“Ah, so then I suppose you know about the legends.”

“Of course! “They said multiverse—even infinite multiverses are too low for them.” She rapidly replied with some enthusiasm.

"Mm...you can be right, but actually it wasn't like that... "

“First of all, this entire existence, all of it was depicted as a tree with ten planes so, up there resides nine more layers.”

“Yes, there are nine layers more up there.”

“Alright. Legends said as you see the tenth sky, it wasn't the realm of us creations anymore. It is absolutely not a mere realm for a whim."

"That realm is ought for the gods. Complicated, and quite irrelevant that is," said her as she giggled after that.

"Splendid! How cunning you are.”

“No, actually I don’t know that much. I just know there are nine skies above us, yet I don’t know what’s in that skies. To put it better, I just know that skies ‘exist’.” She said so as she nodded.

"Let alone the realm for the gods, I was amazed and confused at the same time. It was depicted as the peak of the tree, which was simply drawn as the smallest triangle. But precisely, that part is the most complicated, irrelevant, intricate.....ah sheesh, even I can't even express it. It was amazingly unfathomable, after all."

Said her solemnly.

“Oh, I see. To reach it, then you must know what creation is.”

“I have heard it, and based on what I grasp from its’ meaning, that is everything around us, right?” she asked.

“You’re quite the right one. But actually it is more complicated. So it is okay, I think you know pretty much, and I am sure you will grasp the true meaning and fathom it so that seems I don’t need to inform you anymore. After all your brain is deep as a trench, you know?” Endou said as he faithfully believed in her to fathom it.

“Well, if you said so...But once again, thank you.”

Said Mizuki with a big smile depicted on her face. This smile now brought a deep meaning...such feelings like this couldn't even be expressed by words... happiness.

Endou knew such expressions. He could only gratefully smiling and replied deep down in his heart, Don't mention it.

. . . . . . . . . . . . .

And after all this time, Mizuki was merely human, despite she learned so much about magecraft and so.

While Endou, he is the unknown--ah, take it as one of many grand wizards out there. Never be surprised if he knew much more than her.

Then, they thought about another topic to talk about. Sadly, not even one of them found it, or even if they do, that would be something boring or needless to talk about.

Thus, they want to finish this conversation already.

“Uh, it seems it has already finished, so then let me excuse myself...” Said Mizuki

Then, she casually walked downstairs, meanwhile Endou still wanted to linger there for a moment.

"See ya," said her in a cheerful tone.

"Goodbye," said Endou.

As they waved one after another, Endou put both arms on the leaning and lean his bodies on it.

He seemingly witnessed the beautiful view of the city, heed the breeze of the peaceful morning wind as if something had made his head overheat, so it needed to be cooled.

Then, he muttered some words.

"You can do it."

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Back on the first floor, a man sat down right at the corner of the room. This man wore an ordinary shirt which was covered under a black vest. His dark long hair flowed behind his back and tied on its edge. His hand was holding a match. It was on fire, so it reflected the image of his blue eyes. And seemingly a hilt of the sword was emerging behind his left shoulder.

He walked before the bar table. As he sat on the chair in front of it, then David turned over his face to him.

"?"

"Two more glasses of wine, please."

He suddenly back to his work again, pour that wine into both glasses, and hand over those such things to the man.

But this time, unlike his usual behaviors on everyone, this probably seemed to be a little coarse. Come to think of it, when people knew about this part of him, they weren't amused by happiness. However, they will get aroused to feel indignant. Well, for the sake of kind thoughts, they seemed to be a close friend or so. Don't be surprised, to him the man didn't seem plain after all.

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"Yo. What's wrong? What's your business here?" David said in an impertinent tone.

"...nothing,"

After a few seconds of silence, then that man talked to David again.

"Ah yes, I see you are a bartender right now. Splendid."

"Yes. it's merely a whim. So what?"

"Hmm..." his deep thought resounded. "...I see. And you, selling these things to everyone..." His hand by now was holding his chin, as he looked straight to the rack behind David."

"...Heee, these were just ordinary alcoholic beverages. Nevertheless, these were nothing special..." David answered as his tone was highly confident.

"Ah, I see, I see. You suspect me as him, do you?"

David asked back after a few seconds of silence.

He seemingly did grasp the meaning of him, so

that man suddenly silenced for a bit, but not as he expected, a laughter burst from him.

"Pff...Hahaha...Hahahahaha...what's the point in such suspicion...instead, I am so happy if that was really 'you'..."

That man burst out his laughter.

"...But unfortunately, I ain't 'him', the one who you seek..."

The man's face was blank by now. Afterward, he stretched out his hand as it held his glasses. And, as he put it on, he pushed it to his upper nose.

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Meanwhile, still at the rooftop, Endou still gazed upon the streets and some buildings that average had three or four floors.

Two pairs of a magic circle subsequently drawn behind him, and there appeared two people from it.

Both of them were girls, or take those as young women who had just done their adolescence. Also, both of them had a bright skin tone. Generally, they seemed to be a mage like Endou, so he turned his head onto them.

The first woman wore an elegant dark dress, covering it was a jet black coat. Her long dark hair flowed even until her back, and so, the hair that was showing off in front of her shoulders were tied by triple knots. A pair of glasses could be visible from her wide, ocean blue eyes. She stood straight, as her right hand was on her side. She was Myu, the Dark Witch that resembles the void itself.

So, no wonder if people around her were getting overwhelmed by it.

On her side, the second woman had short brown hair as men did. She smiled brightly and with such pleasure. Therefore, her eyes were still shut, so it does not reveal its color. She wore an orange sunset robe with some fancy golden parts beside her. She was Nami, the Witch of the Sea which her aura emitted a calm breeze, as people would feel serene if they felt it.

They also seemed to know Endou, so one of them decided to talk to him without said some needless words before.

Instead, before one of them tried to speak, Endou gave them a slight response.

"?"

"What's wrong?"

Then, Myu began her attempt to speak.

"Good Morning, Endou-san. Now, let me share a piece of information with you."

"Go ahead."

"There were many several cases that bring this city into disturbance." She said in a flat tone, as her face was still blank from the time when she met Endou.

"So what?"

"uh..." she seemingly forgot what to say. "...Ah, let's just get straight to the point. But wait a minute, if I recall we will be six here. After all, if six of us knew about it, it will be interesting, yes?

"...You're not mistaken."

"Then where are the others?"

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The entrance door cracked, appeared there Mizuki. She stood up by crossed her arms in front of her chest.

Spread in front of her eyes the vast city of Del'ovore, from the entrance door viewpoint, stood mightily some buildings that most of them were made out of Quartz and had three or four floors high. Streets that were made out of stone bricks now filled up with people, although it wasn't that crowded, and not even a single vehicle showed up because the morning had just shown up like an hour ago.

The orange rays of the morning sun lit those buildings brightly. However, it was also getting in the way so its dark and oblique shadows were made. Therefore it made the streets had two colors which were black and orange.

She still can felt the lovingly morning breeze, also her ears could still

heard the song of chirping birds. She took up the air around to her chest as she sighed it out calmly as if she wanted to throw away all of her anxieties with the morning stuff.

She walked around the path for a pretty long time. Suddenly as she walked around the streets she remembered if something's was off now...

...Thus, she went back to the bar.

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As the man seemed to be ready for investigation, a pair of glasses that he wore was visible by now. Then, as he held his glasses, this time he looked straight onto David, and from his viewpoint, he could saw the man's blue eyes in higher quality, so it seemed to be more dazzling beautiful.

Thereupon, the man realized...

"Seee? I am not 'him'. I had told you from the start, moron."

said David, and if a normal person heard this, they would throw something before him by now.

"Oh yes, you aren't him. You're quite different."

"Yeah, but don't underestimate me, despite in fact I am not him."

"Okay, okay, I know it right? It seemed my job here was done so I probably will leave now."

David realized something out of the blue, and that man as well.

"Oh, wait. Just several minutes ago I noticed there are some people like you. I think you supposed to have a business on them."

He silenced for a moment. Then, he said something again that this time was straying from the topic.

"Nee, you know what? They are now in war. Should we interfere or no?"

"Huh? There's nothing to do with it."

David's thought resounded in his head

"And I am supposed to meet them for these purposes. But for some reason, I bumped on you, instead of them. Seems I've got some problems with them."

"I see."

"Wait," David said as he again realized something.

"Therefore, you are ____ the wizard, correct?"

"Yes. You are correct. I am the archwizard of flame, 蛭子 (hiruko). And you see this hilt behind me? Jokes on you, that is not even a hilt, it's my staff of flame."

"...I see. I knew it. Then, it makes sense."

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Back on the rooftop, as Mizuki was already there, then it made four people there. Endou, Nami, Myu, and finally, Mizuki.

This fated day, which had been staked by the Divine had finally come, although there were only four people gathered there. His divinity had made it clear, he did think that it would still work even if there were four of the six in total. Then, it seemed the four of the--no, with the fifth and six were listening nearby, they could begin their discussion right now.