I have to hypnotize you, Aura!

"Hey beautiful, can you stop thinking like that?"

Fingel's face darkened; sometimes this was more annoying than the mind-reading system.

"Hehe, sorry, sorry."

Flame reached out to take the flower, but was surprised to find that... she couldn't touch it.

Huh?

Her eyes lit up, and she tried to touch it again, but found that she couldn't grasp it.

"Huh... is this... illusion magic?"

Fingel released his grip, and the illusion vanished as specks of light.

"Yes, you guessed right."

Flame nodded thoughtfully, then pondered for a moment before giving her evaluation.

"Ah, if someone like you who likes to lie used this kind of magic, it would seem quite powerful."

?

Fingel didn't know how to answer.

“I’m serious. To deal with demons, you have to be more cunning and despicable than them.”

Flame's eyes were serious, and she seemed to be starting to consider the necessity of learning this magic... She hadn't noticed it before, but now that she thought about it, it seemed to have many uses.

"I thank you?"

Fingel's smile looked worse than his tears; there's no need to praise me like that.

“Fingal is indeed very powerful when it comes to illusion magic.”

“Even Celia said that… Also, can we get on the bus now? It’s so cold.”

Frillie, wearing a down jacket, was shivering as she spoke. Her little face was scrunched up, showing that elves are not very tolerant of the cold.

"By the way... you didn't do anything to Frillie while I was gone, did you?"

Suddenly, Flamel looked at Fingel, her eyes narrowing slightly.

"...No!"

Fingel snapped to attention and responded reflexively.

"..."

[What a suspicious reaction....]

"Really... um?" Flame had only asked casually, but now she had some doubts.

She then looked at her female disciple and tentatively asked:

"Frilian? Fingel didn't do anything to you, did he?"

Frillie hesitated for a moment... Had she done it? Thinking about it carefully, this guy had actually licked my ear and given me a light kiss.

She suddenly remembered what Fingel and Aura had done, which seemed to be what intimate human couples do... Was what she was doing excessive?

"It seems...there isn't?"

The air suddenly turned cold, even though it was already cold to begin with.

"Fingal."

Flame smiled slightly, her tone very kind.

!

Damn it.

Fingel's heart skipped a beat, but his strong mental fortitude allowed him to immediately calm down and put on an absurd expression that said, "Are you kidding me?"

"Huh? Please give me some confidence, okay?" He raised his eyebrows and waved his hand, trying to make his performance more convincing. "Even I wouldn't lay a hand on my female...partner's apprentice, okay?"

Clearly, his words were not convincing, and no one present believed him.

"Oh? That's for the best."

[Suspicious...so suspicious, such a terrible performance.]

[This guy must have done something to Frillie... but it probably wasn't anything too outrageous, maybe... holding hands? Or maybe peeping? This guy has no bottom line, he's a walking beast of desire.]

She believed that Frilian might regret something in the future, which would give her the desire to understand humanity... perhaps friendship, or perhaps love.

But Flame believes that Frilian is unlikely to be able to do this now, and it will probably be a long time before she can.

Frilian is like a blank sheet of paper right now; she can't yet understand or empathize with human emotions... If Fingel succeeds at this time... Fingel will probably do all sorts of things to her.

If it's true love, she thinks it's acceptable, but if it's Fingel—it must be just pure physical desire, right?

Thinking of this, a teacher suddenly felt a genuine urge to kill.

"If you lay a hand on Frillie, I'll kill you, okay?"

Flame simply stated her words in a calm tone, as if she were saying something as simple as 'having barbecue tonight,' but Fingel found it terrifying no matter how he looked at it.

I had a feeling that I was going to be dismembered any second, that my head would be chopped off, and that I and Flame would sail away in a small boat into the distance.

".....OK."

Fingel, the little chick, pecked at the rice and nodded, genuinely feeling that he was about to be killed.

How terrifying, Flamengo is terrifying now.

Frillie trembled and dared not speak.

Although she didn't know why, she sensed that Flame seemed very angry.

Was it because I lied?

The female elf felt a little guilty; this was the first time she had lied to Flame... In fact, she didn't even know why she was lying.

I just instinctively felt that the ending might not be good.

"Hey."

Flame sighed, her beautiful face full of helplessness... How could there be such a stubborn person?

It's only been a few days, right? What did he do to Frilian?

It seems necessary to strengthen Frilian's education.

“Listen, Frilian.” Flame bent down and grabbed the elf’s shoulder, glancing at the scoundrel as she said, “Even if you’re going to be with a man, you should be with a guy you like, okay?”

"Being with someone like Fingel would be unfortunate."

[If this guy really does harm Frilian, what should I do? I've heard that some nobles like to castrate their men...]

? ? ? ?

What words!

This is too much!

Fingel gasped. What happened to your gentle persona?

Um... it seems that Flame has never been a gentle persona in her interactions with me. On the contrary, her words have always been rather sharp and direct. Besides, thinking back on what happened between me and Flame, I should be grateful that she didn't kill me.

To avoid being terrified by those dangerous entries, he decided to temporarily disable his mind-reading ability.

Fortunately, at that moment, someone broke the silence—the soldiers who had come with the three to assist them jogged over to ask for permission, and the demon wolves they were leading came over.

"Lord Fingel! The food has been divided. What's next?"

Huhu~

The wind and rain continued to fall, and Fingel was somewhat puzzled; today's blizzard seemed a bit too heavy.

He glanced again at the exhausted trailer wolf. These creatures weren't known for their durability, even monsters.

"...Let's take a break for now."

"Let's not rush for now, let's wait until the snow recedes a bit before we go."

.......

The group found a nearby grove of trees to rest and set up a makeshift tent. It has to be said that the extraordinary world is truly efficient; a few soldiers, along with the local mages, easily built a simple wooden hut using tree stumps.

However, while clearing the snow inside the house, they discovered something slightly strange.

"Huh? This is... a tombstone?"

Fingel looked at the stone tablet that had been exposed after the snow was cleared, with many characters on it that he couldn't understand.

The world of the Buried Frilian contains many written cultures, especially some ancient magical books whose writing is also from many years ago and is very difficult to translate.

"No...this is not a tombstone."

Flame crouched down, her snow-white dress falling to the ground. She gently stroked the stone inscription with her hand, as if sensing the passage of time.

"Legend has it that the goddess infused her magic into the stone tablets, leaving behind ten Goddess Tablets on the continent."

Huh?

"You mean...this is the stone tablet?"

Fingel was somewhat surprised; how could he be so lucky?

His life motto is: What I see is mine.

"It's the goddess's magic... Can it be deciphered? I really want to know what the goddess's magic is all about."

Frilian looked at the stone tablet with some curiosity. She had never witnessed the goddess's magic before. It was said that some human monks who worshipped the goddess possessed some magic blessed by her.

Those spells are quite convenient for healing.

"Unfortunately, no one has been able to decipher the goddess's stone tablet so far, not even Celie."

The two of them began to study magic right there on the spot.

"...Is it interesting?"

Fingel doesn't understand at all. Magic is as difficult as mathematics, and it's completely illogical. What's so great about it?

"Isn't that interesting? Fingel, you wouldn't understand."

Frillie crouched down, touched the stone tablet with some curiosity, and then said,

Let me explain.

As the light representing the magic of deciphering illuminated—in that instant, the world seemed to turn gray, and time itself seemed to freeze.

Time... stopped.

Approximately one second.

I finished writing the drafts I had saved up last night when I got up this morning... Wow, I've found that my typing speed is really fast when I'm awake in the morning!

Brothers, early to bed and early to rise makes you healthy! Take care of yourselves!

Chapter 89: A Reunion Across a Thousand Years (Part Two)

'So bright!'

Fingel instinctively covered his eyes. What flashbang?

In that instant, he had a strange feeling—as if the whole world had turned into a mine tunnel, and he had become an unlucky guy stuck in the tunnel, about to suffocate and die at any moment.

"....!!!"

A strong feeling of nausea welled up inside me, like being choked while playing a game.

Fortunately, this feeling only lasted for a moment and then disappeared, along with the bright light.

...

[Abnormal spacetime fluctuations detected... suspected to be interference from advanced life forms... unstoppable]

[Traveling through time...time teleportation...]

...

I don't know how much time passed, but the first thing I felt was my body temperature.