oliver nodded and saw James off, but James stopped abruptly and asked with a very serious face.
“Well, can I ask you something?”
“Please speak.”
“It’s funny that I come here and say things like this… Why are you teaching me so easily? black magic. To be honest, you can ignore it.”
Oliver thought for a moment before opening his mouth.
“Why don’t you teach me?”
James paused, then said with a low smile.
“hahaha······. You are such a weird guy.”
“is that so?”
“Oh, yes. See you next time.”
***
Several vehicles were running towards the outdated city of Wineham.
It was the F-series, a vehicle for mass distribution, and it was a model that was not strange from any angle.
Thanks to this, it was very popular with the middle-class people who were short on money and those who performed secret missions.
squeak-
Vehicles stopped all at once on a hill overlooking the city.
Moments later, a woman got out of the car in the lead.
Porcelain-clean skin, distinct features, and brilliant blonde hair.
She was a beautiful woman that looked like a painting, and she was so beautiful that she even looked sacred.
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No. It didn’t look holy, but was it really holy?“Is this a breeding ground for that stuff?”
“Yes that’s right. Knight.”
A woman called a knight said while holding the cross hanging from her neck.
“Then let’s hurry. To destroy the evil that sprinkles the evil medicine.”