"Do you believe in such a thing as 'fateful encounters'?"

"Tell the story again, this time about Prince Charming and the Princess?"

"Why do you think of the 'love' aspect first? I mean the more macro human encounter. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Info, for example, maybe your encounter with Simon was predestined by God?

"Hmm...... Want me to thank fate or something?"

"Me and her? That's really a 'bad fate' destined by God. Fate really likes to play pranks. ”

"Huh, you mean you don't want to see me......? It's really a turn of face and doesn't recognize people. ”

"What do you say...... What are you talking nonsense again, you ......?"

"Lala-la-Simon is a big barrel with a dull mind! Stupid! Imbecile who can't even speak! Fuck cute women, eat and wipe clean and don't want responsible frivolous men! Scum! Even slimes are more responsible than you!"

"Shi ...... Slime?me...... I'm going to kill you today!"

"It turned out to be love. ”

- A conversation between a certain Academy of Magic adventure team resting in March of the 498th year of the New Earth Calendar

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"I'm sorry. ”

Realizing that he had caused trouble by bumping into an unrelated stranger, the first thing that came to Troy's mind was to say "I'm sorry" if he hadn't stopped leaning forward for a while.

It doesn't hurt to be polite, but of course, it's up to the person to be able to solve the problem in this way.

People have different personalities and experiences, and the way they deal with the same thing will also be very different. This is another bit of "common sense" that Moore told before Troy's departure.

Troy prayed in his heart that the person he accidentally bumped into was the kind of person who could solve the problem with a sincere apology, and if he met someone with a violent or bad personality, to be honest, the teenager was not sure that he would be able to solve the problem.

Because before leaving, as a condition for letting himself travel alone, Troy also made another "agreement" with Vina:

"Don't get involved in any 'fighting'. ”

Therefore, if it becomes the kind of situation where "you can't solve it without fighting", it will be difficult to deal with. By the way, the fact that such a situation will also exist in the world was told to the teenager by Christopher.

"It doesn't matter. ”

Although indifferent, but not hostile, the voice that came into Troy's ears made him relax slightly, but at the same time gave birth to a strange question:

"Did you really hit him?"

The reason for this thought was that the lost center of gravity had returned in the gap in his thoughts, and when he noticed, Troy found that he had adjusted his face and stood straight on the ground, and the dull sound that had just come out did not cause him to feel any "pain".

The teenager, who didn't understand what was going on at all, turned his honest gaze to the man in front of him. It should be a man, right? Yes, judging by the voice, it should be a man.

In fact, the reason why Troy "hesitated" like this was because the siblings before him had made him understand how difficult it was to judge a person's gender by appearance in the "outside world".

――In short, it seems that there is a misunderstanding.

When he looked at him, everything else in his vision was diluted, and it was not so much that Troy took the initiative to look at him, but that he was attracted.

"This ...... How so?"

The boy couldn't help but let out an exclamation of disbelief. The man in front of him, who has an unusually strong "attraction" and has never had a visual experience, is wearing a gray-black robe that is theoretically difficult to notice, both in fabric and style.

Apart from the clothes, the slightly worn boots on the man's feet, the loosely made gloves on his hands, and the black beanie on his head were nothing special. In fact, the only things that might attract attention on the outside are the glasses that work together to hide the face and the "white cloth that connects the ears with two straps".

The young man still knows something about glasses, but the eyes worn by the other party are pitch black. It's so strange that with such lenses, can he still see what lies ahead?

Also, it was much later that Troy learned that the white cloth was something called a "mask".

"It's not because of these things. ”

After reading the above words in his heart, Troy shook his head, but his eyes never took his eyes off the other party, not "I don't want to", but "I can't do it".

As he said, it was not the slightly sneaky facial ornament that made his gaze almost fixed, but something else that could not be described in words on the "immaterial level".

It's not magic, the other party's magic is neither strong nor seems to be anything special.

-- What else would it be? Momentum? Probably not right?

"Thou art ...... No, the feeling in your magic is Charity...... No, it should be mine...... It's my delusion. ”

In contrast to the boy's question, the man, who could not easily see his face, also seemed to show a little doubt, and Troy also found another "doubt" in the way he described it.

"You?"

"Those don't matter. Without shaking his head, the man's voice, which seemed to be quite calm, suddenly became more excited, and even a little "fanatical", "The important thing is that meeting a 'complicated' mage like you is definitely the guide of fate." ”

"Complicated? Am I complicated?"

The man's words made Troy, who was already confused about the current situation, even more confused. However, the man completely ignored the young man's confusion and continued to talk to himself.

"I saw it, I was able to see it. This is definitely the guidance of fate, the arrangement of fate! But does such a thing as fate really exist? What cannot be confirmed to exist should still be assumed that it does not exist...... Is it because I am still at the 'bottom of the well'? In short, no possibility can be missed. ”

Muttering that the boy could not understand, the white cloth covering his mouth did not hinder the man's increasingly frantic speech in the slightest, but still reached Troy's ears with clarity and clarity.

"Hmm...... Would you like to talk to me about something?"

The fact that there were too many doubts made the teenager, who had gradually learned the "normal" way of conversation, breathe a sigh of relief, and put aside those questions that would not get a response even if he asked them, Troy reduced all his doubts to one sentence.

"'Wildfire'...... Absolutely, you are the 'wildfire' on my path to truth. ”

When the restlessness reached the extreme, it tended to be quiet, and the man's words once again regained the indifference they had when they first heard it, but the meaning was still unclear.

"Is that a song?"

The teenager's response was also very interesting.