The West Wind's Destination - Chapter 76
Where Bea was headed was almost predetermined. By the side of her master, with whom she had spent more than half of her life. A distressed human seeks out the most familiar thing.
The scariest part was, despite everything, she did not know what to do next.
Such a sense of being utterly lost Bea first felt after her master had died.
Initially, she thought she had to revive her master to fulfill her duty. But now, she didn’t even know why she had brought her master back to life, even though everything seemed to have returned to how it was planned.
She had never felt so confused in her life.
Never before had she been so deeply engulfed in such answerless thoughts…
Snap!
With a sharp noise, Bea came back to her senses.
Before she could grasp the situation, another came.
Thwack!
Her head jerked to the side, feeling a numb pain.
Bea, who had been focusing on something far away without seeing anything, finally focused and saw the person before her.
“You should answer when you’re called.”
She seemed to have ignored her master’s words a few times, lost in thought.
Bea corrected her posture, just disrupted by a slap on her cheek.
“Yes, Master.”
“Is it malfunctioning?”
“…”
“Of course, that can’t be it.”
The master first inquired about what had happened in the years following his death upon returning. And afterward, he had been in a foul mood.
In Vilkanos, he also destroyed the laboratory Aseph had made for Bea, showing his temper, and upon moving to Bea’s shabby laboratory, he expressed his anger even more blatantly.
As Bea wiped the blood trickling down her lip with the back of her hand, Myron Devesis turned sharply towards her as if he had remembered something.
“How many times must I ask for an explanation for why this body is like this?”
Ah, her master must have felt that her body was different from before. Bea had completely ignored her master’s words, lost in other thoughts, but her master seemed to misunderstand that Bea’s silence was due to having nothing to say.
As Bea’s silence prolonged, Myron Devesis, not waiting patiently for her words, raised his voice.
“I said explain why my body is like this!”
Bea guessed the reason for his anger and said,
“…Master, that body is healthier than before.”
“What?”
“Lacking your biological information, I reinterpreted the human body composition of Vilkanos. I reconstructed you into the most perfect human body I know…”
Slap!
“Say that again.”
Bea turned her head back to face forward after being slapped, licked her lower lip because of the numb cheek, and answered.
“That body is stronger and more robust than the previous body you had, Master—”
Slap!
“What did you just say?”
“That body.”
THUD!
This time, a fist flew. The hearing aid that had been attached to her ear fell off and flew to the opposite side due to the blow.
Why? She couldn’t understand. She couldn’t find a convincing reason for her master to be this angry. But she couldn’t open her mouth to ask. Her head was spinning, her mind was filled with terror.
Bea, who had been silently enduring, lost her balance and staggered. Trying to hold on, she eventually put her hands on the ground and retched several times. Without the hearing aid, even a small shock made her brain reel due to her poor hearing.
Myron Devesis mercilessly stepped on Bea’s hand as she reached out for her hearing aid on the ground.
“Ugh…”
“You’ve become quite the fool while I was dead. Learning to babble useless words, too.”
His foot pressed down harder.
“M, Master…”
As Bea trembled in fear without her hearing aid, Myron Devesis caressed her ear and whispered.
“Dare to say again that Vilkanos is perfect, in front of me.”
“That body…”
About to reflexively state the truth, Bea caught Myron Devesis’s snake-like gaze and corrected her words.
“Although… Although that body is based on Vilkanos, it also incorporates the undamaged unique information of your perfect body, Master. To ensure this, a newly synthesized magical stone was used. If there were any problems…”
“No.”
Myron Devesis chuckled.
“I quite like it. There’s no need to bother looking for those who ran away in the past. We can go straight to the empire.”
He moved his fingers, creating a magical reaction. Sparks and flames flickered in the air without using any tools, clearly satisfying him.
The newly formulated Myron Devesis, created after the efforts of repairing the homunculus with a new formula, had become an existence unlike before.
He had become a mage.
And a rather strong one at that.
“Consider yourself lucky I can forgive you with this, after you ran away last time.”
As Myron removed his foot, Bea hurriedly put her hearing aid back on.
“Yes… Thank you.”
Ironically, in such a situation, Bea thought of Aseph Vilkanos.
The land of Vilkanos, where there was a hierarchy, but the atmosphere between lord and vassal was somewhat horizontal.
The vassals, who didn’t care about her origin or background and simply enjoyed learning.
The Guardian of Vilkanos himself, who would roll up his sleeves and rush to a dirty mine when something happened.
The kind and gentle Grand Duke, who held power but was not authoritarian.
Bea gazed blankly at Myron Devesis, who was the complete opposite of Aseph Vilkanos.
