Chapter 65: Normal Citizen

Click!

Closing the door, I stood in the hallway, lost in contemplation.

The deal with Nemur had been a lucky encounter.

But it had taught me one thing for sure—

I had to grow stronger.

And at a much faster pace.

Nemur was a smart fellow, with good control over his emotions and… ego.

Off the chance he had been even a little unstable… I would have found myself in a far worse situation.

Nemur knew the consequences of using brutal means with me… But it was his patience that had stopped him from doing something stupid.

It didn’t matter what consequences he would have suffered had he killed me in his rage… Once I was dead… It meant being dead.

There was no second chance.

My life was on a gamble… which I won—purely by luck.

I won’t praise my analytical skills and the way I handled the situation.

It might have looked like a strategic win for others, but I knew better.

It was Nemur’s logical approach that had saved my life today.

Having a criminal organization under me meant shit, if I couldn’t even issue the commands to protect myself.

A serious issue had now come to my notice.

No matter how strong Arthur was, it wasn’t worth the hype if I couldn’t summon him at my will.

I had to do something about it. For now—

My time was up.

My vision began to narrow again, with the pain in my head intensifying.

“What have you done?”

I tried to voice my words while looking at the Headmast—

Huh?!

Where was he?

As I looked around, I found myself standing in the same hallway I was walking through some time ago.

Behind me, I could see the door to the headmaster’s office.

The last thing I could remember was me talking to him…

Aahh!

I couldn’t remember it well.

I think the headmaster had agreed to be my Guardian. It surely was a genius move on my part.

Huh!

The scenes from the meeting slowly played in my mind. It again felt like I was watching a movie.

But if the person there wasn’t me…

Huh.

What was I thinking—Yes!

Though the headmaster wanted the method to be able to increase his mana control… I don’t think I would be able to help much.

After all, my mana control had been a result of the ritual and not something that I had learned on my own.

As for teaching him the ritual…

The ritual?!

What was the ritual that I had actually performed?

In the game, Kael was just shown drawing some circles and performing the ritual in it.

And even if I try to remember the details of the ritual, they feel distant. It’s like the ritual had never existed in my life.

Hm?

Now that I carefully think about it, where had Kael received the ritual from?

Something that could increase a person’s mana control and evolution potential to such high degrees had to be given by someone generous enough to disclose such a power to a mere kid.

Who had been behind the origin of this ritual? And why were the details of the ritual given only to Kael?

Everything…

It felt too suspicious.

More than that, why hadn’t I ever thought of this before?

Such a loophole should have been easily noticeable for me.

The mysteries surrounding Kael kept on increasing the more I thought about it.

How had Kael stayed hidden from the world since the time he had left his house?

Surely the Frosts would have tried to find him.

In the game, after the incident at the royal banquet, Kael had only been seen when he was going through the ritual and had been granted its powers.

After that, he had directly appeared in the final arcs of the game.

So how had he stayed hidden until then?

And even more than that, why hadn’t Kael contacted his parents even once?

Though he had felt hurt at the banquet… It simply wasn’t possible for a fifteen-year-old kid to survive on his own without any form of support.

If it had been someone else, the situation could be understood… But for someone like Kael, who had enjoyed the premium life of nobility—it was impossible to live on his own.

If I take the assumption that for an entire year after leaving his house, Kael had roamed in the forests where I had transmigrated after the ritual…

Still, things don’t match up!

How could someone stay alive in a forest teeming with monsters? For a weakling like Kael, it should have been a lethal place to stay.

Also, after my transmigration, even when travelling through the forest, I met none of the monsters… Not even the weakest ones.

Then the part where I had entered Tamyr.

In such a huge city, any trackers sent after me had to have caught my trail. In the last three years, there had been no instance of anyone following me or keeping watch on me.

No matter how much Castor had been disappointed in Kael… The man would never leave his blood out of his sight.

I didn’t know what Castor felt exactly about Kael… But I did know that Alia—my supposed mother—wouldn’t allow her son to end up dead in some random alley.

Even the headmaster didn’t know about my whereabouts.

For a Sovereign of his caliber, it would have been an easy matter to look up my past.

He could have easily found out the people I had interacted with in the past years, and the places I visited often.

Such details could have possibly led him to finding out about the source of my high-level mana control.

Still, he didn’t know a thing.

That was why he was ready to negotiate with me. He might have found my background more mysterious than I had tried to portray it.

It was like someone was deliberately keeping me safe…

Or was the person trying to use me for something?

Haa…

Damn it!

Why couldn’t I just live a normal life?

Doesn’t a normal citizen deserve it?!

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