17 – The wicked woman is narrow-minded
The Banquet at the Magic Tower is held over two days. Today was the first day of the banquet, and the banquet had just begun.
In the banquet hall, there were only people who looked noble.
Me and Shael were in the corner like dead rats. Sael was just annoying, and I was there to somehow prevent conflict between Sael and her heroine.
Of course, I couldn’t stay still like that.
It was because the magic tower lord, Aren Jagers, found us and approached us.
“⋯What are you doing?”
I hurriedly approached the owner of the tower and asked.
It was because Sael was trying to tell the mage master what to say. Because there will be very bad words coming out of her mouth.
I thought he would open his eyes as soon as he saw me, but the Master of the Magic Tower seemed calmer than I thought. No, rather he was smiling.
It was strange. Where did the Master of the Magic Tower, whose personality was such a mess from yesterday, go?
It was then that I had no choice but to stop thinking.
Chang-Geurang-!!
I look back at the ominous sound. A wine glass is broken on the floor.
The heroine, Clie, was lying face down on the floor. Sael’s clothes were red from wine.
“Oh, that…! Sorry! ⋯Sorry!”
“⋯.”
It happened within a few seconds of approaching the Master of the Magic Tower. No, you mean at this moment? Does it make sense
Shael was looking down at Clie.
“You did it on purpose.”
“Go, it wasn’t intentional⋯! The floor is slippery in the wind. I’ll help you get a new outfit in the dressing room⋯!”
The Azbel family’s Sael and the mage lord’s continued interest in Clie. The eyes of the people who came to the banquet hall were focused on the two.
Of course. To spill wine on Shael, who is reputed to be a cruel villainess. She was in a situation where no one else had to focus.
Collock!
It was then that Clie coughed. It was also a time when people’s attention was drawn.
As if to arouse sympathy.
Something was strange. No matter how selfish a heroine Clie was, it wasn’t to this extent.
She made her own mistakes, and kept coughing in public? She wasn’t what a normal person would do.
Then the mage tower in front of me moved. He walked over to Clie’s side.
Shael coldly glared at the Master of the Magic Tower.
It was a situation where anyone could tell that the two were not on good terms.
It was when I was thinking that something big might happen.
A completely unexpected thing happened. The ill-tempered mage lord was lowering his head.
“I should have taken good care of the floor. Sorry.”
Shael looked at the lord of the mage tower. I couldn’t help but stare at him in bewilderment.
That bad tempered mage lord lowers his head? Even for the female lead, it was strange.
“Apologizing by merely lowering your head? Get down on your knees.”
Then, without hesitation, the tower master knelt down.
People gasped for breath.
It was nonsense. That mage lord kneels down on his knees?
However, the reason was immediately apparent.
People who were embarrassed were whispering about Shael. The magic tower owner was instigating the people.
Concentrate your magic and listen to what people say.
I can hear people say that you can make the lord of the Mage Tower kneel down with just dirty clothes.
What followed was that it was true that Sael Azbel had a vicious personality.
Most of these were words from the wizards of the Mage Tower.
Before things got bigger, I took Shael’s hand and led him.
“⋯Come, Shael.”
Fortunately, Shael followed my advice. Maybe he was waiting for these words.
Shael and I walked silently until no one was seen.
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“⋯Are you okay?”
“What is it? I am fine.”
Unexpectedly, the villainess looked calm. It was different from when he was trying hard not to lose to me.
Maybe that’s why, on the contrary, Sael didn’t seem okay.
I didn’t know if she was really okay, but…
“Puhw, pouhh⋯.”
Shael suddenly laughed. Were you shocked by what happened earlier?
It was something that would upset even the wicked woman. Before the banquet, she gets into a fight with the lord of the Magic Tower, and during the banquet, her clothes are stained with wine, and people curse at her.
Moreover, she was forced to come to the banquet.
It was a situation that would make anyone angry.
“Ah, I feel so relieved.”
I couldn’t understand Sael’s words at all. Are you upset? Rather, it was you who suffered.
No matter how ignorant the villainess is, there’s no way she didn’t know that.
As I was looking at Shael with a puzzled look, she said to me.
“Look at this.”
What Shael gave me was the purchase certificate. It was familiar.
It was something Sael could see at the auction house where she bought a lot of eccentric things.
“⋯A pill of lies? Did you buy this again? No, will you give me this money?”
Shael nodded her head.
“And I fed them.”
“⋯No way.”
I could immediately recall who she had given the pills to.
“Yes, I fed it to the Master of the Magic Tower.”
“⋯.”
⋯ Then, the reason why the Mage Lord bowed her head and knelt down to Sael… Wasn’t it to incite her people to curse Sael?
It was kind of strange. No matter how there was a reason, it was because I couldn’t understand why the lord of the Mage Tower had her kneel.
But I heard that Shael took the pills. As I was silent, she said something dumbfounded.
“What if the owner of the Magic Tower cannot decipher what even you can do?”
“⋯The tower master only uses combat magic.”
That was the unique setting of the mage tower master. The owner of the Mage Tower has no interest in anything other than earth-type magic and combat magic that he learned to build the Mage Tower.
A pill of lies, it was at such a level that even a person who had just awakened to magic could solve it if he knew how to use detoxification magic.
However, the owner of the mage tower has no knowledge of detoxification magic. It only deals with combat magic.
I don’t understand why the hell this setting exists, but there was a reason for it. In romance fantasy novels, the charms of the main characters must be appealed to.
The setting was also to appeal to her charm by making one of the male protagonists, the Mage Tower, drunk with all sorts of strange drugs.
It was clear that the setting that the mage master could only use combat magic had worked like this now.
Thinking back, her body was trembling when the lord of the Magic Tower knelt down to Shael.
She must have been, since it was something she absolutely hated.
⋯Suddenly, the Master of the Magic Tower feels sorry for him.
As expected, the villainess was evil.
“So, I’m fine.”
Shael’s expression was calm.
Sael thought that since she succeeded in taking revenge on the owner of the Mage Tower, it was okay for her to have wine on her clothes or to be cursed at by people.
However, it felt strange to me.
Isn’t it strange that she is okay with the clothes she cherished suddenly getting dirty and being cursed at?
Even though Sael’s expression looked calm, her feelings were different from usual. Contrary to her words and expression, it must be because she was also slightly offended.
“⋯I’m not okay.”
“Why are you…?”
She stopped her words. Because I couldn’t help but question what I had handed over.
“⋯Suddenly what?”
“This is a gift.”
What I handed over to the villainess was a doll. She is an eccentric, nondescript doll.
It was also the doll Sael gave me at the shooting range the other day. Her eye was torn by an arrow and Sael gave it to me.
The doll’s eyes were sewn in strange shapes. The reason was that I was not good at sewing.
When Shael stopped by her dressing room for a while, she urgently bought and sewed the necessary items.
“⋯?”
“Isn’t the doll you wanted to have torn strangely and given to me?”
Shael handed over her doll and watched it carefully. She said then she said
“⋯It’s sloppy. It looks insignificant.”
Anyway, the villain has no common sense. At best, she spits out those words to the person who gave the gift.
“And who do you resemble?”
“⋯Are you referring to me?”
Shael smiled and looked at me.
“Yes.”
“Is this a compliment or an insult?”
“I like to use it to relieve stress.”
Shael gave the wrong answer to my question. Then she said abruptly.
“Oh, did you say I’m popular with catfish?”
“Yes?”
It was an outrageous statement.
-‘Ah, yes, that would be nice. It’s popular with the catfish.’
She used to say that to the wicked woman who laughed at me for not catching a fish.
But why did the catfish come out of here all of a sudden?
“Now that I think about it, I think it really is.”
“⋯ Yes?”
Shael doesn’t know what nonsense she is talking about. That she suddenly admits that she’s popular with Maggie?
“My fiance also looks like Maggie.”
“⋯.”
I ate a room.
Anyway, the villain has a narrow inside. Was she still chewing on the things of yesterday?
After she said that to me, Shael seemed to feel relieved as she walked away.
That said, there was no way I could remain quiet like this.
“Is that so? Come to think of it, there is a saying that married couples look alike.”
“⋯What nonsense are you talking about all of a sudden?”
“I was told that you are like a catfish too.”
There was no way I could defeat her. Because I was also narrow-minded.
⋯It was the same as the villainess.