The Master of Language - T.M.L Chapter 25 (Part 1):

I opened my eyes with a start, and all I could see was the blue sky.

Splash, splash.

A small sound tickled my ears.

“Water?”

I raised my head and looked around. A shallow surface of water was covering my body.

It’s the lakeshore.

I got up from where I was lying.

“Ah, my hand.”

Looking at my left hand, it had become completely clean. Perhaps because new skin had grown, it looked even smoother than before.

I lifted my hand to touch my face and chest.

Though I should have suffered severe burns, the skin I felt was incredibly smooth.

“Ran!”

I turned my head at the sound of a voice in the distance.

Psyche was running towards me.

She came into the lake, approaching me.

“Are you okay?”

“Yeah. I’m fine.”

“……”

As I answered properly, the worry in her eyes gradually disappeared.

Strangely, her gaze slowly shifted downwards.

And then it fixed.

I twisted my waist inward and covered my groin.

“Hey! What are you looking at?”

Psyche bit her lip and then looked back at my face as she spoke.

“What do you mean? I was just checking if you’ve recovered well.”

What exactly was she checking to see if it had recovered well?

“Uh, c-could you bring me some clothes?”

Psyche turned her head abruptly and said,

“You can take care of that yourself.”

With that curt response, she walked briskly back to the cabin.

I was left all alone in the lake.

“Seriously. Come to think of it, I had lost my staff. What about my magic book?”

I held out my left hand and tried to summon the magic book.

I felt the transparent magic book appear in my left hand.

Fireball floating above the head.

Fireballs supporting the two legs.

Keren’s fire magic feels like it’s fading away quickly, like a dream.

“No, I can’t let that happen.”

I should record it right now.

I opened the magic book. And I turned the pages until I reached the fire magic spells.

“Keren’s fire magic. It was quite unique. On the ship, it only emitted light, and when boiling the sea, it only had heat. Is it converting fire into light and heat? Also, he flew around with it attached to his legs. How does that work? There was nothing like that in Speria’s spells.”

I annotated various parts of the fire magic spells. I saved everything I could remember, recalling Keren’s application methods.

I saved everything I could remember and closed the magic book.

“After all that trouble, you’re already learning magic again?”

When I looked to the side, Master Abana was there.

Her gaze, of course, went down…

“Really. Are all elves like this?”

“Like what?”

She asked that while still maintaining her gaze.

“Stop looking already. Just give me some clothes.”

Only then did Master Abana avert her eyes and hand me some clothes.

The slightly disappointed expression on her face was oddly similar to Psyche’s.

“I was just curious. I’m sorry if it made you uncomfortable.”

“What’s there to be curious about? Don’t elves have men?”

“No.”

“……”

They don’t?

Then what about partners?

When I didn’t say anything, Master Abana continued speaking.

“Anyway, hurry and get dressed. Speria wants to greet you.”

“Alright.”

We went to the cabin through the gap in the intertwined trees.

Speria was in the yard of the cabin. I watched her through the window.

She was kneeling respectfully, holding up a fireball twice the size of her face with both hands.

But in her right hand, she was holding a staff.

“Master? You gave Speria a staff?”

Master Abana gave a faint smile.

“Last night when Count Furst came, as soon as Speria heard his words, she desperately asked me to let her go, saying there was no need to return the staff or familiar. Very earnestly.”

“……”

“So I decided to trust her and sent her out. As expected, she brought you back.”

“So you trust her now?”

Master looked at Speria.

“Go on. She’s the one who saved your life, after all.”

Hmm, it’s good that their relationship seems to have improved.

I opened the cabin door and went outside.

As soon as I did, Speria looked at me and smiled brightly.

“Ran! You’re awake!”

She had never smiled so brightly before.

Golden eyes.

White skin.

Red hair.

Snow-white teeth.

“Yeah. Thank you, Speria. It’s thanks to you.”

She met my eyes and then suddenly turned her head away.

“It’s nothing. I just, you know, felt the fire energy. I thought the robe might be there. And then I found you collapsed next to it. So I just picked you up, that’s all.”

I chuckled and sat down next to her.

“I heard from Master that she gave you back your staff and familiar.”

Speria nodded.

“Yeah. So I’m reviving my familiar. I gathered all the fire energy from inside that robe. It’s not enough, but I should barely be able to revive it.”

Its level must be unimaginably high if she says that’s not enough.

“I see.”

Speria stared at me for a while and then said in a low voice.

“I’m sorry for using your things without permission. But when we go back, I’ll give you proper compensation.”

I didn’t really think of it as mine.

No, come to think of it, I guess it is mine.

“Leave the robe. I don’t have a robe.”

She looked at me and smiled.

“Okay. For now, use this robe. I’ll give you a much better one when we get back. Deal?”

“So, are we going back to Yura continent now?”

At those words, Speria’s eyes widened as she looked at me.

“What? Didn’t you hear? You’re coming with us.”

“Huh?”

Speria’s expression became playful.

“Hmm. Then I guess you just rushed out without talking much? Were you that eager to see me?”

“No.”

I immediately got up and walked towards the cabin.

I could hear giggling laughter from behind.

Why do I feel like I lost somehow?

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