Epilogue

Epilogue

T here’s something to be said for boring days. Boring days are entirely underrated if you ask me. You know the kind of day I’m talking about? Days when the weather is entirely unremarkable—not too hot, not too cool, and the sky is clear, and strangers are going about their business, and no one is trying to kill you. Boring days like today are nice to have, from time to time.

“It’s like it never happened at all,” Gourry sighed, a little bewildered.

“That’s a pretty somber observation, coming from you.” I laughed.

Gourry rubbed my head, ruffling my hair.

“Hey! Don’t touch the hair! I didn’t mean it like it was a bad thing.” I swatted his hand away from my head as I spoke.

“You’re making it sound like I said the sky was falling on us!” he argued.

“Maybe I’ll be reincarnated as a catfish!” Leave it to me to find the bright side.

Gourry and I turned along the main street toward the city’s eastern gate. It had been about ten days since we’d wrapped things up, and we’d finally recovered from the damage we’d incurred while taking care of this, that, and the other thing. We were pretty much back to our old selves. I wished the same could be said for the rest of our fellow compatriots.

I suppose Rubia was the one I most felt sorry for.

Lantz had left the city as soon as his wounds had healed. He said he wanted to see the sights in Sairaag.

Daymia? I don’t know what happened to him exactly. If the legends are true, he won’t die until the caster of the Raugnut Rushavna—Seigram—is destroyed. I don’t like to think about it too much, honestly.

We had to answer questions from the higher-ups on the Sorcerers’ Guild Council, but we tried to keep our answers vague for Rubia’s sake. She’d gone through enough already.

As long as we kept mum about what Halcyform had done, she could continue to live on his estate and try to make something of a life for herself.

If it had come down to it, I would have argued self-defense on her behalf, but I felt that keeping the Guild in the dark was the best way to give her some measure of peace.

As for what kind of life she could have without Halcyform… Well, I didn’t really have an answer to that one. I could have asked her about it, I guess, or offered to talk to her about the subject, but for some reason, it didn’t seem like the thing to do. Sometimes it’s better just to mind your own business.

As for the two of us?

“So, where to next?” Gourry asked. Neither of us had any place in particular where we needed to go, so without a clear destination in mind, we considered our options.

I’d heard rumors there were some interesting things happening in Saillune. We could go check it out. Or, it might be fun to go back to Zephilia—I hadn’t been back in an age. Wait a minute—where the heck did Gourry’s family live?

“I dunno,” I winked. “Let’s just decide on the way.”

And so, Atlas City melted into the horizon behind us… .