My Husband Is Not the Magic Tower Master - Chapter 6
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Episode 6
I’d been holding up Ice Spears against the monsters’ assault when I seized his hand without hesitation.
And absorbed a portion of his Fire Mana.
“…!”
“Don’t be alarmed. I’m used to that look.”
It was actually my first time using this technique since my examination at the Magic Tower.
I still remembered vividly how everyone had stared at me the first time I’d deployed it.
‘The Water Mage had been thrilled, thinking the drought of this era might finally be resolved.’
Of course, it was classified under orders from above.
But somehow word of it had trickled up to the Tower Master’s ears—a man who was supposed to be perpetually absent—and afterward my workload ballooned, and I’d started pulling all-nighters.
‘It’s strange. I heard he was nothing but a figurehead, alternating between seclusion and wandering.’
The rumors about him were so strange and ghostlike that I wasn’t even sure he was human.
I’d never met him, and yet sometimes he would slip those suspicious research reports into my desk drawer like love letters.
‘And he’d tucked them right alongside letters from Lucas, mind you.’
Thinking back on it now, the Tower Master was the real problem.
Damn the man. Resignation really was the answer.
I muttered darkly and summoned the completed purple water spray—a violent fusion of two elements bursting like flame before my eyes.
Carlo seemed to blink slightly as he looked at our joined hands.
“…Fascinating. Even seeing it again.”
I had trouble understanding what he meant.
“Sorry, what? I couldn’t quite hear you. Anyway—nine o’clock to the left.”
The Cerberus was spewing poisoned saliva from its jaws in real time.
“Yes. Please close your eyes for a moment.”
Carlo moved our joined hand, trapping the monster inside a Blue Flame.
Sharp ice shards pierced through its hearts simultaneously, and as if on cue, the monsters began collapsing one by one, burning away.
By the time I opened my eyes again as he’d instructed, the corpses that had littered the ground were gone, cleanly removed.
Incineration Magic happening at such an absurd speed.
Following his lead, I sprinkled water to clean the area, and I was quietly impressed.
‘He really ought to stay in the Special Management Department.’
Such magical prowess was wasted buried under papers at the Security Department all day.
“Are you injured?”
“Thanks to you. At least I haven’t lost another decade of my life—well, not shortened it any further anyway.”
“I hear that two days from now is an important day for you.”
“Not tomorrow—the day after that. It’s a meeting with a potential suitor.”
He surely knew who it was already.
When I offered nothing more, Carlo calmly finished disposing of the remaining monsters scattered about.
Then he asked flatly.
“The Crown Prince must be pleased.”
“He is. He’s handsome.”
Thud.
Just as Carlo turned back to me, he suddenly slipped on one of the last monsters and fell.
Startled by how quickly it happened, I placed a hand on his back as he lay sprawled.
“Are you all right?”
What is wrong with this man? Total klutz.
“….”
“Hello? Are you conscious?”
For some reason, he wouldn’t get up.
The light exasperation I felt was shifting slowly into real alarm.
“Carlo! Carlo!”
Crackle-pop.
Bad luck, perhaps.
The magical barrier I’d hastily erected to hold back the monsters during combat suddenly dissolved, and I saw a swarm of them shambling toward us in the distance.
“Damn it.”
“Shrieeeeeeeek!”
“…Hey! Come on, snap out of it!”
Please, wake up. We’re all going to die at this rate.
The moment I cried out in panic, Carlo’s hand twitched. But I couldn’t afford to wait for him to come to his senses with a pack of monsters bearing down on us.
I poured my Mana frantically into the hole that tore open like paper, fluttering at its edges.
Even that power—the one that must never be exposed.
Crack!
Boom!
A deafening crash sounded as large and small monsters charging forward smashed against the defensive barrier.
My Security Magic had worked.
“Phew….”
“…I’m sorry, Roze.”
It was only much later, as Carlo slowly opened his eyes, that I spoke to him with a weary face.
“Should we call it a day?”
Surely he hadn’t noticed.
“From what I can tell, your Magical Spectrum seems quite remarkably broad.”
“It’s not.”
I shook my head vigorously at Carlo’s words.
But I regretted answering that way.
My voice had been too loud. Rather than a simple denial, it might have seemed like I was desperately trying to hide something.
Fortunately, he said nothing more.
‘I thought he might have seen something,’ I told myself.
If he had, and if I’d known it, I wouldn’t have left him be.
“Hmm.”
I shut my eyes quietly as grim thoughts followed.
On the way back to the Magic Tower from the Boundary Zone after finishing fieldwork.
We’d arrived at the top where the Teleport was installed, waiting for Carlo and the Mana Elevator, but for some reason my heart wouldn’t stop racing.
The reason was obvious.
‘Because I thought I’d been caught.’
Carlo. A mage from the Special Management Department.
My memory of his background was hazy.
It had been so long since I’d entered this story, and his existence had never been particularly important to my survival here.
‘I’m not even sure if Carlo is his exact name, or which family he belongs to.’
If he was a mage of fire from the Special Management Department with excellent skills, then he was likely the one I knew.
‘The male lead’s only friend and childhood companion.’
The transfer between departments, however, was a variable. It could have been a personal whim of his.
I remembered how flustered I’d been when I met him as a fellow new hire on my first day of work at the Magic Tower, both of us volunteering for the Security Department.
‘Did Carlo also find the work unbearable?’
The Special Management Department. The Crown Prince’s personal division.
A place assembled with only capable and powerful fire mages, including Lucas, that oversaw everything within the Magic Tower.
Earning the Crown Prince’s favor there would certainly open doors for advancement, but I’d heard the work never stopped.
It was supposedly enough to make you waste away and die—the Security Department’s overtime was nothing compared to it.
“Are you alright from when you fell earlier?”
Witnessing him collapse when he normally worked with steel-like stamina made me worried.
‘What if….’
What if he returned to work and, finding it difficult, started dumping his tasks onto me?
Just thinking about it made my lips tremble. Absolutely not. I couldn’t die alone.
As usual, I maintained an indifferent air while I glanced at Carlo’s complexion, watching for when the Teleport would arrive.
“I’m fine, thanks to you.”
Fortunately, he seemed unharmed, just as he said.
I continued the conversation by rummaging through my pockets as I’d been doing.
“You’re not feeling any nausea or dizziness, are you?”
“Nothing that would require a Potion.”
“Potions are quite effective. What a shame.”
Before I could finish speaking, he turned his eyes away from the first-aid remedy I’d pulled out.
It does make your stomach flip temporarily when you drink it.
It wasn’t made by me—it was the Tower Master’s special Potion made from a secret recipe, and it tasted like pufferfish.
“You have a sturdy constitution. Well, that’s good.”
I could ease my worry about extra work piling up.
Come to think of it, he didn’t seem to have hurt his head when he fell. His body was intact, so I had no idea what impact had caused him to lose consciousness.
As I stared up at him, Carlo noticed my gaze and opened his mouth.
“Let’s head home early today. We can’t be late for tomorrow’s schedule.”
“The day after tomorrow, not tomorrow.”
“The Crown Prince is fond of anyone connected to water, so you needn’t trouble yourself overmuch with your appearance.”
He lowered his voice in a way that didn’t suit him.
It seemed he was envious that I was leaving early, or at least a touch melancholy about it.
And yet he sends me off as though it costs him nothing. A strange man.
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