Isekai Journey Of The Magic Archer

[Rein's POV: ]

"Any idea where they all might be, Celes?"

Since the headmaster ordered us to stay away from this matter regarding the Temple and Kaksha, we had to concern ourselves with anything related to that.

'And since he ordered us to do it and didn't say it nicely as he usually does, I was certainly going to try and do it anyway.'

That would have annoyed her and since I could get aaay after creating a mess for him, he would have had to clean up after us.

Which would of course be a headache for him, and seeing him suffer would have been fun.

'Alas…'

He knew us well enough by now to know what we could do and what we might want to do.

That's why he had entrusted my darling and Del to look after the two of us… that bastard headmaster.

[{ They are in the library~. Hahah, they had been playing around there since yesterday and they even found a few fun things while playing~! }]

She sounded as cheerful as usual, but what she said caught our attention.

"They are in the library? And they are having fun in the library? What fun thing did they find there? Some kind of secret passage leading to a secret place?"

The library certainly was a big place and a special one as well and contained a number of secrets but… one doesn't just find something fun in that place because they are bored.

One would either have to be very lucky or very unlikely to find something that would be fun, as well as dangerous in that place.

[{ Yes~! They found a special book and then some of them went inside that book~. And while waiting for them to come out, some of them found a secret passage behind a bookshelf and went in there~.

Hahah, they are now playing with candle ghosts~. }]

"Candle ghosts?"

Going inside a book wasn't that special things since there certainly were special magical tomes of stories or historical records that pulled the readers inside them and showed them the stories stored inside those books.

There were certainly a few such books in the library of Time but coming across one of them was a rare thing.

'And even more rare than finding a special tome like this one was finding finding the secret passages inside the grand library that led to various special places.'

The locations of these social (Doors) changed periodically so according to what I know, sometimes no one comes across such places during their entire academic lives here.

But they found not only a Door to a special place but also a book of vivid stories?

Just how much luck did they get in exchange for not being able to go to those flower gardens?

'And candle ghosts?'

The only thing that came to mind after hearing that was a creature that was famously found in the academy's few secret places. A cute creature that I also wanted to see for a while now.

"Looks like they found the Store room of Faith."

"She isn't going to like all of them being there though. Let's hope she doesn't get too angry seeing all of them there."

"Well, I've built up a good relationship with her so if we go and ask her nicely, of course with her favourite food items, she shouldn't mind having them play around there for a while."

All three of them knew about this room Celes was talking about so I was the only clueless one among us.

"Care to tell me what you guys are talking about?"

I didn't like it when these bastards left me in the dark.

And even though I had warned them many times already, this wasn't the first time they were doing this to me.

"Right~. Uriel doesn't know about Faith's store room~."

Del was excited to tell me, as always, but… just like every other time, before she could say anything at all, my darling spoke up.

"There are three storerooms that are owned by the librarian Lady Faith. One of those places is filled with the (Ghost flames) or candle ghosts as Celes called them.

She has some valuable books stored in there about Alchemy, Magic engineering, and topics related to Creation.

It would be a fun place for Miss Mia, Zoe, and the others."

He still had that bitter-salty relationship with Del, but it was understandable since she had still not given up on me.

'She knows there's only pain at the end of this path for her, and she still doesn't want to leave her feelings for me.'

She was a good friend, but that was all she was going to be for me… for us.

But it wasn't something I had been concerned about.

'Watching the two of them fighting like this and then the other one getting offended is a fun pass time for us.'

And I personally enjoyed them fighting like cats and mice.

"So, shall we go there?" The president suggested as he finished his cup of tea, and darling nodded with a smile.

"Let's go pick them up. Ah, right. If you two aren't doing anything, would you like to come with us?"

"Hmmm?"

He was asking both of them all of a sudden, but he should have asked that question when we sat down here to have the tea ten minutes ago.

'Bastard waited till the moment was right and they weren't expecting something from him anymore.'

There was a reason the headmaster trusted him that much… and that only made him more lovely.

"You are going to see flower gardens? Will you even make it there if you leave now? Going there on foot with so many people would be difficult, no?"

"Yup. That's why we will be flying there."

He said it so casually the other two didn't find it that surprising for a moment, but then after a moment passed without anyone saying anything, a sudden realisation hit them.

"What?! You will be flying there?!"

Flying all the way to the outskirts in broad daylight would not only be difficult, it would also require a large creature… more than one large creature actually.

Perhaps, if they use the flying magic, they could do it with a little ease, but even as someone that knew how to cast Flying magic, we weren't str9ng enough to cast and maintain that spell on so many people for so long.

That's why this was so surprising to them. That's why even the president was surprised by those casual words of his at this moment.

"Don't worry, everyone. I won't have to cast magic on all of them.

Tia can fly and handle one more with her since she has her familiar beast.

Hide can handle a few of them with his water magic.

I'll take up Quin and a few others that have no way of flying yet.

I've some artifacts that will help those who have wind attribute affinity.

Alf and Bell can take a few of them with their familiars, and if we sum up all of that, we should have enough manpower to fly all of them to the destination I have in mind.

And, no… we won't be going to the known flower garden that has appeared recently."

He told me about a special place a while back when the topic of these flower gardens had just started circulating among the students.

'He had read about this special place as well and he said it was situated somewhere deep in the outskirts of the sky island.'

He didn't tell me much about this special place, but he was so excited about visiting it at this particular time that I was seeing a rare side of him.

'He was just too excited about that place, and he also wanted to take all of them to that place with us.'

But the mission of the headmaster came and he got so worked up about it that I was worried about him these past few days.

But, looking at the smile that was back on his pretty face, I know I had nothing to worry about anymore.

He was fine, and he was looking forward to going to that special place he had mentioned as well.

'And if we just had to make up for the time, by flying… I had my Branwen. We can take five or so of them.'

They would be surprised to find that the crow that they had known for so long, my simple looking familiar was in fact a special origin beast that only a rare few in this world had. But, we can deal with that with some believable excuses.

"We aren't going to the flower gardens, so… what kind of more amazing place are we going?"

Del wasn't interested in flowers of natural scenery that much. We knew that already so something like a magical flower field wasn't going to excite her that much.

"Oh, it's a special place. I know You will like it."

He smirked at her. Yes he did…

"I've said it many times. I don't like that look."

"Hehehe."

It wasn't like she hated him. She couldn't do it even if she wanted to since she looked up to him. But, she just couldn't stand him.

It was just the kind of relationship the two of them had, and it was good.

'It was much better than what it could have been in the situation the three of us are in.'

So, this was pretty fun.

"Alright then, let's go pick them up."

[{ Yei~! }]

Celes was excited and if we were going to go see cute little candle ghosts, there was no way I wouldn't be excited about it as well.

'They were cute, you know?'

One just needed the right eyes to see their cuteness.