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Chapter 173
Incomprehensible
A border village not far from the Empire's capital.
That village was a place farming under the protection of the Rosnova Family.
Since it was a village inside imperial territory rather than the borderlands, it was peaceful to the utmost degree.
Kwaang!
That was precisely why it was extremely rare for that ancient knight family's mansion to be half-destroyed.
Е̌ ǹ üm å
The epicenter of the explosion was the reception room.
Inside the blown-open space, a man was kneeling with his forehead pressed to the floor.
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Everything was facing the floor, and the only things pointing upward were his two hands.
Those hands were directed toward a single girl, begging for mercy.
"Please... please, just spare my life."
A pitiful middle-aged voice pleaded.
Е̊n̂u̇m̀ а́
"Hey."
The very girl who had half-destroyed the building didn't seem to have the slightest intention of letting go of her anger.
"What was the last thing I said to you?"
The middle-aged man's throat seemed to close up, only nasal breathing escaping in rough gasps.
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"If you don't answer, I'll blow your head off."
"Y-You told me to stay out of sight and li, live like I was dead."
W еb̈n̊ оv.еl̆ Ënǔ m̌ӓ
"I said live like you were dead, that's right. What do you think that means? Bow your head deep, don't even make a sound breathing. Didn't it sound like that to you?"
"That's how I heard it."
"But you went and tattled to Alexander that I'm a black mage?"
Blue light undulated in Erdes's eyes.
For Erembalt, it was an unavoidable situation.
It was true that Alexander's side had pressured him, but he wasn't scared of Alexander.
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Because behind him stood Valdemar.
If Valdemar was involved, not only his two sons' paths to success but the very survival of the family hung in the balance.
Erembalt had received an offer he couldn't refuse.
"It was never my intention to ignore the Magic Society President-nim."
"Eat shit. I saw you stick your head in to screw me over, you think I'm blind? You think you're the first piece of trash like you I've dealt with?"
A hand gesture that looked like she might manifest magic at any moment.
È ñ_ûm̃ а
Killing a noble was a heavy crime, but Erdes had already executed many nobles with her own hands.
Sweat poured down Erembalt's face.
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"I fully understand you must be displeased with this matter. It is entirely my fault. However, please grant me just one chance. I have prepared an item to soothe the Magic Society President-nim's mood."
Erdes withdrew her hand that had been gathering mana and rested her chin on her palm.
"Alright, show me."
Not a shred of expectation could be felt in Erdes's words.
Еn̊ ǔ ḿа̀.і d
She simply thought it wouldn't be too late to kill him after seeing what worthless thing he offered up.
Erembalt, having seized the opportunity, urgently ordered a servant to bring the item.
"This is it."
What Erembalt showed was a wrapping cloth.
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"What's this?"
"This is an item related to Anna, Ferda's mother, whom Erdes-nim has been searching for so desperately."
Ẇe b̊ n о ṽ еl̄ Е̇n̊u m а
"What was this cloth used for?"
Even if it was a related item, if the story didn't properly attach to the object, it was useless.
If mere relation was enough, he could've just brought a fork she'd used.
"It's the wrapping cloth that Ferda... that child was wrapped in and brought here."
"Ferda..."
An item connected to both Ferda and his mother simultaneously.
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It was the most ideal item Erdes had been hoping for.
"I searched every corner of the house to find this item. I even kept it prepared just as it was so I could present it the moment the Society President-nim arrived..."
"Hmm..."
The mana held in her eyes vanished.
Since she could now conduct the investigation that had seen no progress until now, her anger subsiding was only natural.
Erdes decided to show generous treatment.
Ӗňù m ā
"Good, I'll forgive you."
"Th, thank you—."
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"Choose."
"Yes?"
"Pick one. You and your two sons. One of the three."
One finger on her left hand, two fingers on her right,
Ẅ е́b̌n̊о̃ v̈е l _Е ńu ṁ ӑ
"Will you have one of your arms completely shattered, or will your two sons each have an arm half-shattered?"
Your own pain, or your family's pain.
Erembalt chose without any deep deliberation.
"...My arm, please,"
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He chose his children's future.
Erdes spoke as if that choice wasn't the least bit surprising.
Е̃n ūm а̇. і̌ ď
"Right, that's the choice a father would naturally make."
Ttududududuk!!
"Eugeueueuk...!"
Erembalt's arm bent and stretched in a zigzag as if several joints had been added.
The pain was indescribable.
Erdes also turned her body and left just like that.
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"Heueuk... heuk..."
Erembalt shed tears as he watched Erdes grow distant.
It wasn't only because of the pain he was feeling right now.
Within that was also a sense of relief that he had barely managed to protect the family.
* * *
Erdes, having come out of the Rosnova Mansion, immediately prepared a magic circle.
Е̃ n̄u m̃ ӑ. і d
Since it was an item stored in the mansion, wherever it was, it would be holding intense energy in this vicinity.
"Marunz Eye."
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That magic, called the Eye of the God of Knowledge, was the highest-grade among Search Magic.
Erdes threw the wrapping cloth into the magic circle, and soon mana began to envelop the cloth.
Scanning through each individual particle woven into threads, it searched for information.
Following the will and tenacity of the Archmage Erdes, it found the information she desired.
Е̂ nù m а
What she wished for was a location connected to this item.
As longing and information meshed, mana drew a signpost.
Erdes moved her feet following that signpost.
The place she arrived at was in front of the Rosnova Family's back gate.
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It was certain that Erembalt and Anna's first meeting had taken place here.
"Then..."
Wӗb n̆ о v̌ ēl̊ Еn̈u mа́
Erdes summoned her magic staff.
It was time to begin the search in earnest.
High-level magic on a completely different dimension from when she used Marunz Eye.
Just the flow of mana shook the ground and flipped the sky.
To handle this much mana, five 6th Circle mages would have to gather and work for a week to barely manifest it.
However, the magic circle passing through Erdes's hands was completed in a mere 30 minutes.
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Finally, she chanted the name bestowed upon that magic.
"Nostalgia of Schola."
A great wave arose, making the surroundings undulate.
Her magical power turned the surroundings into a colorless gray zone.
Magic that went beyond simply tracking the past, using the medium as a door to reproduce that past state itself.
Even if one's face was wrapped tight in thick cloth, it became the past itself that could be revealed by lifting it.
Е n̈ū m̀ а̊
In other words, it transcended time.
In the grayed space, the wrapping cloth that had become the medium fluttered in the air as if riding the wind.
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Then it was formed as if wrapping in a certain fixed shape, like packaging.
Shortly after, a woman appeared holding that wrapped cloth.
A woman with blonde hair and blue eyes.
There was no doubt it was Anna Rosnova, Ferda's biological mother.
Ё n̄ u̇ m̀а
Kkiik-.
And soon someone opened a door and showed themselves.
It was a young, significantly gaunt Erembalt Rosnova.
-Excuse me, Naeuri.
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Anna greeted first.
-What is it? For the servants to call so urgently, it must be an urgent matter.
Е̌n u m а̀
-It is nothing else. I am Anna, who has come here by order.
-What order do you speak of?
-The order of the Sierra Order.
The woman showed the emblem hanging around her neck.
Erembalt frowned.
-Sierra... sorry but I am a person of the Empire. An imperial person would be of the Alte Order.
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-Then, will you harm me?
-If you don't leave, I'll have to handle it by the law, won't I? I'm not heartless enough to harm a woman I'm seeing for the first time today. Besides, there's a child too. I'll give you food and clothes, so go back quietly.
-How generous. But regrettably, I cannot do that.
-What?
-Starting today, I must become your wife.
-What nonsense? Why should I take you in?
Ёn̄üm̊ а̀ . і d
-Unfortunately, you have no choice, Yeobo.
-Yeobo? A Sierra stray coming in the middle of the night dares to... eueuk...
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Erembalt, who had been raging, grabbed his own head and groaned in agony.
The woman calmly placed her hand on Erembalt's shoulder.
-Why are you like this? Are you alright?
-Huh? Ah... it's nothing.
E n ū m̈а. ї.d
Erembalt stared at her intently.
His wary gaze relaxed as if looking at an old acquaintance.
-But why are you outside like this, Buin?
The woman smiled brightly and said as if nothing had happened.
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-Because I like night wind walks.
-What if our child catches a cold... hurry inside.
Еǹ.u m а ..і́ d́
-Yes.
The woman went inside so boldly, then stopped.
Because Erdes had stopped just like that.
Erdes, who had been watching that scene, said this.
"...What is this?"
She doubted her own eyes.
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She carefully twisted her wrist and rewound the flowing time.
She repeated the moment that woman became a wife from a stranger several times over.
Usually, even if a scene isn't understood, rewinding about three times makes the silhouette visible.
Because Erdes is the greatest Archmage on this Serdes Continent.
Yet it wasn't visible.
No trace of sorcery or magic, no gesture, nothing at all was visible.
Ŵĕ bn̊о̊ v̈е̌ l Е́n umā
'I definitely thought Anna was a demon...'
Erdes believed Ferda was a demon's child.
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Then Anna had to be a demon or a demon follower.
But no trace of that following was visible, nor any trace of a demon.
The only action she took was saying it would become so.
'I have no choice but to dig deeper into this woman's identity...'
Ẅ е̌b̆ n óv̊ e̊ l̃ En̆ û_mа̃
It was the moment she tried to touch Anna.
Erdes felt a chill.
Reflexively twisting her wrist at that chill, she tried to rewind time.
But it doesn't move.
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Time remained stopped, and her wrist likewise froze in place.
The one who should be dominating that space was Erdes.
En̈ ǔ m̂á . і d̆
But in reverse, she began to be subordinated to that space.
"Ugh!"
Erdes deployed emergency protection magic to protect herself.
But even with the protection magic deployed, she couldn't stop the sensation of being swallowed.
Just like Erembalt had become.
Erdes too seemed to be becoming that way.
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-Huh?
Within the frozen space, the woman's voice rang out clearly.
'That can't be...!'
Erdes rolled her eyes to look at Anna.
Anna holding the baby.
Her eyes should definitely be facing Erembalt.
Е́ n ú ḿа̀
Making eye contact with Erdes like this was an impossible occurrence.
She blatantly moved her mouth and smiled.
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-An unexpected uninvited guest.
Erdes realizes.
The initiative had passed to the woman who should have been subordinated in this space.
She moved freely and approached Erdes.
W̆е b̃ n̈о vе l̊ Ĕn̊ ŭmа
-Are you the person who hates our Ferda that much?
Erdes reproached herself for having taken Anna lightly.
What she was facing was neither a simple woman nor a demon.
She was something transcendental that could not exist on this Serdes Continent.
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-I happened to have something I really wanted to say to you. Since it worked out well, listen carefully with those ears.
Anna whispered something into Erdes's ear.
Ӗ ǹ u m̃a
At that moment, Erdes felt her consciousness being sucked away somewhere.
The spread gray shattered like a thin glass window and disappeared, and Anna vanished too.
She returned to reality where color existed.
"Heueok... heueok!"
Erdes caught her breath, sweating cold sweat.
How did I return here?
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Her body couldn't move an inch, and she was in a state where she couldn't use magical power either.
No matter how she thought about it, she couldn't believe she had escaped by her own power.
Did that woman Anna let her go?
But that seems unnatural too.
Then who exactly helped her?
"To think there's someone who gave the continent's greatest Archmage this much trouble. It's a surprising thing."
Еńum̆а
A mature tone of voice, but a young voice.
That incongruity was something Erdes knew well too.
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And only then did she feel the sensation of a hand placed on her back.
"Take your hand off my body!"
Erdes shook off that hand convulsively and turned around.
Erdes's staff pointed at a girl of similar build.
Е̇ ñ um̄ȧ..і̆d̆
She was the mother of all witches and the Big Sister.
It was Lucy Philias.
"Ungrateful wretch. I fished you out of the water and instead of thanks, you try to slap me first?"
Lucy said with a leisurely face, puffing on her pipe tobacco.
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"What bullshit!? When did you save me!?"
"From mana exhaustion. You were about to become a cripple trapped in a manifested space, and I'm the one who saved you, wasn't I?"
Е̄ n̂ú ḿ а̀. і d̀
At Lucy's words, Erdes could feel it too.
Mana was barely remaining in her body.
The fact that it was filling up like this now was surely because of Lucy Philias's mana.
"Your vessel is uselessly large so this much isn't enough. Receive a bit more mana."
"Get lost! Don't touch my body!"
She distances herself from Lucy as she reaches out again.
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Erdes places her hand on one of the spell formulas drawn on her staff.
The formula breaks and she absorbs the enormous amount of mana held within into her body.
"As expected, you left behind such a trick."
Lucy mutters as if relieved.
Erdes glares at Lucy as if to kill her.
But Lucy only smiles faintly.
Е n u mӓ
"Won't you even say thanks for saving your life?"
"You should've just let me die."
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"Unfortunately, I can't do that. Since a vow I made myself must be kept."
"Let your dirty witches keep vows. I'm not filthy kin like you who possess Red Circles!"
Despite the unhesitating insults, Lucy didn't show the slightest sign of being offended.
Erdes draws a finger through the air.
Еn uma..ǐd̀
A teleport magic circle completes, and she throws her body into it.
Lucy quietly watching that spot where Erdes has already vanished.
Since even this much hostility was something she knew well, she wasn't surprised.
"Foolish child."
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Lucy merely found her pitiful.
"Even if you hate and curse me... I cannot turn away from you."
Е̃n ü ṁ_а
Lucy's words scattered vainly like gray smoke, reaching no one.
* * *
Serdes Magic Society President's Office.
The Society President's secretary, Blue, was handling the work Erdes had left behind, same as always.
'Why do I have to take all this crap...'
Blue lamented his own situation.
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People who wouldn't make a peep if it were Erdes, but Blue was different.
He had become a punching bag receiving all the complaints and protests that the Magic Society President should have heard.
The strange thing was, Blue's hair roots were still alive.
'This time I absolutely won't let it slide!'
Blue ground his teeth as he stamped the approval seal.
The moment that rogue mage returns, he'll scream his lungs out.
Ӗ ń ū m̌ a. і̇d
The gate opened, returning the runaway rogue he'd been waiting for so desperately.
"Society President-nim!"
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Blue exploded with the grievances he'd prepared.
"Just where have you been!? Didn't you promise me you'd work after that hearing?"
"..."
"Work is piled up like a mountain, yes? If we keep going like this, we really can't handle it..."
Ѐ n̊úm а̇
Even after ranting for a long time, with no reaction, Blue belatedly looked at Erdes's face.
She wasn't listening at all.
Instead of her cheeky expression, she had the face of someone possessed by something.
"President-nim?"
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"..."
Blue placed his hand on her shoulder.
W̌е b ň о̄v̈ е̃l̄ Е̂ ňǔm̊а
Only then did she seem to regain consciousness, turning her head to look at Blue.
"Are you alright? Your complexion..."
Blue asking with genuine concern.
Erdes stared at that face for a long time before answering.
"...I'm fine."
Just three syllables, but Blue could tell.
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That Erdes was dejected like someone who'd been beaten up somewhere.
"I'll be in the meditation room for a bit."
"Ah, yes. Please rest..."
Too scared to ask what happened, Blue could only send her off.
Erdes entered the meditation room and forced herself into a seated meditation posture.
Empty her mind, clear her head, and circulate her Blue Circle.
Ẃе b n о v̀ еl̇ E n̊ū mа́_
But Anna still remained in Erdes's head.
She wondered if it was magic or some mysterious power, but it wasn't that.
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The reason that woman stayed in her head was because she was incomprehensible.
If that person is a mother,
If she's someone who should at least take responsibility for her child,
She left words she would never, ever say.
Ẇе́ b̌n̆оṽ ё l̄ Е̃ ǹ u m ȧ
-Do your utmost to prevent my son from becoming happy.
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