Volume 9 - CH 7.2

Cast of Characters Arc 2: Genia and Merula, Unveiling the Deepening Mysteries 

“Oh, if you were looking for Madam Naden, she flew back to Sir Albert’s domain, you know?” 

“She left me behind?!” I yelped. “How could she?!” 

As I was getting enraged at this unexpected betrayal, suddenly there was a knock at the door. 

I called out, “Please, come in!” 

It was the researcher duo, Genia and Merula, who showed up. They were usually so boisterous, but today they seemed somewhat out of sorts for some reason. 

“What’s wrong, you two?” 

“Well... we have a report to make on the investigation you requested.” Genia said, her eyes wandering. 

The investigation I’d requested? Oh, the one on the ritual of hero summoning. 

If I could find out just a little about the workings of the ritual that brought had me here, I might be able to figure out if there would be others summoned like me after this. 

I wasn’t holding out any hope that I’d be able to travel back and forth between my old world and this one, though. 

“So, what did you find out?” I asked. 

“Only a very tiny thing, really,” Genia said. “It’s about that summoning room... Let me come right out and say it. The spells in that room had nothing to do with summoning someone from another world.” 

“...Come again?” 

Huh? The room they’d been calling the Summoning Room had nothing to do with summoning someone? ...No, but... Whuh? 

“I’m here, and I was summoned, you realize?” I said. 

“That’s true. But... nearly all of the spells in that room concerned linguistic ability.”