92 – Idiot
“Ring.”
「Wave」
Paaang!
With a brief starter word, ripples rippled through the air.
As if a stone was thrown into a pond, the waves spread rapidly in all directions.
“…… Kuck!”
A low moan echoed immediately after.
Despite being prepared, White’s opponent couldn’t stand the match.
[…] … S, the winner! White! Get the qualification to advance to the quarterfinals!]
The embarrassing voice of the emcee rang out, and the audience seats started to stir.
“…… Did you fall down with just one spell? And to that young boy?”
“Isn’t the opponent weak?”
“That’s not going to happen. That man now collapsed was a finalist in the magic match last year. I’m sure you’re a 6th-circle wizard.”
“…… Then what? Are you saying that boy is a member of the 7th circle? Does that make sense?”
“Don’t ask me. Do you know me You haven’t revealed your family name or affiliation.”
“Huh… ….”
The chatter only grew, and the gaze toward White began to take on a mixture of interest and suspicion.
And White calmly deflects those gazes.
In spite of the situation, which could have felt a bit pressured, White was just calm.
Even if all eyes were on her in the first place, she wasn’t immature enough to be nervous again, and even more so, White couldn’t afford to care about such things.
“… ….”
A strange heat rose above White’s eyes as he gazed at a corner of the waiting room.
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Facing Ashera, who was casting her stealth magic, her long, charming smile on her lips, White raised one corner of her mouth.
‘Promise, I believe you will keep it. Master.’
‘…… Of course, I’m not going to tell lies again with something like this, right?’
Everyone throws their gaze at each other with their own meaning.
The eyes intertwined in the air, creating a strange war of nerves.
“…… hahahaha.”
“Whoops.”
White and Ashera looked at each other and smiled.
And since the next game had to be played at that point, White left the field.
There was still a confident smile on her lips.
…… Until then, that is.
“Um…… ?”
It was an unexpected meeting, and he was a person.
From White’s expression, doubts begin to emerge.
First of all, he was a person I never expected to meet here, so I was initially taken aback.
Secondly, the expression of that person was distorted like that of a demon, so I was startled.
But there was something I had to do first.
“…… Meet your Excellency, Marquis of Vampir.”
By bowing his head appropriately, White bowed towards the Marquis of Vampir.
“… ….”
However, despite White’s greeting, the Marquis of Vampir did not open his mouth.
On the contrary, he changed his expression even more strangely, and he furrowed his brow.
‘…… What’s going on?’
Just as White seriously questioned him, the Marquis of Vamfir finally parted his lips.
And spit it out.
“…… Can we talk for a moment? White Qliphoth.”
In a very cold voice, as if there were some unknown emotions.
“Yes?”
Questioning momentarily, White tilted his head slightly.
Conversation.
Conversation, d.
At this point, what reason would the Marquis of Vampir ask for a conversation with him?
Slowly working his brain, White began to ponder the reason.
…… But
The Marquis of Bam Pir did not allow White to continue her troubles.
“Follow me.”
“…… Yes?”
Saying that in a low, subdued voice, the Marquis of Vampir turned his body around.
Without even replying to White’s questioning questions, he began to walk.
‘What… ….’
And since White frowned once at such an overly assertive speech and action.
“… ….”
But what can I do?
At least outwardly, he was the heir to a family that was not the head of the family, and he was the head of the Vamfir marquis family, belonging to the same seven families as the Clifford family.
It wasn’t an absurd order, at least I couldn’t refuse to go somewhere and have a conversation.
There was no reason for that in the first place.
Inwardly, I was a little curious.
The Marquis of Vampir, why did he find himself?
…… And why are you making such a distressed expression?
“…… Hmm.”
If you follow the Marquis of Vampir, will you hear the reason?
I don’t know why, but I felt that way.
That’s why the worries didn’t last long.
With a slight nod of his head, White began to catch up behind Marquis Vampir.
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“…… That guy is brutal.”
“Yeah, that’s right.”
“Ahahahaha… ….”
After the Round of 16, which unfolded a little while ago, the three girls were all looking confused.
Serena was fiddling with her own sword and recalling her white face from a while ago, and Orca just tilted her head with a puzzled expression.
And Persia let out a wry smile as she looked at the reactions of those two girls.
“…… That guy isn’t the type to be so serious about a magic battle like this.”
Muttered Orca with a very curious expression.
“…… Hmm?”
However, I wonder if there was something strange about those words.
Serena tilted her head slightly and cast a meaningful gaze at Orca.
I don’t know why, but her intuition told her.
If you question her right now, Orca, she seems to be able to see something interesting in her own way.
“Come to think of it, Orca. Did you come back late at night with White?”
“…… !”
And Serena’s intuition was not wrong.
Her body trembled momentarily at her question, and Orca began shaking her pupils.
“…… That, was it? But, why is that?”
First of all, Orca answered that way.
However, there was a lot to hide her trembling fingertips.
“Hey… ….”
“…… Uhm?”
Serena’s expression as well as Persia’s expression, who had been listening silently next to her, began to take on a strange light.
And the more so, Orca had no choice but to shrink her body.
“…… What, what Why are you looking at me with those eyes? I’m scared for some reason, so stop! Stop it!”
Shaking her hand, and still blushing her cheeks, the orca smiled.
Because I knew.
If she doesn’t deny it now, she knows that her two friends will bite her to the end.
With the momentum to run out of the audience at any moment, the orca began to slowly pull her body behind her.
“Orca, you… ….”
“What, what! Why, what!”
Effortlessly avoiding Serena’s mischievous gaze, Orca screamed.
“Not really, isn’t it? It’s not as strange as you guys think?!”
“What is that strange thing we think?”
“…… Ugh, anyway, if not, then I know it’s not!”
Orca bites his teeth at Serena’s mischievous question.
And the more that reaction continued, the more Serena actively changed her attitude.
“I’m more curious since you reacted so violently, Orca.”
“…… Uh, huh?”
Serena pressed her body a little closer to Orca, who let out her flustered voice.
Orca shook her body like her kitten as she watched Serena slowly reach out her hand towards him.
“Something, what really happened that morning? I hope you guys really…….”
Serena stretched out her words with a meaningful expression on her face, and she must have guessed the meaning without difficulty.
“…… Awesome!”
In an instant, she dyed her face red, and Orca started shaking her head.
“No, no! It’s not like that!”
“Have I not said anything yet?”
“…… Noisy!”
Did the switch turn on because of Orca’s funny reaction?
With Serena’s mischievous smile on her face, she pushed Orca further.
“Seriously, Orca. You and White-“
─What kind of relationship?
Could it be that there was already a relationship like that?
…… Just like that, when Serena was about to ask.
“Wait, is it okay?”
“…… ?”
It was at that moment that a third party intervened in the conversation.
Not only Serena, but also Persia turned her head in the direction she came from when she heard her voice with a puzzled look on her face.
And it was the same with Orca.
“Ah…… !”
But if there is a difference, it must be that she knows the identity of the voice.
The expression of Orca suddenly brightened.
“Mrs. Ashera!”
As if she had met her savior, she drew her eye smile towards Ashera.
“The Orca Lady.”
And Ashera also smiled brightly at her.
For some reason, a warm atmosphere was forming between the two girls.
“Orca, this is…… ?”
And around that point, Serena revealed her doubts, and did she finally come to her senses?
“Ah!”
Letting out an exclamation, Orca blinked her eyes slightly.
She wanted to introduce Ashera for a moment, but for some reason she couldn’t stop talking.
‘…… Come to think of it.’
The Orca’s expression began to subtly frown.
…… Come to think of it, who should she introduce herself as?
Should I just introduce myself as White’s magic teacher?
“Uh… ….”
Orca glanced at Ashera and Serena one at a time with a worried expression.
“…… That, Lady Ashera.”
I can’t think of what to say, so Orca tries to open her mouth to ask for help from Ashera.
“Wait a minute.”
Ashera sighed, putting her index finger to her lips.
And Orca, who reflexively shuts his mouth at that gesture.
It was truly an act I did unconsciously.
‘…… Uh?’
I don’t know why, but since the first time she met her, for some reason, it doesn’t seem so easy to disobey her.
With that thought in mind, Orca carefully looked into Ashera’s eyes.
“…… Hmmm, where are we going?”
Ashera muttered calmly.
Orca raised a question on his face at those words, but she couldn’t bear to open her mouth, so she had no choice but to wait patiently.
And within that time, did they make a decision?
“Well, once you follow it, you will understand.”
Ashera tapped her wrist and spat out.
“…… Uh?”
What happened next was just an instant.
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“Come on, Lady Orca. Would you like to come with me?”
“Uh, yes?”
Ashera’s brief question, but as if refusing to listen to her answer, she raised her mana.
And then, spit it out.
“Teleport.”
A caster word for teleportation.
She said, placing her hand on Orca’s shoulder.
“…… Uh, uh uh?”
Oddly enough, Orca let out a voice filled with bewilderment at the sensation of her body floating.
It was after the magic had already been activated.
“Oh, Orca?”
Serena called her with a look of bewilderment and unconsciously reached out her hand, but her hand never reached her orca.
Hook!
At the same time as an artificial wind blows.
The new form of Ashera and Orca disappeared from the audience in an instant.
Shuuk!
…… And.
The two girls reappeared soon after, in an alley in one of the islands.
It was an alleyway with a very gloomy atmosphere.
“…… Asherah, sir?”
The orca let out a dazed voice with a fish-eyed expression.
Then Ashera brought her index finger to her lips again with her bright smile.
“Shh.”
“…… !”
Suddenly, Orca’s mouth was firmly shut.
Towards her, Ashera gestured somewhere toward her.
The head of Orca returns to where Ashera’s fingertips are pointing.
And then, she could see.
“…… To?”
…… White, who won a perfect victory in the round of 16 of the magic match a while ago.
Seeing his own father, the Marquis of Vampir, talking about something at a reasonable distance.
The expression of Orca turned pale in an instant.
‘…… I don’t know what it is.’
What kind of conversation were they talking about, why did the two of them meet separately in such a deserted alley?
I couldn’t figure it out at all, but if there was one thing that was clear.
‘…… What is this, this very ominous feeling.’
It must have been that I had no choice but to instinctively feel that this situation was not so good.
The cool atmosphere that his own father, the Marquis of Vampir, is exuding right now.
I was telling them that it was absolutely not a situation where warm conversations would come and go.
The orca’s pupils began to tremble uneasy.
“Ah, Lady Ashera.”
And with the meaning of help, I called the girl next to me.
“How about it, sounds like a fun situation?”
“…… Yes?”
Ashera’s attitude toward receiving the call was as if she were looking for something interesting to see.
“Isn’t it exciting? What kind of conversation will come and go, I’m really curious?”
“… ….”
Ashera raised one corner of her mouth, her eyes twinkling.
‘…… Ah, this is impossible.’
After finally grasping the situation, Orca had no choice but to change her expression to a bitter one in an instant.
…… Apparently, the black-haired girl had no intention of stopping the situation.
Sensing her head pounding, Orca covered her face with her hands.
‘…… Father, please. I don’t know what it is, but please don’t say anything strange.’
While muttering so inwardly, I mean.