CH.43 Angel’s napti
As our magic show ca to an end, our group broke up. Christina took Trystan inside, but Alice and I stayed here after Alice asked to. She took over to the blanket and we sat down. After giving Alice a bit of ti to start a conversation and her just staying silent, I decided to take the initiative.
“So how are you feeling?” I asked her.
“I don’t know.” She answered. “I feel like all I’ve done is not a waste, but I also feel like I couldn’t have done it without you. I don’t know if I should feel great about it or just … think of myself as a failure.”
“You know you are not a failure.” I told her. “You can now cast spells. And hit targets with them. How could that be considered a failure? And if that is, what would you consider a success?”
“But I couldn’t do it on my own.” She said.
“No one can do everything on their own.”
“Not that. I had to rely on the power of an angel to do it.” She said in a slightly angry tone.
“Angel?” What angel? I’ve seen no angel. I haven’t summoned Shining Angel. Or any other angel.
“You, you are an angel, aren’t you?” She really seems to be mad that I’m denying her ideas.
“Why would you think I’m an angel?” I asked her.
“Only an angel could do sothing like grant an attribute.” She said to .
“Well, it’s a good thing that I didn’t grant you an attribute then.”
“What do you an you didn’t? You saw it. I can cast spells now, where I couldn’t before. Of course you granted one.”
“Technically I didn’t.” I told her.
“What do you an ‘technically didn’t’?”
“In reality, I boosted your affinity with the dark attribute, while lowering your affinity with light. For you the lowering didn’t really matter, because you already had very low affinities with all attributes.” I told her.
“... What do you an raise and lower affinity? Don’t you just have an attribute? Or in my case I didn’t have one?”
“It’s not that simple, but I don’t really know how it works either.”
“So, I had an attribute, but I couldn’t use it?” Alice asked to confirm her theory.
“Yeah, that’s what I think was the case. Laura called it ‘sufficient attribute’. I think your strongest attributes naturally would be wind and earth. They are the ones held by your parents, after all. But wind and earth are opposites, so they might be preventing you from using them.” I told her my theory.
“So, was all my training I did before you ca useless?” Alice asked.
“What do you think?” I shoot back.
“I … I don’t know. Without you I would have never succeeded so it feels like a waste.”
“But if you hadn’t worked so hard, I would have never offered you the attribute.” I told her. “I went along with it, because I know you have been working hard. When I do the attribute modification, I don’t want to do it to soone who doesn’t deserve it. If you were just a spoiled brat that was asking, I would never have given it to you. But you work hard, in spite of the world. The world said you can’t cast magic, but you didn’t give in. You kept going and built up your skills. That is why you can now use magic. That’s also why you can have soone like Mana as your second teacher.”
“Does my effort have anything to do with Mana?” Alice asked.
“In a way, yes.” I answered. “It cos down to having system support, and the system sending sothing called missions. One of them is to boost the attributes of deserving people, who lack a sufficient attribute. As a reward I get special monsters that I can summon. In your case it was Dark Magician Girl and Dark Magician. If you had not worked so hard before, I would have gained lesser monsters as a reward.”
“So… Mana is here because of ?” Alice asked.
“Yes, she is here thanks to your effort.”
“Thank you, Brian.” She said quietly.
“Don’t thank . It’s the will of the system that I’m here.” I’ve really devolved into a preacher for the system. Or would that actually be an evolution? I’m not sure.
“Miss Alice, Lord Brian, it’s ti for lunch.” Jenna ca to get us. She works too hard. I hope she has ti to rest.
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Lunch was, to put it bluntly, awkward. Alice was hounded by her father, until Christina shut him up, and after that we all just ate in silence. After lunch I went to my room, to have a quick nap, before the summoning lessons of the afternoon. I didn’t think I was as tired as I really am.
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I felt myself being shaken up from my nap.
“Lord Brian” the female voice said as she was shaking. “Please wake up.”
“Fine… I’m up.” I said back as I opened my eyes. Nicole was there to get up from my nap. I was napping in my t-shirt and boxers, so she averted her eyes as she noticed.
“Please get dressed and follow . The baron sent to get you.” Nicole said.
“Yaaawn.” I let out a loud yawn. “Is it that ti already? Fine.”
I got up from the bed and quickly got dressed. Then I followed Nicole to the backyard of the estate.
Most of the people with ‘Card summoner’ were there waiting for . The two knights, Brandon, Alice and Henry, as well as Lucia and Alex of ‘Pri Rib’. Zayaan and Rico are absent.
Christina and Trystan were also present even though they don’t have the ‘Card summoner’ skill.
“Hello everyone. Sorry to keep you waiting.” I greeted them.
“Don’t worry about it Brian.” Christina said to . “We also just got here.”
“Hello Brian.” Lucia greeted .
“Hi, where are Zay and Rico?” I asked her and Alex.
“At the guild.” Alex answered. “The guild master has not co in yesterday or today, so the guild is a massive ss. Zayaan is trying to do so damage control. And he forced Rico to go to the fields to keep a look on the newer adventurers.”
“So he took it that badly.” Christina said after hearing what Alex said. “You should have sent Brandon a report earlier.”
“I apologize, Madam Watchman.” Alex answered.
“Well at least you told us now.” Christina said to Alex and made her way to Brandon. “And you are going to head to the guild.” She ordered her husband.
“Why would I do that? This is more important.” He argued.
“It’s your job to help the adventurers guild when an ergency cos up. So head there and find out what is going on.” Christina said in a commanding tone. “And Henry, you’ll head to the guild master’s house to check up on him. If he is unwilling to return to his job as the guild master, head to the guild and have Brandon na a new guild master.” Christina ordered. She is really taking command of them.
“But this is more imp…” Brandon was cut off by Christina.
“NO IT IS NOT!” She yelled out. “YOU WILL go to the GUILD. Or I’ll make Sure that Brian Will Never give you a Creature to Summon.” She was putting emphasis on so of her words nicely.
“... but … “ Brandon tried to co up with an argunt, but he was failing at it.’
“No Buts.” Christina shot back. “Do you even realize that your treatnt of our daughter almost caused Brian to turn his back on us. You will head to the guild, and act as the Lord of this town, like you are supposed to do.”
Christina, calm down a bit. You’ll give him PTSD or sothing. Anxiety? I don’t know. I’m not a doctor. Or a psychiatrist.
“... Fine.” Brandon gave up. He and Henry quickly took off.
“Now Brian, if you would.” Christina turned back to .
“Sure,” I began. “We have all gathered here to learn about the wonders of card summoning.” I said in a joking tone. “But in truth, I have no idea where to begin.” I admitted.
“Then why not just show us how you do it?” Christina asked.
“Everyone but you has already seen it. And you saw how I unsummoned Mana earlier.” I answered. Well I guess Trystan has not seen it yet, but he’s an extra anyway.
“Brian, why don’t you show them a ‘pack opening’? That could give them so idea on how your skill works.” Alice said to . That might be the best idea.
“Good point Alice. That way everyone understands where the cards co from.” I said. I hope I can make the screen big enough for everyone to see.
(I’ll make it bigger for you, Master.) Laura told . You really can do so much.
“Pack opener, Open.” I said and up ca the already familiar nu. But it was a lot larger this ti and floating a little farther away from than usual. “Can everyone see it?” I asked and got a mix of yes and fine as answers.
“Well then. Let’s open so packs.”
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