episode_0041

Why on earth is he appearing here?

I looked embarrassed as I saw him standing confidently in front of me with his arms crossed.

Even if I did meet him, I wanted to go see him in person or at least meet him naturally, but I had no intention of meeting him like this.

Rather, why are noblemen as high as magic tower lords suddenly visiting the blood tower like this?

‘Seeing you come to me without saying anything gives me a headache… ‘

If you had told me that you would come on this day, I wouldn’t have said anything.

As far as the red pagoda liquor, honestly, even now that I think about it, I still don’t understand why he came so confidently…

I didn’t know that even Ceria would betray my trust.

“Phew… ”

I sighed in frustration.

“… ”

Irina, who was watching me from the side, suddenly looked like she had decided on something and stepped forward, leaving me behind.

“It looks like the Blood Tower owner is tired today, so come tomorrow, sister!”

As Irina confidently shouted, Seria looked down at Irina with a distorted expression, as if doubting whether she had heard correctly.

“Are you sure? My sister is a little busy, so how could it not work out?”

“Oh, no.”

“Umm… ”

Irina looked worried for a moment at Ceria’s words.

Then, perhaps to confirm whether what Irina said was true, she raised her head and made eye contact with me.

Of course, because I became a Jinjo, my body became incapable of feeling fatigue, but it was true that I was mentally exhausted.

To be honest, I wanted to go in and rest without doing anything today.

“It’s true.”

Ceria pouted her lips at my answer.

“Still, I’ve come all the way here, but isn’t it a bit weird to issue an order to banish guests right away…? ?”

“For that part, contact us first and then come to us… ”

“If it was contacting you, you did it a long time ago, right? Are you saying that because they haven’t contacted me for a few days?”

What?

‘You said you contacted me?’

If you say you contacted them, the story is a little different.

If you are among the same magic tower lords, it’s polite to contact them and come visit them, but if they didn’t accept you even though you contacted them, I wouldn’t have anything to say.

They say they couldn’t help it because they were so busy, so how can I answer that?

I quickly took out the pad and checked to see if there was a call.

[There are a total of 26 unconfirmed messages.]

I really sent it.

In the meantime, you sent 26?

‘The date is… ‘

Since about a week ago, several messages have been posted from Seria asking me if she could visit the Blood Tower.

“… ”

At this point, I’m long past the point of discussing etiquette…

Rather, I acted against etiquette by not seeing the message sent by the same magic tower owner.

“Well, still… ”

Irina was trying to say something, perhaps because she wanted to be of help, but she hesitated, perhaps because she had nothing more to say.

Well, I can’t help it…

I left Irina behind and stepped forward.

“First… I apologize for not replying. I’ve been so busy over the past week that I haven’t been able to check the message window.”

It was true that I had been busy the past week.

From the time I started working as a magic tower owner, I was thinking about where to spend the funds I received from Eterna, and after using blood magic on Irina to strengthen her power, I was teaching blood magic myself, and I was supplementing blood magic a little more to use it on other people. I was thinking about an easy and powerful way to use it against blood mages.

It is no exaggeration to say that I have been busier in the past week than when I was a member of the warrior party.

Because it was a situation where we kept running with only one goal in mind: the World’s Best Magic Tower Tournament.

However, even though I was busy, it wasn’t that I didn’t have time to look at the pad, and from Seria’s perspective, not being able to check the message sent to me could have seemed like I was ignoring the Mage Tower owner of the Green Magic Tower.

Therefore, it is right to apologize.

… Even so, it was so surprising that I apologized with such respect that Razak, who was watching me next to me, looked shocked.

It was obvious, but it was completely ignored.

No matter how informal I usually go around speaking informally, I’m not at the point where I openly use informal language with someone who is being polite first.

Especially if it’s not someone else, but the same magic tower owner.

In today’s era, where pads themselves have been distributed to all wizards and are widely used as a means of virtually communicating with each other, it is not strange that Seria sent me a pad message saying that she wanted to meet me.

Rather, it is closer to an ordinary thing.

but…

‘Right now, it will be difficult to talk to Seria because there is a red tower.’

If I was going to talk about it, I wanted to share it in a sincere way.

That’s because there were so many Seria and grass reports.

There are probably many reasons why Seria came to see me, but the biggest reason is probably her curiosity about my identity.

If Seria was watching me from the side, she would know very well that I have no descendants or successors, so it is highly likely that she would have wondered why I was claiming to be Count Vladimir’s successor.

He must have come to confirm that fact.

‘It’s a shame.’

I ate my appetite.

‘No, wait a minute.’

Is there no need to talk to Igrius first?

Should I ask them to leave since a more important guest has arrived?

In the first place, if I were to be considered a more important guest here and now, it would of course be Seria.

Igrius said he would not only pay for the restoration costs but also provide compensation, but from my perspective, it wasn’t as good as solving the problem with Seria.

And since I was the one to talk to Igrius anyway, I could just send him out now and call him later to talk about it, but Ceria felt like she was going to get really upset if I didn’t accept her now.

‘That would be better.’

Having come to that conclusion, I tried to tell Igrius to go back to the enemy tower for now…

“No, who is this? Isn’t it my exclusive detachment?”

“… Igrius? No, more than that, I told you not to call me Tegam!”

Take it away?

Did I hear wrong?

“I’m already bored because I don’t have anything to burn. Would you like to have a game?”

Igrius said with a grin.

“Okay, why are you here?”

“Why is it there? I came here to have a game with the blood tower lord?”

“Ah… Head hurts… ”

‘ah.’

Now that I think about it, it was like that.

There were a total of two magic towers that had the worst relationship with the enemy tower.

The magic tower was none other than the Blue Tower and the Green Tower.

Especially for the elves, who considered the tree called the World Tree as their god, it was natural to be wary of the enemy tower that had the power to burn the World Tree.

“When your head hurts, it’s sparring.”

“Just do it in moderation, right? Don’t you want to come this far and lose your strength?”

“Are you scared? Even the green tower in the world is nothing special.”

He was talking shit to me just a moment ago, so why is he talking like this?

I looked at Igrius with a dissatisfied expression, but he shrugged his shoulders as if there was some problem.

Since it wasn’t really a fight against the Blood Tower, I didn’t have anything to say.

Still, I couldn’t help feeling bad.

“It’s okay. He always acts like that when he sees me, so I’m used to it now.”

It’s a bit pitiful that I’m used to it.

‘What should I do with this…? ‘

My head hurts already.

first…

“Irina, today is fine, so go practice some more blood magic. I’ll call you later.”

“Yes, okay… ”

Irina nodded with a droopy expression.

Sooner or later, the time will come for Irina to make a big splash.

Until then, it was better to keep practicing.

It’s a pity that I can’t watch you practice, but I’m sure you’ll do well on your own.

I believed so.

* * *

In the end, I entered the office with Ceria and Igrius and sat down.

Unlike Ceria, who was looking around with curiosity, Igrius was sitting in his seat looking strangely intimidated.

Of course, on the outside she confidently pretended that nothing had happened, but Ceria, who had been with Igrius for a long time, seemed to look a little different.

“What happened? Why are you so anxious?”

“What are you talking about? That’s not the case at all.”

“Even if you look at me, something is happening.”

Igrius turned his head to avoid looking at what Ceria said with a chuckle.

“Can you tell me, Blood Tower Lord?”

“Any amount.”

“Now, wait?!”

Igrius called me with a puzzled expression, but I ignored him.

I didn’t want to see him acting to avoid getting caught for being rude, but it worked out well.

“Well, that much… !”

When I tried to speak, Igrius quickly tried to stand up to stop me, but

“Don’t move.”

“Ugh?!”

I tied him up with my blood and forced him to a chair.

Igrius, who was stuck in place and unable to move, struggled, but I ignored him and started talking.

I was soaked in the sentiment of my strange reunion with Seria.