Isekai Journey Of The Magic Archer



[Eon's POV: ]

"Hello, master."

"Sister Elle~. Big brother~. You two look good~!"

"You too Zoe. You look gorgeous in that light blue."

The meeting point for today was a certain cafe near the gate to the outskirts. And Zoe was with Monnem alone, in the disguise that she usually uses when going out.

But she sure looked good in this outfit.

"How have you been?" I patted her head, her pretty brown hair, with a smile and she chuckled like usual.

"Hehe, I'm fine~. The academy's very fun~."

She was liking it here. So, what else can I ask for?

"That's good to hear. And Monnem? Are you getting familiar with the things over there? We have a few things to finish in the academy before we start your 'real' training so you will have to wait until then."

She at least looked better now. Her complexion was better and the effects of all the impurities in her body from the preparation of that rituals seemed to have cleaned up as well.

This was good, and I believe Grandpa Zhen must have already told her about herself so it was even better.

"Yes, master. The people there are nice. Very nice actually. Sir Zhen is very helpful and young master Alfred and young Lady Carla are fun people too.

It is nothing like the usual noble family residents I have been to. 

There's… joy and radiance. I like it here."

The look and smile she had were proof enough that she meant her words. Which was nice too.

"So little Zoe. Excited to see those pretty birds~?" 

Rein asked with an excited smile, and I gave her a quick glance which clearly warned her that we weren't going there to kill those creatures and only for the site seeing.

"I know, darling. But we don't know what will happen, right?"

She was smirking and it only meant she was actually looking forward to… 

"Hehe, no sister Elle. We can't do it. They are rare and protected creatures, right? Their family will be upset if they leave them. And besides~. They wouldn't do us anything if I'm there anyway~."

Zoe was smiling, and her words were enough to remind my dear fiancée why I was so fearless about going into the middle of an omnivore bird territory with thousands or probably tens of thousands of (Yellow) to (Indigo) ranked creatures.

"Right… but still~. Who knows? We might have to~."

She was looking forward to something going wrong. She wanted something to go wrong just a little so that she can have some fun in that place. Bad girl…

"Rein."

I looked at her, in the eye, and she looked back, still smiling. And she continued smiling even though I asked her the reason for that not-so-safe smile with my eyebrows. But she just shook her head in a cheerful mood.

"Celes."

I knew her well enough to understand she wouldn't engage in a frontal confrontation that would be to her disadvantage. She liked fighting and winning but not engaging in an obviously dangerous situation.

So, if she was happy like this…

[[ Yes master~. Sister Elle's probably happy because of this. There weren't many a while back but now they have flooded the places we would be passing through. ]]

She showed me the current footage of areas swarming with giant ants. And many of these ants were fighting with big blue honeybees.

"Right. The northwestern ants. They must have sensed the presence of the bees and came out thinking there would be good food."

But, why were they fighting? These ants only collected corpses of dead creatures and were mostly peaceful. 

They didn't usually fight with other creatures and minded their own business. 

But it wasn't like they couldn't fight the other creatures. 

'After the blue bees of the academy, the rainbow flamingoes of the northwestern skies, they were one of the spices on this island that were under a powerful, intelligent queen. And no. I wasn't talking about the ent's ent queen.'

The third main queen of the island of magic's wealth, the one that controlled the entire northwestern outer area of the outskirts, a major part of the undergrounds of the higher districts on the east of the island where significant traffic flows, and also some of the central underground parts of it. Queen of undergrounds and scavengers, the [Green marionette].

'A unique being that would have been nothing more than a normal fungus of nearly no intelligence but, it was born directly from nature, like Celes, Branwen, Harry, and Fran. So, she was special. And under certain conditions, also the most powerful of all three great queens.'

But she didn't have anything to do with the bees and ants at this kind of time. 

Winter was here so she must be on her way to hibernation already. 

This wasn't an incident that would have her involvement so, the strange behaviors of ants, the way they had swarmed those areas, and how they were fighting the bees that blocked any creature from entering the place that I asked their queen to secure, surely was a newfound mystery to me.

"Reinelle."

But from that smile, I could tell this was surely no mystery to her. And all this had happened after we left home to come here, so she also wasn't the one behind any of this, hopefully.

"I didn't do anything, darling."

That was true and a little relief for me. But, I was still looking her in the eye. She also knew this wasn't the answer I was looking for. 

It was simple to tell that if she didn't do it, she at least knew how this mess happened. 

But she didn't answer, and continued looking back into my eyes… and we stayed like that for a dangerously long time, and, as I knew, she leaned in for a kiss.

"No.'

But I moved my head aside, three times eventually, and avoided her kiss.

I wanted an answer, she knew that, so she had to answer first.

"Ugh! Stay still."

"Rein."

She wasn't getting this kiss until I knew the culprit. 

Fighting those ants would be fun for her but I didn't ask the queen specifically to clear that area to come out here for fighting.

We were going to talk with the oldest queen, the oldest known being on this island, so I wanted peace. But the ants on our path were definitely a no-no.

"Tsk. Alright, alright. It was Titania. Specifically, her hungry familiar. 

It ran wild in the search for breakfast this morning, killed anything it saw, and just left the carcasses there.

It was back when you asked Celes to keep a close look at the assignment targets and she went to check up on it.

Branwen was roaming and he saw it so I saw it too. And so did the ants.

They came, and just then, the bees arrived as well.

There was no clash by that time but then the ants suddenly became suspiciously angry.

I don't know the reason they are acting like this but most probably it is because their pheromone networks got smashed by the power of her familiar."

-Smooooch.

So, she got her kiss after saying all that so fast that someone might have missed most of it. But the two people here were more than good enough to comprehend this little thing.

"Haaa…"

But it was still the same bad as before. And Rein was smiling still. Excited to have some fun with not colorful flamingoes, but ugly red ants.

"Ummm…" Monnem was confused, we can tell from her look, but she was smart enough to understand what was going on, so she didn't ask anything about the situation. 

"Will you be fighting? I mean with a bow?"

But she still asked one unrelated to the actual matter. And I answered with a simple sideway nod.

"Nope. I won't. But she will though. And with her weapon too, so look forward to it."

Rein had gotten stronger with her magic and far more with her scythe. 

She can handle her EFMW as her main weapon now too, but she was still unsure if she could call it her partner weapon.

"Hmm? What's up?"

She suddenly seemed confused when I answered her question, and I was smiling so I didn't think there would be anything confusing about my answer.

"Lady Reinelle uses a weapon too?"

'Right… she doesn't know.'

Miss Moon was still new among us so she didn't know many things. And from the look of it, grandpa zhen must have forgotten to tell her Rein is a magic scythesman. 

'But perhaps it is for the better.'

Looking at her with a smile, and looking at Rein's still excited smile, I shook my head at my little sister that already knew everything that would happen once we were out on the field.

"Yes, she does. So, look forward to it."

Monnem was in for a lot of surprises today. And maybe she will learn a lot of new things about this place, this world, and about herself too. So, she had to be prepared to take in everything she could.

And she was smart already, so a special chocolate drink should be pretty enough for her, I think?

"Take up the orders please." 

"Coming right up, master."

The person behind the counter was the only one in this cafe aside from us. And he had a smile stuck on his face.

This was my place, my first place, and though completely barren for now… it will certainly become a good place for open meetings in the near future.