The Guardian Knight of Affection-Starved Young Ladies

51 – Dranus (04)

052.

A radiance that fills to the point of being stinging.

It seems impossible to adapt to the light that fills the vision.

Kallen was at a loss for words as she faced the reality of the spirit world.

It’s not just the sunlight.

The spirit world itself exuded brilliance.

Should I say the lines are different?

The lines that shape the world were clearly different from the human world.

So much so that it made one exclaim in awe.

An ideal world that everyone dreams of.

It was like something out of a romantic novel.

Kallen stared at it blankly,

Tap-

He barely regained his senses at the light touch on his back.

“We don’t have time…! There’s no time to be doing this. We have people to meet.”

“…”

Sorry.

Kallen almost blurted out those words in surprise.

He wasn’t the type to be unable to apologize, but…

Still, Kallen didn’t think he was someone who easily uttered words of apology.

If he thought about it, the only person he had sincerely apologized to was Sinat.

Was it because of the mature tone that resembled Sinat?

Kallen, who was about to apologize to Felicius without realizing it, was rarely flustered.

“What are you looking at so intently? The spirit you contracted with will come with you.”

“I don’t have a contracted spirit.”

“Are you serious? There’s no human who doesn’t know the spirit they contracted with.”

Kallen furrowed his brows.

He didn’t understand Felicius’s words.

First-tier magic forms the basic foundation, and second-tier and third-tier are nature and combat attributes, respectively.

Unless it was Sinat, Kallen hadn’t learned contract attribute magic.

So, naturally, there was no way he had a contracted spirit.

As he looked at Felicius with a puzzled expression, Felicius touched his forehead and pointed at Kallen.

“When you left and came back the second time.”

Felicius is Sinat’s spirit.

Naturally, he stays close to Sinat and spends most of the day with him.

And although Kallen also spent every day with Sinat, there were two times when he didn’t.

It was right when they left to resolve the matters of Lakatus and Hiatt.

The second time refers to when they left the cabin for Hiatt’s matter.

“Why is that?”

“…Do you really not know?”

“I did try a contract attribute magic just before, but nothing happened. That was the first and last attempt to contact the spirit world.”

“…”

Felicius widened his eyes as if genuinely surprised, then let out a deep sigh.

“…Tiasse will be disappointed. They must have been looking forward to meeting a human for the first time.”

Kallen could infer that the spirit Felicius referred to as Tiasse was the spirit he had unknowingly contracted with.

Felicius removed his hand from his forehead and continued speaking with a look of pity.

“You. Haven’t you had a similar experience, aside from when you encountered Sinat and the traitor?”

What came to mind was the cave.

It was the cave they discovered when they were isolated by strange fog on Mount Hiatt, alone with Selassie.

At the entrance, there was a symbol similar to the one representing the contract between Sinat and Felicius.

“Yes, the second of the three traitors. How could it be that no human had encountered them for hundreds of years, yet the same human met both of them?”

“I didn’t make a contract with a spirit there.”

“The symbol on your back is the emblem of the Clymene family… that is, the family Tiasse is the heir to.”

Was the slight difference in the symbols due to that reason?

It feels like scratching an itch.

“Haa… I never thought it would be a forced contract.”

“If I contracted with Tiasse, why did the symbol appear on my back instead of my wrist?”

“I don’t know either. And there are no such rules in the first place. The proof of a contract can appear anywhere, it’s just that the wrist is the most intuitive, so everyone does it that way.”

I’ve heard something similar before.

‘The North has its own traditions.’

Kallen recalled that sentence and could understand Felicius’s words.

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He had never thought deeply about the spirit world in the first place.

It’s not so strange that spirits have their own culture.

“Since ancient times, my family, Ekelart, and Tiasse’s Clymene have had a deep relationship. We’re the same age, and we’ve been close since long ago. Besides, Tiasse has some… traits that made me worry a lot…!”

Zap.

Felicius’s eyes turned fierce as he glared at Kallen.

The gaze that seemed to reproach a bad adult for coaxing an innocent child,

made Kallen feel intimidated.

“Hoo… Anyway. They should be here soon…”

Felicius couldn’t keep his feet still, as if he were impatient.

It seemed that they were planning to join the spirit called Tiasse and go together.

During that time, he was able to cool his head.

The relationship between Sinat and those called traitors, which had continued from the past.

Kallen also got a clue about his own strange imagery, and many frustrating things were resolved.

Since there was such a background to the similar but different patterns, Kallen was able to move on to the next.

“You said it was urgent. I also want to check if Sinat is okay quickly. Can’t we leave first?”

“No.”

She shook her head firmly at those words.

“There’s a chance we might miss each other, and you didn’t even know you had a contract with Tiasse. We have to reseal the traitor together, and we can’t go in such an incomplete state.”

It was Felicius who said they were in a hurry.

When Kallen looked at her with such eyes, she spoke with a small sound, “Ugh.”

“…No matter how busy we are, this is something that must be done. Even for your life.”

Taking a few steps closer to Kallen, Felicius said,

“You said you only brought your soul to the spirit world, right?”

“If it’s my master, he would know that and protect my body.”

“That’s right. Then do you know what happens if your soul gets hurt or takes a near-fatal blow here?”

Felicius’s words were in the form of a question, but it was easy to grasp the meaning contained in those words.

It was hard to think of anything positive about the soul being hurt or dying.

“My contractor is Sinat, so it’s hard to expect good coordination with you. But since Sinat called you a genius, meeting Tiasse is the best way to save time.”

“I understand.”

“The reason we don’t have time is… because there’s a high chance Sinat’s soul is in the grave. If the traitor who imprisoned Sinat is trying to possess him, ignoring the rules, we have to hurry. The possibility is very high, so we are in a hurry…”

While Felicius was explaining Sinat’s situation,

behind Kallen, a clear voice,

a somewhat cute voice rang out.

“Felici!”

When Kallen turned around, a girl with a pure smile was waving her hand.

The girl soon moved her small legs and reached a human and a spirit.

“Walk carefully, Tia.”

“Sorry. But I’m a bit late…”

The girl’s mouth opened slightly.

Among the shades of purple, the lightest colored eyes met a boy.

“Ah…”

It was an exclamation.

The girl called Tia stopped hugging Felicius and looked at the boy.

For a slightly different reason, Kallen did the same.

Judging by the strong vibration on his back, Kallen was sure the girl was Tia.

Should he shake hands?

Just as Kallen awkwardly tried to extend his hand,

“Ah, hello…”

The girl bowed her head and greeted him.

Her hair, the same color as her eyes, flowed gently.

At the moment when even greeting each other felt awkward,

Felicius interrupted as if frustrated.

“Do the greetings later in the human world, Tia. Hurry.”

“Ah, uh, okay.”

Kallen looked at the two girls curiously and saw Tia’s face turn bright red.

“Wait a moment…”

Tia shyly turned around, lowering her eyes.

Her hands moved forward, hidden behind her back.

A few coughs echoed.

Tia turned back around with her hands clasped together.

“This…”

She politely extended her hands to Kallen.

On her neatly gathered palms, a slightly wet light was shimmering.

Just as Kallen, who didn’t understand, was about to ask,

“Pl-please eat this…”

Tiasse, whose face was red as if it were about to burst, bowed her head deeply and whispered.

Perhaps because her voice was so small, Kallen, who didn’t understand her words, stood there blankly.

“Hurry up and eat.”

“…Where did you get this,”

“Originally, it is a principle to learn spirit magic from a spirit who has crossed over to the human world, but since this is not the contractual relationship we wanted, we will use a shortcut just this once.”

When Kallen looked up at Felicius, he was turning his head, his ears perked up.

His ears were adorably flushed.

“We are still in the process of receiving successor lessons, so we cannot seal the traitor. You have to do it with the power of your world. While you eat that, you can fully borrow Tiasse’s power.”

“…”

“It’s a method that can only be used when a human crosses over to the spirit world, so hurry…!”

When he turned his head again, he saw ears and a neck that were flushed as if they were about to ripen.

Tiasse’s outstretched hand was trembling.

Even if he didn’t know, it was enough to understand that the act was quite embarrassing.