Chapter 24

At the same time, Kynemeia passed by the alchemists and made towards a man busy decocting a white-coloured potion. Perhaps she was listening to his explanation about the potion seeing as she was continuously bobbing her head up and down. With a bashful smile on her lips.

‘Again.’

She was smiling at that dumb alchemist yet again. In contrast, she only smiled in front of Eian, and awkwardly at that, when she apologised for bumping into him last time.

‘…’

Eian narrowed his eyes in displeasure. He listened in on the dumbass’s explanation, the gist of which was that it was possible to administer a potion to heal the bulk of a person’s external injuries as long as they were still breathing.

‘If I let this be, it’ll make things difficult for me.’

Eian shot a telepathy line at the alchemist without a moment of hesitation.

‘I did everything you ordered, why would we be on bad terms?!

’

As tremors took hold of the man’s shoulders and his face turned deathly pale, Kynemeia consoled him, assuring him that it didn’t matter even if he couldn’t heal the wound.

* * *

“Master, when did you arrive?”

While ferrying medicine, Law spotted Xuan Tian who was looking at something closely.

“Just now.”

“You should’ve informed us you were coming.”

As Law studied him, Xuan Tian furtively hid the bottle of liquor affixed to his waist behind him.

“When will you leave to find your speciality?”

“This is where I belong, Master. Never mind that, let me see that bottle.”

“I-It’s nothing!”

“Isn’t that liquor? Please, show me.”

“Never you mind, rascal!”

Xuan Tian shrilled before shifting his gaze elsewhere again.

“What have you been looking at since earlier anyway?”

“Someone’s heartbreaking struggle.”

The subjects of Xuan Tian’s study were Kynemeia, Eian and the alchemist.

‘He must’ve done something, no doubt about it.’

Otherwise, it was unheard of for one of their self-respecting alchemists to shake his head and say a particular injury couldn’t be treated. Figuring it was characteristic of that insane boy after all, Xuan Tian popped the lid of his liquor bottle.

“Oh, isn’t that Miss Fairy?”

As soon as Law noticed Kynemeia’s presence, he bounded up to her.

“…?!”

“Miss Fairy, you’re here!”

‘Why are you going there?!’

At Law’s impulsive reaction, Xuan Tian almost spewed out his mouthful and quickly wiped his lips.

‘This guy, he’s already suffered at Eian’s hands once before. Does he never learn?’

Was he perhaps lacking in learning since he’s only been devoted to the sword since birth? All the same, Law drew closer to Kynemeia with light steps. Little wonder, then, that Eian took action before he could reach her.

FLICK—

“…!”

However, Law sensed it at once and moved at the speed of light.

SCRAATCH—

Law, who’d streaked away so fast that he left scratch marks on the floor, raised his head to meet Eian’s eyes.

‘He avoided it?’

Eian frowned slightly.

Having dodged the magical attack successfully, Law once again fluttered to Kynemeia’s side like a butterfly.

“Miss Fairy!”

“Hmm—”

Eian hummed as if something had caught his interest.

Warp magic was essentially calculating the target and destination’s coordinates, and moving the target to said destination. Should the target move before the spell could be invoked, the magic would fall through. Theoretically, that was how it went, but…

Eian was a Rikasha. It wasn’t an exaggeration to say that time he spent to invoke spells was so fleeting it transcended imagination. In all of the continent, the only ones skilful enough to avoid his quick-acting magic were a scant number of knights he could count on one hand.

Eian fell into a brown study. Was this Law fellow among the knights he was familiar with?