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Safety device (2)
Despite all these years, the concept of magic was still largely unknown.
The wizard liked to say of himself:
‘Humans. The most intelligent and enlightened beings of all.’
On the other hand, humans who were not magicians would whisper like this.
‘Beast. A savage being that imitates intelligent life.’
Personally, I don’t think either of them are wrong. Wizards are smart. They are trying to discover some universal law that has never been properly revealed. Magic has already penetrated the world so deeply. It is impossible to live without magic now.
However, this magic is truly an unpredictable thing. Even non-magicians who use magic are the same as awakened beings, but they are not as closely related to magic as magicians.
Besides, what would people who use swords know about magic? They just use it because it’s supposed to be used. They don’t need any grand theories. I’m not saying this because I’m on this side, but rather than thinking about such theories, it’s much better to learn animalistic senses. Here, magic is used with the body.
But they are not magicians. Magicians see the world through magic. To them, understanding magic is understanding the world. No, magic is the world itself.
That is, those who are not magicians are living in a world with a perspective that they can never understand.
I once asked a Japanese magician, who was a very kind magician.
‘Huh? What is it like to live as a wizard? That’s such a huge question, I don’t know how to answer.’
‘No, that’s the wrong question. Rather, I’d like to ask what magic is. Why, not all wizards, but don’t some often find magic to be very… precious?’
In the 2040s, the Earth was ruled by magic theologians. Now that I think about it, wasn’t that a sign of the end of the world? Hope said Noah Michelle’s motivations were similar to theirs.
The Japanese magician nodded only after hearing those words.
‘The magic theorists? They’re really annoying. But I can understand them.’
‘…if.’
‘I don’t think so. The younger the wizards who awaken, the more likely they are to fall into that direction. I awakened relatively late.’
‘When did you awaken…?’
‘Ten years old.’
The Japanese wizard continued speaking.
‘A wizard cannot survive without magic power.’
‘… Yes. I’ve often heard that magic power is like oxygen to a wizard.’
‘It’s not a metaphor, it’s true.’
‘… … .’
‘I don’t usually tell this to people who aren’t magicians… But I’m telling you because you’re not the type of person to go around telling stories.’
The wizard whispered in a low voice, as if he were telling a great secret.
‘Wizards have their own separate world. Depending on how much they can make that concrete, their abilities as a wizard are determined… . Building that world is magic.’
‘…okay.’
‘You don’t know, right? I know. My husband doesn’t understand no matter how many times I explain it to him.’
‘Your husband…?’
‘Because I’m not an awakened person.’
The wizard laughed out loud.
‘From the moment you awaken as a wizard, or maybe even before you awaken, that world exists. Just like children have their own imaginary friends? That’s real to a wizard. My own little imagination made of magic.’
‘It’s difficult.’
‘Yes. But the world is full of all kinds of laws. Why, we all learn them in school. Things like Newton’s laws.’
‘yes.’
‘There are laws that can be explained by science. But magic… There are still many things that cannot be explained, right? Although a lot has been discovered compared to the past… Thanks to wizards and magic engineers.’
‘The wizards don’t recognize magic engineers.’
‘It’s because of pride. Anyway, that’s why the world of wizards always includes magic. But what happens if you live your life centered around a phenomenon that can’t be properly explained? It’s not like people in the past believed in superstitions for no reason, right?’
‘… … .’
‘I’m saying this because I’m a wizard, but you shouldn’t think that you can understand how wizards view the world!’
‘……Is that so.’
‘The moment you think you know a wizard, you will be defeated by a wizard.’
He was truly one of the few proper wizards I’ve ever met.
The reason I’m only now remembering that short conversation that I had forgotten is probably because of what I heard last.
‘I’m going to get beat up by a wizard.’
That Japanese magician gave me some really good advice.
But like most advice, I didn’t realize at the time how good it was, and like most foolish people, I ended up regretting it after the fact.
“Okay! Sign here!”
“… My father always told me not to sign things carelessly.”
“Father, you’re right! But you can sign this!”
“Especially, you shouldn’t fall for what a wizard says….”
“You’re right! But Mr. Woo, was your father there?”
“… … .”
“… … It sounds strange, right? But Mr. Woo, my family background is a bit.”
I recalled the information from Woo Hee-jae, an insider of the Ark. I hadn’t had anything to worry about these days.
It seemed like Nana and Woo Hee-jae had parents who weren’t like their parents. It’s natural since this setting wasn’t a complicated lie.
“Those are the words of a father figure.”
“Ahem.”
Hong Seok-young was coughing in vain to hide his proud expression. What the heck… .
“… Ah! Is that the wizard who taught you runes and other things?”
I didn’t want to think about it any more, so I nodded my head and agreed. If I mentioned Noah Michelle, it would be impossible to resolve the situation.
“Anyway, your father taught you well! So, he is like a father to you!”
The terminology was getting weirder and weirder, but that wasn’t what mattered now.
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Kim Chae-min handed me a piece of paper that she had been holding. She also forced a ballpoint pen into my hand.
“this….”
“Sign here! Then everything will be settled.”
“It doesn’t work at all.”
“Isn’t this enough?”
Kim Chae-min tilted her head with wide eyes. Her face was incredibly innocent, but… the paper she held out with that face was not.
I read the words at the top of the paper.
contract.
I didn’t want to read it.
“I learned it from Seohyun. A thick contract is just cumbersome… Isn’t what’s important the two people’s feelings?”
“therefore….”
The standards of a wizard are strange. I couldn’t help it because I saw things that others couldn’t. I think I’m living a somewhat crooked life because I see magic.
It’s not like wizards can see magic, but as the Japanese wizard said, beings that die without magic have a different way of thinking than humans who do.
okay….
“Kim Chae-min becomes Woo Hee-jae’s disciple!”
like now….
“Kim Chae-min has a duty to keep confidential the information related to the ark and other things that Woo Hee-jae talks about! If she violates this, Woo Hee-jae will have all rights to the exclusive magic of Kim Chae-min, Kim Kang-yeon, and Kim Young-heon!”
I pressed my temples… .
“Wouldn’t this be enough as a safety device?!”
I can’t believe this reality at all… .
* * *
I trusted Kim Chae-min too much.
Kim Chae-min’s grandfather and father are magicians, but her grandmother and mother are not magicians.
I shouldn’t generalize, but the atmosphere of the magicians who married non-awakened people was much more relaxed than the atmosphere of the magicians who started a family. That Japanese magician was the same. Kim Chae-min must have been the same. Didn’t Kim Chae-min himself say that? Honestly, someone like Kim Chae-min could fit in with a group of college students or office workers without feeling awkward.
That kind of person would have died in order to save one hunter. It’s ridiculous to weigh the value of a person’s life, but everyone would agree that Kim Chae-min shouldn’t have died that way. Now that I know Kim Chae-min personally, I think that even more.
My belief in Kim Chae-min is based on her family environment and her personality. To be honest, even if her family environment is a mess, she can grow up to be a ‘good person’, and even if her family environment is perfect, there are people who grow up to be a mess, so it is correct to say that this is a judgment based purely on Kim Chae-min herself.
Yes. That’s why I trusted Kim Chae-min.
I keep emphasizing that I believe it, because I really believed it. Unlike other magicians, Kim Chae-min would be sensible.
“… So, you want to be my disciple?!”
“yes!”
Kim Chae-min answered with a bright face.
Look at that bright face without a single shadow. Hong Seok-young was now on the verge of falling backwards.
Yeah, that’ll be fun. Laugh, laugh.
“I don’t understand why you want to be my disciple….”
“Look, it’s not like in the classic romance movies where you swear on magic and something magical happens.”
Kim Chae-min said with a rather serious face. It was something he said to persuade me, but in the end, it would end with him telling me to sign that contract.
I am not a magician. Naturally, I cannot have disciples.
… Yes. It’s not like disciples only exist among wizards, but it’s the first time I’ve heard of a wizard becoming the disciple of an awakened being who isn’t a wizard.
“How much easier would it be if, like in the movies, you swore an oath and broke it, and then bled to death from every orifice in your body?”
“…It’s comfortable.”
“It’s cost-effective if you can just say one word and block the possibility of joining the other side!”
“It’s good value for money.”
“Oh my, instead of developing a magic that makes your heart explode when you stop, you should create something like that. What do other wizards not know?”
Kim Chae-min spoke with sincerity.
I looked at Hong Seok-young with a face asking for help. Hong Seok-young was still busy smiling.
“But that’s not possible, so we use this cumbersome method! It’s a simple contract, but it has legal effect. I checked with a lawyer.”
Only action is good.
“The lawyer said that if he was going to make such an unfair contract, he should have been fired first, but who knows.”
Poor Kim Chae-min’s lawyer… .
He probably knows Kim Chae-min’s grandfather or father.
“Sleep! Sign!”
“I don’t.”
“Why! Isn’t that a good way?”
“Where on earth are you going?”
“It’s perfect!”
“So where are you going!”
“I said I would become Mr. Woo’s disciple?!”
It’s a dolphin symbol. It never ends.
But I can’t back down either.
“Why is that a safety device?!!”
“Don’t you want magic in our house?”
“Doesn’t that mean Mr. Kim has to betray me to get it? Then it’s not a safety device!!”
“Oh… that’s sharp.”
What should I do with this woman?
After racking my brain, I decided to pass the problem on to Hong Seok-young.
“How about becoming Mr. Hong’s disciple instead of me?”
“Ugh, what?”
“no, I do not want.”
Hong Seok-young, who had stopped laughing and heard the sound, opened his eyes wide, but Kim Chae-min frowned.
“There is nothing to learn from Mr. Hong.”
“Wait a minute, what does that mean?”
Hong Seok-young jumped up.
Fantasy, contemporary,