Don’t Look for the Resurrected Villainess - Chapter 44

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Chapter 44

Feeling wronged by the harsh glares he received for just watching for a moment, Jeon got up.

He thought he might as well go contact his teacher while he was at it. Nesi also tactfully followed after him.

“….”

When he reached a spot some distance away and connected his communication device, Jeon heard his teacher’s clear voice in his ear.

―You brat! What the hell have you been doing!

“Why are you nagging me the moment we connect?”

Jeon frowned as his ears stung. As he grumbled while pressing his aching eardrums, his teacher asked seriously through the communication device.

―Did you meet the Reviver?

“…What?”

―Tell me the truth! Have you been traveling with the Reviver!

“What kind of ridiculous nonsense is that? Didn’t you hear that the Reviver was kidnapped by monsters?”

The words came out before he could think. However, Jeon’s expression hardened at his teacher’s next words.

―Then why is the Temple asking for the identity of a mage who travels with wolves!

“…The Temple?”

―That’s right! They sent a cooperation request to the Mage Tower! They said there was a mage accompanying the Reviver before she was kidnapped!

He hadn’t really shown that he was a mage…

“….”

Suddenly, Jeon looked down at his clothes. His long-worn cloak with frayed edges had the Mage Tower emblem embroidered on it. However, he’d worn it for so long that unless someone who knew looked closely, they wouldn’t notice.

It was a cloak he’d been wearing like a second skin since he was practically kicked out empty-handed when he first left the Mage Tower.

It was also something mages from the Mage Tower naturally wore, so he’d lived without thinking much about it, which was a mistake.

‘I need to change my cloak as soon as I reach the city.’

Making that resolution, Jeon decided to play dumb for now.

“There was such a person?”

―You brat, I told you so earnestly not to get involved…!

It seemed his playing dumb didn’t work at all. Jeon narrowed his eyes.

“So you didn’t hand over my personal information, did you?”

―Are you crazy! Of course I pretended not to know! Do you know how much precious alcohol I had to give that snake-like Morico because of this!

“Wow, as expected of our teacher. You even have connections to the Temple you hate to see! With such strong networks, this disciple feels reassured.”

His teacher groaned while grabbing his neck at Jeon’s cheerfully smiling response.

―Do you think they’ll believe me just because I pretend not to know? At best, I’ve made them keep quiet for a moment. Do you realize that if you get wrongly involved, the entire Mage Tower will be turned upside down? So tell me honestly. Did you travel together? Did you just meet briefly? Or were you coincidentally going in the same direction? It’s not you, right?

Though he was saying it probably wasn’t, he seemed convinced circumstantially. Jeon clicked his tongue softly and averted his gaze.

“But when will I get permission to release my magic seal? Please tell me the release spell quickly.”

―Forget it, you brat. Release what! Come back immediately!

“Ah, really, why are you being like this?”

―If I release your magic too, who knows what you’ll do! Isn’t your brother enough? Are you planning to cause trouble too?

Finally, the word “brother” came out of his teacher’s mouth. It was a leash that unfailingly appeared whenever Jeon seemed to be going astray.

Jeon scratched his forehead and expressed his dissatisfaction.

“Why are you bringing up that guy? He was expelled from the Mage Tower ages ago.”

―Right, well said. Have you already forgotten why Dekin was expelled from the Mage Tower? It was all because he unnecessarily got involved in politics!

“Strictly speaking, jumping into the gambling ring wasn’t the problem. The problem was holding a losing hand. If that guy’s political maneuvering had succeeded, would the Mage Tower elders have kicked him out? They would have treated him as a national hero, I know it all.”

―What if someone hears you saying such dangerous things!

“You always said it yourself, teacher. That incompetent fools sitting in the Imperial Palace are disgracing mages. That everyone would be shocked if even one Mage Tower graduate entered the palace.”

―No, this brat still!

His teacher’s face turned bright red. If it was visible through the communication device, it must be even worse in reality.

Thinking his teacher might really fall backward at this rate, Jeon smoothed things over with a gentle tone.

“So why are you getting angry out of nowhere? Making your disciple who finally contacted you feel hurt.”

―Enough, return immediately. I won’t permit the magic seal release!

“Teacher, I’m really not joking around.”

―Hang up, you brat!

“No, wait. Teacher? Teacher!”

The communication was cut off mercilessly. Jeon looked at the empty communication device that showed nothing with bewildered eyes and held his forehead.

“Ha, really…”

His teacher seemed really quite angry. Wondering if he should contact him again, he put the communication device in his bag for now. Then he began walking back to where he was originally at a quick pace.

If the Temple had requested Jeon’s personal information, then if they caught him next time, the Mage Tower’s position would truly become difficult.

Especially if he got caught while with Anelli, there wouldn’t even be a hole to escape through. That’s why his teacher was making such a fuss about returning immediately before it was too late.

‘But if I don’t get caught, there’s no problem, right? If I could at least release my magic seal, I could escape much more easily.’

Thinking this, Jeon tilted his head.

“The old man is just getting more needlessly worried with age, really.”

Actually, he knew that his teacher was so averse because he had lost one precious disciple. He also knew that he was being so sharp because he couldn’t let Jeon get involved too.

This was all because of his brother.

Jeon thought of his brother Dekin, who had been expelled from the Mage Tower.

His brother, who had been willful since childhood, finally disobeyed his teacher’s orders and got involved in politics. Since his brother had always found the Mage Tower stifling, even Jeon could see that world suited Dekin.

‘Even without Dekin, there were many people who disliked the stuffy Mage Tower atmosphere.’

Dekin went out into the world carrying all their expectations, and failed. The Mage Tower, which had been watching Dekin’s progress with mixed feelings, immediately expelled him.

By concluding it as ‘individual deviance,’ they avoided the Mage Tower getting involved in politics, and the closed atmosphere became even more solid.

Jeon was different from Dekin. Jeon wasn’t the type to deliberately walk into dangerous places.

The moderately peaceful Mage Tower life where he just had to do well at what he was good at wasn’t bad.

While many mages treated the ongoing ‘trial training’ as sightseeing, Jeon accepted even this as just training.

If it hadn’t been a necessary procedure, he probably wouldn’t have wanted to come out.

Not only his teacher but other elders also evaluated Jeon’s disposition as ‘suitable.’ Jeon himself had thought so too. That he was a person ‘suitable’ for the Mage Tower.

“Jeon?”

At the sound calling him, Jeon snapped to attention. At some point, Anelli had finished her conversation with Palides and was looking back at him with delight.

“Palides knows how to cook.”

Her expression changes weren’t big, so he didn’t notice at first, but now he knew. The current Anelli was quite excited. Her purple eyes were sparkling particularly brightly.

“Now you don’t have to handle all the meals.”

Jeon looked at Anelli with strange eyes.

Surprisingly, he didn’t want to sympathize with the excited emotion hidden beneath that calm voice.

Because he knew that the most decisive and absolute reason she hired Jeon was precisely because of cooking.

Now there’s no need to cook for her?

Then the most important reason to travel with Jeon would disappear, but was Anelli happy about that right now?

“It’s not just about cooking.”

Jeon crossed his arms and seriously objected.

“How can she check the taste when she has no head?”

“But she says her cooking skills are quite excellent?”

“That might have been when she had a head. Because she could check the taste then.”

“That’s…”

Anelli, who had been blinking in bewilderment, glanced at Palides. Palides seemed shocked by Jeon’s words and was gripping her helmet with both hands.

“Ah, come to think of it, I can’t taste anything. Captain!”

Unlike her creepy appearance, that Dura’han’s mental strength was pathetically weak. At Palides’ frustrated and tearful appearance, Anelli quickly patted her shoulder.

“No, I can check the taste for you.”

“Just helping prepare ingredients on the side is fine. I’ll do the cooking.”

Anelli, who had been comforting Palides, looked at Jeon with surprised eyes.

“Would that work?”

“Yes, that would work. You didn’t bring her to make her cook anyway.”

Anelli, who had been staring at him with wide eyes, soon nodded. Then she focused on comforting Palides.

“….”

Jeon quietly gazed at such Anelli.

The Empire’s villainess. The Crown Prince’s former fiancée. Roam’s second daughter. God’s Reviver.

There were all sorts of titles, but none of them suited the woman before his eyes. Also, among the appearances he’d seen while traveling with her, there was almost nothing that supported the rumors of the world.

“Because you wouldn’t want to get entangled with me.”

Suddenly, the words Anelli had spoken so definitively at the beginning of our journey came to mind. That I wouldn’t want to get entangled, she had truly believed that at the time.

Anelli is perceptive. So by now, has she realized it?

The fact that her hasty conclusion was completely wrong.

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‘Everywhere I go, it’s busy with the harvest festival.’

I don’t know how many times I’ve had this thought, but it can’t be helped.

‘I didn’t expect the atmosphere to reverse this quickly.’

Perhaps to hide the Crown Prince’s shameful episode, the Imperial House vigorously promoted the harvest festival.

Thanks to this, the ominous atmosphere caused by the search parties hunting Revivers and the reinforced guards was alleviated.

It seemed they had tacitly agreed to conduct searches more loosely, at least during the harvest festival period. Since it became easier to hide among the crowds, this was a welcome situation for me.

Moreover, since there was no news about the Reviver who had made such a dramatic appearance, public interest seemed to be waning.

It was only natural, since claims about being kidnapped by a monster or protecting citizens against monsters were all just talk. Even the existing video spheres didn’t show any particularly spectacular heroics.

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