Regend, the first wizard of the round table and chairman of the wizard association, greeted with a smile.
"Long time no see. Lord, I think we should call you Count Romia now. I think you're more beautiful than you were."
Ran also smiled and greeted Regend politely.
"I haven't seen you in a long time. Mr. Regend has not changed."
"The only news I hear in Lazia is always exciting, so this old man comes alive."
"The news from the Wizard's Association also brings joy to Lazia."
Regend went inside under Ran's guidance, thinking that she was still a good talker who didn't say a word.
He just said, according to aristocratic usage, "You keep getting into trouble. What's wrong with you?". Ran's rebuttal was, "Is that gonna be like the Wizard's Association?"
'It's a coincidence.'
Entering the second drawing room, Sina jumped up from her seat with a very nervous face.
Sina mumbled when she saw Regend.
"Gandalf ····."
Ran looked at Regend again, wondering 'Is that so?' It seems that the long white beard is similar to that of...
"Cough."
Regend coughed in vain, so Ran quickly introduced it.
"This is Regend, president of the Wizard Association. And this is Ishina, a valued guest from another world, whose last name is Lee."
"You can just call me Sina."
Sina said so and greeted lightly, and Regend also patted his beard and greeted each other face to face.
"I heard you're from another world."
"Yes."
Sina nodded her head and Regend's eyes shone. He said, waving his cane.
"Can I take a test for a while?"
"Will it hurt?"
Regend shook his head at Sina's question.
"No, I can't hurt Lazia's precious guest. I'm just taking a peek."
"Okay then."
Sina nodded, and Regend waved his wand lightly. Ran also looked closely at his wand because it was his first time seeing a wizard using magic.
A small magic image was drawn and a twinkling light fell on Sina's head.
"Wow-"
Sina exclaimed and saw the light powder falling on her body.
"Oh-what will it be?"
Regend nodded and said to Ran.
"The Earl should touch it."
When Ran reached out her hand carefully and touched the powder, it clung to Ran's arm.
"Oh my?"
Ran slapped her hand in surprise, but the light still glittered and glittered away as if it had seeped into her arms. Sina looked at her arm.
The powder didn't stick to her and just dripped down.
"This is the magic of the world. Sina can't relate to this mana. You're really from another world."
Ran saw the powder seeped into her arm.
I'm really a person of this world now.
"Then it's proven, right? Is there no way to go back to the original world? Yes?"
"There is no magic beyond the dimension, and even if there is, there is no magic to do it."
Regend shook his head.
"If you're the Great Sage, you wouldn't know."
"Iveria."
Sina's black eyes shone as if they were burning short.
"Can I go back if she's there?"
"Ms. Sina."
Regent Sadly said,
"But she doesn't already exist."
"What about the person who brought me here? He'd brought me here, so he can send me back, right?"
Regend said embarrassedly.
"Well, maybe it's possible. Do you know who did that?"
When Regend said, Sina bit her lips and said,
"The monster behind the door."
"What the--"
Regend frowned and Ran shook her head and said.
"Can you keep what I'm telling you now as a secret?"
"I swear on my word."
As Regend spoke seriously, Ran talked about liberal arts and Delphanto. Regend groaned.
"I see.....That's why the great wise man..."
Regend spoke seriously.
"The Wizard Association also has several records of the great sage. And so is the record of the door. The first wizard is Iveria."
Ran's eyes glistened.
"Really?"
"Yes, we were also wondering what the great wise man meant to keep out of Lazia."
Laughing, Regend laughed. Wizards are a collection of curiosity, so they persistently investigated the ice wall and the door.
Regend stroked his beard. After the ice crystal was discovered, Lazia became a hot potato again and rose and fell among wizards, and old studies were excavated again.
Regend has read dozens of such research books.
"It's already well known among wizards to seal the black dragon inside the door. He said he was a Dragon with great power, so it was all he could do to do. I also saw some plans to create a magic of inquiry. I don't think it's going to be a complete product."
"Then is there a way to re-seal it?"
Ran asked him in a hurry without realizing it, so Regend was lost in thought.
"I think we should look at that again. I can't give you a definite answer."
"Please do it again."
Sina looked at Lan and said quietly.
"And the way I can go back."
Regend looked back at Sina and smiled kindly.
"Of course. I'll look into it again."
Sina nodded and said.
"I'll do whatever it takes to do that. Feel free to tell me if you need my blood or hair."
Regend blinked at the words.
"Do you need that to use magic? What magic do you use....?"
When asked by him, Sina panicked and asked back, "Oh, no?"
Regend shook his head.
"What magic do you cast with human flesh and blood?"
With an incomprehensible look on her face, Sina stretched her shoulders, saying, "I see..."
It must be different from the magic you thought.
"Do they use flesh and blood? How do I write this?"
Regend asked with a curious face, and Sina shook her hand.
"No, we don't have magic. But there's a rumor about a wizard....."
"That's a bad rumor. Wizards get caught up in all sorts of bad rumors."
Regend kicked his tongue and shook her head. Sina was thankful that the story went over moderately.
Regend peeked at Ran and said,
"You don't have to worry too much about that rumor. It's a rumor made by little people."
Ran looked at his head.
"What's the rumor?"
Regend laughed and said at her question.
"It's a rumor. It's always spinning. Then I'll be on my way."
Then, leaving the mansion in a hurry, Ran squinted and saw him off.
'Rumor? What rumor?'
If Regend is so direct about it, the rumors are pretty wide spread.
Ran thought about whether to rob Kara or to visit Lizzie, and decided to rob a more gentle Kara.
*******
"Rumor-?"
Holding the tail of the word long, Kara blinked her eyes. Ran spoke coldly.
"If Nok-young doesn't know the rumor that the wizard knows, I'll have to reconsider the budget."
At her words, Kara let out a ball and groaned and crushed her shoulder.
"It's not a big rumor."
"Or there's no reason not to tell me any more."
There was nothing wrong with Ran's words, so she added it while Kara was pondering.
"I won't say that Kara said it."
"Aha, if you do."
Kara grinned like a fox and said after she rubbed her palm.
"There are rumors that Ms Ran was the mistress of Emperor Ruth."
".....What?"
"So you got pregnant and rushed down to Lazia?"
"Isn't the timing not right.....?"
"You've taken the trouble out of Lazia, and with that technology, you've captured the Duke and made him engaged."
Ran opened her mouth wide.
Kara looked down on her shoulders and said comfortably to Ran.
"Don't worry too much."
"No, the quality of the rumors is so dirty, isn't it? How can you not care about this? Who in the world would say such a rumor....."
"As you said, it's a very malicious rumor. It's not just a rumor, it's someone who made it. And."
Kara tilted her head. Her eyes became thinner, too.
"Jealous people easily spread the rumor from mouth to mouth. I don't know who started the rumor."
I would never do anything to offend the Duke. Kara swallowed the backstabbing and told Ran.
"There's not a full-fledged rumor yet. It's obviously a rumor."
"But the bumps go around."
"That's right."
Kara grinned and said, "You're popular," and Ran pointed on her forehead.
"It's not me, it's Eus."
"Minus popularity is also popular."
Ho-ho laughed and Kara said it wasn't her job, and she said coolly and went away, and Ran sighed.
'If I had asked Dimodia, I would have been comforted.'
Well, I know that all that consolation is useless.
'But who the hell started such a malicious rumor?'
Ran was organizing her enemies in her head, and thought, "Should we just question them one by one?"
Even in the reality of the development of SNS, if you question one by one, "Who talked about it?" you will eventually arrive at the epicenter.
There is even no anonymous bulletin board here. But her worries were futile.
Elise, whom I met shortly after, spoke with round eyes.
"I know who that is."
"Really?"
When asked back in surprise, Elise nodded and put a spoonful of chocolate mousse cake in her mouth with a polite touch.
"Oh, my God! How do you make this?"
"Well."
"Ran Romia."
"Tell me more. So who is it? Who the hell is talking about that? Is she the Lady of Marquis Cameron? Or-"
Elise blinked her dark amber eyes and said after taking another bite of mousse cake.
"The Lady of Baroness Chloé."
"...who is that....?"
Ran became embarrassed.
It wasn't a name I'd heard of anywhere, not a name I'd seen.
"Uh-um, don't you think Ran no needs to worry?"
Elise smiled and said, so Ran frowned.
"I'm not worried-- i am upset, am I? Besides, who the hell is that? I've never heard of her before."
"If I were to make a prediction-"
Elise spoke with a deep voice after a test to look into the crystal ball.
"Let's see, I think it'll be settled the day after tomorrow."
"What? Why? What? What do you know?"
"It's a secret. Oh, this is really good. Are you going to put it in this tea party?"
"How else did you know about the tea party?"
"Why don't I know, there's a lot of attention on the green arch right now. Even businesses coming in and out of this place are the main targets of observation."
"I can't believe it ······."
"Better than that, Katya, the Empress is attending a garden party?"
"Yes."
"Are you coming with Eustaf?"
"No, it's a day party. And I don't think Empress Dowager wants to see Eus now."
Ran shook her hand.
"Well, that's true."
Elise agreed. You probably don't want to see anyone your son's age.
Besides, no one knows that Ruth and Eustaf were at odds.
'But isn't that the same with Ran?'
Elise suddenly looked at Ran with that thought. She is also a person who did not let her dead son Ruth go even though he was hanging like that.
It's weird that it's a person's heart, so when the target dies, it'll be glorified.
'I don't know if you meant it in a good way. Or....'
Elise said,
"I'm coming, so let's go together. All right?"
Lan nodded and laughed at Elise's words.
"Okay, I won't leave you."