Alicia’s lips lightly met Eric’s like down feathers.
Thinking they would part, Eric intricately and gently pressed his own lips firmly onto Alicia’s.
“······But.”
Even after Alicia finished speaking, Eric pretended not to hear and playfully turned her ear.
Eric asked subtly to Alicia, who squirmed ticklishly.
“Are you really going?”
“Uh[Dash].”
This time, he touched her neck.
It was a subtle, moist, and warm subtle sensation.
Alicia flinched again at the unfamiliar feeling different from a kiss.
“Hmm?”
Even though Eric mumbled, Alicia didn’t answer.
Even though she had already thought about postponing the promise in her mind,
“Noah. Solo actions are absolutely prohibited. Don’t forget that you can also be a target.”
“Yes, Captain.”
Eric, Noah, and Stella, another magician from the Order of Zero Knights, were investigating together based on the list received from the deputy commander, targeting those who were relatively recently expelled.
Unfortunately, so far, they hadn’t met a single person.
Even at the last address, they knocked on the door, but there was no answer.
Noah returned after talking to a neighbor and reported disappointedly after seeing the situation.
“Captain. According to the inquiries around, it seems like it’s been a long time.”
“Is that so?”
After glancing through the window, Eric forcefully broke the door.
Surprised, Noah quickly tried to stop Eric, but Eric destroyed it first.
“Captain?”
“This house has a bit of a shoddy door. No wonder it gets robbed like this.”
“······.”
Eric casually spoke and entered the house first.
Watching Eric blankly, Noah looked around and followed him inside, looking around.
As the neighbor testified, there were few signs of life, as if it had been a long time since anyone entered.
“Is it another false alarm this time?”
Mumbling, Eric checked the water bottle that seemed to have been drunk for quite some time.
Noah was looking for a place that seemed like a workshop.
Although various magic-related books on the bookshelf were ordinary, the crumpled papers scattered on the desk caught Noah’s eye.
As Noah was examining the paper with a serious expression, Eric approached.
“What’s this?”
“It’s a magical spell.”
“Magic? Manipulating demonic magic?”
“No, it’s not. It seems like a very simple magical spell. Creating a momentary light, or, well, creating flames.”
“Why would someone do that?”
With a wrinkled brow, Eric recalled the conversation he had with Alicia a while ago.
“Noah. I understand that magic and arcanery differ in the way of expressing implementation.”
“Yes.”
“In this era, when you say magician, people generally see them as corrupt, but not all magicians may be like that just because they use magic.”
“That’s correct. Originally, the idea of corruption comes from making a contract with the source of magic, the demons, but most magicians find it difficult to go to that extent.”
Magic was originally a technique that used one’s own magical power as a medium to borrow power from demons corresponding to their attributes.
The higher the magical power, the higher the degree of harmony with the demons.
Therefore, the state of harmonizing with demons by making a contract and seeking greater power is called corruption.
The representative magician who brought about the Dark Age 500 years ago was the archmage Sevier, who made a contract with demons and caused the Cataclysm.
While Eric was examining the workshop, Noah, who had been watching him, hesitated and asked cautiously.
“Then, Captain, do you think that as long as you don’t fall into corruption, it’s okay to use magic?”
“Huh? Well.”
Seeing Noah, who seemed to be full of worries, Eric smiled subtly.
“It’s just that I think there’s no need to be hasty in selling it as a single deception. Ah, of course, this is just my personal opinion.”
“Yes. I see.”
“That doesn’t mean you can use it even if it’s prohibited.”
“Yes. Um, Captain.”
“Why?”
“In fact[Dash].”
Noah hesitated and fidgeted his fingers, avoiding Eric’s gaze.
“When Captain entered the ruins of the northern temple last time.”
“But?”
“I used magic at that time.”
“What?”
“Since there wasn’t enough time to use arcanery, I did it unconsciously.”
Eric, not originally affiliated with the Order of Zero Knights, didn’t expect magic to have spread so widely.
Thinking that the situation might be more serious than expected, Eric asked cautiously.
“Were you interested in magic?”
“Yes? Uh[Dash], well. It’s probably because magic is more convenient in terms of speed and utility than arcanery, as it is implemented through language-based spells.”
“Since you’re a member of the Zero Knights, it shouldn’t be difficult to obtain such illegal information. What about other arcanists? Is it easy to obtain magic spells?”
“Uh[Dash].”
Noah hesitated and reluctantly opened his mouth.
“It’s not that difficult. For example, these magic spells are at a very basic level, so they are easy to memorize and spread quickly.”
“Noah, do you usually live in the temple? How’s the atmosphere there?”
Male lead is a Divorced Husband
She said to him: “Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change it!”
Liu Changning transmigrated into a female cannon fodder character in a female-dominant novel.
After reading the first half of the novel’s plot, the first thing she did upon transmigration was to divorce the Pan Jinlian-style male protagonist she had just married.
She indulged herself, pretending to be ugly and poor.
But as time passed, the way that man looked at her became more and more unusual…
Liu Changning was dumbfounded: Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change!
――
This lifetime, Pei Yuanshao was rejected by the same woman twice!
The first time, she drove him away. Forced by the situation, he endured the waves of anger in his heart, yielding and humbling himself.
That person lay slanted on a rocking chair, her sallow face emotionless: “If you don’t want a divorce, go cook!”
Pei Yuanshao’s face was dark and gloomy: “You!”
The second time, after the crisis in Jinling City was resolved, the new emperor sent someone to pick him up. He turned around, stammering: “I… I have to go. If you keep me…”
That person lay on the kang bed, her back to him, as if she had long anticipated this day, crisp and clear: “Goodbye!”
Pei Yuanshao was so angry his fingers trembled: “You… you!”
The mission of family and country made him restrain himself, averting his eyes and turning to leave this broken household.
Two years later, they met again. Seeing her ethereal face, his body shook like a sieve.
“She was originally a ‘she’!”
At the Qionglin Banquet, the top scholar of the imperial examination, a talented person with exceptional speech and conduct, all the unmarried young gentlemen from aristocratic families looked at her with shy and timid eyes.
The peerless imperial official Pei Yuanshao felt the anger in his heart erupt. He pointed at the woman surrounded by the crowd at the Qionglin Banquet, his thin lips slightly curled: “Little sister, I wants that person to be the wife-master of my Mingde Prince Manor.”
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