Overpowered Archmage Doesn’t Hide His Talent chapter 138

138 – It’s just me, not Judith.

The next morning.

Now that the Faculty of Magic is heating up with the heat of Advent, I looked at my work in the dormitory.

Of course, Maiev was also with us. She was wrestling with papers on the small desk next to her.

First of all, I took a sip of tea.

However, I don’t feel the usual toxicity at all.

“Today, the taste of tea is ordinary.”

“Yes.”

Maiev nods her head.

She sets the papers upright and knocks them on the desk with a crackling sound. In that way, he connects the words by adjusting the height of the sheets.

“Because I realized that what I tried made the owner safer.”

“Interesting.”

But there was one more thing that bothered me.

Looking at it now, she was standing in front of her desk.

“Why are you working while standing?”

“Because there are no chairs.”

“That sounds interesting too.”

I slowly opened Maiev’s report.

─[ Void Report ]─

1. Rank Chart and Officers

2. Their purpose

3. Plan….

────────

The first thing to look at is item number 2. The purpose of the blood demons was, of course, a power source containing ancient runes.

However, the fact that even these guys didn’t know the ancient rune language perfectly stood out.

“Maiev. Wasn’t rune the common language of blood demons?”

“Yes. That’s right, master.”

“It’s awkward that I don’t know the ancient rune language well.”

“The blood demons have a long history, and most of them are in the dark ages. At that time, most of the ancient runes were practiced.”

Maiev calmly continues her words.

“That’s why he is very interested in the owner. Think about it. Humans are deciphering ancient runes, how amazing.”

Maiev nodded her head a couple of times, as if she was curious to even think about it.

I understood very well what she meant by ‘him’. She was the princess who reigned at the top of the blood demons.

“I didn’t know that the princess took so much interest in me.”

“Guess you’re lucky. Because he didn’t aim to kill his master. If that was the case, this place would have already been devastated.”

“Then, do you have any other goals?”

“Of course, you want to leave it beside you and use it.”

First of all, this is enough.

After putting the report down for a while, this time I checked the golden-colored paper. It was a message from the second princess.

“Come to think of it, I made a promise.”

The time has come to keep the ‘conversation between just the two of us’ that we promised in exchange for hosting Advent Festival.

However, I was worried that the location was the imperial palace again.

Originally, Aurora was supposed to visit her academy, but she said she had something important and asked me to come to the imperial family.

“Okay.”

This part is something to think about.

Smart─

Then someone carefully knocked on the door. I opened the door without a sound.

“Ah!”

I was familiar with his surprised voice when our eyes met, and his distinctive white cotton-like appearance.

Yoo Shia parted her lips.

“You are still awake early in the morning. Sir Plan.”

“What did you come for?”

Yoo Shia smiled and came towards me.

She said, “I heard rumors that she subdued the evil demons. She wants to see her face again…. Uh?”

Upon discovering Maiev, Yushia’s eyes widened.

Fortunately, Maiev was currently disguised as ‘Marceline’.

She could have kept it in a frame, but she didn’t. She entrusted her with the analysis of the girl’s magic spell, and every minute and every second was a waste to her.

“Who is this?”

“It’s not this person, it’s Marceline, the top seller of Marceline Firm.”

Maiev directly answered Yusia’s question. The word ‘bad blood demons’ must have been bothering me, but the tone was not very nice.

“Why are you staying in Lord Plann’s dormitory?”

Yoo Shia also strangely hardened her expression.

“I’m really busy with the upper house.”

“Why do you work standing up? Suspiciously.”

“There is no chair…. No, don’t mind.”

I used ductility to turn a wooden wardrobe into a chair. I put it in front of Yusia.

“… !”

Maiev’s eyes widened.

She keeps looking back and forth between the front of her empty desk and me. Yusia sat down in her seat, looking at her Maiev with her sullen eyes.

It was I who broke the silence.

“Usiah. Do you have something to say to me?”

“Yes. Of course. But….”

Yushia’s eyes turned to Maiev.

“Don’t worry and talk. It’s okay.”

“… Is that so. Then Sir Plan, are you going to meet the second princess soon?”

Yoshia asked me carefully.

“I’m in trouble.”

“I see. If you go to meet, be sure to be careful. As I said before, she is a very dangerous woman.”

“Yes. First of all, visit the mansion first.”

The time has come to reveal Judith’s name.

I also have to check the investment money she has accumulated, so I plan to stop by the mansion as soon as I finish my work here.

Yusia smiled faintly.

“To put aside the request of the second princess, who is no one else…. Perhaps Lord Plan is the only one who can do this.”

“If I am not the only one, it will be difficult.”

“Yes. Sure.”

So static again. Inside the dormitory, for a while, all you can hear is the rustling of papers.

“Hmm.”

I looked at my watch.

It’s only 6 am now.

She finished her job 40 minutes earlier than expected.

“Yusia.”

“Yes.”

“Why do you stay here?”

“It’s good to see Sir Plan.”

I made sure there was no additional work to be done here. I wasn’t there, and Yoo Shia was still just staring at me.

She couldn’t help but she sighed.

“Did you bring a glow-in-the-dark puzzle?”

“Yes?”

Yusia belatedly nodded her head. She hurriedly takes out a glow-in-the-dark puzzle from her backpack.

From noble mtl dot com

“Oh, yes. I got it! Of course!”

“That or that. It’s only 40 minutes.”

Yusia put her hands together and nodded vigorously.

“Yes—!”

Sunflowers bloomed over her white face.

She seemed genuinely happy.

◈

… Meanwhile, Scarlett has returned to her mansion early.

Judith’s mansion had a warehouse in the basement, and Scarlett’s steps were also heading there.

She chased down the narrow stairs and slowly pushed open the solid iron door. After a while, the gloomy warehouse and the familiar back view came into view.

It was Katarina, the head maid.

“… Uh? Miss.”

Katarina hurriedly bowed her head, showing her courtesy as her head maid. Scarlett quietly shook her head.

Does she really deserve to be greeted by maids? Because now I don’t even know that.

“Katarina.”

“Yes. Miss.”

“Before coming to the mansion, what were you doing?”

“Are you talking about before working at Judith’s mansion? Hmm…. What did you do before….”

Katarina tilted her head and thought as best she could. However, she finally lets out a sigh.

“My lady, I’m sorry. She has no recollection of what she did before.”

“As expected.”

Scarlett quietly nodded her head. It was no wonder, she said, that Katarina couldn’t remember her past.

Libra, the memory slayer.

Because right after she had the incident in the past, she erased the memories of all her servants.

Scarlett’s gaze suddenly turned to the maid’s hand. Katarina holds her wad of papers in her arms.

“Is it burning?”

“Yes. Miss.”

Katarina nodded her head.

“Sorry. You ordered it to be sorted out a long time ago, and now I’m finally getting the blades right.”

“Wait a minute.”

Scarlett grabbed one of the papers from her maid’s arms. And she narrowed her brow.

I remember.

She called the head of the maid herself and, in a fit of rage, ordered her to burn it right away….

“… Notebook.”

It was a notebook in which Plan practiced magic theory. A notebook that was not even in order and was torn to pieces.

As for his magical prowess, even Scarlett couldn’t easily guess.

Right now, since yesterday, rumors began to circulate that he single-handedly subdued the blood demons at the ballroom, so tomorrow he will be a more famous figure than today.

His moves were unconventional and he never stopped. Probably will in the future.

“….”

Scarlett’s expression hardened.

On the pages of the notebook that I finally looked at closely, traces of the past where he felt the limit and stopped were clearly visible.

It wasn’t just one page.

Not even two.

He slowly raised his head.

All the sheets piled up like a mountain in the warehouse…. It was a trace of Plan’s efforts as he twisted his body.

The strength in his grip loosened on its own. The paper he was holding was fluttering and falling, and he probably had a complicated and stiff face.

The head maid quietly looks into Scarlett’s eyes.

“Sorry girl! I’ll take care of it quickly!”

“Leave it.”

“Yes, yes?”

“Don’t burn it, leave it alone. Just tidy up.”

With that said, I left the warehouse.

“….”

Scarlett was in a daze. The more he knew, the more it felt like the world was gradually moving away from him.

My feet move on their own.

When I came to my senses at some point, it was a graveyard.

Scarlett walked down the path of the graveyard as if possessed.

At the end of her walk, she felt a surge of passion in her soul, and finally she was the owner of another tombstone.

[Incandescent Knight]

[Evelyn Judith]

“Mother.”

The tomb of the woman who could no longer be called mother was still clean. It must be Judith’s sincerity.

“… Mother.”

Evelyn is her own mother, but not her mother.

Can I call you mother? Which one is exactly Even if you ask now, you won’t get any answers from the dead.

“I don’t know anything.”

Kneel down and mutter in front of her tombstone.

What thoughts to have in front of the tombstone, how to regard Judith, how to live…. She really didn’t know anything about herself.

Even if I try to think a little deeper, my mind seems to fly away to a distant place.

“Mother.”

Scarlett parted her lips in a trembling voice.

She still called the burning knight, Evelyn, by the title of mother.

“I don’t know anything about how much faith my mother had in favor of passing on the unique abilities….”

She closed her own eyes for a moment.

She still wants to deny reality sometimes, but in that case, she was already an adult and realistic.

“I was left with only a balance. It’s not great enough to be successful, and the plan’s circuitry is completely burned out, so I can’t return it in the first place.”

Place a single flower on the tombstone quietly.

“But I also know that the past cannot be changed.”

You shouldn’t forget the past, but even if you cling to it in the end, it won’t change what has already happened.

She knew it all too well.

“So, I have no choice but to move on….”

Just as the sun rises in the morning, the ground gets wet when it rains, and the snow melts in the sun.

“From now on.”

She had no choice but to live by doing what she took for granted. And what is normal….

“For the sake of your flesh and blood…. I swear I will burn only for him.”

After all, she could only come up with the path of atonement.

Plan.

The fact that he truly cared for Scarlett and eventually saved it was self-evident.

So, repaying her favor must also be his destiny.

“It’s not Judith’s, it’s just my oath.”

Tears run down my cheeks.

No matter how the current flan sees himself, he will gladly become the firewood for the true burning.

The flan will become a thicker flame, and the more it goes on, the more it will become a proof of something that illuminates the world.

His life he almost lost once.

It’s not that difficult to throw it away again.

That was his determination.

“… Enough then.”

That’s how they return to Judith’s mansion.

I ran into a familiar man at the main gate of the mansion.

“Flan….”

Scarlett forced her gaze down.

This was before the tears on my cheeks had even dried.