CH 63.1

Recently, I started learning how to make magic tools.

I had invited a specialist in the field of magic tools with the idea of “Fusion of Mage Tool Crafting and Magic Construct”. However, in the end, I realized that we need someone who could do both to a certain extent.

At the moment, we don’t even know what kind of technology each of us knows and what it can be used for.

It’s really hard to learn in a world where expertise is passed on orally and I never thought I’d be so grateful for an internet encyclopedia in my previous world.

Well, to be honest, I was also interested in magic tools, but I gave up on it partly because there were no magic tool researchers in our school.

It’s a very useful job. It’s like killing two birds with one stone.

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「Fuuuhhn, Kandinnava? I’ve heard of it but I’ve never attacked them.」

「It would be a problem if Laura-san has attacked them since they are still in a period of truce with the old Kraunia.」

Laura-san dabbed the letter with wax she had melted with my stove magic tool and gently stamp the seal on it.

This is something I asked her to write.

It’s a talisman that proves the identity of my slave trading squad as members of the Slayra Family. It will be useful if they are stopped by nobles or public servants in various places.

Frankly speaking, now that a Japanese lead has sprung in the north, I would want to go there myself if I could but….

Unfortunately, I am collared by my position in the army.

Now that I have a job that involves the royal family, albeit unofficial, I can’t leave Torquiva.

I chose my family over my hometown.

And I’m sure I won’t regret it.

「Here, it’s a letter for officials and nobles of major cities.」

「Thank you very much.」

「Using this to make you stay here is a good deal.」

Laura-san wiped the cooled wax seal with an indescribable expression on her face.

I poured medicine in the pot of hot water on the stove and filled her empty cup with tea.

「Laura-san shouldn’t worry about it. It’s just me being sentimental.」

When Laura-san heard those words, she sighed. Her mouth moved in a muffled motion, which is very unusual of her, as she always says things clearly.

Then, she stares out of the window, looks at the sky, and speaks in a low voice.

「I guess I resent the fact that I can’t even overlook a 15 year old guy’s sentiment.」

She searched for something in her breast pocket and gulped down her tea with a bitter look on her face as if remembering that she had no cigarettes.

「Laura-san, I’ve told you before, didn’t I?」

「Mou」

「Even if I could go back in my previous world, I wouldn’t.」

「Yeah」

I took Laura-san’s hand.

Her cold hand was shaking a little.

「My hometown is now Torquiva. The place where I should be is where my family is.」

「But……」

Her concerned look hurt my heart.

I was aware that I was doing things for it with a lot of effort.

Laura-san is by no means someone that can just take everything.

She’s not a cool-headed human weapon commensurate with her medals.

She is a person who is incapable of putting herself first before her love ones.

She once said that she was disowned by her family but there’s no way that’s true.

It’s an honor in this country to have someone in your family fight to the point of losing her magic organ.

There was no way that the Slayra Family, a military family, would have banished her from her family.

Perhaps she did not want her family to see her being skinny, old, and dying.

She wanted her family to remember her as someone strong and beautiful.

That’s why she left the house voluntarily.

This is both her nobility and her helpless weakness.

“Am I a burden?”

“Can I be with you?”

Those are what her trembling lapis lazuli eyes are saying.

I put my forehead on the back of her hand as if worshiping her.

「Thank you for thinking about me but Laura-san is wrong.」

「……..」

「It is my own choice that I did not go north. It’s not your fault, Laura-san.」

I said that, stood up from my chair, and held her slumped head in my arms.

「Laura-san is like my oneesan so please stand firm. I’m not going anywhere.」

By the time she replies with “okay”, the stove has run out of magic crystal.

However, it is strange but the two of us didn’t feel cold.