My Magical Career at Court: Living the Dream After My Nightmare Boss Fired Me from the Mages' Guild! Volume 6 (eBook)

Shusui Hazuki (Autor)

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2025
250 Seiten
J-Novel Heart (Verlag)
978-1-7183-8168-1 (ISBN)

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Luke is missing.
Not so long ago, magic-loving country girl Noelle received her biggest promotion yet-lieutenant in the new Seventh Unit of the Royal Court Magicians' Division-while her old school friend Luke became the unit's captain. After a dramatic start to the job, Luke told her he had something important to reveal...then mysteriously disappeared.
To find him, Noelle has no choice but to venture alone to the Holy Nation of Clares, a place where royal court magicians are not welcome, and track down the nefarious Order of the Dragon. It'll take plenty more hard work for her to save the day-and she might just need to get help from some other old friends!

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Finding something...and losing it. If they’re just two sides of the same coin, then why is it that losing something is so much more painful?

Prologue: The Path of Least Regret

Luke hadn’t shown up at the fountain where we’d agreed to meet.

Honestly, that realization shook me. This was a popular meeting spot, so there were a lot of people around on a Friday night like this. I saw others sitting on the edge of the fountain, waiting for somebody to come, but the difference was that somebody did arrive for each of them, and they vanished away into the crowd in pairs. Even for me, waiting all alone by the fountain on a busy evening took its toll.

A man approached me casually. Oh, here we go... I thought, but then he looked at me with concern in his eyes.

“Hello there, little lady. Are you here by yourself?” he asked. “Is everything all right? Should I call for a guard to help you?”

How can he mistake me for a child when I’m dressed up all nice?! I clenched a fist in indignation. This isn’t right. The world is against me!

More importantly, I wanted to understand why the guy who told me to come here in the first place had never shown up. Surely it was the proper adult thing to at least contact me? This was unacceptable. I decided that Luke deserved a fitting punishment for putting me through this trouble.

He’s getting a smack in the face, for starters.

The only way to deal with a sneaky devil like Luke was to take a running start and funnel my rage into a devastating blow. There was no room for even a shred of mercy or moderation; I would have to give him a real beating. Finally, I’d make sure he took full responsibility for saddling me with these uncomfortable feelings.

Boiling with rage, I bought myself some skewered steak and fried potatoes from a nearby stall. It was great.

Food, I mused, really can bring world peace.

Now buoyed by the delicious food in my mouth, I mulled over my situation again.

Let’s see... Has Luke ever stood me up like this before? No, this is pretty strange.

I’d heard that Luke had quite a standoffish attitude with other people, but in my experience, he tended to turn up early when we were supposed to meet. In fact, in all the years I’d known him, I couldn’t think of an instance when he’d failed to meet me as planned.

I guess something urgent came up...

I could imagine that he had all sorts of important duties now that he’d been promoted to magus. Alternatively, he might’ve had to deal with business as the Waldstein family heir. Unlike me, a commoner with few obligations, Luke was right in the thick of high society with all its strict expectations. I assumed he was caught up in something unavoidable.

I pictured Luke in a situation where he was unable to meet or even contact me. In my head, he was full of regret about having missed our appointment. That thought eased my mind a little bit.

I’ll settle this with a nice, satisfying punch in the face.

That was still my intention when I went to work the following morning.

It was quieter than usual in the palace. I entered the Seventh Unit captain’s office that I shared with Luke, where two empty leather chairs sat a little apart. I arrived thirty minutes early so I could pile completed documents up on Luke’s desk. The paperwork formed a tall, swaying tower that almost reached the ceiling light. I felt pleased with myself for having devised such a cunning act of retaliation.

Excited to see the look of shock on his face when he arrived, I waited with bated breath. I heard a knock at the office door, which opened to reveal not Luke, but Letitia standing in the doorway.

“Noelle, you’re awfully early—” Letitia started. “Wait, what’s that?”

“This is the Great Tower of Paperwork, built with the power of unbridled rage.”

“It’s really tall!”

“It is really tall.”

Letitia looked like she was about to expand on that, but she didn’t in the end. Eventually, she changed the subject. “Is Captain Luke not here yet?”

That had an unusual ring to it. It occurred to me that this was possibly the first time I’d heard Letitia refer to him as “Captain Luke.”

“That’s right,” I replied. “I haven’t seen him this morning.”

“That isn’t like him. He’s usually here by this time.”

“True. Normally, he would’ve come in by now for sure.” Our business hours began in only ten minutes. “Maybe he’s cutting himself a bit more slack now that he’s a magus.”

“I’m not so sure that fits his personality...”

“Yeah, but he’s been working toward this ever since he became a royal court magician. I think this promotion is a much bigger deal to him.”

Luke had finally achieved something he’d always dreamed of. I felt like it wasn’t so strange for him to need a bit of a breather, especially at a time like this—maybe it was the “occupational burnout” I’d heard about.

Besides, life was complicated; sometimes hardship liked to come right when everything else was going great. My hellish time working at the mages’ guild had given me the skills to succeed in the Royal Court Magicians’ Division, so I knew all too well how hard it could be to separate the good from the bad.

“I suppose that’s true,” Letitia said. She raised a hand to her lips in thought. “Did he say anything to you?”

“Like what?”

“Anything out of the ordinary.”

My heart skipped a beat. Luke had wanted to tell me something that night—something special. I didn’t know what it was, but it must have been very important to him.

“No, he didn’t say anything to me.”

“I see.” Letitia nodded thoughtfully. “Maybe he got cold feet.”

“Cold feet...?”

“Never mind. Just carry on as normal.” Letitia produced a stack of papers and handed it to me. “There’s some admin work Luke has to deal with following his promotion. Could you give these to him?”

I accepted the papers with a nod. As the cool, glamorous Letitia left, I did everything I could to express my deep respect for her, then returned to my work. I pulled off my boots, clambered onto Luke’s desk, and added the new papers to the top of the Great Tower with utmost care.

That should do the trick.

I wondered what face he would make when he appeared. Surprised? Exasperated? Maybe he would be at a total loss for words.

This is actually really exciting!

I waited for him to come to the office, eager to see his look of astonishment.

The working day began, and he was still nowhere to be seen. Wanting to avoid any trouble arising, I did my best to cover for him and keep the Seventh Unit operating as normal.

“Sorry, Luke seems to be running a little late today. I’ll handle it instead if that’s okay.”

I did Luke’s tasks on his behalf, telling myself all the while that I’d have to get him to buy me dinner to make up for it. And still, I kept having to step in for him.

“Isn’t this pretty weird?” Misha remarked. “It’s been an hour.”

Even an optimist like me had to admit this was troubling. By now, I’d already finished off the day’s most pressing tasks out of sheer annoyance, and it seemed to me that the remaining work could go ahead smoothly without me.

“I’m going to go and investigate,” I announced. Then I left work and made my way to the Waldstein villa, where Luke lived.

The villa was a grand residence situated quite far from the city center. Through the trellis fence, I could see lush, verdant lawns filling the space.

I rang the doorbell, and a butler answered. I asked for Luke.

“Master Luke has not been at home since yesterday evening,” the butler responded.

“Yesterday evening...?” My mouth went dry; I had a bad feeling about this. “What time did he leave?”

“It must have been around seven thirty.”

The timing suggested that he probably had left to meet up with me—but I knew for a fact that he’d never arrived at the fountain.

Did something happen to him?

I immediately headed back to the Royal Court Magicians’ Division headquarters and told Gawain what I knew so far.

“I’ll go and look for him,” Gawain said. “You report this to Captain Ernest.”

“Got it.”

Ernest Maeterlinck was the captain of the First Unit and leader of the Central Administration Office. In the absence of Secretary-General Chronos Casablancas, he also acted as the division’s chief executive. I went to him and explained the situation.

“Understood,” Ernest said. “I’ll deploy whoever I can for a search party.”

“Can you let me—I mean, the Seventh Unit help too?”

The Seventh Unit was the newest unit in the organization. With Luke as its captain, it was composed of me, Misha, and several new recruits.

Ernest fixed his gaze on me, pausing to consider for a moment. “Permission granted. The Seventh Unit will be under your...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.11.2025
• Reihe/Serie: My Magical Career at Court: Living the Dream After My Nightmare Boss Fired Me from the Mages' Guild!
• Illustrationen: necömi
• Übersetzer: Mari Koch
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Fantasy
• Schlagworte: Childhood friends to lovers • dream job do-over • hardworking female protagonist • Light Novel • OP overpowered • Tsundere • Workplace Romance
• ISBN-10: 1-7183-8168-9 / 1718381689
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7183-8168-1 / 9781718381681