Chapter 105 – Master and I
“Who are you?”
Seeing the dark-haired girl who pretended to know her in the first place, I asked casually.
Then the girl screamed, slamming the top of her desk with a back priority.
“Yeki! This guy! No matter how long I look at him, he doesn’t recognize my teacher’s face!”
“?”
What? What happened?
I briefly overloaded my head with the girl’s words that I couldn’t understand with conventional common sense.
But she soon came to her senses and asked back.
“So you’re my master right now?”
“Yes.”
The girl who nodded her head regularly tapped her desk with her fingers, perhaps feeling uncomfortable with her planting.
Seeing that even the smallest habits were the same as Master’s, I was dubious, but firmly asked.
“The lady Esmeralda I know is a gray-haired grandmother well over 150 years old, right?”
Then, the girl calmly explained while frowning between her brows.
“The body was reconstructed as it ascended to the 7th tier. Perhaps the existing body was too old to contain the vast amount of mana, so it was naturally replaced with a new one.”
“In other words, in terms of martial arts knowledge, did you have a half-role rotation?”
“If you explain it easily, it will be like that.”
I finally felt that the conversation, which had been a little out of place, was now meshing, but it was hard to believe this fact.
“Then, let me check one more thing.”
“What else?”
“There is something I gave you as a birthday present for Master two years ago. What is it?”
Then, a tendon was caught in the girl’s forehead.
“You never celebrated my birthday. Motherfucker.”
This reaction is probably real.
“Master!”
I grabbed Master’s hand with an exaggerated gesture to wrap up the chilly atmosphere.
“This Buddha’s disciple will see his face in a year and a half!”
“Yes, yes.”
As if dealing with an obedient bastard, Master patted my head and glanced at Dorothea and Vanessa in the back.
“By the way, what are they? It doesn’t look like their level is a joke.”
Then Dorothea answered, placing the sunglasses he was wearing on his face on top of his head.
“Quattro Virginia.”
Vanessa, who was next to her, also took off her helmet and answered.
“This is Janet.”
The two reused the pseudonyms they had used before.
Well, it’s the right decision in the current situation.
It’s not just Master in the room, the secretary is also there.
“We have guests, so we should treat them. Olivia.”
“Yes.”
The blond-haired secretary who was standing in the back slightly bowed at Master’s call and went into the bathroom.
Master got up from the desk and sat down on the upper seat on the parlor sofa, whispering Baek Woo-seon.
It’s a new feeling, but seeing it like this, I couldn’t believe it was Master.
I never thought that the younger days of her grandmother, who had the same voice as the one I knew, would be so pretty.
Perhaps reading my gaze, Master smiled and crossed his legs.
“Why, do you still not believe that I am your teacher?”
“No, it’s not like that. It’s kind of…”
“It’s bland.”
After I dutifully evaded it, Master snorted as she said that, pointing at Dorothea and Vanessa with her fan.
“The wives and children there don’t just stand there, come and sit down. It’s crazy when you’re there.”
“Ah, yes.”
For some reason, Dorothea quietly obeys orders.
Considering his usual fiery personality, he was so obedient that it made me wonder.
As soon as both of them sat down on the sofa, the secretary who had entered the kitchen came out with a tray of refreshments.
After putting them down in front of each of them, bowing their heads slightly and stepping back, Master gave a congratulatory order with a gesture of his chin.
“Get out.”
“Yes.”
Click-
After the door closed and the room became quiet, I drank the tea from the cup and looked at Master and said,
“You got a new secretary?”
“I haven’t heard from the guy next to me who has been helping me for over a year, so it can’t be helped.
“You’re right. I can’t take care of you forever.”
“Hmph. Words that I didn’t even mean.”
The corners of his mouth go up slightly, even though he speaks bluntly, unable to hide his happy heart.
Seeing this, the tsundere teacher I knew was right.
I quietly poked Dorothea by the side and spoke in a whisper.
“My master, isn’t your personality similar to yours?”
“What, man?”
Dorothea lit a double wick in his eyes, but could not get angry because the person in question was right in front of his nose.
“Kuhm, keuhum.”
Master cleared his throat as if it were honey, and when my gaze returned to normal, Master asked with a serious expression.
“Okay, seeing that you’ve returned safely, you must have brought something. What happened to the party of warriors who left to subdue the Demon Lord?”
I pondered for a moment.
I wondered if I could honestly say that I betrayed the warrior party at the suggestion of the demon lord, and that the warrior party was wiped out as a result.
Master is like my paternal grandmother.
My mother in this life, who was weak by nature, died of illness when I was young, and her father, who became her single father because of that, instead of taking in a new wife, devoted himself to raising me when I was still young.
After my hair was moderately thick, I rather supported my father, but what’s the point?
After leaving her hometown to become a wizard at the age of 15, she lived with Master for nearly 10 years.
It’s almost like a family relationship.
So I could trust Master, but this is a matter of mood.
It was Master who sent the hero to support me, and it was emotionally burdensome to confess the fact that I had betrayed the hero.
I thought and thought and thought and thought and thought for a moment, but I decided to be honest.
“The warrior party was wiped out except for me. I betrayed them at the end.”
“Yes? Well done.”
“It’s wrong to betray Master’s expectations… Yes? What did you just say?”
Then Master laughed and hit the back of my hand with a fan.
“I am the one who knows you better than anyone else. If you, who has a rebellious temperament, thinks three more times before acting, to the point of betraying you, it must mean that the hero of the time was not that low.”
“Master…”
As I looked at him with a moved expression, Master shrugged his shoulders and put a snack into his mouth.
“So, what condition did the demon king put on so he betrayed you right there on the spot? Judging from the fact that he met the demon king, it seems that he stayed with the dragon until the end.”
I answered Master’s question while scratching the back of my head.
“If you succeed in conquering the world, half of the world will be given to you…”
Upon hearing this, Master burst out laughing.
“What? World conquest? Haha! Both you and the demon king have very swollen livers!”
Master covered her mouth with a fan and laughed loudly, saying that this was the most hilarious story she had heard this year.
“Would that be difficult?”
I asked cautiously, and Master giggled, wiping away her tears and nodding.
“Cancer, it’s difficult. It’s not difficult. Do you know how long it took for the most prosperous human empire to touch the elves and then perish?”
“…I do not know.”
Few records of that time have survived.
Literally, there was nothing left because all the people who would tell the story were dead.
Master heard my answer and spread his fingers.
“Three days, it took just three days. Even that was declared war in advance and the common people waited for time to escape. It turned into powder for the first time.”
“Does such a large-scale magic exist?”
“There is only one. Among the 8th tier magic.”
As Master answered, she pointed to the sky with her finger.
“Meteor Strike.”
Only then did I understand Master’s words.
On the day the elves destroyed the empire, they dropped a meteorite on the islands and literally razed the capital of the huge empire to the ground.
If that’s the case, it’ll have the power that even a decent nuclear bomb can’t even give a business card to.
“Then, are you saying that among the elves three hundred years ago there were also 8th tier wizards?”
Master then shook his head.
“Probably, that’s not the case. At that time, it was said that there were 7 great mages among the elves, so they must all have gathered their strength and used celestial magic.”
“Can I still use it?”
“I don’t know. Maybe then one of the elves died and can’t use it, or an elf who reached the 8th tier will come out and use it alone.”
In other words, if you haven’t experienced it, you won’t know.
“Anyway, talking about the elves. I haven’t conquered a single human kingdom yet, let alone the Great Forest.”
“Is that why you brought the demons?”
“…Did you know from the start?”
Then, Master smiled and pointed at Dorothea with his right hand.
“This lady seems to be from the Ruby Tower, but even though she has reached the 6th tier, if she is still a young witch, as far as I know, there is only Dorothea, the Four Heavenly Kings of the Demon Lord Army.”
Afterwards, he pointed to Vanessa, who was sitting next to him.
“I’ve seen this one time in the past from far away. Isn’t it Dyurahan who assisted the demon king in the past? I didn’t know he was hiding such a lady-like appearance under that tin-like helmet.”
I felt it all over again, but Master’s sharp eyes were no joke.
Even though it was only a short time of talking and observing, this much reasoning is possible.
Dorothea and Vanessa Oh! And applauded, Master became proud and raised his nose.
“That’s about it, it’s basic.”
