Chapter 2: Harmonia (1)
Returning to the office, Jamie asked her secretary Hera what she needed.
"Hera. Please prepare the list written here."
This A list of artifacts."
"It was decided that I was going to be dispatched. Just in case you don't know, you need to prepare what you need.
"Then I will follow."
Jamie's eyes widened slightly, not knowing that Hera would come with the dispatch, but then he shook his head and said.
No. Being alone is more comfortable moving around, and you never know what might happen."
"Isn't this a simple dispatch mission?"
"It's true, but we have some missions that are difficult to explain."
Ah.
Hera gave a slightly disappointing expression on her face, and Jamie hurriedly waved her hand to correct her words.
"It's not because Hera doesn't have enough skills, so don't get me wrong. I think it's better to go around alone on this mission.
"If so."
His face still looked sad, but his expression softened a little more than before.
Since she was also a wizard before being a secretary, this dispatch mission must have been a bit greedy.
Perhaps it was related to performance, and working with the Archmage was a great opportunity.
But there may be some dangers lurking.
There is a strong backbone of the Seldam Kingdom, but the place to go is a battlefield where a fierce civil war is taking place.
An abrupt variable could occur anywhere.
'Still, I'm a little surprised. I thought he was a pretty cold person, but I knew he would be disappointed.'
In addition to being in a relationship where they always exchanged formal conversations, Hera had a pretty cold impression, so I thought that he was a person with very little ups and downs.
In fact, it might be closer to that, but seeing a figure like today, it looked a little new.
"But what about the guys? Aren't you still joking around?
"The disciples went to the lab."
"These children I know. Please give me a list."
Yeah.
Jamie went straight to the lab.
The lab was located in the north tower, connected to the 73rd floor of the central tower where Jamie's office was located.
Jamie got on the warp device and immediately activated the magic.
The background changed in an instant and moved into the laboratory.
Then, I heard two familiar voices whispering.
" Wouldn't it be very scolding if Master came?"
"Damn, you bastard! Who in the world calls the kids growing up early in the morning? Are you bragging about how tall you are?"
"Hey, it's still a bit harsh. It's my master.
"What's wrong? That yangban is cheap even if you swear a little. Aren't you caught like a mouse because you failed the synchronization magic a while ago?
" ."
"I'm not even 5th class yet, so what do I do when even a 5th class wizard is having a hard time? Isn't it?
" ."
why are you like this? Hey, Anne!"
" rear.
Lennon frowned and looked back at Anne, who was staring back with a stiff face, then glanced back.
Jamie was standing there with her arms crossed.
Lennon and Jamie looked at each other blankly.
After a few seconds of silence, Lennon screamed and fell backwards.
"Ahhhhhhhhh!"
Sitting down as if he had seen a ghost and stepping backwards like a crayfish was like seeing a master who had been trained for a long time.
Jamie said with a laugh.
"Keep talking. I don't mind."
"That, that, that, that, that, that, that, that ."
Why? Even if you curse a little, it's cheap. I will listen, so keep going."
"I mean, I don't mean that, I mean ."
"I'm so sorry for bringing up grown-up kids who are older than me, so why don't you keep talking?"
" ."
Hahaha. I guess I was telling a guy who didn't know the subject and didn't meet the standards to do the synchronization magic. I should have done it to a kid who knew how to do it, but I guess I overestimated it. What did you make a big mistake?"
"Sorry, I'm sorry."
"No, no~ What should I be sorry for~ What is it that the teacher calls me, and I'm a scumbag who acts like a fool with a magician who can't use any magic. What do I apologize for?"
"I have nothing to say ."
"Get down and stretch out!!"
* * *
"Anne has been through a lot. You did a good job of making it different from anyone else."
Hehe. Thank you.
"But let's not be late in the future."
" yes."
Jamie stroked Anne's hair.
Perhaps because women grow faster than men, Anne, who turned 15 this year, is in her mid-160s.
It is said that the maternal side is taller, and it seems that he was born with that gene.
As I grew older, my personality became more docile, and I felt more mature.
Lennon, on the other hand.
Jamie looked at Lennon, who was lying on his back, his arms trembling with his sunken eyes.
The floor looked like it was pretty hard to get wet with sweat.
He had been doing that for 30 minutes already.
"Yumma, you bastard."
Yeah!
Lennon answered in a loud voice with a strong flag.
Jamie shook her head in disbelief.
wake up.
"Whoa!"
If you do something else, a slow guy like a slug behaves like a lightning bolt when this is the case.
Jamie clicked his tongue, scanning Lennon up and down.
Lennon wasn't as big as he thought for five years.
Still, it was a lot bigger than when I was 9 years old, but it was about half a head from Anne.
Since this is the beginning of a full-fledged growth period for men, it will be bigger in the future, but due to the overlap of various problems including height, a strangely negative mind was loaded.
"So, aren't you going to learn more magic?"
no!
"Did you give up your mind when you asked me to teach you magic?"
no!
"But are you biting people from behind?"
"Sin, I'm sorry ."
What. Behind the scenes, Nara-sama swears at me, but that was when I didn't find out. Am I wrong?"
Yes.
"You mean you're going to gossip again? Fuck this!"
no!
Lennon flinched and took a blocking stance.
Jamie sighed and said.
"I know it's cramped because it's blocked by the fortress wall, but don't solve it with something strange. I mean, it's going to be a coup."
" Yeah.
"And I don't do what you can't do. I'm asking you to do it because you can do synchronization magic.
Yep.
Seeing Lennon weeping made my heart ache for nothing.
Because his feelings are understandable.
Lennon is still young and has endless potential for development, but if he is blocked by a wall, his future possibilities are irrelevant.
Because the problem in front of us is not solved right now.
In this case, rather than reassuring people around you that you can do it, you have no choice but to clench your teeth and break through somehow.
"Anne."
Yeah?
"If you are motivated, try to help out a lot. You're still my sister.
I know.
"Lennon. You, too, help Anne when she is struggling."
"I'm helping."
"Answer me again!"
"I'll help!"
Guess who isn't a teenager.
Jamie looked at Lennon on the back of his head and his hands were itchy. Do you want to swing it once?
"Anyway, even if I'm away, I hope you're doing well."
"Eh? Teacher, where are you going?"
uh. I am going on a business trip."
"Where are you going?"
"That's the part you don't need to know."
Jamie got up.
By now, Hera should have prepared all the things.
"If I get caught while I'm not there, then ."
Jamie raised his eyes frightened and looked at Lennon.
Lennon stood up with a stern look.
Ann, on the other hand, followed Jamie and said.
"Can't you take me too?"
"Do you know where I am going?"
"Anywhere. I also want to see the outside world."
"That's next. It's a dangerous mission.
danger?!
Lennon, who had been quiet at the word of danger, lit up.
All sorts of delusions began to unfold in his mind.
From the action drama unfolding in a dangerous place to the cool figure of overcoming the crisis!
And the beautiful looking at yourself like that... .
A dangerous romance that was unavoidable for a boy of that age unfolded like a flower garden in his head.
"Master! Please take me too!"
"Take me~"
"Are these crazy? Come on?
"I won't disturb you~!"
"Think of it as a field trip and take me to it!"
"No, these ."
A tendon grew on Jamie's forehead.
"Both of you!"
attention!
attention!
Anne and Lennon react to Jamie's voice almost as if it were an input.
Jamie looked at the two of them and said.
"I'll take them if possible, but this mission is a battlefield."
Battlefield!
"Lennon, be still."
Yep.
"You never know what will happen on the battlefield. So it's hard to take responsibility for the two of you. If I care about you, my hands and feet will be tied. When things go wrong, it's an instant."
The two children do not know the dangers of war.
Because I haven't experienced it.
In particular, Lennon will definitely have a big accident because of his unique nature.
If you're not by my side then... I couldn't even guess what was going to happen.
"We also have the ability to take care of our own bodies."
"Anne. You would think so, but it is still a long way off in my opinion."
"Then I am."
"You can't be farther away."
" That is unfair.
"Then I will take care of the disciples."
At that moment, the warp device flashed from behind, and Hera walked out and said:
"Mr. Hera?"
"I will take care of the elder so that no harm is done. The battlefield is definitely of great help to wizards. You know the elders well, don't you?"
On the battlefield, real magic is used.
With the theories learned at the academy, the theories learned under the teacher could not be compared with the experience gained in practice.
So, Hera was right, but the place to go now was the place where the biggest war was taking place on the ; Loen continent.
"Did you want to go that way?"
Yeah. I really want to go. Please help me see the magic of the Elder by my side."
Me too! I will never disturb you!"
"Master! When did we ask for this?!"
"You did a lot."
Jamie cut off Lennon's false accusation with a single knife, and then looked at Hera.
She was not always greedy, but she seemed to be a wizard as expected.
'It would be too much for me not to take him to this point.'
One day, Anne and Lennon will also feel the cruelty of the world.
Now, he was in a cautious state as his emotions had not yet settled, but as Hera said, there has never been a better opportunity than now.
'It's sad because it's over there anyway.'
In fact, wizards often took their disciples to the battlefield.
I also thought that overprotection was bad.
However, if Hera follows, the worries will be resolved.
'I worked with her for about three years, so don't worry.'
He has a knife-like personality at work, so he will deter children from crossing the line.
I was thinking of getting them both out when I'm sure they're ready... .
I understand for now. I'll think about it."
Hurray!
"Joatsu!"
Hera replaces joy by clenching fists with the children who rejoice openly.
Jamie smiled as he looked at them with a face that he couldn't stop them.
* * *
vast forest.
Only a single ray of sunlight was falling into the space surrounded by huge trees that seemed to reach the sky.
There, a naked woman with long blue hair was sitting on a wooden chair with her back.
She was carefully flipping through old books, and someone appeared through the grass.
"Isis."
The woman named Isis asked without looking back.
"You said you killed the Master of Harmonia?"
A man in a black suit and a white mask answered.
I was lucky.
"The children of the Liberation Army must have been happy."
"He said he was happy that he could take over the capital soon."
"By the way, Harmonia sent a request for support to the Kingdom of Seldam, didn't you?"
"Looks like the news has already arrived. I don't know who will be dispatched yet, but I'm sure they'll show up since I put their national treasure.
"Who will appear? Beiryl, is there a master you can expect?"
Isis turned her head slightly and looked at Beiryl Onyx, the knight who was leaning on the tree next to her.
One of the five sword masters of Seldam, famous for being a gale swordsman, he wondered if he was worried, then looked up at the white mask and said:
"Maybe Jamie wants to go."
"Jamie Welton?"
"Why do you think so, Beiryl-kun?"
"Right now, Jamie is the only Master who can move freely in Seldam. The Sword Masters are on the border with the Eastern Continent, and Siegfried of Space has also joined there. I heard that Oppen Ginger, the first elder of the magical world, had been in hiding for a long time, and Richter Simon, the eighth elder, had a problem with the estate and went there. The rest of the elders have to take care of the magical realm... All that is left is Jamie, who hasn't been outside for five years."
Hmm. It makes sense."
Isis shook her head as if she knew it, and the white mask opened her mouth.
"Will he try to sabotage our plans?"
"I don't know."
Beiryl shook her head, saying she didn't know, and then leaned back against the tree.
Then he looked up at the sky again as if he had nothing to do with it.
The white mask stared at him terrifyingly through the eye sockets and said to Isis.
"What if we collide?"
"Ugh."
Isis clasped her legs together, wondering if she thought about it for a bit, then said with a smile.
"Do it yourself. The future is one inch ahead."
"Then I will."
After those words, the white mask disappeared into the grass.
Only two men, Isis, said to Beiryl.
"Jin is strong. Are you okay?"
" I don't think Jamie is going to win.
"Fufu. is it?
Five years have passed since an eight-year-old kid ascended to the status of an archmage.
A child who has never appeared in public since then may appear again this time.
Now, no one can measure how much you have grown.
Isis smiled happily and got up from her seat.
And he grabbed the blue sword that was next to him.
Curl rumble!!
Blue lightning bolts rained in all directions along with a roaring thunder.
It was the Dragon Slayer, the Thunder Dragon Sword Gram.
"Somehow, it feels like we will meet soon."
Previously.
Isis headed somewhere, carrying Gram, who was taller than her own, on her shoulders.
"Shall I prepare myself? Let's go, Beiryl.
"I do."
Saying that, the two disappeared into the grass on the other side.
- Continued on next episode -