Memoirs of a Wicked Magician - Chapter 38

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Chapter 38
[Hmm, even I have to agree with that assessment. Could it be that he nearly died and awakened to something?]
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry. I was wrong, Zed…. Please, forgive me, please.”
Only after Kam, his face swollen and nose bleeding, crawled before Zed begging for forgiveness did the beating finally stop.
But from Liriope’s perspective, Zed had ceased not because of Kam’s apology, but because his headache had returned.
“Damn it…. We leave in five minutes. Everyone, get ready properly.”
Zed breathed roughly, clutching his head, and turned away.
Only after Zed had left did Kam seem to breathe easier, sprawling on the ground and writhing with soft groans.
Yet no one approached him to ask about his condition.
“I, I knew Zed would save us. I knew he would….”
Milena, whose hair Kam had grabbed, sat with her hair disheveled, her eyes glistening with tears.
If anything, she seemed to be in better spirits than one would expect for someone who had just suffered such a sudden assault.
Or rather… was it more accurate to say her mental state was not good at all?
Her gaze following Zed’s retreating form sparkled with a tender, luminous light—as if she were falling in love all over again.
Milena approached the speechless Liriope with a sniff.
“I, I brought you water and bread.”
“….”
“Now Kam won’t be able to say anything.”
[This girl too, in this situation….]
Liriope reluctantly accepted what Milena offered.
But rather than leaving once she had accomplished her purpose, Milena lingered awkwardly and pressed closer to Liriope.
Then she lowered her voice and whispered into her ear.
“Hey, um, what do you think?”
“About what?”
“About, about Zed. He treats me pretty specially, doesn’t he? Right?”
Liriope had half-expected it, and sure enough, it was only pointless babbling from an empty head.
She felt a flicker of annoyance and resolved to ignore Milena.
“I, I mean, somehow it seems like Zed has taken a liking to your sister too…. B, but that must just be because he can’t leave someone who’s hurt, right?”
It would have been one thing if Milena hadn’t kept treading on Liriope’s nerves with her senseless prattle.
“What if…. Do you think your sister will fall for Zed when she wakes up too? R, right? She definitely will. I mean, Zed is so cool. But it’s already annoying enough with Natalie, and if your sister becomes another rival too….”
“Are you insane?”
“Huh?”
“Why would my sister like Zed? My sister’s not blind like you—”
She was about to snap that her sister wasn’t looking at things with her feet, but Liriope suddenly went rigid.
Given that her sister had ended up meeting Evangelien among all the countless men in the world, honestly, her sister’s judgment didn’t seem much better.
‘Damn it…. No, my sister…. It was just a temporary mistake. That hornet must have used his handsome face and put on an act to seduce her with all kinds of tricks.’
[Ha, now that’s a double standard. Yet you can’t exactly say your sister was looking at things with her feet either. Quite amusing, really.]
Whatever the voice in her head mocked, Liriope made a firm resolution.
In this life, she would make absolutely sure that no insects clung to her sister’s side.
“W, well, I should go now.”
“Where?”
This time it was Liriope who grimly seized Milena’s arm just as she was turning to leave.
“W, what? Why?”
“Milena, I remember you still haven’t answered my question.”
“A, answer? What answer?”
Had Milena simply turned and left politely just then, Liriope might have let her go. But she had first filled her with unpleasant words, and she had to pay the price for that.
“Don’t pretend not to remember. You asked me why you kept wanting to give me your rations so suspiciously.”
At that, Milena seemed to recall the situation she’d forgotten about when Kam suddenly arrived, and she gasped.
“By the way, I really hate when things get awkwardly left hanging midway. So if you don’t answer properly this time, I’ll pester you relentlessly every day without fail until I’m satisfied. So just be honest and tell me now while I’m asking nicely.”
Fortunately, Liriope didn’t need to add further threats to Milena.
“I, I, that is…. It wasn’t for any other reason…!”
Overwhelmed by Liriope’s intensity, Milena began trembling and showing signs of confessing quickly.
But the words she cried out with her eyes squeezed shut became a formless weapon that struck Liriope instead.
“I, I just…! No matter what, I couldn’t bear to leave a comrade eating cockroaches!”
…eating cockroaches!
…to leave a comrade…!
…cockroaches!
The incredible words echoed faintly in Liriope’s ears.
Liriope was momentarily stunned by the unexpected violent blow.
Then she quickly realized what terrible false accusation she had just been branded with, and her eyes flew open in alarm.
“What? What are you talking about? Eating cockroaches? Who?”
“I, I already know, so you don’t have to hide it….”
Remarkably, Milena even began to sniffle as she firmly grasped Liriope’s hand.
“How hungry you must have been to do that, I’ve starved too, so I understand. B, but…. C, cockroaches aren’t… that’s not right! Waaah!”
Liriope’s head spun.
For a moment she wondered if Milena was deliberately spouting nonsense to humiliate her.
But the girl truly seemed genuinely distressed by the situation, her nose and face flushed red as she wept openly.
Of course, from Liriope’s perspective, that only made her more furious.
“Stop saying such strange things! Milena, do I look like someone who would pick up such filthy stuff to eat no matter how hungry I got?”
Liriope wrenched her hand away from Milena’s grasp.
“I’ve never even put a cockroach near my lips. Isn’t this a ridiculous misunderstanding? Say something that makes sense!”
The other children who had been secretly eavesdropping on this shocking conversation unconsciously nodded in agreement.
It was common sense that no matter how starved, one wouldn’t eat cockroaches without extraordinary desperation.
Besides, as Liriope said, she couldn’t possibly be associated with cockroaches or even a cockroach’s antenna.
Rather, she looked like the type who would shudder and flee at the mere shadow of a cockroach.
“R, really?”
Meanwhile, seeing how genuinely offended Liriope looked, as if she’d been gravely insulted, Milena too seemed uncertain.
Liriope firmly confirmed her denial once more to the confused Milena.
“That’s right! Absolutely not.”
“W, well! That’s right, isn’t it? I must have seen wrong?”
Even after realizing her mistake, Milena’s face brightened with relief.
She patted her chest repeatedly as if reassured, murmuring how fortunate it was.
“Phew! I, I too. I don’t know how I could have misread something like that. But I could have sworn you were pulling a cockroach out of your pocket and eating it…?”
“Well, you too. Do I have to show you directly before you believe me? Look, it’s completely different from a cockroach….”
“Kyaaaaaaaaah!”
But the moment Milena saw what came out of Liriope’s pocket with her own eyes, she suddenly shrieked and displayed unexpected violence.
The precious rations that Liriope had carefully gathered one by one like a squirrel gathering acorns, wrapped neatly in large Leaf Wrappings, flew from Milena’s rough hands and scattered into the air.
Of course, since Liriope’s rations were hardly as cute and round as acorns, all the children nearby let out short screams and hastily moved away.
Whoosh!
But it was just then that the Spatial Teleportation Magic Circle spread open, and the silver-haired boy appeared on the spot.
The moment Belkiers arrived at the Outer Residence, he directed a cold gaze at the pile of insects raining down on his head.
“What is this? How filthy.”
Liriope’s precious rations became dust and vanished with a single contemptuous gesture.
Milena, shocked beyond measure, passed out where she stood.
Liriope, suddenly robbed of even someone to blame, simply sat down helplessly, following with a vacant stare the gray remnants that scattered like powder into the air.

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