Memoirs of a Wicked Magician - Chapter 89

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Chapter 89
“This is why baseborn trash are insufferable. There’s a limit to keeping people waiting, and if mold had started growing on my skin, how exactly did you plan to take responsibility?”
In the darkness, a boy with silver hair that glittered like a cluster of stars leveled his contempt at the three girls without mercy.
His features were exquisitely and beautifully carved, and his face bore a sharpness proportional to that loveliness, studding it like ornaments across his delicate visage.
He sat with one leg crossed over the other, his chin resting in his palm, regarding the three girls with cold, piercing eyes as though they were insects beneath his notice.
In his narrowed gaze lay contempt for everything in the world, and the transparent lenses of his Glasses caught that red light, gleaming with a keen and cutting edge.
His arrogant bearing was as though he occupied a throne itself.
No—he was plainly the master who had created and controlled this space directly, so here at least he was no different from a king.
Instead of the dry wind mixed with sand from the grayish plains, a quiet chill rose from the floor, spreading an icy sensation across skin prickled with gooseflesh.
A starlit night sky draped like velvet hung from the ceiling, and a lake as still and silent as an abyss lay beneath their feet like a carpet, conjuring a dreamlike atmosphere.
All around was darkness, as if a single disk had been placed within an abyss or void, yet the surroundings were bright enough thanks to the dazzling starlight.
This was a vastly more expansive and robust Domain Design Magic that completely swallowed Stella’s domain and left room to spare.
Naturally, its magnificence could not even be compared to Stella’s magic.
The other boys beside the silver-haired youth likewise emanated an extraordinary presence.
They too were scrutinizing the three girls with interest, their gazes harboring a fundamental arrogance, as though they looked down upon beings far beneath them.
Liriope’s eyes suddenly snapped awake, and she climbed down from Caliona’s arms.
Stella, who had been frozen in place, also came to her senses belatedly and hastened to bow to them.
“It is an honor to meet such esteemed…….”
“Why are you prattling on endlessly inside like that? Do you want to do your chattering in such a filthy, stifling place? In any case, you primitives who’ve crawled up from the wilderness really do have an impressive lack of tact. It’s an insensitivity even I could never understand in all my days.”
And a scathing rebuke that showed no regard whatsoever for the other’s dignity struck her face like a backhanded slap.
Stella remained frozen in her bowing posture, her skirt clutched in her hands.
“Ah! Evangelion, there you go again. How do you manage to be so caustic with literally anyone?”
“Miss Stella, don’t mind it. This guy—you know he’s always prickly with everyone.”
The other boys beside the silver-haired youth, Evangelion, made some effort to ease the tension with smiles on their faces.
Yet they too did not so much as spare a word of concern for Stella, whose appearance was now in tatters.
Still, Stella managed to force a smile, and soon she turned back to Evangelion with a gentle tone, apologizing.
“I’m terribly sorry. I didn’t realize you were waiting, and I was absorbed in educating my junior…….”
“Educating? You said you were educating?”
But again, Evangelion did not grant Stella the chance to finish her sentence.
“You don’t mean that black-haired junior of yours—the one who ranked first in last year’s cohort and is on the verge of entering the twenty-first floor in just one year, do you?”
And that was not all.
He even trampled mercilessly beneath his heel the effort Stella was making to maintain an amicable expression and keep the conversation going.
“What do you think you are, setting yourself up as an educator when I don’t even do that? What are you, anyway? You’re nothing but someone from the lowest level, and you dare strut about like this?”
“……I was referring to the new recruit this year, not that junior.”
At that comment, delivered with barely maintained composure, Evangelion glanced over Stella’s shoulder.
Sure enough, Liriope stood there.
Evangelion took a cursory look at the unfamiliar blonde girl and quickly lost interest.
“Is that so? How fortunate that you understand your place. After all, education is given not to someone better than yourself, but to someone inferior to you, someone you have more to teach. But then again, why did you muddle your words in such a pointless way and force me into this tiresome back-and-forth with someone like you?”
Evangelion possessed a formidable technique of attack—weaving venom into each word as naturally as breathing.
Since he himself was merely speaking pure sincerity, he never once considered his words to be vicious, but those on the receiving end were left feeling as though they would cough up blood.
Stella’s complexion naturally turned pale at the subtle undertones woven into Evangelion’s casually uttered words.
She felt an overwhelming sense of humiliation, but she didn’t dare snap back at Evangelion.
Instead, she forced a smile and quickly changed the subject.
“More to the point, what brings such esteemed guests to a place like this……?”
“Why should I explain that to someone like you…….”
“I’m curious as well. You who have no business in the Outer District—why would you deliberately seek this place out at such an hour?”
It was Caliona’s cold and crystalline voice that cut through Evangelion’s latest volley of invective.
Unlike Stella, who had smiled with difficulty, Caliona regarded Evangelion with an expression cold and serene, and she showed no fear whatsoever even after interrupting his words so brazenly.
Evangelion’s face contorted like crumpled paper immediately afterward.
Evangelion’s eyes, burning with barely contained rage, pierced through Caliona like an arrow.
The force was so tremendous that the temperature and air pressure plummeted in an instant, as though striking the ground itself.
Yet, unbelievably, instead of pulverizing Caliona on the spot, Evangelion answered her question with irritation.
“It’s because of Belkieros……!”
“Belkieros?”
“Why is Belkieros suddenly popping up here?”
At the name that tumbled unexpectedly from Evangelion’s lips, everyone expressed doubt.
‘Belkieros?’
Hearing the familiar name that had appeared so abruptly, Liriope’s eyes widened in surprise.
Evangelion immediately grasped his mistake and ground his teeth. Then, as though chewing and swallowing someone to death in his mind, he cursed and corrected himself.
“Ha, I just misspoke for a moment. That’s not it—I was bored. Just bored, so I happened to stop by on my way. Why, did you think I’d deliberately come all this way because I wanted to see your face? You’re not harboring such a ridiculous delusion, are you? That’s pathetic!”
“Why are you angry? I’ve never had such a thought. And if you don’t want to answer, you can simply say so—why must you flare up and spoil the atmosphere around you? Even a six-year-old wouldn’t behave this way.”
“S-six years old? Are you comparing me to a six-year-old brat right now?”
“Ah, that wasn’t my intention, but if it came across that way, I regret it.”
Still, Evangelion was engaging Caliona in what amounted to a proper conversation, not dismissing her the way he had Stella.
That alone was remarkable enough, and he was even tolerating Caliona’s brazen remarks.
Given Evangelion’s nature, if anyone else had spoken to him this way, it would not have been strange if he’d torn out their tongue on the spot, so naturally his current behavior became excellent material for mockery among the boys around him.
“Evangelion, Caliona’s right. We’ve told you a dozen times—start working on that lousy temper of yours.”
“Ha! God, listening to you two is hilarious. Hey, Evangelion. You’ve finally met someone who’s actually your match, huh?”
Meanwhile, there was one person in that space whom everyone had briefly forgotten.
A girl whose condition looked far worse even than Stella, who had been bombarded by Evangelion’s contempt, stood there…….

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