Volume 1 Chapter 13 (1/2)
Chapter 13: The Start of the Journey
Part 1
As a child, I loved books
I don't remember when exactly I started to read books However, I think I was already a bookworained awareness
As long as I had time, I would take out a book from the bookshelf in my house and read it, and whenever I went out with my family, I would always ask for a new book
Perhaps because of that, I didn't have eneration I didn't play much outside, and instead just stayed indoors, so I causedBecause books were always next to me
A them, my favorite one was the novel called ”Nike's Tales of Adventure”
It was a tale of adventure, all five volumes of which were collections of short stories that told about a Witch called Nike who travelled all over the world and experiencing it
The author's name, just like its title, was Nike However, since it's just a pen name, their real name is totally different In the afterword at the end, ”I wrote this book based on the events I personally experienced” ritten
The me at that time, who hadn't taken a step outside of the Peaceful Country of Robetta, saw Nike andered around the world, touring the beautiful world, as dazzling
I really loved it, so I read it multiple times So much that the book became worn-out
Before long, I began to harbor admiration towards Nike
──I also want try going on such journey I started to think so
For that reason, the young me declared to my mother
”When I becoo on an adventure just like Nike”
While gently brushi+ng my head, mother said,
”Is that so, when you grow older, huh”
And while s,
”However, if you want to go on a journey, you must first become a Witch like Nike, don't you think?”
She added that
”Will I become traveler if I become a Witch?”
”That's right That's why it will be no good if you don't do your best in Magic studies”
”If I study and becoo on a journey?”
”Of course”
”Really?”
”Yes Really”
”Really really?”
”Yes Really really”
”Yaay!”
My
And because of just that reason, I spent so many years to become a Witch
For the sole reason of wanting to go on a journey, I continued working hard
At any rate, I studied alone almost every day
My ic practice
Mother, as proficient in Magic to the extent that one could not believe she was just a Magician, was also skillful at teaching, and in the blink of an eye, I becaic
So e of fourteen
In the process of working for iving up I merely continued to work hard
Then, after undergoing Fran-sensei's training, I became a Witch
Part 2
I went back to my parents' house with a star-shaped brooch attached to uess it was a few days after that
After finishi+ng breakfast, I told to the two sitting on the opposite side of the table
”I becao on a journey”
Raising his face away from the newspaper, my father frowned Myan after meal black tea
After stealing a glance at mother's face, father forcefully cleared his throat, after which he folded the newspaper and put it besides the table
Then, with a really distant attitude,
”W-Wouldn't it be fine even if you don't rush so much?”
He said such a thing
I became a bit sullen
”That wasn't what you said, was it? I thought we made a promise that it would be fine if I went on a journey if I became a Witch?”
”No, we may have promised but to think you'd become one so soon”
”It doesn't have relation with tio on a journey”
”Muu”
Father, as pricked at the weak spot and faltered, ”Gununu” while groaning as such, touched the shoulder of ance
”H-Hey,as well”
After putting down the tea cup, she spoke
”Ohon a trip? I personally think it would already be fine if she left on a journey you know?”
”No, but”
”Besides, going on a trip once she becaht?”
”That pro you decided on your own──”
”You also agreed to it Did you forget?”
”But still”
”You agreed right?”
””
Father became silent
Or rather, he was forced to
”Elaina, you are serious, right?”
Mother asked me
I nodded, ”Of course,” and replied so
”Then, go on that journey”
”Yes!”