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Strangely, the back of my neck felt cold from earlier.
A little bit, yeah. It was chilling, as if something bad was about to happen. Why is he doing this? I think I said this before, but my ominous hunch  boasts a high accuracy rate.
I trusted my intuition, which had been trained for more than 200 yearsㅡI was usually busy denying it, but I decided to trust it todayㅡI thought calmly. No, to be precise, I made up my mind.
Although I don’t know who it is, I won’t let you go if you give me trouble while I’m barely at peace.
How I won’t let you go, well. I’ll think about it step by step. There are many ways. If I’m having a hard time doing it alone, I can ask Dante for a favor, and…
The moment I thought that far, I heard someone running.
“Sister Ei!”
Hearing the urgency in that voice, I involuntarily turned around and saw red hair that was tangled and messed up.
The sweat on his face, his eyes shaking, his breath taking in rapid intervals. Ivan, who appeared at the end of that hallway, had a face that clearly showed that he had come running in a hurry.
In addition to that, an uneasy look.
“Sister.”
After barely uttering a single word and catching his breath again, Ivan looked at me.
“Please stop the Master of the Magic Tower!”
“…What are you talking about?”
“The Master of the Magic Tower… now.”
It was hard to hear Ivan’s words cut off every time he exhaled. What about Dante? What else.
Why do I get anxious when only the name Dante is mentioned, I wonder. Why on earth?
Ah, why?
I tried to ignore the habitual pounding in my head.
“The Master of the Magic Tower and Brother Kade are fighting.”
“Huh? No, all of a sudden?”
“I think Brother Kade will die at this rate, sister. He might really die.”
Ivan’s eyes were filled with fear and impatience. As if he really believes that Dante will hurt Kade.
Apparently, the fact that the two were fighting didn’t mean a light fight or war of nerves. It would have been better if it was something like that.
It definitely reminded me of Dante, who had said earlier that he wouldn’t fight with his comrades. Your  voice that answered was so calm, yeah, I’ll never fight them, to my words.
By the way, he’s not fighting, he’s half-killing them.
You say you don’t fight, you liar.
Apparently, I trusted Dante too easily. Even in the midst of a quick stream of short thoughts, Ivan’s eyes looking at me couldn’t hide his nervousness.
There were so many thoughts that came to my mind when I saw those eyes, but in the end there was only one thing I could say.
“…Where are those two now?”
The sound of running footsteps filled the hallway again.
***
K5.
His sight was scattered in a messy red color.
Another cough, which he couldn’t tell how many times it had happened, crossed his throat again, and Kade couldn’t stand it and spat it out. Cough, what came out of his mouth with a fairly loud sound was dark red blood. In an instant, the corners of his mouth turned bloody.
In fact, not only the corners of his mouth, but his entire body was covered in red. Blood continued to ooze from the tattered wounds filling every nook and cranny of his body, and there was even a fairly deep cut on his abdomen. A scar as if a huge knife had slashed the upper body in an oblique line.
While his whole body was complaining of pain, his head was also hurting in the aftermath of excessive spirit summoning. Thanks to that, his eyes shook wildly, and the purple magic circle floating on the hand of the Master of the Magic Tower became blurry and clear again.
His right arm hadn’t moved since earlier. The sky-blue hair that hung down to his waist had been cut almost in half as he evaded the merciless attack, and his glasses had long since been broken.
And perhaps, his ribs had been broken as he had just been slammed into a crack in the wall.
No, it would have been broken. If it wasn’t for that, he wouldn’t have been sick all over from coughing like this.
The Master of the Magic Tower slowly approached him as he sat down while exhaling his rough breath.
He didn’t do anything to the subject that was close enough to be covered with his own shadow, yet just looked down at him. Unable to bear the gaze, Kade was the first to speak.
“It seems that now it’s possible for one to use magic without having to look at the book.”
“…”
The Master of the Magic Tower was silent, then answered in a calm voice.
“Not all magic originally requires books.”
“Indeed, yes. If it’s none other than attack magic, you’ll be used to it.”
It was used so much during the war. Despite the sarcastic remarks, the Master of the Magic Tower’s expression didn’t change.
This was the face Kade knew. Even when he attacks, when he kills people, he doesn’t show his emotions at any moment.
If you want to see that expression change, you just have to bring up the topic of a specific person.
That fact was astonishing. Really.
Kade wanted to put arsenic on himself, not on anyone else, because of the emotions rising from the depths of his heart.
“You’ve managed to cut me some slack, Master of the Magic Tower.”
“… What does that mean?”
“Don’t pretend you don’t know. You and I know that if you really wanted to kill me, I wouldn’t be alive.”
Obviously, the magic flying toward him didn’t feel like a joke, but at the same time, it didn’t feel sincere either.
More precisely, the intention was to attack him, yet he didn’t intend to kill him. Yeah, didn’t that keep him breathing like this?
He was a man who had been so cruel on the battlefield. No matter how much Kade responded by summoning the spirit, it would be nothing to him who had surpassed the realm of one field, yet the Master of the Magic Tower didn’t kill Kade until the end, even though he broke his bones.
The reason was simple. His purpose wasn’t to kill Kade.
In the end, what the Master of the Magic Tower was doing to him was a simple way to vent his anger.
“Are you angry at what I said?”
At the sarcastic voice,the Master of the Magic Tower’s eyes seemed to be slightly wrinkled. Another remark following that response.
“Then you are admitting to yourself.”
Before long, the face of the Master of the Magic Tower slowly distorted. Was the emotion he felt the moment he confirmed the change pleasant or unpleasant?
“You’re not the kind of person who gets mad at bullshit, are you?”
Kade let out a small laugh at the end of those words, when a chilling voice rang above his head.
“Looks like you still have the strength to laugh.”
When the magic circle appeared on the hand of the Master of the Magic Tower once again, and Kade’s eyes were stained with tension as he looked up at him.
A calm voice passed between them.
“Dante.”
Startled by that voice, the Master of the Magic Tower’s gaze turned to the side.
Soon, the white hand touched his wrist, and the wildly fluttering magic was captured in an instant. It was a neat and quick nullification, as if he was trying to hide the fact that he had used magic.
However, the person who ended this situation with the act of holding his wrist didn’t even react.
“Stop. If you do anything more, that guy will die.”
It was too much composure for having a bloody person in front of him.
When he raised my head as if he was possessed, what he saw were calm brown eyes as usual.
Kade couldn’t read the emotion in those eyes. Perhaps he didn’t want to.
“You said you weren’t going to fight, turns out you were fighting excitedly.”
The brown eyes that had been glancing at Kade rolled and turned towards the Master of the Magic Tower. For a moment, the Master of the Magic Tower avoided her gaze with a dark expression.
“First of all, alright. We’ll talk about that later.”
Ei shook her head roughly and stood crookedly.
“What the hell is going on?”
“…”
No one was the first to answer that question.
***
To the end, Dante refused to tell me what he had been told.
However, I couldn’t listen to Ivan, who had nothing to do with this matter, or Lily, who was away to contact the Imperial Palace. After all, it was from Kade that I got the summary of the situation.
As much as I really didn’t want to hear from this guy.
“So I asked. Because I was curious.”
“You asked because you were curious.”
“Yes.”
To put it bluntly, Dante deserved to be angry. I understood why he had caused such a stir right after being told not to fight.
However, this wasn’t to say that the situation was pleasant.
As if his monocle had been bitten while fighting, Kade had a bare face with nothing to cover. One of his glasses was just missing, but I could see that he was ashamed of something, trying to avoid my eyes and talking as nonchalantly as possible.
Is he being wary now? If he is, it’s way too late.
“Excuse me, Sir Kade.”
This was really serious advice from my heart, for that guy. Because if this happened the same way, there would be no second time.
“Don’t cross the line.”
Your meddlesome has gone too far.