Searching of happiness

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by. Moon Lime

. My name is also written there. This is the moment I have been waiting for for a long time. I've been waiting for almost 10 years. Finally, I was able to go to the Osmarbris Empire. In the land of things that kidnapped my father. Even the thought of setting foot there makes me nauseous. It's disgusting that I have to go to a land covered with their filth, but I passed nonetheless. As a second-tier swordsman at Mystical Academy, I was a little worried, but the first-ranked person participated in a tournament in another subject, so I went. Isn't that great luck? The odds were really in my favor.

The very day this notice was posted, the dean called our academy representatives to the dean's office. There were a total of five, and all of them were above the duke's son. The dean started his Long speech.

“You must work hard to win the championship as a member of the Mystical Academy of the proud Runelight Empire that has produced numerous winners.”

He continued his speech whether the students listened or not. The dean ended his long and tedious speech when those who were listening, including me, were likely to lose consciousness within a minute if they listened further.

Our dean has a knack for making really boring speeches, but he's a very respectable person who ends his speech just before the listeners are bored and want to die. And he also had a great talent to make people understand even if it's half way through, so if I could sum up after listening to one sentence instead of half, he was just telling us to take care of ourselves and that we would be leaving in a week so practice a bit.

I was stuck at the training center for a week. I didn't have the desire to win, but as I practiced, I became calmer and could forget about other things, so I practiced raising the sword and manifesting the Aurors. I was able to develop an auror by the end of last year, but it was still a bit difficult to fully handle it as I can only do it. Still, as the dean said, after practicing, I was able to wear the Auror and do the basic posture.

The week passed in the blink of an eye, and it was time to go to the Osmarbris Empire. My fingertips were trembling slightly because I was nervous. It's funny that the mind is perfectly calm, but the body shows physiological phenomena.

I thought I would teleport to the Osmarbris Empire at once, but since the Osmarbris Empire and the Runelight Empire are just superficial alliances, there is only one magic circle that travels between the two empires. If you enter the Osmarbris Empire by a teleportation method other than the magic circle, you will immediately be bounced and your body will disintegrate. Because the giant magic circle is in the northern parts of Jade Kingdom, more than 800 people have to gather in the huge magic circle, and wizards supported by the imperial family will connect us to the magic circle in the Osmarbris Empire.

Teleportation magic requires at least 3 circles to be able to teleport by itself, and to teleport 5 or more people, they must be at least 2 circles and requires a magic circle.

Even if our academy does not have the support of the imperial family, it is an academy where talented people from all over the country gather, and Albus Princeton, the representative of our wizard, has already reached the level of 1st circle. As we packed our belongings and climbed up the magic circle, Albus cast a spell. He could always cast a spell without having to say it. Because I was obligated to learn magic, even as a swordsman, I had to learn magic, and thanks to the great royal lineage, I was a wizard of the 4th circle despite little talent and effort. To me, who was not close to magic, seeing Albus casting magic was only a miracle.

5 representatives, i.e. me; Harry Khan Shana Jade, and Albus von Sunny Princeton, Luke del Belgoa Runelight, Lucentarine del Lilly Runelight, and Layna von Yenica Stone. and the dean. 6 ordinary people? members moved. I've tried teleporting several times since I was a kid, but this feeling of splitting my body doesn't go away.

A huge magic circle was drawn on a huge section carved out of a mountain in the northern part of the Jade Kingdom. We walked slowly to the place where there was a group of people on the side of the giant magic circle. There were already delegations from the imperial family and students from other academies. Looking at the crowd, I saw that the number of people couldn't exceed 400, so I thought I would have to wait until they came. The dean took the lead and walked towards the delegation, spoke a few words, and walked towards us again, frowning.

“They say you have to stay overnight here. It is said that there are not enough well wizards to pick up the students from the small academy in the south, so the imperial wizard must recover. So, now that time is being delayed so much, we decided to go to sleep in a nearby village for just one day.”

The dean informed us with a gloomy look on his face.

“Are there any accommodations around here?”

The Crown Princess asked a very reasonable question. Since you are a princess, it seems that you can raise questions to the dean. That's exactly what I wanted to say. The place where the large magic circle was located was in the middle of the mountain, and the sun was already moving to the west.

“No, so Albus will transport us to a nearby village.”

The dean looked at Albus and said. We all looked at Albus all at once, but Albus shot the dean with his eyes on when he did that, and the dean completely ignored it.

“Then what about the other academies?”

Again the Crown Princess asked the dean. After all, the only person equivalent to the dean is the Crown Princess. And again the Crown Princess raised a reasonable question. Not all academies have 3rd circle wizards.

“They will do well themselves. None of our businesses.”

The dean told us. He is a huge individualist. So the dean said with a tone that it doesn't matter what they do. Also, the clothes of the imperial envoys earlier looked a little sloppy.

While we posed several questions to the dean, Albus quietly finished calculating the coordinates by himself without saying a word, and drew all the simple magic circles and finished preparations. The six of us gathered together in a magic circle with a diameter of about 1m. I moved in front of a wall with an unpleasant feeling as if I was being sucked in somewhere.

When the dean showed his ID to the knights in front of the castle gate, the knights jumped and tried to bring the lord of the village, but we kept them silent with a little gold and moved forward. We could have stayed in the lord's castle, but for us who grew up in a precious place, it was no different than a castle or an inn in a place like this. I walked down the street following the dean, who found his way by following a magical map, wearing the academy uniform and the hood that came with the silver hair underneath, the symbol of Jade royalty, which was by no means ordinary.

“Where are we?”

I asked Albus as we walked.

“It’s the city of Nero, the center of the Baron Latipundium, the closest town to the giant magic circle.”

Despite my sudden friendliness and questions, he kindly answered my questions. To be honest, I was surprised too. Almost for the first time in my life, I came into the academy and talked to him, and he answered well. Miraculous. I want to try it just one more time.

“To stay in a city like this… … .”

He was about to finish speaking, but suddenly he interrupted.

“Of course, it would be inconvenient for the princess to stay, but… … ”

This time I interrupted him.

“No, it’s been a long time since I’ve stayed in a city like this.”

I hurriedly corrected his words.

“And how about just calling me by my name? After all, according to the rules of the academy, you have to call your name.” I said.

“And it’s a little uncomfortable.”

hurriedly backed up.

"All right. Your majesty"

“No, it’s ‘yes, Harry’.”

I let him call my name. It was because there were no other people I knew and  I knew him when I was young. His twin sister, Catherine, was my childhood friend until the age of five, but because of my wounds I had then pushed him away, pushing her away, and distanced myself from Albus with whom we were playing together.

“I will try, I will try,”

he changed quickly. I guess I'm not used to it.

Our short conversation ended quickly. Because we have arrived at the only inn in the city. We followed the dean into the inn. It was very quiet inside the inn. It's not even the peak season, and it's unlikely that there will be many guests at the inn in such a city close to the Osmarbris Empire. As if to prove that, there was a key on each latch on the wall. The dean hastily rented six rooms. We each went into our own rooms, and I went into the room and then left in an instant.

The room was extremely dirty. It was even dirty for me, who usually doesn't care about the cleanliness of the room. This room was full of dust. In this clean state, there was nothing I could do and did not want to, so I jumped out the window without unpacking.

The place I jumped from the second floor was the garden. I went for a little walk because I really like the garden. As it is a small place, I was wrong in thinking that the garden was not well maintained and that there would be only thickets. The garden was designed so beautifully that it would not be pushed aside by the gardens of the lower aristocratic mansion in any other capital city. It seems that the owner of this inn only took care of the garden, not the room. A refreshing but warm wind blew that made the corners of my mouth rise by itself. I looked up at the sky and saw three moons rising in the night sky as usual.

As I was taking a walk, I came to a corner and found a well-maintained bench that would be good for training. After sitting on a bench and bruising, I came to my senses and started practicing. My auror is silver with a red undertone similar to my hair color. When this colored Auror is immersed in the silver blade, it glows with a whitish luster and appears to be covered in blood because of its red color.

In swordsmanship, Aurors are also called 'my alter ego'. The nature of the auror is basically very similar to magic, so if you handle it well, you can amplify its power or treat it similar to magic. For that kind of training, an auror is manifested and moved outside the body.

While I was in the middle of my training, I woke up to the feeling that someone had poked my arm, and Albus was sitting next to me, staring at me with his golden eyes.

“Harry.”

he hesitated whether to speak or not, then finally exclaimed.

"why?"

“Do you know how the former Crown Prince died?”

The former Crown Prince, my father. A few words made a ripple in the lake of my heart.

“He died in a carriage accident while rushing to the palace to process urgent papers during the last reconciliation tournament.” I told him the story everyone knew. Albus is also a citizen of the Jade Kingdom, so he would know that.

“If not, what will you do? What if he was kidnapped by the Osmarbris Empire?” A little shock came. Maybe he remembered it?

"What are you talking about?" I pretended not to know.

“If he was kidnapped because of the conspiracy of the Osmarbris Empire.” I suddenly stopped breathing.

"how? Did you...” I was so surprised that the words came out in vain. Does he remember  father?

“You knew it. explain what happened to him as you remember.”

"okay. you are right. This is a fact I've been researching for the past 10 years. My dad was kidnapped by the Osmarbris Empire.” I said.

“I witnessed it. The person who pressed the hood at the back of the delegation put father to deep sleep with dark magic and put him into the subspace. And he used black magic to distort the memories of everyone who knew him. The memory of the person who actually saw it is not easily distorted, so it killed the witnesses. I was about to go out to meet my father, who had just returned to the palace at that time, but I witnessed it and, just as my father taught me, I hid myself into the shadows and stayed still. I was five years old at the time, so he passed by without seeing me.”

I shared with Albus the memories I pushed into the deep side of my memories and kept in my heart.

“I also remembered it while studying the history of the Jade royal family a while ago. I was looking at the royal genealogy. I think I'm probably right. This is black magic. I tried to remember how the former Crown Prince  passed away before. But nothing but a carriage accident came to mind. But after I became a first-class wizard, I had a hard time thinking about it. I was one of the witnesses at the time, so I think I was able to think of it as a first-class wizard and the black magic was weak. Are you going to Osmarbris to find the former Crown Prince? In order to bring back those happy times?”

For a long time silence lingered around us like darkness. I slowly parted my lips in agreement.“

Yes, that was an accurate guess. I'm going to Osmarbris to find my dad. To restore my happiness.”

“How do you know that He is alive? I'm not even sure. Can’t we just find another happiness?”

Albus said suddenly, raising the tone of his voice.

“No. Never.” I answered him, putting a nail into the words.

“It’s something I’ve been doing for a long time, I swore to him.”

"What?"

Now, instead of having a high-pitched voice, he started to sound like he was crying.

“Ten years ago, on the day he was kidnapped, I swore to find father no matter what.” Ignoring Albus's tearful appeal, I erased the agitated voice earlier and continued speaking in a very normal tone.

“Then don’t care if you are not going to help.”

“Harry… … . okay. I will help you.”

“Just don’t do it if you are helping out with shallow sympathy.” I shot him with words.

"no."

he said in a sympathetic tone. I feel like I'm being sympathized with, but I can't do anything. He found out this secret. The secret I was holding by myself for a long time. Now it's hard to go on my own. Even if I collapse when I face the truth, I want someone to collapse by my side. even if I don't trust him.

“Then you are working with me.”

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