Chapter 21 (1/2)

Chapter 21 - Can't kill what's dead

A pigeon with the voice of Edelgard began its report

A carrier pigeon, a e role in this world's infor distance transic, didn't require any particular experience in high-ranking e

The location was Lain's ho each other across a table; one was the e Lain The other was the one responsible for suiri Takatou and Toard's voicewhen e was clear

Sage Santarou had died, and the two ungifted candidates may be responsible

”This is why I called you here”

Lain had su to discuss with her

”My, you're concerned about e candidates fell on the sage that sues didn't particularly interfere in the sume has died we can't let the candidates they've already overstepped their bounds Also, this incident has taken place in ion around the kingdoressor he entered that of Lain Trespassing another sage's sphere of influence while repelling an Aggressor itself wasn't big enough of a deal for Lain to e's death the ruler of the incident's region could expecttheir way

”You don't have any evidence it was them, do you? From what I've been told Santarou-san headed out to intercept so robot, wasn't that what killed hie candidate being capable of killing a sage is reason enough to deal with theifteds' power and had intended to watch over theent to allow that Unconcerned by Lain's displeasure, Sion replied

”If they could kill a sage then they wouldn't really be candidates anyht away if that were the case But still, I've seen both of them close up and neither struck me as very rich in potential”

”So how do you think Santarou died?”

”Well, Santarou-san had absolute control over all archetypes of ic spells he could use was easily the highest aic efficiently, adapting to whichever battlefield he ended up in, but in the end his spells' actual poasn't all that special A jack of all trades, ot hiht h, but Santarou had close to no injuries There was a bone fracture, but looks like that was postmortem The actual cause of death is unknown, and from what I've heard from your acolyte the two candidates appeared capable of soic”

”Well, Youichi-kun is quite the art”

Sion let out a sigh, her entire attitude saying 'What are you getting at?', and continued

”Let's say they are the culprits, ould they kill a sage? You said Santarou-san didn't have any external injuries, right? Meaning they didn't retrieve his philosopher's stone”

”Yeah, the report didn'ttorn open And sure, it e and then just leave hi to think up a motive for the to deal with theht I'd discuss it with you beforehand”

”Deal with theainstthat idealistic Unlike other sages I just don't kill for no reason Doesn't mean I'll hesitate when I do have a reason”

”Fine then, do as you ith those two I actually expected you to have called me here for a different reason”

”As in?”

”Also related to Santarou-san, actually; I' about Kurayami Apparently Santarou-san said he drove it away, but it's still in this world That's what I expected you want to discuss”

”The question of who'll be responsible for repelling it next, basically?”

Now that Santarou was dead there was a vacancy in the sages' territory control The one to end up with carrying its responsibility was likely to be either Sion or Lain, both of whose domains bordered on that of Santarou's

”Ah! Now that I think about it, don't you owe me now?”

Happy with her own idea, Sion softly clapped her hands together Lain could tell what she was getting at