Promise 2
As if wanting something to say, Reggie sighs.
“There seems to be nothing with the body …. It doesn't have any changes so far, The way you have been surprised that time, you also didn't know that is one becomes magician after drinking, am I right?”
I nodded.
“If that's so, then it’s good,”
Reggie smiled as if feeling relieved.
I gaze at him deep in thoughts.
“If I break down as that magician, scattering black magic all around, and if my body becomes strange…. wouldn’t you imprison me or do something similar?”
“What are you saying, Kiara? I won’t do such a thing.”
Reggie says with a blank expression.
“There is no problem right now and you can't use any magic, why do I need to imprison you?”
“But it's possible there will be something like that in the future,”
“That’s right …”
When I bring out the cause of my anxiety, Reggie at leas think it through a little before answering.
“However, it is difficult to find out because there are no magicians we are acquainted to, it's unlikely that we could find anything in the margrave library archives, so after I return to the royal palace, I will also investigate about it.”
“Eh, really!?”
Reggie nodded firmly.
I felt relieved. If it is the royal palace, I'm sure more information will be accessible. And there must be a magician employed by the royal family. They are people of high standing, one will be able to hear quite accurate information.
“But Kiara, how long has it been since you had drunk that? Because it seems in a case of that man, there was no problem where thunder grass was growing, but after to margrave territory I think that it was drunk, he has drunk something different, and it certainly wasn't more than 2 weeks since that time.”
“Yes, I had that drink just after being adopted, I have been sleeping for about three days after that … and afterwards I had been fed that drink few times more, but somehow it just made the body feel strange, so I thought at that time Count fed me some unique poison, bad quality food, or a nourishment medicine.”
“Nourishment medicine? You sure have some extraordinary ideas..,”
Reggie laughs a little.
“But it looks like poison …. If you really die from power break down like that magician, the effect is not much different from the poison, however Kiara was fine after drinking that, perhaps you have qualities of the true magicians,”
I nodded to the words of Reggie.
If there was no qualities I would be dead, there was nothing abnormal in my body so that means I have become one. Just like in the game plot. However, the question is why I can't use even a bit of magic.
“More than this, I want to hear about the situation of two years ahead, have you heard something from the Count Patricièl? Something like he will be moving with the invasion schedule in two years?"
For Reggie certainly, that is an important issue, if there is an aggressive war movement, it would be something he wants to seize at the right moment.
But I haven't heard it from anywhere.
“It's really was a dream … a thing like a daydream …”
“A dream ……”
Reggie sized me with a bitter look, I hurriedly said that it was a dream.
“I can not explain it well, but the world is moving as I have seen it. If I hadn't run away from the Count, after marriage I was supposed to be a queen’s attendant, as my name would become Credius, I would be fighting as a magician on a Queen's side … Perhaps I might have fought with Alan, that's why I had ran away as soon as I saw the name of my marriage partner in the letter.”
As I am now for different reasons from before, but I don't want to become an enemy of everyone. Alan who put me on a carriage and hired on his territory. Even margrave couple who have trusted their son and employed me.
In addition to support from everyone, Reggie who helped me just because I am his friend. I couldn't become everyone’s enemy, let alone, hurting or killing them. But talking to the Reggie more would only confuse him. So I rounded up the story.
“It is an absurd story with no basis, even if you think that I am insane, please, just be careful. After two years from now, if it becomes as I foresaw it, I will keep on guarding everyone properly, so if you do not refuse me then … … I will be happy.”
I never thought that I want him to understand everything. Just knowing that Reggie is in danger that I can become a magician and I want to help him. I thought it was enough.
Reggie has suggested after thinking.
“It certainly will be difficult to have faith in a story without proper backing, if one is a priest of Jeremiah, it could be easily to affirm that it was in a dream, but Kiara, this time I also think that Count Patricièl is planning something, so why not give everyone a good idea of your anxiety. I wonder if the castle is about to be assaulted, no one would disagree, right?”
“What if they don't believe?..”
“You don't have to do it by yourself. From the fact that the Queen is acting suspiciously and this movement of Count Patricièl I would warn them that it needs attention for sure,”
Hearing those words, I felt like a burden on my shoulder was lifted. If you are a prince, you know the Queen’s character well, and you are familiar with the movements of the nobles, Reggie's words will for sure raise Margrave attention to that. I finally could breathe easier.
While I felt really relieved, just like that Reggie again placed his face near mine and whispered in my ear.
“Even then … … if you become a magician, it's okay not to protect me.”
“Eh ……”
I remembered that kiss on my cheek and my body stiffened. Hearing unexpected words I was stunned.
“But if the invasion really will happen, the side that have the magician,”
Would be more advantageous in the subsequent war situation. Because even if Reggie doesn’t die in the siege, the invasion of the kingdom after that will not disappear. Alan will have to fight for certain.
“Is there a guarantee that you can become a magician safely? And besides wasn't you hating the thought of becoming magician? Also, running away from that situation, understanding that you could have died a terrible way. I suppose that you don't want to become one even now.”
I could not refute.
While I was silent, Reggie finally step away, taking hold of my shoulders with both hands.
“Let’s make a promise, Kiara, you cannot become a magician behind my back.”
“Without telling you I can't …”?
Because I did not think that he would forbid, I seize Reggie’s face in surprise. Reggie doesn't seem to have made a mistake. He nods clearly.
“Don't choose a dangerous road by yourself, I will do it instead, so without permission do not take away valuable friend from me. Okay, Kiara?”
He forbids it so I wouldn't disappear.
Soon after he said that, Reggie's face in front of me became blurry. I felt tears running down my cheeks. The sensation of sobbing with the nose, inability to open the eyelids and the heat in the eyes, how long ago I had felt something like this.
Tears overflowed from both sides, dropping my face so he will not see it, even though I haven't cried for a long time, that is because I always wanted to be told this.
You don't have to become a magician.
You don't have to do dangerous things by yourself.
Like a normal child, I wanted someone to say this and protect me.
However, there wasn't a single person I could rely on, because I didn't have parents.
That's why I had a lump in my throat and couldn't say anything, if I talked about my previous life memories, I was afraid that everyone might also get away from me, and I could do nothing.
But Reggie accepted me.
Feeling to relieved I couldn't stop the tears anymore. Yet Reggie spills thing that made me cry even more.
“If you break the promise, I will punish you, okay?”
“Yes … …”
Even if I break the promise, Reggie said that he will just get angry but will not leave.
I thought from the bottom of my heart that this person I made a promise with, I don't want to lose for sure.