The Magician Who Rose From Failure: Volume 3 by 樋辻臥命

Author:樋辻臥命 [樋辻臥命]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2021-10-07T16:00:00+00:00

After splitting off from Noah and Cazzy outside the restaurant, Arcus hurried down the streets to see Deet and his men. Deet had told Arcus where they’d be when they’d split up, so he arrived quickly and without needing to ask too many people for the way.

“We’ll be at the military station all day today, so come by if you need us. We’ll help you out with whatever.”

“The master will have his hands full with writing out plans and paperwork for dealing with the bandits.”

“Can’t someone else do it?”

“No. This is your responsibility, Master.”

“Well, I can’t do it! I gotta go report to Mom!”

“I shall take care of that, so you may go ahead and focus on your paperwork.”

“Nooo! You’re so mean, Galanger!”

With his one means of escape blocked off by Galanger, Deet had sunk into the depths of despair. Forcing a child of his age to read through pages and pages of documents crammed with letters was nothing short of cruel. Even if reading and comprehending was his only task, it wouldn’t be long before he developed a headache. If the work was simple, perhaps it wouldn’t be so bad, but Arcus would wager there was a lot of difficult and technical language in those papers. He felt sorry for Deet, but no matter how much compassion Arcus felt for him and no matter how gloomy the look on his face, he couldn’t escape the clutches of the minor lords who dragged him away that afternoon.

It was just a little before sunset, so Arcus figured Deet must have been done around now. The city bell announcing twilight had just started chiming. Arcus corrected himself; if Deet was drawing up and sorting his own reports and documents, he might still be at it even now.

Arcus arrived at the station and announced himself to the gatekeepers, who appeared to recognize his name straight away. Deet must have warned them Arcus might show up. He had brought his letter from the king just in case, but in the end it’d proven pointless. The gatekeepers went to tell Deet of his arrival, and it wasn’t long until one of the local minor lords who Arcus had seen with Deet before appeared.

Arcus felt it was a little over-the-top to send a lord to see him when he was just a kid himself and the matter was trivial, but perhaps that was just how they did things here in Rustinell.

It could be they didn’t have enough lower-ranking personnel here, so they resorted to using lords as messengers, but Arcus suspected it was the opposite: by having a lord pass on the message like a common handmaid, Deet was showing just how much power he had. Personally, Arcus could think of more effective ways to flaunt one’s power, but then he had experience of a world where honor and titles didn’t mean nearly as much as they did here.

The lord spoke briefly with the gatekeepers. While they seemed nervous in his presence, they weren’t speaking overly formally with him either.

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