The Woman Found the Will I Wrote

129 – List

I immediately returned to the mansion, ignoring Chloe’s suggestion that I at least eat something.

As soon as I found Espin rolling around on the bed in my room.

He immediately dropped the archmage on the floor and spoke briefly.

“I brought you.”

“… “

I guess Espin didn’t know that he would bring the Archmage while he was lying around.

He was so startled that he fell off the bed, then started screaming at me.

“Oh, no, why did you come so quickly…” ” “No, what else should I bring?”

“I brought the archmage.”

“… “

The moment Espin heard what I said, he looked down at the floor blankly.

She opens her eyes wide in disbelief and quickly begins to look back and forth between me and the Archmage.

I clicked my tongue at Espin’s behavior and crossed my arms.

“Stop acting weird and start interrogating me.”

“Now, wait a minute, you captured the archmage? Why? “Didn’t you come to kill me?”

I answered that question as if it were obvious.

“Of course, there were many advantages to keeping him alive, so I saved him.”

“Yes, that’s true. It’s a bit surprising.”

Espin adjusted his clothes and let out a long sigh.

He continued speaking while tidying up his hair with his fingers.

“For now… Let’s start the interrogation. But it’s a bit awkward to do it here… “Could you please move me to the interrogation room?”

It’s not a very difficult request.

I nod and put the Archmage back in.

Espin sighs and speaks to her.

“So what on earth happened there?”

“Nothing happened. They simply made a deal using the Archmage’s family as hostages.”

“Isn’t that a big deal?”

She looked at me with an expression that seemed like she couldn’t understand, then she shook her head and continued speaking.

“Well, that’s good. “If you had really killed him, it would have been a lot of trouble.”

After giving her a slight nod, Espin picked up her coat and glanced at me.

Her lips moved several times as if she was thinking about something.

She spoke to me with a deep sigh as if she had made up her mind.

“After that interrogation… Can we talk? “I want to talk about something that happened before.”

If it happened before, it probably refers to Espin trying to seduce me.

I remember that I solved the incident quite well and moved on.

Espin seemed to have not done so, and he mentioned this again.

“That’s right.”

At my words, Espin looked at me with a complex mixture of relief and complexity.

I soon sighed and nodded.

“Anyway, I’m moving it. “I’ll just go get some supplies and go.”

When I heard that I was taking the supplies, a thought suddenly crossed my mind as to why I was lying in my room instead of my own.

She kept her mouth shut, thinking that a similar situation would unfold before she bit her teeth.

‘Anyway, the important thing now is to get information from the wizard.’

I decided to proceed with the main thing first and headed to the interrogation room.

* * *

To conclude, the information stolen from the Archmage was of less value than expected.

‘It seems that the Celestial God Church has realized that the Archmage is not a very useful chess piece.’

Perhaps it was a natural story.

In the first place, there were so many forces from the Heavenly God Church that belonged to the central government.

This is because there was no way that the story of the Grand Wizard was a scarecrow for the magic society and the family.

‘Perhaps that is why the Celestial Church did not provide much information to the Archmage.’

Because of that, it would be correct to say that I made a fuss.

‘What I don’t understand is that no matter how much of a scarecrow he is, the Great Wizard is still the Great Wizard. It must have taken a lot of money to move this thing.’

I couldn’t figure out why I let it go even though I knew it would be caught by me.

‘I don’t know what the Celestial Church’s intentions are… One thing is for sure, it seems like while I was dealing with the Archmage, the other side was trying to gain an advantage… ‘

No matter how much I think about it, I can’t figure out what it is.

First of all, we confirmed that there were no problems with Cien, the Welcome Library, Rumi, Delia, and Espin, so all that was left was…

It would be places that would be difficult for me to pay attention to, such as the central government, the Magic Society, and the Academy.

‘… For a moment. Now that I think about it, why did the Archmage bother to cause a kidnapping at the Magic Society?’

If you wanted to successfully complete the kidnapping, you should not do it ‘in the center of the shopping district’ where the eyes of other wizards are gathered.

Taking advantage of the individualism of wizards.

It would have been a normal decision to aim for a time when Chloe was locked in the lab.

‘There’s no way the Heavenly God Church wouldn’t know about this… ‘

Why did they have to do something like that in broad daylight in the middle of a shopping mall?

It would be safe to say that it was intentionally ‘to attract attention.’

‘However, no matter how much of the Celestial Church, they probably didn’t know that I would immediately go to the Magic Society, so it was probably not done to target me.’

It is said that there is a high probability that it is to gather the eyes of other wizards…

In other words, it was judged that the Celestial Church had turned the eyes of ordinary magicians around because of ‘something’ in the Magic Society.

‘The Celestial Church, which is oblivious, even tried to do this while paying attention to ordinary magicians… ‘

And the reason why the Archmage was thrown in as meaningless bait, no matter how much of a scarecrow he was.

What exactly do these points to?

I relayed information about this to Espin and asked for his opinion, and I got a pretty interesting answer.

“Aren’t they conducting a huge magic experiment within the Magic Society?”

“… “Experiment?”

“Yeah, I was doing gingaminga until I heard you say that. If you think about it this way, the context roughly fits.”

I nodded and looked at Espin.

Espin snapped his fingers and began to explain one by one.

“If you think that everything you said earlier is meant to ‘erase the flow of mana,’ you are roughly correct. In any case, the intense wave and collapse of mana that occurs during the kidnapping will completely erase all nearby mana flows.”

“And?”

“This is information you probably haven’t heard. There is a story that the Heavenly God Church is trying to forcibly demote the majority of wizards and send them to the ‘lower level’ by appointing an archmage.”

It’s a somewhat unexpected story.

If the reason for sending the wizards down is to prevent them from noticing the magic experiments taking place on that floor…

I was able to notice that what Espin was saying was roughly correct.

“You’re doing something interesting. What I don’t understand, however, is why the Magic Society is bothering to conduct an experiment?”

“That’s simple, it’s to use the countless magic materials gathered at the Magic Society… “To use the Magic Society itself.”

“To use the Magic Society?”

“Huh? Oh, you don’t know this. Do you know that the Wizard’s Tower turned into the Magic Society?”

When another story suddenly appeared, I nodded, even though I was puzzled.

Espin asked me one question.

“So, how did the tower change when it turned into an academic institution?”

From those words, I was able to understand what Espin was trying to say.

“It means that powerful mana exists within the Magic Society itself.”

“That’s right, that’s accurate. However, I would like to add one thing here: the Magic Society you saw was actually closer to a giant magic stone than a building.”

An abnormally large magic stone.

That was the identity of the Magic Society.

* * *

Even after the conversation ended, countless questions remained.

Since these issues were scheduled to be resolved later anyway, I decided to go to the Magic Society to investigate again.

‘I know that the Heavenly God Church is doing something there. ‘I can’t just leave it alone.’

Although it was nothing more than trash, there was a high probability that they were conducting an experiment on a fairly large scale, to the point where they were throwing the Archmage as a scapegoat.

I don’t know what it is.

I’m already going to steal it… No, just when I was thinking that my mouth was watering at the thought of researching it, Espin opened his mouth.

“Then you’re going to go straight to the Magical Society, right? “I’ll check to see if I have anything to take with me.”

I looked at Espin who was busy moving his head, then shook my head, sat back down in the chair, and continued talking.

“No. “Before I go, I want to talk to you first.”

“Huh?”

“Didn’t you say that earlier? “I want to say something because of what happened before.”

“… By the way. Since the hour is urgent right now, wouldn’t it be better to settle the matter of the Magic Society first?”

“Okay. If you send Luna, we will be able to keep track of the situation.”

At those words, Espin stiffened like a wooden doll and nodded.

He starts moving around, showing various conflicted expressions.

Then, he wanders around restlessly for a while, then as if he has made up his mind, he sits down and shouts at me.

“That… “I kept thinking about it.”

“I thought about it.”

“What is it… Please add me to that pet list.”

“… “

To Espin… I had no choice but to close my eyes tightly as I heard that remark, which I thought I would never hear, at least not from Espin.