Senior, I've Come to Visit - Chapter 19

Nardi watched the demonic beast circling fiercely around the ring, roaring as it went.

After a long standoff, the beast headed toward Mireille, and even after a considerable amount of time passed, it still couldn’t bring itself to attack. Unable to find any more prey, the beast went wild searching for an exit.

Bang!

Its massive body slammed into the laboratory wall, making the floor vibrate. My body shook too, and just as I was about to cast a spell, Mireille bound the beast with magical chains.

“It seems the first set of reagents is effective.”

“Yes.”

“The effect is really good.”

Nardi spoke cheerfully and clapped his hands. My nerves finally settled a little, and I felt relieved. At the very least, the three reagents we’d just tested worked on that demonic beast.

I turned and looked toward Lupina outside the glass. She’d been tense with worry and now had both hands pressed to her chest, taking deep breaths. When our eyes met, she waved happily, and we exchanged small smiles.

“Still, let’s not get complacent. Let’s test the next set of reagents.”

“Yes.”

“Understood.”

After erasing the previous reagents completely with magic, we drew new circles with the second set.

Mireille released the chains binding the beast again. This time too, as if I were the easiest target, the beast watched me first and prowled around the ring, then ran toward Mireille and Nardi. And again, it couldn’t cross a single line and only raged in frustration.

Since the magic potions kept working, the process repeated in a similar pattern.

My legs hurt….

I already had muscle pain, and standing in one place or pacing made my legs ache. I wanted to bring over a chair and sit, but we couldn’t lower our guard, not knowing when one might break through and attack. I endured it quietly, not showing anything, and focused on the experiment.

After erasing the previous potion’s trace and pouring the sixth magic potion, even while drawing the ring, I felt something was off about the beast’s reaction. Checking the label on the bottle, I saw it was a reagent made with rare ingredients but infused with a low amount of magic. I signaled to Nardi and Mireille with my eyes.

“Be careful, Senior.”

Nardi spoke quietly, his voice tinged with worry. There was no way he hadn’t noticed that the beast kept targeting me first.

“Yeah.”

Instinctively, I sharpened my focus and braced myself.

The moment Mireille released the chains, the beast, furious after repeated failures and restraints, charged. As if it were an unbreakable rule, it rushed straight at me, hesitated for a moment at the boundary… then crossed the line and lunged.

Bang!!!

The beast slammed into the barrier I created in an instant. The impact was strong enough to make the air shudder.

But the barrier wasn’t just one layer, it was two. On top of my silver-white barrier, a pale blue one—likely created by Nardi—formed a dual shield that blocked the beast.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The beast rammed the barrier repeatedly with its three pairs of horns. But the domed barrier encasing me held firm. Nardi had strengthened it far more than necessary, making it so solid that I couldn’t even feel the slightest vibration. Inside and outside were completely separated. I watched the beast emotionlessly, as if looking through a window.

Since we couldn’t attack and risk damaging the valuable test subject, all we could do was defend and wait until the beast exhausted itself. It repeatedly retreated and then rammed the barrier again.

This magic potion is useless.

If we lowered the ingredients and magic to this level, the effect started to disappear.

I rotated the empty glass bottle so its label faced Lupina. I wasn’t sure she could see it from this distance.

She was anxiously hopping in place, clearly distressed.

Soon, the demonic beast gave up on me and switched targets. It went for Mireille, who stood expressionless. His magic potion, made with similar quantities but a different ingredient ratio, was ineffective too. Mireille didn’t even blink as he raised a barrier, and the beast repeated the same behavior again.

Even though the beast had changed its target, Nardi didn’t dispel the barrier he’d placed around me. As if he didn’t care about the beast or Mireille at all, his eyes stayed fixed only on me.

‘Focus. You’re next.’

I mouthed the words, and he seemed to understand, nodding.

‘Yes.’

‘Get rid of this barrier too.’

I pointed at the pale blue barrier and crossed my wrists into an X.

‘What?’

But Nardi tilted his head like he didn’t understand.

He understood perfectly. That stubborn mule…!

Thinking it was safer not to talk any further, I turned my eyes back toward the beast and Mireille. Hopefully Nardi would pay attention to the beast now. The demonic beast smashed recklessly into Mireille’s barrier with brute force.

Watching its movements through the opaque blue barrier, I drifted into thought.

The intelligence of demonic beasts varied by species, but in general they were low. Yet they kept appearing like weeds and had to be culled through subjugations. If not, regions would become uninhabitable dead zones where neither people nor animals could live, and those areas would expand, causing massive damage.

Demonic beasts mostly lived in deep forests, mountains, lakes, and seas, so the capital and big cities were comparatively safe. The ones who suffered direct damage were the kingdom’s poor citizens living in remote areas. Commoners who lived in tiny, nameless villages. Like how my parents died because of demonic beasts, and how Iella nearly died too.

Ironically, the demonic beasts that took my family’s lives were also the very reason wizards were held in high regard. Wizards could do many things—develop useful magical tools, heal diseases—but they were especially valued because they could effectively hunt demonic beasts, which threatened the kingdom. If wizards didn’t regularly risk their lives to subjugate them, the beasts would multiply beyond control, and the damage wouldn’t remain limited to remote, poor regions.

That was why someone like me, a commoner, could belong to this team where everyone except me was a noble. If I weren’t a wizard, I’d never have met people like Mireille, Lupina, or Nardi in my entire life.

I didn’t care if wizards weren’t treated highly. I’d prefer it if demonic beasts disappeared completely.

Bang!

Failing again to break Mireille’s barrier, the beast finally charged toward Nardi. The newly formed pale blue barrier bounced it back. After confirming that even Nardi’s magic potion was ineffective, Mireille didn’t hesitate and immediately bound the beast with chains. One by one, the various barriers disappeared.

“Are you okay, Senior?!”

Nardi rushed over and checked me quickly.

“Of course I’m fine. There were two layers of barriers.”

I debated whether to say he didn’t need to go that far, since I could’ve defended myself easily, or just thank him. After a short moment, I chose the latter.

“Thanks for the barrier.”

“Don’t mention it. The beast kept going after you, so I worried.”

He glared at the beast as if displeased.

“Is everyone okay?!”

Lupina opened the door and came inside.

“Yes, we’re fine.”

“We’re fine, but the sixth reagent is ineffective.”

“I wrote everything down! You must be exhausted. Let’s go eat lunch; it’s already lunchtime.”

“Yes.”

More than the meal, I was relieved at the thought of sitting down. Leaving the beasts locked in the laboratory’s inner chamber, we headed to the Magic Tower cafeteria.

After a short lunch break, we spent the entire afternoon conducting experiments. Repeating a similar process several times while switching the reagents and the demonic beasts, it eventually became time to leave work.

“Everyone, you all worked so hard!”

“Thank you for your hard work.”

“See you tomorrow.”

“See you tomorrow.”

Completely exhausted, I left the Magic Tower and got into the carriage.

Finally alone, I touched my chest over my clothes. Even though Nardi had sucked me once this morning before leaving for work, by evening, my breasts were swollen and firm with milk again. I’d even changed the cloth wrapping my breasts once in the restroom during the afternoon, but now it was completely soaked and damp. Feeling uncomfortable, I hoped to arrive home quickly.

The two carriages that had departed from the front of the Magic Tower in different directions stopped at the same place.

Right in front of my house.