episode_0033
by fnovelpia
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Scarlett Bunnings was born into the Countess Bunnings family.
As the youngest of one son and two daughters, she received various educations as an aristocrat from a young age.
And it was Scarlett who received the most support for education.
The Bunnings family has been a famous wizard family for generations.
As befits its name, Bunnings specializes in fire magic, and not only the matriarch but also Scarlett’s older sister and older brother all use fire magic as their specialty.
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 magic power and stood out as a talent from a young age.
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.
As a child, Scarlett received everyone’s love and attention and had a happy childhood.
Even after entering the Academy, Scarlett always ranked top.
His innate confidence and desire to explore magic, as well as his vast magical power, caught the attention of academy teachers.
And Scarlett graduated from the Academy at the top of her class.
His family is also proud of him for graduating from the academy at the top of his class.
You said you were the pride of your family.
At the time, Scarlett thought that this moment was the happiest moment.
But that happiness soon fell off a cliff.
After graduating from the Academy, Scarlett wanted to prove her skills to the world.
The entire family agreed with Scarlett’s opinion.
If this were a peaceful era, I would have been satisfied with just being the top student at the academy and would have been advised to quietly lead a noble life.
However, in the current situation where demons and heretics are secretly working to revive the Demon King, he decided that it would be more honorable for the family to join the warrior party and achieve results rather than remain quiet.
When Scarlett first headed to the guild, she was full of dreams and hopes.
It can be more of a family pride.
The more active you are, the more you will be loved by your family.
You can see more happy faces of families.
Scarlett’s motivation was less about showing off her magic and more about earning the favor of her beloved family.
I met the warrior I first met at the guild and my colleagues and formed a party.
Everyone was happy to hear Scarlett’s pseudonym and that the famous wizard of the Bunnings family had become their colleague.
The month-long 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 could be 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.
This is my first time experiencing a fight.
However, although the party members were having a hard time, they were not too worried.
Because Scarlet Bunnings exists.
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 the spell, the spell broke.
When the spell was first broken, Scarlett was embarrassed, but quickly tried to perform the spell again.
However, no matter how many times I tried to use the magic, 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…!”
-Craaaat!
“Aaaah!”
In the end, Scarlett was able to focus desperately and use magic to kill the monsters for the sixth time.
Fortunately, no one in the party was seriously injured.
However, since it was a situation where a mistake could have resulted in serious injury, Scarlett’s colleagues pushed her hard.
“What were you thinking when you shot so late!”
“I almost died!”
“I think 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 got loose.”
“That makes sense!”
“Wait a minute, what Scarlett said is true. She tried to use magic and it worked a few times.”
“”what?””
Other party members looked at Scarlett with suspicion 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 level is low, but it is a quest to exterminate a large number of 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 finishing 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 question 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, I desperately thought about why this problem was happening to me and found out.
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 were no problems 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 only a few monsters that Scarlett had to worry about, and up to 3-4 monsters were not dangerous enough to break Scarlett’s concentration.
However, Scarlett does not care about dealing with more monsters than that.
Worries that come from being outnumbered.
Even though I know that I just have to deal with them one by one, my concentration gets scattered because of the many monsters I can see.
Scarlett told her colleagues the cause of the problem she had analyzed.
“Don’t worry. This will be fixed soon! So just wait a moment.”
Scarlett thought her colleagues would wait for her.
And I thought my problem would be solved soon.
“No, I can’t wait.”
“uh?”
“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 a colleague she met for the first time.
The image of my colleague, who smiled and said that there was nothing to be afraid of as long as I 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’re being banished.”
With those words, the party that had become his first companion abandoned him and left for another village.
Scarlett could not help but be devastated by such a cold response.
However, I couldn’t just sit down.
Scarlett joined another warrior’s party.
When entering, Scarlett revealed her weaknesses from the beginning because she did not want to experience something like this, and at the same time expressed her desire to overcome those weaknesses.
Some parties rejected Scarlett, but others accepted her.
Whenever Scarlett joined a new party, she was determined to solve her own problems.
But Scarlett’s problem was never solved.
And there was no party that accepted Scarlett as a colleague 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!’
Scarlett didn’t like it.
I hated myself for being told I was incompetent.
I hated myself for not being able to fix the problem no matter how hard I tried.
He was born into the prestigious Bunnings family and graduated from the Academy at the top of his class.
But now, he hated himself for ruining his family and past glory.
‘Okay, Academy… !’
Meanwhile, Scarlett thought of the Academy.
I thought about 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 said that I was the most rewarding student to teach would be able to come up with a solution.
Scarlett then headed to the academy to meet with the teacher and consult with him.
The teacher who was happy to see him.
Scarlett was a teacher who she thought was a gift in her heart.
After hearing Scarlett’s words, he spoke in a calm and cold voice that I had never heard before.
“I wasted my time for no reason. I never would have thought there was such a glitch. Now, let’s go.”
“Sir, sir?”
“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.”
Even now, Scarlett has never forgotten the cold words the teacher said at that time.
“I never would have thought that such a failure would come out of Bunnings.”
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