At Night, at the Little House which neighbour with Tom the Potato Farmer's House, the boyfriend is come back from his work.
He find his girlfriend get cuts on her hands.
"My fair lady! What happened to your hand? Didn't I told you, you don't have to do anything difficult? Does it hurt?"
He try to find a cloth and bandage her hand.
"No, it doesn't hurt too much. I just... Just want to help you with something. I know you and me try to adapted to this environment. This.. village, this new house. It's different from where we're from."
"Yes, that's... I understand... "
"This breacelet? They punish you didn't they?"
"Yes. I can't heal you now. They forbade me to use magic."
"They didn't just forbade you, they even not allowed you to touch your spell book?!? That's all your life!"
"It's OK... Now I have you. In my life!"
"Yes! I'll always be yours!"
He kiss her with a light peck.
"Did something happened in your work place? You look pale."
"No... Nothing!"
"Really? You don't feel like your ussual self."
"Hmmm... OK! I'll tell you. The thing is..."
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At the Tower of Magician, on the Sunny day.
The Magical Herbs Fields.
Number one apprentice of the Head Magician Tower, the right hand man, Yiddish the Great, saw some comotion and recognize some familiar faces.
"Weather?"
He then approach them and find them bullying someone he try to ignore mostly.
"Ugh! What are they doing? I need to talk to them now for the permit but why are they have to be with him ?"
He hesitate for a minutes but finally he deside to finish his task.
His junior who specialized in forcase research are trying their spell to bully the culprit of summoning. They conjure a small cumulo nimbus cloud and make him drench in rain.
'Flick!'
Yiddish cancle their spells and rainbow appear on top of his head but he didn't dry his soaking wet cloth.
"Weather! Master's permit for this week!"
"Yeah!!!"they exclaim together. "Are we allow to do it for 600km radius now?"
"No! Stick to the previous diameter! Master says, too much mana ussed!"
"Noooo! But.. it almost work last time!"
"He says NO! What are you still doing here? Get back to where you belong!"
"Yes, senior! Just a little bit later.."
Yiddish want to walk away as he didn't want to care about the drenched boy, Fred, but he felt his gaze and can't ignore it.
"What the hell are you looking at?!?"
Yiddish hide his books when he notice Fred staring at them.
"No... Nothing, Senior!" Fred lower his gaze from those books.
"You're not worthy to call me that anymore! You're just an Errand Boy now! You have to know! Ignoring you is the best I could do, after what you done to My Master!"
"I'm sorry!"
"You have nooo idea, how many hours, how many documents, how many people I have to beg, what I've been through to stabilize the Tower after the summoning!!!"
He blow up his frustation at Fred who can't says anything to defend him self.
He then take a deep heavy breath and lean on him a little bit.
"I know what you hide from Master." He wishper without moving his lips while holding his anger.
Fred seems shock and scared hearing that.
Yiddish step back and says,
"This is my last warning! If you dare betray our Master again, this won't end in your favor anymore!"
Fred can't say anything just nod at him.
Other magician arround him felt taken a back. They never see Yiddish, the First Apprentice, waste his words tobe angry at anyone accept their Master.
"All of you! Don't do anything to him! Master's order! If you don't like him, just ignore him like me. If you can't sized your anger just don't get near him! We're not some uncivilized beggars! Don't speak about him too. Don't leak information from Tower easily like a spy! Master don't like traitors!"
Yiddish walk away from them and those magicians naturaly go away and leaving behind the Errand Boy alone drenched while holding his tears.
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The Head Magician Tower walk around and see a Shirtless boy with drenched pants is sweeping the grown and tyding up.
He felt uncomfortable seeing it and wave his Wand.
'Swiiiish!'
The boy's body is dry in an instan, so does his pants. His shirt fly at him and magicly in used to cover him which also already dry and warm.
"Fred."
"Yes, Master."
"I can't be your Master! I have no apprentice who endanger people like you! I can't even allow my self to call you my apprentice now. You are lower than an erran boy now."
"Yes, Sir." Fred felt his Master cold words is more cold than when he is drenched in rain.
While his Master, He examine him and find the same naive stupid face in his brilian apprentice expression.
"Do you have any explanation for what you did?"
"I... No, Sir."
He glare at Fred, while he contorted in fear.
'Bling!'
Fred's bracelet glow distract his attention.
Fred's gold Bracelet with dark blue runes written on it, is just one of many binding form that called...
⛓️Mana Shacles.⛓️
These Shacles is mean to bind Magician from using their mana or performing their spells. The Magicians who is binds have to feel punctured feeling like lightning in every veins when their mana clogs every night. If their body can't hold the clogs mana anymore, they would exlode and die.
Fred get the Mana Shacles as his punishment for summoning the Beasts.
That's why in his house or Tower Fred can't ussed magic unless he used magic spell parchment. So, his acctivity is control just arround these parchment. The Magicians in Tower also can detected which and what ever magic Fred used from these parchment he already ussed within a day.
As a Magician with Mana Shacles, Fred is no different than normal people. They rob his fredoom to used mana. In order to make him became harmless, but now he is off no ussed to anything in Tower except become an Errand Boy.
"Thank God they didn't take your head!" He mumbling.
Fred heard it and his heart feels warm. His Master still care about him. He still intent to protect him. Then he encourage him self to help his Master and says,
"Sir? I heard you're looking for a ride?"
"Yes, I happened to need a ride. Do you have an idea?"
"Well, I once read some information from my senior's books, It may be could help you."
"All right, say it!"
He drag him and they walk around together while Fred explain what he found from the book.