The Reincarnators
chapter 5: meeting leon

In the morning, Kazuto awakens in the duke's residence, then as usual he does his morning exercises along with the elinstein knights although his relationship with the edith is bad enough to sometimes just approach him until he yells at him, while the other knights were quite comfortable with the presence of kazuto, even more so with his performance against the head of the knight made the other knights motivated to train and become stronger did not want to be left behind from kazuto, right now as usual the knights were doing their match training while the kazuto himself went to another place where olivia was to ask a few things.

"You asked me to teach you how to use magic," he said, sitting in his room and getting a nod from kazuto, "heard son, I thought if I wasn't the best teacher, after all, there is someone who will be happy to teach you how to use magic," he said, which made Kazuto happy because there are people who will teach him how to use magic, until there was the sound of footsteps entering the pharmacy room.

"Son kazuto you're here" said the man who made Kazuto turn his head because the man was the duke himself.

"Yes, is there a problem with duke theodor, ?" ask kazuto.

"It's okay, I just want to say this directly if the person you're looking for is someone I know, and I know where he is /where he lives," said the duke who gave good news to kazuto.

"So where is he, ?" ask kazuto.

"He lives in the middle of the capital, many people know him because he used to be quite famous" said the duke who walked with the kazuto to the horse carriage at the door of the house, "please ride," said the duke who invited kazuto to get inside the carriage and said if they would meet with leon.

When they entered the carriage, and when the carriage was walking there was only silence between them, when it was to lighten the atmosphere of the kazuto also talked about some things to the duke, he said, the duke himself happily listened to the story of the young man in front of him.

"By the way duke, there's something I want to ask, if you don't have a problem, ?" Kazuto asked who made the duke turn his gaze towards kazuto and gave him a nod if he wanted to listen to the question kazuto wanted to ask, "why when in the forest a few days ago, miss carnatia didn't bring any knights with her, did she, ?" tanya Kazuto who made the duke for the first time looked at kazuto with slightly widened eyes until his eyes returned like a few seconds later because he did not expect to get such a question.

"There are a few reasons why that happened, to be honest I have no obligation to tell this to an outsider like you, but since you saved my son then I think you have the right to know" said the duke, who began to explain the situation.

"A few months ago we got word that the demon army started to move again after decades of doing nothing" the duke told kazuto, "about 2 weeks ago, as he said, our family received orders from his highness to eradicate them, we managed to stop them but unfortunately unbeknownst to us there was a demon that used some kind of magic to turn themselves into one of my troops to trick us" the duke told kazuto.

"The result itself was quite devastating, there was a lot of mistrust among the troops, until there were some who injured each other, but we were lucky if we could overcome it and kill the demon," said the duke in a relieved voice if they managed to overcome the problem of the demons infiltrating.

"How do you do that, ?"asked the curious Kazuto with the method the duke used to distinguish the demon from his knight.

"It wasn't me who did that but doctor olivia," said the duke, who said that the one who managed to distinguish the demon from his army was their doctor.

"Doctor olivia, how did he do that, ?" Asked Kazuto who at that time the duke only pointed at one part of his body and said, "his eyes."

"The olivia doctor has an ability called the octagram eye" said the duke, who made Kazuto remember the olivia who turned her eye green, "what could her eye turn green, ?" Ask kazuto.

"So you've seen it, then it's going to be easier, it's true that the eye he has is one of the octagram eyes," said the duke who made the kazuto understand slightly, but what made him not understand was what the eye had to do with the devil.

"It is said in the legend that if this eye was the possession of the savior 1000 years ago, when man was on the verge of extinction he appeared and saved them from the demons," obviously the duke hit the octagram eye to the kazuto.

"Then how many people have these eyes, ?" Asked Kazuto who was curious about who the owner of these eyes was, he made an estimate if these eyes had the ability to see demons.

"As far as I know there are 5 people I've seen in my life who have octagram eyes, the first one as you know he's a doctor at my residence, olivia, the first one, furthermore she is the eldest daughter of the hexion kingdom, currently she is 15 years old you will probably have the chance to meet her when you enter the hexion academy, she said, then for the other 2 they were in another kingdom, then the last one disappeared somewhere as if its existence was swallowed by the earth itself," said the duke who made Kazuto nod his head and they enjoyed the rest of their journey until they stopped at a small bookstore.

Kazuto immediately got off the horse carriage while the duke himself was tidying up his clothes as neatly as possible when it was as if he was going to meet an important person, Kazuto then rang the bell of the shop, but the owner did not immediately answer kazuto once again rang the bell from the library but like the first there was no answer then Kazuto continued to press the bell until, "hey, stop it," a man shouted from inside the library.

"Basic, little boy who has no patience, did your parents not teach you manners" he said, opening his door and looking at Kazuto, turning his gaze toward theodor, "well you guys come in, it would be better to talk about it inside," he said as he cleared his desk containing various books.

"So that's how your father always decides things without talking about anything" said Leon who sat on the sofa next to Kazuto and the duke who was ruffling his hair because of a troublesome task.

"What is the matter if a disciple visits his teacher," explained theodor who smiled at leon who at that time only sighed heavily, whereas kazuto was only surprised because of this unexpected development.

'Uncle leon is duke theodor's teacher whether uncle leon is a witch, ' thought kazuto who saw leon, he was a man with a fairly good body proportion from his point of view although with his age looking old, he had a fairly muscular body that was arguably on par with the duke, his face itself is quite old with white hair.

"By the way, boy where's your bag, don't tell me you didn't bring anything from your village, ?"asked Leon who was looking towards kazuto who was seen not carrying any items.

"Nak kazuto's stuff is currently in my teacher's house, a few days ago kazuto wanted to save my daughter and servant from monsters," the duke explained to his teacher who was taken in by him.

"Well then, tomorrow you may move here, Theodor allow this child to stay in your residence until tomorrow, do you understand, ?" leon said that when he got the nod from his student, "and tomorrow do your chores and don't use this brat to run away," said Leon who made duke theodor scratch his head, he knew what his disciple was like and he would definitely not allow this disciple to relax too much by using reason to meet him, he did not teach him to be an irresponsible person.

"Okay teacher" said theodor, who only obeyed the words of his teacher, who was about to go out back to his house until he heard a word from his teacher.

"And theodor thanks for the hard work" said Leon who turned his back while coughing slightly.

"Well," he replied that when it made him back excited after getting praise from his teacher, and after that they both returned to the duke's residence where they were awaited by Katia who had just finished her studies.

"Where was that, ?" Katia asked who was standing in front of duke theodor with both hands behind her head.

"Dad is meeting teacher Leon, what about you instead of you being supposed to learn to improve your ability to become a witch, ?" Ask the duke to his son who looks lazy.

"Haha, it's not that I'm lounging around but I think it would be better if I get some hands-on experience on my father's field" Katia said, explaining to her father to let her get outside experience, it is true that one's fighting ability can develop in various ways but the fastest way of all is to fight directly against the danger that one would force themselves to beyond their limits.

Duke theodor himself was well aware of it, he himself progressed faster when he started his career as an adventurer, he fought against dozens of monsters and exceeded his limits many times for it, he said, even he had once been on the verge of death when fighting against monsters, at the thought of that he had become unsure of allowing his eldest daughter to feel the same way, but when he got the idea, he turned his eyes to the man next to him, and she knew that her daughter would not want to get an escort from her knights but what if it was her friend, the duke was sure that his daughter would not refuse him and in his mind the duke only laughed about how genius his idea was to make kazuto become his guardian katia.

"Katia, what do you mean is that you intend to become an adventurer, ?" Asked duke theodor with a serious face who already knew the answer from his daughter, but he wanted to know, no he wanted to be sure if his daughter had the determination to do that even though later he would ask kazuto to accompany her but if he did not have the determination then until whenever duke theodor would never allow it.

"Yes, I've decided it and I'm not going to pull it," he replied briefly, he didn't use the word sweet or rambling to persuade his father, but it was words filled with intense desire and determination that were visible from the look in his eyes.

The Duke closed his eyes and walked into the house but when he stopped and turned around, "good, you are allowed to be an adventurer, don't let me down and make the elinstein family proud" said the duke who again walked over and entered the house but was unknown to the two of them a small smile made by the duke.

"By the way Kazuto, what were you meeting with uncle leon for, ?" Katia asks Kazuto who is curious about why kazuto went along with his father to meet leon's grandfather.

"Oh you remember the person I wanted to meet when I said I wanted to meet someone," said Kazuto who got a nod from Katia, "he is the one, and from tomorrow I will stay with him," kazuto.

"AAPPAAA," cried Katia who could be heard by everyone in the duke's residence, then when she shook the kazuto so hard that it made her dizzy, "how could you know her, ? Not more importantly how did you get permission to stay with him, ?" Asked the panicked Katia who shook the kazuto harder than before which made him dizzy.

"L-let go. I. katia." said Kazuto, who was lying on the ground with a face that paled because it was shaken so hard.

"Kazuto, I'll talk to you face to face, do you know who Uncle Leon is, ?" Tanya katia who got the nod from kazuto who had been mistaken by katia because of the kazuto nature that did not show a little respect to her.

"Kazuto listen carefully, uncle leon is a former royal magician, leon willstene," Katia said.