Do I look like I’m wearing ice leg hot pants? (1)

On the way out of the hospital, I was starting to think that maybe it was time to give up.

“What is it?”

How come when I turn my back and try to leave, someone keeps holding me back?

I’m sure there aren’t many people I know, except for the people in the black magic tower, but to this extent, I feel like the world is just pushing me to give whatever I want to everyone I meet.

Yeah, just grab whatever you want.

“Meet Piana Stone, the master of the Black Tower.”

“So, who are you?”

The sight of a blond, red-eyed young man with a pretty face like a girl, clearly a man, bowing 90 degrees to me, made me think he was the most polite of the four people I met today.

Even someone who knows me when I become this kind of brat. It’s amazing that I don’t know someone like that, and it seems like it would be hard to forget them since their faces are so similar…?

“Ah… !”

“My name is Raoul Edmont. I saw you at the ranking tournament last year. Do you remember?”

Last year’s ranking match.

That day, when I went because my disciple insisted on coming and seeing me, he showed me all the shameful things I didn’t want to see, and in the end, he left me with only the worst record of 1 win, 1 draw, and 2 losses and memories.

The Crown Prince asked me, the first person in the world to reach the rank of Black Magician, if I could be the presenter for the human who has settled in first place.

I was in a bad mood that day and thought I had a lot to ask for, so I was going to kick him out, but I wanted to somehow erase the criticism of my disciple, so I briefly appeared in front of the public.

Of course, back then, unlike now, they covered their faces, wore robes, and lied about their height, so it would be difficult to think of them as the same person.

This blond guy saw me then and recognized me now.

‘You have a good eye for detail…? You’re not at that level.’

“I remembered. So?”

“Ah, yes. By the way, if you have time… Could you please take care of just one patient? If it weren’t for you, Lord Matap… There’s someone who says it’s impossible to treat.”

When I saw the young man politely asking for anything, saying that he would use his family’s power to prepare anything if it was compensation or if there was something else he wanted, I tilted my head and opened my mouth, feeling a sense of deja vu.

“Is that patient you’re looking for, by any chance, Ellis Portward?”

“… Uh, how do I… “

They say the world is small, but does that make sense?

A young man as handsome as our master is being seduced by that bitch’s daughter again.

It seems like that bitch’s pheromones are genetic.

I shook my head at the young man after secretly cursing at Yuria for passing on only man-catching pheromones to my daughter instead of the body she should have inherited.

“Unfortunately, it is impossible with my current strength.”

“Huh?! Hey, why…!”

“I don’t know who it was, but the Royal Infirmary used magic to treat the guy’s wounds. Not only me, but even the Worst Man, the lord of the Blue Tower, gave up on the treatment.”

“No way…!!”

I sighed as I looked at the young man shaking his red eyes in confusion as if he had just heard the sky fall down, and then spoke again about what I had said earlier.

“It’s 3 years later. 3 years until I become a full-fledged wizard. Then I’ll be able to heal him differently than I can now. So if you really want to protect him, don’t let him swing his sword, and don’t let other guys heal his hand. Right now, it’s just one magic mixed in, but if the wound deepens and more other magics are mixed in, even I, who became a wizard, might not be able to heal him. “

“Sa, 3 years… “

The young man named Raoul, who heard what I said, seemed to have the same despairing expression as Ellis before, and I thought it was really strange that I was going to ask for a favor from my disciple, but ended up seeing children despairing. I pushed him aside and headed out of the hospital.

“… I… “

“Say it.”

And there was no fifth.

Wash. If there’s a fourth, I expect there’s a fifth, so I stop and look back, and I see the foolish young man who grabbed me and fell down again.

It seems like it’s become a trend to grab someone from behind as they walk away after they’ve finished talking. The guy tilted his head at me for reacting first, but then started talking.

“I’m sorry to ask, but why did you come to treat Ellis? By any chance, the crown prince… “

“Haa… I promised the kid’s mother. I’ll treat him.”

“Mother…? If you’re mother, are you talking about Commander Yuria Portward?”

Your mother?

Could it be that the little girl of the breast had already considered this man her partner, and that our disciple was her second?

I suddenly felt like crying, but I could handle it, so I took a deep breath and nodded in response.

“Where is your mother? Ellis is having a hard time… “

“She’s chasing a man’s butt and going to another country. What can I do if he says he likes men more than my daughter?”

There is no reason to speak nicely to the man who will become your son-in-law. If you just throw out facts containing only the truth, you will see a slight crack on the face of the handsome young man who will become your son-in-law.

Huh, you’ll have to deal with some conflict later.

I shrugged and left it at that, thinking that this was punishment for neglecting my daughter and leaving her in my care while flirting with Rudis on the topic of single people…

“Any more?”

“… Oh? Oh, yes. “

I was about to leave, but somehow I felt like this guy had more to tell me, so I stopped without realizing it.

Sigh, damn it. I’m not some kind of question-answering bag or anything. What the heck is this?

“Just listen to one more, and don’t stop me. I’m busy too.”

“Ah. Yes. Thank you. Well… This is a rude question, so you don’t have to answer it. But I really wanted to ask you something.”

“What is it?”

“It’s about Rudis.”

My heart, the air is freezing cold.

One of the memories that came to mind when this young man talked about ranked matches was the memory of Rudis and this golden young man, who seemed to be the complete opposite of him as a black magician, fighting in a ranked match.

At that time, Rudis did not use black magic, but played with this young man.

Clearly, he was able to overpower this man, who was weak in swordsmanship, with just his swordsmanship.

Putting aside Rudis’s actions during the match and the result of his withdrawal, I looked at the blond youth with cold eyes, remembering that Rudis, who had overwhelmed this man to that extent, had received a lot of boos and insults after the match.

It means that you have to ask very good questions.

“… I know that the disciple of Lord Matap is Rudis.”

“Yeah.”

“So, I’d like to ask you if you know. What is the reason he… swung his authority as a disciple of the Magic Tower to the students at the academy and fought them whenever they got into trouble? If there’s another reason why he behaved in a way that could only be called a scoundrel, if you know of any, please let me know.”

I think it’s quite admirable that the guy asked me a question without hesitation even though he clearly understood the advice I was giving him.

And for some reason, this bastard’s disciple has been caught behaving like that, so I think that he must have been behaving in a third-rate manner, unlike the adult-like way he handled things at the top of the mountain or in the back alleys before.

“I don’t know. I haven’t heard anything from you either. I just want to answer like this.”

Still, I trust him. Now I won’t doubt him, and I won’t fall for him.

“Since he was 10 years old, he has been aware of the dark magic that discriminated against him in the kingdom, and he has been doing his best to take in and feed abandoned children even at orphanages. And now, he has saved my disciple Nora, and he has saved your girlfriend, Ellis Portward, and her mother, Yuria Portward, with his small body. And after that, he has saved several of the lumpy bastards in our black magic tower who were dying on the streets.”

“I have no intention of denying or being denied that the current status of the Black Tower and the Black Magician was achieved thanks to my power as a wizard, but it wasn’t just my power that was involved in the process. If it weren’t for Rudis, I, we would still be a relatively large organization wandering around back alleys.”

“That is, I don’t think at all that the guy would hit someone for no reason and wield his power over his students in the name of being my disciple. There must have been some reason, and even if he harassed you, your girlfriend, my disciple Nora, or the crown prince in the process, I think there must have been an unavoidable reason and circumstance. This is all the answer I can give you.”

“Then… “

-chuck.

“!”

When I put my index finger in front of his chin, clearly indicating that this was the last question and the last answer, he frowned and lowered his head as if he was disappointed.

“Thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule.”

“Okay. I’m going.”

Seriously, they came to the kingdom and caught me without exception.

With those thoughts in mind, I barely managed to escape from the hospital.

“… I wanted to ask where Rudis was. No, I should have asked that first. “

Raoul’s voice, which wanted to give a little more strength to the struggling Ellis, did not reach Piana.

*

“Is it finally the king?”

It was like three days. What kind of kingdom is it that has so many people catching you while you’re just walking around for a day?

He wonders when he became so popular and goes into the palace where he had asked Brocken to make a reservation.

Even in this era when the whole world was starting to turn into buildings and high-rise buildings, Wangseong, which used old buildings as they were but changed to modern ones on the inside, was now lower than most buildings.

However, its area and site were larger than any other piece of land on which a building was built, so it was more than enough to show off the power of the monarchy.

After crossing the palace, which seemed to be unnecessarily large, and checking identification and reservations several times, I arrived at the audience room where the king was.

“Black Tower’s Tower Lord. Enter Piana Stone!”

The great door guarded by the knights of the kingdom, who are said to be the best in this country, slowly opens, and a dazzling audience room greets me.

It wasn’t a color I really liked, but anyway, it was a place where the king was, so once you entered the interior, which was painted cleanly in only white and gold.

People who weren’t that great, but just people I didn’t like, were looking at me as if they had been waiting for me.

“… Haa. I thought you contacted me to ask for a private meeting, but may I ask why there are so many people here? Your Majesty the King.”

“Kkul kkul… “

“Tsk tsk! You don’t even say hello and you have a habit of talking… !”

“Still the same. Black magic tower.”

I would ask the King, but the outfield is too noisy.

Looking at him coldly with that kind of meaning, the king stroked his neatly-groomed blue hair and his neatly-groomed blue beard, then looked at me through his cloudy eyes and smiled like a snake.

“Welcome. The pride of the kingdom, the wizard Fianna Stone. Since you said you were coming, the other tower lords have also asked to see your face. You know very well that I cannot just ignore your opinions.”

What the hell. How could I know that?

I answered with just a look, and the other people responded to my response as if they were not very pleased with it.

The lord of the Red Tower, a level 6, filthy old man.

The tower lord of the Blue Tower, a 70-year-old man who created this place at level 7.

A level 7 tower lord of the Yellow Tower, an old woman in her fifties who is probably the closest thing to a wizard to me.

People who wouldn’t normally gather together, but when I told them I was entering the palace, they all gathered together and started plotting.

That’s why I will never do politics or public office again.

Because I don’t want to live like those people.

“Okay then, let’s sit down and talk… “

“No. I only have one question, so I’ll ask it and leave. If there are ‘four’ people who don’t want to see my face, even I, who have a face like steel, will have a hard time sitting still.”

“”””… … “”””

If I make it clear that I have no intention of being fooled by those who gathered here to cause trouble among themselves and our Black Tower, rather than to meet me as I had hoped, I will make it clear that I have no intention of being fooled by them.

Everyone’s faces, except the king, hardened slightly.

If you rush to capture me here with disobedience, at least two tower lords will die, one will be permanently disabled, and the king will be no match for you. You will just get your head blown off like a shrimp in a fight between whales.

Since they know that, they can’t touch me or ignore my will.

The fact that I knew that the ‘power’ here was interfering with my construction of the Black Tower in the first place, but I turned a blind eye to it, is a common story known to anyone who wants to know.

“Kekeke! Seriously, I really like that about you. You don’t bow down even in front of the King. Or even in front of Clark Theodore?”

“Well, I’ll be a little more polite than in front of Your Majesty.”

“Oh, oh! This is too much disrespect! Fianna Stone!!”

The other trolls are still, but the troll of the red tower, who is not even a level 7 wizard, stands up and shouts at me, to which I laugh in response.

“Your Majesty! Are you going to just let such tyranny go?! You’d better give us all an order!”

“Kkeulkkeul! I’ll give in even if my brother says so. Even if I do well, it’ll be a big deal if I save my life. “

“Oh my, then only Bergen, His Majesty the King, and I will die? I don’t like that either, so I’ll leave~”

“Hey, hey! Katram! Milsentia… !”

When the red magic tower master looked at the blue and yellow magic tower masters who were escaping like snakes while listening to the red magic tower master’s barking, the red magic tower master shook his pupils in confusion. The king burst into laughter as if he found it amusing, then waved his hand and continued speaking.

“Come on, Bergen. I don’t want the Red Tower to disappear, and I don’t want the Black Tower to ‘leave’ the kingdom. So, Fianna, if there’s anything you want from ‘us’, I think I’d like to grant it.”

“I just reported that I had something to ask Your Majesty.”

“You know very well that it doesn’t work that way, right?”

“Why is that?”

“Kkulkul… ‘Install a tower in the empire.’ Didn’t he do it unilaterally without going through the kingdom? If one of the four pillars that maintain the kingdom were to lend strength to another country, wouldn’t the other pillars become unstable?”

“Oh! I didn’t know, since when did ‘my’ black magic tower become the pillar of the kingdom? The black building was built with ‘our’ money. So please speak correctly, it’s not a pillar, it’s a mat.”

“… Piana. I also just want to ask as a fellow tower lord, but do you think you’re going to leave the kingdom with your disciple just because your disciple was exiled? “

“What does the yellow tower have to do with me or not? Are you missing the monster materials that you were stealing from our kids? That’s right, I told you to give the kids some real-life training.”

“Huh! Are you kidding me? Don’t you know that all the magic towers in our kingdom maintain a system of technological partnership and collaboration? “

“Speak straight, you red bastards. Our Matop has a short history and doesn’t receive support, so you guys keep nagging at our kids, so I just gave it to you to eat and die. Our Matop hasn’t received a single thing from you guys. “

I didn’t come here because I wanted to engage in such useless wrestling. It seems like they’re just afraid that if I plant a tower in the empire, all of the cutting-edge technologies we’ve been developing will leak out to foreign countries, leaving them with no rewards.

In the first place, we should have been nice to our children and the black magicians.

Until now, they’ve been acting like shit, but now they’ve become self-made and have stronger weapons and advanced technology than them, so now they’re just playing a role, even though they were just busy biting them.

Well, actually, all new technologies are intended to be joint assets with the Imperial Tower.

-Tsk!

“Okay, stop it.”

I was starting to get annoyed by the 3:1 argument and was thinking about just leaving, when the Serpent King, who had been happily watching the fire across the river after making a mess of the situation, felt that his patience had reached its limit and clapped his hands and opened his mouth.

“Black Tower Piana Stone.”

“Yes.”

“What do you want to ask?”

I let out a soft sigh, thinking that I could finally get to the main point, and asked a question faster than the red-topped beak that had no teeth but seemed ready to bite again.

“I would like you to tell me everything the kingdom knows about the recent situation in which the Demons have begun to move as a ‘group’ and about the ‘Demon God’.”

And finally, the unlucky mask of the king who created this situation was broken.