Chapter 785 – 785. Wizard’s Tower (6)
“Really… Illyana… ? Is it you?”
“However? There’s no way you won’t recognize my face in 10 years.”
No matter how 10 years had passed, there was no way I couldn’t recognize Illyana, whose overall appearance maintained that of a 20-year-old.
It’s just that, in Aden’s eyes, Illyana’s visit was so sudden.
Eventually, Aden shifted her gaze to Eun-hyeon, who had entered the elders’ room with Illyana.
“You…”
“I haven’t seen you in a long time. Aden. It’s been almost 20 years.”
“Her…”
Aden gasped for breath as if her spirits were full, and she was speechless.
His gaze toward Eunhyeon contained an unbelievable look, as if he were looking at a ghost that had already died.
But isn’t that natural?
It’s been 10 years since I heard the news that Eunhyun passed away.
“… I heard he died.”
“That is… Somehow, he came to life.”
“… Does that make sense?”
“It doesn’t usually make sense.”
Eunhyun replied with a bitter smile.
However, this was the limit of what Eunhyeon could tell Aden about the fact of his own resurrection.
It is because he is in a position to hide various things, including the fact that the goddess is related to his resurrection.
Even more so, ‘she was resurrected by the goddess bestowing her grace on her.’
It was a statement infinitely close to the truth, but it was questionable whether anyone would believe it.
[That’s rude.]
After reading Eun-hyeon’s blasphemous thoughts about the existence of God, Verdandi put on a pouty expression.
I pulled Eunhyeon’s cheek and tried to act grumpy like a goddess, but Eunhyeon only smiled bitterly and didn’t react.
“Put.”
Rather, it was Illyana who burst into laughter after seeing Belldandy’s complaint from the side.
I couldn’t read what Eunhyeon was thinking, but I roughly inferred what Eunhyeon was thinking by seeing Belldandi’s reaction.
“What is funny?”
“No. Nothing.”
“… Hmm.”
Aden looked at her own apprentice, who smiled brightly at her, and withdrew her suspicious gaze.
“Well, it seems you have some complicated circumstances of your own, so I won’t ask any more. But…”
I figured out that there was a story that I couldn’t tell the outside of the inside, but there was one thing that I had to point out.
She looked at Illyana and asked right away.
“Are you understanding and accepting this man’s current situation?”
“Huh.”
Illyana confidently affirmed.
He understood and accepted the background of his resurrection, the things he had to carry, and the things he had to do in the future.
“I will never let you go again now.”
Hearing her answer with a firm intention, Aden nodded her head heavily.
Speaking that far, Aden had nothing more to say to Illyana.
“Well, judging from your reaction, it doesn’t seem like it’s just a fake with a similar face.”
“… What does the old man see me as?”
Illyana frowned at Aden’s sudden joke.
As if she hadn’t seen the energetic pupil’s annoyed reaction for the first time in a while, Aden smiled at her.
It’s not a conversation and attitude that can exist between a master and a disciple.
Even so, Aden was quite happy to see Illyana’s flawless and dignified appearance.
“Didn’t you look so dangerous 10 years ago that it wouldn’t be strange if you died at any time?”
“That… !”
Illyana was startled and hot.
When the unexpected preemptive bomb exploded, Eunhyun made a surprised expression.
“Yes… Did you?”
“It did. The reason I immediately suspected that you were a fake with a similar face is because this guy at that time was so dangerous that he couldn’t stand it if he didn’t rely on your shadow.”
“…”
Eunhyeon was speechless and looked at Illyana.
Through Riod and her other colleagues, she had briefly heard of what Illyana was like when she wasn’t around, but she didn’t think it would be this much.
“… Tsk.”
Illyana clicked her tongue and turned her head away as if revealing a secret she never wanted to see.
“Is it?”
“…”
Despite Eunhyeon’s question she asked again, Illyana turned her head away and did not answer.
“Illyana. Answer me.”
“Ah! Why! What!”
In the end, Illyana, who had reached the limit of her patience at Eun-hyeon’s continued urging, screamed and protested her.
“Okay! You left me like that, it was really hard! It’s okay? Is it okay!”
“Okay. Thank you. It feels good.”
“Joy.”
Eunhyeon smiled and comforted Illyana, who turned her head away again, hugging her upper body tightly.
As the eldest of her wives, she is nowhere to be found, and at times she pouts just as well as Erin.
I couldn’t believe that she was a woman in her forties and showing her age.
However, since she was full of mental and physical fatigue due to her childcare after her recent childbirth, she understood it to some extent.
“Heh heh, that’s funny.”
Aden, who intuited the two couples’ talk right up close, burst out laughing.
“Later, I will invite you to my house once. I also want to show the image of my daughter.”
“Your daughter?”
“Yes. She is the daughter of me and Illyana.”
“Huh…”
It was the moment when Aden was surprised three times after Illyana’s visit and the news of her grace’s resurrection.
Isn’t Eunhyeon’s meaning that Eunhyeon and Illyana are now married and have a baby?
She was Illyana’s daughter, so she couldn’t even imagine her in her head, but she was curious about one thing and immediately asked Illyana.
“Baby… Are you going to raise them as wizards?”
“… I do not know yet.”
Since Eunhyeon soothed her wholeheartedly, her mood softened at least, but Illyana answered with a puzzled expression.
“There must be talent. She is also my daughter… It’s because she seems to be starting to sense the magical power she already possesses. But… I want to let you do what you want to do.”
If she is interested in magic and dreams of becoming a wizard, of course Illyana was confident that she would teach and pass on all of her magic to Ilayna and raise her as a wizard.
She wasn’t sure if she would be able to grow into a great wizard, but she had Eun-hyeon and other wives by her side.
Even if she wants to be a swordsman rather than a wizard.
Whether she dreams of becoming a scholar who researches and explores the truth of the world, an adventurer who explores the world, or even a future where she matures as an ordinary woman and marries the man she loves, it doesn’t matter.
“I just need to grow well and live happily.”
As her mother, that was all Illyana wanted.
“Illyana.”
Hearing her wife’s thoughts, Eun-hyeon happily pulled her shoulders toward him.
I could feel the weight of her heart, how earnestly and deeply she cared for her family.
“It will grow well. It’s our baby.”
“… I guess so.”
It is the role of mother and father that I am trying for the first time.
She had fears and worries ahead of her, but when she thought about her daughter’s future, she naturally smiled.
“Okay. That would have been enough.”
Aden looked satisfied as he listened to the conversation between the two couples.
“I am surprised. I thought you would say, of course, that you should raise him as a wizard.”
“Cluck! Of course, if you enter this mage tower with the dream of a wizard, I will do everything in my power to raise your daughter. But, would that be what I wished for? Even you, the mother, cannot predict the future of your newborn daughter.”
Of course, if Ileina came to this mage tower and had her dream of becoming a wizard, it would be the greatest joy for Aden.
Soon to be over the age of 70, he corrected himself quite well not befitting his old age, but it seemed quite enjoyable to imagine the pleasure of raising his granddaughter in his later years.
But as Aden waits for Illyana to be free to choose her dream of hers, she is not in a hurry to force it.
Raising is effective only when the person has such a will, and the joy is doubled.
“… Well, thank you for just saying that.”
Illyana smiled as if it wasn’t too bad.
Right from her side, Eunhyun confirmed that Illyana was in a good mood.
The conversation with her welcome teacher, whom she met after a long time, may have somehow managed to restore Illyana’s heart, which has been exhausted and difficult with her childcare.
The relationship between the two seemed subtly different from the relationship between herself and Siete, but an elderly wizard named Aden Hispia was one of the few people Illyana could open up to, who had no interest in others.
“Well then, let’s end the pleasant conversation between the priests and move on to the next topic. Are you all right?”
Around the time the conversation was properly finished, Eun-hyeon stepped forward and led the conversation.
The subject he wants to address is ‘Who sent the letter to Illyana?’.
That too, by impersonating the name of Aden, one of the three most powerful people in the Mage Tower.
“Um…”
Aden, who had not been aware of Illyana’s visit until recently, hesitated while letting out a heavy drool.
“Actually… There is one thing to point out. But…”
He was hesitant to talk about the possibility.
However, feeling that it is not right to not talk until the end, that was when Aden hardened her resolve and tried to open her mouth.
“D-You can’t go in!”
“Oh, wait! It only takes a moment! My husband is in that room!”
There was a lot of noise outside the elders’ room.
A voice restraining someone from entering the elders’ room, and a voice trying to enter with courage.
One of the two voices was very familiar to Eunhyeon and Illyana.
“… Erin?”
Eunhyun tilted her head and rose from her seat.
When I looked at Aden, Aden nodded her head.
After receiving permission, Eun-hyeon opened the door to find out what was going on.
“Hyun-a!”
As soon as the door opened, Erin spotted Eunhyun’s face and hurriedly jumped into his arms.
“Erin? What’s the matter?”
“That, that…”
Seeing that Erin, who flinched at Eunhyeon’s question and was slightly hesitant to explain the situation out of her mouth, Eunhyeon immediately felt it.
That Erin had an accident again.
“Heh! Heck! Hey, here you are!”
“Ugh! What kind of woman has her feet so fast… !”
“Are you human, Won… !”
A large amount of mana was activated belatedly, and several people appeared.
“Hick!?”
Feeling the presence of the magicians, Erin was startled and hid herself behind Eunhyun’s back.
Those who appeared from the transfer magic circle were all magicians wearing red robes, and they all gasped for breath and looked tired at Erin.
“…”
Eun-hyeon quickly grasped the situation between the magicians in red robes who appeared from the teleportation magic circle and Erin who was hiding behind her and peeking out his head.
The place where Erin parted with Eunhyeon and Illyana was on the first floor of the Magic Tower.
“Erin.”
“Huh?”
“How did you know we were here?”
“That’s right, I followed Hyun’s scent.”
From the first floor, I smelled the two people on the top floor, the 63rd floor.
It’s a new feeling, but it’s a really absurd level of sensation.
No matter how far away Erin was, she had the ability to find Eunhyun’s scent like a ghost.
But that wasn’t the part Eunhyeon needed to pay attention to.
Those red mages must have followed Erin, who had a big accident, and climbed up to the top floor, the 63rd floor, using the teleportation magic circle.
However, Erin does not know how to use the transfer magic circle installed in this magic tower.
That is, without borrowing the power of magic, it is a sound that he reached the 63rd floor, the top floor, by using his physical strength to evade the pursuit of the red robe wizards.
“… Did you come running?”
“Huh! Those people keep chasing after me! Really!”
When Erin grumbled as if she was bored, Eunhyun asked her with her firm expression.
“Erin. What have you done?”
To have to be pursued by wizards in the Mage Tower to that extent, there was no way that he had just made a simple mistake.
“I-I didn’t do anything wrong! Really!”
Erin had to express her own resentment with her whole body as she cried.
