Chapter 3 (2/2)

Hearing Kynemeia squeeze out those words, Eian’s smile widened.

“… It’s just for a while.”

Just a while. I’ll keep him next to me as he protects me, and after some time passes, I’ll chase him out. No matter how!

* * *

Across the transmission sphere, Eian’s teacher was tapping on the table vigorously as if he was playing the piano. It was a sign that he wasn’t pleased in the slightest with the current situation.

“I wasn’t the one who started it.”

The corners of Eian’s lips lifted up.

“Are you talking about me?”

That answer of his was more awful than if he had obediently admitted to it. Eian’s notoriously wicked reputation in the Magic Tower and the injuries he sustained from being attacked by the magicians were all brought upon himself.

‘… It would’ve been fun if that were the case.’

“Then I’ll just kill them all. Is it that hard to do?”

“It’s a joke, Teacher.”

Eian said as he softly chuckled.

“That’s why there’s no need to look so serious.”

But that man knew that Eian was truly capable of doing that. And he really couldn’t figure out whether the words he claimed to be a joke were truly a joke or not.

“Well, that was already my plan anyway.”

Eian smiled as he remembered Kynemeia, and the Teacher knitted his eyebrows as he felt there was something behind that smile.

He’s being so obedient?

Eian Krosch was someone who doesn’t avoid a fight. He wasn’t someone who would be considerate of other people either. It wouldn’t even be strange if he went to make a wreck out of the Magic Tower right now.

“I met someone who can see the pattern despite having no mana, you see.”

The pattern was supposed to only be visible to those who owned superior mana. If they possessed no mana, they weren’t supposed to be able to see it.

It was in a magician’s nature to be incapable of containing their curiosities. That was why it was obvious that the Teacher would soon ask who the person in question was and request to meet them.

And so…

“I don’t want to. I won’t show you.”

As Eian disconnected the transmission with those words, the Teacher slammed the table with his fist.

“Eian…!”

I’d overindulged him as I raised him— No, actually, I never overindulged him while raising him. He wouldn’t listen because he’d been living as he pleases all this time.

“No mana…”

There was no way that a Rikasha with an unrivalled ability like Eian would fail to perceive mana.

“Ho. Gosh. I really want to meet that person once.”

* * *

“Master, that Einsane—I mean, Eian, isn’t coming back?”

Benjamin, his assistant who had been listening from the side, spoke up quietly. The reserved Benjamin who usually had no presence, went out of his way to ask even though he heard all that because he really wanted to get a confirmation. The confirmation that Eian was currently out of the Magic Tower.

“That seems to be the case.”

“…!”

The Teacher stared at Benjamin who briefly pumped up his fist.

“I see. Hm, as expected—Hm. Now’s the time when Eian should, ahem, be outside the tower. Ahem.”

“Benjamin. The corners of your lips keep on rising.”

“Ahem, you’re—ahem, you’re mistaken.”

The Teacher shook his head. This will spread like wildfire.

His guess turned out to be right. The fact that Eian—no, Einsane, was outside the tower was spread amongst the magicians through word of mouth. He knew that because soon afterwards, he could hear the din of people cheering in the tower.

“If that Einsane had stayed for three more days, I would’ve abandoned my post as a magician.”

“Good job. You’ve endured well!”

Close friends consoled and hugged each other.

“So there’s a God in this world… To think that Einsane would ever leave the tower. Oh Lord, thank you so much.”

And there were even magicians who kneeled and praised God in the Magic Tower that was ordinarily hostile towards religious practices.

I don’t blame them. It’s to the point that the phrase ‘Go meet Einsane tomorrow’ is used as one of the most repulsive swears, after all.

Ever since Eian arrived at the Magic Tower, he’d been tormenting the innocent magicians with his genius ways. The most notable one among them was cleaving his opponent into two and warping the upper body to the desert and the lower body to the snowy fields.

The other magicians couldn’t figure out the principles of the feasibility of performing that sort of magic. The fact that a magician who hadn’t even completed his second awakening could perform such obscure magic had gnawed away at the other magicians’ mentality.

Not only that, but he also possessed bizarre magic that caused extreme pain to the body. People didn’t even consider why he would do such things anymore.

It’s probably something petty.

It’s Einsane’s doing, after all.

It was some time before the sounds of celebration from the joy of seeing Eian take a trip outside died down.