The tallest tower in the huge duke’s mansion. The square where you can reach by riding a carriage can be seen and the countless trees that surround it.
“Whoa….”
I took a deep breath and exhaled slowly. The lump in the corner of my heart seemed to escape.
“I wanted to go to the square with you, but I thought I’d get in trouble with the princess’ dad. But this feels pretty good, doesn’t”
“It’s really good…….”
“Hahaha! I knew it!”
I stretched my hands out into the sky while resting on Nelvasto’s back. It was as if only the blue sky was flying.
“You’re the best, Uncle Nell!”
I decided to withdraw quietly from my pledge not to let Nelvasto go.
“Who’s your uncle?”
Nelvasto became more excited at my words, and stepped on the roof and ran around.
“Hahahaha!”
If I were a normal child, I would cry at a trembling height, but I wasn’t.
When Nelvasto ran, he smiled innocently, forgetting that his hair was scattered due to the strong blow of the wind.
(3rd Person’s POV)
For a moment, an adult and a child were laughing frantically at the end of the duke’s roof, but there was no way they could not be seen.
“Emeliette!”
The two stopped laughing and looked down at the familiar voice.
“Argh”
They could see a Cardin gushing with tremendous energy from below.
Gulping.
Without knowing whose it belonged to, they both swallowed dry saliva at the same time.
Cardin reached up.
(Emiliette’s POV)
What, are you trying to use magic? But I’m here too…….
Contrary to my nervousness, Cardin lifted his fingers and urged us to come down.
Ohmy, is it okay to go down?
I glanced at Nelvasto. I’m sure he came up with something to deal with him.
“Haha.”
I cancel it.
Looking at Nelvasto smiling in difficulty, I realized that there was no hope.
“If we don’t go down right now, I’m going to die.”
Nelvasto smiled brightly while saying a terrible thing. He thought he might be burned to death by Cardin’s gaze if they stay a little longer.
“Princess, hold on tight again.”
I clasped Nelvasto’s neck in tears.
“Here we go!”
“Ahhh”
Nelvasto left the way he had come up, he threw himself straight down from the roof.
As expected, you want to die together!
I couldn’t open my eyes because of the strong wind that couldn’t be compared from before. He crashed down in an instant and didn’t think of slowing down. I put more strength into my arm that held his neck.
And when the distance to the ground is just around the corner. A strong light shone under Nelvasto’s feet and landed lightly.
Me and Nelvasto stood in front of Cardin in the lonely garden, with our hair tangled and scattered.
“……… Ouch.”
I tried to brush it roughly with my hands, but it was much better to leave it be.
“Come here.”
Cardin looked at me and said, the look in his eyes was unusual.
“Yes.”
I stepped down from Nelvasto’s back and approached Cardin with a simple gesture.
“What are you going to do if you fall down?”
Cardin opened his mouth when he looked at me with a cold expression and tone.
“If you fall from a place like that, you know you won’t just break an arm and leg.”
“I know….”
I’m scared!
I answered Cardin with a big nod. To others, it might sound like a dry tone as usual, but I know how angry Cardin is right now. I had no choice but to stay still because I was guilty.
But it was a little unfair. I didn’t know he’d go up to the roof either.
My mouth pouted out of frustration.
“You look like you did something right.”
This time, Cardin seemed determined. Normally, he puts on a straight face…….
“It’s not the princess’s fault, Duke. I took her up there.”
Nelvasto stepped up to defend me.
“Nelvasto, If the child had fallen and been injured, I won’t let you go back safely.”
Cardin’s gaze shifted to Nelvasto.
At Cardin’s words, Nelvasto said, raising both hands lightly.
“You know that won’t happen…… You’re very worried.”
“Tsk.”
Cardin turned his head as if he didn’t want to deal with Nelvasto anymore.
“What brings you here?”
He said as if he would not let him go if he came without any reason.
“Will there be any other reason for me to come here than the princess?”
Nelvasto replied with a deft smile. Cardin’s brows crumpled to the full. It seems like Cardin and Nelvasto are the worst match.
“I’m here to give the princess something. I’d like to go to a room and talk to her for a moment.”
Cardin stared at Nelvasto for a moment and held me in his arms and stepped into the mansion.
“Give her what you want to give and go.”
I thought in Cardin’s arms. I’m done getting scolded, right? I feel sorry for Nelvasto, but I was glad Cardin’s attention was focused on him.
“You’ll get scolded after he’s gone.”
Why is that!?
It wasn’t over.
“I feel wronged….”
Of course, I played wildly on the roof, but I was a little sad.
“But I won’t cut you some slack.”
Sheesh.
Cardin’s attitude was particularly stubborn today.
I buried my face roughly in Cardin’s shoulder and grumbled.
Do whatever you want.
***
At Cardin’s office.
He dropped me off on the chair with a careful touch, contrary to his stiff expression.
“So, what is it you want to give?”
Cardin asked Nelvasto, sitting opposite him.
“I was going to give it to the princess in the next class, but I thought it would be better to give it to her as soon as possible.”
Nelvasto took a small pouch out of his pocket and handed it to me.
“Princess, are you practicing magic well these days?”
“Yes.”
“Yeah, that’s great. Do you want to open it?”
Nelvasto said and pointed to the pouch
I untied the string in my small pocket and took out what was inside. What came out of the pocket was a palm-sized dark red bead.
“What’s this?”
“Homework that you have to solve until the next class!”
I bowed my head to the unexpected words of Nelvasto.
“Holy power and magic cannot be mixed, but if you take a deep look, you can say that their essence is the same. Well, you could say that Princess is an exception.”
Nelvasto asked me a question, taking the bead in my hand.
“Princess, what do you think a priest does?”
“Hmm… Purification?”
I said what I knew in general.
“Then do you know to what extent it can be called purification?”
Nelvasto shook his head when asked.
“Purification using holy power is used in quite a few places.”
Nelvasto said, pointing to his face.
“You can’t see the traces of juice you got me earlier, can you?”
“Oh, right. When did it disappear?”
Only then did I realize that Nelvasto’s hair and clothes, which had been baptized with juice, had become neat.
“This is the most basic purification. Other than this, healing the injured like last time is also a part of purification.”
The common imperial people knew that priests had only healing powers.
“It’s understandable that the only thing the imperial people have seen is to use their holy power to heal. But there are places where purification is more important than healing.”
Nelvasto said, lifting a bead in his hand.
“The purification that requires holy power began in a more fundamental place.”
As soon as Nelvasto’s words were finished, the dark red beads in his hands were wrapped in light and soon dispersed into the air.
“What do you think is the most important thing for plants to grow on the ground and for animals to thrive?”
I hesitated for a moment at the random question, but answered the question after thinking about it.
“They need clean land, water…….”
“Yes, that’s right.”
Nelvasto praised it in a low voice, saying, “That’s the answer.”
“In order for life to grow, we need a clean environment. We need to create that clean environment. You want to know what I got rid of right now, right?”
Nelvasto took out the same beads from the other side of his arms.
“It’s a contaminated seed. I just purified this. We’re calling this the seed of death.”
It is said that the seeds of death occur naturally in places where the energy of death is prevalent. When these seeds of death accumulate, the land there is polluted beyond life.
It is said that it could only be seen in battlefields in the distant past, but for nearly 100 years, it can be found throughout general territories.
The priest finds the contaminated seeds and purifies them with holy power.
“Would you like to clean it up?”
Nelvasto handed the seed of death over my hand. He told me to do it like the first time I brought out holy power from my body. I looked heavily at the seeds in my hands and pulled up the holy power in my body.
But how do you purify it?
I succeeded in drawing out my holy power, but I didn’t know how to purify the seeds.
“As expected.”
Nelvasto muttered as he looked at me.
“How do you purify this?”
“That’s the homework. Princess.”
“What?”
“We have some time until the next class, so please purify the seeds until then.”
“I don’t know how to purify it. How?”
Isn’t this the same context as asking you to draw a picture without even teaching you how to hold a pencil?
“That’s the problem.”
Nelvasto opened his mouth and shrugged.
“In general, holy power holders who enter the temple can use purification instinctively after drawing strength from the beginning. But the princess is different.”
As Nelvasto said, I had to be able to use purification from the moment I brought out my holy power.
“The princess has already become too used to using magic. You can draw out your holy power and use it, but that doesn’t mean you can use the holy power completely.”
Nelvasto called my strength a double-edged sword.
My magic can affect not only my mana but also my holy power at the same time.
Because my magic is mixed with mana and holy power.
However, he explained that my body, which has already become accustomed to mana, was unable to accept the natural ability of purification.
“I can’t help you because you have to learn it yourself.”
Nelvasto took the seeds in his pocket and handed them to me.
“Oh, just to give you a little more information, the power of purification also affects how desperate the caster’s heart is, so keep that in mind.”
Standing up, Nelvasto clenched his fist and shouted with strength.
“If you succeed, let’s go outside together next time! Hahaha.”
“That’s not going to happen.”
Nelvasto’s laughter was cut off by Cardin’s cold voice.
“You’re still…”
Nelvasto, who lightly accepted Cardin’s fierce gaze, waved to me and left.
I fiddled with the pocket of seeds. I have no idea how to use the power of purification, but I really wanted to succeed.
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