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Chapter 114
Lucy Philiaz
"Who did you kill?"
Lucy smiled slyly and put the pipe to her mouth.
"Hmm, it would be truly wonderful if one could know even such convenient things, baby. If these young ones came seeking advice, this girl could have helped them."
Lucy tapped her cigarette ash into the ashtray.
"However, I do know the name of the person you killed recently."
W̄e bň о̌v е̃ ľ Ëń ù ma
Lucy snapped her fingers.
Ttaak—!
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Then, one of the pillars wrapped in several layers of vines covering the garden moved toward the pavilion.
When it got close enough to Lucy, the vines smoothly unraveled.
One could tell it wasn't a simple pillar.
It was a crystal.
Eńumа
Like a mosquito trapped in amber, a woman was inside the transparent crystal.
"Baby, do you know that child's name?"
It was a truly simple question.
"Echidna Philiaz."
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She was Echidna.
She had a comfortable face, as if placed in a coffin opened before a funeral.
Ё_n u mа
"The rune you made turned that child into this."
Lucy said, pointing with her finger.
"If you have something to say, try saying it."
An implication to choose your words carefully wafted over.
Ferda watched the scene and asked.
"Did she go without pain?"
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A tone utterly devoid of concern.
"Huh."
Lucy's laughter echoed throughout the pavilion.
"Hehehehehe......."
The witches tensed at that laughter.
Malicious energy spread.
Ė n̂ ü m ӑ
It stimulated the whole body enough to rival Dragon Fear.
"Baby, truly, truly brazen."
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Lucy rose from her seat and descended the stairs.
"You killed a child of Philiaz, and the words that come out are asking if she died without pain?"
She stood before Ferda.
From afar it wasn't clear, but now it's certain.
Е n̂u m а
She was shorter than Ruri.
"A witch's resentment is like frost falling for a hundred years. It doesn't simply mean only you will die painfully."
Mana dwelled in her voice.
It touched Ferda's five senses.
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Not simply threatening, but as if showing the future he would face.
"I will slowly destroy everything around you, prevent you from even choosing suicide, and collapse you utterly, leaving nothing, until the very, very end."
Е̄ nû m̆ а
There were actually many who lived and died that miserably.
It remained in the records too, but Ferda didn't care.
Ferda already knew.
That she was bluffing.
"Brazen is mutual, isn't it, Pavilion Master?"
"What?"
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One of Lucy's eyebrows shot up.
Ferda gestured with his chin toward the crystal where Echidna was preserved.
"Lying that a living person is dead and trapping her in a crystal—if that's not brazen, what is?"
At Ferda's words, the situation changed.
The malicious energy Lucy had been threatening with subsided.
And as if nothing had happened, the anger vanished from her voice.
En̄um а̀
"How did you know that?"
"Didn't you say it yourself? A witch's resentment is like a hundred years of frost, cursing through generations."
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Ferda turned his head toward the crystal.
He saw Echidna's comfortable-looking face.
"If the purpose was truly to die because of me and curse me, I don't think you'd leave her with such a comfortable face and make her face me."
"Hoho, you seem to know witches well."
Е ǹ u m̃а
Lucy floated her body into the air with a satisfied air.
Fluttering her clothes, she flew to the crystal where Echidna was.
"Echidna, this pitiful thing. I told her so many times that loving a man brings nothing but tragedy, but she only insisted on her stubbornness."
"The one who exiled her pities her?"
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"She just didn't match the name Philiaz. This girl's affection for this child hasn't changed."
Words unbefitting the leader of witches who hate all men.
Еn̊u m̌ а
Lucy looked up at that crystal for a moment and said this.
"Baby, since she died due to your mistake, this girl will take her back."
At the unilateral notification, Ferda answered immediately.
"I refuse."
Then this time, malicious energy erupted from the witches' side as if they were displeased.
"Funny. You think you're in a position to refuse?"
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"Since you're going easy on me, it seems you're trying to climb all over me. Should I show you a bitter taste?"
Cackling laughter rang out incessantly, yet within it, disgust and anger were felt.
"Quiet."
It vanished with just those two syllables from Lucy.
Seeing her suppress these lumps of malice, one could tell how tightly Big Sister held the witches.
"Don't worry. This girl isn't stupid enough to not distinguish public from private. If there's something lost, there must be something gained."
Е̃ǹ ù ṁ a. і̆ d̄
Hmm.......
While exhaling breath so blatantly and smoking away, Lucy opened her mouth.
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"How about this?"
A spark jumped on her small index finger.
Red-colored spark at that.
'Reverse Heaven-defying Lightning.'
W ѐ b̄ ṅ о̃v̂ е l E n ũ m̌ӑ
Lucy Philiaz was casually emitting the pure power that—unless channeled through a medium—was impossible to wield.
"You're a mage, and you seem to have talent for lightning too, so I think you'd quickly grasp the knack if you learned just a little. How about it? This girl will specially teach you."
How about it?
'An attractive offer.'
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Reverse Heaven-defying Lightning was still a legendary element Ferda hadn't found a clue for.
He'd conducted countless studies using World Tree branches struck by the Reverse Heaven-defying Lightning she dropped, but the current status was that he couldn't even find a clue.
Е̂ ň u̇ m̊ ä. іd̃
He'd researched through the created staff many times, but to the point where there was no progress even across generations.
'If I hold that power.......'
I'll become stronger.
Like the days when I was an 8th Circle Archmage.
That's why Ferda answered.
"I refuse."
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Lucy's hand paused.
Lucy, who thought it was appropriate compensation, also didn't seem to expect that offer to be refused.
"Oh my, baby. Is that child that precious to you?"
"She's important."
"More than Reverse Heaven-defying Lightning?"
The best magical element for Ferda to become stronger.
W е̄ḃ n̈ о v̀ е l Еñum̌ a
Ferda always needed to become stronger.
"She's important."
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But for Ferda right now, becoming stronger was the second problem.
"There's someone I need to know happiness."
For Ferda, Valdrova was always priority number one.
"For that person to be happy, Echidna's ability is needed."
Ё n̆uma
"So you're saying you'll use her, baby. As Big Sister, as Pavilion Master, I'm not foolish enough to let those words slide."
"Humans just use each other anyway, don't they? Just as that child uses me, I just use that child."
Though Ferda uses the naive Echidna, that didn't mean Echidna was having her nose cut off with her eyes open.
Jed and Mori could be called as witnesses.
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"Right, that is what society is."
Lucy exhaled smoke like a sigh.
Е́n um̄ а̌ .і̃d
She snapped her fingers.
Ttaak—!
At that moment, the transparent crystal began to melt into water.
The witches watching asked in surprise.
"Oh my, are you going to release her?"
"I thought it was an attractive offer, but if you don't need it, what can I do?"
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It was a strange thing, not clinging like witches.
Lucy looked only at Ferda.
Under the black cloth, her slightly visible lower jaw showed she couldn't hide her interest.
Soon, the crystal completely melted, waking even the contents inside.
She seemed unconscious, but miraculously stood on two legs.
Echidna's eyebrows, which had been sleeping comfortably, twitched.
Ẇěb̈ n.о̌v̄ ё_l Еn̄uḿа̊
"Huh? What on earth......."
She rubbed her head with both hands and looked around.
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The first thing caught was Ferda.
Perhaps because she'd received so many gazes of hatred and disgust, her gloomy laugh felt like a fairy's.
"Oh my, Regent-nim. You're handsome today too. Hehe......."
Rolling her eyes like that, she scanned the surroundings.
Е̇ ǹ umӑ
"Huh? This looks like a place I know...... but why does it feel similar to the Rose Pavilion......."
Those words cut off exactly when she saw Big Sister, Lucy, standing beside her.
"Hii, hieek!? B-B-B-Big Sister!?"
Echidna was startled out of her wits.
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So startled she bit her own tongue.
It was a reaction no different from discourtesy, but Lucy accepted it as if she didn't mind.
E̊n_u m̊a . і d̈.
"It's been a while, child. Have you been well?"
"Y-yes! Of-of course! I've been well!"
"I did excommunicate you, but I definitely told you to contact me regularly? You didn't listen."
"Th-that's...... contact doesn't work inside the castle......."
"Oh my, then that means it's the Regent's fault? That one, should I beat up that Regent?"
"What? No! That's not it!!"
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Echidna whipped her head around to look at Ferda and said.
"I absolutely didn't mean it that way!"
Whatever the case.
"Of course I might be uncomfortable. But even so, we're no different from family sharing the same blood, shouldn't we at least hear each other's voices?"
"Un-uncomfortable?! I've never, not even once, had such a thought!"
She spoke with a forced smile, but there was zero persuasiveness.
Ēn̈ǔm̀ а̄
Other witches watched that and leaked laughter, each spitting out a word.
"Oh my? That's a lie."
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"A lie? Unnies, I didn't think that......."
"Child, just say it honestly."
"You're already excommunicated, what's the problem? Even if she's Big Sister, she can't do anything."
"Besides, from an outsider's perspective, evaluating how it looks is important too, isn't it?"
Е̌ n ũmа́
Chattering sounds beside Echidna.
Ferda saw through their intentions.
They were trying to trap Echidna like bewitching prey.
"Uh......."
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Echidna, shrinking like a frightened turtle, glanced around and opened her mouth.
"Th-that...... a little uncomfortable, I guess?"
Еn ũm̄ӓ
The hand holding the pipe stiffened.
"Ho-honestly, every time you call yourself a girl despite living longer than my grandmother, I find it uncomfortable......."
"Puhup......."
"Kikik......."
The witches who egged her on desperately held back bursting laughter.
Lucy's reaction was truly simple.
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Ttaak—!
She snapped her fingers, and the roots that had moved the crystal bound Echidna's whole body.
"Echidna, our pitiful Echidna."
Voice mixed with anger.
Clearly different from the acting she showed Ferda.
"Since you didn't get beaten by unnie, you're spouting 'words not in your heart' again. You mustn't say frivolous things in front of others."
Еn u m̄ а̄
"Aaack! My arm's coming off! Arm, arm!"
"Don't worry. If your arm comes off, I'll pull your leg too so it's not lonely and decorate it."
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"I'm sorry! Unnie isn't small! You're a very small girl! A beautiful girllll!!"
Witches bursting into cackling laughter watching Echidna being tortured.
Only after harassing her violently with thorn vines did they finally let her go.
Echidna, hair disheveled and eyes red, trembling, crawled to Ferda.
Ẅ е b nö v̆ ѐl̃ Е̃ n ů m̀á
"Uwaaah, Regeent-nim. My arms and legs hurt so much. It hurts, so hug, hug is nee—pueok!"
"Get lost."
Ferda pushed her head away.
The witches burst into full laughter.
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Echidna, with nowhere to go, whined and lowered her gaze to the floor.
"You really intend to take that deficient thing?"
Е nŭm å
Now a question containing words as if she's worried about you.
"If that were a defect, I wouldn't have brought her in the first place."
"If that's your intention, then I understand."
Lucy giving up so easily.
It was ending suspiciously easily.
What scheme could there be?
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Ferda didn't let his guard down until the end.
"Go back, Echidna. At least once a week, you must contact without fail."
"Yes, I will. Regent-nim, shall we go back?"
As she tried to reach out her hand, Lucy forcibly lowered it.
"The Regent will be with me a bit longer."
"What? Here alone?"
En u ḿа̃
It was a baffling story for Echidna.
This was the witches' den that treats men as playthings.
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Ferda was no different from defenseless prey.
Lucy gave a pathetic look.
"I already walked to the very center—whether you're here or not, what does it matter?"
"Ah, that's true but......."
W̄ёb̌n ö v̀ ë ľ È n̆ u m̀ а
Echidna, fidgeting like a prairie dog watching an approaching storm, glanced at Ferda.
Ferda read that face and answered.
"No need to worry. Go back and deliver a message to Ruri."
"Wh-what message should I give?"
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"Tell her I'll be back soon. That's enough."
"Y-yes! Of course....... "
Wеb̌ ǹо̀v̈е̃ l En̈ umа̇
At Lucy's gesture, Echidna's body disintegrated and disappeared.
She would have returned to the study where she originally was.
Lucy watched that and said to Ferda.
"Let's walk a bit. I want to have this story just between us two."
Leaving the witches sitting quietly, she walked ahead.
Thus they left the Rose Pavilion and walked the garden.
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Nature didn't exist there—it was a place purely made by Lucy's will.
That's why the colors and shapes differed from what one felt in nature.
Leaves were sky-blue, the sky was purple.
"It's a truly pretty garden, isn't it?"
Lucy asked.
"It's bizarre."
Ӗ ńǔ m̆ ӓ. ї d̊
"Then that's a relief."
She put the pipe in her mouth.
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"It means you haven't gone completely insane yet."
Those words containing a smile tensed Ferda.
It was when he tried to read the meaning of the smile.
He felt a presence from the rose vine side.
Ѐn̆.ūm̃ а
Ferda pulled his own head with the Shadow Hand hidden in his clothes.
Where his head had been, something flew.
Huuung!
A giant's cavalry spear.
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No, a rose thorn so giant it wouldn't be strange at that level.
Ferda quickly created distance.
W e b ño v̆ е l̄ Е n̆ ŭm̈ ã
"......What is this?"
"No need to think deeply. It's exactly what you see. I attacked you."
"Why?"
"Since shallow provocation or conversation won't do, going straight to the main point by directly attacking you is better, isn't it?"
Meaning she was inducing a fight.
As she said, Ferda didn't get entangled in that provocation.
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Getting entangled is crazy.
Though there were days as an Archmage, right now he's a 4th Circle Mage.
The opponent is the witches' leader whom even 8th Circle mages can't handle.
And simultaneously, it's her home ground.
'And Lucy isn't a human crazy enough about combat to make this kind of provocation.'"
There was definitely a reason for her provocation.
Ӗ ñû m a
What scheme?
"Curious about my intentions?"
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Lucy is a mage who has lived for ages.
Reading Ferda's thoughts was piece of cake.
"Rather than letting you know that, I'll give you a reason you can't help but move."
She flicked her pipe like pointing.
E̊ num̀ä
The rose garden vines wriggled like thorn worms.
"If you don't come at me, I'll erase your existence from that poor lizard's life."
A fishy-smelling smile.
That too was a provocation with transparent intent.
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Light shot from Ferda's eyes.
He couldn't step back.
Е núm а̂
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