"... yes, I want to ask you one thing. Do you know anyone who can use their [magic craft] skills?

Melissa, who was asked that by me, answered the question with a smile on her face for some reason after pretending to be a little troubled.

"I'm sorry, actually, I don't even know anyone who can call me a wizard, as opposed to someone who can [make magic props]..."

"Yep... you believed in a wizard tangled god that you could have mastered so much attribute magic. Then if you know someone in that field..."

"Speaking of which, didn't you ever teach me my qualities? Seems to know a lot about Nagi though. Talking from the beginning will be longer, but is your time okay?

I shook my head vertically after thinking a little.

I do hear a lot about the nagi with the sakura entanglement.

I come from the same part of the Eastern continent, from a clan that tends to conflict with what the Sacrament clan is, and I acquire the skills and skills to be a special operative called a ninja - all this information via Sacrament.

But when it came to Melissa, I knew nothing more than a jealous attribute wizard with feelings for Nagi.

"My full name is actually Melissa Acabane."

"You have a family name? You're from a good place."

"No, it's like an old remnant."

Melissa and I started leaning against the outer wall of the library and talking.

Building work is constantly underway around the area, but the noise doesn't even reach us in the library.

Thanks to the soundproofing junction set up by Noir, we are able to do research without being bothered by the sound outside.

"A long time ago...... about a hundred years ago? A leading lord of the empire of the Eastern continent sent an arbitrary messenger to a certain country in the Western continent. One of them decided not to go home and settle… that was the beginning of the Akabane family."

I thought it was a family name that sounded oriental, but I didn't know it really was.

Does that mean that Melissa also has Oriental blood?

The answer to the questions that came to my mind was explained by Melissa without bothering to ask.

"Even so, my lineage is a fairly distant branch. Unlike the main house, I'm completely out of control of my bloodstream, and my generation is more than 90% Westerners."

"I see... if I didn't dare detain you, I would"

"Well, the main house seems to be getting darkest and less than a quarter (kwater)."

Even if there were Orientals in their ancestors, the proportion of Orientals' elements in the bloodstream would fall, unless they took such means as repeating marriage between relatives.

It is also natural that Melissa has no such impression on her appearance at all.

Instead, if you calculated from prehistoric times, every Westerner must have mixed Oriental blood muscles, and vice versa, every Oriental must have mixed Western blood muscles.

"The main house has translated the family name into Western (over here) words. The Knights of Akabana have set up a substitute, and they are quite famous, but we were a normal house with no big deal."

"... it's a very interesting story, and what does that have to do with the fact that I don't know a wizard?

"Oops, excuse me. Let's get down to business."

Melissa returned to the point where she was tremendously off the sidelines.

"Do you call our clan old-fashioned customs or philanthropy, and very rarely do we decide to help the Orientals cross the ocean? Per family, I wonder if there is one every few years..."

Only then did Melissa's expression become that when she told her nostalgic memorabilia.

"The traveler my parents made me stay at home was a wizard called Ommyoji. You can read the stars and combine light and darkness into the five great attributes of the Oriental Stream! I really dressed up and admired it..."

"He didn't know which god to pray to in the West."

"That's right. But if I can't give up and pray to gods all over town anyway, I don't know which god I owe it to, but I've been given [attribute magic]."

Melissa laughing in the light.

I had never heard that magic could be used in this way, but I just have to convince myself that some things are more like that than it actually is.

Besides, the reason I don't know a wizard was undoubtedly how I had to convince myself.

"Thanks, I get it. Still, that's something you've been working out so well on your own. I figured... that's why I became an adventurer?

…… That's a veteran, you know that much? "

Melissa looked impressed again, eyes round and looked up at my face.

"If you were an adventurer who could only use one attribute magic, you were there. It feels like being an adventurer and taking care of those people and working out one by one to this day. Hey, it was tough."

Now I was also convinced that Melissa didn't do research like a wizard and was purely an adventurer.

Unlike regular wizards from the starting line, they didn't even want to be professional wizards.

- Two, totally unrelated questions go past the back of your brain.

When did Melissa meet Nagi?

Even if we met during the course of home training in support of oriental travellers, it is also believed that we met in that activity after becoming adventurers with each other.

But all I could say was that such a question was just lame, so I decided to keep this one in the back of my mind and throw another one.

"... by the way, it's a different story. If the founders of the Knights of Red Wings are of Oriental descent, how come the Knights of Purple Wings have taken on the task of entanglement in the Oriental Continent? You have home training to help the Orientals, but you've been removed from your Oriental entanglement job?

In response to my casual question, Melissa responded with the ease of not saying 'what is that?'.

"Our main house is just called a major founding member, because almost everyone in the Knights has nothing to do with the Orient. It's not good to be close to (...) Su (...) Gi (...), is it?

"Oh...... I'm sure it might be"

The main house of the Acabane clan was in a position to keep the name Red Wings (Red Feather) in the name of the Knights, but not the entire Knights are governed by their personal intentions.

And some of the tasks of the Purple Knights include even military vigilance against the Oriental Continent.

Whether you think you can't let a clan with Oriental bloodlines and a tradition of helping travelers from the East, I have to say it's just the way to go - no, on the contrary, it's a natural role to say no from the Acabane family.

"I'm sorry you stopped. Thank you for telling me so much. See you later."

In the meantime, I could get more information than I wanted to hear from Melissa.

I tried to walk away thinking I had kept Garnett waiting too long, and Melissa met Pong's hand and raised her voice with a face like she remembered something.

"That's right! I forgot what was important!

"... what's wrong with you?

"It's a message from Nagi. I had promised before, Sakura...... your divine descent, was it? Anyway, he told Luke to tell him that because the idea was going to solidify, the means to hold it back."