The Youngest Daughter Of The Great Wizard Of The Famous Swordsmanship [EN]: Chapter 183

183. Becky Lein (2)

May 1, 2024

Rosette looked at Becky and broached the real topic.

“Lady Lein, did you perhaps create the barrier around this area?”

Not only Rosette but everyone’s eyes turned to her. Some knights even gave her suspicious looks.

Becky, already timid and intimidated, was startled and denied it.

“No! I didn’t do it!”

“Then who did?”

A knight asked on behalf of Rosette. Becky didn’t answer and hesitated.

“Well, I, I don’t know who did it. But! I can tell you that I didn’t do it. Not just anyone can use such large-scale magic. You know that too, Princess.”

This time, the attention turned to Rosette, and she nodded.

“That’s true. It would be difficult for Lady Lein to do it alone because the range is so wide. Actually, at first, I thought there were a few more mages. But I asked just in case.”

“Lady Lein.”

Joshua, who had been listening quietly, finally spoke. His face was quite serious.

“I can’t claim to be that skilled in magic, so I didn’t know the principle behind this artificial space, but you do, don’t you?”

“……”

“Then why haven’t you said anything about it until now?”

“That’s……”

Becky shrank her shoulders. Joshua didn’t press her and waited calmly. Rather, Pipi was making a fuss because she couldn’t stand it.

[Bbit? Bbi-bbit!]

What, why aren’t you talking? Does Silver’s owner look easy to you?

Rosette quickly hugged Pipi and soothed her. Only after feeling the touch of her hand stroking her head did the little parrot calm down.

Becky, who had been fidgeting under everyone’s piercing gaze, barely opened her mouth.

“……I didn’t know.”

“What did you say?”

“I didn’t know either.”

A knight retorted with a dumbfounded voice.

“You didn’t know? How can that be? The Princess found it without taking long, but we’ve been trapped here for almost a week.”

“I can’t be compared to the Princess in the first place. She’s a genius who summoned a familiar [a magical creature bound to a mage] before she was even ten years old.”

“Even so, I don’t understand. There’s clearly a strange phenomenon happening, but you never once suspected it?”

“That……”

Becky’s head went down as if it would sink into the ground.

“Actually, I haven’t been able to use magic properly since I’ve been trapped here.”

“……What? Didn’t you say that was because you were exhausted and your mana wasn’t recovering?”

“To be honest, since coming here, I haven’t been able to handle mana properly, as if something was blocking me.”

“But the Princess used it without difficulty, and His Highness also used simple magic, didn’t he?”

“Why are you telling me that…… I don’t know.”

With those words, Becky shut her mouth tightly. Even if the knights or Rosette asked her something, she remained silent.

‘There’s something going on……’

Rosette thought, watching Becky, who was now sitting with her back turned to the people.

No matter how she looked at it, there were many suspicious things about her attitude.

The fact that she couldn’t use magic since coming here and that she didn’t know there was a barrier around this place could be possible.

But that defensive attitude was very strange. If Rosette said this much, wouldn’t the normal reaction be to actively help her escape?

But Becky was so uncooperative.

Rather, the knights who knew nothing about magic were making a fuss about helping.

Rosette steadfastly spoke to Becky’s back.

“Anyway, if it’s not a barrier set up by Lady Lein, the situation is not good. That means there was external intervention. Monsters can’t use such high-level magic, so it seems like another mage did it from the outside……”

Becky said that not just anyone could use such large-scale magic. Rosette agreed.

Of course, Rosette could implement similar magic if she set her mind to it, but there were few people who could match her skills.

‘And who on earth would do this……’

At first, it was unclear whether this barrier was for defense or confinement. But after coming here, examining this place, and listening to Becky’s words, it became clear.

Someone, whose identity is unknown, trapped the subjugation team here and did this with the purpose of slowly killing them.

Who on earth would attack the subjugation team sent by the Emperor? For what reason? For what purpose?

At that time, Rosette recalled a fact that she had put aside for a while.

‘Lady Lein said she was from the Magic Tower.’

Why did she leave the Magic Tower in just two months? Is it certain that she came out of the Magic Tower? Is she actually still in contact with the Magic Tower?.

‘Then is this also the Magic Tower…… did Michael do it?’

However, Rosette could no longer continue thinking.

“Sir Adrian has woken up!”

Someone among the knights shouted.

* * *

“Brother!”

“Oppa!”

Lucas and Rosette ran quickly towards Daniel. Daniel, who was helped up by Lord Roten, looked at his two younger siblings with a dazed expression.

“Lucas? Rose? Why are you here?”

“Why are we here!”

Lucas unknowingly tried to run to Daniel but realized he was a patient and stepped back.

Rosette only looked at Daniel’s face with tears in her eyes.

Daniel asked again.

“Am I seeing things? Am I dead…….”

“Why would Brother die!”

Lucas burst into tears like a child.

Daniel, still confused, patted Lucas’s head. Just like when he was young, his touch was still gentle as he treated his younger siblings.

“Then what on earth happened? This is still the North.”

“That’s not important right now. Brother, how’s your body? Are you okay?”

“Ah, that’s right.”

Daniel looked down at his legs covered with a blanket as if he had just realized his body condition.

“It doesn’t hurt much. What happened?”

“The little one healed you! Some kind of mana was stuck in Brother’s leg. She removed it and applied herbs that Pipi found. So it got better quickly.”

Joshua, who had been quietly watching the reunion of the three siblings, approached.

“Do you remember what happened, Daniel?”

“Actually, I don’t remember well. My memory keeps cutting off. I remember being at the base camp and Silver suddenly running to me and taking me to His Highness……”

After that, his head was black as if his memory had been cut off.

“That’s probably it. You must have been out of your mind because you were suffering from a high fever.”

“But why are my siblings here? Why are we camping out in a place like this……”

Joshua and the people including Rosette all rushed in and explained to Daniel.

The story of the monsters that suddenly attacked the base camp, Silver barely escaping with only Daniel, and the subjugation team trapped in the mysterious space.

After the story of the North ended, they also told the story of the Adrian siblings.

The story that they were worried because they hadn’t heard from Daniel since he was injured, so they came to find him themselves.

Daniel rubbed his forehead.

“Father really sent you? Just the two of you without escorts?”

Lucas and Rosette turned their heads at the same time. Daniel sighed with a face that had become more troubled.

“Don’t tell me you came without telling him?”

Lucas made excuses.

“No…… Well, I couldn’t tell him because I came in a hurry, but wouldn’t he know anyway?”

“Not that you couldn’t tell him because you came in a hurry, but you didn’t tell him on purpose, right?”

“Hey, what does the reason matter.”

“Haa. Lucas, Rose. What am I going to do with you.”

Lucas smoothly covered Daniel’s neck with a blanket up to his neck.

“Well, what does it matter. Good is good! If we hadn’t come, no, if we had been a day later, something really big would have happened to Brother? Father will understand.”

Rosette, who had been keeping her mouth shut, also nodded vigorously. Joshua also stepped in to defend the two.

“That’s right. Lucas is right, Daniel. It was definitely wrong to come recklessly, but thanks to that, you’re safe like this. How worried the two of you were about you. Of course, me and the other knights too.”

Only then did Daniel relax the strength in his brow and stretch out his arms to his two younger siblings.

“Come here, you troublemakers.”

“Brother……”

“Oppa.”

Lucas and Rosette carefully hugged him.

Rosette shed tears again at Daniel’s warmth that she felt after a long time. She became sadder at his body, which had become a little smaller as if he had suffered a lot.

“Oppa, I’m going to take you home. Father, Isabel Unnie [term of endearment for older sister], and Ines Unnie are also very worried.”

“Okay, thank you.”

For a while, Daniel hugged and patted his two younger siblings without saying a word.

Whenever, wherever, no matter what happened, Daniel Adrian was Adrian’s reliable eldest.

* * *

While Daniel was eating the soup that Lucas and Lord Roten had reboiled with their help, Rosette headed to Becky, who was alone in the corner.

“Lady Lein.”

When Rosette lightly touched her shoulder, Becky was so surprised that she jumped into the air.

“Wh, wh, what’s wrong, Princess?”

“I have something to say. Not as a princess, but as a fellow mage to a fellow mage.”

“A fellow……?”

“Mages all consider each other as colleagues, don’t they? Or not?”

“……”

“Even if that’s not the case, we’re in the same difficult situation right now, so we can call each other colleagues, right? Can I sit next to you?”

Rosette sat down next to Becky after seeing her reluctantly nod. Becky moved away, distancing herself from her.

“So what do you want to say?”

“There are many things I want to say. The most important thing is how to break this barrier and get out. I can create a small space like when I came in here, but it’s hard to find the end of the barrier.”

“……”

“And since we can’t leave this space as it is, I want to find the core that is causing it and eliminate this space altogether. To do that, I need the help of you, a fellow mage.”

“You can do it alone without me, Princess.”

Rosette shrugged.

“It’s good to help each other, right? And……”

She lowered her voice and whispered.

“There are also things I want to ask about the Magic Tower.”

“The Magic Tower?”

Becky screamed as if she was disgusted.