149 – Interpretation
As expected, it was only when the surroundings turned dark that I was able to return to the Perlcus family.
I was served tea by Delan, but I remembered that I didn’t eat lunch. In the middle of his return, he took out the food he had put in the space storage and leaned against the barrier to eat with Navier.
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Navier opened his eyes wide and asked various questions about the space warehouse, wondering if the freshly made warm potato soup and turkey meat taken out of the space warehouse were amazing, and I answered kindly as a thank you for following me this far. Did it
As we went inside Navie and her house while being seen off by the servant, Raellan welcomed us.
“I thought you were going to sleep out on the first date.”
At Raellan’s mischievous words, Navie ran away to her room, blushing.
I scratched my head and nodded my head apologizing for being late.
As if Raellan didn’t care, she asked with a smile.
“Fortunately, you seem to be communicating well with Navier?”
I nodded and said.
“We decided to go around together tomorrow as well.”
Although there are things that communicate well. Now that we have solved the secret of the lighthouse, I thought we should finish it together.
In fact, when I returned from the barrier, Navier tried hard to persuade me with those words.
I was fully aware of how inconvenient it is to have unresolved questions in my head, so I succumbed to that persuasion.
I don’t know if Raellan misunderstood my answer, but he patted me on the shoulder with a satisfied smile.
“Then get some rest for tomorrow’s date.”
I nodded without an excuse.
***
The next day.
After breakfast, we took the carriage and headed for the Prax family.
As if he remembered my words that he hates strawberries, today’s dessert was a cookie covered with refreshing lemon jam.
I didn’t really want to eat it, but I was sincere and ate a few.
After riding a wagon for about an hour, we arrived at the city of Prax, where the Prax family is located.
I left the carriage at the entrance of the city and walked the streets with Navie.
My first impression of the city of Prax was familiar.
Feeling the familiarity of the continent’s most prosperous capital here was an indirect way to know how good the city of Prax was.
Even the atmosphere was different from Solaon.
If Solaon feels like a new city made of cold concrete, this side feels like a downtown area full of people.
In fact, a lot of food was sold, and there were a lot of people passing by.
“Isn’t it different from our city?”
I said in a calm voice to Navier’s voice with a little inferiority complex.
“Still, Solaon is closer to the feeling of a quiet city in the north that I expected. It’s a bit disappointing because it seems to have followed the capital here.”
At my words, Nabi smiled happily. After all, do gossips that do not harm you make others laugh? We walked, talking about the better things about Solaron City than this place so that passers-by couldn’t hear it.
After a while, we arrived at a building that looked grand at first glance. This is the size of a church in the capital city.
When we knocked on the door, a bright-skinned maid greeted us. I revealed the purpose of my visit.
“I’m here to see senior Ilia.”
At my words, the maid opened her eyes wide, and she took a quick look at us before she asked with a friendly smile.
“I’m sorry, Miss Ilya is leaving her seat. Did she make an appointment in advance by any chance?”
I was a little worried and then lied in a calm voice.
“I didn’t make an appointment, but… I’m Ilia-senpai’s boyfriend.”
The maid looked at me in amazement, then ran off somewhere with the words to wait a moment. I’m sure it works too.
As she smiled in satisfaction, Navier turned her body to me and gave me a puzzled look.
“Were you dating senior Ilya? I thought I was dating the same freshman….”
I shook my head as she smiled at the bewildered Navier.
“Of course it is a lie. It’s not me who’s dating Ilia-senpai, it’s my brother.”
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Navier stuttered and asked with a puzzled expression.
“Oh, you lied?”
“That’s why even if it’s not senior Ilya, someone from my family will ask to meet me. You can justify it by saying that it was a misunderstanding then, and that she couldn’t explain it well. She’s not her boyfriend, she’s his sister.”
I shrugged my shoulders at Nabier’s contemptuous gaze as she narrowed her eyes and looked at me. Isn’t this an impromptu response to be praised?
I knew right away that I was wrong. The sound of someone running quickly was heard, and the slightly ajar door burst open, revealing a stout old man.
The old man quickly observed us and, without a second explanation, grabbed me by the collar and lifted me into the air.
“Is it you! My granddaughter’s scandalous boyfriend!!!”
I was floating in the air and choking. Because of that, my voice didn’t come out, and it was impossible to make excuses. I hurriedly gestured for an explanation, but Nabi just looked at me with a smile as if she looked good.
“How dare you not be content with just our lovely granddaughter and start a harem?”
The old man must have been furious, and his arms tightened even more. Navier intervened before my face turned pale.
“It is a misunderstanding. The Ross here is the younger brother of Ilya’s senior boyfriend.”
At Navier’s explanation, the old man frowned, stared at my face, and untied his collar.
“… Well, my granddaughter is the type to look closely at her appearance.”
I wanted to ask what it meant, but I had a hunch that if I heard it for some reason, I wouldn’t ask. As I was gasping for breath and clearing my throat, the old man slapped me on the back.
“This guy, why do you make people feel ashamed by saying confusing things!”
I apologized with a sigh and a cracked voice at the sharp hand that hit me on the back.
“Keuheum, sorry. In other words, the reason I came to see senior Ilia is because I wanted help interpreting ancient languages.”
At my words, the old man’s eyes sparkled with interest.
“If you tell me why you want to interpret the ancient language, I will help you.”
I don’t think it’s going to be easy either. She called Ilia her granddaughter, so this old man must have been the previous head of the Praks family.
As I was contemplating whether it was the right thing to do to bring in a loser from the north called Prax in a situation where I didn’t know what was written on the paper, Navier intervened in the conversation.
“Hello. The previous head of Ileid. My name is Navie of the Perelcus family.”
Ileid looked away from me at the polite voice of Navier.
“Nice to meet you. It’s strange that the daughter of Perelcus is coming to Prax. Is she his girlfriend?”
“No. He is my assistant.”
For a moment, I was speechless and just opened my mouth with a stupid expression. As she turned her gaze to Navier, she nodded slightly as if to leave her alone and said to Ile Reid.
“We are juniors in the same division as senior Ilya. This Ross is the head of the 1st year combat department. On vacation, while visiting the Wall with Ross, he stumbled upon a piece of paper written in an ancient language. My family couldn’t interpret it, so I came here to see if you could help.”
Ileid stroked her chin for a moment, observed me and Navier, and she grinned.
“It was free, but it looks like it will be fun.”
As if he had decided to help us, Ilaid beckoned us to follow him. In the room I followed as if I was being dragged, a man who seemed to be a scholar was writing something while looking at a book.
The man, who frowned for a moment, sighed and gestured to an empty chair, as if we were annoyed by our entry without knocking. After we sat down, the man asked Ileade with a sigh.
“Please, can you please knock?”
“So you came with footsteps on purpose.”
Perhaps at a loss for words, the man licked his lips and looked at us. Since he did not know who the scholar in front of him was, he kept his mouth shut and looked at Ile Reid.
Ilaid, who was leaning back on the chair, said, striking his forehead, as if he felt the gaze.
“Oh, I forgot. These are my granddaughter’s juniors. And this is Elysium Academy’s ancient language professor, Lotos.”
When I heard the word Elysium Academy, I looked at Lotos with curious eyes. There was no way there was only one academy on the vast continent. Elysium Academy was a prestigious academy located in the south, next to Transcendence Academy.
The academy triathlon organized by the imperial family is scheduled to take place in the second semester. Elasium Academy was blocked by the huge wall called Roel and again came in second place, but it was still an academy that showed considerable potential.
Coming to think of it, I had to participate in the triathlon because I was second in the freshman year. Because the participation condition was the top and bottom of each grade.
“The reason you came all the way here is to interpret the ancient language written on the paper.”
At Yleid’s words, Lotos smiled mischievously at us.
“Is that so? Well, I’m more fluent in an ancient language than he is.”
The guy Lotos is talking about must be the professor in charge of ancient languages at Transcendence Academy. But Nabi and I are in the combat club, so we don’t take classes, so we don’t even know each other’s faces.
“Okay, let me show you. I will explain it at once.”
I took out the paper I had taken out of the space storage before coming here and handed it to Lotos.
After receiving the paper, Lotos looked at it for a while, and then, oh-ho. He smiled pleasantly with admiration.
“Do you know that the letters written on this paper are secondary ancient languages?”
Of course there is no way to know, so I shook my head. He put on a slightly disappointed expression, but it was a habit peculiar to the professor. He kindly explained to us.
“Ancient languages are largely divided into three categories. Over the years, it has undergone major transformations three times. The paper here is a secondary ancient language. It means a language that was used about 1500 to 1000 years ago.”
After the explanation, Lotos took out a staff from his chest and swung it at his bookshelf. Several books flew to the table in front of us and opened.
The expression of Lotos, who put the paper he gave me next to him and wrote down his interpretation on a new paper with a happy face, gradually hardened as time went on. Later, it hardened to the point where you could see it.
A little later, as if he had finished his analysis, Lotos put down his pen and looked at us with a light sigh.
“Can you tell me where you got this will?”
At Lotos’ serious question, Navie opened her mouth to lie like she did to Ileid, but I raised my hand to block it.
Lotos said that what he used to call a paper was a will. Any more lying is an act of breaking trust.
“I apologize. It was so important that I had no choice but to lie.”
Let’s start with those words.
Eleid waited for my next words with a pleasant smile rather than being displeased, as if he already knew.
I explained the secret of the lighthouse and what I had experienced at the temple. Lotos nodded seriously, and Ileid had an expression full of interest.
“The devil is sealed….”
I nodded at Yleid’s muttering.
“It is true. I was trying to interpret the paper they left behind, whether something was written about it.”
Rotos nodded and held out a piece of paper with an interpretation written on it.
“Yes, if you are the one who unlocked the secret of the lighthouse, you must be fully qualified to hear the will.”
I received the paper with a trembling heart and read it.
And I could understand a little why the interpretation of Lotos’s face hardened as time went on.