Magi Craft Meister

word.”

“Y-yes.”

Despite being flustered by the instructor suddenly asking to see her sword, Lithia handed it over.

“Hmm.
Mh-hm, you’re actually using a pretty good sword.
Where did you get it? I’d also like to get something of this quality.”

“U-umm, y-you see, it’s a sword a-an acquaintance Magi Craftsman repaired for me.
It used to be just a normal iron sword, but it got bent and he repaired it for me.”

Because she was flustered the explanation was a little faltering, but the instructor seemed to understand.

“Hmm, is that so.
That’s a good acquaintance you’ve got.
Take good care of this sword.”

Gloria then turned towards everyone and,

“Ten laps around the training grounds and that’s it for today.
Double time!”

She commanded and herself began running ahead of them.

After a day of training ten laps around the training grounds was rather intense.
While some dropped out, Lithia stuck it through to the end while wheezing.

＊ ＊ ＊

Then, on the 3457th year in the history of the continent, soon in the beginning of the year the neighboring Frantz Kingdom’s army violated the border and Lithia too was appointed to the relief knight troops and recruited to the battle.

Was it a shame she couldn’t become an Imperial Guard knight, or was this her calling? For Lithia it was the latter.

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On the battlefield Lithia remembered what she had once talked about with Jin.

‘Isn’t it fine to live for the things you can do?, Jin had said.

“Something I can do… It’s healing after all, isn’t it.”

Due to her daily efforts in training, Lithia had mastered healing magic up to the intermediate level, and had become a healer competent even among the relief knight troops.

＊ ＊ ＊

That year there were three repeated small fights.

The third one was the most violent battle of them all.
There were many casualties, Cline Kingdom’s army was forced back, and they met the opposing Frantz Kingdom’s army at Tetrade, 50 kilometers from the border.

And at that time.

A giant golem appeared and made everyone completely unable to fight.

The weapons, armor, even the golems and tableware, any and all metallic objects of Frantz Kingdom’s army had been molten.
Cline Kingdom’s army had been inexplicably rendered unconscious, and once they woke up they found their weapons and armor taken…

Frontal battle being of course impossible without weapons and armor, so Frantz Kingdom’s army withdrew.
Lithia and the others also stayed inside Tetrada waiting for orders from the headquarters.

“Lithia, I heard you’ve done well.”

At that time, Lithia’s father Nicholas whose working hours were over came to visit her.
Nicholas was working as the deputy leader of Cline Kingdom’s third chivalric order.

“Father, I’m glad you’re safe!”

The father and daughter held each other’s hands, both glad the other was safe.

“Lithia, it seems you’ve worked hard.”

“Mmh… Although there were people I couldn’t save.”

Lithia spoke and looked sad.
Nicholas then gently tried to reassure his daughter.

“That couldn’t be helped.
Everyone who went on the battlefield was prepared for what might happen.
Luckily there were no casualties among the commoners.
”

“Isn’t that because Father and the others did their best?”

“That was our job and I’m proud of it.”

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On this day a conversation like that went on between the father and the daughter.

“By the way, about that third son of the Rush family…”

Finally Nicholas spoke about the matter he was most concerned about as a father.
But Lithia replied,

“Eh? About who?”

And so Nicholas felt relieved from the bottom of his heart.

＊ ＊ ＊

The next day.

“Ah, Li-Lithia-san, morning.”

“Ah, Pasco-san, good morning.”

The face of Pasco Rush was somewhat red.
On top of that he was talking in monotone.

“W-what a fine weather we’re having today, don’t you agree.”

“It’s getting cloudy though…”

“Oh, um, that’s right, uh, ha, hahaha…”

Pasco tried to smooth things over by laughing.
Then he faced Lithia and,

“A-anyway, I have to go work as a guard now!”

He gave a salute and left.

“Heh, what an interesting fellow.”

Lithia then looked up at the sky.

“Guard, huh…”

Suddenly she placed her hand on her waist, and was surprised when she realized that the familiar thing wasn’t there.

“It got lost, didn’t it…”

Lithia had lost the short sword Jin had repaired for him that had been her favorite ever since.

In addition to that, there may have been another reason why she was feeling down about it.