Clef only thinks this. Umi has just pulled his cape and told him he looks younger than the three of them, he has hit her for it, and a little later he teaches them a spell that Umi takes for a children's dance. As a joke about a mage being underestimated, it works. As a question, it is the one the series spends most of its run answering, and the answer is worse than Clef suspects. Late in the second season, Lantis tells Eagle that Princess Emeraude, the Pillar, summoned the Magic Knights and wished for her own annihilation. Whatever she was thinking, it was not about who could save her. That makes this private grumble the first time an adult in Cephiro doubts the summons, and the show files it under comedy so that nobody, Clef included, follows it up.
Clef only thinks this. Umi has just pulled his cape and told him he looks younger than the three of them, he has hit her for it, and a little later he teaches them a spell that Umi takes for a children's dance. As a joke about a mage being underestimated, it works. As a question, it is the one the series spends most of its run answering, and the answer is worse than Clef suspects. Late in the second season, Lantis tells Eagle that Princess Emeraude, the Pillar, summoned the Magic Knights and wished for her own annihilation. Whatever she was thinking, it was not about who could save her. That makes this private grumble the first time an adult in Cephiro doubts the summons, and the show files it under comedy so that nobody, Clef included, follows it up.