“…………”
“Whoa!”
The day after going hunting with Shio.
When I woke up in the morning and opened the front door, Margot, the elven mage from ‘Blue Comet,’ was waiting for me.
“Eh? What’s up?”
“…Good morning, Dru.”
“Ah, yeah, good morning. You look cute as always, Margot.”
“Hmm…”
Hmm?
“…Ah, what’s wrong? Did I do something to upset you?”
“Magic.”
Magic?
“You showed Shio a magic she didn’t know, and…”
Ah…
“Did she blab about it?”
“No. Shio and I share a room in the Clan house.”
Oh, right, that’s how those two are close.
So, uh, magic.
“I wanted to see the ‘True Word’ that no one knows…”
Saying that, the dejected elf girl drooped her long ears.
Oh my, how cute.
“Alright, I’ll teach you some magic today.”
“Really…? I’m so happy…!”
And so, I ended up teaching Margot magic…
Now, inside the house.
Tris is still minding the shop as usual, so I thought we could have some tea or something… but.
“Show me.”
“Huh?”
“I want to see the True Word you don’t know.”
So, I was told…
Hmm, I took a breath.
Well, has it been five years already?
Then maybe it’s about time I showed her.
Thinking that, I…
『חיבור תת-חלל, לגן הקוסם(Subspace Connection, to the Magician’s Garden)』
Decided to guide her to the “Garden.”
“Waa…?!”
I took Margot’s small, cute-looking hand and moved.
This is the “Garden”…
A private other-dimensional space permitted only to great archmages.
This space is about forty hectares in size, with a giant blue crystal floating in place of the sun, emitting light.
It’s a spacious secret base with a spring for fish farming, a wheat field, an orchard, a livestock shed, and a workbench with a medicinal herb garden and an alchemy table.
“…Th-this is, the ‘Garden’ spell…?”
“Ah, that’s right.”
“…Are you, Marlene? Aermes Trian? Mel Ki Zebeck? Or Vina Monen?”
All names of legendary sages and great archmages.
“None of those, I am I.”
“…Amazing. Amazing, amazing! I’ve never seen it before! Even my master couldn’t use it, the legendary spell! Amazing!”
After receiving a round of praise, I opened my mouth.
“Now then, you wanted to know about True Words you’ve never seen before, right?”
“A, u, un. I want to know, True Words…!”
Hmm…
“What do you want to know?”
“…? How many True Words can Dru use?”
Ah, I see.
Ordinary mages can only use a few True Words at most.
Mages who can use more than ten are hailed as sages or archmages…
Hmm…
What should I do?
It might be bad to honestly say I can do anything, but my abilities are already exposed…
Margot, being a mage, can use ‘Sight,’ so she’s seen through my vast magical power. Now I’ve obtained a technique to suppress my magical power, but before, it was apparently leaking out.
So even if I underreport here, it will only damage Margot’s trust.
Ugh…
“That’s a secret, but I know a lot of True Words themselves. Is there anything you want to know?”
“What about the ‘Repair’ True Word?”
‘Repair,’ huh?
I actually don’t have a magic teacher, I’m self-taught, or rather, I just have knowledge in my head thanks to my cheat, so I don’t know which True Words are valuable in this world.
In fact, when I first came to this town, I hadn’t learned the ‘Magic Concealment,’ a magic skill that any mage could do, and Margot saw through me at a glance and knew I was a mage…
I’m more excellent as a mage than anyone else, but frankly, I don’t know anything about mages!
But there’s no way I can become an apprentice now. In the first place, mages are eccentric, chosen intellectuals, so suddenly becoming an apprentice is impossible.
Margot, even though she’s from a collateral line, is of noble birth connected to the elven royalty, so she was able to study under a mage in the elven kingdom.
I’m a wandering changeling in terms of status, you know? No way.
But… judging from Margot’s expression, it seems safe to know about ‘Repair.’
It’s not a very important tone or way of speaking.
“Hmm, very well. I’ll show you… here goes! 『לְתַקֵן(Repair)』!”
Saying that, I kicked a wooden chair nearby to break it, and then chanted the ‘Repair’ True Word…
In no time, the broken chair leg connected as if time was rewinding, and it was fixed…
“How’s that?”
When I made a smug face.
“Dru. You absolutely, positively, must not show that to anyone.”
“Eh?”
“‘Repair’ is the rarest of the lost True Words. One of the legendary True Words. Just knowing it is a problem.”
Eh…?
But, she asked me normally if I knew it… ah, no, it was “Do you know it?” so it wasn’t “Can you use it?”
It was just a story about whether I knew of its existence?
Stop it with that…