Chapter 85 – Magic Tower (3)

“Black… ! Hehe… ! I missed you. Evan… !”

Sylvia, as soon as I applied for a visit, she clung to me like a gum scab and didn’t think it would come off. I took her to the corner of her shed and brushed her hair, waiting for her to stop crying. While I couldn’t see her, she had changed a lot.

“What. What’s the matter? Huh? Why are you here You came to the Mage Tower to become a wizard.”

Her face was full of dirt, and her fingers were calloused. I rubbed her pretty hands and looked around her. The warehouse people were busy doing their own thing, as if they didn’t care that we were hugging each other in the corner.

Sylvia held onto me for a long time, shedding her tears, then she hugged me tightly and said,

“That is… Therefore…”

She started her explanation by tracing her memory.

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In fact, she wasn’t initially assigned to this warehouse area. Since she was a senior student who rarely visited the small tower, after a few months of apprenticeship, she was scheduled to be assigned to the upper class immediately, she said.

“By the way, it’s Mobius… A very high wizard came to the Mage Tower.”

“Mobius? Who is the sage of the Hero party?”

I also vaguely knew the names of Hero’s party. Among them, Mobius, who was the most active externally, was a wizard who was a spy if he did not know. Sylvia nodded her head at my question.

“Yes. That’s him.”

“Why is that person?”

My question meant two things. Why did such a great wizard suddenly visit this small magic tower? And, what the hell does that wizard’s visit have to do with Sylvia’s present condition?

“That is…”

Sylvia wiped away her tears again. The smudges on her hands left mascara-like marks under her eyes. I wiped the stain with my hand on her and waited for her to calm down. Sylvia, who had been crying and shaking her shoulder for a long time, managed to gather her mind and start talking about her.

“… Well, he suddenly came and he raised his voice to the wizard who was in charge of me. She said she doesn’t know whose granddaughter this child is now.”

She couldn’t figure out what the hell was going on. Was Sylvia from such a high-ranking family? As far as I know, Sylvia was just told that she came from a commoner family, but did she get something wrong?

“Was Sylvia’s grandfather a special person?”

“He was a wizard. He was a mage who studied at the hemp tower, but I had never actually met him. By the way, Mobius-nim suddenly threatened me with the person in charge of me, saying that I am his granddaughter, and how I was thinking of learning magic. If you don’t kick them out right away, they’ll cut off your support for the Magic Tower, and won’t acknowledge your research papers or achievements.”

After Sylvia said that, she started whimpering again because of her emotions. After listening to her story, I patted her Sylvia on the back and said.

“Do you have a grudge against something?”

“… Later, when I asked someone else, they said that my maternal grandfather had a lot of objections to Mobius’ research theory. That’s why I heard that my maternal grandfather proved Mobius-sama wrong through an open discussion, and he’s retaliation for that…”

“He’s a small kid.”

Even if you just listened to it, he was a dirty little human being.

Having been humiliated in the debate, he could go as far as taking revenge on the individual. However, they try to stop the granddaughter from growing up as a wizard in the Mage Tower.

It was a level of pettiness that I couldn’t understand with my sensibilities. Isn’t the range of revenge strangely wide? I looked at the warehouse again. How hard she must have suffered in a place where her labor force was more important than magic.

“So, did the Magic Tower send you here?”

Sylvia nodded her head.

“Yes. Me too, I just can’t go back, so… At first, I decided to work here…”

“Did you? Why are people here always harassing you?”

Sylvia shook her head at my question.

“No. Everyone here is kind. Be good to me, and take good care of this and that. However…”

“However?”

It wasn’t Sylvia who answered my questions. From the direction of the center of the magic tower, a nervous voice was heard along with the sound of high heels.

“Sylvia! Sylvia! Where is Sylvia?”

Hearing her nerve-racking voice just from hearing her, Sylvia clung to me with a blatant frown on her face. The man who was directing the workers from a high place said with a very uncomfortable expression.

“Hey. Oh, if you don’t have any business, don’t just come in like this. The mood of the workers is getting worse and they can’t concentrate on their work.”

I looked up to see who was talking to the man. She was a wizard A woman with a very ordinary impression, wearing round glasses and sporting wavy hair, responded to the man with a nervous expression.

“Do you have a dragon? I’m here to see Sylvia. Where are you? He’s someone we sent down directly, so shouldn’t we manage it so he doesn’t get lazy?”

The man clicked his tongue and raised his finger to point in the direction we were. The woman turned her body to look at us and said,

“Sylvia! Why are you resting here? Aren’t you supposed to go to work soon? Is it all if you have a pretty face? Uh?”

“Who is this?”

I asked Sylvia in a low voice. Sylvia whispered to me in a quieter voice.

“You are a wizard in charge of managing the warehouse. He gets so angry every day when he sees me…”

I got up and said.

“Who are you to scream at our Sylvia like that?”

The wizard took one look at me with a slightly startled face, then rolled his eyes and then abruptly tucked his hair behind his ear to correct his posture. She stood proudly as if she would hit Sylvia’s head at any moment.

“Oh that… ! Who are you…”

Look at this year

I thought I knew roughly why this woman was doing this. I gave her one glance at Sylvia, then held out her hand to her and said,

“Ah yes. This is Silvia’s older brother. Did our Sylvia do anything wrong?”

“Ah, Sylvia had such a handsome brother… Oh, no. Sylvia is originally good, kind, and… He’s a good kid that, just that…”

The woman rolled her eyes, rummaged in her pockets for a moment, then pulled out one of her candies and held it out. And then she had the audacity to say:

“Hey, I’m here to give you something to eat. Eat something delicious.”

At first glance, it was a candy that was neither expensive nor tasty. It was more convincing that he had come to peel Sylvia instead of pumpkin seeds. I pretended to believe her and nodded, then said:

“Ah, that’s right. I came here today to visit my brother. Are you that busy?”

“Oh no! Hey, feel free to talk.”

The woman opened her eyes wide, shook her head, and let out an exaggerated laugh, as if asking when she had come to see Sylvia. Her flirtatious hand movements were disgusting. As she left, she continued to look at my face and smiled as she closed the door and left.

As soon as she was gone, the man spat on her floor and said,

“Amy, what an unlucky bitch. Today, I was going to pass quietly, but he came back again and gave me a bloody sickness.”

As soon as Sylvia confirmed that the woman was gone, she sprinted next to me and clung to me. I hugged her Sylvia and said.

“Has this happened often?”

“Oh, I can’t speak. It’s not once or twice that I bullied the hard-working kids for having smooth faces. She wags her tail at all the good-looking guys, and she’s a bit prettier than herself and has a nice body! Then they just rush in like a wolf cub and run out. One of our warehouse workers left because of it. I was the one who kept the paperwork.”

“This is serious. What do they say in the Magic Tower?”

The man laughed at my words.

“No, won’t you blink an eye if you ask the Mage Tower for something like this? Each and every wizard is precious, and everyone here is a part. Part. People who change in the blink of an eye. So, why is that woman so smart, she is doing so well with her superiors? Terrible bitch. Terrible bitch.”

The man shook his head as he spat on the floor as if he was in a bad mood just by talking about it. He tapped me on the shoulder and added:

“Don’t even think about getting involved. It’s a crazy bitch.”

Listening to it, she was more trashy than I thought. In other words, it also meant that she was a woman to play with one night and then throw away. I stroked Sylvia’s hair and fell into her troubles.

How the hell should I eat it so I don’t get upset?

How should I clean up after sex?

Her rather long legs and small breasts. And recalling her voluminous hips and tight skirt, I rolled her head.