Impressions of Iris

[chinokate]

 Impressions of Iris (1)

Akira: Mithra, you’ve known Iris for a long time, right?

Mithra: I suppose so… has it been 800 years or so that we’ve known each other…?

Akira: What do you think of her?

Mithra: What do I think of her…? If I had to think of her in terms of an ally or an enemy, then she would be an ally. But she’s so weak that it doesn’t really matter either way.

Akira: I… I see… What about her personality?

Mithra: Her personality, huh… (Sighs) Noisy.

Akira: O-Oh…

Mithra:…………

Akira: …………

Mithra: ……….

Akira: Surely there must be something else!? You spend a great deal of time together, after all?

Mithra: How troublesome…… She decided all by herself that she would live together with me. She lives in the North but she doesn’t fight other wizards. I tried to give her a mana stone once, but she said something unreasonable like “I won’t eat a wizard I don’t know”. She’s a selfish person who won’t leave my side. But, well, she compliments me a lot, so it’s not all bad to have her around.
 

Impressions of Iris (2) 
Akira: Owen, what do you think of Iris?

Owen: ….. A troublesome person.

Akira: That’s surprising.

Owen: She’s hard to handle in a different way than Bradley. She looks like she’d be really easy to hurt, but when you bring things up she just goes silent and smiles or says “Is that so”, and then changes the subject.

Akira: (Being able to completely ignore Owen like that is amazing too…) Is that why you don’t provoke her the same way you do the other Northern wizards…

Owen: In the first place, there’s no merit in provoking her because she’s not that strong.

Akira: Eh? Even though she lived in Northern country for so long?

Owen: She’s only survived this long because she’s been following Mithra around all this time. She really doesn’t care about anything other than Mithra. I really don’t get what she sees in him…
 

Impressions of Iris (3)

Akira: Bradley, what do you think of Iris?

Bradley: Mithra’s woman? She’s not right in the head, that one…

Akira: Eh?

Bradley: No, I mean, think about it, Sage. What kind of crazy person would ever be with someone like Mithra? 

Akira: I heard there was a human who was in love with Mithra once, too…

Bradley: That one wasn’t right in the head either. Anyway, everyone thinks she’s harmless, but there’s definitely something wrong with her.

Akira: That’s a pretty rude thing to say about her.

Bradley: I’m tellin’ you, no normal person moves to the North because they want to. Especially not someone who doesn’t even like fightin’.
 

Impressions of Iris (4)

Akira: Snow, did you and White know Iris before she came to the manor? What do you think of her?

Snow: Ohoho. We saved that child from another Northern wizard long ago.

Akira: Eh? Is that so?

Snow: Indeed. That child came to the North in search of Mithra. But she was weak and unsuited to the North, so we guided her until she found her way.

She’s a sweet child. Oh, young love, young love.

Akira: Moving to the Northern country just to meet Mithra is really amazing…

Snow: Ohoho. Even when she woke up in our home, the first thing she asked was whether or not we knew where a wizard called Mithra was.

Akira: Do you and White usually take in younger wizards?

Snow: Not always. But I pitied young Iris.

Her eyes showed a certain kind of desperation. Like she was searching for something she couldn’t rest until she had.

Perhaps she reminded me of myself when I longed for loneliness…

……

………..

Akira: … Snow?

Snow: Anyway, she is a sweet child.

And Mithy seems quite smitten with her as well.
 

Impressions of Iris (5)

Akira: Nero, how do you feel about Iris?

Nero: Iris, huh…

Honestly, it doesn’t really feel like she’s a Northern wizard… She doesn’t really fight, and all she does is follow Mithra around like a little duckling. It kinda makes me wonder how she went about her day-to-day before she started livin’ in the sage’s manor.

Akira: Iris used to be an Eastern wizard, right?

Nero: Yeah, I heard that.

She doesn’t really seem like it at first, but she’s surprisingly meticulous in some areas… y’know she’s a jeweller up in the North?

Akira: Nero, you surprisingly know a lot about her.

Nero: No, it’s not, well…

It’s not like we’re real close or anythin’, but she’ll occasionally have a drink with me, and she’ll start talkin’ about herself…

Maybe it’s kinda rude ‘cause she’s way older than me, but as a fellow Eastern wizard, I can’t help but worry about her. She’s like a rabbit living in a wolf’s den.

When I think about her interactin’ with someone like Owen, it makes me wonder if she’s really gonna be okay livin’ up there…