Book 5: Chapter 10: The Phenomenon of Secret Fans Instantly Becoming Fast-talkers When They Find A Place to Discuss. (1/2)

After discussing with the teacher about Caroline's punishment, Felix went to the infirmary, but there was no sign of Monica in there. Apparently, she had returned to her room in the dormitory.

Although he was concerned about whether she could get back to the dormitory properly, Claudia was with her, so she wouldn't force Monica to do anything. Incidentally, that little squirrel seems to be living in the attic. Apparently, the daughter of Count Kerbeck made her do so.

Actually, I wanted to warn Miss Isabelle not to harass the little squirrel too much.

Asking Isabelle why she was harassing Monica would mean getting into the inner workings of the Count Kerbeck family. Count Kerbeck was a large noble family who stood neutral. It would be unwise for Felix, the second prince, to meddle in their affairs.

Well, if Miss Isabelle was the one who was tormenting Monica and making her cry, then he could be the one to spoil her.

It's easier to tame that little squirrel when there's an obvious bully.

At first, I was hoping Cyril would fill that role, but he's been so soft on Miss Norton lately.

Regardless of his change of heart, Cyril was the first one to pick up Monica when she had to be carried to the infirmary… though he ran out of steam in the process.

Surprisingly, Cyril might be thinking of Monica as a younger sister. After all, her own sister, Claudia, was like that.

Recalling how the two siblings interacted with each other, Felix was chuckling as he shut the door of his room with a click. Then a white lizard crawled easily out of Felix's breast pocket.

The lizard slithered from Felix's body down to the ground and immediately transformed into a human form. Having taken the form of a chamberlain with light blue hair and blue eyes, Will bowed to Felix.

”Today was… well… quite a day, wasn't it?”

”Yeah, but it's been a while since I've heard ‘her' name.”

”‘her'?”

Will gave him a quizzical look, and Felix's lips raised slowly to form into a smile.

”Lady Everett, the [Silent Witch].”

Isabelle Norton had spoken that topic with eyes glittering in the salon.

”Although I didn't see it with my own eyes… I heard that [Silent Witch] shot down more than twenty wyverns that had been following the black dragon in an instant!”

Anyone with any knowledge of magic would frown upon that as an exaggeration.

But Felix knew. That Isabelle's words were not a lie.

Because Felix had witnessed it a few months ago.

Just at that time, Felix was on a secret trip to the eastern region.

However, the eastern region was in chaos due to the appearance of the black dragon. The roads were flooded with people who abandoned their villages and towns to evacuate, and Felix was forced to stay there.

Since it was inconvenient for him if his identity was revealed to the people around him, he was moving away from the flow of people and unfortunately bumped into a group of wyverns moving towards him.

There, he saw it.

A swarm of wyverns covered the sky.

The deafening, gargling cry was very aggressive and it was clear that it was on edge.

Whenever one of the wyverns freakishly glided past a nearby house, its claws would rip off the roof and the wind pressure would break the trees.

It was a disaster with a will of its own. Each of the large wyverns was larger than a house. The sight of more than twenty of them flying in the sky was like a nightmare.

But at the very next moment, ice spears rained down from the sky. There were twenty-four of them—exactly the same number as the wyverns.

The ice blades, which looked like they would have taken a grown man to make a circle with his arms, all accurately pierced at the wyverns' brow.

The wyverns that had lost their strength were falling toward the ground in a trickle, into a village. All the inhabitants have been evacuated, leaving their house as-is.

Just as the wyverns' bodies were about to collide with the house, it slid away as if swept away by the wind before falling softly to the empty ground.

It wasn't just one. All twenty-four of them fell gently and silently like wings fluttering in the wind, piling up on the wide ground.

Felix, who had been watching from a distance, forgot to breathe and was mesmerized by the scene.

—What a cruelly silent… yet beautiful spell.

Since Felix was some distance away from the scene, he was unable to see the magician, but he later learned from others that the magician was one of the Seven Sages, the [Silent Witch].

He had seen the [Silent Witch] a few times at the ceremony. However, she always wore a hooded robe, so Felix had never seen her face.

Despite being the youngest genius in the world, the [Silent Witch] rarely appeared in public, and among the Seven Sages, she was the most reserved and inconspicuous, nor have as impressive a record as her peer Louis Miller.

…and yet she was such an amazing magician!

Felix hummed as he took the key out of his pocket and unlocked the drawer to reveal a bundle of essays.

Seeing this, Will blinked moderately.

”Are those papers that the Silent Witch wrote while at Minerva?”