“There’s nothing for you to get so worked up about. We have to also look at this situation from his point of view.

“What’s the point of listening to an idiot like him?” Lyla wanted to be extremely strict on Mawin Jaewick.

“It’s not that I can’t understand your position, but he was called a genius in the magical tower. Wouldn’t that mean he isn’t as stupid as we think he is?”

“He seems stupid by the way he acts. And Zich, don’t you also know that being good at academics is completely different from knowing the ways of the world?”

“I do. I know it very well. Even considering that, the way Jaewick trusted his source was really strange.”

“Are you suggesting that he’s been brainwashed or something?”

“It’s possible, but what do you think is the best way to gain someone’s trust? I would say it’s through proof,” Zich said as if he was relaying some kind of great wisdom. “Think about it. We believe the information about the future because it matches the reality we know—in other words, it holds truth. If that wasn’t the case, we would have to just wonder if we have gone mad.”

“Are you saying that a mysterious person showed Mawin Jaewick some proof to make him believe such stupid things?”

“According to what Jaewick said, it seems like this...