The Devil Who Grants Wishes

97 – Wizards (1)

“Oh… Dad… come on… come on…”

Lucia’s thin, trembling voice gently scratched my ear. It’s not just the voice.

It’s so close that the hot exhaled breath touches my skin, and Lucia’s body wrapped around my arm is so hot.

“Celestine!! Lena!!”

I hurriedly scream and call the kids, but no one responds.

No, it’s not that there’s no reaction, it’s right to say that they’re ignoring it.

Because those two are reacting more intensely than anything else. It’s reacting enough and just being reluctant to intervene.

“Faust-sama, please engrave a sentence on Lucia as well. It’s pitiful.”

“Iris.”

Iris, who has been watching the two of us with interest from the side, grabs Lucia’s other arm that isn’t dangling.

As Iris said, the reason Lucia is doing this right now is because of the crest.

Because she felt so deprived that there was no way she could share her feelings, Lucia pushed me so recklessly.

Even though it’s still daytime, and the other crew members are still awake inside the ship, they don’t care and cling to me with a voice that could be misunderstood if anyone hears it.

“Okay, come on down.”

“No, hurry up. Do it right now.”

Lucia, who has suffered from my long-term promise several times, does not want to wait any longer.

Right now, he wants to have the same sentence engraved on his body as the one on Iris’ chest.

Lucia’s pitiful arm runs down my skin-covered arm, at the same time holding it completely tight, expressing its will not to let it go any longer. Like a koala clinging to a tree branch.

Of course, I could shake it off, but if I did that, Lucia would get hurt, so I couldn’t do anything like this.

“If you carve the sentence right now, you won’t be able to properly adjust the position where the sentence will be engraved. I’ll do it now, so move away—”

“No!! Quickly, quickly!!”

Lucia’s voice rises. As if he was a little angry at me for not listening to me even though I had done such a shameful thing.

Aw…! Why are you hanging on so much? I can’t understand.

“Kuh… Okay, but if you don’t like the position, I can always fix it.”

“It’s okay, it doesn’t matter.”

“…Then let’s begin.”

In the end, there is no choice but to do what Lucia wants.

While hanging from Lucia’s arm, she casts the same sense and emotion sharing magic that she inscribed on Iris.

flash

“Finally… finally…!”

After the arm on which she hangs shines for a while, Lucia’s face turns to joy when she sees the sentence engraved. It is the expression of a person who seems to have fulfilled his lifelong wish.

Wow… Why are you so moved by something like this?

Well, now Lucia should have been satisfied with this, so it’s okay—wait a minute.

“…Lucia, let’s change positions.”

“yes?”

Since Lucia was clinging to her arm, my hand was touching her lower body.

In addition, the location where the pattern of sharing is to be engraved must be designated and engraved by hand.

In other words, the location where the pattern is engraved… No, this is not okay.

“Changing the location will be over soon. I’ll cancel the sentence for now and engrave it somewhere else—”

“no!!”

Lucia’s short, sharp screams disturb my ears.

Lucia takes advantage of my panic and runs away and hides behind Celestine and Lena.

“Please don’t erase… please…”

“…”

Thus, Lucia, who is protected by Celestine and Lena, cherishes the sentence and at the same time cries.

No, it’s kind of like stroking it and saying that… Oh, I’m going to go crazy.

**********

“…what did you just say?”

Irene.

The pawnshop owner, who has been dealing with Faust for a long time, replies, desperately hiding her bewilderment.

However, such feelings cannot be completely hidden.

Yes, Irene, who has seen all kinds of ugly things for thousands of years, can’t help but be embarrassed if she hears such stupid things.

“The Aquileia Empire and the Great Forest agreed to form an alliance?”

“It is.”

When Irene asks again if she heard it wrong, the nobles of the empire answer as if it were natural.

As the noble said, the Empire and the Great Forest formed an alliance.

Aren, the envoy sent by Daesoorim, was stuck by Irene’s side, so she couldn’t communicate anything.

“How the hell…?”

“Ah, that’s why our Empire sent envoys first. It’s not just Great Forest. To all the nations in the world, His Majesty the Emperor has sent envoys seeking allies.”

Irene’s mind gets complicated.

Of course, that alliance would be an alliance against Faust, and it would be an alliance to attack, not simply a defense pact.

To be honest, it doesn’t matter much to Irene that the ignorant attack Faust. The ignoramuses walk into the abyss of hell on their own, but don’t you have the loyalty to hold on to them?

But Great Forest is different.

Although she hadn’t seen her once in thousands of years, the Great Forest was a place of love and hatred for her.

“Is that only the opinion of His Majesty the Emperor?”

“It’s not like that. Everyone in the system said that they wanted it with one voice, but as a local aristocrat, I don’t know how the hell the center is going… Hmmm.”

The aristocrat, who was talking about the situation of the empire, soon picks up his words for the sake of face, perhaps because he was embarrassed to talk about his incompetence and petulance, but Irene doesn’t bother to pay attention to such an aristocrat.

Evaluating or remembering these nobles one by one, because Irene, who has lived for thousands of years, does not have the brain capacity left to use such luxury.

“Anyway, it was just a business relationship, but I’m grateful for the noble’s kindness to tell you this information.”

“It’s all about information… Well, isn’t it a fact that you’ll find out sooner or later anyway? Well, if you think it’s a courtesy, please increase the appraised value of the item to match the courtesy.”

“Is it possible?”

While appraising the price of the jewels brought by the nobleman, Irene is deeply troubled.

The question is whether Daesoorim’s madness should be properly captured or not.

Faust, whom Irene has seen so far, is a devil with a very forgiving personality who will not attack unless provoked first. Of course, as the essence is a devil, there are a lot of cases where he unintentionally causes damage to the surroundings, but even that is not what he intended, so there is a high probability that he will solve it if he asks for it to be resolved.

And the fact that the essence is a devil also means that when attacked, of course, it will return the corresponding price.

‘Why are you trying to touch me?’

If he were an ordinary devil, he would not object to the Great Forest’s decision, but Faust is certainly not an ordinary devil. Wasn’t it a devil beyond common sense who played with the drunken Belial?

Of course, it is understandable since the Great Forest and the Empire suffered great damage from the devil’s aggression, but no matter how big the power difference is, it’s not impossible.

To Irene, who has lived quietly for thousands of years, life is the most precious thing, so Irene judges the Great Forest and the Empire’s actions as the stroke of the young.

“Arwen, it’s time to go back soon.”

“Is that so…?”

“…let’s go to the great grove.”

After the departure of a small local nobleman who came to sell her goods, Irene finally decides to get closer to the Great Forest after thousands of years of exile.

No matter how much she abandoned herself, even if she was kicked out, no matter how much she cursed her, Irene couldn’t stand to see Dae Su-rim, who was nothing to her but everything to her, commit suicide.

***********

“lol…”

Lucia, who eventually gave up on me, is sitting alone in the corner of the guest room, stroking the sentence carefully and smiling.

Without really paying attention to the meeting about what to do next.

“Well… it’s all like that at first. I totally understand. That, the feeling of being connected is really nice, so when you experience it for the first time, you want to forget everything and just focus on that.”

Seeing Lucia like that, Iris raised her hand on the sentence in the same way and said as if she understood.

No, that’s not even a drug, what the hell is that metaphor… It’s simply magic that shares feelings and senses to foresee danger.

“…Anyway, I’ll tell you what to be careful of in the future.”

In any case, there was no time to keep paying attention to Lucia. Everyone needs to know what to do and what will happen.

Lucia is also just fooling around like that, but first of all, you’ll be listening to what I’m saying through the sharing of sentences, so it’s okay to just say it.

“If you go to Ayluse, the city of wizards, ignore or avoid the attention of wizards as much as possible.”

“You’re ignoring me…?”

“As it is said, only knowledge is valued as the highest value, so you, who are strangers and have various characteristics, can receive more attention than necessary. If it is serious… you will be kidnapped.”

Of course, not everyone is weak enough to be easily kidnapped, but you still have to be careful.

Even in the original Noah, the hero was kidnapped.

…Coming to think of it, I don’t think it would be bad for me to just go alone without having to take risks…