Chapter 121 – The Father and the Daughter (01)

“Huh… Huh… Huh…!”

I don’t know if it’s altitude sickness or because it’s too hard, but I don’t come back out of breath.

Originally, it would have taken a day to travel by carriage, but in reality, due to practical problems, we took a full day by carriage, stayed overnight near a stable, and set off at dawn, but even now that the sun is setting and the moon is rising, we are still there. Couldn’t arrive.

‘You live too far away!!’

Originally, the location of the [Star Wizard] Family was a special observation facility installed in a basin in an alpine area.

In other words, to translate it into a modern facility, it was an astronomical observatory.

Fortunately, modern astronomical observatories have cable cars, railroad tracks, and even helipads to manage various materials, so you can go back and forth by helicopter, but the world in this game is a fantasy world based on the Middle Ages.

There is nothing like that.

I heard that there is an airship, but it is too expensive for a student like me to use, and the population density here is low, so the airship does not come.

“Ugh… I’m really going crazy.”

The good news is that even if I wander the mountain path at night like this, my trait [Star Wizard] Tells me the coordinates of my current location, so I don’t get lost.

In the first place, the invitation that Alice gave was a coordinate system written in a torn diary, and she was wandering around a place without a proper path, looking for coordinates.

“Wow… I’m really throwing up.”

If my stamina level was less than 200, I would have given up halfway and just went down.

However, even in the high mountainous area, my vitality is not diminished, so I held on and barely made it up. I thought about giving up in the middle, but the way down was dark and I couldn’t see, and I couldn’t go back without any results after coming this far, so I was climbing up hard.

Although it is called an astronomical observatory, it is not a facility with lights shining from below like the observatories I often see, but only an astronomical telescope installed in a hidden space between the shadows of the mountain range. Thanks to that, I would have guessed it would have been this mountain if Alice had not taken the coordinates. I almost got lost while repeating look…

‘It will be after 1 am when I arrive’

Since no monsters appeared in such a harsh mountainous region, the sword of the famous family and the old iron sword were roughly tied with a string and dragged along.

I discovered a wild goat habitat along the way, and had a snowball fight with guys whose eyes glowed ominously in the dark. I barely managed to climb up the path created by people passing by, and a dark building came into view, as if it had been eaten by a black shadow.

‘Are we here?’

I looked at the starry sky and calculated the coordinates, and this was the right place.

As I approached the front of the building, panting and sweaty from hiking all day, there was a large door for large equipment and a small door for people to come and go. I approached the small door and pounded on it with my fist.

Bang bang bang.

“Come on… Come out…!”

There was no way the words would come out nicely.

Because this place was a place that made people extremely angry.

Because it’s an alpine area, it’s chilly. It’s early morning and there’s dew, so my clothes are all wet.

After climbing the mountain all day, my shoes were full of dirt, the soles of my feet were swollen, my whole body was covered in sweat, and I had a completely natural smell.

“Alice… Alice come out… !”

Boom boom boom quao.

As I was banging on the door, I heard the sound of something crashing and collapsing from inside, and as I was waiting with my strength drained out of breath… The small sliding door at the top of the door opened, and someone hiding inside was observing me.

“Who are you?”

It was a soft male voice.

There was a golden characteristic, [Star Wizard], Floating around his eyes.

Could it be Alice’s older brother or something like that?

When I lifted up the Celestial Academy uniform that I had tied around my waist because it was hot and showed him, he said something embarrassing.

“I’m sorry for making you come here, but we don’t have money… So we can’t buy those expensive-looking clothes…”

“Not a miscellaneous merchant… Ha… Here it is.”

When I show him the patchy paper soaked with sweat from my palm, he closes the sliding door and opens the door.

“Coordinates according to constellations… Is this text Alice’s?”

“Yes. “I came to Alice’s invitation.”

I felt sorry for going inside in such a sweaty and exhausted state, but a man who looked a lot like Alice let me in and the first thing he did was take something like a cloth and wrap it around my body.

I accepted it gratefully, perhaps because my body temperature had already dropped due to the early morning hike, but this man, not knowing what to do in front of me, climbed up the ladder to the second floor and called someone.

“Father… I was in the middle of research right now…”

“Alice, friend… You’re here.”

Was it my father, not my brother?

Alice, who had been called in wearing comfortable clothes, stiffened as she saw me covered in fatigue and sweat.

“W-Wolf… How did you come…”

“I asked you to come.”

“I didn’t know it would really come… But…”

…What? Did you just give it to me based on the mood?!

Then I came for no reason!

“Um, is he…” “A scary person?”

Seeing my father trying to hide behind Alice and Alice trying to back away from me somehow makes me feel like I’ve become the bad guy.

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First, we rented a bathroom and had a quick wash. As expected from a prestigious wizarding family, there were plenty of heating stones to boil water on their own.

Thanks to this, after basking in the warm water, my body, which had been irritated on the way up here, was cleansed. Alice and her father were politely waiting in front of me, kneeling down.

“Why are you like this, father?”

“Ah, so… I’m grateful… For being close to our Alice…”

This is my first time seeing a father character like this.

No, in some ways, I have a similar personality to Alice, so I wonder if they are father and daughter…

“Uhm… Uhm… Hmm?”

Alice must have told me a lot about her life at the academy, and her father was watching me with interest.

Then, as if he suddenly realized something, he cautiously asks Alice.

“Alice… Is that kid… “

Did he read the [Star Wizard] Trait residing in my body? My father was asking Alice with a serious expression.

“Your child?”

“Yes?!”

“You had an accident at the academy without my knowledge… And it turns out it was my mother?”

Alice was so embarrassed by those words that she couldn’t even make an excuse and looked away with her face turning red. She, too, was shocked and touched her forehead.

“No, that’s… Possible!”

“Kids grow up quickly these days…”

No, adult mode aside, even if you crash as soon as you go to the academy, aren’t you 2 years old at most by this time?

“No? No?”

“No…”

“Then how do you have the characteristics of a [Star Wizard]?”

“Well, that’s…”

Alice couldn’t explain it, and I couldn’t explain it either.

Wouldn’t it be possible to say that I have the martial skill of Companion Trainer and that I obtained the [Star Wizard] Trait by using it to do various things with Alice?

And that’s right in front of Alice’s co-producer.

In the end, that happened and the atmosphere became awkward again.

“Take it easy, take it easy.”

“How can I be comfortable when guests come to my house…?”

‘No, I am the landlord!’

“Well, you’re still young, but you’re really young. Are you old enough to enter the academy now?”

At those words, Alice pokes her side and whispers something.

“A classmate? With that face?”

‘I’m sorry for making that face…’

If you say you don’t believe my age because I’m young, Alice’s father is also pretty young, so I thought he was older than me.

‘Looking at it this way, Sir Andre and Yujiro’s father were much more comfortable people.’

“Well, then… Let’s play together like friends. Dad has a meteor shower to watch right now.”

Alice’s father, unable to overcome the awkwardness, opened the large door as if running away and ran into the main building. Alice tried to follow her father in a hurry, but was caught in my gaze and froze in place.

“Why… Why…?”

As I was silently glaring at her, Alice covered herself with that unique expression that looked like she was about to cry.

“Well… I can’t… In front of my father… If you show me like that… I…”

“You think I’m an animal?!”

No, no matter how much of an animal he is, he would not touch the daughter in front of her father her.

“I just came to my friend’s house after being invited.”

“…Ugh…”

“So. If I called you, wouldn’t you have something to say?”

At my words, Alice started to panic and then opened her mouth with a tearful expression.

“Chi, it’s my friend’s first time coming here… I don’t know…”

“…”

My headache hurts.

Why do I have to come here and suffer like this?

My father was uncomfortable because of me, Alice was uncomfortable, and I was also very uncomfortable on the way home.

“Uh, so… Do you feel bad?”

“It’s bad, then. I personally invited you to come here, but I don’t know what to do… I feel like I’m an uninvited guest.”

“Hey… Are you okay…? Go, do you want to touch your breasts…?”

‘Why suddenly?’

As I was glaring at Alice with her eyes wide open, Alice shrugged her shoulders again and got scared.

“Where did you learn that word?”

“Well, that… In the book… Men like it when you say that…”

“It will also vary depending on the situation and time!”

Since I have a father, I can’t scold him too much, but I still have to correct this wrong knowledge.

Wouldn’t it be a big problem if I made a mistake in my father’s presence?

“Yeah, I’m sorry… I guess you don’t want to touch me… ?”

“No, I’m going to touch it now.”

“Huh…?”

As I approached Alice, who was embarrassed, and placed my hand on her chest and held her still, I felt my anger and frustration subside a little.

As she holds the soft lump in her hand through her thin pajamas, she begins to feel at ease little by little…

“You can’t say things like that carelessly. Do you understand?”

“Ugh…”