Memoirs of a Wicked Magician - Chapter 57

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Episode 57
“Ha…. You’re really a complete blockhead, aren’t you?”
Evangellin harbored an extreme revulsion toward stupidity, vulgarity, filth, and lack of self-awareness.
Thus, a violent murderous impulse surged through him at the sight of the insect before him who possessed all these qualities at once—he was on the verge of losing control entirely.
“If you had a brain, you’d use it to think instead of stumbling through life. Stop acting like some concussed idiot. And how generous of me to even let you run wild like this without throwing you out. God, where does this kind of witless stupidity even crawl out from…….”
He gritted his teeth, trying to restrain the impulse, but it was no use.
In the next moment, Evangellin’s hand shot forward sharply, hooking into Caliona’s clothing like a grappling claw.
“Listen. The door’s already closed—so what exactly are you planning to use to get back into the Outer Estate? Whether your sister is alive or dead, what does that matter? What could you possibly accomplish in this state? Hmm? You stupid girl.”
Unlike moments before, this time it was Caliona who found herself seized by the throat, her collar twisted viciously in his grip.
From her constricted throat came a harsh, metallic rasp.
She tried to struggle again, her eyes burning with venom as she glared at Evangellin, but the cold, cutting edge in his voice that bored into her eardrums froze her movements into stillness.
“Your stupidity is exactly why you and your sister are in this mess, do you understand? If your brain functioned even slightly better, instead of whining like a child and rotting away in this place for days, you would’ve figured out some smarter way to verify whether your sister was alive or dead.”
Each word Evangellin spat out bit down like teeth, piercing through her chest with contempt.
“Do you think this place is the filthy wilderness outside where creatures like you stumble about without sense? Do you really think anyone’s going to bat an eye at your pathetic squealing? If you stay trapped in the Brain Prison not knowing whether your sister lives or dies, disposed of without a trace like a rat or a bird, maybe then you’ll come to your senses?”
The collar held in the boy’s grip tightened further, and her breath began to falter. But the reason her breathing was becoming difficult wasn’t solely because of that.
“You clearly don’t understand your own situation. If you can’t grasp reality even after I’ve crushed you this far, then you might as well just die right here.”
Eyes burning red with disdain, contempt, and scorn—every negative emotion imaginable sharpened to a cutting edge—stared aggressively into the wavering violet eyes before him.
“I’ll kill you cleanly with these very hands instead. So why don’t you just disappear from this world forever? Is that what you want? Hmm? Is that what you want!”
Caliona’s fists clenched so hard they ached.
“I already assume your sister is dead, but you insisted she’s still alive in the Outer Estate, didn’t you? Yet you’re acting like this—completely hopeless? When your sister finds out you died like a dog because of your own idiocy, I’m sure she’ll be thrilled, won’t she? Is that what you want? Is it? If you have a mouth, then answer me, you fool……!”
As emotions surged and threatened to spill over repeatedly, his body trembled involuntarily and his eyes began to redden.
But Caliona bit her lips hard enough to taste blood, forcing back tears she had no right to shed.
“……No.”
And finally, a small, hoarse voice escaped from her lips.
Watching her, Evangellin finally released his grip on Caliona’s collar as though discarding something filthy, and rose to his feet.
His own emotions were equally inflamed; Evangellin began to slowly adjust his appearance, breathing deeply as though settling the lingering displeasure within himself.
Once his appearance had become presentable again, his voice flowed out as smooth and elegant as always.
“Phew. I too…. It’s been a while since I’ve exchanged words with such a intellectually deficient, filthy insect, and I temporarily lost my composure.”
“…….”
“My true self isn’t frivolous and ignorant like you common rabble, so I trust you won’t harbor any unpleasant misunderstandings.”
Evangellin continued, glancing down at the now-silent Caliona.
“Besides…. Listen, you fool. Creatures of your low standing probably don’t understand, but in fact, the name Belegoat comes after mine, you see? Do you know what that means?”
And at those words that fell from above, Caliona had no choice but to suddenly jerk her head up, her eyes wide open.
“If I desire it, I can enter the Outer Estate of the Northern Magic Tower as easily as I please. It won’t be difficult to find out whether your sister is among the insects there or not.”
Evangellin looked down at the girl’s eyes, which burned with intense brightness, with amusement, then waved his hand to withdraw the magic that had bound her body.
“Now that you understand what I’m saying, get up on your own two feet and follow me.”
A moment later, Caliona rose quietly to her feet, though unsteadily.
It was the first time the Stray Dog of a girl who had exhausted every lowest-tier mage in the Northern Magic Tower had been docile.
“From now on, don’t behave recklessly like you have been. I absolutely will not tolerate you running wild on the strength of my name.”
Evangellin delivered a final cold warning to Caliona.
“If your low-grade conduct ever drags me into anything unseemly and causes my name to be bandied about in other people’s mouths, I won’t let it slide. Remember what I’m telling you.”
Though no answer came, Evangellin found himself reasonably satisfied with the girl who followed him meekly now, like a toothless beast.
Though the violet eyes fixed on his back still shone darkly with untamed menace, brimming with raw hostility.
And so Caliona escaped the Brain Prison alongside Evangellin after several days.
And time, flowing impartially, had advanced by that same measure within the Outer Estate.
Within which Liriope…….
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[Liriope, stay conscious!]
“Ugh, ah…. Hah…….”
In the forest where thick, suffocating darkness reigned, a low groan scraped across the ground like claws tearing stone.
A pale face caked in filthy mud and a convulsing body, like withered grass touched by frost, lay half-buried in wet earth without strength to rise.
‘So cold…. So very cold….’
Liriope shuddered, gasping for breath as a vicious chill gnawed at her very bones.
Her body trembled uncontrollably, and there was nothing she could do to prevent her teeth from chattering.
‘Cold, and everything hurts….’
Liriope was currently suffering from severe Contamination Side Effects.
The merciless chills—as though she’d been cast naked into the cold of the polar night—and the fever that came and went at will were almost gentle by comparison.
A headache so terrible it would be better to split her skull open with an axe gave her not even a single second of peace; she felt she was going mad.
Her heavy body, which had begun to numb from the extremities and could now only crawl across the ground, was another torment entirely.
And then there was this dreadful anxiety and fear, this despair that seemed impossible to shake off…….
The most terrifying aspect of Contamination Side Effects was that they destroyed not just the body but the mind as well.
[Don’t fall asleep! Open your eyes this instant. Snap to—crawl, drag yourself, do whatever you must to move forward even a little more……!]
Without Ode’s voice constantly calling to her, pulling her hazy consciousness back to wakefulness, Liriope might have lost consciousness long ago.
[Hold on just a little longer. If you go just a bit further ahead, your condition will improve from what it is now. So don’t think about anything—just listen to my voice and keep moving forward!]
“Uuugh…….”
Liriope drew what little strength she could from that voice pushing hard against her weakened form and began crawling forward once more.

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