I Already Know My Magic Power Is Ridiculously High! Now I Just Need a Cute Wife... - Episode 24

“Fuhahaha… I don’t know.”

Barbato said with an eerie smile.

For a moment, I thought I had been deceived, but he doesn’t seem to be lying.

“Don’t you know?”

“I couldn’t tell their face, name, or even if they were a man or a woman; they were wearing a black recognition-inhibiting robe.”

“Tch, recognition interference, huh? Who the hell is that?”

So, being a person who causes recognition inhibition means they can’t be in the spotlight, huh?

The robes of cognitive inhibition are banned items, and the nobility are cracking down on them to prevent them from circulating among the general public.

Therefore, it can be inferred that there are nobles or armed groups behind it who are capable of handling it.

“……But that guy called himself ‘Lynx.'”

“Links? … I don’t know. I mean, how did you manage to act on the information of such a suspicious guy?”

“Ah, I didn’t think he was lying. But since you actually showed up, that means his information was genuine.”

“Where did you meet Lynx?”

“Then…”

Barbato became surprisingly compliant with my persuasion after that.

Since no particularly useful information could be obtained any further, we will carry it over to the next time with the military officer that Barbato pointed out.

This time it happened to go well by chance, but next time it would be better to hire someone more skilled in magic manipulation as a persuader.

“Basically, I was able to ask what I wanted to ask.”

“Is that so? Then let me ask you one thing too.”

“I have no obligation to answer you.”

“Hah, you don’t plan on keeping me alive anyway, so it wouldn’t be a sin to tell you as a parting gift.”

I will never befriend someone who opposes me.

I have no intention of letting Barbato live, but I was curious about what he was thinking and what his intentions were.

“We were attacked by a mysterious ‘intimidation’ while heading to the Ronshanto Fortress. At this point, the only suspect that comes to mind is you. So, did you do it?”

“Who knows?”

“Hah, looks like you’re not very good at lying. How the hell did you get that much magic power?”

With a twisted, handsome face, Barbato observes my expression.

I was a bit concerned about Barbato’s way of speaking.

Because it sounded like he was definitively saying that I had acquired magical power through acquired means.

“My magic power was originally like this.”

“That’s a lie, I can tell. It doesn’t make sense geographically how a brat like you from Ortenos has gained such power!”

Hmph, geographic? What the heck is this guy talking about?

Don’t suddenly reveal that you’re actually an intellectual or something.

You’ve always been kind of silly, so just stay silly.

“Geographic? I don’t understand what you mean.”

“Tch, this is why I hate ignorant little brats.”

Barbato suddenly tried to one-up me with his knowledge.

Indeed, the Ortenos family is relatively new as a noble house, and since they have nothing on their minds other than crushing Naia, there is probably a lot of information that hasn’t been conveyed.

From the perspective of the imperial capital, it’s a far eastern land, and Ortenos can sometimes be seen as country bumpkins.

“Hmph, I dislike fake intellectuals like you too.”

I provoke Barbato for no particular reason.

I was pissed off because it seemed like they thought I was just a clueless country bumpkin.

However, Barbato ignores my words and continues.

“Ortenos doesn’t have a corridor leading to Lostgrania. In other words, the fact that you have such power is clearly unnatural, just like Urgore!”

“Lostgrania…?”

I muttered those words.

―――Lostgrania

It is said that it is not an environment where people can live―――

It is said that a vicious monster resides there―――

It is said that there lie the remnants left by ancient humanity―――

Lostgrania is considered one of the most mysterious lands on the continent of Atla.

Geographically, it refers to the Zethia Khanate located to the north of the Empire, and the ice mountain region in the northern part of the Weskenir area in the western part of the Empire.

However, this is only true for the western part of the Atla continent.

Lostgrania is divided east and west by the continent’s largest bay, Shalio Bay, and if I remember correctly, the Kingdom of Naia was contiguous with the eastern part of Lostgrania.

“Did you come to Lostgrania via Zethia or Weskenir?”
“Well, I wonder.”

Barbato talks fluently, but honestly, I don’t understand what he’s talking about.

However, what I’ve come to understand a bit is that there seems to be some method to amplify magical power in Lostgrania.

“……That reaction, no way, you don’t know anything, do you?”

Gulp.

Am I really that easy to read?

Play dumb? …No, let’s be honest here.

“Oh, so what?”

“……Does that mean it’s a replica……? No way they captured the original……? No, that’s impossible! There’s no way they could do that…… but that amount of magical energy……”

“?”

Barbato suddenly began muttering something under his breath.

And then, as if having arrived at some profound truth, he widened his eyes and turned a solemn face towards me.

I tilted my head, completely clueless about what I was saying.

“—I can’t believe I’m asking this, but did you gain that magical power during the full-scale war of Naia=Ortenos six years ago?”

Barbato was looking at me with eyes as if he had seen something unbelievable.