Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 638

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Chapter 638

“I treated him so well! I even played mage card games with him during break time so he wouldn’t be bored!”

‘Maybe that’s why he ran away?’

Yoner suspected inwardly, but decided not to ask further out of consideration for his relative.

“Alright, alright, just be quiet. I’ll take you to the manor.”

“Can’t you bring my carriage too?”

Gainando pleaded like he was the most pitiful person in the world.

Everything from gifts for Lee Han to various luggage was all in the carriage.

Of course, Yoner wasn’t easily fooled. He looked at Gainando incredulously and asked.

“Who’s going to drive it?”

“I can drive a carriage though…”

Nilia said cautiously. Then Yoner grabbed Nilia’s hand as if there was no need for that.

“No. You don’t need to bother with that.”

“I said I can drive it! I said I can drive it!”

“I should install a device on the side so you can’t grab onto carriages anymore…”

At Yoner’s muttering, Nilia hastily replied.

“It’s not really bothersome. I can do this much.”

“There’s no way driving a carriage isn’t bothersome.”

Even if nobles knew how to ride horses, surprisingly few knew how to drive carriages.

There were coachmen, but above all, driving a carriage itself was quite a skilled technique.

You had to coordinate and manage the breathing and direction of multiple horses…

“How many are there? If it’s four horses, it would be a bit difficult but somehow…”

“Eight horses.”

“…”

Nilia hesitated at Gainando’s answer. Yoner sighed deeply and asked.

“Why on earth did you bring an eight-horse carriage all the way here?”

“It looks cool…”

“Ei, eight horses is too much.”

Nilia became embarrassed. To think she’d have to change her words after saying she could do it.

“Of course it’s too much. Don’t worry about it.”

“Can’t I try it once as an opportunity?”

“Nilia. Just shoot him.”

Gainando went ‘hup’ and shut his mouth. Yoner twirled his hair around and said.

“There’s only one way.”

“Yoner…!”

Gainando looked at his relative with expectant eyes.

He wasn’t a mage for nothing.

When faced with difficulties, if you couldn’t solve it with magic, why would you be a mage?

“Go to the carriage and pack only the luggage that fits in bags. Don’t forget the gift for Lee Han.”

“…Uh, what about the carriage?”

“We’ll have to leave it behind, what else can we do.”

“…”

Gainando opened his mouth, closed it, opened it again, then closed it and went outside with drooping shoulders.

Then he quickly turned around and shouted.

“If you leave first, I’ll never forgive you next semester!”

“Alright. Alright.”

Nilia watched Gainando’s retreating figure and grumbled incredulously.

“Look at him talk. We’re giving him a ride and he suspects we’ll leave first!”

“Right. Attending Einroguard made him quick-witted. How did he know?”

“…”

* * *

Arshil Wardanaz drank the lemon tea Lee Han made and clapped in admiration.

Alsicle also smiled warmly at the sight of him praising his younger brother’s skills.

“Brother. This lemon sugar preserve was bought from the village.”

“…”

“…”

Arshil didn’t panic and praised again.

“Your skill in making tea is amazing? But I just poured water…”

“Wardanaz. Stop. Stop it.”

Alsicle found himself stopping him without realizing it.

Even though he didn’t understand one side of the conversation, he couldn’t bear to watch anymore.

Meanwhile, the meal was served. It was simple but heartfelt.

Freshly baked bread and jam, rice and eggs, meat fried in oil (it was Lee Han’s favorite dish), and even sardines cooked for Alsicle’s portion.

While the skill and individual ingredients were excellent, the menu was surprisingly few and modest. Alsicle was surprised to see the two brothers eating as if nothing was wrong.

“Do you always eat like this?”

“Usually I eat more simply? Since I usually eat alone.”

Today they prepared this much because Arshil and Alsicle came, but usually he ate more simply.

Alsicle looked at Lee Han in shock.

“You usually ate this lonely like a slave?”

“…No, no. It’s because I’m comfortable with it.”

The knights were busy patrolling outside, and when Lee Han ate alone, preparing something grand would only be burdensome.

Arshil nodded and said.

“No. Brother. It’s not because I’m frugal and kind… just because it’s convenient to eat… You said what I made then was delicious? What are you talking about? That sandwich was just… ingredients put on bread with bread covering it.”

Arshil didn’t care and gave a thumbs up saying it was good.

Alsicle realized from that sight that he had just been mistaken.

‘It must just be that Wardanaz is strange!’

He probably ate simply because he didn’t have enough time to study magic.

‘Surely what he said about meals not being served at Einroguard wasn’t like this.’

If meals were served properly but he couldn’t eat because he was studying and expressed it like that…

Alsicle inwardly thought that Einroguard students would rush at him and pluck his feathers if they heard this.

After finishing the light meal, Arshil began laying out miscellaneous items on the table.

A glass bottle containing unidentifiable oil, an old notebook, an umbrella with patterns carved on it, a pencil case made of tough leather, a comb made of jade, an inkwell containing ink that kept changing colors, a quill pen, a whetstone, etc…

Alsicle wondered why he was suddenly taking those out.

“Brother. I chose that cloak. I won’t change it. You say it’s boring? That’s fine. I like boring things. You say that umbrella is an umbrella that calls lightning? No, if something you use on rainy days calls lightning, that’s dangerous. I’ll just use the cloak.”

“…”

Alsicle, realizing what conversation they were having, carefully examined a nearby object.

It looked like an ordinary whetstone, but there was magic cast inside the stone. It was magic that made swords attack surrounding enemies on their own.

Including their own master!

‘…You don’t happen to dislike your younger brother, do you?’

Alsicle thought so and looked up.

However, Arshil was happily recommending this item and that item to his younger brother with an innocent face. There seemed to be no malice anywhere on that face.

“You want to give one to Penguerin too? That’s not a bad idea. Penguerin. My brother wants to give you a gift. Try choosing one.”

“Wait, you said all the items here are dangerous.”

“What are you saying. It’s not that bad. If they were that dangerous, I couldn’t even give them as gifts. Come on.”

‘Th-this bastard! He offered me to his brother!’

Alsicle was shocked to realize that Lee Han had offered him as a sacrifice.

Since his brother kept trying to give dangerous items as heartfelt gifts, he deflected the arrow and threw it at him instead.

“I, I’m fine…”

“My elder brother says that since you’ve come as a guest, surely you wouldn’t refuse a gift.”

“Did he really say that??”

Alsicle was frustrated but had no way to escape.

Having come as a guest, he couldn’t refuse a gift without good reason. It was a matter involving the other party’s dignity as well.

‘Something as least dangerous as possible… Ugh. I wish someone would just come in…’

Clatter!

“Hello.”

“!”

At the sight of Yoner’s group entering, Alsicle and Lee Han jumped to their feet.

“Welcome!!”

“You’re finally here!”

“Did, did you wait that eagerly?”

Yoner and his friends were flustered by the unexpectedly enthusiastic reaction.

Lee Han was one thing, but it was puzzling why Mr. Alsicle from the Penguerin family was acting like that.

“Did you have any trouble on the way?”

“No trouble, but aren’t there too few people? It seems like there are fewer people than in the mountains.”

“Really? Is it that bad?”

Lee Han tilted his head at Nilia’s words.

It didn’t seem that unusual…

“Anything else?”

“…You’re not just not sending letters to me, are you…?”

Nilia glanced around and whispered quietly.

“Haha. Of course it’s a misunderstanding. I sent one right away last time.”

“Right? I thought so.”

Nilia, who had been worried she might have ended up on the ‘people who don’t get letters’ list for some trivial reason, breathed a sigh of relief.

“Who is this person?”

“Ah. He’s my elder brother. Arsil of the Wardanaz family. He speaks in spirit language, so it’ll be hard to understand what he says.”

“???”

“??!”

While Yoner and Nilia were shocked, Lee Han talked with Gainando.

“What’s wrong? You look like someone who got their carriage stolen?”

“It actually got stolen!!”

“What? Why? How did that happen?”

Yoner and Nilia, who knew the truth, weren’t particularly curious about that.

They were much more curious about how Lee Han’s brother spoke.

“Wait, what do you mean speaking in spirit language…”

“What on earth is that…”

“Hold on. Listen to this first.”

Lee Han calmed his friends down and asked why Gainando’s carriage had disappeared.

Upon hearing the story, the carriage hadn’t disappeared. The coachman had suddenly run away.

“Did you by any chance force him to read magazines, use dark magic, pester him to buy snacks, ask him to do your homework, or ask him to play mage card games?”

“…I did ask him to play mage card games…”

“That’s probably why he ran away.”

“No way, is asking to play mage card games such a big crime?!”

“It becomes a crime if you keep asking. You can go get the carriage later. No one will have taken it.”

Nilia was puzzled by Lee Han’s words.

The village in front of the territory was quite large in scale. And the larger the scale, the more thieves there tended to be.

Even in the villages below the Northern Mountains, if you tied up a horse without anyone watching, it would disappear before long, so why would this place be any different?

“Why? Someone could take it.”

“Hehe. You don’t need to worry.”

Alarlong took off his helmet and came inside.

Thanks to Lee Han’s friends visiting, the veteran knight was in a very good mood.

“The people of this village don’t do such things.”

“That… isn’t it a bit much to just trust in goodwill?”

Nilia asked cautiously.

It was nerve-wracking to speak to a knight she was meeting for the first time, especially one who was tremendously strong.

“It’s not about trusting goodwill. It’s because of the village rules. If problems arise in the village, the Wardanaz family is now supposed to send people to resolve them, but the villagers usually solve things themselves before it gets to that point.”

Alarlong poured tea from the teapot and explained while sipping.

While there was no village in the Empire without some character or uniqueness, Udamhwa village had even stronger character and uniqueness thanks to being closest to the Wardanaz family territory.

Among the great noble families, especially those with particularly deep history and power, it was common to hold judicial rights, taxation rights, security rights, and so on over surrounding territories.

The Wardanaz family was the same.

“The Wardanaz family protects its territorial people with some of the lowest tax rates and safest security in the Empire. The villagers are deeply grateful for this. That’s why the villagers won’t just stand by and watch thieves disturb the order!”

At Alarlong’s words, Lee Han nodded as if familiar with hearing this several times and prepared snacks for his friends.

He had heard the story about how the Wardanaz family governed the territory well so the territorial people tried not to cause trouble so many times he was sick of it.

“So the villagers try to repay the Wardanaz family’s fulfillment of duty.”

“That’s right. Hehe.”

At Alarlong’s words, all the other friends present showed impressed expressions.

Hearing it this way, it truly was a territory full of beautiful virtues.

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