Memoirs of a Wicked Magician - Chapter 90

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Episode 90
[Liriope? Are you alright? You seemed cheerful just a moment ago, and now you’ve gone quiet. If you can hear me, say something—anything, yes?]
It was none other than Liriope.
She had been watching the scene unfold before her with ashen cheeks since moments before.
Liriope’s eyes, wide with shock, remained fixed on Evangeline, who was conversing with Caliona in a manner far too familiar for comfort.
‘This can’t be real…… Why—why is that garbage Evangeline clinging to my sister again?’
Liriope could not accept this reality in any way.
She had been astounded when Evangeline appeared here so suddenly, but for Caliona to seem to be his target?
Of course, she’d felt a flicker of suspicion earlier when Evangeline’s name had slipped from his lips, but on the surface at least, it seemed as though he’d come here because of Caliona.
So why was that cockroach of a creature now fluttering his filthy wings at Caliona’s side?
Moreover, compared to this same moment before the Time Regression, the two of them appeared far closer than they had been then.
‘At this point, my sister and Evangeline shouldn’t have any connection at all?’
Yet no matter how hard Liriope thought about it, she could not fathom why their relationship had changed this time.
[Ah! Is that Evangeline you used to curse in your sleep?]
Ode, having read Liriope’s thoughts, suddenly showed interest and acknowledged Evangeline as if he knew him.
[The hair color and eye color he’s mimicking from that Belkieros—they’re exactly the same as you said. I understand now why you were confused at first. Anyway, seeing as your sister and this Evangeline fellow are entangled again, just like before the Time Regression, it must be no ordinary fate…….]
‘Shut up! Shut up……! Fate? What sort of cursed fate could exist between that poison and my sister?!’
Of course, he stumbled back in shock the moment those vehement words came spilling from her mouth.
Liriope rose to her feet amid a tempest of emotions, glaring at Evangeline as though she meant to kill him.
He had never been someone she could favor, but the reason she found him unforgivable right now was precisely this…….
‘I’ve only just seen my sister again after a year, and we haven’t even had a proper conversation yet……!’
At this moment, it was the fact that Evangeline appeared closer to Caliona than Liriope did that she could not bear.
“Huh? What?”
Perhaps sensing the piercing intensity of Liriope’s gaze, Evangeline suddenly furrowed his brow and turned his head.
Sure enough, his gaze landed upon a small blonde girl watching him with purple eyes full of resentment and sorrow.
Yet Caliona stepped naturally between them, blocking his view, so Evangeline could not observe Liriope in detail.
Still, those eyes that had met his even for that brief moment left a vivid impression…….
‘Wait—I’m certain I’ve seen those eyes somewhere before?’
Evangeline possessed rather keen perceptiveness.
So he quickly noticed that the girl’s face passing before his eyes bore a subtle resemblance to Caliona’s, and that the purple of her irises watching him was eerily familiar.
‘Come to think of it, didn’t that chief monkey say his younger sister’s name was Liriope?’
“Oh? Excuse me? You there, come here a moment.”
“Me?”
So he tried to verify his suspicion directly, but Caliona suddenly stepped forward first and seized his arm.
“What are you doing? I wasn’t calling you. And how dare you lay hands on someone so carelessly…….”
“Let’s go back to the Magic Tower and talk about this.”
Caliona’s grip tightened around Evangeline’s arm with subtle pressure.
Though her words suggested mere “subtle” pressure, it was violence enough to cause pain to someone as perceptive as Evangeline.
“There’s something I want to discuss with you away from prying eyes.”
Her whispered words that followed might have been misinterpreted as something entirely different by those unaware of the situation, but to Evangeline’s ears they sounded ominously sinister.
And what of that violent gaze of hers, watching him as though she meant to devour him?
Yet there was indeed a need for conversation. Evangeline had things to say to Caliona as well.
Evangeline looked down at Caliona with annoyance and irritation flickering in his eyes.
Then, as though venting his frustration, he clicked his tongue loudly and waved his hand to dispel the Territory Design Magic as one might shoo away an insect.
At the same moment, a vast Spatial Transfer Magic enveloped the people gathered there.
When they opened their eyes again, they were in the Inner Residence of the northern Magic Tower.
Caw, caw!
A raven called from overhead, adding to the desolate atmosphere peculiar to Belkieros.
“Is that good enough? Even if you’re hopeless with directions, I’m sure you can all find your own way from here.”
Caw!
With that, Evangeline spoke carelessly and moved to leave with Caliona.
Had it not been for the unease he sensed in that moment.
The instant Evangeline’s expression shifted and he raised his head, Ode suddenly issued a sharp warning to Liriope with a guarded voice.
[Liriope, it’s magic! Contact-Form Spatial Transfer Technique—cast by a mage far above your rank. You cannot evade it. Prepare yourself!]
True to his words, Liriope became aware of the presence only when the swift-moving aura rushed toward her, already nearly at her side.
Caw, caaaw……!
The piercing cry of a black bird that seemed to tear eardrums asunder, and a colossal surge of Mana tearing through the air like a tempest.
A dark shadow fell across her head as a raven swept through her field of vision.
And in an instant, the night that descended devoured the sun.
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“What is your name?”
Liriope found herself transported to a vast chamber where a bone-chilling cold prevailed.
Yet all she could see was the black carpet spread across the floor.
Her trembling body sank unbidden to its knees upon the carpet, and her head bowed forward in voluntary submission.
With only darkness and her own cowering form visible in her narrowed world, the voice that struck at her ears like thunder seemed ready to shatter even that meager space in an instant.
“I asked what your name is.”
“Liriope…….”
A voice like divine thunder echoed once more from above her head.
Liriope answered it by instinct.
“I am Liriope.”
Yet the moment she heard her own voice flowing from her lips, she immediately recognized that she was in an abnormal state.
What was happening?
How had unexpected Mana descended upon her the moment she returned from the Defiled Holy Ground, and how had she ended up on her knees in the middle of this chamber without even realizing it?
Fortunately or unfortunately, she was not alone in being dragged to this place.
“Dear me, had you given us advance notice, we would have come to greet you ourselves.”
Evangeline and the boys, kneeling beside Liriope, hastily paid their respects to the presence above them.
“As Erin says, it is so, Magic Tower Master.”
“What business has brought you to summon us so suddenly?”
In that moment, Liriope felt as though a sun that had been suspended at an incomprehensible height had suddenly descended to consume her, and her breath caught in her throat.
She had not recognized it immediately, having never encountered such a vast presence from such proximity before.
Yet upon reflection, it was impossible for two people of such power to exist in the northern Magic Tower.
Liriope belatedly realized who the presence before her—crushing her like a great mountain—must be.
The Master of Belkieros.
The one who stood at the pinnacle of the northern Magic Tower.
‘The Magic Tower Master……!’

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