Aegis (7)
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“…!! No, that pepper…?!”
“?”
Rey shuddered and took a step back from the bath.
A man who didn’t even know his face suddenly pointed his lower back and opened his eyes.
The brunette looked at her friend with a bewildered look.
At that time, Ray asked cautiously with a trembling face.
“Have you ever met my pepper separately…?”
“…!”
The emotions of doubt, distrust, and vigilance deepened in the brown-haired eyes looking at Sebas.
This bastard had such a lewd hobby, Sebas protested belatedly when the brunette looked at him with a thoughtful gaze.
“Oh, no, that’s not it… You, you’re the guy who was rumored to be Spera Frislan’s fiancée!”
“…!”
The brown hair looked at Rey with a surprised expression.
Rey was also startled when Spera’s name suddenly popped up, but then slowly narrowed her eyes.
“How did you know that by looking at my pepper…?”
The brown hair looked back at Sebas with eyes filled with feelings of distrust and vigilance.
Sebas groaned in anger at the continuing suspicion.
“We met in the public bath a long time ago!! At the public bathhouse of the emperor!!”
“You must have looked really carefully at my peppers back then…”
Rey sneaked back into the bath tub, and the brunette slowly stepped back, separating her from Sebas.
Sebas felt the back of his neck being pulled.
“No, listen to me, you bastard!!”
*
People’s impressions change easily.
In most cases, a change in the makeup method of the eyebrows completely changed the impression.
Sebas and his close friends met briefly in the past with Johana and Darren.
However, at that time, Johanna and Darren were literally close to the villagers.
Aside from the clothes, the way he behaves and the overall style was that of a village boy.
And now, Johanna and Darren have been staying at the Frislan family fortress for quite some time, and the overall style and accent have changed a lot.
The change was quick because it was decided and corrected so that there would be no problems when staying in the zodiac later.
Therefore, unless you are a person with good eyesight, it is difficult to think of Yohana and Daren just from the memories of meeting briefly in the past.
However, Ray’s style hasn’t changed much compared to the past.
In addition to that, in Sebas’ memory, Rey’s scars and lower loin he had seen in the public bath were engraved quite deeply.
Sebas, who had already felt a sense of déjà vu towards Rey, was a decisive hint for framing the scattered memories.
Rey understood Sebas’s story and nodded.
“It sounds like you were very impressed with my pepper…”
“Ah, little!”
Sebas trembled and splashed the water.
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Now the three of them were facing each other in the bathroom.Because they were deeply immersed in the hot water, their undergarments did not show through to each other.
Rei picked up the water with both hands and washed her face a few times.
‘Oh my God…’
What happened now was quite a shocking experience for Ray as well.
Ray never imagined that he would be identified by a man who was not a woman… not by his face or scars, but by his lower back.
Ray has been under strong emotional pressure for a long time now.
Once again, the three exchanged greetings.
Ray later found out that a second-class cadet, brown-haired, named Harvey, was of the gentry class.
Sebas pondered for a moment, then asked Rey directly.
“Why did you hide your identity?”
“We want to approach our seniors and classmates a little more casually…”
Sebas and Harvey’s expressions turned pale at the same time as Rey said something politicians would say.
Harvey frowned and opened her mouth.
“The… Do the instructors know? If you do this wrong, things get bigger?”
It was a cautious question.
If Rey was admitted to Aegis by cheating the instructor or even a higher rank, this became a huge problem.
Harvey didn’t want Aegis to be noisy, so he asked Ray again in a voice that even contained a desperate look at first glance.
“Of course you know…?”
“I don’t know if the Instructor knows, but His Majesty the Emperor knows.”
When the word ‘Emperor’ suddenly came out of Rey’s mouth, Sebas and Harvey stiffened and then relaxed.
As Aegis is an educational institution directly under the imperial family, sensitive issues such as identity disguise must of course be approved by the emperor.
Harvey was relieved to hear that the emperor knew, and leaned his back against the bathroom wall.
“But why did you enter Aegis? You say you are the fiancee of the great-grandaughter chosen by the Imperial Swordmaster? There must have been no reason to enter here?”
“I’m so good.”
Ray said that and laughed haha.
“The Emperor didn’t want me to become a full member of the Frislan family. So, after many discussions with high-ranking people… I’ve been admitted to Aegis. It’s hard to say for sure what will happen in the future.”
Sebas and Harvey, who were hurt by Ray’s pride, tried to say something.
However, before that, Rey raised a finger.
A stream of mana stretched out and condensed over Rey’s fingers, and then began to spin steeply.
Then a very fleeting moment.
Tsui!!
A sharp flash of mana flickered violently over Rey’s finger before disappearing.
Creation of medium-free swordsmanship.
Even for a brief moment, generating swordsmanship without a medium was a difficult skill for an expert to challenge.
Sebas and Harvey shut their mouths at the same time.
Ray showed off her skills and position while waving her fingers, which were still covered in light.
A talent coveted by the Imperial Family and the Imperial Sword Master at the same time.
At that point, even if the instructor came, it was difficult to touch.
Ray, who had finished her PR in moderation, added a word.
“Can you keep my identity a secret right now? I’ll tell the seniors properly later.”
It wasn’t anything else, but it was a request that Ray had not yet made up his mind with.
How to make the right contact and what kind of stance to take in the Aegis, Rey has not yet come to a proper conclusion.
Of course, even if the rumors spread, there was nothing to be done.
Sebas and Harvey looked at each other and then nodded.
“Okay, I understand… I’ll apologize straight away later.”
“Yes, thank you. I will definitely apologize to the seniors again.”
Rey respectfully kept the minimum courtesy, so Sebas didn’t question him any more.
Rey was guarded by the most powerful rulers of the Empire, and silence was one of the virtues that the Aegis cadets were forced to follow, so rumors about Rey did not spread through Sebas or Harvey right now.
After that, Rey bowed her head to Sebas and Harvey a few more times and asked.
“But is it impossible for 3rd grade cadets to use the bath?”
“Hey, at the welcome and exchange meetings…!!”
Sebas raised his voice, then calmed himself down.
“Dude, have you already forgotten everything I explained? How much alcohol did you drink?”
“Oh, sorry.”
At the drinking party, the second-class cadets were talking about this and that, but most of them shed with one ear.
After all, Lay just memorized the manual in moderation, as he distributed a booklet containing the manual for using the Aegis facility.
However, of course, there were also bad habits and absurdities in Aegis.
Third-grade cadets don’t have access to the large bathroom… things like that.
‘Well… it’s not serious…’
There were some absurdities like this in Rei’s previous life.
Moreover, if you listen to the stories of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, the army before Rey’s experience, there were a lot of terrible absurdities that were worse than dealing with animals.
In his previous life, Rey often felt terrified that his predecessors had experienced and perpetrated such a horrific culture. It was all a thing of the past, though.
Anyway, the ban on the use of the large public bath belonged to the very cute side of the absurdity.
The problem was that there wouldn’t be one or two such absurdities, but Ray was just annoyed with everything.
“Ugh…”
Ray, who made a sound of pain, brought up an issue that he was really curious about while the plate was laid.
“Among the seniors, there are a few people who are outside the city, can I ask why?”
“No, but this bastard is c*cky. Hey, stand up.”
Harvey jumped up and gave the order, and Rey got up right away.
When Rey jumped up, Sebas, who saw the object he had seen before in front of him, jumped back in horror.
with a splash!
“Keep…! Oops!”
Sebas, who slumped backwards and drank water while doing a show by himself, cackled and later changed his posture and sat down.
Harvey, who had lost the atmosphere, shook his head with a sound of pain.
“Hey, sit back.”
“yep.”
“under…”
Harvey, who was worried, clicked his tongue a few times and answered Ray’s question.
“Some of our riders from the South are in a bad mood.”
“Why the South… ah…”
Rey, who understood what he was saying, nodded.
After the high-ranking demon Eridanus attacked the Warpgate.
The emperor at the time did not reprove the southern officials involved in the raid, and passed on to say that good things are good.
Of course, some of the southern clans were completely down, but it was really close to the bare minimum.
After Phoebus became emperor, the conflict was temporarily closed, but neither politically nor emotionally, it could not be completely cleared up.
As a result, the atmosphere of the Aegis cadets from the south could not be good.
Aside from the attention of those around me, there were rumors that it would be difficult to get a high position after graduating from Aegis, so it was a bit messy.
‘Everywhere people live is the same.’
Regions and origins, and the resulting conflicts.
Once a conflict arises, it is not easy to resolve it.
As Rey was thinking while brushing her hair, Harvey tapped Rey’s arm this time.
“But how did you get this scar?”
“I had a battle with a demon worshiper once. A high-level magic fell over my head, and I almost blew up an arm while brushing it off.”
Even though the power was halved by causing a space distortion with the space sword, it burned almost half of its body.
Rei also felt quite dizzy when he remembered that time.
Sebas and Harvey, on the other hand, blinked with hardened faces. This bastard is bluffing like this, that’s just the expression on his face.
Sebas, who was thinking about examining each one, waved his hand as if it was bothersome.
“Stop leaving. Don’t listen to what other kids say about being here for nothing.”
“Yes, thank you, seniors.”
Rey nodded and jumped out of the water.
Then, Sebas, who faced Rey’s lower back in front of him again, spit out abusive language.
“No, f*ck it! Stop that f*cking thing!!”
“…”
Rey thought seriously about shaking her body from side to side to shake off the water from the fur of her c*ck towards Sebas .