I Would Like To Live A Different Life If I Could Go Back In Time - Episode 55

“Ah, are you Joan?”

“You remembered my name! I’m so happy!”

“What do you want with me?”

Turn around and listen.

He has an untroubled smile on his face.

“Look, because of my looks, I’ve never been turned down. But I couldn’t stop thinking about you after you rejected my invitation, I couldn’t stop thinking about you.”

“Oh, I see. I don’t want to get close to anyone, so I’m just turning down everyone’s invitations. Well then…”

“Hey, wait, wait a minute?”

“What is it?”

“Aren’t you an excellent magician?”

“?”

“Why are you walking around the city with a recognition barrier?”

I was scared by that remark.

Indeed, that’s true.

Despite the cognitive impairment, he recognizes me and talks to me.

“Even though they say the royal capital is safe, women are still targeted. It’s better to be cautious and use whatever you can.”

“That’s true. The magic is applied really well! But the right foot has a bit of unevenness.”

“!!”

Surprised, I looked at my right foot. Normally, I don’t visualize it just by chanting the spell, so I only have a vague idea.

“It’s your eyes. Try gathering magic power in your eyes and see.”

I will follow Joan’s instructions exactly. I move my magic to my eyes and look at my feet.

Then, the flow of magic power might be weakly winding only around the right leg.

“Really? Amazing! How did Joan figure it out so quickly?”

“Hmm, years of intuition? Many people use magic, but even when I point it out, they can’t execute it right away. I think you’ll become an excellent magician in the future.”

“Well, thank you.”

“Interesting, huh? Hey, should I teach you more about magic? I’m kind of bored.”

“Joan has the ability to see through my magic, but she’s not a court magician? I’ve never seen her in the palace.”

“…Ah. I used to be there for a while. Being a court magician is pretty boring, you know.”

I was really good, so I stayed in the palace for a long time, but it was boring with all the orders, so I quit.

They say I quit because I got into debt or was involved in illegal gambling, but that’s a lie. The royal family has its own reputation to uphold, you know. Well, it’s no surprise that people speak ill of me.

Apparently, Joan used to work in the palace. The way she speaks so openly gives me a sense of fear.

He looks quite young to be considered “in the past.”

“You just came out of that inn over there, right? What’s your name?”

“I’m Yuria.”

You were watching that closely, huh?

It might be too late, but something must not happen to Eme and the others. I suddenly become tense and cautious.

“Your name is Yuria, huh? That’s a nice name. So, the academy is on break right now, right? Perfect. Shall we go hunt some magical beasts? We’ll be back by the time the academy starts again, so it’s all good.”

“Huh, right now!?”

“That’s right. I’ll take you to an interesting place. You want to improve your magic skills too, don’t you?”

“Eh…?”

The moment Joan took my hand, we were transported somewhere.

I’ve seen Professor Giannino’s teleportation, but this is quite different.

“How about that? Surprised?”

Joan asked with a smile.

“Yeah. I’ve never seen someone teleport suddenly without chanting before.”

“I’m glad you were surprised!”

“By the way, where is this place? …!!”

I was astonished by the magical beast that appeared before me as I was about to ask for an explanation.

Because the scene that appeared before my eyes was filled with lizardmen.

There must be thousands, maybe tens of thousands. They still haven’t noticed us.

It’s nowhere near where I used to live.

“Is this around the middle of Mount Diful in the Zesh country? There was a request. Here, you should be able to use your magic freely, right?”

“Request? It has nothing to do with me!?”

“Well, we can’t just sit around saying that, can we? Look, Yuria’s shouting has already alerted the lizardmen.”

Even if I tried to argue, the lizardmen attacked us.

It can’t be helped.

Defeat the approaching lizardman with attack magic.

“Exactly! If you slack off, you’ll end up dead.”

Joan defeats the enemies in the same way while talking with a smile.

Ah, I remember the feeling of dreaming.

Cutting down with the sword I was wearing and defeating them one after another with magic.

If you keep casting such enormous spells like a dream, your magic power will run out quickly.

I decided to fight while minimizing the consumption of magical power as much as possible.