The Magic in this Other World is Too Far Behind! Volume 1 by Gamei Hitsuji

Author:Gamei Hitsuji [Hitsuji, Gamei]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2018-04-18T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 3: The One Who Seeks Mysteries

A few days had passed since the night the golem was destroyed. In the dead of the night in Royal Castle Camellia where everyone had gone to sleep, Felmenia was tailing a single young man.

She chose this evening to confront him while he was secretly walking around. To put this boy—who wasn’t just prowling around the castle, but now allegedly had designs on the king’s life—in his place, she would maintain her distance for a while until she had a chance to corner him.

As usual, Suimei hadn’t noticed her. There was no way he could. Whenever she tailed him, she was using wind magic so that her footsteps, body heat, and even her slight exhalations would not reach him. When she used this concealment spell, even if the cleverest guard searched for signs of someone present, they would never find her. Suimei didn’t stand a chance.

There were no lights around, yet the young man walked straight down the passage cloaked in utter darkness with no hesitation. He seemed to be headed somewhere different than normal, but just like usual, he was dressed in the strange article of clothing Reiji had called “a blazer.” She wasn’t sure where he was going, but she fully intended to confront him tonight.

“...Huh?!”

Felmenia spied a moving shadow out of the corner of her eye. She was quite surprised by it and whipped around to see what it was. She didn’t think that there would be anybody else walking around at this hour. The most likely suspect would have been a guard on the night shift, but knowing that she was going to be going after Suimei tonight, Felmenia had put a stop to their patrol for the time being. Not even the guards should be out and about right now, so then just who was it?

Felmenia scanned the hallway for the shadow again, but no one appeared. It seemed she was imagining things, but that was only natural in the dead of night. Even the plants were asleep at this hour, and without another soul around, Felmenia was left alone in the darkness. So what if her eyes were playing tricks on her? She turned her determined gaze forward again to give chase after Suimei, but...

“He... vanished?”

Suimei wasn’t there. She had only looked away for a moment, but he was gone. It was baffling to Felmenia. At the pace he was walking, he shouldn’t have made it to any of the intersecting passages. She glanced down them anyway just to be sure, but there was still no one to be seen.

Felmenia, however, wasn’t going to let that stop her. If she’d lost sight of him, she’d just have to find him again. With an iron will, Felmenia gathered the mana within her body and wove together a spell using wind magic.

“Oh Wind. Thou art my servant. Inform me of that which I desire. Wind Search.”

What she invoked was a sort of detection magic. Using it, she could use the wind to perceive the area around her.

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