LIGHTNOVELWORLD chapter 6
6. to the magic tower. (One)
“okay. I don’t know why I gave away the sword I was desperately trying to buy to someone whose name I didn’t know. I won’t ask any more.”
“… … I’m sorry, father.”
A wagon that moves comfortably without any major shaking.
Elena, who was sitting there in an uncomfortable position, bowed her head and nodded.
Even thinking about it herself, giving away the sword was honestly impulsive.
‘Regret… … I will not.’
Even if he went back to the past, he would make the same choice.
He was impulsive, and in the end, he had quite a difficult time convincing his father.
Because I had absolutely no doubt that the choice would not have been wrong.
Elena bowed her head and apologized, but took no further action.
Realizing that this was her own ‘I won’t tell’ gesture, her father Delial let out a short sigh.
“Tsk, who do you resemble so stubborn?”
“hahahaha… … .”
Elena let out such an awkward laugh.
less so, less so.
The wagon, which was traveling at a fairly high speed, gradually began to slow down as it seemed to be getting closer to its destination.
Delial muttered as she looked out the window at the familiar scenery.
“You are almost there.”
Squeak!
Soon after, the carriage stopped at the entrance of the count’s mansion, went through a brief verification process, and then entered.
A very familiar house.
Eventually, the carriage came to a complete stop and Delial and Elena got out of the carriage.
Have you seen them like that?
From far away, a lady-in-waiting hurriedly ran.
“Count Delial, … … Miss Elena. Welcome! Just then, a letter came to the county.”
“letter?”
“yes. I don’t know what it is, but it was a letter from Duke Reinhardt. … … When the head of the household returns, he has begged me to deliver it.”
A letter from Duke Reinhardt?
This was not the case before the return.
Until we met for an engagement ceremony.
My past self and Cale had never even met.
‘… … why?’
gap between the past and reality.
In the meantime, Elena, who suddenly felt uneasy instinctively, looked at the lady-in-waiting.
“Where is the letter?”
“For now, I have it. Not long after the letter was delivered——”
“please.”
“… … yes?”
“… … I have something to check, just this once.”
Anxiety in Elena’s eyes.
Sensing that, the lady-in-waiting, watching Delial notice, nodded her head as if it was okay for him to hand it over.
Elena took the letter out of the envelope and began to read it with her own eyes.
‘Birds are chirping… … . Introduction, skip.’
Chark.
I thought the introduction, which I thought was one of the etiquettes of nobles, was too long.
Elena’s pupils, who were turning over the letter, eventually began to tremble when they reached a sentence.
[The subject of the engagement, ‘Kale von Reinhardt’, has a woman he is deeply in love with, so it is judged that he will not be able to continue the engagement relationship normally.]
“… … Oh no. no.”
[—Having considered these matters. In accordance with the conditions set in the past to decide whether or not to establish a future engagement according to the circumstances of one side at any time.]
dump.
Elena, who was holding the letter with trembling hands, lost her strength and sat down on the floor.
“… … Elena!”
“miss!”
I heard voices calling me from around me.
It soon becomes distant, and only one sentence from the letter is deeply embedded in the mind.
[With Duke Reinhardt. Notification of the termination of the engagement of Countess Ray Holton.]
this present reality.
It was as if hell had spread to Elena.
That too.
A very, terrible hell.
* * *
“You’ve been doing a lot of work. You probably didn’t know that I had an attendant attached to you to stay still.”
“hahahaha. Did I come here with a little bit of cool work?”
“Now, do you think this is a compliment?”
oh oh
Aion de Reinhardt.
After all, should I say the best sword in the empire?
When Aion looked at me with his eyes wide open, I felt like I was breaking out in a cold sweat.
the following article.
They even gave me an attendant to tell them not to get into trouble, but instead, they took the sword and went out and did a sword dance.
“Well, it doesn’t really matter, does it?”
“her?”
Still, here we have to go out boldly, not admit our faults.
In the first place, that person would want that too.
“People with power help people without power. You said it was noblesse oblige?”
It was one of Aion’s lines that appeared in 『Song of Love with the Spirit』.
Nobles help commoners.
Knights help the helpless.
Those with power help those without power.
“Ha ha ha ha ha!”
I really didn’t expect those words to come out of my mouth.
Aion, who held his forehead, burst out laughing like that.
It seems to have been a fairly satisfactory answer.
‘… … Well, in fact, it’s just randomly put together.’
It’s okay if you like it.
especially. It came out like that to test me, but I wouldn’t have been really angry about it.
A son who had never even held a sword.
You said you chased down and captured the intruder who broke into the ‘auction’.
worry… … I don’t know if this will happen, but I’m a little worried.
It seems that wasn’t the reason he called me in the first place.
Aion put down the document he was holding and said.
“First of all, the name of the man you caught is ‘Van.’ They say you are the lower end of the Hestia mercenary group.”
“… … If it’s the Hestia Mercenary Corps.”
Hestia Mercenary Corps.
It was a familiar name.
It is the most overwhelming mercenary group among all existing mercenary groups, and its prestige is comparable to that of a decent royal family.
If that’s the case, it’s pretty much expected that I was able to participate in the auction.
The leader of the Hestia Mercenary Corps. If it was Hestia, the ‘Mercenary King’, that qualification would be overflowing.
‘… … hmm. Did he make a proxy purchase?’
It is a well-known fact that the mercenary king collects a lot of usable weapons.
She is proficient with all weapons.
Did you say you wanted a classy weapon that matched your skills?
“First of all, the Hestia Mercenary Corps has officially apologized. They say it was the arbitrary work of a man named ‘Ban’.”
“It can’t be, but I mean.”
“okay. It makes no sense to say that a man at the bottom possessed an advanced artifact that had not even been commercialized on the market and that had been spread among mercenaries.”
It must be some kind of tail cutting.
If he had succeeded, he would have quietly gone to sleep.
If it was the Hestia Mercenary Corps, it had enough strength to evade the soldiers’ pursuit.
But, knowing that fact, I had no choice but to let it go.
Because it was that strong. These are the Hestia mercenaries.
In a situation where he has already made a gesture of apology, it will be difficult to push him further.
It is a mercenary group, but it is a military force that can stand against quite a few countries.
In particular, Hestia, the leader, is at a level that anyone can call ‘the strongest’ without a doubt.
‘It was an opponent I never wanted to face again.’
Maybe if we do a rough calculation.
It must have been about a step behind Aion, the outstanding sword master.
It has an original fighting method that creates variables in an instant, so Aion may not be able to guarantee victory.
Let’s clenched our fists for a while and recall memories from the previous episode.
Aion stared at my face and asked.
“Now, from now on, what are you planning to do?”
“hmm. Perhaps, I will go to the Mage Tower.”
“… … mage tower? no way. Is the longing lover a mage of the Mage Tower?”
Well, that’s not entirely wrong.
The elixirs he bought on the pretext of a woman he was in love with were, after all, for her.
Lucia Bellatina.
The strongest wizard I can remember.
And in the previous episode, there were a few people who were close friends.
… … To him, I owed quite a bit in the previous episode.
“Let’s do it… … . If it’s enough to make a fool like him change his mind. I thought she wouldn’t be an ordinary young lady from an aristocratic family.”
“… … Isn’t my treatment too harsh?”
“Can you tell me what you did about a month ago?”
The amount you really want to talk about.
When I saw Aion slowly open the drawer and take out a document, I smiled and stepped back.
Did he realize that I was about to leave the office?
Aion closed the drawer again and asked.
“It came to my mind while talking about it. The letter should have arrived sometime today.”
It was a word that left out all the details, but I could understand it right away.
A notice announcing the breakup with Count Ray Holton.
Perhaps it has arrived.
In addition to feeling relieved, let’s drool at the feeling of something unpleasantly constricting our chest.
Aion remembered what I said about going to the Mage Tower and asked.
“okay. Then when did you plan to go to the Magic Tower? If you catch it a little early… … a week later? Or maybe a month?”
mage tower.
It is a symbol of the high confidence of wizards who search for the ‘source’, and it is famous that even the nobles who are said to be weak in front of it.
That’s why it was common sense that if you wanted to go to the Magic Tower, you had to get permission at least a few weeks in advance.
“Are you going tomorrow?”
“… … .”
But, dear.
It seems that common sense doesn’t work for crazy people!
After answering shamelessly, I rushed out of the office thinking that something would come flying in a few more seconds.
If you heard the sound of Aion grabbing the back of your neck.
Maybe it’s because of the mood.
Well, I decided to think so.