While patrolling around town with El and Labrys, I learn that the Sorcerer Association is offering a reward and looking for the mysterious hero. That means me.
I’m sure they want to eliminate and dissect me.
(I think this means… We’ll probably face each other soon.)
This thought makes me feel a little weary.
“In any case, thank you for the information.”
“Yes. Good luck lady-killer.”
“…? Ah, yes.”
I say goodbye to the owner of the stall, and turn back to Labrys, but then…
“Hn?”
I notice she’s absentmindedly looking at something.
She hasn’t even touched the skewer in her hand.
“What’s wrong Labrys?”
“Eh? N-no, nothing…”
She quickly turns away, and I look to where she was looking.
“Ah…”
I see a girl holding her knee and crying.
It looks like she fell and scraped it.
“You’re worried about that girl, aren’t you?”
“…Not really. I just don’t like to hear children crying.”
Labrys says while turning away again, but she keeps peeking at that girl.
I don’t want to ignore a crying kid either.
“Sorry, I’m going there.”
“Ah…”
I run towards the girl.
“Are you all right? Did you fall and get hurt?”
“Y-yes… And it’s bleeding…”
“Don’t worry, I’ll take care of it with magic.”
“…But you’re Chrom the failure.”
“I really am famous, uh…”
I drop my shoulders, and then check the wound.
Blood is oozing, but it really is just a scratch. And since it hasn’t been very long, I can handle it even if I’m not feeling my best.
I put my hand over the girl’s wound.
(‘Time, turn back’.)
The time of the wound returns to before she got hurt.
The little girl blinks rapidly as she watches the wound close quickly.
“So? Does it still hurt?”
“N-no! W-wow… It doesn’t hurt anymore!”
“I see, that’s good.”
I smile and place my hand on her head.
“T-thank you big brother Chrom…”
She says with her cheeks a little red, before turning back and running.
“She reminds me of you when you were her age, Labrys.”
“…”
“Labrys?”
For some reason, her eyes are wide open.
“H-hum, what…”
“Chrom, what was that just now…”
“Eh, just healing magic?”
“…You can use healing magic? That’s pretty high level stuff, you know? And you never had the aptitude for it, right?”
“I-I read books, and then I was able to use it… I guess?”
“That simple…”
Labrys’ look of suspicion kind of hurts.
“W-well… It was just a scratch.”
“Even so, a healer would charge a few gold coins for what you just did.”
“But it was just a scratch…”
“That’s how rare it is for someone to use this kind of magic. And I’ve never heard of someone completely ‘erasing’ it and leaving no mark whatsoever.”
“Really…”
I didn’t know. And I even studied this era’s magic too.
(It’s more underdeveloped than I thought…)
Now that I think about it, mages tended to be more secretive in this era.
Many tried to hide their knowledge about magic for the sake of titles and renown.
The family I was born into, the Belmond family, and Labrys’ Scarlet family are known as two of the four great houses of the Kingdom of Historia, and hold considerable power. But it’s all because they monopolize knowledge of magic.
It’s difficult for techniques to evolve in this environment.
“Chrom, yesterday…”
Labrys starts to say something.
“Ah, there you are you two~!” Geez, don’t leave me behind!”
El comes running with her eyes a little moist.
“Hn? Laby? Were you saying something?”
“…It’s nothing.”
“Really?”
El then hands me a stack of papers.
“But you know? I heard lots of things from different people~. Here. It’s all the trouble in town organized in terms of priority.”
“O-oh… In such a short amount of time too…”
El is just too efficient, especially with her combination of personal virtue and a lot of personal connections.
She kept talking about us having fun together, but she’s been casually putting in the most work.
“S-sorry… I’m kind of ashamed of myself.”
“I think I was wrong about you El… Sorry.”
“Why are you two apologizing…?”
“I’m glad I came along with you. This would’ve been a lot harder if I was alone.”
“Hehehe. Really?”
I’m not popular in this town.
If I tried to ask people if there was anything troubling them, a lot would probably be reluctant to rely on me, and I’m sure this would’ve taken a lot longer.
“Well then, let’s go through this list one at a time.”
We start heading to where this list says there’s trouble right away, and a few hours later…
“Hey, I hear Chrom can solve anything if you ask.”