Supreme Magus novel Chapter 425

It was close enough to the stage to watch the performance, but also with more free space around it compared to most seats.

Realizing her blunder, Kamila laughed the whole way while holding the bouquet.

"Sorry, I didn’t mean to be rude. Where should I put these flowers?"

Before she finished the phrase, a waiter brought a vase while another carried a third chair so the bouquet could spread its fragrance without standing between them. Kamila didn’t miss how the staff was too friendly and the table too good for two new customers.

Her mother’s words started echoing in her mind and made her face turn glum.

"Be honest. Do I really look like a mortician?" Lith mistook her expression for disapproval and cursed at himself for not following his sister’s advice about dressing in light colors.

"What? No. It looks good on you, but in your shoes, I would take off the jacket. You are a little overdressed." She said while smiling again at the odd question.

"How was your day?" Lith asked after noticing that something was off.

"It started pretty bad, but it’s getting better. What about you?"

"So far so good. At least today nobody tried to kill me." He said with a sigh while a waiter brought them the menus.

"Today? What about yesterday?" Lith told her about the Abomination in the Trawn woods using the same tone with which he placed their order.

"How can you be so calm? You almost died twice in as many days."

"I told you before. My life is pretty crazy. If you read my personal file, you know in what kind of mess you’re getting yourself into." He said with a sad smile as the band started playing what he considered nothing more than rhythmic noise.

"As you always say, let’s not talk about sad stuff. What do you think about the music?"

"They are good." Lith’s shocked expression at her answer made her laugh heartily. "Why that face? Don’t you like it?"

"Not much. The sound is good, but it has no soul." _{ƒrēewebnovel.com}

When their plates arrived, they started talking about their respective plans for the future. Kamila’s goal was to rise up the army ranks. Becoming a Colonel was her dream, but she knew that unless she achieved something big it would come too late in her life to matter.

"If life was a fairy tale, I’d say I want to become the first magicless General of the Kingdom. Sadly, the rank of Colonel is the ceiling, even for geniuses."

Lith didn’t know how to answer. He had no big dreams or ambitions aside getting rid of his reincarnation problem. He longed for power and money, but only because they were the means to an end.

He would do anything to achieve his goal, yet he had never stopped considering what he would do if he ever managed to make it.

"I’d like to teach in an Academy." Was all he could think about. "First, there’s something I need to do, though. It’s the reason I became a Ranger. I need the army to obtain the means to cure a dear friend of mine."

Kamila didn’t buy the ’friend’ part for a second, but she didn’t press the matter any further. Meanwhile, the band was offering the customers the opportunity to take part in the performance.

"Why don’t you go up there and show them how it’s done?" She said it as a joke.

"As long as you promise me that whatever you hear and see, you will not laugh at me." He replied taking her by surprise and extending his hand to her.

"Deal."

Lith stepped on the stand among some mild applause and took the Mogar’s equivalent of a Spanish guitar from the hands of a musician. He asked the band to not accompany him and then he started playing.

Or better, he started cheating. Lith didn’t know how to sing or play, but he had learned from magical beasts how to use air magic to reproduce whatever sound he wanted.

It took him his full focus to perform a slightly modified version of "The Noise of Silence" by Shimon and Carbuncle. It was one of his favorite songs from Earth. It required only a guitar to be played and it felt like it talked about him.