Drug-Eating Genius Mage

Rumble, Rumble!

He banged his shoulder against the shaky wall and wrinkled his face without a word.

It’s been almost 3 hours since I’ve been on this huge lump of iron, but this weak body doesn’t even think about adapting.

On the contrary, Lennok, who felt that he was about to rise to the point of motion sickness, looked out the window at the scenery with his arms crossed.

Cold winter highlands.

A train running on a huge railroad track in an empty field.

Lennok was now on the train and was heading somewhere other than the Balkans.

Aris, who was sitting in front of him and was looking at the newspaper, said with a small sigh.

“Speak up if you feel uncomfortable. It’s not impossible to take a break for a while.”

“…..it’s okay.”

Being able to stop and stop a train with enough capacity to carry a hundred people at will indirectly shows her location.

And the reason why you can say such a thing casually is probably because there are fewer than ten people on this train right now.

She stared blankly at Lennox’s face, then slightly averted her gaze and said,

“I’m sorry for suddenly lending a hand to this. Since you’re the only one who has free time right now in my lab, Lenok…”

“You haven’t been neglecting your work lately. I have to endure this much.”

Didn’t it increase the amount of time he couldn’t see his face in the library as well as the university while handling the work of the black magician?

Of course, Aris never blamed him for that, but Lennok felt indebted to her for that.

If the opponent was a shameless and vicious person, he wouldn’t care at all, but isn’t he the one who took into account his ability and environment and risked various criticisms to plant flowers in the lab?

If the conditions were right, and if it was a short schedule of about 1 night and 2 days, it was correct to respond.

“I didn’t know that this kind of conference was being held outside of a big city.”

To alleviate the motion sickness, Lennok changed the subject.

Rather than just staring at the scenery far away, it seemed better to continue the conversation.

“It’s not an official schedule, it’s an irregular conference.”

Aris answered calmly.

“It is also why we are going so far now because we are considering practical verification as well as simply presenting theories.”

“I see…”

Doesn’t that mean he’s on a business trip like this because he’s headed to a place where the magic demonstration room is prepared?

I decided to take it easy.

Anyway, even at the conference, Lennok’s job would be her assistant.

It doesn’t take too long, so you might want to think of it as going out to cool off for a while.

“By the way, why don’t you show it to me soon?”

“yes?”

In response to Lennok’s question, Aris said with her blue eyes twinkling.

“You said you couldn’t go to college because you had personal achievements. I think you deserve to hear that story, don’t you?”

“That…it is, but.”

While I couldn’t come to college, I made various excuses, but I think I remembered exactly what Lennok said.

“Lenok, it’s the first time you’ve said that, so to be honest, I’m looking forward to it too. Did I come with a new theory that would surprise me?”

“…….”

Lennok pondered for a moment before making a quick decision.

This moment, when they had not seen each other for a while, was an opportunity to open up a little more of the secret that Lennok had been hiding.

“do not be surprised.”

“Aren’t you surprised? If Lennok knows how bizarre the experiences I’ve had since learning magic…”

Aris laughed as if he was having fun, but Lennok opened his mouth wide as he lifted the white orb in his hand.

When a tiny fox cub emerged from within the sphere, paws clapping, it was the kind of expression Lennok had never seen before.

“……”

said Lennok, stroking Darby’s wagging tail.

“Actually, I was able to summon this guy at the same time as I was awakening my magical power.”

Darby glanced up at Aris, sat down on Lennok’s lap, and bent her front leg.

After realizing that she was not a simple artificial intelligence, she did not like to talk more than she thought.

Is it that one’s own inclination is being determined in the process of establishing one’s self? Lennok didn’t care too much, as he didn’t intend to rush into adjustments.

Lennok opened his mouth in a daze and looked at the froze Aris and casually lied.

“A very powerful inspiration came to me while I was continuing my research because I had a lingering attachment to the Elemental Spell. With him, I realized that I had awakened my magical powers.”

There was no answer.

Aris had been staring blankly down at Dabi’s appearance, unable to take her eyes off her.

If he had simply awakened his magical power, that alone would not have surprised him so much.

Perhaps Aris, too, was expecting it when she was told it was a personal achievement.

However, the fact that Lennok had awakened and summoned the spirit without even noticing her and carried it aboard the train seemed to come as quite a shock to her.

After a considerable amount of time had passed, Aris came to her senses.

“Uh… First of all, congratulations. I am so shocked I don’t know what to say.”

“Thank you.”

Aris scratched her cheek in silence at Lennok’s words.

Her face was unusually slightly flushed.

“You have no face. It’s my fault.”

“yes?”

“When I first met you, I saw that you were interested in this side, so I persuaded you to give up, but I was wrong. I never thought I would awaken my magical powers and summon the spirits as if in one year…”

Aris said with a clearly shy face.

“I almost accidentally buried Lennok’s talent. In fact, I was of no help.”

“………”

Come to think of it, on the second day I met her at the library, I remember that Lennok was looking through materials on summoning magic and elemental magic.

At that time, Aris summoned Lennok and the relationship that was connected continues to this day.

Do you think that if it wasn’t for her, Lennok would have awakened the spirit faster than he is now?

It seems to have caused a useless misunderstanding.

If Lennok had not gained knowledge of necromancy and artificial intelligence through this work, creating spirits would have been impossible.

There was no reason for Aris to feel guilty after seeing the spirit.

Lennok, who looked at her slightly lowered his head with a blurred expression, opened his mouth.

It would be of no use if I offered consolation here.

So Lennok took a completely different approach.

“Get on Darby.”

[…]

The fox shook her body in annoyance, but did not reject Lennok’s words.

Darby, who was sitting on her lap, jumped up and jumped on top of Aris’ head, and her eyes widened.

Darby sat comfortably on top of her bright golden hair.

“Uh uh…”

Aris was flustered and stiff, not knowing what to do.

Lennok looked at her and said to her.

“Isn’t it lighter than I thought?”

“…..yes?”

“Wouldn’t it be okay to skip over the spirit’s talent so lightly?”

It was bullshit that made no sense even if Lennok thought about it, but isn’t that what human emotions are all about?

Not to mention, it is not possible to use ordinary logic to ease the mood of a wizard called the incarnation of reason.

She had been dazed at Lennox’s words, and finally smiled.

“……What is that?”

“How important is the process?”

“is that so?”

Aris finally grabbed the body of Darby who was on top of her head and put it down slowly.

“But it’s not my taste.”

“……”

It was a knife-like answer. It seems that the standard for being cute is higher than I thought.

Darby shuddered in disapproval, then slipped back into Lennok’s arms and crouched down.

After clearly recognizing her own intellect, Darby has more time to think alone.

It must be that the intellect beyond the tools of artificial intelligence and the way of thinking created based on the existing algorithm collide, creating confusion.

Aris also stared at Darby with an interesting gaze, perhaps sensing traces of high intelligence in Darby’s answer.

“It’s a very intelligent individual among the spirits, to the point where you can designate a subject and have a clear conversation.”

“My child has a bad personality, but he is rather smart.”

“Well, I can only say that it definitely resembles the owner.”

“………”

Aris burst into laughter when she saw Lennok’s confused expression.