“……?”
Suzanne was briefly shaken when she brought up the projection magic story earlier. But surprisingly, there was a smile on her face.
Feeling curious about her reaction, Madenna tried to go back to call the butler first.
“‘Wait a minute.”
Then, Farren called Madenna.
“Hmm? Is something wrong?”
“No, if you need projection magic. It’s because I can do it. I’ll do it right away.”
“Oh my.”
Madenna opened my eyes wide at the unexpected turn of events. Projection magic is quite high-level magic, because not many people know how to use it.
“Oh, it must be a sham! Don’t be fooled, Countess.” Suzanne responded half-heartedly.
When the director told her not to be rude, she kept her mouth shut, but she still had a frightened stare.
‘You were very calm until a little while ago when I said you were going to find a mage to do projection magic,……’
Why did she react like that when Farren says he’s using magic now?
Suzanne’s overreaction made me even more convinced. She was hiding something, and being overly wary of Farren.
“You’ll see if it’s a fake later. Farren, if you know how to do projection magic, you should have told me earlier.”
“As I told you before, the director wouldn’t listen and so I thought it would be useless even if I mentioned it to you.”
“Hmm.”
When I looked at the director, he immediately protested.
“I thought he was lying! We don’t teach such high-level magic in orphanages!”
“We’ll decide after we see it for ourselves. Farren, like I said, I hate liars. Please don’t let me down.”
“Yes, Countess.”
“Suzanne, would you give me the brooch?”
Madenna took out her handkerchief and asked Suzanne to lay the brooch on it. Suzanne bit her lip, holding on to her brooch, yet finally was forced to put it down on it. When Suzanne handed the brooch over to Farren, he looked up at Madenna.
“Countess.”
“Why?”
“Thanks for the opportunity.”4
“I just wanted you to tell the truth. There’s nothing to thank me for.”
It was a rather cold reaction, but he smiled gratefully at her. Returning his happy expression into a serious look, Farren held out his hand and wrapped it around the brooch. At the same time, a bluish light spread around the hand. Light floated in the air like wisp and created such a circle. At first, the circle was blurry, before it gradually cleared, drawing a certain figure with it’s hue.
“Then are you going to abuse this child again, director?”
“Pardon?”
Madenna grabbed Farren’s wrist and dragged him towards her.
“Lanthan. I have a lot of questions about how you operate your orphanage. To abuse an innocent child like this. How despiteful.” She said furiously, “The funds you have were exorbitant, but the children weren’t even managed properly. I saw the state of children and they looked dirty compared to the pictures on the list you gave me earlier.”2
“Well, that’s, uh,…!”
“You took the budget from the country and tried to pocket it for yourself, right? I’m going to tell the authorities on my way back, they’ll take care of you and your crime.”
Director Lanthan slumped down the floor at the accusation. His gaze was empty with despair, he gave no care at his undignified appearance. Madenna also didn’t heed him as she continued.
“I’ll choose Farren as my beneficiary. I’ll bring him right away with me. You don’t need to bother, you’ll soon lose your authority to approve it either way, so I’ll take care of this matter by myself.”
Madenna pulled Farren’s wrist.
“Come on, let’s go,” Madenna said as he looked at her with a startled face.
“What’s wrong with you?” Madenna tilted her head when she saw he wasn’t budging.
“‘Me? You choose me as your protege?”
“…Yes… I will do as I’m told.” He said as he stepped down the carriage piece and immediately dealt with the instructions.
Madenna sighed and raised her head. Farren, who sat in the carriage first, smiled brightly at her. It was reassuring to see Farren in such a good mood. He will be her ally in the future, so she must keep a good relationship with him at all costs.
Madenna smiled at Farren.
TL Notes: 얼룩 갈까마귀 is the name of the organization and it literally means Spotted/speckled/stained Raven. Which is so ugly, hence why I changed it to Ravens. But if you guys have any better ideas, maybe you could leave it in the comments and I’ll change it to your liking. Thanks for reading!^^