Chapter 69 – Episode 69. It’s Not Even a Boy’s Manga (7)
After her class was over, she didn’t go to Emily, who should have gone to the magic science laboratory.
– I had the upper hand in combat experience, skills, and improvisation. Don’t be resentful, Emily.
– There is no shame in losing to the strong.
Astrid smirked and smiled, her face unscathed. She wasn’t actually smiling, but Astrid in Emily’s memory was laughing anyway. She was anyway
But that wasn’t the only reason why I didn’t go to the Sorcery Lab today.
Conventionally, in a 1:1 confrontation between a wizard and a warrior, if there was a distance, the wizard would have an overwhelming advantage.
No matter how fast the warrior was, it couldn’t be faster than the magician’s chant given the distance. If the distance wasn’t enough, you can use magic with a utility concept like locking your feet, and it was a pretty reasonable strategy to land a final blow after pouring various debuffs.
Emily had the ability to do that.
So, Emily had written an undefeated history in the confrontation with many heavy knights and magic knights who came to the Mage Tower.
However, the defeat suffered right here.
Emily, expressionless, began biting her painstakingly manicured thumb nail.
The tips of her hard claws began to crack and crack along her fangs, letting out an eerie sound.
– Hard…
Only the sound of her nails cracking began to fill the quarters. With her eyes wide open and staring into the void, Emily began to think about how to properly defeat Astrid.
But she can’t come up with a strategy that clearly wants to do all of this. Even after devising all available means, such as restraint, freezing, slowing, small-scale explosions, and mid-range judo, I couldn’t come up with a strategy that could definitely destroy Astrid in the size of the ring in the auditorium.
If you can’t even match the magic, it’s useless. No matter how powerful it is, its power is only displayed when it is hit, but Astrid had either avoided most of her or had only received very little damage and had rushed right up to Emily’s neck.
If you allow her distance like that, only defeat remains for the wizard.
In the end, all these troubles had one outcome.
Emily’s lack of skills, and lack of knowledge, and lack of experience.
Her lack of experience is said to be impossible, but that lack of experience can be surpassed by overwhelming knowledge.
‘The Crown Princess.’
It was a sudden thought, but Emily immediately stopped biting her nails. A small smile formed on the corners of her lips.
That was a good idea.
Wasn’t she already in it?
In fact, Emily had no interest in the power she would gain after becoming the Crown Princess. Her power is sufficient even now, and she even has the honor of being the daughter of the lord of the mage tower.
However, there was a place that even her endless desire for knowledge could not reach. The Imperial Library in the Imperial Library was the same place.
The Imperial Library is said to contain all existing knowledge from the moment this continent was created to the present, but the most important books among them were in the Imperial Library.
If you are not a member of the imperial family, you are forbidden to enter, let alone read, the Imperial Library.
Emily wanted to go in there. She wanted to indulge to her heart’s content the treasury of knowledge dormant there. But in order for her to do that, she had to become a member of the imperial family, but she couldn’t do that with Emily.
She was very fortunate to be there. And as soon as she heard the story, she had decided to join Emily.
If she only won there, she would become the Crown Princess and she would become the Empress, and she would be able to indulge in that treasure trove of knowledge to her heart’s content.
‘Imperial library… ‘
Emily stared blankly up at her ceiling. A shelf lined with books. The smell of damp books. Dust from old books flying in sunlight. Among the dust, you can read as many books as you want, and go on with overwhelming knowledge more than anyone else, even the image of being praised as a wise and beautiful empress…
“Oops.”
It took quite a while for Emily to notice the saliva dripping from her mouth and wipe it away.
*
“You have to come by yourself. Why do you have to come with me?”
Vera Shien was annoyed as she roughly sat on the chair in front of Astain. The weather is getting hotter. When she told me to come in this kind of weather, she was already dressed in a black nun’s uniform, so it was hot, but I couldn’t help but feel annoyed.
“You should get used to the sunlight.”
Despite her annoyance, Astain didn’t pay much attention. Her eyes were always more than half closed, so it was hard to even understand her expression, let alone her eyes, but now she was facing Serberashien with her eyes half open.
“Don’t be ridiculous, Astain. I asked if I was okay, but I think I looked funny, but if it wasn’t for the contract, you would… “
Vera Shien gritted her teeth and crumpled her face.
“Aye, I understand. I understand, Miss Veraya. A contract is a contract, so if I accomplish what I set out to do, will this human world ever have a day to see the sun?”
A hint of sarcasm was evident. It’s not Vera Shien who doesn’t know that, but she decided to leave it at that.
“So, why did you call me?”
Astein blinked her half-open eyes a few times. With her pupils up, she blinked a few times, and at some point there were small tears in her eyes.
“This is true, too. It hurts when I open my eyes… “
“Side effects, side effects. After hitting that much, how could her body be healthy?”
Vera Shien frowned and glared at her Astain. She laughed at Astein’s attempt to do something that seemed impossible, but she was also interested in what the end of such foolishness would be. She wouldn’t have signed with Astein if it weren’t for the fun-looking thing.
She was dangerous enough to have more than one, and even though she didn’t wear it, it was enough to be called crazy.
“Well, I can endure this much. Besides, the academy has made planning easier.”
“It is. I didn’t expect that either. I really didn’t know that this academy would have so many of them.”
“Anyway, that’s it. The instructors are also confused, and they are going to stick with the plan from now on. Then the contract will be fulfilled.”
Astein closed his eyes again. Her eyes were not completely closed, but opened very slightly. Like that, Astain smiled and smiled.
“Tsk… Okay. Got it. It’s annoying to talk around, really. It’s an academy, so there’s too much surveillance.”
“Wouldn’t it be better to avoid troublesome things?”
Astein, who furrowed his eyebrows and shrugged his shoulders, looked extremely mean. Veracien glared at Astain and sighed.
“And you mean… Astein.”
“Yes, you say.”
Vera Sien looked at her astein and frowned at her arrogance. She was actually a bit worried about whether she should speak or not. But she seemed better off talking. Maybe.
“Couldn’t you just do a little bit, whether you’re speaking politely or using honorifics?”
*
[No matter how you think about it, it’s strange.]
‘What else do you mean?’
Astrid spoke to the real Astrid. Now, the original owner had the initiative of this body, and Astrid was in a state where she entered the other side of her consciousness.
Water droplets dangled drop by drop over the bathtub and then fell with a thumping sound.
One of the conditions that the real Astrid put on was to take a half-body bath for 30 minutes every day. I did protect it faithfully, but today, when the real Astrid said that she wanted to feel the feeling of taking a half-body bath for the first time in a long time, I exchanged valuable shift time with the real Astrid once a day.
Then it seemed quite satisfactory. The real Astrid was enjoying a half-body bath with an expression of uncommon satisfaction.
【Think about it, there was still quite a distance, but to approach it in an instant and subdue the wizard, does that make sense?】
‘Yeah, it’s because I’m such an excellent fighter. Isn’t that natural? What’s there to be afraid of, cowards who hide behind wizards and just fire magic?’
【… You really shouldn’t be casually ignoring other people’s jobs… You’re really in trouble if you do that.]
‘I’m not afraid of magic at all. It’s a wide range magic, but it’s a bit dangerous, I’ve never lost a 1:1 fight against a mage, I’m.’
Even after hearing the real Astrid’s assurances, Astrid was uneasy inside.
‘Didn’t the professor say that he won’t even give you a score because you won with brute strength in magic class? I’m rather a victim?’
The real Astrid’s words weren’t exactly wrong. With Professor Anafrey’s wrath that he won’t admit victory because he won not with magic, but with physical force during Sorcery class, Astrid didn’t get any points even after winning.
【Actually, that’s the most unfortunate.】
‘All wizards are like that. Petty and cowardly things. Tsk.’
As for the real Astrid’s logic, the first time I hear it, I wonder if this is nonsense, but when I listen to it, there is a side where I want this to make sense again.
Just like right now.
