My Magical Career at Court: Living the Dream After My Nightmare Boss Fired Me from the Mages' Guild! Volume 4 [Parts 1 to 8] by Shusui Hazuki

Author:Shusui Hazuki
Language: eng
Format: epub

I woke up to find myself in a room I’d never seen before. I couldn’t think straight and my senses were still hazy. I realized I was bound to a chair with handcuffs. Designed for restraining magic-using criminals, handcuffs like these were made from anti-magic material.

Seamus was watching me from behind a desk.

“Answer the question, Noelle Springfield,” he demanded. “You claimed you came here to work with us so that you could steal our intelligence, isn’t that right?”

“That’s not true...”

“And you’re collaborating with somebody on the outside.”

“No...”

“There’s no point in lying. We have the Balance of Judgment, a first-class dungeon relic that detects lies,” he said emotionlessly. “It’s in your best interests to be honest with us. What you say next could determine your punishment. If you’re unwilling to cooperate, we will have no choice but to respond in kind.” His dispassionate voice cut through the air like a knife.

“I’m not lying. It’s all true.”

“We’ll let the relic be the judge of that.”

He gave a command to a woman sitting next to him, who I assumed was another Second Unit magician. She began powering up the Balance of Judgment and fine-tuned it while the two of them spoke together too quietly for me to hear.

I figured that the relic measured physiological factors like heart rate, breathing, or perspiration to determine whether the target was telling the truth. It was taking a while. I thought maybe it took some time to calibrate or for the technician to verify its accuracy.

Well, I’d better just answer honestly, I decided. No lies. I’ll only tell it how it really is.

Seamus began the interrogation. “What did you do in the week after you returned from the WMC?”

“I did my favorite thing: reading books about magic. I don’t think I did much else besides that. I had a lot of books I wanted to read.”

“You had a whole week. I doubt you did nothing else that entire time. You must have gone out at some point.”

“No, I didn’t. When I’m off duty, I’m seriously off duty. I used to get out more, but once I got a job at the Mages’ Guild in my hometown, I needed to take it easy on my days off, or else my body couldn’t handle it. I used to have about four hundred hours of overtime in a month.”

“F-Four hundred...?”

“Then again, even when I did get a rare day off, my boss would sometimes contact me in the afternoon to pull me in to work. That’s why it was so important to sleep whenever I got a chance. And I needed to bathe too, since there were a lot of days where I didn’t get to go home from work at all.”

“What? That sounds like hell.”

“And ever since then, I’ve been in the habit of spending all my days off just lying in bed reading grimoires. I bet a lot of people would think that’s lazy, but I doubt anyone values the importance of time more than I do. It’s the ideal way for me to relax.

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