CHAPTER 4 PROPOSAL OF DEPENDENCY
When the night was completely over.
In a room at an inn on the outskirts of the forest, Claudia in a loose night dress asked Noah, who was sitting on the opposite bed.
"Do you know Adelheit, the witch who lived 500 years ago?"
"... I think she was a legendary wizard."
Noah, who used the inn's bath to remove the mud and blood stains, is dressed in clothes that the inn's children can no longer wear.
The wet black hair was also still drying, and the tips of the hair had a fluffy and light habit.
Looking at it this way, Noah's appearance is still in order. Being well dressed will easily make people believe that they are of aristocratic or royal lineage.
However, His obsidian eyes glared at Claudia like a beast, holding a dagger in his hand.
"She’s called ‘the witch who changed the world' or 'the source of modern magic'. That's what everyone knows."
"Fufu. Yes, thank you."
"... than that"
With the tip of the dagger pointed at Claudia, Noah glared at her.
"Who are you?"
"I?"
When asked, Claudia shook her head.
After that, she expressed her sadness by intentionally imitating crying.
"Terrible Noah. Forgetting your benefactor."
"When I met you in the forest you were about five years old."
Noah stands ready, with a disgusted face.
"--unlike you, I'm an adult."
"hmmm……"
Claudia leaned out a little from the sleeper and looked at herself in a mirror by the wall.
A beautiful girl about 16 years old is reflected in it.
A mature face with slender limbs.
The chest is soft and bulging, and the waist is tightly constricted. However, the sweet milk tea-colored hair is no different from a child's appearance.
"I really wanted to make it look more like 20 years old."
"Make?"
"Since I slept a little and recovered my magical power, I temporarily became an adult. You should have seen the transformation scene with your own eyes."
「……」
It was just before arriving at the village where this inn is located.
"Both of us wouldn't even be able to stay in an inn if we were children? Still, I didn't think you would go out of the forest with me on your back."
"Because you slept without explaining" house ". Everything is too lacking in explanation."
"That's why I explained it now."
The bed made a creaking noise when I sat back on the edge of the bed.
Noah on the opposite bed says with the cutting edge slightly lowered.
"Are you seriously trying to say you're Adelheit?"
"Strictly speaking, it's reincarnation. I'm still the princess of this country, Claudia Natalie Brightkreuz. I'm six years old."
「……」
Noah's face says that he doesn't feel like completely believing her.
However, when Claudia smiled, he sheathed his dagger with a puffy face.
"Oh. You have a face saying'I don't want to believe it', is that okay?"
"I don't want to believe it and I can't believe it...."
At that moment, Claudia's chest made a small noise.
Suddenly a puff of fluffy smoke was born and when it cleared, Claudia returned to her six-year-old body.
Noah looked abominable as he sat on the bed and saw a little Claudia whose legs couldn't even reach the floor.
"... I don't understand how you use this kind of random magic, for such a minor reason."
"You have magical knowledge, right?"
Claudia observes Noah.
A high-purity magical power was flowing inside his body.
The best part is that the color of the eyes, which expresses the nature of magical power, is jet black that even Claudia has never seen.
"... You are the reincarnation of the witch Adelheit ..."
Noah muttered.
Perhaps he admitted that Claudia was older than she appeared, but after returning to the appearance of a child, he changed how he addresses her from "you" to "you". TL note: this doesn't make sense in English but basically in Japanese there is formal and informal language when Claudia was in adult form he used [Omae] which is the formal word for "you" after she returned to the form of a child he addresses her with the informal term for "you:[Anata]
"Then, are you still an adult like before?"
"Fufu, that's right. You can think of me like your sister."
"I don't like it"
Noah asked, "One more thing," after being turned down with a disgusting face.
"... Is there a new slave contract between me and you?"
"It's a little different. It's stronger than that, it's a form of magic known as a dependency contract."
"Dependent..."
The boy's voice murmured as if to bite the meaning of the words.
"From a while ago, I can sense a big and strong magical power has started flowing in .... here."
Noah holds his left chest covered in a white shirt with his hand.
"This is your magical power."
"Yes. The dependent can use my magical power."
「……」
"I'm sorry if maybe you don’t like it . I'll sleep until tomorrow morning and when I'm fine, I'll remove it."
Then Noah said with sincere eyes.
"It's fine like this"
It was an unexpected answer, so Claudia is confident.
"why?"
"It's convenient for me to be able to use your magical power."
Claudia squinted at the words, "Yeah."
The fact that Noah has a situation is obvious in light of the situation.
A child under the age of ten was entangled in the magic of such an old-fashioned slave contract and was about to die to escape.
(I hope it's an interesting situation ...)
"If you need a price, I’ll pay it."
Noah said, perhaps because of Claudia's price.
"Can you pay? To you ... No, what is in it for me?"
"To you, I have some value. That's why you saved me at that time."
"... Huh!"
It's getting fun and Claudia giggles.
I jumped down from the sleeper, walked up in front of Noah, and looked up at him from below.
"I only do what I want to do in this world. If you belong to my family, I'll have you follow my commands. Are you fine with that?"
"...I’ll follow"
"You have run away from the slavers before. You may have a more painful feeling if you run from me. Still?"
“I’ll follow”
Noah spins, looking down at Claudia with his jet-black eyes.
"Didn’t you tell me to choose a way of life?"
(--By all means, it's not the eyes of a child that chose the way of life he wanted--)
Claudia softly smiled like an evil witch.
"Right then"
After all, Claudia in this world has decided to do only what she wants to do.
"Let's go back to my tower tomorrow."
"... What are you going to do there?"
"Yeah"
Claudia tells Noah, thinking of the face of her uncle who pushed her down earlier.
"I guess you could call it general cleaning"
TL here This will be my last release for this novel I have given consent to instadoses to continue the novel as the whole clash of transalators was just a misunderstanding you can view their translation on their site https://instadoses.com/