Became a Medieval Fantasy Wizard
402 - Belenka Spin Off 2

TL/Editor: raei

Status: 5/week mon-fri

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"First of all. Belenka Mets. You're dead."

"I know that."

"...?"

Miro looked at Belenka in confusion.

There was definitely some strange communication error(?) between them.

"Let me correct myself. 'In this world,' you're dead."

"? What do you mean by 'this world'?"

Miro Talian, Chief Inspector of the [Space-Time Management Bureau], had no idea where to begin her explanation.

Truth be told, concepts like dimensions and time are incredibly difficult to explain.

And Miro... was inherently terrible at explanations.

She was a magical genius, but hopelessly inept at communication.

So Miro decided to push ahead in her own style.

"This is a different world from the one you lived in."

"What...?!"

"But the people living in it are almost identical."

"???"

Naturally, Belenka, a pure medieval person, immediately experienced brain-freeze upon hearing Miro's explanation.

Miro let out a small sigh.

I knew this would happen.

"How old are you now?"

"19, why...?"

"Good. You're going to die within the next five years."

"?!"

"I'm not sure how much deviation there might be between your world and this one. But you'll definitely die within five years."

Belenka, failing to understand, exclaimed:

"But I just died?!"

Miro replied calmly:

"You haven't died yet. You just lost consciousness and fell through a crack in time."

"..."

"When you wake up, you'll forget most of our conversation. Like it was just a long dream."

Honestly... Belenka couldn't follow this conversation.

All this talk about dimensions and cracks in time~

If Belenka were a wizard, she might have had some chance of understanding.

But as just a medieval knight, Belenka's comprehension of the mystical was, frankly, on par with that of a local serf...!

Miro had no choice but to explain at Belenka's level.

"Just think of it as being given a chance to see the future."

"The future!"

This Belenka could understand!

"Then you're a fairy who shows the future!"

"...Yes. Let's go with that."

Her thinking is at her mother's level.

That's what Miro thought, but she quickly dismissed it.

How much could someone from the past really understand anyway?

Whatever Miro thought, Belenka was pleased.

She was happy not to be dead yet, and to meet a fairy who could show the future!

...But she was also worried.

The fairy said—

She would die within five years.

"Is there any way to avoid this future?"

"Of course there is. Though it's beyond your control."

"?"

"An exceptional space-time wizard is manipulating your world's future. If they succeed, you'll survive."

Belenka made a sour face.

I should never have asked.

Coming from a fairy, the words made no sense whatsoever!

Miro smiled gently and said:

"Since I taught that child myself, I'd say the chances are quite high."

"...Well, thank you for that, I guess."

Belenka responded weakly.

In the vast flow of fate, humans were small and fragile beings.

Especially those who knew nothing of the mysteries of space and time.

"So... what happens in my 'future'?"

"It's impossible to say. In this world, you're already dead, and in your world..."

Miro tried to explain what seemed like obvious 'common sense' to her.

Completely obvious to a genius, but for someone less gifted, she needed to start with simpler theories (though Belenka wouldn't understand regardless).

"In your world..."

"?"

"...Wait a moment."

This 'explanation' ironically proved extremely helpful to Miro herself.

You know how sometimes when you explain something to someone else, your own understanding improves?

This was exactly one of those moments.

"That's... no, I see it now...!"

"???"

"Ah...! So that's what happened!"

Belenka glared at Miro.

This way of speaking made her want to smack someone...!

Of course, regardless of whether Belenka understood, Miro's exceptional mind had already completed all calculations.

And in a rather interesting way.

"Listen carefully, Belenka Mets!"

"Um... okay."

Miro shouted excitedly.

"You will definitely die in the future!"

"??? Are you cursing me?!"

"No! That's already a fixed future! And what follows could be even more terrible!"

Belenka stared at Miro in shock.

If the fairy who reveals the future says so...!

"S-so? You said there's nothing I can do anyway?"

"There is!"

"???"

"Something you can do... no, something you must do!"

Miro explained step by step so Belenka could understand.

Of course, Miro's explanation was disastrously terrible, but Belenka could grasp the main points.

First.

In 'Belenka's world,' the person [Miro Talian] doesn't exist...!

"If 'I' existed in your world, you wouldn't have fallen through a crack in time."

"I-is that so...?"

"The [Time Management Bureau] itself doesn't exist. [Miro Talian] was never born... my father and mother never even married!"

"Who are your father and mother...?"

"Wizard Ian and Lucy of the Talian county! But that's not important!"

Miro quickly assessed the situation.

Why couldn't Miro have been born?

The reason was simple.

Because [Space-time Wizard Gerard] failed his mission...!

A timeline where Miro was never born and Gerard failed his mission—

Belenka had come from such a world.

"Listen carefully. If things continue as they are, my father might join hands with a dark wizard."

"You mean this wizard Ian?"

"Yes. It's just a possibility, but... if your world falls into that future, something terrible will definitely happen."

"...What kind of person is he anyway?"

Miro answered with a sigh:

"Someone who will change the history of magic."

"..."

"For better or worse. My father is someone who changes the future of magic. He was chosen by God with that purpose."

Miro grasped Belenka's hand tightly.

"You're our only hope, Belenka!"

"What do you..."

"You need to create a variable. You definitely belong to a [positive] future, and you have the power to guide my father down the right path!"

Belenka stared at Miro in disbelief.

Wait— all I did was get hit by magic and pass out...!

What's all this nonsense about the fate of the world!

"Even if you tell me, I don't really want to—"

"Without a variable, you'll die within five years. Without fail!"

"...What do I need to do?"

Miro exclaimed in a powerful voice:

"Marry my father!"

"?!"

"Just remember and do that! Then everything will be alright!"

Coming from the space-time wizard boss, it was an incomprehensibly strange request.

Miro's father... that is, Wizard Ian and Belenka should get married, and everything would be 'normalized'? What did that even mean?

"Wait a minute. I don't even know who this Ian is! Who is he and where does he live that I should marry him?!"

"You'll find out soon!"

"...What if Ian doesn't like me? Or what if I don't like Ian?!"

"That won't happen!"

"???"

Miro shouted:

"My father is, by anyone's standards, a truly wonderful man! If I weren't his daughter, I might have wanted to marry him myself! When I was little, I really did want to marry father!"

Belenka was aghast.

Is this woman insane?!

Of course, Miro was just shouting haphazardly because she was running out of time. She really did adore Ian.

The real problem was Miro's catastrophically poor communication skills...!

She wanted to explain that [Ian is definitely a wonderful man], but in Miro's communication style, it came out all wrong!

But Miro didn't realize.

No matter how hard Miro tried to explain, a 19-year-old girl wouldn't suddenly want to marry someone she'd never met!

"Remember! If you don't want to die, marry the man named Ian!"

"What kind of...! What kind of fairy is this?!"

...Belenka's vision gradually blurred.

Her unconscious mind was awakening.

"Where am I..."

Looking around, she found herself in a quiet forest.

Her armor had been removed, leaving her in light undergarments.

Belenka's face flushed bright red.

She might be a wandering knight, but she still knew what shame was!

"You're awake?"

A man sitting by the campfire spoke.

His black hair and travel cloak caught her eye immediately.

Belenka instantly recognized who he was.

'...A wizard.'

The very wizard who had submerged her in water with his magic.

"You're..."

"Ian, disciple of Eredith. A wizard."

"!"

Belenka's eyes widened.

'Wizard Ian?'

That's a very important person!

Very important...

Important...?

'Why was he important again?'

Belenka blinked.

Belenka's meeting with Miro.

It was an experience that occurred in a [crack in time], experienced by her soul rather than her body.

Unlike the body, the soul... has no [brain].

Its ability to store memories is terribly weak.

'Ian... he was someone extremely important, but...'

As Miro had warned, Belenka had forgotten most of what happened in the [crack in time].

Only Miro's emphatic statement, "Marry the man named Ian!" faintly echoed in her mind.

'Ian... marriage...?'

Belenka looked up at the unfamiliar man with a flushed face.

Though they were clearly meeting for the first time today...

Her heart was pounding strangely.

"Did you remove my armor?"

"I had no choice. I needed to save you."

"...Then could you give me something to cover up with?"

"Ah. Sorry."

Ian took off his cloak and offered it to Belenka.

Belenka slowly accepted Ian's cloak and covered her wet body.

She lowered her reddened face.

It was truly... truly a strange feeling.

Until just this afternoon, they had been fighting each other...

She had even been defeated and captured.

Why didn't she feel bad about it?

"I am... Belenka of the Mets family."

"Belenka."

Belenka carefully extended her hand.

Ian, too, slowly took Belenka's hand in his.

That was their first meeting.

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