As expected, this wasn’t out of scorn for her, though. To felmenia, that ask this dubiously, this is the most effective answer. Suimei let go of his mercury-katana and use his finger that is filled with magic power to poke the contract. Suddenly, Felmenia can feel something gripping her heart.
“That’s Stup-, Gu, Guahhh!” (Felmenia)
“By the way, it’s just like this. You can feel the force gripping your heart right?” (Suimei)
He removed his finger from the contract. Felmenia was released from the grip, and she was faintly breathing. Then, she complained faintly.
“Gu.Ha.. I-I never heard of something like that, before.” (Felmenia)
“Even if you know, you have no choice anyway. What? It’s not that hard. I just don’t want you to tell anyone about me. It’s more honest than the folklore of defeating demon lord right?” (Suimei)
“a..u..u…” (Felmenia)
She didn’t respond, and she hung her head in defeat.
(Ara.. Did I overdid it?) (Suimei)
Looks like, she’s spectacularly broken. Felmenia have tears in her eyes; she was dumbfounded and sobbing.
Shown this much, even the culprit, Suimei Yakagi, couldn’t help but to show mercy.
Let’s end this huh? As expected, he’s not that cruel. He’s impatiently says to Felmenia.
“We-Well. That’s why I want you to be sure to protect your promise, ok? Even me, I don’t want to kill pointlessly; it would make me feel bad.” (Suimei)
Somehow, it’s a bit softer than before. Is it because of sympathy? Felmenia’s still sobbing; it’s unknown whether she listened or not. It’s a bit different from his prediction, he’s scratching his head. Then, he decided that he probably won’t do anything more than this. He left the White Garden.
Even though he finished this, this wasn’t exactly what he imagined would happen.
A fight between mages is by no means a life and death fight. Actually, it’s rare for a mage to take another mage’s life. It’s true that he won’t forgive someone that entered his workshop without his permissions; however, other than that, everyone respected each other. A brotherhood that must take each other’s hand.
Recently, Magic is paused by science. A brake is applied to non-stop development. That’s why, those who pursue magic, even then, is valuable. That’s why, in order to preserve magic, there’s a rule preventing one from killing another mage even if the magic lineage is different. For that reason, that contract from back then is often used. For sparing their life, they must not be able to do any harm more than this. This way, the mage can still live, and magic users won’t go extinct.
Though, he omit some exception, therefore a mage fight is not something to take each other’s life, but to compete with each other. In short, precision, power, and technique’s complexity, the class of magic, theory, special characteristic, it is a fight to make them accept each other.
Then, what about this fight? There’s no exceptional magic, so there’s no need to dwell in victory.
That’s why; he can only feel like this.
“Really, they are so far behind..” (Suimei)
At the words he told Felmenia before, he’s now worried. From now on, he would have to live here. He wondered if there’s any mystery that can make him excited.