[Next news, regarding the blue dragon that suddenly appeared the night before last, after investigation by the government, it has been confirmed that it was a hallucinogenic drug newly developed by scientists, and it has now been completely destroyed...]
While watching the news broadcast on television, Riddel lay on the sofa, turning her gaze to Naoki who was in bed: "Hallucinogenic drug huh... It's truly amazing that you and the church could come up with that, I thought it would be a common excuse like a gas explosion."
"How could last night's situation be covered up with a gas explosion? This hallucinogenic drug excuse is the result of me and the church going to every house to cast suggestion Magecraft for the past two days, my Mana was completely depleted."
Naoki said weakly. In fact, he had just finished the post-incident work ten minutes ago.
Seeing him like that, Riddel smiled faintly, then said with admiration: "But it's truly unexpected, you actually killed that dragon. According to your explanation, even though it was just a pseudo-dragon species, essentially a fairy, to be able to defeat such a powerful fairy, I think you deserve the rank of Fes: Festival."
Fes: Festival – The fourth rank of Magus. Normally, the only way for a Magus to increase their rank is by producing results in Magecraft research. But Fes: Festival is a rather special rank, it is the only tier that can be achieved through additional abilities.
Like Waver in the original timeline, his rank as a Magus was only Count: Eldest Child, but because he nurtured many Magus, with the improvement of his teaching ability and his special sight, he was forcibly given the rank of Fes: Festival by the Clock Tower.
Naoki's situation was also almost the same.
Hearing Riddel's suggestion, Naoki was silent for a moment, then shook his head: "Forget it, I don't care about any rank, if I go up, there will be a lot of trouble. Moreover, I haven't passed all the basic courses, not even considered a Frame: Youngest Child yet, if I want to improve my rank, I'll at least have to wait until I graduate."
"You're right, I was negligent." Riddel nodded, "So, I'll confirm once more – the incident is over?"
"It should be."
The night before last, after being transformed into an evil fairy, Cocytus was quickly destroyed by Ciel wielding the Seventh Holy Scripture with a single blow to its head. The Seventh Holy Scripture is a conceptual weapon specifically for fairies and souls, its purpose is to destroy fairies and souls.
A creature like Cocytus, even if its core was a fairy, only needed one attack to defeat it.
From an outsider's point of view, the incident was indeed over, all that remained was to ask the local church in Paris to continue performing memory manipulation on the ordinary residents, so that they would forget the dragon incident.
However, Naoki felt that the matter was not over yet – because Aleister had disappeared.
After Cocytus was destroyed, he and Ciel separated to search for Aleister, but no matter how they searched, Aleister seemed to have vanished into thin air.
Aleister was a Necromancer who had been declared dead decades ago, he was once considered the most evil man in the world, although it was unknown when he became a Dead Apostle and survived, but based on his past behavior and his actions of summoning a dragon in this city, he was clearly a very dangerous man.
If he was not completely destroyed, no one could guarantee that he would not reappear someday.
"Brother?"
Seeing Naoki's serious face, Gray couldn't help but ask: "Are you alright? Is your body feeling unwell again?"
"Ah, no, I'm fine, it's just that there are some things that worry me. Rather than that, Miss. Archelot, are you alright constantly being by my side? I remember you had a concert the day after tomorrow?"
"It's been canceled."
Riddel said casually.
"After such a big incident, even I'm not strong enough to continue holding a concert, besides, the venue that was going to be used for the concert was also partially damaged, my schedule isn't flexible enough to wait for it to be repaired, and I don't want to suddenly change venues, so I just canceled it."
The fans who were crazy about her were truly pitiful, they had an idol who did as she pleased.
Naoki sighed slightly: "Fortunately, tickets hadn't started selling yet, otherwise you would have been mobbed. But this is also good, so I don't have to keep playing your role, honestly, I felt uncomfortable wearing those women's clothes."
"That's because you're too burly!"
"Someone like me who doesn't even have a single abdominal muscle, what's burly? And don't throw pillows!"
Riddel glared at Naoki angrily, then said: "Well, I really just had nothing to do, so I came to see you guys, after all, you two are quite interesting."
"Gray, please see this person who likes to have fun out."
"Brother..."
With a slightly awkward laugh, Gray said to Riddel: "Miss Riddel, what will you do next? If the concert is canceled, will you return to the Clock Tower?"
"Hmm, I have to go back to write a report anyway, I don't intend to write about this incident to others either. After that, I have to go to Japan."
"Japan? Isn't that where big brother—"
Gray looked at Naoki – Japan was his hometown.
Riddel smiled: "I have a childhood friend in Japan who's quite close, I'll go see her when I have free time. Because of this incident, I might have about a month off."
'Miss. Archelot Japanese friend..... Kuonji Alice?'
Since the time was long past the Mahou Tsukai no Yoru period, Naoki had no desire to interact with the scene, the initial protagonist, at most he would make a pilgrimage to the holy site in the future.
"I'm taking a flight tomorrow night, what about you guys? Want to come with me?"
Tomorrow night?
Naoki considered his schedule, then said with a bit of guilt to Gray: "If possible. Sorry, Gray, I took you out for a vacation this time, but I've been constantly busy with my own affairs, keeping you stuck in the hotel."
Day one – Arrived in Paris
Day two – Shopping in women's clothes plus killing a dragon at night
Day three – Post-incident handling
The Paris trip, originally planned for five days and four nights, now only had these two days left, and today was already evening.
"It's alright, Brother." The ever-understanding little angel Gray smiled and shook her head, "What Brother is doing must be important, so Brother doesn't need to worry too much about me, just focus on your work."
'This child is truly an angel!'
'Saying that just makes me feel even more guilty.'
Naoki felt like he was completely failing in his duty as an older brother.
And at that moment, Riddel interjected: "Then, do you want to go sightseeing tomorrow?"
"Huh?"
"We're flying back to London tomorrow night, the daytime is free, so just take Gray sightseeing, we don't have any business anyway. After we're done, we can take a car to the airport, you can sleep for a bit on the plane."
Hearing Riddel's suggestion, Naoki immediately looked at Gray, and seeing the enthusiastic expression on her face, he knew there was no need to ask further.
"Alright, we'll have a good time sightseeing tomorrow."
"I can reluctantly act as a tour guide, because of our relationship, I won't charge a tour guide fee."
"Even if you charged a fee, I wouldn't pay."