Zero no Tsukaima:Volume14 Chapter5
Chapter 5: Six Thousand Years Ago
Part 1
But at the same time, his conscious said otherwise.
Brimir and Sasha brought Saito to a village called Junitabelio.
Despite being brought there, as soon as he walked past the gates, the village appeared before him. With a Nidabelian name, it seemed to undoubtedly be a properous market. With that kind of mindset, he found that what he saw did not fall within his expectations.
It was a small village filled with moveable tents placed along the sides of nameless hills. One round tent was made of wood and cloth. On one side of the tent, there were a few goats eating long strands of grass.
The whole scenery looked just like the nomadic Mongolians living in their daily lives—something that he had seen in a community textbook.
Finding his breath taken away by this foreign place, Saito stood there dumbfounded.
“My house is just over there. ”
Brimir led him to one of the highest tents in the village. A blue flag flapped atop the tent's canopy. Wasn't Brimir a founder? Someone like Christianity's Jesus, Islam's Mohammed, or Buddism's Sakyamuni? Essentially some incredible person! While thinking, Saito entered. He's living in this kind of run-down place? Is this really Brimir himself?
The furniture inside was simple; crude. A thatch bed was placed further inside. A carpet that resembled Middle-Eastern carpets covered the ground.
“But this really shocked me.”
Standing in the house, Brimir excitedly said,
“Where is your owner anyways? Near Midagade? I just really want to meet him.”
Saito found himself recalling an animated film before he had seen before. Because the protagonist returned to the wrong time period, he got to directly interact with a hero. "I'm Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japan's first commander general." It seemed that as he said that phrase, he was introducing the Battle of Sekigahara in a friendly manner.
What he could see right now was completely different from that. No matter how he saw it, this was just an ordinary person.
Although, you can't really say that that's the absolute truth.....after all, legendary people are still people. The mere fact that he's in such a place and is seeing Brimir as an ordinary person is far more unimaginable. He should be paying close attention to this.
Saito coughed with an "ahem," then faced those two.
“That's absolutely impossible.”
“Why?”
“That's.....well what you two believe to be a trifling matter happens to be something that I can't possibly do. I actually come six thousand years from the future." He never thought that he would find himself saying something that sounded like it came out of a sci-fi show, regardless as to whether he was on Earth or Halkaginia.
Unsurprisingly, Brimir and Sasha faced each other and laughed. "Hahahaha.”
“What you said was indeed hillarious.”
“Sorry, sorry. I understand how you want you protect your master. Especially during this kind of chaos. Very few people use this kind of "odd system" of magic. It would be terrible if the Balliag knew. Why don't you tell me when you feel like it. “
Brimir laughed lightly.
Odd system was referring to 'Void' right? In this era, the term 'Void' must be non-existent.
“What's the Balliag?”
Saito asked.
“……You don't know? Those guys are a group of devils that employ frightening tactics." Brimir responded with a pained expression.
Saito felt a bit reluctant to believe what he was hearing on the topic of the Founder's enemies....those weren't the elves, who used ancient magic, were they?
“By Balliag, are you referring to elves? ”
Saito's head got hit hard with a “clang.”
“Ah, that hurts....”
“Why would we be those kinds of barbarians? ”
Sasha was put off by what Saito had said.
“They and us are of completely different races. In this wide world's other places.....have completely different cultures.”
“So it's like that.”
Brimir took ahold of Saito's left hand.
That's why I engraved this inscription on her. Gandalfr. In our old language, it means 'the lowly person who controls magic.'
"So you're the one who engraved this inscription. ”
"That's right. Yet your owner didn't?”
Saito shook his head. The inscriptions actually engraved 'themselves'. But according to Brimir, inscriptions in this era had to be engraved. “Nope. Although, 'the lowly person who controls magic' ── Gandalfr doesn't actually use magic.”
“That's because you're a mere human. Looks like ordinary humans can actually become familiars. I had thought that only beasts, magical creatures, or creatures of a different race could. Essentially, the magic that she uses isn't what I use.”
“Ancient magic?”
He asked, but Sasha shook her head.
“What's that? Please don't use another other odd expressions. Call it “elven powers” all right?”
Saito began to realize serious history was. A Gandalfr was 'the lowly person who controls magic.' And the Gandalfr in this era was an elf. He just felt that all of that was a bit hard to believe.
After having stared at Sasha for the whole time........he felt reality crack, as though he was seeing his own ancestors. Just some kind of undescribeable feeling.
“Why didn't you use magic during that time?”
“I didn't want to use elven powers at that kind of place," Sasha said.
“Did you know that to use magic, elves have to learn it?”
“That's a widely known fact, after all.... but what do you mean by the Balliag's frightening tactics?”
Brimir looked at Saito in bewilderment.
“Do you honestly not know about the Balliag?”
“That's right.”
“I sure envy you; there's actually someone on this world who doesn't have the Balliag's shadow treading upon their land. Oh, I understand; your owner must be intentionally hiding it from you.”
As though he was very satisfied, Brimir nodded his head. Saito could only watch in bafflement.
“That scary.......just what do those tactics look like?”
Brimir shook his head sadly.
“You'll probably understand in a moment.”
Heavy silence fell on the room. Unable to stand the silence, Saito looked around the inside tent. On a normal basis, there wasn't anything attractive. The entrance revealed a child's nosy face, though. A cute little girl that was around ten years of age.
She wore something that resembled a work uniform with a thin brightly colored belt on her waist.
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