Chapter 13: Summon

“Glass-sama…”

“Lendl-san, it’s okay.”

Lendl-san tries to stand before me –he’s trying to protect me. Holding him back, I spoke to Presha-san carefully.

“If you’re ok with any method, I can make them talk.”

“…Do you have a medicine that can be used for that purpose? You’re not a Dark Doctor are you?”

“It doesn’t matter if you say so. I found this method on my own … I can’t really say much, after all, it’s indeed a “Darkness Technique”.

I tried to talk calmly but my heart is pounding so hard that I think it will burst! Presha-san with such murderous spear… if I made a mistake, I would surely be killed in an instant.

But after she stared at me and thought of my objective, she then lifted the spear. Lendl-san, who was trying to stand before me, exhaled tremblingly. A little further, he would have made his move.

“I can kill her any time. All I need is information… Glass, if you can really do it, I’ll only watch here. But if you make a suspicious move, I’ll kill you first!”

Killing me is not that easy. Is what I think, but if I say that now, it’s pure suicide. Presha-san’s emotions are so high that she is losing her calm judgment.

She clearly didn’t trust me. Presha-san is only trying me out. Once she judged that my words are false, neither the prisoners of war nor I have any guarantee to live.

I now understand why Raquel-san told Presha-san that she should bring me back safely. Raquel-san has already anticipated this possibility…

If I looked closely, Presha-san’s age doesn’t look that much different from mine. I couldn’t feel the aloof initial impression, but her spirit still left an immature part.

“A magician who contracts with the spirit uses its power to exercise magic. The spirit influences this world by using the magic mark of the magician as its catalyst. You can even summon it.”

“…What is that? I heard you were a flop… There’s no way you can call a useful spirit…”

“No, I’m useful in this situation though I can only contribute in limited circumstances.”

I took the small leather bag out of the bag that Lendl-san had. What was in it was a bulb.

A medium is used when summoning plant spirits. There is only one kind of spirit I can call, but it can be definitely useful –because this bulb is a genus of spirits.

I put the bulb on the floor. Then I stood up and held my hands up –Presha-san looks at my actions with a suspicious look.

“What is that? Root of something… so what can it do …?”

“Please look at this. [Lustrous flower that blooms in the enchanted garden… reveal yourself in this world and show your power!]”

Two years ago, when I first tried summoning magic, I didn’t know what would appear. The summoning was a success and what was summoned was a lower spirit, but that power should definitely be of help here.

“Hmm… W-what…? This is… grass…?”

According to the chant, blue grass would start to grow around the bulb that was inside the drawn magic circle. The moment the shape made of grass is completed, the bulb will germinate, and the root will grow rapidly.

Uh… it’s different. It’s bigger than usual … Maybe because it’s in the fort ?…

In the fort, there is a human with a great magical power – Astina-Denka, but with that alone, the plant that manifested was larger than what I had summoned at the Magic Academy that should be rich in magical power…

The stems then intertwined, the leaves spread, large buds are attached, they start to swell, and they then bloomed.

“This is… a demon…?”

“No, you’re wrong. That’s the enchanted flower –Arlaune… It’s a plant spirit that has the power to influence people’s hearts.”

The flower has bloomed –the only thing I can call from the spirit world.

At the center of the open flower is a doll-sized girl. She’s the incarnation of a spirit. It was smaller when I called it earlier, and not even in a human figure, but now it’s totally different…

The little girl with a little flower on her head looked up at me, bowed, and said.

“It’s been a while, Summoner-sama. I, Arlaune, am here from the enchanted garden of Pandera.”

When making a contract with a spirit, the chant points from the spirit realm to this world. It was from the other side to this side’s sequence.

As requested by Arlaune, I placed her on my shoulder. I then felt the sensation of my magic being absorbed when I touched her –Arlaune is trying to use my own power to response to my will.

“Can you let this three people change their minds? Let them work with us and confess everything.”

“Understood. Come, let’s go… my children…!”

Along with the Arlaune’s words, the flower that she has born shines lightly and the rising pollen of the enchanted flowers wraps the prisoners in the air.

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