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Flowers for You, Magic for the Sky | Chapter 3
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Figaro: That’s why, Oz. You......
Faust: Figaro.
Figaro: Hey, Faust. What’s that piece of paper?
Faust: ......What happened to the children? It’s unnatural for Riquet and Mitile to be taking an afternoon nap here.
Oz: Why?
Faust: If it were Rutile or Nero, this would be a perfectly normal and charming sight, but seeing as it’s you and Figaro......
Figaro: I’m just a kind doctor from the South, and Oz is a wizard who has experience raising children. I’d say that’s perfectly charming.
Faust: I’m trusting you. Don’t go casting weird spells on the children.
Oz: What’s that piece of paper?
Faust: It’s a sketch. Have you ever seen this bird? And do you recall its name......
Figaro: Did you draw this? Huh, it’s pretty good. Here, take a look, Oz.
Oz: ......A Basilisk.
Faust: I knew it!
Figaro: It’s an ancient, magical beast. I’ve only seen a living Basilisk once.
Faust: I met this beast in the City of Rain. But I couldn’t kill it, and it got away.
Figaro: In the City of Rain? Even if it got resurrected because of the < Great Catastrophe >, it’s strange that it would appear amidst humans......
Faust: On top of that, it was being controlled. By a young girl.
Figaro: ......The same thing happened with us. I met a little girl controlling a Leviathan. It’s the beautiful young girl I was talking about, who looked like Riquet.
Oz: It wasn’t me.
Faust: I know that even without you stressing the point. I wouldn’t mistake you for a young girl.
Oz: ............
Figaro: What’s with that face? If you’re displeased, just say it.
Oz: It’s nothing.
Faust: A Basilisk, and a Leviathan...... Legendary beasts resurrecting at the same time — and what’s more, they’re being controlled.
Could this all be linked by an underlying reason instead of simply being coincidental?
Shylock: It most likely is.
Faust: Shylock......
Shylock: We also caught sight of a Leviathan at the Observatory in Western Country, as well as the witch controlling it.
Figaro: Witch?
Shylock: Yes.
Figaro: ......Did that witch say anything?
Shylock: She said she would take revenge for her mother.
Oz: On whom?
Shylock: On Mister Murr Hart.
Oz & Faust & Figaro: ............
Shylock: I know what you want to say. But please bear with me for a while.
For people who hold grudges against Murr, their methods are too crude and exaggerated.
Faust: Crude and exaggerated?
Shylock: These acts of aggression against him are too ambiguous. They seem to be haphazardly putting on extravagant shows of destruction in scattered locations around the world.
Figaro: What would you do then?
Shylock: At the very least, I would not be satisfied by simply tilting the Observatory to one side. I would reduce it to nothing more than smithereens.
And then I would probably search out every last one of Murr’s hidden research laboratories around the world and turn them all into ashes.
Faust: I see.
Figaro: Your sentiments are extremely convincing.
Shylock: It feels like they have another goal in mind. Though I do not know what it is......
Oz: .....The Beast of the Land.
Figaro: Huh?
Oz: Basilisk, Beast of the Air. Leviathan, Beast of the Sea. But there is no Beast of the Land.
Faust: If it was the < Great Catastrophe > which resurrected the beasts, I don’t suppose they get to choose if they’ll show up.
Figaro: Or it means that there is one yet to appear......
Shylock: Now that you mention it, we found a fairy on our mission the other day — the fairy’s physical form had been brought back to life, but its heart remained asleep.
In the end, it lost its form once again and was carried away by the wind......
Figaro: Well, that kind of thing happens too.
Shylock: What kinds of methods must you employ to selectively awaken beings like that?
Figaro: There are many methods, but one way to shock their system with a light poison. There’s no guarantee it’ll work, though.
Faust: Poison? For instance?
Figaro: The fumes from the Forest of Dreams, for one.
✦✧☾✧✦
Akira: Sorry, Lennox. You’ve been tasked with such a troublesome favour.
Lennox: I’m used to it. Please tell me all your plans. If possible, for the entire month ahead.
I’ll survey all of the places that you plan to visit.
Rutile: Mister Leno, you’re so cool.
Akira: W.....What if I randomly feel like going somewhere?
Lennox: I’d like you to refrain if possible, but if you do, I’ll protect you with my life.
Akira: It’s okay, I’ll hold back!
Ah.... It’s the Northern wizards. Welcome back. How did it go?
Mithra: There’s nothing to report.
Owen: It was fine.
Bradley: The Forest of Dreams was just acting strange. Well, it’ll probably be fine if you give it some time.
Akira: Acting strange...... Snow. Are you hurt?
Snow: I’m all right. You don’t have to worry.
Akira: Um...... On your mission to the Forest of Dreams, did you meet a witch with the power to control beasts?
Northern wizards: ............
Mithra: Who knows.
Owen: No idea.
Bradley: Don’t remember. What are you asking for?
Akira: There are mysterious incidents happening around the world. The Marsh of Epidemics dried up, the Observatory got tilted on its side, and the City of Rain is wrapped up in a cocoon......
Bradley: The City of Rain is wrapped up in a cocoon? What about the Eastern wizards?
Akira: They’re safe. But a witch controlling a magical beast appeared at all of those locations.
Mithra: She wasn’t controlling any beast, though.
Owen: Shh. Don’t run your mouth.
Akira: Huh?
Bradley: By the way, did the other guys catch any of these witches?
Akira: Yes. I don’t know if she’s with the rest of them, but Oz caught a witch in Central Country.
Mithra & Owen & Bradley: ............
Mithra: I suddenly need to go back to the Forest of Dreams. Let’s go.
Bradley: Huh!? But we just got back here!?
Mithra: There’s no way Oz did something that I couldn’t. Snow, you’re coming along.
White: Mithra dear, Snow is hurt.......
Snow: C-cough.
Mithra: You don’t cough when you’re hurt. Quit faking illness.
Rutile: Mister Mithra, are you heading out again? You seem really busy......
Owen: I’m not going with you. Bye.
Akira: Ah, Owen!
Owen: What?
Akira: There’s something clinging to your trouser cuffs. Those thorns look painful......
Owen: ............
Akira: Don’t move, I’ll get it for you. ......Okay! I’m done.
Owen: ............
(Footsteps)
White: Come now, Owen dear! Let’s go after you say thank you.
Akira: Don’t worry about it. Snow, take my arm. Let’s have Figaro look at you.
Snow: Okay. Cough, cough......
Mithra: What’s that cloth? Do you wrap it around your stomach?
Rutile: N-no! Please give it back, Mister Mithra!
Bradley: I’m hungry. Is breakfast all gone?
Akira: (Owen...... He was acting kind of strange......? I hope he’s okay......)
✦✧☾✧✦
Cain: Can I reach Arthur before his meeting if I go now?
I’d like to head straight for his room from the sky, but I’d definitely get told off. Oh well, I’ll think about that later.
All right.
(Door opening)
Owen: ............
Cain: Woah! Owen, I didn’t realize you were there. I almost hit you with the door.
Owen: ............
......Sir Knight......
Chapter 2 << | index | >> Chapter 4
Figaro: That’s why, Oz. You......
Faust: Figaro.
Figaro: Hey, Faust. What’s that piece of paper?
Faust: ......What happened to the children? It’s unnatural for Riquet and Mitile to be taking an afternoon nap here.
Oz: Why?
Faust: If it were Rutile or Nero, this would be a perfectly normal and charming sight, but seeing as it’s you and Figaro......
Figaro: I’m just a kind doctor from the South, and Oz is a wizard who has experience raising children. I’d say that’s perfectly charming.
Faust: I’m trusting you. Don’t go casting weird spells on the children.
Oz: What’s that piece of paper?
Faust: It’s a sketch. Have you ever seen this bird? And do you recall its name......
Figaro: Did you draw this? Huh, it’s pretty good. Here, take a look, Oz.
Oz: ......A Basilisk.
Faust: I knew it!
Figaro: It’s an ancient, magical beast. I’ve only seen a living Basilisk once.
Faust: I met this beast in the City of Rain. But I couldn’t kill it, and it got away.
Figaro: In the City of Rain? Even if it got resurrected because of the < Great Catastrophe >, it’s strange that it would appear amidst humans......
Faust: On top of that, it was being controlled. By a young girl.
Figaro: ......The same thing happened with us. I met a little girl controlling a Leviathan. It’s the beautiful young girl I was talking about, who looked like Riquet.
Oz: It wasn’t me.
Faust: I know that even without you stressing the point. I wouldn’t mistake you for a young girl.
Oz: ............
Figaro: What’s with that face? If you’re displeased, just say it.
Oz: It’s nothing.
Faust: A Basilisk, and a Leviathan...... Legendary beasts resurrecting at the same time — and what’s more, they’re being controlled.
Could this all be linked by an underlying reason instead of simply being coincidental?
Shylock: It most likely is.
Faust: Shylock......
Shylock: We also caught sight of a Leviathan at the Observatory in Western Country, as well as the witch controlling it.
Figaro: Witch?
Shylock: Yes.
Figaro: ......Did that witch say anything?
Shylock: She said she would take revenge for her mother.
Oz: On whom?
Shylock: On Mister Murr Hart.
Oz & Faust & Figaro: ............
Shylock: I know what you want to say. But please bear with me for a while.
For people who hold grudges against Murr, their methods are too crude and exaggerated.
Faust: Crude and exaggerated?
Shylock: These acts of aggression against him are too ambiguous. They seem to be haphazardly putting on extravagant shows of destruction in scattered locations around the world.
Figaro: What would you do then?
Shylock: At the very least, I would not be satisfied by simply tilting the Observatory to one side. I would reduce it to nothing more than smithereens.
And then I would probably search out every last one of Murr’s hidden research laboratories around the world and turn them all into ashes.
Faust: I see.
Figaro: Your sentiments are extremely convincing.
Shylock: It feels like they have another goal in mind. Though I do not know what it is......
Oz: .....The Beast of the Land.
Figaro: Huh?
Oz: Basilisk, Beast of the Air. Leviathan, Beast of the Sea. But there is no Beast of the Land.
Faust: If it was the < Great Catastrophe > which resurrected the beasts, I don’t suppose they get to choose if they’ll show up.
Figaro: Or it means that there is one yet to appear......
Shylock: Now that you mention it, we found a fairy on our mission the other day — the fairy’s physical form had been brought back to life, but its heart remained asleep.
In the end, it lost its form once again and was carried away by the wind......
Figaro: Well, that kind of thing happens too.
Shylock: What kinds of methods must you employ to selectively awaken beings like that?
Figaro: There are many methods, but one way to shock their system with a light poison. There’s no guarantee it’ll work, though.
Faust: Poison? For instance?
Figaro: The fumes from the Forest of Dreams, for one.
✦✧☾✧✦
Akira: Sorry, Lennox. You’ve been tasked with such a troublesome favour.
Lennox: I’m used to it. Please tell me all your plans. If possible, for the entire month ahead.
I’ll survey all of the places that you plan to visit.
Rutile: Mister Leno, you’re so cool.
Akira: W.....What if I randomly feel like going somewhere?
Lennox: I’d like you to refrain if possible, but if you do, I’ll protect you with my life.
Akira: It’s okay, I’ll hold back!
Ah.... It’s the Northern wizards. Welcome back. How did it go?
Mithra: There’s nothing to report.
Owen: It was fine.
Bradley: The Forest of Dreams was just acting strange. Well, it’ll probably be fine if you give it some time.
Akira: Acting strange...... Snow. Are you hurt?
Snow: I’m all right. You don’t have to worry.
Akira: Um...... On your mission to the Forest of Dreams, did you meet a witch with the power to control beasts?
Northern wizards: ............
Mithra: Who knows.
Owen: No idea.
Bradley: Don’t remember. What are you asking for?
Akira: There are mysterious incidents happening around the world. The Marsh of Epidemics dried up, the Observatory got tilted on its side, and the City of Rain is wrapped up in a cocoon......
Bradley: The City of Rain is wrapped up in a cocoon? What about the Eastern wizards?
Akira: They’re safe. But a witch controlling a magical beast appeared at all of those locations.
Mithra: She wasn’t controlling any beast, though.
Owen: Shh. Don’t run your mouth.
Akira: Huh?
Bradley: By the way, did the other guys catch any of these witches?
Akira: Yes. I don’t know if she’s with the rest of them, but Oz caught a witch in Central Country.
Mithra & Owen & Bradley: ............
Mithra: I suddenly need to go back to the Forest of Dreams. Let’s go.
Bradley: Huh!? But we just got back here!?
Mithra: There’s no way Oz did something that I couldn’t. Snow, you’re coming along.
White: Mithra dear, Snow is hurt.......
Snow: C-cough.
Mithra: You don’t cough when you’re hurt. Quit faking illness.
Rutile: Mister Mithra, are you heading out again? You seem really busy......
Owen: I’m not going with you. Bye.
Akira: Ah, Owen!
Owen: What?
Akira: There’s something clinging to your trouser cuffs. Those thorns look painful......
Owen: ............
Akira: Don’t move, I’ll get it for you. ......Okay! I’m done.
Owen: ............
(Footsteps)
White: Come now, Owen dear! Let’s go after you say thank you.
Akira: Don’t worry about it. Snow, take my arm. Let’s have Figaro look at you.
Snow: Okay. Cough, cough......
Mithra: What’s that cloth? Do you wrap it around your stomach?
Rutile: N-no! Please give it back, Mister Mithra!
Bradley: I’m hungry. Is breakfast all gone?
Akira: (Owen...... He was acting kind of strange......? I hope he’s okay......)
✦✧☾✧✦
Cain: Can I reach Arthur before his meeting if I go now?
I’d like to head straight for his room from the sky, but I’d definitely get told off. Oh well, I’ll think about that later.
All right.
(Door opening)
Owen: ............
Cain: Woah! Owen, I didn’t realize you were there. I almost hit you with the door.
Owen: ............
......Sir Knight......
Chapter 2 << | index | >> Chapter 4