Magic Is Learned For Nothing [EN]: Chapter 295

Magic Learned in Vain – 296

# 296

The Man Who Stepped on Misfortune 2

Marquis Posey was so stunned by the unbelievable sight that he froze, watching the festival unfold.

“I, is this a… village festival?”

Marquis Posey asked Jonas.

“Yes, why? Is this your first time seeing something like this?”

Jonas asked back nonchalantly.

Of course, it was his first time. How could he possibly see such a sight twice? An incomprehensible world was unfolding before Marquis Posey’s eyes.

When the ogres jumped simultaneously, the ground shook once.

The goblins dancing beside them jumped even higher in time with the beat.

Ah, dizzy.

“Why?”

Jonas grabbed Marquis Posey’s remaining right arm as he staggered.

“I’m, I’m alright. It’s just my first time experiencing something like this.”

“Experiencing what?”

“This kind of experience. It’s very unique. It’s like… some kind of masquerade.”

“Masquerade?”

“Haha! They’re dressed up as goblins and orcs, aren’t they? And those ogres… haha, I see. They’re just clowns clinging to each other. But… that wyvern…”

There was no way to explain it.

‘Did they use some kind of magic?’ The sense of reality is truly amazing!

“Huh? They’re all bare-faced though?”

“Bare-faced?”

“Don’t you even know what ‘bare-faced’ means?”

“I don’t know. Does it mean a fresh face?”

“Wow, did this old man come from the world 20 years ago? How can you not know the trendy words these days?”

“I, I’m sorry. I don’t know.”

Marquis Posey wondered if he had distanced himself too much from the villagers. He felt a pang of regret for not even knowing words that people commonly used.

“It just means a natural face with nothing applied [no makeup].”

“Ah, I see.”

Only then did Marquis Posey understand what Jonas was saying.

“Wait a minute…”

Marquis Posey realized the true meaning of those words and widened his eyes.

“So, you’re saying that everyone dancing there is an Otherkind [non-human creature]? No, even if I don’t know orcs or goblins… no, it’s hard not to know those, but even so… wyverns and ogres… they’re predators with almost no intelligence… how can they be dancing and drinking together? They, they should be exterminated…”

“Wow, this old man… you’re just saying things that’ll get you stoned [ostracized or punished]. What age are you living in to be discriminating against races like that?”

“Racial discrimination? What, what are you talking about? They’re monsters…”

Marquis Posey seriously wondered if he had been asleep for 300 years and that’s why the world had changed so much.

Or perhaps this place was a different world from the one he lived in?

Like, while he was unconscious, he had traveled through a parallel universe… defying time and space?

In the world he lived in, goblins, orcs, ogres, and wyverns were hostile monsters to be eradicated, not companions drinking together with their arms around each other.

“Wh, where is this place? Humans… mingling with monsters… what is this?”

“Old man.”

“…”

“Old man…”

Jonas called out to Marquis Posey.

“Are you talking to me?”

Only then did Posey realize that Jonas was calling him. He hadn’t noticed because he wasn’t used to being called ‘old man’.

“You look old enough. What else should I call you? Should I call you ‘oppa’ [a Korean term used by women to address older brothers or male friends]?”

‘Oppa, the sound of that is much better.’

“Oh? You like that? But you’re a bit too old to be called ‘oppa’, aren’t you? You look like you’re middle-aged.”

A middle-aged man.

Marquis Posey felt a pain as if his heart was being cut out. The most hated word was middle-aged man.

In fact, he had been married once.

He was divorced.

But he didn’t have any children yet. It was fair to say he was single. He shouldn’t say he was divorced if asked.

However, being called ‘old man’ and ‘middle-aged’ so openly was a great wound to Marquis Posey, who prided himself on looking young.

The maids always said he looked 10 years younger.

So he really thought he looked 10 years younger…

But he didn’t.

‘Those bitches lied to me.’

“How old do I look?”

“Forty-three.”

Damn it.

That’s right.

His master had once said something like this.

“If you accumulate magical power to a high level, you will no longer age. You can continue to grow stronger until the day you die. That’s how mysterious the power of magic is.”

In fact, Marquis Posey had wanted to ask his master something back then.

“Master, who has accumulated magical power to such a high level, why do you look like an old man over a hundred years old? Even though you’re only in your 60s?”

He couldn’t ask.

It didn’t seem respectful to his master.

It was late, but he realized now.

His master’s words were bullshit. Magic power had nothing to do with appearance. He now understood why noble ladies were so concerned about their appearance. The secret to looking young was not magic power but money. Consistent skincare and beauty treatments were the only way to maintain youth.

To realize such a trivial thing now. He had lived his life in vain.

Marquis Posey sighed briefly.

“Would you like to dance together?”

“Are you talking to me?”

“Yes. Old man. Who else would I be talking to?”

“Could you please not call me old man? It makes me feel too old.”

“The title ‘oppa’ doesn’t seem to fit. You look like you’re at least twenty years older than me. Well, is there any other title I could call you? Hmm, uncle?”

“…That’s even…”

Marquis Posey pondered for a moment and then said.

“I am Marquis Posey. The 17th descendant of the Volkswagen family, one of the eight marquises of this kingdom. How about calling me Marquis Posey instead?”

“Marquis? Human noble titles don’t work here. The only human we recognize is Legion. Oh, by the way, do you know Legion? I heard he got promoted to count or something this time. I haven’t even had a chance to congratulate him.”

“Legion? Human noble titles?”

Something was strange.

It was strange that the word Legion came out here, but this beautiful woman was talking about humans as if they were a different race.

Could she be a dark elf?

He looked at her ears. No. They were ordinary human ears.

“Why?”

Jonas blushed at Marquis Posey, who was staring intently at her. ‘Geez, even if I’m pretty, you don’t have to stare so blatantly.’

“Perhaps…”

“Perhaps what?”

“I know this is rude to say…”

“It’s okay. Feel free to ask anything you’re curious about.”

She said to feel free to ask anything, but it was difficult to ask.

‘Are you not human?’

How could he ask such a question to such a beautiful woman? Still, he was too curious. ‘Ah, let’s just ask, prepared to get slapped.’

“Perhaps… are you not human?”

Jonas tilted her head.

“Of course not. What makes you think I look like a human?”

Posey was shocked to the point of almost collapsing.

‘Am I really not in a dream?’ He pinched his cheek hard. Ouch! He pinched it so hard that he thought his cheek would tear.

He knew for sure. This was not a dream.

“It’s obvious that I’m an orc.”

Huh? Orc?!?!?!?!

This woman, with a pig’s head, is an orc? Where does it show?

Such a beautiful and noble woman is an orc? To be honest, this is the first time he’s ever seen a woman so beautiful with no makeup, ah, bare-faced?

But an orc?

The common sense that Marquis Posey knew was collapsing.

“Let’s go. Old man. Don’t just stand there blankly.”

Jonas grabbed Marquis Posey’s hand and led him to the square where the dance was taking place.

Just then, the music ‘Orc Style,’ which was a big hit in Legion’s territory, was playing.

Oppa, Orc Style. Oooooooo! Oooooooo!

Marquis Posey was completely out of it.

Jonas glanced at Marquis Posey.

The reason she deliberately dragged Marquis Posey to such a chaotic place was in case he fell into depression and committed suicide.

This man had lost his left arm.

Not just a finger was cut off, but the entire shoulder was gone. Judging from his well-trained body, it was not difficult to guess that he was a knight.

Seeing that he was a marquis, he must have been in a fairly high position in the human world.

But anyway, he was a foreigner.

Any potential threats should be eliminated in advance. She knew very well how dangerous humans could be. In fact, this place had become a safe zone thanks to Legion blocking the borders of Dusseldorf, but before that, humans had come to subjugate them from time to time.

This human would be no different from other humans.

She should send him out when he wakes up.

Jonas was thinking that.

Nevertheless, the reason she didn’t inform ‘Legion’ about Marquis Posey’s existence was because she felt sorry for him. To be more honest, he was a little bit her type.

There was a bit of an age gap, but whatever.

They say that as long as a man has the strength to hold a spoon, he can do that until he dies, so she decided to overlook it.

If his left arm had remained intact, she might have told Legion.

From Marquis Posey’s point of view, it would have been better if Jonas had reported to Legion.

If that hadn’t happened, what was about to happen wouldn’t have happened either….

The moment Marquis Posey stepped into the center of the party!

The Curse Spirit King, who had been dancing on his shoulder for a while, landed. Recently, his position in the spirit world had been growing day by day due to the human named Legion.

Until now, he had been somewhat ignored….

Even the Fire Spirit King, the Wind Spirit King, and the Water Spirit King, who were quite popular, were being friendly to him these days. This was truly the first time he had experienced this.

What was most pleasing was-

The Luck Spirit King was wearing a deadpan expression every day.

‘That little brat was so cocky, I’m so glad to see him suffer.’

So, he had come to the human world for the first time in a long time to have some fun… and he met an interesting guy.

-Oh, a human with tremendous magic power. He hasn’t made a contract with any spirit yet! I don’t want this guy to be taken by someone else… he’s so fresh! Man! Won’t you make a contract with me? I’ll show you the ultimate misfortune, incomparable to other curse spirits.

Fortunately, Marquis Posey neither saw nor heard the words of the Curse Spirit King.

-Oh, no! That’s too bad. I guess… I’ll have to meet Legion and ask him for a favor.

Without knowing any of that, Marquis Posey took Jonas’s hand and began to dance enthusiastically in the square.

An ogre next to him glared at him for stepping on his foot.

“…”

Marquis Posey was speechless.