"Then, please allow me to begin the lesson."
The Armored Dragon King's Familiar, Shivalier the Void, spoke.
Cui Ciyou collected himself and turned his gaze toward the teacher with two wings.
Only Cui Ciyou, Sylphy, Nanahoshi Shizuka, and Julie were present.
The two beast-eared girls had declared that they could not learn it. They simply could not.
They owed this opportunity to learn the Armored Dragon King's summoning entirely to the groundwork laid by Nanahoshi Shizuka, their "fellow countrywoman."
Nanahoshi Shizuka had an arrangement with the Armored Dragon King.
She could exchange the results of her research into other worlds for lessons in summoning.
The lessons began with the very basics, and Perugius himself had not come.
As the Armored Dragon King had put it:
"Only when you reach the true threshold of summoning shall you be worthy of receiving my personal instruction."
At this moment, Perugius was probably sitting leisurely on his throne.
Drinking tea and chatting about everything under the sun with his Familiars...
"First, let us establish a common understanding."
"What is summoning?"
Shivalier posed the question.
"Master Ciyou, please answer."
"What, exactly, does summoning mean?"
Caught by the question, Cui Ciyou froze briefly, but his thoughts drifted despite himself.
For some reason, he thought of Alice and Roxy.
Had Alice been here, a theoretical question like this would probably have given her an immediate headache.
She would most likely have ended up shouting irritably, "If I can't remember this stuff, then forget it! Actual combat is what matters!" or something along those lines.
Roxy, on the other hand... her eyes would surely have lit up as she eagerly raised her hand to answer.
"Summoning Magic falls into two types."
Cui Ciyou gathered his thoughts and recounted everything he knew.
Thanks to his increasingly powerful mental strength