Chapter 401 – 401. Late Regret (2)
Soon, Simon glanced at Alvin.
“Formally… I was going to ask him if he had any intention of becoming my disciple.”
Hearing Simon’s story, Alvin put on a puzzled expression.
“Me… As a disciple?”
As far as Alvin knew, Simon didn’t take in a single disciple, despite being over 70 years old.
In general, even wizards who die of old age without reaching seven digits at the threshold of six-digit top-level wizards, it is the wizards who leave and pass on the traces of their lives, such as their achievements, honor, or achievements, by making disciples. It was established as a custom among them.
There were people like Illyana who broke the convention, but most wizards followed that convention.
In the first place, Illyana had also taught Princess Yuria some magic at the urging of her eunuch, but from Illyana’s point of view, it was only fragmentary things that would be ambiguous to say that she taught magic.
“Why did you try to invite me to become a disciple?”
Could it be that Simon, a seven-digit high-ranking magician, was trying to make such an outrageous invitation to himself, who was from an insignificant commoner, and who had been running out of control while learning black magic in the past?
Alvin couldn’t understand.
“I was the one who gave you permission to join my Magus at the final interview.”
“What, what?”
It was Erin, not Erwin, who looked the most surprised.
Rather, her party, Alvin, was showing a calm expression despite the fact that an important factor in her joining was the order of her division commander, Simon.
“…”
Simon tilted her head slightly at the fact that Alvin wasn’t as surprised as she thought.
“Did you know?”
“I wasn’t sure. Only… Since she had heard about such a possibility from Illyana-sama, she had some idea.”
“… Miss Illyana?”
“It’s a story I heard on the way back from the Elven Forest back here.”
At that time, Erwin remembered the words Illyana had put in her mouth.
– Even if you don’t have a backer or a sponsor, it’s natural to be selected if you have skills.
– His skills are real. No matter how black magic it is, I learned it on my own in just a few years. The sense of handling magic and the sense of this side itself are excellent. Maybe I found out this guy’s level in the practical test, and that inspiration passed?
“… She knew.”
Hearing what Illyana had to say, Simon nodded her head with a bitter expression.
“Yes. From the beginning, I allowed you to join with the intention of accepting you as my disciple.”
“Why was it me?”
“Because I saw the miasma in your eyes.”
“… ?”
“A lot of tenacity to become stronger, to get ahead, to explore more magic.”
There was a miasma in Erwin’s eyes accompanied by such strong will.
A supernova-like man who, as a commoner, honed his magic and learned magic through hard work and graduated from Aether.
Elvin, who had just graduated from Aether and became an adult, was a gemstone accidentally discovered by Simon, who did not take a single disciple while walking the path of a wizard.
A great gemstone with charm that makes students curious about how much they can grow if they come in and teach them, and want to pass on their achievements and honor in old age.
Thud!
“… Not funny… Don’t.”
Erin, who had been silently listening to the story, slammed the table with her fist as hard as she could while letting out her trembling voice.
The tea cups on the table trembled in the aftermath of her punch.
“Brother… You made me join your magic division in order to accept you as a disciple?”
“…”
“Then why didn’t you do that?”
Simon did not immediately respond to Erin’s questioning, filled with her resentment and anger.
“Do you know how your brother was treated and worked there?”
She was ignored by citing the difference in her status, and her promotion was delayed compared to her peers and juniors, and she lived with unfair treatment for close to several years.
It is only when Alvin is revived as her spirit that she realizes that she has endured life even though her own brother has been treated the same way at her workplace.
The reason why Erwin endured all the contempt and insults in her magic division was because of Erin herself.
Is it because she feels guilty about it?
Erin’s emotions were more ferocious than usual.
“If you were going to make her disciple, why did you let your brother be treated like that?”
“…”
“If she’s gifted as a mage and sees the potential to grow, why didn’t she do it?”
“…”
“Why did you let the devil trick you into learning black magic?”
Despite Erin’s continued questioning, Simon did not open his mouth.
She just closed her eyes and sweetly accepted the resentful voice of her lady, who was more than three times her age.
“Being a teacher shouldn’t be like that.”
At least, the relationship between her master and her apprentice was not what Erin thought.
Because she and her Eun-hyeon were like that.
Eun-hyeon also accepted her Erin as her disciple and did not properly solve anything around her Erin.
But despite her lack of talent, she taught herself her skills and created situations that gave her the strength to face many adversities, and she guided herself.
At least, what Erin thinks of as a teacher is someone who takes the initiative to create and guide her so that she can grow.
A man like her older brother whom Erin admired, her teacher, and a man who surpassed the hero she admired and now became her lover raised her Erin that way.
The teacher in Erin’s heart is like Eun-hyeon.
“You are… I don’t have the right to say things like that… Ouch!”
With resentful eyes filled with tears, Elvin pressed a piece of honey chestnut into Erin’s forehead, who was pouring out countless words while causing her emotional explosion.
“Why are you hitting me!”
“Because I’m only doing what’s right. I’m out for a bit.”
Thinking that she couldn’t get a conversation going, Alvin decided to kick her Erin out of her drawing room.
“Chi…”
Erin felt sorry for her brother’s harsh words.
As she got up from her seat and started walking towards her door, she jerked her head and gave her Alvin a shot before opening her mouth.
“Even if you take my side, what are you saying to me! You are an idiot!”
Thud!
As soon as she left her room, she closed the door as hard as she could, and after a while, Lily opened the door and came in after Erin knocked.
“Sorry for interrupting the conversation.”
She asked Simon, lowering her head slightly and looking into Alvin’s eyes.
“What did you say to Erin?”
“Little. I hope she is well May I ask?”
“I see. Okay. Then… I’ll bring you a new one. Have a chat.”
As Lily left her parlor, she retrieved her empty glass from the table.
When they were alone again, Simon stared at Alvin and opened her mouth.
“It was all my thoughts that were wrong. I’ve been waiting for you to grow to the point where you can hold on to that tenacity and vehemence and wield an undeniable influence within my magical division.”
Among the wizards belonging to the Magus, there were overflowing with those who wanted to become disciples after receiving Simon’s teachings.
However, Simon knew that most of them had a dark heart to monopolize his achievements with his name and honor on his back.
Maybe that’s why he was more attracted to Alvin’s tenacity, which he did not hesitate to do anything to improve himself as a mage and strive to grow while looking upward.
He immediately wanted to teach him and make her a disciple, but he hid his intentions because of the backlash and fear of what he might do to Alvin.
She was sure that even if she didn’t have to help herself, if she were Elvin, she would grow enough on her own to show her own power and win the approval of many wizards.
She thought that if she was accepted as a disciple, she would have to aim for that timing, so she was cautious and couldn’t be rash.
Simon was the best wizard among the wizards belonging to the kingdom, but he was not a powerful man with all rank and power.
That’s why he was left with great regret and regret for not guiding Elvin to the right path for her and not revealing her own thoughts in time.
“I knew very well what you were looking for. The reason why you came to me at this time. Is it because you can’t afford to worry about the backlash from other nobles or wizards?”
While the capital of the kingdom, Fernine, and the court were in chaos, Erwin noticed that the aftermath of the damage had to be extended to Magus as well.
The reason for the purge of the nobles was the discord between Erin and the members of the Krasir Royal Knights, and all of the members of Krasir were broken by Erin, raising questions about their skills as knights and raising suspicions of fraudulent enlistment. Was
And the aftermath of the storm hit a group of similar elite kingdom wizards intact, and just like Krasir, wizards from noble families who had committed corruption, and wizards who joined illegally were kicked out.
Now, even if she rejoins Erwin and officially declares her as her disciple, there were no forces who would openly dissatisfy her, even if they disapproved of her.
“Yes. But… I think I will decline this offer.”
“Yes.”
Alvin nodded her head in her daring.
From his face to his upper body visible from the table, the aura that surrounds his entire body is something other than ordinary human magic.
It is natural that spirits cannot use human magic, just as ordinary humans cannot use spirit magic, which is the power of spirits.
Simon, realizing that his own solicitation could not work even before he tried to persuade him, meekly abandoned the idea.
“One thing. There is something Simon misunderstood.”
“Did you think wrong?”
“You said you saw the tenacity in my eyes. Surely… It is true that at that time I was moving with a certain tenacity. But that wasn’t all.”
A lot of tenacity to become stronger, to get ahead, to explore more magic.
That’s right.
However, those various obsessions stem from a single, primordial goal.
“All I wanted was my sister’s happiness.”
“…”
Due to her father’s increasingly violent words and actions, she eventually fell ill and her mother passed away.
The father’s next target was Erin, a young girl reminiscent of her mother’s youth.
Erwin wasn’t even getting beaten up all day, and in order to wean her Erin away from that vulgar gaze at her daughter with her filthy eyes, she set the goal of joining the Magus Court Magic Division and making it in the world.
It was Alvin’s goal for her to save up, buy her own house, take her sister out, and take care of her Erin, who had her heart torn to shreds.
That’s why she desperately honed her magical powers, studied magic, and endured all sorts of contempt and ridicule even in the Magic Division due to the difference in her status as a commoner.
‘Just a little bit, a little bit more,’ she said to herself, saying that all of her things were for her Erin, and she turned away from the pain that Erin was experiencing in real time with her father and Aether.
Even Erwin lost his reason and fell into the temptation of ‘dark magic’ and learned the art of imaging, and his aggression became more and more ferocious day by day, beating his mother, and his hatred for his father, who had done bad things to himself and Erin, grew day by day, He even committed killing his father.
Her method of action was murder, a sin that would never be defended, close to her immorality, but Erwin’s principle of action was all for the happiness of her sister Erin.
“Simon. I am very happy now. Even after learning black magic and committing the crap of killing her father, no matter how hateful it was, I was saved.”
Alvin laughed.
Her sister’s broken heart was restored when she met a man, and now she is her lover, and she lives day by day with a smile.
The wish she had longed for and prayed for in heaven came true.
“Even if I were a human, I would have rejected Simon’s offer.”
Alvin had a confident look in her eyes that she must have been.
“It is because I have to follow the benefactor who saved me and her sister for the rest of my life.”
It is the oath of obedience that Elvin forced upon himself as he formally entered into a contract with her eunuch and spirit as her master.
As long as you have this oath, you must follow Eun-hyeon for the rest of your life.
Elvin’s will was firm and firm as she decided to give her allegiance to her eunuch for saving him and her Erin.
Alvin slowly bowed her head to Simon.
“It was nice to have a meaningful conversation.”
“Okay…”
Upon receiving Elvin’s polite greeting, Simon closed her eyes and nodded her head.
With the sunset at his back, Simon thought as he moved his steps toward the carriage he had been riding in Armitas territory to return to Pernin.
If she herself had forcibly accepted Alvin as her apprentice despite the checks and opposition from those around her, she might have created a completely different situation.
“… I don’t know.”
There is no point in making assumptions about things that have not happened.
Feeling sorry for the loss of a precious wizard who was just a great lumber, Simon returned to Pernin with regret.
