Chapter 501 – 40. The Empire of Dezac – The Darkness Permeates the Empire (13)

“Hmm. The academy entrance is already the day after tomorrow.”

“……? …Ah.”

At the words of Natalie, the owner of the magic tower, Valdes belatedly let out a sigh.

The fact that I forgot about this and that for the past two weeks.

The time has come when the leisurely days become busy and tiresome in earnest.

Natalie, who invited Valdes to the top floor of the Imperial Magic Tower and had a conversation with him, burst into laughter at his reaction to her. I’m sure he wasn’t forgetting it at all, but his expression and voice mixed with sighs looked so cute.

“Weren’t you expecting admission?”

“I expected it. But…”

Valdez paused for a moment and pondered.

What should I answer here to make Natalie like it more?

Fortunately, Natalie spoke first before he could answer.

“Yes, I heard the test results too. Not as much as I thought, right?”

“Ahaha…”

“I only warmed up my body lightly, but I was in 7th grade easily. I’m sure the other kids were at the same level.”

“…”

“You would have expected your own expectations after hearing the rumors, but the level of the Imperial Academy is not that high.

Thanks to Natalie’s misunderstanding, Valdez could easily agree with her.

In fact, even if it was a way to stay in the empire for a long time, it was just that I didn’t like being with children. No matter how much he thought of the plan and hanging out with young people, he considered himself to be of a high mental age.

If Mercedes or Kang Yu-ri had heard his thoughts of him, he would have burst into laughter.

“It’ll be pretty fun though. It’s only half a year anyway, right?”

“That’s right.”

Half a year.

Half a year is said, but in reality it is shorter than that.

A semester at the academy is approximately 4 months and 15 days, or 18 weeks.

Attendance at the graduation ceremony is not certain yet, so if you set it as a minimum, the remaining time to stay is about 5 months.

If it was enough, it was enough, and if it was tight, it was a tight time.

“Didn’t you say you’ve been a mercenary since you were little? Then especially. I think that originally, kids should gather like this and influence each other.”

“Affect…”

“Yes. That’s why I like the Imperial Academy very much. I think the emperor did a good job of expanding the academy and increasing the number of people. …Well, the intentions are impure. Ah. This is a secret?”

She smiles as she places her finger over her lips.

Even though she is the owner of the Magic Tower, she usually looks like a lame person, but she shows a grown-up look from time to time.

“Haha, of course.”

“Perhaps I knew it roughly while traveling…. The emperor has a clear goal. It’s so clear that others can’t notice it. Ha, no matter how much I think about it, in my generation, I’m sure…. No, no. It wasn’t.”

“Ah, I already know everything I know.”

“But it can’t be. You are already a colleague of the hero, and you must have been a mercenary who solved many requests, but you are still a child. A child… Deserves to be protected and taken care of.” “

A broken voice that wasn’t like her.

No, that’s what Natalie always said when talking about her children.

As of today, she has met her less than ten times, but in each of her meetings she has said this at least once. Thanks to this, even Valdez, who was trying to use this, gradually became curious about her past her. Usually these beliefs are based on things that happened in the past.

‘I haven’t been able to ask because it’s still vague.’

Surprisingly, there was not much information about Natalie.

The demon intelligence unit also couldn’t find out much.

That’s because Natalie rose to prominence after Robert’s death.

The hemp master, who was even secretly jealous of his talented student her, wrapped Natalie tightly and reduced her exposure her to the outside world. Thanks to that, she says that even becoming the master of her mage tower her was quite arduous.

‘A piece of trash.’

In fact, the rhetoric of jealousy is only Valdez’s personal opinion of him.

Roberta isn’t dead, but she’s stuck in a dungeon quite far from herself, so she hasn’t asked about Natalie yet. Looking at the situation, she thought then she would ask, because sooner or later she will be brought secretly to the islands.

‘I’m sure he’s from an orphan, but I don’t know if he’s a commoner or an aristocrat.’

Certainly nothing.

Thanks to that, I was getting closer to Natalie just by building a friendship.

And that was enough for her.

“Um, yes. Now that it’s like this, should I give a lecture at the academy too?”

“Yes? Natalie?”

“Yeah. It’s impossible to become a professor… Maybe once or twice in the name of a special lecture? Thinking about it, it sounds like fun.”

Looking at Valdes, Natalie said that and smiled gently.

She had met her about ten times now, but anyone could tell that Natalie had a crush on Valdez.

Eyes like looking at a child innocently, not rationally.

Since she was an orphan from the moment she was born, and even her relationship her with the demon king, who could be called her second parent her, was not normal, it was the first time Valdez had looked at her. Because of that, whenever she was watching Natalie, she felt burdened for some reason.

‘I still have to put up with it.’

The key to Natalie’s capture of her is to change her gaze of her, as if she were looking at her child of her, into the opposite sex.

The answer was simple, but the process was going to be very arduous.

To Natalie, Valdez is just a child who is fragile and needs to be protected.

In order to change her perception of her, she would have to show a fairly different side of herself, but her problem is that she is the owner of her imperial mage tower of her.

Natalie, who had many problems in her inauguration of her, eventually became the owner of the Mage Tower, not because she was Robert’s apprentice, but because she was the strongest and most competent wizard in the Mage Tower.

‘Still, if only Natalie can do something, the Mage Tower itself will become easier.’

Unlike the military, where the vertical relationship and hierarchy are certain, the Mage Tower is free-spirited.

Even so, the authority and authority of the owner of the Mage Tower were certain.

All of these were the achievements of Roberta, the former master of the Mage Tower.

“Special lecture… I like it. If it’s Natalie-sama’s lecture, probably all the students would like to listen to it and apply for it.”

“Ahaha. That’s worrying in a different way.”

Natalie snapped her fingers with a cool smile.

Then, from the sofa behind Valdez, a woman’s voice was heard with a booming sound, “Ah Kong!”

It was Adele.

Valdez knew of her existence her from the moment she arrived in her magic circle with her invisibility spell on her, but she pretended to be surprised by turning her back her as if she did n’t know anything of her. She, of course, still had a grim face, dissatisfied.

“Do too much, Master!”

“Hmph. So, who tried to play a prank so that everyone could see it?

“I don’t think Valdez didn’t know…”

When Adele brushes him off, all he can do is shrug her shoulders.

She sat down next to Valdez, stomping ferociously at a small block of ice that had landed on her head.

“Oh, my head hurts…”

“It’s okay?”

“No, it hurts. Look at this.”

Even though the other person was a man, he stuck out his silver gray hair.

If he was actually an adolescent boy of that age, he would have been nervous about the fragrant smell wafting from his older sister’s hair his, but of course that was n’t the case. Instead, he calmly examined his head of her and pressed his hump of her.

“Ah! Why do you press it!”

“More than that, Adele. Maybe thanks to that, you’re a bit taller than you wanted?”

“Don’t talk nonsense!

Haha. You don’t seem to be fooled here either.”

“How do you treat people…”

Natalie smiled heartily at the two of them, bickering and getting along well.

Since the recent return of Princess Wilhelmina 1, Theresia has always stuck with her older sister her.

Wilhelmina accepted it readily at first, but after about two weeks she seemed to get fed up with it, but not on her sister’s side of her. She hung around as if someone were going to take it away, and often hung out with the warriors’ party.

Natalie and Adele were harmed thanks to this.

More precisely, it was Natalie.

When she loses her only friend her, she becomes entangled with her teacher her instead of her brother with whom she does n’t get along.

The result of making a special move to get rid of such Adele was Valdes.

Remembering Adele, whose eyes lit up at the story he told her when they first met, she often called Valdes to ask her to talk. Of course, at the same time, she also had many conversations with Valdes and was able to learn about his past his.

In any case, Adele has regained her energy and has made new friends.

Even though I’m a few years younger, it’s rare to examine such things deeply.

“… Sorry.”

Natalie smacked her lips.

I’m really sorry.

Adele and Theresia, who can be said to have no friends other than each other.

Even with the introverted Theresia, Adele had a bright personality, but on the contrary, that was her weakness. She is full of talent with a very lively personality. That’s more than enough to buy everyone else’s envy.

Even though she was secretly bullied once, she stayed still with a smile, until she found out later that Natalie took care of her business her. The four people who led her bullying were expelled from her mage tower her with her own hands, and her family her was also sanctioned.

‘Adele and Theresia are like my own children. I think Valdes would suit me well….’

I heard that the emperor is trying to appease the warrior party with rational feelings.

Furthermore, even the rumors in the Holy Kingdom and the Ulstro Kingdom.

I don’t know which one is true, but it seemed difficult for Adele and Valdes to build feelings beyond friendship.