Almark – Northern Sword, Southern Wand

When I saw Wendy off at the main gate and tried to get home, I noticed that there was a familiar guard.

"Mr. Geed."

Hello, Mr. Almark.

The first time I walked through this gate, I was Jed, the guardian who took care of me.

Few associates know that Almark is the son of a mercenary in the North.

However, Almark doesn't know how far the teachers are listening to the headmaster's yolog.

"Wendy just left? This is the last part of the elementary school."

Oh, really?

"Ah, today is the hardest day of the year for us guards. Jesus Christ."

The guards at the main gate seemed to have been melancholy with the admission of many visitors.

"Everyone's happy to be back."

After saying so, Jed remembers Almark's origins.

I see. You can't go home. "

"Yeah, that's fine."

I've been ready since I came to this college. We arrived at the end of a one-and-a-half year journey alone. I don't feel like going home to see my parents in just a few months.

But....

Almark remembered Leila walking through an early morning garden alone with a harsh face.

I didn't feel any joy coming home from Leila.

Even the torque was disgusting in my mouth, but something more or less liberating was drifting.

But the only thing Almark felt from Leila's back this morning was a sense of duty.

The usual cool feeling was free of dust.

Does Leila have a real place to go?

With that in mind, Almark told Ziad.

"Leila was the first to leave, wasn't she?"

Leila?

Jed thinks a little and nods, ahh.

Yes, it was Leila at the beginning of the day.

Almark gets a little caught up in the way Jed says it.

"Today's first? So are there any kids who came home yesterday?"

I still had class yesterday.

Ah.

Jed nodded immediately.

Wallis left last night.

"Wallis?"

In Ziad's words, Almark recalls the lights in the garden last night.

That was Wallis.

"Alone?"

"Oh, Wallis is alone every year. I don't know why, either. Maybe he's keeping people waiting in the harbor like Leila."

Really?

Wallis still has some complications. At least, Almark thought it was definitely not just honorary students.

Speaking of which, Jed said as he remembered.

"Wallis looks just like you now."

"To me?

"At school, Wallis traveled alone. From the western edge of Galai."

Eh?

Speaking of when you enter school, will you be nine years old?

It was just when Almark first went to battle.

Although the Galai kingdom is certainly much safer than the northern lands, Almark never saw a child of that age travel alone.

"Wallis is a noble child, isn't he? I had to come alone, but why would he?"

Jed, um, twisted his neck.

"I don't know the details, but I've never seen Wallis pick me up. I'm sure there's something going on."

"Really...."

Everyone has their own circumstances. Almark didn't want to pry any further.

I just thought I might know why he's hostile to me.

As a result, the mystery only deepened.

"By the way, what do you say? Are you familiar with school life?"

In response to Jed's question, Almark switches his mind and smiles.

"Yes, thank you very much."

I can't use magic at all.

Jed looks carefully at Almark's face.

"I see. Compared to the first time I met him, his expression was as calm as anyone else."

In Ziad's words, Almark nodded with a calm expression as he said.