Chapter 8:The Turning Point

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Shirone Kingdom.

Roxy Migurdia looked out the window with her brows knitted. The color of the sky was strange. Brown, black, purple, and yellow; a change of colors one didn’t usually see. And yet, she had seen these colors somewhere before.

“What is it, I wonder?”

The hues were familiar to her, but she had never seen the sky like this before. The only thing clear was that this wasn’t a natural phenomenon.

The most likely explanation was magic that, for whatever reason, had gone out of control. The scale of it was such that she could see it whirling even from a distance.

Then she remembered. The way it shone—she had seen this before at the University of Magic. The light looked like summoning magic.

“That direction… In the east. Asura Kingdom? Don’t tell me it’s Rudeus?” She remembered the boy she had once taken as a pupil. That boy who, at the tender age of five, produced a storm while utterly composed. Now he would be ten. At half his age he had complete control of his bottomless pool of mana, so it was possible he might do something like this.

In his most recent letter, he wrote of his difficulties studying summoning magic. Maybe he had somehow obtained a book on it, or perhaps found a teacher.

“You’re wide open!”

As she was deep in thought someone threw their arms around her from behind. As her breasts were grabbed, she felt something hard press against her thighs.

“Hnnngh…”

Roxy was fed up. No matter how he groped her, the thickness of her robes masked everything. Besides, even if he got pleasure out of doing this, the only thingshefelt was displeasure.

“Raging flames consume my body—Burn in Place!”

“Gyaah!”

The force of the flames that covered her body sent the person behind her flying. She still couldn’t cast spells without chanting them at all, but she had shortened the length of her spells greatly in these past five years. When she learned that Rudeus was teaching his own pupils to cast spells without chanting, she decided to practice shortening her own incantations. It hadn’t been easy. Just how much was that boy genius expecting from his pupils? Not everyone was as blessed with talent as he was.

Roxy turned and gazed at the boy collapsed on the floor. “Your Highness, you can’t come up behind a woman and just start groping her chest.”

“Roxy! Were you trying to kill me?! I’ll have you thrown in prison!”

Shirone Kingdom’s seventh prince, Pax Shirone, was a kid with a bad attitude who had just turned fifteen. His bad behavior was endearing at first, but lately he had developed a real interest in sex and would make sexual advances toward Roxy every afternoon.

“My apologies. I didn’t realize such a weak attack would be fatal. You must have the constitution of an insect.”

“Grrr! Criminal disrespect! I won’t forgive this! If you want my forgiveness, then roll up your robes and let me see your panties!”

“I’ll pass.”

He had already put his hands on multiple maids, leaving the king troubled over how to handle the situation. Now it seemed he had turned his attention to his curt household tutor.

Just what about a rude girl like her did he find appealing? Roxy didn’t understand. Still, no matter how much he came at her, she had no reason to obey his commands. According to the contract she made with the country’s governing party, no matter what selfish demands the prince made, it was up to her discretion on how to handle him.

There weren’t many living in this castle that would obey his orders directly. Besides, he was the seventh prince. He was low in the line of succession, so he had next to no authority. In fact, if you looked at the privileges afforded to them, Roxy was in a much higher position as an imperial court magician.

The prince tried a different approach. “Roxy, I already know. I know that you have a lover!”

“I see, and just when did I manage to do something as incredible as finding a lover?” she replied to his sudden gibberish, tilting her head. A lover? She did want one at some point, but she had yet to meet her ideal match. Even if she did, with the way she looked as a member of the Migurd race, he surely wouldn’t reciprocate. She had already given up.

The prince was odd himself, which was probably why he wanted a taste of her body, even if just once. But Roxy had no intention of being so easily seduced.

“Eheheh, I slipped into your room and found all those letters you had piled up in the back of your shelf! I don’t know what kind of backwoods peasant he is, but with my power I could have him crushed! If you don’t want to see him face a cruel execution, you better become my woman!”

Sothiswas his other method. He would take hostage the lover of the person he was interested in, then demand the object of his affection submit to him to keep their lover safe. After that he would take her in front of her lover just so he could feel empowered by dominating another person.

He had no such authority. Yet he was still the prince of a country. He had some troops of his own that he could do what he wanted with, and there was a rumor that he had taken one maid’s lover hostage before.

Such poor taste. All he does is creep me out,Roxy thought.I’m glad I don’t have a lover.All those letters were from Rudeus. Rudeus, who was a respected pupil andnother lover.

“Feel free to do so,” she told him.

“What?! I really will do it, you know?! If you want to apologize, you better do it now! If you do it now, all you’ll have to give me is your body!”

The prince clearly wasn’t thinking. He didn’t even know Rudeus’s location in the first place. Based on his attitude, he hadn’t read the contents of any of those letters either.

“If you can actually succeed in doing something to Rudeus, then you can have your way with my body.”

“What are you acting so confident for? You should know what kind of power I have!”

Of course she knew. She knew that the little bit of power afforded to him as a prince of the royal family was barely worth snorting at.

“Rudeus is under the protection of the Boreas family, an elite noble family in Asura Kingdom.”

“Boreas…? As if nobles could stand up to the authority of a member of the royal family!”

He didn’t even know the names of the elite royal families in Asura Kingdom. That realization prompted a sigh from Roxy. Had the other tutors even taught him anything?

As the four great regional liege lords, the Notos, Euros, Zepiroth, and Boreas families were of great renown. When the Asura Kingdom entered battle, they were the ones standing on the front lines. They had been military men for generations upon generations. Besides, members of those elite noble families might occasionally travel to Shirone on diplomatic engagements. Those names were definitely worth remembering.

“The country of Asura is ten times the size of Shirone. To take the child of an elite noble family on some baseless suspicion and escort them to the gallows, you would have to possess a tremendous amount of political power and strategic skills. That’s impossible for you, Your Highness.”

“I-I’ll have him assassinated! I’ll send my imperial guards!”

Imperial guards? Roxy sighed inwardly. He really wasn’t thinking this through at all. “There’s no way your guards could cross the country’s border. Even if they could, and the chance would be one in a million, the Boreas family has invited Sword King Ghislaine to their house as a guest. You truly think they could sneak into the Citadel of Roa, into the Boreas manor, slip past Ghislaine’s watchful eye, and assassinate a master magician?”

“G-grrr!” The prince ground his teeth together and stomped his feet.

Roxy let yet another sigh slip past her lips.Ah, I can’t believe this. He’s already fifteen and he doesn’t even know the first thing about distinguishing between what’s possible and what’s not.

Roxy heard that Rudeus’s pupil, Eris, had been an uncontainable wild animal three years ago, but had recently become more refined. Meanwhile, her student was in this sorry state.

Years ago, she had found him endearing and even recognized his talent for magic. Unfortunately, as soon as he realized what kind of power he had, his will to improve vanished and he spent the better part of his lessons sleeping. Now she saw no potential in him.

“Anyway, I’ll be quitting my position as your tutor soon, so you wouldn’t make it in time even if you sent assassins out right this very minute.”

As soon as she said that, he raised his voice in shock. “Wh-whaaat?! I haven’t heard a word about this!”

“You must not remember then.”

The agreement from the beginning was that she would work as his tutor until he reached maturity. At the time she had considered requesting to stay beyond her contract. However, there were many in the royal palace who resented her presence. Leaving was the wisest course of action.

“It’s a good opportunity as well,” she added.

“A good opportunity for what?”

“There’s something strange about the western sky. Now I can go see it for myself.”

“Wh-what the heck…”

She didn’t say it was because she wanted to see Rudeus’s face after all this time. It would only enrage the prince if she did.

“I-I still need you! We’re still in the middle of our lessons, right!”

“Irrelevant. You sleep through them anyway.”

“That’s your fault for not waking me up then!”

“Oh really? Then as a bad teacher, I should take my leave quickly. Please be sure to hire someone who will wake you next time. I’m not interested.”

This prince is impossible for me,Roxy thought.I can’t stop comparing him to Rudeus. All I had to do was teach Rudeus one thing and he would take that, study it, and learn ten or twenty new things. Maybe I can’t be a teacher again after meeting a student like that.

And thus, Roxy left Shirone and set out on her journey. She was accosted by the seventh prince and his personal guards on her way out but swiftly repelled them.

Sonrasında, yedinci prens, kendisine karşı işlediği affedilmez şiddet eyleminin hesabını vermesi için Roxy'nin yakalanıp huzuruna çıkarılmasında diretti. Ancak kral, onun bu iddialarına kulak asmadı. Hatta, Su Kralı seviyesindeki büyücü Roxy Migurdia'yı kalmaya ikna edemediği için prensi azarlamakla kalmayıp, onu ağır bir şekilde cezalandırdı.