Chapter 33 – Reasons for Distrust (6)
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Scarlett Bunnings was born into the Countess Bunnings family.
As the youngest child of one son and two daughters, she received various educations as a noblewoman from an early age.
And it was Scarlett who received the most support for her education.
The Bunnings family has been a famous wizard family for generations.
As befits her name, Burnings specializes in fire magic, and not only the matriarch, but Scarlett’s older sister and her older brother also specialize in fire magic.
In order to continue the legacy, the head of the family and Scarlett’s mother also accepted a nobleman who specialized in fire magic.
Within such a family, Scarlett had a large amount of magical power and stood out for her talent since she was young.
The Bunnings matriarch, Scarlett’s mother, as well as her older brother and older sister were delighted with Scarlett’s talent and showered their attention and love on her.
When she was young, Scarlett had a happy childhood, receiving everyone’s love and attention.
Even after entering her academy, Scarlett always came out on top.
Her innate confidence and curiosity about magic caught the attention of her academy teachers.
And Scarlett graduated from her academy at the top of her class.
Her family is also proud of her for graduating from her academy at the top of her class.
You said you were the pride of the family.
At that time, Scarlett thought that this moment was her happiest moment.
But that happiness soon fell off a cliff.
After graduating from her academy, Scarlett wanted to prove her skills to the world.
Scarlett’s opinion was agreed upon by all of her family.
If this were a peaceful era, she would have been content with being the top student at the academy and quietly encouraged to live her noble life.
However, she decided that it would be more honorable for the family to join the hero’s party and achieve results than to remain calm in the current situation where demons and heretics are secretly plotting to revive the Demon King.
When she first headed to her guild, Scarlett was full of dreams and hopes.
She can become prouder of the family.
If she is active, she can be loved more by her family.
You can see more of her family’s happy faces.
Scarlett’s motivation was less about showing off her own magic and more about earning the favor of her loving family.
She met her first warrior at the guild and formed her own party.
Everyone was happy to hear Scarlett’s pseudonym and that the famous wizard of the Bunnings family had become their colleague.
The one-month journey went smoothly.
The academy’s difficulty level F monsters were no problem even with the skills of the newly formed warrior party, and they were easily defeated using Scarlett’s magic.
As the party gradually improved their skills, they were able to hunt monsters of difficulty E and difficulty D.
And the problem a month later.
It happened on the way to the next village.
While the warrior party with Scarlett was moving, a group of monsters consisting only of difficulty level D or higher attacked.
The party, which usually only dealt with at most 3 monsters in a row, was suddenly attacked by more than 10 monsters.
My first time experiencing a melee.
However, although the party members were having a hard time, they were not too worried.
Because there is Scarlet Bunnings.
I expected that if I held on just a little longer, Scarlett would wipe out all the monsters with her high-power magic.
However, while Scarlett was trying to cast her spell, her magic was broken.
When her magic was first released, Scarlett was embarrassed, but she quickly tried to work her magic again.
However, even if she tried to use the magic 2 or 3 times, the magic kept breaking.
“W-what are you doing, Scarlett? Hurry up and use magic!”
“Scarlett, shoot quickly!”
“Oh, I know! Wait a minute, why! Why are you doing this…!”
-Craaaaat!
“Aaaaah!”
In the end, Scarlett was able to focus desperately and use her magic to deal with the monsters for the sixth time.
Fortunately, no one in the party was seriously injured.
However, since she was in a situation where she could have been seriously injured if she made a mistake, her colleagues cornered Scarlett.
“What were you thinking of shooting so late!”
“She almost died!”
“I know it’s okay to be lazy just because you’re a noble!”
“Oh, no! That’s not it! I was trying to use magic! But in the middle of it, it suddenly broke loose.”
“That makes sense!”
“Wait a minute, what Scarlett said is true. Scarlett tried to use magic, but it came off a few times.”
“”What?””
Other party members looked at Scarlett with doubt and disbelief at the words of the member who was waiting in the rearguard like Scarlett.
The warrior party that Scarlett belongs to first postponed going to another village for a while and investigated Scarlett’s problem.
For safety reasons, the difficulty is low, but it is a quest to exterminate many monsters that appear at once.
It was a request that I didn’t even think about receiving the money in a timely manner because there were so many of them that I would be tired after completing it.
And they could see Scarlett’s problem again.
In a situation where several monsters were approaching, Scarlett’s magic was broken while forming several times.
After discovering the problem again, they continued to ask Scarlett in a questioning manner, unlike before when they tried to be friendly.
Why are you doing this?
Scarlett knew how serious her problem was.
So she desperately thought and figured out why this problem was happening to her.
It was a phenomenon that occurred due to a kind of dispersion of concentration.
Doing magic requires a lot of concentration, and Scarlett’s talent included this concentration.
But the moment it becomes a melee, or the moment a colleague faces a crisis.
Scarlett’s concentration was diverted to something else.
I’m worried about my colleague’s crisis.
When many monsters attack, you end up calculating how many you can kill with your magic.
With such thoughts, my concentration from demonstrating magic is diverted to somewhere else.
An ordinary person can think in a moderately distributed manner.
However, the moment Scarlett, who was extremely focused, became even the slightest bit worried or had other factors to worry about, she was unable to distribute her concentration appropriately and the magic ended.
There was no problem at the academy.
Usually, there were times when magic was demonstrated or one-on-one magic sparring took place, but since there were few elements to worry about, this problem did not come to light.
As for the monster extermination that Scarlett had done so far, there were actually few monsters that Scarlett had to worry about, and there were no dangers that would break Scarlett’s concentration, even though there were only 3–4 monsters.
However, Scarlett doesn’t care about dealing with more monsters than that.
Worries caused by numerical disadvantage.
Even though you know you can fight them one by one, your concentration is scattered because of the many monsters you can see.
Scarlett told his colleagues the cause of the problem he had analyzed.
“Don’t worry. This will be fixed soon! So just wait a moment.”
Scarlett thought her colleagues would wait for her.
She thought that her problem would be solved soon.
“No, I can’t wait.”
“Huh?”
“How can you take a wizard with such serious problems with you?”
“In the first place, a warrior party cannot stay in the same place for more than a month.”
“Well, if you apply for reasons…”
“Do you think I’ll accept it? I’m saying I can’t leave just because there are too many monsters, and I’m waiting for an incompetent wizard who can’t even use magic.”
“You’re incompetent! I…!”
“It’s incompetent. A wizard’s job is to use powerful magic to defeat not only strong monsters, but also a variety of miscreants at once! But a wizard who can’t do that is incompetent!”
Scarlett was shocked by the cold and sharp words of her colleague, whom she met for the first time.
Her colleague, who smiled and said that she had nothing to fear as long as she was confident, was nowhere to be seen.
“Isn’t it all a lie that you were the top student at the academy?”
“Hey, let’s just look for the wizard in the next town.”
“Yeah, that would be better.”
“Wait a minute! What do you mean!”
“What do you mean? You are being exiled.”
With those words, the party that became his first companion abandoned him and left for another village.
Scarlett could not help but be devastated by such a cold response.
However, she couldn’t just sit down.
Scarlett joined another warrior’s party.
When she went in, Scarlett revealed her weaknesses from the beginning because she didn’t want to experience anything like this, and at the same time, she expressed her determination to overcome those weaknesses.
There were parties that rejected Scarlett, but there were also parties that accepted her.
Every time Scarlett joins her party, she ignites her determination to solve her own problems.
But Scarlett’s problems were not resolved.
And she didn’t have a party to accept Scarlett as her companion until the end.
Successive failures and breakups gradually undermined Scarlett’s confidence.
Nervousness and anxiety began to eat away at Scarlett’s mind at that time.
‘Why, why, why, why, why!’
I hated Scarlett.
She hated herself for being told she was incompetent.
She hated herself because no matter how hard she tried, the problem couldn’t be fixed.
She was born into the prestigious Bunnings family, and she graduated at the top of her class.
But now she hated herself for ruining her family and her past glory.
‘Okay, Academy… !’
Meanwhile, Scarlett remembered her academy.
I thought of the teacher who taught me, who is still at the academy.
I was hopeful that the teacher who praised me the most at the academy and told me that I was the most rewarding student to teach would be able to come up with a solution.
Scarlett then headed to her academy to meet with her teacher and consult.
The teacher who was happy to see her
Scarlett thought she was a teacher at heart.
After hearing Scarlett’s words, she spoke in a calm and cold voice that she had never heard before.
“I wasted so much time. I never would have thought there was such a glitch. Let’s get out of here.”
“Stop, teacher?”
“You couldn’t control your concentration properly? Even after going through multiple battles? Then the result is already there. Scarlet Bunnings. There is no way to fix your problem. You really see everything happening.”
Scarlett still hasn’t forgotten the cold words the teacher said back then.
“I never thought such a failure would come out of Bunnings.”