Book 1: Chapter 4: Bullying The Strong (1/2)

TLN: I changed the term ”Lidil” to ”Ridill.”

Louis Miller, the ”Barrier Magician,” who had forced Monica to work as a bodyguard for the second prince, was staying in a village near the cabin where Monica lived.

After all, it would take a whole day to get from this village to the capital by carriage. Louis exhaled a sigh, ”I can't wait to get back to my home where my beloved wife awaits.”

It wasn't that he didn't like to eat in a public restaurant, but he didn't want to stand out too much right now, so he had his meals brought to a private room at the inn.

Across the table, his contracted spirit, Lynn, was quietly reading a book. She was a spirit with no sense of taste, so she can't accompany him to eat.

The cool beauty in the maid's uniform was reading a book expressionlessly, but eventually closed the book with a snap and opened her mouth.

”Lord Louis, I have a question.”

”What is it? I'm still eating.”

”Why did you ask Miss [Silent Witch] to guard the second prince?”

Louis was expecting a question about the content of the book, so he narrowed his eyes a little and wiped his mouth with a napkin.

”Give me your view, Lindsberghfield.”

”In my opinion, Lord Louis, after the magic tool you put so much effort into making was destroyed in three days, you were so angry that you tried to vent your anger by taking it out on the weak-minded person, which is Miss [Silent Witch].”

”What kind of a man do you think your master is?”

”I have heard that he has character disorder who likes to bully the weak.”

Without a moment's hesitation, his contracted spirit said this to him, and Louis was smiling with a furrowed temple.

”Bring the person who blurted out that assessment to you here. I will trample him thoroughly until his head sinks into the floor.”

”That person was your mentor, Lord Gideon Rutherford.”

His mentor, Gideon Rutherford was one of the few people he can't handle even for the proud Louis.

Louis clicked his tongue ungracefully and shook his head in a dramatic gesture. His neat face had a sad expression on it, but his earlier remark had ruined everything.

”Oh, how lamentable. People have been misunderstanding about me.”

The word ”misunderstanding” that Louis said to Lynn was said in a stern manner.

”It is always more fun to bully the strong than to bully the weak, isn't it?”

The idea was too far-fetched. Above all, He's not denying the part of his character disorder.

Lynn tilted her head with a blank expression. In the book she had just read, all the characters who had been questioned had tilted their heads in this way. This gesture, which she was simply copying, combined with her expressionless face, made her look like a doll with a broken neck.

”Lord Louis, when you were bullying Miis [Silent Witch], you had the face of a scumbag who enjoys bullying the weak.”

”You say Miss [Silent Witch] is weak? Who are you talking about?”

Louis snorted at Lynn's rebuttal as if it were a mockery.

He gave her a graceful smile… but the eyes behind his spectacles shine brightly and somewhat belligerently.

”In the past, I've been completely defeated by such a little girl in the magic battle of the Seven Sages selection.”

At that time, Louis Miller has more experience as a commander of the Magical Corps, specializing in fighting with spell casting.

Having defeated many dragons and buried more than a hundred of them, he was one of the top two combatant magicians in the country.

But, in a magic battle, he was totally defeated by the [Silent Witch], who was 15 years old.

”I, Louis Miller, the [Barrier Magician], assure you. That one's a monster.”

Louis emphatically proclaimed that such a little girl, who couldn't make eye contact with people, always kept her head down and was scared out of her wits, was a ”monster.”

Louis laced his fingers together, rested his thin chin on it, and squinted.

”His Majesty ordered me to secretly protect the second prince, but I can't just take His Majesty's words literally.”

”What do you mean?”

”Keep a close eye on the second prince… that's what I believe His Majesty meant.”

The second prince has always been an excellent person. He has excellent academic and swordsmanship skills, and even though he was still attending school, his high diplomatic skills have earned him the trust and confidence of both domestic and foreign nobles.

Above all, his beautiful appearance and gentle smile, inherited from his mother, have been reputed to charm the people who saw him.

He managed everything without a hitch and was very good at controlling people's minds.

He, whose grandfather was Duke Crockford, the most powerful noble in the country, was Felix Ark Ridill.

But no one knows his true nature.

Underneath his friendly, soft smile, there was something horrible stirring.

—That was the kind of creepy feeling Louis sensed in Felix.

However, whenever Louis tried to find out what the discomfort was, Felix always smoothly fend him off with a soft smile.

”The second prince is a very shrewd predator. Using a straightforward manner won't make him back down.”

That's why Louis chose Monica as his helpers.

That girl who has a freakish talent that didn't match with her shy personality had made everything look a little out of place.

”I've told you. I like to pick on the strong.”

”So what you want to say is, you want to bully both the Second Prince and Miss [Silent Witch] at the same time, which are belong to the ‘strong ones'?”

Without correcting her, Louis just gave her a beautiful smile.