VIP Chapter 416: Iaar Arrives
He pushed the wheelchair a little closer, carefully confirming that Iaar was truly asleep, and asleep quickly and deeply. She shouldn’t wake up before her magic recovered. After that…
He reached into his backpack and pulled out two potions, then injected them into his thigh, close to his knee.
“Hiss… Liya lied to me again, this still stings quite a bit.”
His leg injury was a frozen state maintained by magic. Injecting some potions from the witch would immediately heal it with no lingering side effects. He could use the instant cast magic Liya prepared later to compensate.
This kind of magic seemed quite common in the world, but since the witch’s potions weren’t public, many people with this condition were left as if they were disabled.
“Okay, I just need to lift myself up…”
Having not gotten out of the “wheelchair” for a long time, Will was a little unaccustomed to it.
He almost didn’t know how to walk. He swayed when he stood on the ground, nearly falling onto the grass.
“Ouch…”
He took the opportunity to crouch down and poke Iaar’s face with his hand. She didn’t wake up.
Iaar’s fluffy tail spread out behind her because she was sleeping so soundly. It didn’t wag, but rather resembled the opened flower of a plant, its orange-brown appearance very beautiful.
Her ears twitched in the gentle spring breeze. The fur on them, blown by the wind, made one want to reach out and ruffle them.
Moreover, Will noticed—
The clothes she was wearing today were different from the “rumors.”
In the previous legends about the Fire Dragon Killer, she had been wearing black clothes that looked like mourning attire. At that time, Will had thought, “This girl’s maid outfit actually has so many styles that change according to the occasion.”
Then…
Today, she was wearing a very cute white maid outfit, like a saint.
“Is the limit three consecutive times? In that case, for a maximum of thirty seconds in total, that’s already very powerful.”
“It’s also quite strange…”
“To think that there would come a day when you would overexert your magic and fall asleep in front of me, and I would have to carry you back.”
Will showed a slightly gratified smile.
He rarely reminisced about the past, but he had been defeated by Iaar again. Following her, whether it was truly doing the same things as before or…
“However… if that’s the case, it’s time for the next step. I wonder how Liya is handling things…”
He chuckled lightly and, with a nostalgic gesture, scratched Iaar’s ear with his finger.
“Achoo.”
In her dream, Iaar seemed to sneeze.
“Cute…”
Will couldn’t help but smile.
Although Iaar was sometimes so foolish that he felt helpless, he had to admit that this silly feeling, combined with her fluffy ears, gave her the charm of a giant puppy.
Indeed, he couldn’t go against his own heart…
He truly loved his little maid who always stayed by his side.
As he reached out towards Iaar’s arm, he felt the shadow of another person engulfing him as he crouched down.
The shadow wasn’t very long, but the area overhead was quite large.
“Oh my, oh my, isn’t this Young Master Will? You look perfectly healthy, your eyes are bright as ever, there’s absolutely no need for you to rely on your little maid.”
Liya’s voice came through, though she deliberately lowered her voice, seemingly not wanting to wake Iaar.
“Don’t tell me the two of you have already buried the hatchet and are spending every night in this love nest…?”
Liya’s face darkened, and her tone was clearly filled with a strong sense of jealousy.
Facing such a Liya, Will spread his hands.
“Do you think I’m someone who’s easily appeased?”
“Then… then why aren’t you pretending to be disabled anymore?!”
“Are you anxious?”
“I… I’m not anxious at all.”
Will stood up, circled around Liya, and then sat back in the wheelchair.
“Iaar collapsed, so I quickly recovered to handle the situation. Since you’re here, I’ll leave it to you. Use your flying magic to move her somewhere, will you?”
“She collapsed… so she overused that magic? That’s why she’s lying here?”
“You seem to know a lot.”
“Overexerting ancient magic… and then collapsing, isn’t that very common? It’s nothing to ‘know a lot’ about.”
“Since you’re here, you must have seen my letter. How is it? Have you made any contact with Al? Is it easy to clear the dungeon? Is our current direction very correct…”
“…This is why I arrived so quickly.” Liya switched to her usual serious tone. “As a witch, I cannot accept her being ‘cleared’ by some random person I don’t know.”
Then, she raised her staff, aimed it at Iaar lying on the ground, and levitated her horizontally.
“That dragon is very interesting. As an Emperor Boss, she herself seems more amenable to being ‘cleared’ by you.”
“Ahah. That is truly an honor.”
“As for Iaar, if you want to proceed to the next step of the plan, from now on, her time will be mine.”
“Mmm. I hope you can act the part convincingly…”
Will wiped his sunglasses with the cloth from his waist. Although the sunglasses were entirely black, they still needed to be cleaned.
“Make her truly fall into a ‘difficult situation’.”
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“Look! Are you ready?! Young Master, now let Iaar stop time in front of you!”
“Wow, Iaar is so strong! Let me go hit that little fire dragon a couple of times.”
“Heh heh, no problem at all. Within Iaar’s severe cold domain, anything is possible…”
“Iaar, it’s time to wake up.”
“?!”
Iaar woke up instantly, finding herself lying on a park bench in an outdoor garden. The bench was cold, as it was still early spring, and the chair was still cool after not much time.
She felt a little dizzy and weak.
“How did Iaar suddenly get moved here?! Has Young Master also mastered some kind of time-stopping magic!?”
“It was me.”
“…?! Could it be, could it be Young Master has mastered some magic that can instantly turn him into a witch!?”
“Just watch—it’s me!”
Liya was a little annoyed. Why was this Iaar always so foolish!
“Uh… So, you’re Liya?”
Iaar reached out and tugged Liya’s face. Liya didn’t stop her.
“Do you believe me now? Liya is here, alive and well. You can still distinguish my hand from Will’s, right?”
“…Thinking about it, I haven’t touched Young Master’s face recently. Would his facial feel be like this… too?”
“Hey!”
Liya lightly singed her tail with a very, very small flame.
“Yow!” Iaar immediately extinguished the flame on her tail with her ice magic. “Okay, okay, Iaar believes you—Young Master would never randomly singe Iaar’s tail!”
However, Iaar crossed her arms and sat further down on the other side of the chair, intending to keep her distance from Liya.
“So, Miss Witch, why are you here…? Where is Young Master?”
“He went inside.”
“Went inside at this time?”
“I brought him a… um… braille book from the library. He went inside to read it. He asked me to watch you.”
“…Hmm?” Iaar looked somewhat skeptical. “Why?”
Liya opened one eye and glanced sideways at Iaar, who was happily smiling in the shade of the leaves.
She understood. Iaar was probably overjoyed because she had learned time-stopping magic.
And then…
The news she was about to tell Iaar might make her stop smiling.
“Because there are some things I want to tell you alone.”
