After school the day he completed his internship, Almark took Wendy and Morgen to visit the Dean's office.
When I knock, Illmis opens the door from the inside and invites the three of them in.
From behind the big desk, the Dean welcomed the three with a gentle smile, as usual.
"Almark, Wendy, and Morgen, too. It's a busy day. Come here, all three of you."
"Yes."
Ahead of Almark, the three of them circle their desks and stand beside the yologs.
"Looks like it's been tough again."
Yolog smiles, tells Almark.
"Let me hear that story again later slowly. So, shall I just let you see it? Almark, show me your right hand."
"Okay."
Almark gives his right hand to the yolog.
Plus, the yologs softly overlap their own hands.
The light shined.
"Ah."
Morgen speaks up.
Wendy breathed.
One black snake in Almark's right hand.
He wraps it around his hand and scratches it.
You can't even see this one, but the snake opened its mouth and stretched its tongue to bring a sickle and intimidate it.
"This is the curse of the snake"
Wendy squeaks.
"But only one."
Morgen says.
"Yes, there's only one"
Yolog nods.
"At first there were four snakes, one less, two less, now there's only one more"
"After all, the demons in the forest at night during this time were traps,"
That's what I'm talking about.
Yolog nods at Almark's words and releases his hand.
The snake in his right hand no longer seemed to wipe it out at the same time.
"Precisely"
Until then, Ilmis, who remained silent, opened his mouth.
"Perhaps your battled Borapa is the trap of fate. The demons I fought and Dr. Fier fought against are..."
Irmis says so, gently removing something from the robe.
"There would have been a dark door that opened up to hold you back on your way home."
Pi, where the demons of darkness appear along with the sound of.
That's what Irmis called the Dark Door.
"When Borapa showed up, that's where the demon whistle was."
I didn't actually see it there, but Almark said.
"Uhm."
Illmis nods.
"There, this was falling"
The three of us take a peek at what Irmis offered us.
"... wood?
The blackened fragment only looked like a piece of wood, no matter how you look at it.
But it's not just a tree, is it?
Look up at Illmis as Almark explores.
Irmis sees Wendy and Morgen, without affirmation or denial.
"Do you two understand?"
"Uh."
Morgen twists his neck.
"I wonder what. Is it a burning tree?"
"You're not."
Ilmis shakes his head.
"Wendy, you are."
Wendy stared at the piece of wood with her big eyes, waved the question by Irmis.
"This is"
After a while, that's what Wendy says and looks up at Illmis.
"Wand, right"
"Uhm."
Illmis nods.
"You know exactly what I mean."
Illmis lists the pieces of wood so that they look like three people.
"This is Kaidou Kagra. It's a tree that's often used in sorcerer's wand materials."
"Wand..."
Almark squeaks.
"Precisely, the cane remains burnt, something like that. I sacrificed a wand to open two dark doors."
That's what Irmis said, and took out yet another piece of wood.
"This is the one that fell around the corner where you defeated Borapa."
Almark also felt that there was still a little bit of darkness left in this piece of wood.
"Is this a wand too"
Almark asks.
The material seems a little different from the previous one.
Illmis doesn't answer, he still looks at Wendy.
"Wendy, give me an answer."
"Yes."
Wendy flaunts a piece of wood handed to her by Irmis.
"... is this Suzali Imazu"
"Correct."
Illmis smiles.
"You're learning a lot. Knowledge is power. It sometimes outweighs force and magic."
"Suzari Imazu would know."
Morgen also raises his hand.
"It's a tree commonly used for magician's wands, just like Caidou Cagra"
"Hmm. Exactly."
Illmis nods.
"Then I'll ask you some more questions, excellent people."
Illmis puts two pieces of wood on his desk and looks at the three of them.
The three of you get up to the question, it's as if there's an Ill Miss class going on.
Yolog looks to be enjoying watching how it goes.
"The inference derived from these two pieces of wood is something."
"Reasoning,"
As Wendy bewildered, she alternates between the two pieces of wood and the face of Illmis.
Morgen looks at the pieces of wood with a blurry face whether he abandoned to think it was an issue that seemed out of his control early on.
"Almark."
Ilmis looked at Almark's face.
"You seem to be floating something."
"Full guesswork, okay?"
When Almark says, Illmis nods to Eagle Deep.
"I don't mind. Answer freely."
"Yes."
Almark nods.
Then I took the first piece of wood that Illmis took out.
"This caidou cagra, this is a tree that also grows in the college forest"
says Almark.
"And this is Suzali Imazu."
That said, now lift another piece of wood.
"I haven't grown in this forest. It's a tree growing more north."
"Hmm."
Ilmis nods, prompting Almark to follow.
"So?"
"In other words,"
That's what Almark coughs up.
"The sceptre of Suzari Imazu, like the tools of previous dark traps, is something brought in from the outside. But Caidou Kagra's wand, maybe."
"Ah."
Morgen speaks up and says what Almark tried to say first.
"Made in this college?"
"If you're in a cane-making class, it starts in the middle."
Wendy also speaks up.
"Interesting reasoning."
Illmis says so and sees the three of them.
"It does not leave the realm of reasoning, but it also seems to see direction"
"Doctor, then, to the middle."
"Don't rush to conclusions"
That's what Irmis said and blocked Wendy's words.
"Almark, the last snake left in your right hand."
Illmis points to Almark's right hand while holding a piece of wood.
"The Last Dark Trap. Let's add another reasoning ingredient to that. Do you have any idea what I'm going to say?"
Illmis will name one word at a time, as he reminds Almark.
"Currency. Books"
Illmis looks to try Almark.
"Ring. Wand"
"If you say so much, you'll see."
Almark nods.
"It was used to mediate dark traps. Money hasn't been a trap yet."
He was turning himself into a dark magician, copper coin and silver coin.
The library books, which plucked the souls of Almark and Ain.
It was tying the giant demonic shadow that appeared in the fountain cave, the ring.
And I called this Borapa, the wand.
"Uhm."
Illmis nods and asks further.
"So what will these things symbolize"
"What. Is it a symbol"
When Almark looks like he's been hit with a void, Illmis breaks his own fingers and counts them up one by one.
"Money is a symbol of wealth. Books are symbols of knowledge. The ring is a symbol of noble identity. The wand."
"It's a symbol of magic."
Wendy answers.
"Right. So, at the end of the day, what will come of the remaining one? Almark."
Almark was accidentally stared straight at by Irmis, hardening his body much harder.
Next to it, Yolog looks at Almark's face with interest.
Wealth.
Knowledge.
Noble identity.
Magic.
So, at the end of the day.
"At the end..."
Thinking about it, squealing like that.
I remember what Irmis said earlier.
Knowledge is power. It sometimes outweighs force and magic.
Power.
Almark realizes.
Wealth, knowledge, identity, magic, in different forms, but all show strength.
Force.
Other powers.
Almark felt his back accidentally cool.
Absence of what is supposed to be there.
He was always protecting Almark's back, buddy.
"Sword, huh?"
said Almark.
I felt like I had fallen on my chest.
"The last trap is"
That's what I say, I see Ill Miss.
"Sword. I.e. force, may be"