I Wish My Husband Were Dead - Chapter 88
Only Krnovel
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2024.01.27.
“Don’t be too nervous. Just show me how much you’ve studied.”
The man sitting on the far left said leisurely with a friendly smile.
“Okay, here’s the first problem. Draw a magic circle and put a barrier around this egg.”
Judging from the first problem, there must be several problems. Since the difficulty level wasn’t that high, Cordelia blinked a few times and put a barrier around the egg.
“I’m done.”
“… … Already? That’s pretty fast.”
He looked a little surprised, but then he dropped the egg on the desk onto the floor. The egg floated up before hitting the floor, then hit the floor while still maintaining its shape.
“Hmm. Still, you must have studied hard. Here’s the second problem.”
The woman sitting next to the person who gave the egg problem said.
“Draw a double magic circle and put it around the window you see over there.”
“I did.”
“What?”
Cordelia answered as soon as she finished speaking. Then the female magician who gave the problem jumped up from her seat and walked over to the window. I grabbed the window and shook it, but it wouldn’t open.
“You really did it in that short amount of time?”
Surprise flashed across her eyes. Kanon, the third and the one sitting in the middle, spoke.
“It seems it wasn’t a coincidence that I came here first. Hmm. The third problem is magic circle destruction.”
“Lord Kanon. Destruction is still difficult for a low-level magician to learn… .”
“If you’ve studied, you should know this much.”
Kanon paid no attention to the other magicians’ dissuasion. He looked straight at Cordelia and drew a magic circle in front of his eyes. Of course, it was only Cordelia’s eyes that could see it.
“Now, try to destroy it.”
Kanon spoke so confidently that I thought he would ask for some incredibly difficult problem, but it was only a triple magic circle destruction.
The magic circle stacking was still only five layers, but magic circle destruction was one of the things Cordelia was most confident in.
She found the distorted part of the magic circle and focused her magic power on it.
“I did it.”
“Already? Lord Kanon. Did you really destroy it?”
“… … Oh. You must have really studied a bit. This time it’s quadruple. This is difficult… … .”
“I did it.”
Cordelia had been repeating the same thing since earlier. As soon as she finished speaking, Kanon suddenly stood up from his seat. His eyes filled with excitement.
“You, you!”
“Huh?”
“Try this too.”
He drew a five-fold magic circle. Cordelia easily destroyed it as well. Then Kanon got excited and drew six-fold and seven-fold magic circles in succession.
Of course, the gap between saying “I did it” was a little longer, but her answer was always the same.
Kanon looked at Cordelia passionately as if he had found gold while plowing a field. If I exaggerated
, my eyes would pop out. “What did you say your name was?”
“Cordelia Vasquez.”
“Lord Kanon. Did she really destroy a four-fold magic circle?”
“Not four, but seven.”
“Huh? A low-level magician? That’s ridiculous… … .”
The other magicians sitting next to him didn’t seem to believe Kanon’s words.
Kanon almost ran to Cordelia and grabbed her hand. Her smiling face was so bright that she looked like a child.
“Our Cordelia! Where have you been? Why are you here now?”
“Huh?”
“Do you know how long I’ve waited for our Cordelia? What school are you from? No, I don’t know what, but change. Move to Diduacel right now!”
I don’t know when she became our Cordelia. Cordelia was flustered and mumbled.
“My master would never allow it.”
“What school are you from? I don’t know who your master is, but don’t worry. I can take care of everything. By the way, you know that Diduacel is one of the three major schools of the Magic Alliance, right? So where do you belong?”
“Acheron.”
“Acheron? Acheron… … Acheron! Are you the disciple of Attila?”
“Yes.”
“Eeeeeeeee!”
Kanon grabbed his head with both hands and screamed like a madman. Cordelia flinched and stepped back.
“Why him! Why? Why Acheron out of all the schools?”
At this point, Cordelia became increasingly afraid of Kanon. He would laugh, then scream, then suddenly get angry. In many ways, he didn’t seem normal. She
waited until he calmed down and then asked cautiously.
“Um, there’s something I’m curious about.”
“What is it? You can ask me anything.”
“Is this all a test?”
“… … .”
The room suddenly became quiet. The atmosphere suddenly became so quiet that Cordelia quickly added an excuse, wondering if she had said something wrong.
“Actually, I was trying to deliver a letter to Kanon-sama, but I ended up taking the test without thinking.”
“You took the test without even knowing what it was? Does that mean you didn’t prepare for it?”
“Uh… … . But I studied hard.”
“Haa… … . The heavens are so heartless. Why did they have to send such a talented person to Acheron, to Acheron!”
Kanon screamed again. At that moment, the male wizard who had asked the first question smiled and handed Cordelia something.
“Congratulations, Vasquez.”
“Huh? Why?”
“You just passed the intermediate wizard promotion exam.”
What he handed her was a blue ribbon. Cordelia looked back and forth between the ribbon on her palm and the man’s face.
“Huh?”
“You have to get three out of five questions right to pass, and you got all three right, right? There’s still the final third exam left, but it’s an interview, so unless you’re a murderer who killed twelve people, you’ll pass.”
Cordelia was more bewildered than happy by the news he gave her. Was it really possible to become an intermediate wizard this easily?
“An intermediate wizard? I’ve only been in the Magic Alliance for a day.”
“A day? When did you start learning magic?”
“A little over a year.”
“Oh my.”
The female wizard who had maintained her composure among the five let out a sigh.
“Master Atilei really took someone similar to himself as his disciple. You’re an intermediate after only learning magic for a year.”
“Um, if I did something wrong, should I retake the exam?”
“With that skill? Arthur. Don’t discourage the kids for no reason.”
Kanon said. He still looked at Cordelia with eyes full of regret.
“Is studying magic circles fun?”
“Yes. It’s doable.”
“Hahaha. It’s doable. Yes, I understand your ability to destroy. How far can you overlap?”
“Hmm. Now I can do quintuples.”
“… … Aaaah! Why did you meet Attila first! Why! Quintuples in one year!”
Kanon cried out, looking up at the sky again. Cordelia was about to say three months instead of a year, because she thought Kanon really wouldn’t leave her alone if he found out.
At that moment, a strong magical wave was felt near the door. As soon as Cordelia turned her head, the door swung open.
“There you are.”
“Ah, Master.”
“Why on earth haven’t you come when you said you were going on an errand? Do you know how long I’ve been looking for you?”
He grumbled and walked towards Cordelia. As soon as Kanon saw Leonard, he ran to him.
“Attila!”
“Why are you calling me?”
“Your student, our Cordelia.”
“Our Cordelia?”
Leonard’s eyebrow went up, as if he didn’t like the title. However, Kanon stubbornly maintained his title.
“How about sending our Cordelia to Diduacell? If she’s a talent who can stack five times after learning magic circles for only a year, I’m confident I can raise her well. Huh? She’s definitely going to write a new history in Diduacell!”
Leonard quietly looked at Kanon and suddenly raised his hand. Then he wiggled his fourth finger in front of his face.
“I knew you’d swarm like a pack of dogs and drool over my disciple, so I already engraved your name on your finger.”
“You, successor, already!”
Kanon glared at his fourth finger with wide eyes. Leonard smiled triumphantly and lightly pulled Cordelia’s shoulder.
“And history is for you to write, why do you tell someone else’s disciple to write it? Let’s go, Cordelia.”
“Oh. Yes. Goodbye.”
“K-Kordelia. If you have any difficulties while living in the magic alliance, come to me anytime. Got it? Do you know where my lab is? “ It’s the room at the end of the fifth floor. Come anytime!”
Kanon’s earnest voice reached behind him and then dispersed. Leonard quickly left the room, perhaps afraid that he might chase after him.
“What on earth were you doing there?”
“Well, somehow I took the intermediate wizard promotion exam.”
“What?”
“But I passed.”
Cordelia showed her master the blue ribbon she had received earlier. She had taken the exam absentmindedly, but she was proud that she had actually passed.
Leonard laughed in vain when he saw that.
“I sent you on an errand, and you’re
coming back after taking the promotion exam.” “I did well, didn’t I? I even came back first on the first exam.”
There was a slight misunderstanding, so she finished it in under five minutes, but first place is first place. She said proudly.
“And that test supervisor said I was a genius… … .”
“More than me?”
“… … Of course not more than the teacher.”
Cordelia’s voice shrank in an instant. Leonard snatched the ribbon from her hand.
“Oh, my ribbon!”
“Hold on.”
He moved behind her and clumsily gathered her hair together, tying it with the ribbon he had just received.
Every time Leonard’s fingers brushed through her hair, Cordelia felt strange and twisted her hands involuntarily.
“Okay. Hmm.”
He turned back to Cordelia’s front. The way her
hair was tied up was not symmetrical and crooked, and there were a lot of loose hairs sticking out, so it couldn’t be called pretty even for the sake of politeness, but to Leonard’s eyes, who was full of pea-pods, it looked pretty, no, actually pretty.
“Pretty.”
“Yes, pretty?”
“Uh. Let’s go. I brought your desk and stuff into the lab.”
Leonard spoke nonchalantly and walked ahead. Cordelia fiddled with her hair for
no reason and hurriedly followed him. Normally, she would have just ignored it, but strangely, the word “pretty” struck Cordelia’s heart. She kept worrying about it.
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