Chapter 22: Guide on Casting the High Magic Summon
Too many distractions have happened in my life.
Ever since then, I kept asking myself: why do I even need friends? Do I want to be understood? Or maybe... I’m just starved for connection?
Riven, Ash, Salazar. Their lives never interested me—at least not until recently.
I met the first just to copy his homework. The second manipulated the situation so I’d end up beside her. And the third...
...lost his gift.
Still, I don’t consider them bad people. Each of them brought a drop of something new into my existence.
But one question still haunts me.
Why would someone like me—a summon—need good memories?
Since the moment of my reincarnation, I’ve pondered this. I live for one purpose: to protect my mistress.
Lirael. Though I wouldn’t say she even needs my protection—nothing ever happens in her life, just like in the lives of millions of others.
Her family despises me. Why do they even keep me around? Why hasn’t she dismissed me yet?
Is it just to balance the cost? A contract with a High Spirit siphons half of the user’s mana... permanently.