The man who appears to be a swordsman thinks I am not a magician just by looking at me. Certainly, in the eyes of the general public, a magician is nothing without their staff, so he probably judged me not to be one when he saw that I did not have a staff, the very lifeblood of a magician. There was nothing wrong with that, but when I commented that I was a magician, he lowered his guard, behaving as if the battle was already over. Seeing his attitude, I was filled with anger. He wrote me off as a weakling who didn’t need guarding. I’m a member of the Black Rose and a slave of Kaisar-sama. I could bear it if the insult was directed at me, but to insult Black Rose and Kaisar-sama, my master, through me, even indirectly, was something I could never stand. And to put it simply, I was pissed off for the first time in my life.
I was never this angry when I got betrayed by my people in the Elven Village. “Just now, you’ve decided that I’m not a magician and let your guard down… What do you mean by that? I won’t forgive you depending on your answer.”
“Ha? No way, you call yourself a magician, but can’t be one by the looks of it, can you? Moreover, what’s the reason for you to lie? I don’t understand. However, if you were a high-level fighter instead of a magician, there would be no reason to say you are one, let alone lacking a staff. Really, it’s so ridiculous. It’s like you’re saying, ‘This is just a bluff. I have no combat experience.’ If you understand, hurry up and get laid by me— BEFUHH!?” The conversation was not over yet, but I could not resist and punched them on the right cheek. “I told you, didn’t I? I said I would not tolerate it, depending on your response. And since you are mistaken, let me tell you something else. There are magicians who don’t need staff, you know? You should know that.” Then, unlike before, I put magic power into my fist and closed the distance between us as he was getting up unsteadily as if he got brain damage from being blown away, and get into the motion of punching him. “I am a fully-fledged magician. One called an Impact Magician.”