Meldenik left chic and cool and went into the tavern to develop beer candies. But those who were left behind could never be the same. They had witnessed the glorious moment when the Red Cult Pirates, a cancerous entity that had been haunting the merchants all along, were exterminated for the first time.
"Until now, even if I reported it, the security guards who received money would turn a blind eye."
"It's in front of the academy, but the nobles ride in carriages... This is actually an abandoned commercial area, so everyone often ignored the report."
"But he got rid of it."
"It was really cool... He also said, 'Don't harass our alley business district again.'"
Of course, Meldenik never said that. However, heroization needs a little seasoning.
The man who had chatted with Meldenik while listening to the merchants' chatter, Astilde, clenched his fists and shook them passionately. "This must be put in writing." He was an ardent reporter who denounced the absurdity of society. His newspaper was so famous and promising that it was distributed to the Academy.
'She said it was just a mistake, but who would believe her?' Think of her bright eyes. And the chic words he said while squeezing more than five or six men. It was not a skill that she had done once or twice. It was obvious that it was not a mistake.
Astilde, he was a journalist with a mission of his own. And at this moment, he felt obligated to spread something special to all of humanity. His eyes began to flash. "Good. It's a scoop." Mel's stationery store will be a huge place.
"Besides, you said that you have an item that you are working on with Ressa." His intuition as a journalist was predicting. He gripped the pen in his hand more forcefully. This incident had to be made public. He was going to interview her thoroughly and carefully, and then inform him thoroughly. He had to prepare a huge issue that would make even the Maltend Academy right in front of this stationery store buzz!
Unaware that the hearts of everyone present were touched, Meldenik was working hard in the tavern to develop beer candy.
Meanwhile, in the tavern, Dominic and I were learning from Ressa about the process of making alcohol.
"It's bubbling up on top."
"That's right."
"Okay, I'm sure you know." Dominic began to create a simple magic formula based on the story. We put a large oak keg and some of the candy ingredients on the table.
Lily marveled at the mana flowing from Dominic's fingertips. "What do you think?"
"It's so amazing!"
"This is a wizard who can do beginner magic, right?"
"That's right." I nodded my head in affirmation. To be precise, he is a hero and a magic sword.
"Oh my God, a wizard! I've never seen a wizard before." It was certainly rare for a commoner to see a wizard in his life, so Lily looked at Dominic with admiration.
"How could this happen! The magic food looks really amazing." Dominic, who happened to be a beginner wizard, seemed to be in a good mood, and at other times he looked half-bad. As his mouth began to flutter, I opened my mouth.
"Right, our Dominic is amazing."
"I'll admit it." Dominic's arrogant words brought the three of them together. It looked quite cute with its mouth pouting rather than being amazing.
But... We had another problem. Dominic's technique was perfect, but the shape of the beer candy he created was strange. The beer candy became almost as big as a book, sour, or mushy.
"Why not, this?" I asked Ressa with a sullen face.
"The spell is perfect. However, it's a little... hard to control the force." Dominic scratched the back of his head from the side.
I let out a short sigh and tilted my head at Ressa. I had to solve this problem somehow. "We'll discuss it among ourselves. I think you've taken up too much time, Ressa."
"Yes, don't push yourself too hard. We'll be with Meldenik as long as we can." Ressa smiled gently and left the stationery store.
But even after Ressa's departure, Dominic's life magic still showed no signs of improving. The beer swelled up and hardened to diamonds, smashing the lights on the ceiling. In a word, Dominic was a young gem when it came to life-friendly magic.
"What's the problem?" I asked him, tearing my head open.
"...Hmm, I can't control my strength well because I just got out of the sword. You just have to wait a few months." Dominic averted his gaze and replied.
Whew. I can't help it. I stretched Dominic's white cheeks like cheese and smiled softly. Apparently, it's a sword specializing in force, so I'm not good at controlling strength... 'But I can't wait for a few months. I can't do this.'
I sat with my back to the chair in the stationery store and resolutely let go. "Dominic. You better find a new way."
"New method?"
"Hmm, so summon the devil..."
"It's impossible. I don't have the magic to control the devil." I tried to subtly push the demon summoning, but it didn't work. I don't know. It is said that the magic that can control demons is impossible with known magical knowledge, and Dominic's magic is limited...
"Why don't you cook with candy ingredients?" I asked with a smile to relieve the heavy atmosphere.
Surprisingly, Dominic nodded as if he had understood. "Hmm... That wouldn't be a bad thing. This is the basic magic of the basics. Maybe you can, too."
"Magic? I'm not good at magic."
"Why?"
"I was born with no mana because of a curse in my veins." I replied with a puzzled face. 'I didn't expect to explain this story with my own mouth.'
Mana refers to the power in the heart that is necessary to use magic. Basically, everyone is born with mana, but to become a mage, you need an unusual amount of mana. And the blood relatives of the Marquis of Kinnoa, including Meldenik, were famous for being born without mana for generations after they were cursed by the dragon.
"Huh? What a curse? You have a curse and no mana?" Dominic scratched his cheek and said again. "No mana, no way..."
I sighed and continued. "Yes. I took a mana test to get into the academy, but I really didn't have any." In the original film, Meldenik Babelloa did not attend the Academy. To be precise, it would be correct to say that she was disqualified from attending the academy. In order to attend the academy, you needed a certain amount of mana compared to ordinary people, and she was disqualified because she did not have mana in the entrance test. After being killed after confirming that his body had 0 mana by default, Meldenik was funny again.
"I wish I could use magic." He walked right in front of the counter where I was sitting. I was sitting on a chair in front of the counter, and I looked up at him. Why was that?
Dominic frowned and put his hand on the counter. "You don't have mana in your body. It can't be."
What did he mean by this? "If you did, you wouldn't have been able to accept my mana when you defeated the Red Sheikh Pirates."
"...Huh?" I opened my mouth without realizing it.
"...It can't be?"
"You don't believe me?"
"Uh oh..." As I was doing it, Dominic slapped his chest in frustration.
But I had a good reason not to believe it right away. 'No, does this make sense? Then what is the original content? Meldenik is a mana-incompatible!' My memory was not wrong. In the original Enchanted Lover, Meldenik, who has no mana, and Sheria, an outstanding sorceress with abundant mana, are often compared.
'A shameless and unmagical evil woman who is a daughter of blood cursed by a dragon'. Therefore, the sentence that Meldenik Babelloa had an inferiority complex to Sheria was mentioned very often.
However, he couldn't deny Dominic's words at all. In fact, mana-incompatible people who do not have a grain of mana in their bodies cannot accept mana in their bodies. Mana can't stay in your body and bounces off naturally. What if I am mana-incompatible? When Dominic handed me his mana, I shouldn't have accepted it and bounced it off.
'What really happened...?'