While Cinzia suddenly showed interest in Noelia, I stand between her and her, gently blocking her view.


''Um?''　Master Fricke, is there something wrong?


　Noelia, who didn't understand what was going on, wondered at me breaking eye contact with the other party.

　The Sinzia in front of me is standing there with a bony bird on her shoulder as if she is looking at me.


The puppet sorcerer Noelia is named Sinzia, do you remember?

'Well, ....... Yes, I know. I believe you are the master of a rare magic given to you by Master Linus. I'm afraid I've never met him.


　Puzzled by my question, Noelia answered.


　So ...... this empty person in front of me is the sorcerer that Linus-sama told me to meet in Invahannes.

　He doesn't seem like a decent-looking person by any stretch of the imagination, but .......


　I myself was puzzled to learn that the unidentified sorcerer who was making some dangerous statements was the sorcerer I was planning to apprentice with.


The person in front of me is said to be the puppet sorcerer named Syntzia.


　Cinzia, who had responded to my words, bowed her head in greeting as she turned to Noelia and straightened her posture.

　Then, as usual, the helmet with no contents fell to the ground with a clang and made a sound.


''Huh!''

Oh, excuse me. This is one to consider. Your lovely daughter is called Noelia, right?　I think I've seen your face somewhere: ...... uh, where was it?


　A bone bird flew around Noelia while her armored body picked up the fallen helmet.


''Ah!　I just remembered!　That face, that skeleton!　You are the daughter of the great sorcerer Florina!　Oh, yeah, right. No wonder you looked so familiar. You have a skeleton that's close to ideal.


　The flying bone bird stopped at Noelia's shoulder and looked up at her curiously, tilting his head in a circle as he looked up at her


Did you know my mother?

Yes, Florina is a fellow student of Linus and a competitor of mine. I came in second place in all competitions, thanks to her.

'You were Master Linus' apprentice!

'Yes. I learned the basics from him, but thanks to Florina, I was devastated that I didn't have the talent, so I left King's Landing and drifted to the frontier. Thanks to that, I lost my body in the Great Raid. ...... Now that armor is my body, and this bird is my eye.


　Huh?　What do you mean you lost your body?

　You mean really empty?

　More and more, though, I'm not sure what to make of Cinzia: .......


　Noelia also had a puzzled look on her face when she found out that the other person was an acquaintance of her mother's, and that they had apparently had some sort of dispute.


''Oh, um, ...... eh, how should I say ....... I'm sorry to hear that you've had a lot of trouble with .......

'Yes, not having a body is an inconvenience. You don't know who you are sometimes. That's why I want to build up my beautiful bones and get my body back. Collecting bones is both a hobby and a business.

I see ...... you want bones as the skeleton that makes up your body.

That's it. My magic is about forcing souls to be bound to objects to create pseudo-life. It's called necromancy magic, but I'm not dead!


　The bone bird that had been perched on Noelia's shoulder had moved over to my shoulder and stuck out its bone feathers.


　Yeah!　But you've definitely died once in that form: .......

　Even though it has an ego, how can you say it's alive if it's lost its body?


　The figure of such a bone bird had unexpectedly disappeared.

　When I looked, I saw that Susana had captured the bone bird that was perched on my shoulder in a leather bag.


'For now, I grabbed it because it looked dangerous.

Hey!　Let me out of this bag!　Let go of me!


　The bone bird seemed to be flailing around inside, trying to fly out of the leather sack, but the sturdy leather sack remained unbroken.


'I sensed the harm to Noelia-sama, so I have taken the liberty of capturing it.


　Susana, who had grabbed it in a lightning-fast move, was holding the mouth of the leather bag tightly in place to prevent Cinzia's bone bird from escaping.


'Susana, can you at least be polite to her? Even though he has lost his physical body, he is a sorcerer that Master Linus has recognized for his abilities.

"In a manner of speaking, that's why I'm using a leather bag. If it were true, I would have shot him in the skull with a flying gun the moment he showed signs of disquiet towards Noelia-sama.


　She had said that she couldn't fight demons, but from the way she grabbed the bone bird with her leather bag without letting it escape, she was carrying herself as if she had received some training.

　Hearing those words, Cinzia in the leather bag was shaking with a jolt.


''Hey, what is it all of a sudden?　What are you going to do when you catch me?

"My dear Mr. Cinzia, I apologize for my hand's apologies. Please wait while I bring it to you.


　Noelia said, and took the leather bag and took the rampaging Cinzia out of the bag.