Magic's Return: I Can See The Spirits

*Knock* *Knock*

"Lady Seraphina."

A servant called out as he knocked on Seraphina's room.

"Enter." Seraphina, who was currently sitting inside her room, drinking coffee ordered.

"Lady Seraphina, Young Master Asher is requesting to meet you." The servant walked in and reported.

"Asher?" Seraphina frowned in confusion. She hadn't invited him though… why was he here…?

"Should I send him away, my Lady?" Anna, Seraphina's maid questioned. She knew Seraphina didn't like meeting people whom she hadn't invited.

Seraphina was the type of person who planned everything beforehand and rarely anything went against her plans. Although she is confident in her ability to handle things when they didn't go in the direction she wanted to, she still preferred planned meetings rather than unplanned ones.

This time, however,

"Tell him to wait in the Guest room, I will be there in 10 minutes," Seraphina ordered.

The servant bowed his head and walked away, then, Seraphina casually sipped on her coffee.

"…" Anna wanted to ask why she was meeting him when she usually just sends people away if they come like this, but then, 'I hope you are not thrown away I was,' she recalled Lily's words and turned silent.

There was no reason for her to question her master's decision.

Seraphina noticed the fluctuations on Anna's face and she knew it was because of what happened to Lily, she could feel that a small crack had appeared in their relationship.

She wanted to fix it, however, there was nothing she could do about it.

When she sent someone to find Lily and help her get out of this City, she realized that Lily had disappeared.

She considered the possibility of something happening to Lily, however, then she scratched it away,

The only person she had 'enmity' with was Vaan and if Vaan wanted, he could have killed her right there and then. There was no need for Vaan to do something this foolish, especially when his mother, Lady Astra absolutely hates suppressing the weak.

Lily had run away on her own.

Seraphina was sure about it.

'To think that girl would make such a rash decision…'

Seraphina sighed.

Once she drank her coffee, Seraphina stood up and walked out of the room. Anna followed the two of them and walked into the guest room, there, they found Asher sitting on the sofa, waiting for them.

"Lady Seraphina, I apologize for coming in unannounced and thank you for coming to me, I honestly feared that you would send me away," Asher spoke with a slight smile on his face.

"Of course not, Young Master Asher. Why would I send you away? You are an important friend of mine." Seraphina replied with a slight smile on her face as she sat on the chair placed in front of Asher.

Anna quickly brought some refreshments and placed it on the table.

"Anyways, what brought you here, Young Master Asher? You rarely come announced. Is everything all right?" Seraphina questioned directly.

Hearing that, Asher looked around a few times, then he glanced at Anna and,

"Lady Seraphina, can I talk to you alone?"

Seraphina narrowed her eyes.

Then, she raised her hand. Anna nodded then with a slight bow, she left her room.

"What happened, Young Master Asher?" Seraphina questioned with a solemn look on her face.

Asher looked around again as if he was trying to make sure no one else was around, then, he leaned forward and,

"Young Master Vaan is trying to fool you," Asher revealed in a low voice.

"What do you mean?" Seraphina narrowed her eyes.

Asher then took out a 15-page long 'theory' and passed it to Seraphina, "This was the Magic Theory recently published by Young Master Vaan."

"Huh? Magic Theory published by him?" Seraphina frowned in confusion.

Why did she not know about it?

Why didn't Aldric report her about this?

Did he not know about it?

Was Vaan hiding this from him? Or was he trying to hide it from me?

These questions popped up in her mind.

Soon, however, she focused her attention on the Theory, most of it was general stuff so she quickly started skipping all the pages.

Then, her eyes fell on the 'Advanced Circle' Vaan had drew and she paused.

"A Circle with 6 Inner Circles?" With a shocked look on her face, Seraphina muttered.

"And this was researched and published by Vaan?" Seraphina couldn't believe it. Then, however, she frowned in confusion,

"Does this Magic Circle work?"

"I do not know," Asher shook his head and Seraphina's expression changed.

"You are worrying too much, Asher. Vaan doesn't have the capability to come up with something like this and even if he did, the Vesta Family would never reveal it to the general public. This is just a bogus theory that he had published to earn some extra cash." Seraphina waved her hand as she dismissed Vaan's theory.

"You are not getting the point, Lady Seraphina. There are many ways for him to get money and this theory he published cost only 2 Gold Coins. It is nothing for someone like him."

"What are you trying to say?" Seraphina questioned.

"Lady Seraphina, you were the one who didn't want Young Master Vaan to study Magic, but now, not only is he not studying it, he is even publishing magic theories, no matter how irrelevant and bogus of a theory it is, it still shows that his interest in magic in rising each and every single day. That is not something you want now, is it?" Asher questioned.

"You sound particularly alarmed about this." Suddenly, Seraphina narrowed her eyes.

"That beca-"

"Let's drop the formalities here, Asher. We both have done things that would put us in a bad position in front of the Vestas, I know, Vaan has changed, I have met him and I was surprised as well.

I can sense that you are panicking inwardly, so I am guessing something happened.

Tell me,

What is it?

I know you don't like to stick your nose in sticky situations,

So tell me what's wrong and I will help you get out of the trouble, permanently."

Seraphina spoke, Asher stared at Seraphina for a while and then,

"Vaan is blackmailing me."