Mage Manual

Chapter 271 - 271 234 Great Values _2

?Chapter 271: Chapter 234: Great Values! _2 Chapter 271: Chapter 234: Great Values! _2 Ash instinctively wanted to say “Tell us about your misfortune and let us have a laugh,” but he suddenly remembered his promise to the Witch not to pry into her life, so he swallowed the schadenfreude right back down his throat.

He was someone who took promises very seriously, perhaps because his father had bought him a gaming console after he scored perfect hundreds in elementary school, or perhaps because he had seen his beloved elder brother top his grade, leading their father to withstand the teacher’s pressure and allow his early romance.

Ash’s father was not a traditional good father, having no ambition, spending his life at his post, loving his nightly drinks, not caring for the children, and spending his life obsessed with forging swords—he even had a forge back at home, where the hammering sounds on Saturday mornings were even more piercing than an alarm clock. Other kids might have sweet dreams, whereas Ash dreamt only of being hammered by the iron, and his brother had it even worse, his sweet dreams abruptly ending with the same hammering.

Despite all the negatives, it was hard for Ash and his brother to speak ill of their father. Besides being able to show off their father’s unsharpened swords to their friends and earn some respect, it was also because their father respected them.

A spanking when necessary, a scolding when warranted, fulfilling promises without coddling or compromise, he had seemingly no expectations of Ash and his brother, much like he wouldn’t expect anything from the swords he made other than them hanging on the wall, yet he was faithfully ironing out the brothers’ adolescent rough edges. Yet, if the brothers could show their own “backbone,” he would not be stingy with his respect. As a child, Ash didn’t think there was anything special about respecting his father, until he grew up and met various people, only then did he realize not everyone had a father.

However, compared to his father, his mother was even more of an extraordinary character, but that was irrelevant right now.

Just as Ash decided not to delve into the Witch’s bad mood, the Sword Maiden turned to him and initiated, “Tell us about your misfortune and let us have a laugh?”

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