"Escape?"
I couldn't understand what he meant.
But before I could ask more, I thrust the plate toward him. It was dinner prepared by the most skilled cook among those I'd brought along.
Kisis didn't even glance at the plate.
"Yeah. As soon as we get back to the Imperial Capital, report it and prepare for an organized escape."
"Eat first."
"The mages can draw a dimensional teleportation circle and we slip out through it. They've honed it for ten years, so it won't burst even if a lot of people pass through."
"Eat."
Thud!
Kisis swatted the dish away heavily.
I smoothly caught the flying dish with my left hand.
Not even a drop of food spilled.
Kisis looked at me with an incredulous expression.
"What are you doing?"
"I'm offering you a meal."
I meant it.
When I stared straight at him with wide-open eyes, Kisis's voice lowered.
"You don't get the situation?"
"If you really can't eat, I'll at least do a transference for you."
I actually wanted to make him take a bath too.
But that felt like crossing a real line, so I just insisted on the meal. Honestly, my mind had been unsettled for two straight days. Seeing fragments of his ten years of life while cutting away the corruption had made it worse.
Where on earth had he even found decent food to eat?
Hiding my inner thoughts behind a brazen expression, I held out the plate again.
"If you really don't want it, I'll do the transference."
"You and your empty bravado, still going to puke anyway. You still called the World Tree's Unfilial Scion?"
"I've heard Unfilial Traitor too. And keep the puking a secret in front of the juniors."
Everyone in the world knew I was a child of the World Tree. The golden eye was our trait.
But I stubbornly avoided using absorption or transference. That's why those who hated me called me the World Tree's Unfilial Scion. Unfilial Traitor was a recent upgrade. Maybe because I didn't mind Unfilial Scion, they escalated it.
But calling me an Unfilial Traitor just for not using the World Tree child's traits was too much, wasn't it?
Unfilial Scion might have been fair enough. Of course, my knights under me couldn't accept even that nickname. I'd had to jump in multiple times to stop subordinates who charged at anyone who called me that.
But that wasn't important right then.
Since he didn't seem like he'd eat, I stood up to do absorption followed by transference.
At that moment, Kisis lunged at me.
Thump!
"Hey, what the hell!"
"If you're offering, eat it."
This madman was on a whole other level.
Normal people would have just eaten by then. Or quietly accepted the transference.
But this swordmaster and prince hated things going the way others wanted.
Kisis pinned me down and gripped my wrist.
I rolled my eyes and grumbled.
"For transference, it's easier if you touch my palm."
"Do even you absorb magical beasts?"
"Yes."
So I thought there might still be hope for the world.
Summoners had succeeded in taming some magical beasts, and we had succeeded in absorbing them. The rapidly spreading corruption could be purified, and magical beasts born from corruption could be tamed, killed, or absorbed. I didn't want to believe Kisis's words that there was no hope for this world yet.
Things like dimensional teleportation were hard to understand, being mage stuff.
Kisis crushed my hand.
I let out a sigh.
"I'll do the transference."
Where had Cecil gone? The silent, beautiful mage. She was the only one who could appear by Kisis's side without warning, grab his neck, and teleport him to the Imperial Capital.
Afraid to ask about the mage's safety, I started the transference before I could speak.
The share was for two days of not eating while sleeping.
"The ashes left after burning have nothing left to absorb."
I couldn't understand what Kisis spat out with a sneer.
*
Five days after finding Kisis.
I finally understood his mutterings.
"Let's go back."
Amid shouts of "Call the mage!
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