I’m the Main Character’s Child - Chapter 12

I clicked my tongue.

Just as I was preparing my heart, a huge carriage came running along with dust and came to a halt between the crowd and me.

“Emeliette.”

“Papa. Nice timing.”

Cardin got off the carriage and showed up.

The sound of those around him swallowing their breath was quite loud.

“Papa!”

I rushed to Cardin as if it were a surprise.  We didn’t greet each other with a warm smile, but as soon as I got closer, he immediately lifted me up and put me in the carriage.

“You borrowed quite a lot of books.”

Cardin said, looking at the books I was holding.

“Yes, there are a lot of fun things.”

“Can you read it?”

Perhaps he saw the titles of the books, but Cardin laughed again as if it were ridiculous.

Even when I saw them, they weren’t books for a six-year-old child to read.

I told Cardin the same thing I said to the nanny.

“There’s pictures too!”

I opened the book and pointed to the pictures.

I wanted to read high adult books, but it was obvious that reading such books at this age would send strange eyes.

Cardin nodded several times, and then got into the carriage.

“Let’s go.”

When the nanny got on the carriage, Cardin ordered the coachman.

I saw a group of unpleasant people out the window. All of them had ridiculous expressions.

“The flies are twisting.”

Cardin turned his head toward the crowd. I couldn’t see his expression because his head was facing out of the window, but I could see the crowd outside nodding.

Thanks to the running carriage , the unpleasant crowd disappeared into the rapidly changing landscape.

“Papa.”

I talked to Cardin, shaking his sleeve gently next to me. He looks at her as if he’s asking why.

“Please call me Liel from now on.”

“… What?”

“It’s my nickname!”

I liked the nickname Fay gave me, so I wanted Cardin to call me by my nickname.

“It’s my first time seeing someone name herself. Is that what kids are like?”

Cardin’s expression, looking at me with an absurd look, made me laugh a little.

I didn’t make it up, but I decided to talk about Fay later.

When I imagined Cardin calling me by my nickname, it didn’t suit him a little.

“Huh? Say it. Papa.”

“…..”

He hung onto Cardin with her eyes shining. However, Cardin’s mouth, which had been tightly shut, did not move.

“Okay. Please say it later.”

Watching Cardin, who looked somewhat awkward, I chose to take a step back.

I could see the nanny smiling quietly covering her mouth at the appearance of me and Cardin.

While the carriage was heading to the duchy, I was exchanging fruitless stories with the nanny. Then what I wanted to say to Cardin came to mind.

“Hey, papa”.

Among the books I borrowed, I took out the Mana book and showed it to Cardin.

“I want to learn magic!”

I want to be a wizard, too.

* * *

“Oh, hello. Princess. I’m Tetto, a senior wizard in charge of your mana training.”

“Nice to meet you. Teacher Teto!”

“Haha, yes. Hyuk!”

Teacher Teto, with pale skin and brown hair, was restless like such a weak patient from the moment he entered the room.

The round glasses were shaking so much that they almost fell down.

I swallowed a sigh inside. The reason was because of Cardin, who was arrogantly crossing his arms and holding his legs and showing signs of discomfort in the back.

Since the appearance of Teacher Teto, who looks weak to anyone’s eyes, he has been staring at the teacher with scary eyes.

Now I felt sorry for Teto, who was shaking his body.

“Papa.”

“Why?”

I turned around and called Cardin for Teto, who was about to faint.

“Aren’t you busy?”

“……”

“Don’t mind and just take the class.”

After touching his mouth a few times as if he wanted to say something, he soon frowned again and turned his head to avoid eye contact.

When I said I wanted to learn magic from Cardin in the carriage, Cardin said this to me with a look of feeling good.

“There’s nothing we can do. I think I’m the only one who can teach you magic.”

Contrary to the saying that it really couldn’t be helped, the air in the carriage had become quite cool.

He was busy, but when he said that he would make time to teach me what I wanted to learn, I shook my head and resolutely expressed my intention.

“Not Papa, but call me a teacher. I want to learn from the teacher.”

“……what?”

The air in the carriage became quite cool when I told him again.Cardin asked as if he didn’t hear it properly.

But I couldn’t help it. Cardin has been a genius of the century who has been able to handle mana freely since childhood.

Isn’t it said that geniuses are not good at teaching others?

In addition, I don’t even know if I had mana yet, so I wanted to learn theory first.

‘I thought you would never listen to my request.’

Fortunately, Cardin, who listened to me, informed me that a teacher would soon come from the magic tower.

But I didn’t know it would be a class that I will take with Cardin..

“Well, first of all, let’s find out about the princess’ mana in her body.”

When Cardin showed no signs of going out smoothly, Teto smiled as if giving up.

I don’t know because It was my first time seeing him today, but I remembered them saying that Teto’s research is the best.

It was a little questionable why such a person became my teacher.

I made up my mind that I would ask Teto when he is a little more relaxed.

What Teto brought out of the luggage was a transparent glass box the size of a palm.

“What’s this? Box?”

“Oh, this is Ma….”

“It’s a magic tool that shows if there’s mana in the body. You can tell quickly just by putting your hand on it.”

I definitely asked Teto a question, but the answer came from the back of my head.

When she turned her head to look at Cardin, he was still in the same position as before and was looking at Teacher Teto.

When Cardin tilted his chin as if to continue, Teto turned his eyes awkwardly again and continued to explain.

“As the Duke said, this is a tool that shows whether there is mana in the princess’ body. Now, like this…….”

As Teto put his hand on the box, she immediately saw that more than half of the box was filled with green, semi-transparent gas.

“The more power or amount of mana you have, the more it will be filled with the person’s unique magic color. Usually, advanced wizards fill about half the box like this, and for ordinary magicians, the end of the box only appears to be fluttering.”

“Wow…..”

The green gas filled in the box was swaying peacefully in it.

I was looking at it, and suddenly I wondered what would happen if Cardin touched this box.

“Can papa touch it too? What color is papa?”

Suddenly, it occurred to me that Cardin took out a Black aura last time in the garden.

‘Is it black?’

“No!”

“Why!”

I was a little upset when I saw Cardin refusing at once.

“Ha ha, princess. If the Duke touches this box, we will not be able to measure the princess’ mana today.”

“Why?”

“That’s…”

Cardin replied again this time on behalf of Teto, who hesitated to answer as if he was in trouble.

“As soon as my mana goes in, the box will fall apart. They can’t be measured with boxes like toys.”

“T,toys……”

I heard teacher Tetto muttering in vain. He looked like he wanted to refute something, but soon he nodded helplessly and said.

“That’s right……Because the duke’s mana is so vast it cannot be measured with these mobile mana tools, it can barely be measured with a magic tool in the center of the tower.”

“Oh, oh”.

It was a moment when Cardin looked new.

Although I had forgotten for a while, Cardin was not only a mage, but was also the owner of the Bardion Duchy, the second most powerful after the imperial family.

“I’ll show you when we go to the magic tower.”

Cardin said plainly from behind.

“I want to hurry up and do it!”

I took the box from teacher Teto.

‘My dad is Cardin. I’m sure I have some magic, too!’

She held the box tightly with both hands and stared through it.

“Huh? What? What?”

She held the box for a long time, but the box didn’t even show any signs of change.

When I looked at Teacher Teto, I wondered if the color of my mana was transparent, and he smiled vaguely.

I guess there’s no transparent magic power color.

Even if I grabbed the box and shook it around, nothing changed.

“I guess it’s for me.  teacher.”

“Princess, don’t be too disappointed. Everyone is born with little power in his/her body. However, if it is not mana, it does not appear on the mana measuring instrument.”

“Everyone?”

“Yes. Everyone is born with strength in the body. That power is naturally divided into mana and holy power, which means that if there is no mana, that person has holy power in the body.”

Yeah. That’s right. The power of the gods and the wizards was almost equal here.

Those who have the ability to use holy power freely also become part of the temple.

Because the two forces could not be mixed at all.

Therefore, the possessor of mana must be healed by a wizard, and the holder of holy power must also borrow the power of the priest to be healed.

“Now that I think about it, there was a setting like this.”

There is a big ritual event held once a year not only by the empire but also by the whole continent. It was the busiest day for senior wizards and  officials.

On this day, which is called ‘Ritual Day’, a mark is engraved on the body of the possessor of magical powers and holy powers for the entire nation.

Usually, it was customary to engrave a mark at the age of 10.

A wizard’s mark is engraved on a child who is a mana holder, and a temple’s mark is engraved on a child who is a divine power holder.

This has the same context as the blood type test that was common in previous lives.

In case of a serious injury somewhere, all the citizens were to engrave on their bodies a crest of their own strength.