66 – Southern Hunting Tournament (5)

It’s like wandering in a hazy dream.

Clearly, the events of that day were not dreams, but the afterglow it gave was still lingering in his heart even the next day. It was the moment that I had always hoped for and only imagined, but when it came to reality, it was difficult to control the emotions bursting out like a flood.

“Aww…”

The more I think of that moment, the more heat seems to rise in my head. If you think about something else for a while to cool your head, in the end you will only find yourself drawing his face and reflecting on that moment.

A wizard who should be more rational than anyone else.

And if those who know me in the past see that the archmage, who has risen to a position that no one has experienced throughout the history of the continent, is swayed by this one emotion, will they be able to accept it?

I buried my face in the blanket and shook my head.

they won’t know

The magicians are a tribe, and the more they enter the realm of the outside world and fall deeply into it, the more often emotions move their bodies rather than reason.

Ultimately, it is the human heart that makes people rise to the place called transcendence. If you view magic as an academic and always focus on right and wrong, you will clearly define your limits from a certain point and try not to cross the wall. This is a fact that becomes clearer the higher you go.

Of course, to the extent of being called the Archmage, controlling emotions was nothing short of basic. For me, anything related to him was an exception.

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Maybe it’s because the fever has risen, but my head isn’t normal.

It was as if I was unraveling a tangled ball of thread and twisting it again with my hands to make a mess.

If you look back on your actions up to this point, there must have been one or two times like this, but this time, I couldn’t forgive myself for running away from the spot.

After that incident, even though it was given a day, I could not make eye contact with him until the moment I arrived at Legion. While watching his back in the carriage, I only repeatedly lost myself in my own thoughts, but when I got off the carriage, he approached me and held my hand, so I even made the mistake of avoiding my seat.

No matter how unorganized your mind is, running away from there is what ugliness!

In that situation, why go for a drink instead of water!

“Ahhh…”

Even if I come now and blame myself, nothing will change. As time passed, only a strange moan came out of his mouth at the growing regret and shame.

I should have gotten used to it now, but why do I keep walking in place?

When I decided to approach him, I moved without hesitation, but when he actually closed the distance, I was taken aback and stepped back. No matter how hard I am, there is a certain degree to which I have no tolerance for this feeling of love. There’s time I’ve been spending on regression, but overheating so quickly was clearly problematic.

Just because emotions take precedence over reason does not necessarily mean that people will be honest with their emotions.

In this case, though, it seems to be different from that.

“What kind of face should I look at you with?”

Lying on the soft bed, I could see the reflection of his face, which was not here now, for some reason on the ceiling.

Is it because of that? The corners of my mouth, looking up at the ceiling, were slowly moving upward.

In fact, the answer was already out there.

It wasn’t that I didn’t know that it would be okay if I greeted her casually as usual with the same smile as now. Unfortunately, the biggest problem was that it didn’t go my way. Even if I thought about it in advance, it was certain that I would return to my original state the moment I stood in front of him.

“difficult…..”

difficult.

Obviously, both the body and the mind are directed in one direction, but when you receive affection from him, your head becomes a blank slate, so there will be no contradiction like this. I knew from my experience that this was not something that could be fixed by making up my mind, so after tossing and turning on the bed for a few minutes, I gave up thinking.

Time isn’t everything, but I think I need some time.

Is it because we camped for a few days?

Even though it was an unfamiliar place, the soft feel of the bed supporting my back gave me a strange sense of security. It’s an uncomfortable bed, it was like a daily routine before returning, so even though it’s been a long time since I got used to it, my body doesn’t remember it. Maybe because of that, even if my head feels fine, I can’t help but feel the fatigue in my body that builds up unknowingly.

The items used at the campsite were by no means inferior, but it was undeniable that they felt better than a bed in a tent, perhaps because of the difference in location. Well, the attendants must have been constantly managing it, so it might be rude to compare them.

“Huh…”

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My body, which was tense because of the thought of him, slowly began to relax as time passed.

As my body relaxed, I felt a sensation I hadn’t felt before.

As I exhaled and relaxed, my body slowly sank into the bed. I liked the feel of the soft fabric against my skin, so I moved my arms several times and tried to scatter the blankets when I suddenly saw a mirror placed next to the bed.

Even though I was saying that I was in pain, the smile that was already on my lips seemed to have no intention of leaving.

I didn’t bother to erase my smile and looked at my reflection in the mirror. There was no awkwardness in the girl’s smile, with her mouth slightly raised. Of course, this was not a smile I forced myself to create.

“I think he once told me to laugh a lot.”

I don’t have to worry about hearing those words anymore.

Things that would make me laugh won’t happen anymore.

Talk tok-

“uh?”

It’s been awhile since I’ve been so euphoric.

The sound of something knocking on the window rises to the surface again. Get up, go to the window and open the door. A blue bird hiding in the darkening night sky flew over my hand.

Since it was an artificial life form made of magic, there was no emotion in it, but the eyes of the bird looking at it seemed to contain emotions that it should not have. When he touched the bird’s feather with a hand containing a little magic power, the blue bird, which was looking at itself with anxious eyes, quickly found stability.

“Fortunately, there doesn’t seem to be anything wrong with the circuitry… and there doesn’t appear to be any signs of contamination.”

Since it was a magical creature created by the magic of a dragon, not a human, you wouldn’t have to worry about being stained with any kind of pollution, but the aura that now hovered over this mountain range was something that even Altair, the dragon herself, couldn’t carelessly do. If he hadn’t put his hands on it before sending this child away, a blue gigantic dragon might have appeared in the sky of Legion by now.

This thing that doesn’t fit anything in this world moved to me as if it had found its own home as soon as it touched me. Wearing such divinity was impossible unless you were a pagan to deal with it, but to me it was like dropping a drop of water into the sea.

After removing the remnants of divinity from the tip of the feather, the bird rubbed its beak on its hand as a sign of affection.

“I see…”

The memory contained in the divinity permeated me completely.

A certain place flashes through my head, along with the heightened emotions of some who are thought to be heretics. A space that is thought to be a forest and a strange structure placed there. It was something he had seen in previous lives, so he already knew what it was for.

Numerous monsters inhabiting the Runproud Mountains.

It is said that it does not come out from the depths of the mountain range now, but if it does, the story will be different.

But I wasn’t particularly impressed with what I saw. It was something I expected to some extent when I found out that Noel and Orcus had come to the South.

It was clear that my presence made them active, considering that the guys who normally shy away from themselves openly showed their presence against the Merohim last time.

When the bird took the other hand that hadn’t risen up, there was a jewel that was emitting a faint reddish light. The divinity it exuded was on a different level from the one that spread in that forest, but the blue bird that found the jewel didn’t show any reaction to see if the barriers surrounding it were working properly.

I looked at it for a moment, then folded my hands again and put the jewel back where it was.

Compared to the past, it wasn’t just my relationship with him that had changed.

What could not be prevented before, and what had to be borrowed from someone, is now possible with one’s own strength. The darkness of the thickening forest in front of my eyes was like an abyss from which I could not escape, but to me now, it was like a shallow puddle that I could clear out at any time.

After sending the bird back out the window, I turned my head and looked in the mirror once more.

The girl in the mirror still had a smile on her lips.