Karin opened the door and saw who had entered, and widened her eyes.
“Uh, oh my, on time, why?”
The man closed the door and walked over, pulled a round chair and sat across from Karin. Karin said in a hoarse voice.
“Master, are you here?”
She was a retired great sage and Karin’s teacher, Luina Alund. At first glance, she was so small that she could be mistaken for Karin’s younger sister, smiling.
“You’ve got a lot of emotions.”
It was like seeing Karin’s tears. Karin, feeling somewhat embarrassed, wiped the tears with the back of her hand.
“So, what did you come here for?”
“The one and only disciple cries out every night at night, so of course you should stop by.”
“Mae, I didn’t cry every day…”
“There are even ghost stories around this fortress. At night, when you walk around the laboratory where there should be no one there, you see a ghost crying, saying, “Bad guy, bad guy.”
Karin’s face turned red from embarrassment. Luina opened her eyes and asked.
“Tell me what the hell happened at that party.”
He could not refuse his master’s orders. Karin nodded her head and stuttered, explaining. What happened at the Hero Party, what it went through, and how it was disbanded.
Even though he was crying like that, when he was talking about someone, he seemed excited like a child. Louisa thought it was strange.
I remembered the first time I met her student. At that time, this guy’s eyes were completely dead. The eyes of the fish that had been thrown on the deck by sticking their tongues in a fishing hook would have been more lively than that. The eyes of a person who had completely lost hope, that’s why I chose this guy as my disciple.
I didn’t mean to save him or do such a grand act. I just wanted to let him live alone in a quiet place. Because the only person who can save yourself is always yourself. And the disciple seemed to have found something brilliantly on his own during the trip.
“I see, that red mage is a great guy.”
After finishing the story, Karin bowed her head again. Louisa sighed and pulled something out of her arms.
“And there’s also one bad guy. Why did this happen to me?”
What she took out were a few pictures taken with a magic camera. Ruina, who was looking at the picture with a complicated expression, looked at the picture with Karin in turn. He seemed to be judging whether he could show this. After a while, she sighed again and put down the picture.
“Altrich, I got it from that cheeky kid. He said he wanted me to show him this picture.”
“This…”
“This is a picture of the current situation of that Red Mage.”
Louisa was startled. It was because Karin got up like lightning and took the picture. She took the photo with an excited expression, and soon changed to a shocked expression. Because of the content of the photo. There was a picture of Jain, who had become very emaciated, and was sitting on a pile of wine bottles.
“Why, why does that handsome face have half of it? While nagging you to eat well every day, you, if you are like this… you idiot…”
are you handsome I guess it was just normal. Louisa, who was about to say a word, swallowed it. It seemed that her pupil had a proper pod in her eyes now.
“After returning to the base, this guy is half-baked, drinking only alcohol every day. It is said that he hardly ever leaves the house unless he goes to buy alcohol.”
“That, that…”
Tears welled up in Karin’s big eyes. Louisa took out another picture and held it out.
“This is another picture.”
Karin was snatched away like lightning again. And he looked more surprised than before. It was because there was a picture of Jain lying dead in a garbage dump, with a large bruise on his cheek.
“This is… this.”
“So, I went to the pub every day, and they said it was a picture that was beaten and thrown away by drunkards because it smelled of alcohol. They said that they could have been punished if they just lifted their hands, but they were just beaten dead as if they were dead and they didn’t show any resistance.”
“ah…”
Hearing that, Karin grabbed her chest and bowed her head. It hurt like stabbing. Originally, Jain was never like that. It must have been that he had lost his purpose in life and became so helpless. It was unbearably heartbreaking to think that he was responsible for that person being ruined like that. Another stream of tears he had been holding back came down and wet his cheeks.
“Hey, you bastard, why did you get beaten up…you, you, didn’t. I didn’t get hit even once and I beat you every day… I’m sorry, really, I’m sorry…”
Louisa looked at him and smiled faintly. Interlocking her arms, she slammed the desk down to attract attention, she said softly.
“So, I don’t need you.”
“Yes?”
Karin rolled her eyes. Her golden eyes gleamed beautifully, absorbing the flame of the candle. However, after a while, those eyes clouded again.
“But I, by pampering him stupidly, hurt him a lot. I mean, in this room as atonement… to get him back… to do research.”
“Do not run away.”
Louisa’s voice was solemn. It was a scolding tone. It was the first serious voice I had ever heard since becoming her disciple.
“What you need to do is not self-sacrifice that is mere self-satisfaction.”
“Then, what is it?”
“It’s an apology.”
Ruina tapped the desk again and said.
“Go to him, apologize and ask for forgiveness.”
“Yeah, but what if it bothers him again?
Karin’s face wrinkled badly again. A buzzing sound filled the room for a moment.
“If you’re completely tired of me, tired of me, and even showing your face hurts him…”
“Then are you really going to live without seeing me for the rest of your life?”
“I don’t like that, but…”
Ruina grabbed Karin’s chin, who was muttering like a broken doll, and looked into her eyes and said.
“You’ve always lived with the word ‘no’ like a habit. People who hear such abusive language as ‘No’ or ‘Die’ are originally so hard, terrifying, and terrifying.”
“ah…”
“Still, that guy always didn’t back down despite your abusive language and helped you out. Are you going to go away at once by saying you don’t like it?”
Karin shook her head. Her hair, which was tied in two, fluttered to and fro.
“Isn’t your heart all that?”
Karin shook her head again. Ruina looked at it as if she was satisfied, and put the picture in Karin’s hand.
“This guy will need you right now. Nothing will change as long as you’re regretting it. Go, come and face your mistakes proudly.”
Her eyes, which had been cloudy just before, began to come back to life. Ruina put something in Karin’s hand.
“Then, take it.”
“S, Master, this.”
it was a stick The great sage’s staff that I lent for a while when I joined the hero party.
“You did a good job. This guy wants to get you back. It’s a gift.”
An artifact that has recorded high-level magic, Hell Blazer, and greatly amplifies magical power. Even the great wise men have been using them for decades. If you sell this, you would be able to buy five mansions in a ridiculous way. Karin stuttered in disbelief.
“I can’t accept this. What did you do well…”
“This is now yours. Be by his side, this time you protect him with this.”
“Master…”
Karin sighed again. Louisa smiled brightly. Originally, he was a little worried about expressing his emotions, but he seemed to have turned into a crybaby because he hadn’t seen it before.
“I haven’t done anything like a teacher, so I have to do it even at times like this.”
“Thank you, ok… No, you were the best teacher. Always.”
At the sudden, honest compliment, Luina’s face also turned slightly pink. Embarrassed, she stole the bridge of her nose to hide her embarrassment and asked a mean question.
“By the way, if you listen to the flow of the story earlier, one out of five women in the hero party went down and ate with the hero. Maybe not you?”
“Absolutely not! Now, I’m not proud of it, but there’s also pure evidence of that. It’s just that I didn’t answer quickly because I was embarrassed!”
As soon as Luina asked if it was an urgent matter for Karin, she shouted. Then, as if embarrassed, he lowered his head and touched the hem of his skirt. Seeing that, Luina laughed out loud and stood up from her seat.
“They say that their base is Rotern, a city for beginners.”
It indicated the destination. As she was walking around, she asked as if she suddenly remembered in front of the door.
“Oh, and, if the relationship with that red mage is restored again, please tell me that the retired great sage Luina Alund wants to ask you something, and that she wants to have an interview with you when you have time.”
“Master?”
“Surely, definitely. Okay? You gave me a wand. Surely?”
Only one thought filled Ruina’s head, who had been promised.
‘If it were him, he might know how to get me back to my slim body!’
“Yeah, yeah… If everything goes well, I’ll tell you.”
“Good!”
Karin suddenly made a promise to the teacher who was desperately clinging to it. And that morning, as soon as the day dawned, I packed my things and got into the wagon.
The carriage’s destination was determined.
To Rotern, the city of beginners where Zain is staying, where beautiful flowers bloom.
*
Viscount Sonnet, a rural estate famous for producing high-quality wine and vinaigrette vinegar.
Soria, the head of the maid there, was now in great trouble.
It was because dozens of young people had come and had ejaculation on her.
“I haven’t seen you for a month, and you’ve fallen ill again, haven’t you?”
“no.”
“The maid always says that, so you have to be able to believe it. So, the young people gathered money and prepared a greeting card for the lady. Please accept it.”
White wine, fruit jam, and clothes were piled up in front of the young people who spoke like that. Soria said as if her head was hurting, she adjusted her glasses and said.
“If you receive such a thing, you may be misunderstood as having looted Young Ji-min.
“Well, then, please take this.”
The middle-aged, who was the representative of Youngji-min, took something out of the bag in a hurry. It was a straw hat with a white ribbon hanging from it.
“The little girls who the young lady used to be the teacher for, gathered together because the teacher was ill, so they knitted straw hats one by one. I don’t think the word looting comes from this.”
“ha…”
Soria, who took the straw hat, made a troubled expression again.
These gifts were a reflection of the popularity of Sonnet Young-ae, the young lady of this estate.
A young girl with an unrealistically beautiful silver hair and a neat and pure face, as if she had applied silver pigment. A faint smile was always hanging on her lips, with a thin body line, as if it had been painted with pastels. So, like the cry of a grasshopper or the elytra of a cicada, she spread the impression that her existence itself was very thin and ephemeral.
Her character was just as beautiful as her appearance, and she wore a white dress and a straw hat to wander around the estate to help people in need. He listened to complaints, rescued a cat that climbed a tree, and rescued a child from drowning himself. He was always kind to the people who were discriminated against for not paying taxes. Therefore, she was almost treated as an angel without wings in this sonnet territory.
If there is one weakness she has, it is that she is sickly.
There were rumors that he was born with a rare disease, and that he was sentenced to death.
Sonnet Young Ae has not appeared for a month, so these days, young people affected by the rumors are bringing and offering gifts like this every day.
Soria pondered for a long time with the straw hat in her hand, and finally came to a conclusion.
“Then, I’ll just pass on this straw hat. But really, don’t worry about the fact that the lady is staying here because it’s not a health problem.”
“Then, what kind of problem, at least… There are many people in the village who are concerned. I will convey it well.”
“Recently, the young lady has returned from a long trip. So, she seems to be a little tired.”
“Oh, is it?”
After the conversation, the middle-aged man bowed his head and returned to Soria.
“Then I’ll take care of you, maid!”
After waving her hand to see off these young people, Soria returned to the mansion, putting down her presents and wiping her glasses. She was a typical strict-looking maid with her black hair curled with a hairpin and wearing glasses. Soria took her straw hat and headed to Sonnet Youngae’s room. Entering the long hallway of the mansion, she met a random person there. It was one of the Youngmins who came to deliver the present earlier.
“Why are you in the mansion?”
He was a young man with a simple impression. he said impatiently.
“Sorry, I’m sorry. I suddenly had an upset stomach, so I asked for forgiveness and went to the bathroom.”
“I can’t help it. Be careful next time.”
“thank you!”
The young man became a riot and ran away from Soria. Soria looked at his back like that, and pulled out the hairpin.
“I don’t want to get caught by acting like this.”
“Ugh!”
The tip of the hairpin was as sharp as a dagger. After leaving Soria’s hand, the hairpin pierced the man’s clothes and stuck it in the wall like a stuffed animal.
“Hey, what, tyranny!”
“There’s no such thing as a toilet over there. And you tried to hide it, but you could see the clumsy thief’s footsteps in your movements.”
Soria took off her glasses and put them in her arms. Her glasses were gone, and her eyes were as sharp and deep as those of an assassin. She grabbed the young man by the collar and lifted him up.
“For what purpose did you infiltrate here?”
As she pulled the hairpin and pressed it to the young man’s throat, Soria asked gloomy. The unidentified young man screamed.
“I, I didn’t do anything! I’m just a delivery man!”
“A delivery man?”
“Hey, this lady, using the Thieves Guild’s top secret service to order something, I’m just here to deliver it!”
“What is something?”
“Hey Ik! I don’t know! So it’s a top secret service!”
Soria looked at the young man with cold eyes. There seemed to be no lie in that statement. Soria sighed, pulled out the hairpin again and tied her hair up.
“Okay. Don’t come back.”
The young man who was resurrected from death turned pale and left the mansion in a hurry.
A sonnet author who looks just like an ordinary country nobleman.
The family had another name known only to those who knew it.
Eunyodang.
The empire’s number one intelligence trader, and a thief famed for inheriting the blood of noble beings.
Because the blood of a transcendent being flows through his lineage, it is said that his successor will always have beautiful silver hair as if it had been plucked from the moonlight.
Soria, the head of the maid here, was no ordinary maid. It was just an appearance, and she was an assassin trained as sharp as a blade.
Soria walked up to Sonnet Youngae’s room with a straw hat in her hand, knocking on the tightly closed door and asked.
“miss?”
The door didn’t open. It looked like they had just picked up the items and locked the door again. Soria closed her eyes and focused her attention on her ears, listening to the sound in the room.
“Jain… Ah, Jain…”
There was the sound of someone’s name being called, and the sound of weeping moans. Soria crumpled her face and lifted her face from the door.
After completing her adventure at the Hero’s Party, Sonnet Young-ae, who returned home, was locked up in her room for the whole month.
And sometimes, in top secret, he collected unknown things. How many times has Soria discovered, and there are probably many more that haven’t been caught.
Soria leaned her forehead against the door. A cool feeling spread across his forehead. And muttered in despair.
“Lady Ren, what are you up to?”
So it was here???