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While I was looking surprised, Brigitte said.
“You can’t seriously be thinking that I’m this child’s mother just because we have the sa taste in eggs, right?”
“No, that is exactly what I was thinking. Did you manage to create mindreading magic or sothing?”
“Don’t be stupid, sunny-side-up is the most common way to eat eggs, so don’t go around jumping to absurd conclusions.”
Indeed.
As expected of Brigitte, she was right.
Sizzle—
Anyway, I made a lot of fried eggs.
As I was cracking the eggs onto the frying pan, I could see Naru and Brigitte sitting across from each other on the couch, studying.
“When morizing the multiplication tables, it’s better to sing them like a song. Huh, speaking of which, when I was eight I also had trouble with math. So here let’s try this, eight tis one is eight, eight tis two is sixteen.”
“Wooow, it’s sooo easy to rember if you rember them like that…!”
Still, despite acting like a strict teacher.
Brigitte was nothing close to being a bad person.
After all, not anyone would join the Hero’s party.
Romimimi—
In the evening.
Naru slept on the couch, already tired of studying.
“Mnn Nine tis…..Nine…..grilled chicken legs….Mnn”
She was even mumbling in her sleep.
Brigitte, who pulled the blanket up to Naru’s neck, ca out onto the terrace.
As she stood next to , she said.
“Hey Judas, you’re looking good now, you know?”
“Really? Is it because I have a kid now?”
“No, you look more relaxed now. You’re laughing more often too, and to be honest, you used to be a little edgy back then, right?”
“Well, that’s because back then I was mostly focused on surviving. You look good, too. I, hmm……Don’t know exactly why, but you’re just looking good.”
“And what was that supposed to an? You’re still horrible at expressing yourself huh.”
Brigitte chuckled softly.
Afterward, there was a brief silence between us.
I don’t know how many seconds we stayed like that.
But I finally asked sothing that was bugging my mind.
“What’s going on with this city?”
“What do you an?”
“Brigitte, I know better than anyone that you’re not the type to settle down and teach kids. There must be sothing dangerous going on here in Freesia for you to be here.”
“……”
Brigitte was speechless.
She was always like that when soone saw through her.
Soon enough, she took out a cigarette from near her chest.
She then snapped her fingers and with a little magic, lit the cigarette.
The cigarette had a flowery scent.
It must be made from so magical herb.
“Ugh.”
Brigitte frowned as she smoked.
She looked like soone suffering from a headache.
So, I asked her.
“Does the wound you got from that Immortal Lich in the Demon King’s castle still hurt?”
The Immortal Lich was said to have power that rivaled the might of a dragon.
And Brigitte had been wounded fighting that thing.
That’s why she started smoking these special cigarettes to help her deal with her injuries.
Because the cigarettes had painkilling properties.
Brigitte massaged her forehead with her thumb.
“Well, it’s not a big deal. We’re having a little problem here at the Academy, but it’s nothing I can’t handle, and I definitively don’t want you butting your nose around breaking everything, so just forget about it.”
How rude.
Well, at least I know that sothing is indeed going on with this city and the Academy.
And that Brigitte does not want involved.
Brigitte smirked.
“Judas, you’re also soone full of secrets, aren’t you? After all, we don’t even know your real na. We also don’t know if you truly are a Barbaroi. So let keep so secrets of my own.”
“Well, whatever.”
I decided to not pressure her further.
As I had other matters to attend to.
Besides, Brigitte is built differently from the average person.
Whatever is going on, she will pull through it alone.
That’s why I wasn’t worried.
The problem here is Naru.
Would she be able to do well in the entrance exams?
* * * * * * * * * *
Romimimi— Romimimi—
The snoring was loud.
One of the sources of the loud noise was undoubtedly Judas, the Barbaroi thief.
Brigitte thought she had gotten used to it during their adventures, but, hearing the thunderous noise again after such a long ti still irritated her.
“He’s still snoring.”
Romimimi— Romimimi—
Then there was the other snore, a softer one, like a little animal sleeping.
It was the snoring of the child deep asleep on the bed.
“Naru……was that her na?”
The child was only five or six years old.
She had the sa jet-black hair and eyes as her forr comrade Judas.
“Is she really Judas’ daughter……?”
Brigitte considered the possibility that Judas might have hidden his wife and daughter in the hotown of the Barbaroi. However, she shook her head shortly afterward.
“No. This can’t be true. There is no way Judas would find a woman who would agree to marry him and even bear his child.”
Judas was one of the Heroes who joined the Demon King subjugation party.
But at the sa ti, he was also a notorious villain with a dark reputation.
In the first place, the reason he joined the party was because he wanted the “Immunity” from his deeds that would co to light after the slaying of the Demon King.
People feared the Barbaroi.
And of course, no woman would like those who worked as rcenaries, bandits, or thieves like the Barbaroi.
There would undoubtedly be many people who would be frightened just by Judas approaching them.
And frightened they beca.
Brigitte, who had traveled with him on their many adventures, knew this very well.
To be honest, he himself didn’t give off a friendly vibe.
“Of course, it might be different for a barbarian woman… His brutish looks might even be considered handso among savages.”
At that mont, Brigitte recalled a written study stating that among the barbarian won, strength and stamina were considered a man’s greatest virtues, instead of his face or character.
Step—
Approaching Naru’s sleeping form, Brigitte ignited a small fla with her fingers.
Burst—
The fla burned like a candle, illuminating the child’s face.
“Ngh….Too bright…..”
Naru whined.
But Brigitte continued to examine the child’s features.
“Her long eyelashes are a bit like mine……The forehead is also the sa. And her ears……”
Brigitte struggled to find anything on the child’s face that didn’t resemble her own.
And when she thought about such a resemblance.
“And… He said that she traveled back in ti, so if that’s true, then she…”
Space-ti magic.
As far as Brigitte, who was now an Archmage, knew, such magic was in the realm of the impossible.
It went beyond the realm of magic and could be better classified as a ‘miracle’. But miracles were the realm of the Gods.
And if there were individuals capable of using such divine magic in this world……
They could only be the five Grand Mages, each one bestowed with a ‘color’.
“If I trained continuously for the next five years… Would I be able to reach that rank?”
Brigitte realistically assessed her talent.
Five years.
Would she be able to use the space-ti magic by then?
“…No.”
Five Years.
No matter how diligently she accumulated her magic power, it would still be impossible to cast such magic within this tifra.
However, Brigitte knew of only one person who had a chance of succeeding in this.
“Elle Cladeco, the Mage of The Morning Star.”
The greatest mage of their ti, having perfected the magical hierarchy of circles.
A prodigy who advanced the concepts of Magic and magic engineering forward by two centuries.
And if she…
“Was it a coincidence or simply fate?”
Brigitte felt the strange hand of fate behind their visit.
Like all the pieces of a puzzle were falling into place.
So Brigitte stared at the child’s face through the night.
Right until the first light of the new dawn shone on her, illuminating her features.
* * * * * * * * * *
“I guess I’m in favor of her enrollnt.”
It was morning.
Brigitte said as she cooked the sausages, eggs, and bacon and put them on a plate.
Rubbing my sleepy eyes I replied.
“Really?”
“A graduate from the Graham Academy won’t be ignored wherever they go. It’s like proof of their talent and abilities. This will be good during Naru’s life.”
Brigitte was considering enrolling Naru in the Academy where she worked.
I rember that in the past, one of my uncles was a professor, and he kept calling and other relatives to enroll in his course because the departnt needed to fulfill a student quota.
So, is it sothing like that?
No, I think it’s a bit different.
So, I asked.
“Naru, what do you think? Do you want to go to school?”
“Woow! Bacon! Sausage! Heart-shaped Ketchup!”
Naru was really excited about her fancy breakfast.
This child has already forgotten about the eggs I made for her yesterday.
Swipe—
Brigitte scooped a portion of her sausages onto Naru’s plate.
“It would be good for you to attend the Academy and take your ti regaining your mories. This place is the most advanced in magic and magic engineering in the world, so we will surely figure sothing about space-ti magic.”
“I will also be able to find out who my wife is.”
It was a good plan.
Moreover, wouldn’t it be less likely for the still-young Naru to be discriminated against for being a barbarian if she was a graduate of the Graham Academy?
But sothing was bothering .
This situation felt all too familiar to .
Brigitte was likely hiding sothing.
Whatever was going on at Graham.
And Naru’s enrollnt.
Was there a connection between these?
I should think about that.
At the sa ti, Brigitte said.
“Speaking of which, I’d like to check Naru’s abilities. We roughly assessed her knowledge yesterday, but we haven’t seen her abilities yet.”
Abilities?
What abilities?
Seeing my confused expression, Brigitte shook her head in disbelief.
“You really have no idea, do you? Didn’t you know that in the Graham Academy, things like magic, swordsmanship, martial arts, and horsemanship are core subjects?”
I already knew that the Academy taught combat lessons.
But I didn’t expect this.
“Wait, do they teach that to six-year-olds? At six, they are just kids, aren’t they?”
“Isn’t that common knowledge? Weren’t you hunting wolves and playing in the forests of Barbaria since you were five? Catching slis and collecting lots of mushrooms?”
“Ugh……”
The mories of the lies I had told them in the past weighed heavily on my chest.
During the period when I embraced the concept of being a ‘Barbarian from Barbaria’ I told them many lies.
I told them that when I was six, the only thing I’d do was hunt mushrooms in Henesys Village during autumn. 1Maple Story reference.
I even told them I used to throw spears to hunt.
Of course, it was my in-ga character who did all those things, not !
The six-year-old was being pampered by my parents, whining about new toys, and getting smacked by my mom.
But the six-year-olds of this world were different.
“You were born this way. But many beco elites through rigorous discipline and training from a very young age. Just like .”
Brigitte puffed out her chest proudly.
Then she grabbed her cloak and headed outside.
“Let’s go then.”
A test of my daughter’s skills.
To be honest, I was looking forward to it.
To seeing if she really takes after …
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