Chapter 37: The Queen’s Inspection
It was our last day at the capital and our preparations were pretty much done. Both of the maids, Gina and Carli, had packed everything that they needed along with commander Thomas and Harvey.
The rest of the Knight's 4th Order would travel to End Town as they normally would. I told the king and the commander that Vespera and I could probably teleport everyone, but the commander wanted to send his knights on the road in case they needed to clear any monster obstructing it. I supposed he didn't want another event like what happened with the troll, so it was understandable.
Everyone was so busy on that last day, that only my familiars, Jackson, and I decided to hang out and walk around the city. It was probably going to be a while since we visited again, so we thought we might as well give it one last tour.
During our walk, we passed by a bookstore that called my attention. It wasn't huge, but it had two floors and it was filled to the brim with books. Yoru and Vespera stayed outside eating meat skewers from one of the stalls while Jackson and I browsed the store.
On the second floor of the bookstore, I felt a strange energy coming from one of the tomes in the highest shelf. I took it out and blew away the layer of dust that was covering it.
It had a blue and silver cover with nothing on it other than a generic design. The title was written on the first page: "My Studies on Night and Day Magic."
The author was a woman named Kyoko who had the title of "sage" a long time ago. In it, she described her experimentation with a type of magic that she had created herself and ended up calling "Night Magic" and "Day Magic", respectively.
I was only getting started when Jackson popped up from behind, startling me. "What you got there?" he said as he pointed at the tome in my hands.
"Seems like it's a sage's book. I think I might buy it..." I responded as I flipped through some of the pages.
"Hmmm, so... You can actually read that?" asked Jackson as he stared at the open book.
"Huh? Why wouldn't I be able to read this?" I thought before noticing one big detail about the book I was holding. "It-... It's all in English!"