She Professed Herself The Pupil Of The Wiseman

Chapter 48 - 47: The Next Mission

On top of the walls surrounding the castle of the capital city of Lunatic Lake, a barrier that stretched up into the sky was raised, so it was impossible to simply enter it while flying. As such, the wagon carrying Mira and Creos landed in an open space in front of the castle's main gate.

The guards standing watch there had seen the wagon countless times before and knew it meant vice-elder Creos had arrived, so they stood with their backs straight.

After Creos stepped out of the wagon, a young girl with glistening silver hair followed him. The guards were not expecting that so they looked at her curiously, but then they realized it was Danbulf's pupil, so they quickly readjusted their postures.

「Thank you, it was a delightful trip.」

「I'm glad I could help you.」

After thanking Creos, 「You worked hard too」 she said while looking up at Garuda. Whether Garuda understood the meaning of those words or not, it still chirped shortly in response.

「Anyway, take care now, Mira.」

「Same goes for you, good luck with everything.」

Creos hoped for Mira's safety in her mission, while she entrusted him with nurturing all the new summoners. During their trip, Mira selected some Magic Bomb Sealing Stones from the ones she brought from the tower, giving them to Creos since they would prove useful when forming new contracts. They were quite numerous, so Creos happily accepted them and reinvigorated his will to work hard today.

Creos then climbed back inside the wagon and went towards the academy. Mira saw him off before she entered the castle. Inside, some maids standing by guided her into a reference room.

「Lady Mira, we've been awaiting you. Please follow me.」

In the reference room, Lily took over from the other maids and led her further inside the castle.

The reference room had walls painted white, an atrium near its entrance, and further inside it was divided into three floors. There were metallic shelves arranged in an orderly fashion, documents amassed from all over the world separated in their respective categories.

Mira was led into a room further inside the first floor. Solomon was waiting for her there.

「Thank you, you can leave us alone now.」

「Understood.」

Lily bowed politely and before leaving she whispered into Mira's ear, 「Come tell me what you thought about the clothes later.」

There was a ridiculously large wooden table in the center of that room, with countless books and documents placed on top of it. Solomon took one of them and opened it in front of Mira.

「I'm sorry I had you come all this way. I probably would've been able to tell you the place through the transmission, but the place is a bit… But anyway, I want you to look at this first.」

Saying so, Solomon took a piece of paper from his pocket and placed it on top of the other documents. It was a drawing or some sort of blueprint, its silhouette resembling a person.

「What's this…? A robot?」

「Something like that, I guess. It's being developed under the name of Protean Doll for now.」

「Hmm… pro…tean doll, huh…」

Mumbling the complicated word, Mira looked at the documents. There were two different blueprints there. Both had a similar shape and size, but the rightmost one had a more complex interior.

「And oh, the one to the left is called Stalwart Doll, that one finished development more than ten years ago.」

「Oh, I thought both were the same thing.」

「Well, their basic form maybe. But I want you to pay attention to the right one, that's also what I wanted to show you here.」

「You mean this complicated looking one, right?」

As Solomon lay down more documents, he explained its functions in simple terms.

「Let's start with the Stalwart Doll. It's a self-driving mechanism that was developed with Magic Engineering by the engineer's union. They're meant to be deployed in dangerous areas or where humans normally can't go, it's probably easier to understand if you just think of them as the robots we had in our former world.」

With that explanation concluded, Solomon pointed to the other blueprint.

「And this one is the Protean Doll, a new one being developed based on the Stalwart Doll but focusing on combat abilities.」

「So it's like a new generation of the old model. But anyway, how does any of this relate to me being called here?」

When she heard Magic Engineering was involved, she thought they were asking her to do something Refining related, so she asked to be sure. In reply, Solomon's gaze lowered a bit as he sighed once.

「To be completely frank, we've run into a roadblock developing the Protean Doll. Re

「Ohh, there was also such a reason. I'll make good use of it then.」

Mira fiddled with the medal as she nodded satisfied with that reason.

「Well then, have a safe trip! I'm looking forward to your souvenirs.」

「Mm, I'll be going then.」

Mira had met Takuto and the Écarlate Carillon guild in her trip to Caranach. Now Solomon was curious what would happen to her in her next mission as he watched, with only a bit of jealousy, how she walked away with a grandiose gait while her silver hair swayed behind her.

(Should I also try using a Vanity Case…)

「Lord Solomon, the envoy from Alispharius has arrived.」

「I'll be there in a moment.」

As he replied, his earlier demeanor akin to a child vanished and he regained the countenance of someone who spent thirty years as king.

(Well, I can't just abandon my duties though.)

Solomon held the documents under his arm and left the room that was now shrouded in silence.