On Official Duty with My Tower Master Ex-Boyfriend - Chapter 75

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Chapter 75
“Why are you leaving? I’m not allowed to see?”
“……It’s something tremendously important. Too precious to show others.”
“I know what it is. It’s your fiancée’s ring.”
“…….”
Unable to offer any rebuttal, Cade averted his gaze, and Vivian Solling furrowed her brow as though she’d seen it all.
‘Honestly. He was flaunting it just moments ago, and now it’s too precious to show me?’
It was brief—the sound of scrolls tearing erupted from all sides, magic circles flashed, and her attention snapped beyond the barrier.
When she’d arrived, the Wizards of the Magic Tower were facing off against mercenaries wielding Magic Scrolls and unfamiliar Wizards.
The barrier obscured the view, but it was clear they were locked in fierce combat even now.
The fact that they’d all come here under orders from the Grand Duke of Melgote seemed unbelievable.
“What am I supposed to do? You said I need to perform a realignment.”
At Vivian’s urgent question, Cade led her before the central Barrier stone.
“If you concentrate on the Focal Medium’s Mana, you’ll be able to read the flow. Just adjust the distorted direction back to its proper state.”
Vivian swept her gaze across the barrier with bewilderment.
“How am I supposed to move something I can’t even see?”
“You’ll feel it if you concentrate. You can do this.”
“If you hate me seeing it so much, why don’t you just do it yourself? Why are you asking me?”
“That’s because you…….”
Cade reflexively began to answer, then trailed off and corrected himself.
“You can attune with Magical Beasts.”
“What, do you think Empathic Resonance is some kind of clairvoyance?”
Vivian shot back sharply, then decided to drop her reproach.
‘His emotional wavelength is still like that.’
Through Tris, she could sense his feelings wavering.
It was natural for him to remain unstable, having witnessed a sight that would dredge up painful memories.
It seemed best to leave Cade alone until they escaped this place.
“I’ll try.”
Vivian extended her hand toward the barrier and reflected on his words—that by deliberately attuning with him, she understood she was meant to undertake this task alone.
She’d never adjusted a Barrier’s Focal Medium before, but she attempted to sense the Mana beyond the barrier as she would read a Magical Beast’s emotions.
“…….”
Watching her, Cade deflected incoming attack Magic while shielding Vivian.
Simply bringing her here made him anxious and uneasy.
‘Dark Magic may have been exposed in the end, but at least this…….’
With his skill level, a momentary lapse in concentration shouldn’t breach the barrier, yet he remained tense.
He didn’t want to show Vivian the Ring, the central Barrier’s Focal Medium, but also to keep the enemy from knowing who was adjusting the Focal Medium.
If word reached the 2nd Princess, there was no telling what might unfold.
Fortunately, Vivian, after some initial hesitation, gradually adapted to reading the Barriers’ Mana.
As she read the distorted flow of Mana and adjusted the Focal Medium’s position ever so slightly, several more layers of Barriers materialized before her eyes.
“……!”
Vivian startled and withdrew her hand, and Cade immediately repaired the fractured protective barrier.
“Well done. Don’t move a single step from here.”
Then he moved to join the Magic Tower’s Wizards.
He instructed Tris to stay glued to Vivian’s side before beginning to sweep through their enemies.
The Magic Circles appeared and vanished so rapidly that it seemed like lightning was striking beyond the barrier.
Vivian remained motionless inside the barrier, exactly as Cade had commanded.
‘Did I really do it right?’
She didn’t understand how the Focal Medium operated, but it felt as though she had succeeded.
The Ring’s Mana, felt through the barrier, hadn’t seemed unfamiliar—she’d adapted to it quickly.
Though this was her first time performing such work, she’d been able to do it naturally, as though moving something that belonged to her.
Vivian looked down at her empty left ring finger. It had become a familiar emptiness.
‘It even feels like I’ve found something I’d lost…….’
Though she felt a bit embarrassed and unsettled about feeling that way toward another woman’s ring.
‘I wonder if it’s really okay to just stand here quietly like this.’
Sounds of people collapsing echoed from various directions.
Vivian stroked Tris’s head, hoping they were not the Magic Tower’s Wizards.
Meanwhile, a presence had escaped the notice of Cade, still unable to compose his emotions, and Tris, who had synchronized with his feelings.
A mercenary who had collapsed at a distance regained consciousness and opened his eyes.
No one had noticed the mercenary was still alive.
The mercenary, blood flowing freely from his shoulder, endured the pain in silence until he spotted Vivian and flinched.
‘That Civil Servant……the one I saw at the inn?’
Then, with difficulty, he tore a scroll from his pouch and fled toward the 2nd Princess’s Residence.
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Even after returning to the Magic Tower via Cade’s Teleportation, I couldn’t shake an unsettled feeling.
No matter how obscured by the barrier, I’d had to listen to the sounds of people collapsing and death cries for what felt like ages.
I hadn’t witnessed the horrific scene directly, and it was only now that my sight and hearing—which had been operating independently the whole time—felt unified again.
‘Has Cade been fighting with the 2nd Princess like this ever since becoming Tower Master?’
From the Crystal Whale confined to the storehouse and traces of Dark Magic to the fierce combat between the Wizards and the 2nd Princess’s subordinates…….
I’d glimpsed too much of the hidden face of a world I’d never imagined, and I felt dizzy from it all.
‘At least the Magic Tower’s Wizards weren’t seriously injured—I should count that as a blessing.’
I examined the Wizards who were arriving one by one into the Magic Tower’s lobby.
But the moment they entered, they began murmuring as soon as they caught sight of me.
“How was the central Barrier’s Focal Medium adjusted? Did the Tower Master discover some new method?”
“I saw the Inspector doing something earlier…….”
“What are you talking about? How could the Inspector adjust it?”
“Shh! Everyone, shh!”
Then Ben gestured frantically at the Wizards, directing them to something.
“I’m exhausted and they want me to go down to the training grounds…….”
“Just talk about it here…….”
The Wizards grumbled with disgruntled expressions before one by one vanishing via Teleportation.
“……?”
I turned back to Cade, puzzled.
“Is it strange that I adjusted the Focal Medium?”
“Not at all.”
His casual response came back, but something still felt off.
Earlier at the Barrier stone, both Ben and the Wizards had acted as though my adjusting the Focal Medium were some extraordinary feat.
‘The fact that he wouldn’t let me see the Focal Medium is suspicious too. Should I look into Focal Mediums and central Barriers in the Mirror Library?’
The moment that thought crossed my mind, I remembered that Cade had forbidden entry to the Mirror Library.
He must have impressed it upon Tris quite forcefully—this adorable Magical Beast absolutely wouldn’t fall for my attempts to sneak in when Cade was away.
‘I’m curious about a lot of things, but now isn’t the time to be wandering in and out of the library.’
Regrettably, the situation before me was urgent, so I decided to shelve the matter of the Focal Medium for now.
As I sat lost in thought, Cade approached and asked tentatively.
“Vivian. Are you going to return to the Imperial Capital?”
“And what will you do?”
He hesitated, then shrugged and answered.
“If I had my way, I’d storm the 2nd Princess’s Residence right this moment.”
“So you’re not going to?”
“……You said it yourself. There’s a Procedure to follow.”
Though his words said one thing, Cade’s expression was somewhat displeased—the sense that he couldn’t fathom why it mattered so much.
I understood his frustration, yet a Procedure wasn’t merely tedious and stifling.
“When used properly, I’ll show you just how much easier a Procedure can make things.”
I lifted my chin slightly and spoke with confidence.
This was the moment for Vivian Solling the Civil Servant to step forward—not the Attuner of Magical Beasts.

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