Chapter 7 : Departure (Uneditted)

Part 1

I told William what had happened after he was killed by Sarah and also apologized for using “Brain Eater” to his dead body.

William didn’t mad at me, he just listen to my story calmly and nodded a few times in understanding.

“So what are you gonna do after this?”  

We were on our way back to living room when I asked that.

“What else can I do? I am an automaton now, and I don’t know anyone else who know about automaton, you know what it means right?”

I slightly nodded. 

I could understand what he meant.

Automaton couldn’t live alone. They need maintenance and various other things to keep their body functioning, and to do that they need someone who knew well about automaton, but in this world there was not many artificer who knew and capable to do that. Even if there was, the kindom or empire where he/she lived probably had hired them as exclusive artificer which meant he/she wouldn’t be able to do any request except from their kingdom or empire.

After all, Artificer was the most valuable asset in any kingdoms and empires, they were the only one who could recreate ancient technology or create a new one, though they were mostly hired for military purpose on developing new weapons, but still there were a lot of artificer who wanted to work for their kingdom/empire because of the payment was pretty high. For example, in Sylfania kingdom a lower rank exclusive artificer got paid 2 G per month, it was the same salary as a high rank official.  

If only Sarah knew how to do maintenance and various other things, the two of them could do maintenance for each other, but regrettably she couldn’t. When she was still alive, Sarah was a normal child that died because of an illness and her soul was taken by William.

“Why don’t you come with me? Actually I have a few plans in my mind which I want to turn it into reality, I am in need of someone who mastered artificer like you to help me, and If you want I can do maintenance for you.”

Thanks for using “Brain Eater” I had gained all William’s knowledge and skills, basically I had become a master Artificer like William, so of course I could do everything that William could do, a simple maintenance wasn’t a big problem for me. If I wanted to I even could make an automaton from scratch in less than a week.

I could tell just by seeing William’s expression that he was a bit hesitated to accept my offer, was he afraid that I would take advantage and told him to do something stupid or unreasonable order? Like making a nuke bomb or other mass murder weapons, or did he worried about me? if Helios Emperor know that he was still alive… I knew that he was practically already dead, let’s just say he was alive okay? Helios Empire would most likely come and took him away, and from William’s memory, I knew what they were after and understood that they would do anything to achieve that.

So I decided to ask him.

“What are you worried about?”

William took a glance at me with a bitter smile on his face.

“No, its just that you will probably will be targeted by Helios Empire if I am with you.”

Ah so he’s worried about me.

Though I think it’s already too late for that.

That man, Fabio, probably has made me into one of his target to be eliminated. 

He is a clever man. Seeing my strength, after punching that cloaked man, He must have judged that I will become a hindrance for Helios Empire big plan sooner or later.

Well.., though after knowing their plan, I will probably become a hindrance more sooner than he thought.

“Don’t worry about me. I am actually pretty strong you know. After all I am one of the Seven Stars Sword Emperors.”

William almost fell when he heard that.

“Ha ha ha ha Nice joke princess.”

“I am sorry, but I am not joking. Did you think Fabio just left by his own will? He knew that it was bad to fight me head on. He is a pure mage and probably has no experience in martial arts, with my speed I can kill him easily, that was why he had no choice but to tell me his name and status, knowing that I wouldn’t be able to do anything to him after I knew who he was.”     

William just stared at me with disbelief expression on his face.

“… I see… If so then I will gladly accept your offer.”

After that I told William to pack up their things because they would move to the castle. It was much safer in there than here, and also told him to change Sarah body into another automaton, Fabio had seen her before and he would probably be suspicious if Sarah was with me.    

While they were packing their things up, I went outside to look for Cecil, but it seemed I didn’t have to do that, she was already waiting for me near the entrance door along with one of city guard commanders  

I told the city guard commander to clean up William’s dead body, he then ordered a few city guards to enter and cleaned it up while he was asking me what was going on.

And it seemed Cecil was also wanted to know, so I told them Fabio’s version of the story. The city guard commander seemed to be also didn’t believe what Fabio had said, he told me that there was no need for Helios Empire to sent their own court magician for such thing, no matter how important the stolen thing was. After all Helios Empire had a secret special unit called “Vargant” that deal with something like this and various other secret operations, there must be other reason why Helios Empire sent their court magician.

A few minutes later, a few city guards came out of the store carrying a stretcher with William’s dead body covered with white blanket on it.  

Before the city commander left, I told him to left at least four city guards to guard the store for a few days, he nodded and ordered four guards to do that, after that he left. 

Cecil and I went to the deserted alley near the bookstore and teleported to the living room of William’s Bookstore. I did this because I wanted to teleported William and Sarah directly to the castle, and the city guards stationed at the entrance would find it strange if I entered the store and never came out.

I didn’t want to take a risk, Helios Empire spy might have still loitering around the store, and they might find it strange if a middle age man, William in automaton body, suddenly came out of the store. there should only be a bald man and a young girl who lived in here. 

Part 2

With teleport magic we instantly arrived at the castle, to be exact inside my room.

Sarah and William looked at me with strange expression on their face as if they were looking at some sort of alien.

Haaa… people really should get used to teleport magic.

I am tired of seeing that kind of expression every time I use teleport magic.

I turned my head to look at Cecil.

“Cecil please take them to the guest rooms, I need to talk with father.” 

Cecil nodded and then took the two of them out of my room.

After that I also left my room heading to the library which also Richard study room. He was usually in there most of the time doing various paper works. 

As I reached there, I knocked the door a few times and heard William voice saying to enter the room.

I opened the door and saw William was reading some documents, 

When I was walking toward him, Richard lifted his head to see who was coming and after he knew that it was me, he smiled happily as she greeted me. 

“Oh what’s wrong sweetie? It’s rare for you to visit me in this kind of time.”

Well yeah, It’s still 10 in the morning. 

I am usually training with Helena at this kind of time.

I sat on the chair in front of the desk and had wore a serious expression.

Richard smile disappeared when he saw my expression. It was very rare for me to have this kind of expression and he knew that whenever I was like this, it was usually a pretty serious matter.  

I started telling him what had happened in William’s Bookstore and my encounter with the court magician of Helios Empire.

I didn’t tell him who William actually was, but I told him what Helios Empire objective, plan, and various other information which I knew from William’s memory. 

Though I also hide some of the facts, like when I used “Brain Eater” or about I had resurrected William as automaton, and a few other things.

I made sure that Richard thought William had died and Sarah had evacuated herself to another safe place. When Richard asked me where she evacuated herself to, I told him that I didn’t know because Sarah didn’t want to tell me about it. 

I knew that Richard wanted to get more information from her, but I didn’t think Sarah could give more information than what I had told to him. After all William had programmed Sarah as a counter measure if something like this happened, so he never gave any important information to her.

Richard expression turned into a grim one as I finished my story.

“Haaa… our peaceful time soon will be over…”

With a gentle smile I tried to cheer him up.

“Don’t worry, If my calculation is right, we still have at least 6 more years to before the war break out.”

He took another deep sigh and stood up from his chair.

“Thank you sweetie, I should get ready for our guests. Oh yeah can you also inform your great grandmother about this? She should be at the clearing area near the lake.”  

I nodded and then left the room along with Richard.

I went straight to the clearing area where I usually training with Helena, I used that place as one of the location for butchering of the monsters dead bodies I had brought from mountain Galabas. 

When I reached the edge of the forest, I saw 10 knights were carrying one giant size meat about 6 meters long, probably more than 500 kg in weight, heading to the nearby carriage.

I passed through some other knights who carried the meats as I went to the clearing area, they all greeted me with a happy smile and a thumb up, I asked them why they were so happy and one of them answered that these meat from the giant monsters were all very high quality meat, which very rarely they could eat. Moreover it seemed they were gonna do a barbeque party tonight using all the meats they got.

I just smiled at them and warned them not to drink any alcohol. After all they were on guard duty tonight, they saluted me as a reply and then went away with the giant size meat..

As I reached the clearing area, I saw Helena throwing a giant monster dead body into the sky, she then also followed it by jumping while wielding her sword in her right hand, when she got closer she swung her sword a few times cutting it into a few large parts. 

I guess she did that so that it would be easier for the knights to extract it.

I waved my hand at her as I yelled calling her to come.

I then brought her to a more quiter place to talk and told them everything that I had told to Richard.

But not like Richard, her face was void of any expression, she only nodded a few times, I couldn’t tell what she was thinking so I just continued my story till the end. 

“Well let’s talk about this latter tonight. We still have more work to do here. Come you also help too, this is all your meat after all.” 

This old hag really is easy going…

Well I also ubderstand that it’s useless to worry about it right now.

Better finish this up quick.

The disgusting feeling after using “Brain Eater” still haven’t gone yet.

I have to do something about that.

I followed Helena back to the clearing area.  There were still a lot of monsters dead bodies to be taken care of.

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To make it quick, I asked Helena to throw them one by one to the sky while I would use sword energy to cut them.

Helena couldn’t do it like this because it would take her a lot of spirit to cut all these monsters, though it wasn’t an impossible thing but it would be tiring, her soul space wasn’t as big as mine.

All the knights on the clearing area started to evacuate themselves from the clearing area when the first three giant monsters were cut, and many parts of it started raining down at the clearing area.

It was an unbelievable scene for the knights, one after another the monsters dead bodies were thrown and cut like they were made of paper, most of them had their mouth opened wide and their eyes were about to come out of their sockets.

Grant, the head instructor who saw the scene besides me, shook his head as he muttered something like “Family of monsters”

After that we also went to the other two butchering place at the back of the castle, and started doing the same thing to all of them.

Thanks to that in the afternoon, the knights finished extracting all of the monsters dead bodies.

Part 3

At night there was a festival of barbeque in the castle, everywhere you went, you could sense delicious smell of meats being roasted and grilled. 

But too bad I couldn’t enjoy them at all. not only because I was right now in the study room with Richard and Helena, discussing the matter about Helios Empire, but also because of I still had this damn disgusting feeling after using “Brain Eater”.

I had tried various way to remove it, using any cure, healing, purification, and many other magics, but it had no effect at all.

I am beginning to worry about it now.

Till when I have to endure this disgusting feeling.  

Don’t tell me that it will be like this forever. 

When that thought appeared my mind, I started regretting using that magic.

Next time, I should think twice before using any forbidden magic.  

“So what did the court magician from Helios Empire said?”

Helena asked that question as an opening for our discussion.

“Haaa… He told me the same thing as the one he had told to Ariel, telling me that the owner of William’s bookstore had stolen an important book from Helios Empire. When I asked if I could see the book, he only showed it for a moment and refused to let me see it contents. After that we talked about useless thing that had nothing to do with the matter.”

“As expected huh…  How about that bookstore? Did you find anything about the owner or anything else which can be useful for the investigation?”

“What I know is that the owner of that bookstore, William Ray is actually a refugee from Helios Empire, he came to this kingdom 30 years ago when the last war happened…. Right now, the city guards are still doing a through searched inside that bookstore, hopefully they can find something useful.” 

They wouldn’t find any information about William in there. He had removed everything that could reveal his identity. I also approved his action. It wasn’t wise to reveal his identity right now.

Though it was not much, but I had told him to leave a few documents which could be used as a proof of Helios Empire was planning something not good.

“Well what will you do now?”  

Richard was the head of Whitstar family, so his was the one who made the decision for the entire family. At the most Helena only could give few advices to him.

“… I will head to the capital as soon as possible, I need to inform his majesty about this. Grandma can you please take care of the city while I am away?”

“No problem.”

“Thank you.”

After saying that, Richard turned to look at me.

“Sweetie, thanks to you we may be able to avoid the worst case scenario, if there is something you want, just tell me I will try to fulfill it.”

Is this some kind of reward for me?

Well… This is hard. 

I don’t really have anything I want right now. 

Hmm…. let’s see….. 

“Oh yeah. What will happen to William’s Bookstore after this?”

We still need that bookstore. 

William’s workshop was still in the basement.

Actually, his workshop can be stored into the spatial ring, but to do that he need some preparation to do that and it seems that preparation will at least take 4 days to finish. 

It will be troublesome if someone take it from us right now.

“Its owner has died and he have no family or any relative, according to law, that store and all of the thing inside it will become this city property.”

“Then, can I have it?”

If I become its owner, then I don’t have to worry about that anymore.

“That’s easy, anything else?”

Hmm… I want to have a base of operation for my plan.

And I can’t use this city for that.

Agatha city is too crowded with people.

Moreover I will stay in Tyris Academy for at least 9 years.

Even though I can use teleport, but it will be too inconvenient for various other things.

Ah wait!

Tyris Academy!

Isn’t that an academy owned by our family? 

“Can I also have Tyris Academy?”

When that question came out of my mouth, Richard and Helena had a dumbfounded look on their faces.

They looked at each other and then focused their attention back towards me.

“Do you want to become the chairman of Tyris Academy?” 

Eh? Isn’t the one who ruled a city called lord or mayor?

Hmm is it different because it’s an academy?

Oh well, it doesn’t really matter as long as I have the same authority as a lord or mayor.

But it’s better to ask that first.

“Is chairman in Tyris Academy have the same authority as a lord or mayor of a city? If so then, yes, I want to.”

“Well yeah it is. But are you sure of it?”

“Yes, there is something which I want to do in there and I need that authority to do so.”

Richard turned his head to look at Helena as if asking for her opinion.

“Well why not? I am only taking the position as a chairman because you and Talia didn’t want to take it.”

Wait! Did she just said…. Taking the position as a chairma?

Is that mean Helena is the current chairman?

Eeeeehhhh!!!

Part 4

One week latter.

In this one week, 

There were a few things that I wanted to mention.

The first was that William’s Bookstore now had become empty building.

I had stored all books and everything else, including William workshop into the spatial ring, and now it had officially been closed and now I was the owner of that building.

The second one was that, I had introduced Sarah and William, who I had change their name into Debby and Harris to my family, I told them that I was hiring these two people, Debby as my second personal attendants and Harris as my subordinate. Along with Cecil, these two would also accompany me to Tyris Academy.  

Well there was some kind of interview or background check when I introduced both of them. Well we manage to fool them somehow by making up some stories that was mixed with half lies and half truth.

The third one was that on the third day aftet the incident in William’s Bookstore, Fabio and his colleagues went to the capital city of Daia while being escorted personally by Richard and 1000 knights of our family. 

It seemed that they had entered Sylfania Kindom through illegal way, they didn’t have any official documents for passing trough the border, and they must take care of that in the capital before they could return back to Helios Empire.

The fourth one was about the matter regarding me being the chairman of Tyris Academy.

You know what? This matter was surprisingly ended up with just one letter from Helena.

She told me to give that letter to the vice chairman, he knew what to do and I just had to follow his instruction.

It seemed that when my grandfather died and Richard got married, Helena threw away all the work as a chairman to the vice chairman and went back to Whitestar castle. 

I felt really sorry for that vice chairman, for more than 8 years, yeah Helena never returned back since she left, he must do all the work by himself. 

On the fifth day, I along with Cecil, Debby and Harris left the castle after saying goodbye to my family and all the people who lived in there, maids, butlers, chefs, gardeners, knights and many others were lining up as they waved their hands at me as a goodbye, some maids and a the head chefs who were close to me even cried. 

I wondered why they were crying as if I would never return, like I had done when I was training in Gabalas Mountain, I was planning to return once a week, they should have know that I could use teleport magic.

After that we headed to the harbor using a carriage, it took us two days to reach there. Well, this time I didn’t really mind it because it wasn’t a boring journey. I had a full in depth discussion with Harris regarding my plan and various other things.

In the afternoon, we finally arrived at the harbor and stopped right in front of the ship that would take us to the capital. Just like what I had said before, we would take the fastest route to the academy by going to the capital and then continued our way to the Academy. Even though it was the shortest route, but it would still take at least six months just to arrive at the capital. 

Unfortunately I didn’t really have much time for sightseeing. our ship would start sailing soon. 

When I was on the deck, I saw a lot of children of my age had already on the ship. It wasn’t really surprising though, this ship was an exclusive ship for new students of Tyris Academy. 

There wasn’t just human children on the ship, from what I saw, there were dwarves, elves and beastman, what I liked the most was the children from rabitman and catman tribe, they were sooo cuuute, I had to hold myself to not jump and hug them when I saw them running around on the deck. I didn’t know why, but maybe because I was reincarnated as a girl, I now really loved sweets and cute things.

When I was looking around, I found a familiar face, a girl with shoulder length black hair wearing beautiful light green dress. It was Restia Valbatos, she was accompanied by a girl in maid outfit which I presume was her personal attendant.

She was standing near the edge of the ship and was staring at the sea.

I approached the girl and greeted her.

“Hello Restia.”

She suddenly jumped in surprised as she heard my greeting, quickly turned around.

“P-P-Princess! Uh, eh, ah um yes, i-its been a long time p-princess.”   

Ha ha ha a shy girl as usual.

It’s really amusing looking at her.

“Yes, the last time we met was on my little brother, Leon birthday party. You also will be attending Tyris Academy right? What school?”

Restia timidly nodded her head.

“Err yes, I will attend magic arts school, White Magic Class.”

White magic class was a class where the student learned about Light Magic System, usually only the students who wanted to become a healer took this class. 

“I see, well I will attend Craft School, Artificer Class. Though we are in different school and class, I hope you will take care of me.”

“Ah yes me too, please take care of me.”

Not too long after that, the captain of the ship announce our departure.