The Greatest Magicmaster's Retirement Plan: Volume 4 by Izushiro

Author:Izushiro [Izushiro]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Young Adult Fiction, Light Novel (Ranobe)
ISBN: 9781718344068
Google: u_S9DwAAQBAJ
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2020-02-18T04:00:00+00:00

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That wasn’t like me , Alus thought, and sighed to himself.

He walked through the darkened Institute grounds with slumped shoulders, wondering why he’d said something like that.

He wasn’t supposed to care about what happened to Tesfia. He was supposed to rejoice if she left the Institute, celebrating the fact that he’d get more time for his research.

The reason he couldn’t was because Tesfia and the others had already become part of his surroundings.

The declaration he’d made to Frose wasn’t just a bluff; they could feel that the training was having results, which helped back up what they’d done and believed in. The two girls could feel exhilaration from their sense of accomplishment, but that was only a single factor out of many.

Thinking of Tesfia’s verbal gaffe, Alus thought that they’d gotten too involved in his world.

However, Tesfia’s words... “Why do I have to be blamed for rescuing a friend?” wouldn’t leave his mind.

Like she said, nobody could blame her for that. However, that was still a naïve way of thinking, and she’d end up having to pay the price in the Outer World.

Her stance could be called too idealistic. Yes, it was beautiful but too straightforward.

That had been the case during the extracurricular lesson, too. Tesfia alone might have been able to escape from the spider Fiend. Even if she couldn’t, she could at least have chosen to abandon that foolish supervisor earlier.

Not even Alus could save everyone from the tragic fate that would befall them.

Perhaps that was why he felt he shouldn’t reject her for trying to reach that ideal. After he’d become the strongest, that was a path that he’d had to give up on. It was a path already closed to him, and one he’d never looked back on.

Yet she was clumsily trying to walk down it, despite all of her missteps.

It wasn’t something that Alus should have allowed. She might experience pain for it someday, or someone else might have to pay the price.

But even then, she’d ultimately have to face her earnest feelings overflowing from within, and prove their righteousness by herself.

Yet... Yet even then, Tesfia was unreliable, acting with folly as she tightrope-walked down that path.

That’s the kind of girl she is.

Alus smiled lightly as he reached the first floor entrance. He’d spotted some red hair hiding behind a nearby pillar.

As he made his way past, he put his hand on the head of that red-haired girl. “What are you doing?”

Tesfia appeared to be desperately trying to say something, her eyes red from crying. “... I’m sorry.” That was all that she could meekly squeeze out.

“You’re not trying to become a Magicmaster so you can say something like that. Well, you understand that better than anyone.”

She quietly nodded.

The girls’ dorm curfew was closing in, so Alus decided to escort Tesfia back first.

She tottered on behind him. A sorrowful expression clouded her face as she closely kept behind Alus. It wasn’t like he couldn’t understand why.

But it was something she had brought upon herself, after saying something a daughter should never say to her mother.

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