When I finished explaining the magic circle, Theo made a difficult face.
He seems to be using it for the first time, so there may be anxiety. If he goes back to the royal capital, I can’t teach him easily.
“If you’re really worried, I’ll contact the store where my father is sending it, so you can reconfirm it there… But if you leak the honey thing there, we’ll get complaints all the time later.”
I’m going to get a complaint that we didn’t wholesale it to their place. I know my father’s personality, so I’ll stop it before my father gets angry, but it seems like he would get involved in a troublesome way.
“I know how to use it, but… Hey, is this magic circle only able to be used once?”
“There is one that can be used more than once, but … the fee is set at a high price.”
It’s only a magic circle, so the trouble doesn’t change much, but my father raised the price considerably compared to the one-time use one. My father says it’s a technical fee, but the truth is that he doesn’t wholesale materials other than to those who he wants to work with.
“The only ones who have it are the store where my father’s materials are sold, and the alchemist who asks my father to accommodate the materials.”
Actually, it seems that my father’s subordinates were also trying to get it, but they are said to buy materials at the store. I wonder if it’s okay not to be in the mood for business like this, but it’s amazing that it’s going well for my father.
It seems that there are people who do similar business, but it seems that there are few people who have knowledge of material collection, can defeat monsters alone, have qualifications as magicians, and do not suffer being in the countryside. A former subordinate told me before that people like my father are usually sought after in the royal capital.
“I see…”
“Do you want that much honey? Hmm. If you give me the address, I’ll send you a letter when I get it, and then I’ll ask them to wholesale it to you at the store that sells the materials.”
Direct trading will create troublesome things later, so I don’t want to do it all the time, but I think I can give Theo a little preferential treatment. Well, we don’t get the honeycob so often.
“It’s not that. This is enough honey, and I will tell them that you can’t get it often, so that they don’t think that you can get it regularly, when I talk to the priest or the saint. It’s not like that… Amelia. Can you exchange letters with me?”
“Eh? Letters?”
Theo’s offer was something I didn’t think about at all, so I was surprised. When Theo saw it, he scratched his cheek with a shy face.
“I know I’m saying something that doesn’t suit me. I’m not that good at writing, so my writing is also messy…”
“Well. I don’t think that Theo looks like someone who isn’t good at communication or anything like that. No, I was surprised by the sudden offer.”
I’ve never been petpals with anyone before. No… Did I send postcards to my father and grandfather several times when I was in the royal capital?
But that’s about it.
I’ve heard that some people do that kind of thing, but I was wondering what kind of person would do it at what time.
“Because, if we don’t even communicate, I won’t know the current situation of Amelia, will I? I can’t even know when Amelia wants help.”
“No. You’ve already returned the favor enough.”
He was accompanying me to collect materials and research for free. That’s enough, I’m not going to tie Theo up forever.
“The return of gratitude is not enough yet, but that’s not all. Well… we became friends, didn’t we? I don’t want to lose our relationship like this. That’s why I want to connect with you at least through letters.”
Usually, the relationship with someone you meet on a trip is easily cut off. Because you can’t meet or talk right away.
I also had a very good feeling about Theo. If we are apart, he will gradually leave my heart, but it’s a good thing if we can send letters.
“Sending letters is good, but what does that have to do with the magic circle?”
“I thought it would be nice to be able to interact quickly regardless of the distance and never get censorship.”
“Oh. The place where Theo lives is censored, isn’t it?”
“Because I live in a dormitory now.”
I don’t know if it’s a temple or a government dormitory, but both are places that are likely to be censored. It’s not just for Theo, it’s for everyone.
“There are many things about Amelia’s research can’t be said, right? If I have a magic circle, I can get through censorship and read the letters secretly, and you can write complaints as you want, and I thought it would be good.”
“……It’s true. If I think there is censorship, I would pay attention to what I write.”
I realized that I had never been told about it because I had never sent a letter in a place with censorship, but if I thought about it, I would have lived in such a place if I had been employed without knowing anything.
My father and grandfather are often silent to people in the royal capital, so it may have been even more difficult to contact them than when I was a student.
“But on the contrary, wouldn’t it be hard for you when you get caught? Even if you don’t do something bad, won’t you be seen as if you did something bad?”
Being openly censored is proof that there is no backing. If you are caught with this, you will be set up as if there was something sketchy even if you didn’t actually do anything.
“I’ll try not to be found out, and being in the dormitory is temporary, and I’m thinking of moving when I get back. If I leave the dormitory, there will be no censorship.”
“Eh? Is it okay to move out?”
“Originally, the only people who use it are single, and some people who are single go from their parents’ house. The living fee is cheap, but I thought about the fact that I didn’t want to be censored. I can’t say what I want to say.”
Even though I know that it can’t be helped to ensure the safety of the saints and the royal family, I also feel that I don’t want to be stopped from saying what I want to say.
“Wait a minute. I’ll check with my father. I can make that magic circle, but he has applied for a patent.”
When I looked at my father, Alfie was still talking to him.
But my father doesn’t seem to dislike it that much, and he seems to enjoy listening to Alfie’s story. I wonder what kind of story he’s talking about.
“Dad, I’m sorry to bother you while you’re talking, but Theo wants a magic circle for sending things back and forth many times, but can the price be flexible somehow? Because he wants to exchange letters with me without censorship.”
“Without censorship…”
My father said that anything is relatively fine, but he made a difficult face to the words no censorship. Even if I didn’t do anything wrong, if Theo was suspected, it would also be suspected that there was something shady going on with me.
“I’m going to look for a rental as soon as I get back to the capital and leave the censored dormitory early. However, when it comes to communicating with Amelia, I want to avoid censorship, so I thought it would be convenient.”
“……Use it as little as possible until you leave the dormitory. If possible, it’s better to exchange honey only once. You can use it as many times as you want after leaving the dormitory. Rather, if it is by mail, there is a possibility that the royal family, temple officials, and powerful aristocrats will intercept it and see it without permission, so it would be easier to do it if there was a magic circle.”
“Eh. Are they going to intercept it and look at it without permission? Would they bother to look at an ordinary person’s letter?”
The people who are communicating should be in the royal capital with a large population. Are there so many people who are free within royal and temple officials?
“This is because of your father and grandfather. I’m sorry.”
“Eh?”
“Both me and your grandfather are hated like caterpillars by some people.”
“That can’t be true! Everyone respects the royal palace magician, Clark!”
Alfie refuted my father, who looked sorry and lowered his eyebrows. But my father laughs bitterly at it.
“I’m very grateful, but that’s also the reason. Your grandfather and I have gained a lot of trust from some people. That’s why there are many more who hate us, and the temples and royal family are wary of us. That’s why the number of communications with Amelia was very small, wasn’t it?”
“……Eh. Was that the reason? I thought you were lazy. I also only had to write a word on the postcard.”
I thought that’s why they didn’t send a lot of letters. My father and grandfather are busy, and I’ve never been worried about it because I heard about them from the owner of the store who sells the materials and my father’s former subordinates who I interacted occasionally.
“Because there is a cooperative relationship, I don’t think there is a danger of being suddenly excluded, and I don’t feel like we will be eliminated. I’m sure they won’t do anything as long as we stay in this countryside. But we won’t be able to relieve their vigilance, and they’ll check it when Amelia starts to write.”
“Wow. If that’s the case, I can’t write personal things. If I write about underwear and it becomes a rumor, it’s too bad.”
“Well, even if they see that you wrote personal things, it definitely won’t become a rumor. They are also moving in secret. If they knew what they shouldn’t know, you would be suspicious, wouldn’t you?”
“Don’t write about underwear in the first place.”
“It’s an example. I won’t write about it to Theo. But I don’t want a third party to know such a really embarrassing thing.”
He denies it with a bright red face, but I don’t want to write about underwear either. The current analogy is supposed to be about asking a clothes store in the royal capital for a dress by letter. It’s completely different if the clerk knows the three sizes and if completely unrelated people know.
“Dad, please. Give the magic circle to Theo at a cheap price!!”
“……It can’t be helped. It’s bad business for the royal family to see and steal my daughter’s underwear information.”
“So please don’t let the underwear information story flow to me too!!”
When the innocent Theo screamed with a red face, my father stared at his face.
“Do you really not want to know?”
“……Huh?!”
“Well, never tell your friends.”
“I’m sorry. My example was bad. Please don’t continue with the underwear story. It’s good if only I know my underwear information.”
I gave an example as something that would be embarrassing if it was known, but it was not the content of a young woman. I reflect upon seeing Theo being teased by my father. I’m really sorry.
“Um. If I can send a letter, can I send mine with Theo’s letter?”
“To?”
“I want Royal Palace Magician, Clark to see the magic theory that I thought of and studied. I think it’s in a state where it has to be corrected because it’s an amateur’s work, but…”
“Okay. Send it to me when Theo starts living alone. If you need to correct it, I’ll fix it and send it back.”
“Oh, thank you very much!!”
Why do you co-rely with me? Come to think of it, it seems that he wanted to talk about magic with my father. If my father was going to undertake the correction, he must have been quite enthusiastic or felt that he was talented.
“However, there are conditions, so I’ll do it later. I’ll make a new magic circle first, so wait a little bit.”
When my father said that, he moved to the workshop.
Good. I’m glad they are going to keep in touch. I’m honestly surprised that Amelia is so unaware of how famous her father and grandfather are.
I hope you enjoyed this chapter and thank you for reading!
