"Are you really leaving now?"
As dusk fell, before the Yggdmillennia family's villa, Fiore could not help saying that.
"It would be fine if you two stayed here a little longer."
That remark, like something a hospitable friend would say, made both Fang Li and Jeanne laugh, while Sieg and Astolfo exchanged bewildered looks.
Fang Li and Jeanne stood before Fiore, both wearing helpless smiles.
"That doesn't sound like something a Magus would say. You're being far too friendly." Fang Li spread his hands as he spoke. "Still, you've already transferred your Magic Crest Imprint, so I suppose it doesn't matter anymore."
"How is Mr. Caules?" Jeanne asked with some concern. "Is he still unable to move?"
"No, he has no problem moving around anymore." Fiore shook her head and replied with a smile, "Thanks to Miss Jeanne's Holy Shroud, the rejection caused by the Magic Crest Imprint has lessened considerably, and much of his physical discomfort has eased. He can move around normally now. It's just that the transplantation left Caules mentally exhausted, so he's still resting."
During the Magic Crest Imprint transplantation ritual, Fiore had transferred her crest with almost nothing held back. In the end, Caules inherited a large portion of it.
Originally, their plan had been to transplant at least half of it, with seventy percent being the ideal outcome.
Yet the procedure had gone remarkably smoothly. Caules inherited over eighty percent of the Magic Crest Imprint in one go, and his magical energy surged dramatically as well.
That was both a good thing and a bad thing.
The good part went without saying. Since he had inherited more than eighty percent of the Magic Crest Imprint, no one in the family could doubt Caules's status as heir any longer. He would shoulder the fate of