I Got an Otherworldly Dating App

He didn't lie. Lying was bad. Rather, he humbly extended it from half a day to a day.

Ava seemed to be taken aback by the unbelievable answer. But that was only for a moment, and as a seasoned magician, she decided to focus on the truth rather than panic.

She looked at Leo once more, sensitive to changes in the situation due to her boiling magic power.

Changes in the body such as pupillary reflexes, eye contact, sweat, pulse, breathing rate, breathing speed, and blood pressure are excellent evidence of whether or not the other person is lying.

'It doesn't seem to be a lie…'

Of course, it wasn't 100% accurate. Trained specialists would be able to hide such things skillfully.

However, the possibility that Leo was such a specialist agent was extremely slim. No organization would try to infiltrate an agent like this in the first place.

'So you really created a mana circle after learning magic for only one day?'

Even if it were a novel, it would be criticized for being improbable if it was like this. Only a very small number of children with proven talent at the age of 10 were admitted to the Magic Tower. Of course, even the children who gathered like that went through a filtering process again.

The average time it took for the children who gathered like that to create a mana circle was 8 to 9 years.

A few spent even more time, and were even kicked out of the Magic Tower.

Ava thought of her granddaughter, who shortened the process to 6 years, was also praised as a genius of all time, and it was likely she would become the headmaster of the Magic Tower within the next 3 years.

Of course, there were many geniuses. Looking at history, there were records that were better than the Magic Tower's, but that was also a very possible guess that such a genius would appear in the future.

But Leo?

"Huh, huh…"

Ava couldn't help but laugh. And then she calmly thought of the best offer she could make to him.

"Leo."

She held his hand tightly with a more friendly smile than ever.

"Would you like to meet my granddaughter?"

One of the important things in investing is buying at a low price. Ava believed that if she could bind Leo to one of the family's bloodlines and officially register him in her family, it would not be impossible for her family to be considered one of the best magical families in all of the US, or even in the entire world.

Leo found himself in a situation where he wondered what Ava was talking about. 

'Granddaughter? She has a granddaughter with that face? She wasn't an aunt, but a mother?'

"She has some magic power."

At the same time that Leo felt the greatness of magic power once again, his head became complicated. If it were before, he would have prepared for the wedding right away, but now, Iris's face came to mind first.

'Was it really a good idea to go on a matchmaking when Iris, who was probably waiting for him in that dark place, was still waiting? …But isn't time on that world also stopped?'

Just as time on Earth had almost stopped when he was in that world, it was reasonable to assume that time on that world had stopped while he was on Earth. Thinking about it that way, he felt a little less guilty.

'What kind of guilt is less, you crazy idiot. Why betray Iris?'

Absolutely, never would that happen. The manly Leo was as loyal as Iris's overflowing maternal love. At this point, he had no intention of looking at a blind date.

"This is a picture of my granddaughter. How about taking a look?"

Ava suddenly approached him in a friendly manner, and on her phone screen was a beautiful red-haired magician.

"...Can I call you Grandma?" Leo asked with a nervous laugh.

"Hehe, then I guess I can call you grandson."

***

Leo completed his registration and entrance to the Magic Tower without any issues.

"Congratulations, Magician Leo. First of all, please review your registration certificate here, and I have sent you the relevant benefits and cautions to the contact information you provided, so please check later."

The mage registration certificate that Leo received from the female employee was light and easy to handle. This was because the benefits he would receive with this palm-sized registration certificate in the future would not be light.

The enormous benefits that wizards received were due to the competition between countries to keep irreplaceable human resources called wizards in their countries, but the benefit that Leo found most attractive was none other than the military exemption.

"Is that really true?"

"Yes, of course. Our Ministry of National Defense will not forcibly conscript you, the first-class citizens, mages, without your consent!"

But in other countries, military exemption is something that other citizens also receive, right?

"... Anyway, with this, men were exempt from military service. Of course, they could enlist if they wanted. Except for the fact that they enlisted as officers and got promoted or discharged on the highway after sucking up all the honey, they were similar to regular soldiers. …Is that similar? Anyway."

Of course, because the gender ratio of magicians was so bad, it was hard to see it as an attractive benefit for other magicians. According to an international research institute, the gender ratio among magicians is roughly 1:24. That's also why the Magic Tower is so female.

As for the military exemption benefit, since there are some men among magicians, they probably included it because they thought there would be someone who would like it once they included it.

"Tax reductions and all kinds of subsidies… Automatic upgrade to first class when using domestic airlines? What is this?"

As Leo was skimming through the text message the Magic Tower sent, he suddenly wondered if the government had ever taken care of him like this. Most tax payers in the war when he was five, and he grew up in an orphanage. Due to national financial issues, he didn't receive any proper support when he was in the orphanage or after he left.

"People really need to raise their own value to be treated well."

Of course, Leo didn't blame the government. Back then, there were people who were even worse off than he who didn't receive proper support and were dying.

"Anyway, let's leave the boring old story aside and the most important thing is to submit the application for admission to the Magic Tower. I wanted to attend classes at the Magic Tower starting tomorrow."

"Huh? Vacation?"

"Yes, the second semester starts in about a month, so you can come then. Oh my, the Magic Tower, which seemed like a heartless gathering of magicians, is having a vacation!"