Episode 145. The starting point of the waves.
[Verdin, let me explain from now on.]
“Is it Hagen?”
[right.]
“How did we get here?”
[It doesn’t matter how you got there. From now on, how you receive this story is important.]
“How do I take it?”
[Okay, so take a good look at my past. never coming back again. My precious memories.]
Easy profit-
The space changed and we moved to a room somewhere in Glaser Castle.
There, Gangrette was jumping around on the bed, complaining.
Why are the beds that wizards sleep on so soft, and why is the food they eat mainly vegetarian, not meat-based?
And most of my activities are reading books, eating food, packing what I ate, and sleeping when I feel sleepy. For nomads who hunted or trained physically 365 days a year, their lives were extremely boring and repetitive.
“Stop reading books!!!”
Gangrette took the lit candlestick, spun it around and threw it towards the study.
Not only that, but he was destroying all the furniture in the room with his two stone-like fists.
bang! bang! Bang bang!
It was not enough for the maid to stop her, so Hagen had no choice but to step forward and tie her up.
Sigh!
Only when the mana chains wrapped around her arms and legs did Gangret’s rampage stop.
“Let go man!!!”
“Calm down, nothing will change if you do this.”
“Nothing changes even after this? Ah yes, I guessed wrong. “Instead of destroying what’s here, I have to kill you to change things!”
“… No, then something will change. “That would be a bad direction, right?”
“Bad direction?”
“Yes, maybe if I get hurt at all by Mr. Gangret. “My father will not only kill you, but he will also exterminate the entire ‘Modi’ tribe in the west.”
Gangret’s eyes widened.
“Mumumu what!”
“Really. My father loves me very much. “Maybe it will be as I said, even if it only hurts a little on your face.”
“… Really?”
“Yes, if it seems like a lie, why not try it?”
Hagen showed his face with a bright expression.
“Take it away, you crazy bastard.”
“What a crazy guy. “You are speaking too harshly to your master on the subject of slavery.”
“slave? “Why am I a slave?”
“Because your father gave Mr. Gangret to me.”
“Then am I a slave?”
“That’s right, then I thought you brought me here to be my wife?”
“… No, it’s not like that in particular.”
Gangrette, who was talking, lowered his head deeply and continued speaking.
“Still, I thought you weren’t a slave. Ugh, huh… . “Aaaah!”
Gangret suddenly burst into tears.
When she began to cry, Hagen looked at the maid with an embarrassed expression.
She looked as if she was wondering what to do with this, but the maid also had no idea how to stop her from acting recklessly.
“… Gangrette, how old are you? “You look like you’re at least fifteen, so you shouldn’t act like a child.”
“fifteen? Are you kidding me! “I’m turning 30 this year!”
“?!”
“Even if I grow older, I would have eaten more than you. What are you talking about?”
“Oh, no, I… . “Mr. Gangret looks younger than I thought.”
“young? I?”
“Yes, to be honest, I thought it was around fifteen or sixteen. “I thought I was around 17 at most.”
Gangrette stopped crying and answered, wiping his red cheeks.
“… okay? “You mean I look that young?”
“yes.”
She glared at Hagen for a moment, then twitched her lips and smiled slightly.
“Maybe it’s because I’m a woman too, but it’s nice to hear that I look young.”
Hagen looked blankly at Gangrette.
He was at a loss as to what he was feeling for the first time. Suddenly, his heart pounded, time around him felt like it was passing slowly, and the surrounding smells came in deeply through his prolonged breathing.
“… “You like it?”
“huh.”
“I just told you that you were young.”
“Yeah, I like hearing that. Very good, let’s continue.”
“Well, it’s not that difficult-”
“And please do me a favor.”
“ask?”
Gangret chuckled and crossed his arms around Hagen.
“Uh, I guess I don’t know anyone here. So, I want you to bring me just one person from your hometown who can be a companion.”
“What are you going to do?”
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“Just to talk.”
“What will we do after we talk?”
“… No, are you stupid? Why would I want to talk to someone else? “Of course it’s because I’m bored!”
Hagen tilted his head as if he didn’t understand what she was saying.
This was inevitable because the wizard thought it would be better to read one more page of the book instead of having a useless conversation.
However, he did not refuse Gangrette’s request.
“I knew. “Then let’s ask your father to find someone who can come here.”
“Jooooooo! “If possible, I’ll ask you to be a fun kid!”
“Does it have to be a child?”
“As long as you don’t get old, everything is okay.”
“He is not old. All right.”
On this day, Hagen went straight to her hometown and brought a man with her.
His name was ‘Kangradra’, and as she requested, he did not age and was famous for being fun in the village.
“If you need anything else, just let me know.”
Hagen asked while reading five books at the same time, and Gangret answered, brushing away his long hair.
“I want to go get my hair cut. I read in a book that there is a place called a beauty salon outside. “I want to get my hair done there beautifully!”
“Salon?”
“Uh, you don’t know about the hair salon?”
“This is my first time hearing it.”
“… “Aren’t you noble?”
“you’re right.”
“But how come you don’t know about beauty salons? “It’s a place where nobles get their hair cut!”
He really didn’t know.
When wizards got their hair long, they either cut it off with scissors or just let it grow infinitely long and tied it up.
“You mean you want to cut your hair?”
“Yes, very pretty.”
“I knew.”
Hagen waved his finger, and cutting scissors flew out of the dresser.
Then, before Gangrette could even do anything, he cut off his hair in one piece.
square.
“… What are you doing?”
“You said you wanted to cut your hair, so I cut it the way you wanted.”
puck! Hagen’s jaw turned with a sound.
“You crazy bastard!”
I think I probably got scolded by Gangrette for about half a day that day.
Because if he even made eye contact with me, he would clench his fists and try to kill me.
Was it four days after that day? I found her again and asked.
“I need something… . “Is there more?”
Gangret said with a pouting expression.
“Are you trying to do something weird to me again?”
“no. “There was a misunderstanding back then, but that won’t happen anymore.”
“Really?”
“yes.”
“Are you sure?”
“sure.”
She glared harshly at Hagen, as if she couldn’t believe his words until the end.
“I want to eat cake.”
“Cake?”
“Yes, I read in the book that it is a food that is soft as a cloud, sweet as a ripe fruit, and the more you chew it, the more enchanting it tastes.”
Wizards don’t eat things like that.
Hagen wanted to say this, but he just nodded slightly.
“You mean it’s soft like a cloud, sweet like a fruit, and the more you chew it, the more ecstatic it tastes?”
“yes! I heard it melts in your mouth. Now look here, it’s in the book you gave me.”
Gangret opened the book and held it up.
The ingredients for making a cake were listed in a row, but Glazer Castle did not have the necessary oven.
“Combine eggs, sugar, and flour… . Baked and creamed… . All right.”
“Can you do it?”
“This is it. “Even if I look like this, I’m a 7th circle wizard, so why can’t I do it?”
The cake Hagen made that way was black.
The cream is obviously white, but how was it dyed black?
The method and ingredients for making a cake were written in the book, but the problem was that the cake was not depicted.
Gangrette also didn’t know what the cake looked like, so he swallowed his saliva as he looked at the black lump of bread.
“So, this is called a cake?”
“Maybe? “I made it exactly as written in the book.”
“… “It’s more amazing food than I thought.”
“That’s right. “It took quite a long time.”
Hagen’s sigh was heard from somewhere.
[I guess I haven’t seen Gangrette for about a month since I ate this cake.]
I felt a sense of emptiness in his monologue.
[But as time passed, she found me again.]
Gangret spoke to Hagen while holding up a book titled Encyclopedia of Mythical Animals.
“I want to see this.”
“… “A unicorn?”
“Yes, this horse has horns on its forehead. You know I’m a nomad, right? But I’ve never seen anything like this since I was born!”
“Of course, this is a non-existent animal. “It literally exists only in mythology, as written in the book.”
“So you’re saying you can’t find this word either?”
“yes?”
“It means that even you, a wizard, can’t show me this. What did you say? “Did you say he was a 6th circle wizard?”
“… “It’s Circle 7.”
“Anyway, whether it’s 6 or 7, why don’t you pretend to be awesome when you can’t even find a single horse like this!”
Blood appeared on young Hagen’s forehead.
“You can find it.”
“really?”
“sure.”
“Wow, you really are a 7th circle wizard!”
“… Yes.”
“Then get it by tonight. Are you showing it to me until then? “I really wanted to see this!”
Gangret hugged Hagen.
Hagen nodded slightly, looking into the distance.
“It’s a unicorn… .”
Hagen was worried.
How can we save the unicorn by evening?
It was impossible with the knowledge he had accumulated so far.
‘Can not help it.’
Since it’s like this, I have no choice but to make it.
Unable to find a way out, he headed to the stables.
Then, he filled the ‘Gorgon’s Horn’, an advanced magic spell material, with mana and forcibly drove it into the horse’s forehead.
Kwasik!
The horse, unable to overcome the pain, hit Hagen’s side with a hind kick while hitting his forehead.
Pow!
[Because of this, I broke my ribs and lay in bed all day.]
The moment when Verdin couldn’t stand the useless scenes that followed and was about to curse.
Gangret was seen stroking Hagen’s hair, giggling.
“Then what would you do if you die?”
“… Well, it wouldn’t have mattered if I died. “This too must have been fate.”
“fate?”
“Yes, all humans live as they are destined to in a given time.”
“Are you saying there is a limit to how long I can live?”
“Not just Gangrette, but everyone.”
“… okay?”
“yes.”
“Then that star over there will die someday?”
Hagen turned his head and looked in the direction she was pointing.
The stars fill the dark night sky and the moon emits intense light between them.
“That’s right. No, she might already be dead.”
“Already dead?”
“Yes, says the great Great Sage Galin. They say that the stars we see have already died, but the light that the stars shot towards here before they died is coming from very far away, so we can continue to see them. “One day, two days, three days, four days, no, even over a hundred days.”
“Really?!”
“Maybe.”
Gangrette strained his eyes and frowned.
“That’s right.”
“Isn’t it fascinating? So my teacher said that the stars are like loved ones.”
“lover?”
“Yes, even if the person you are in a relationship with dies for the rest of his life. And even if we are forgotten by others, they say that we become stars in each other’s hearts and illuminate the darkness.”
“I became a star… . Dara, who illuminated my heart.”
“That’s right.”
“It’s easy, but it’s difficult.”
“That’s right. “That’s what studying is.”
Hagen smiled brightly.
They lay in bed together and looked out the window at the night sky.
There was no further conversation. We just fell asleep while looking into the stars, the moon, and each other’s eyes.
But their happy times ended here.
The next day, his father, Yulgen, heard the news of Hagen’s injury and became angry.
“What on earth is this guy who pursues the end of knowledge doing?”
He gave the order to kill Gangret.
However, Hagen was strongly opposed to his position.
As the saying goes, no father can overcome his child. Yulgen could not break his stubbornness and instead made a suggestion.
“I’ll give you one year to complete the 8th circle spell.”
“Do you mean 8-circle magic within a year?”
“Yes, it is a level that is difficult for others to reach even if it takes a hundred years. “If you neglect your studies and have the talent to play, I will acknowledge your toy and not kill it.”
“… Gangrette is not a toy.”
“Yes, just a slave.”
Hagen could not refute his father’s words.
And I had to do the things he suggested.
‘Please wait a moment, Gangret.’
I will finish it soon and come back.
So Hagen headed straight to the Tower of Knowledge and devoted himself to his studies.
In order to save Gangrette, I had to complete the 8th circle magic by any means possible.
“west… . “It was a success.”
Exactly one year.
He ended up completing the 8-circle magic within the time given to him by his father.
Eight chains made of mana emanating from one’s body.
It was able to fly around like it was dancing and cut down everything around it.
Kagang!
Even steel was split.
“amazing!”
He was thrilled with his magic.
And he quickly returned to Glaser Castle to inform his father of this fact.
But by the time he arrived, his father had already gone to heaven.
“After a battle with Strange’s matriarch… .”
One of the vassals lowered his head.
After hearing the news, Hagen closed his eyes and looked at the sky.
“… father.”
He held the cold hand of his father, who lay in a coffin with Glazer’s emblem on it.
“sorry.”
He then closed his eyes and used a fire magic spell to burn him along with the spirits of the forest.
He prayed for the first and last time as he saw his father turning into smoke and flying into the sky.
‘I don’t trust you, but let me ask you a favor. If by any chance a country exists there and my father reaches it. ‘Tell him that he has achieved what he intended.’
Hagen lowered his head.
Someone came up next to him and lightly held his shoulder.
“Hagen.”
When I turned my head, there was Gangret.
“… how are you.”
“huh.”
The two didn’t talk for long.
I just said a short goodbye and left.
And after a few days passed, the two met again.
Hagen went to Gangret’s room first and asked to meet him.
“This baby… ?”
There was an identical looking baby lying in her bed.
“He is my son.”
“son?”‘
“huh.”
Hagen did not understand.
Obviously I’ve never slept with her.
So who is that child’s father?
‘no way.’
His gaze slowly passed to the side and stopped at the man standing blankly next to Gangret.
He is Gangrad, a man whom Gangrad brought from his hometown because he wanted to talk.
Looking at the color of the eyes, it was clearly the child of those two.
[The moment I saw the baby lying next to Gangrette, an unknown anger boiled over.]
[But I didn’t express my feelings toward her.]
[It would have been funny if something like that had happened, because it’s like a noble getting angry over the fact that a slave is pregnant.]
Verdin scratched his forehead.
Hagen sighed heavily and continued the conversation.
[Afterwards, three more children were born between them.]
“three? “So you’ve just been watching Gangrette all this time?”
[What would you have done if it were you?]
Verdin remained silent in response to Hagen’s question.
[At the time, I couldn’t find the answer.]
[So I just waited for time to pass.]
[May all emotions be erased from my heart.]
“Emotions are erased from my heart.”
[As time passed, Gangrette’s eyes grew colder.]
“Gangret’s eyes?”
[Yes, he said I had changed and stopped talking to him for some time.]
“How have you changed?”
[I don’t know about that either. Because we didn’t talk about it. Anyway, we became increasingly distant, and I ended up having a child with a partner from the family.]
“Is that Edward?”
[That’s right, I was blessed to have a child. But, as you know, Edward had a falling out with Gangrette’s children, whom I had given him as my own. at last… .]
Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow
Space warped to reveal the day after Edward slaughtered his brothers.
“please… . Please do not forgive Edward, Hagen. “He killed all my children!”
[I knew it too.]
However, since those who tried to kill him first were the children of Gangret and Gangrad, I had no choice but to respect the choice of Edward, Glazer’s last hope, and guide him.
So he spoke even more harshly to Gangrette.
“After all, weren’t you my slave? “Unlike you, Edward was my wife’s child, so he was naturally going to be the head of the family.”
[You can hate me, you can hate me, you can resent me.]
“… No, but isn’t he a sinner who killed his brother?”
Her eyes were red and filled with tears.
I turned my head and answered so as not to reveal my emotions.
“If you have done something deadly, you should die. “From what I heard, I heard that Edward suffered a lot from those kids as well.”
[I’m sorry, Gangrette.]
“Mr. Hagen.”
[Do not call my name.]
“Okay, go out and have a look. “Anyway, I have no regrets about those born with lowly blood.”
I will free you from the name Glazer that has bound your arms and legs, so forget all your memories here and start living anew.
“Master Hagen!”
My relationship with you ends here.
My star, my moon, my light.
“… Get out of this room right now, Gangret. “I will make sure not to see you from today onwards.”
My love, Gangrette.
“I wish I had never met you from the beginning.”
[This is how we broke up. Today, I want to show you all these facts and ask you one favor.]
Verdin answered with his arms crossed.
“What is that?”
[I will tell you who the apostle who took your mother, Verdandi, is.]
“?!”
[Instead, you take Gangret away from Castle Glaser and take him to a safe place.]
“… … .”
[Please, Verdin.]
fantasy,
