63. Itching
It wasn’t like there was an event to be held for 3 days, so there wasn’t much change in what I could do.
It wasn’t even possible to go out, but with all the students outside, the academy was unusually crowded.
A cafe I had never seen before was full of people.
“Is that him? That Sword Master… “
“Hmm.. Then, will we go to the Clover Kingdom after cooling down?”
“Is that so?”
“How did you get engaged..?”
Thanks to someone who shouted bullshit brilliantly, I could see River and talk softly wherever people could see it.
That wasn’t such a big deal.
It was a really strange thing, so I’m just throwing out one word at a time.
River was a duelist who ran out when he heard gossip and challenged me to a duel, and I was a madman who knocked me out on the spot without even mentioning the word duel.
I thought about it after hearing from sister Hera, but it seems that rumors about the two of us were known not only to freshmen but also to upperclassmen.
“Atlas.. Shall we move?”
Amy first asked if I was very concerned about my restlessness.
I was not the river they would chew on, but I was very displeased even though I was not the person involved.
Even if you’re not the person in charge, you’re not accustomed to this kind of spectacle-like gaze and whispers.
“I’m sorry because of me…”
“… No i’m sorry It’s unnecessarily sensitive… Let’s just get a drink and move on.”
“Yes.”
After getting a drink at the cafe, I headed to the vacant lot where I always practiced.
Unlike me, River didn’t pay any attention to these gazes.
It was different from me, like a pressure cooker on the verge of exploding because of the itchy gaze.
‘I used to be like that too…’
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I can’t even remember since when I couldn’t stand that gaze.
It’s too old a memory to recall now.
“Ha, I think I’m going to live a little longer~”
As we came out of the academy building, there were fewer and fewer people.
After all, there is nothing to see in the building other than hanging out with the Clover Academy people who came to the academy to play.
It didn’t matter to someone like me who gave up all his reputation and went around washing his identity.
“Huh~~ The weather is nice today too.”
“There are no major assignments and it is peaceful.”
The temperature was just right and the sun was shining. It was very nice weather.
The weather made me want to take a nap at a good spot I had seen before.
“Come to think of it, Atlas, how is it going that you were tall last time?”
“Um… It’s a little complicated, but I’ll try to summarize it.”
Seeing the record of my height carved into the tree, River said.
It is curious as it boasts that it will grow steadily and is still stuck at 0.1.
“I have to change to a stronger ingredient because I am much stronger than the people who originally saw the effect, so the same effect does not come out, but that is not easy.
So what kind of legends are you searching for? The essence of a werewolf or something..”
“The essence of a werewolf?”
“Huh??”
Amy gave her eyes that she was hearing it for the first time, and River was startled when she heard the word she was the essence of a werewolf.
This sounds absurd, but is this such a surprise?
“Nothing, uh.. Uh, right. Never mind.”
River was puzzled by his words.
Come to think of it, Simoa’s swordsmanship was named wolf’s swordsmanship, what do you know?
“Yes?!”
This time, Amy was suddenly startled.
She didn’t say much, but how did that sound come out?
“No. Uh… Yes it’s nothing!”
Amy also made a desperate no-nonsense gesture, waving her hands just like her river.
‘Why are you both like that?’
I had an ominous feeling.
She seems to have not yet heard Amy’s legend of the werewolf’s essence, and as she was explaining it, she felt a presence in the distance.
“Oh oh oh, I think he’s right?”
“That’s right, I saw it!”
Men with strong physiques rushed in.
They are unfamiliar students at the academy.
They are all Clover Academy students.
There was no racial difference because it is a country with a border, but they all wore unified clothes, perhaps because they were coming out of a foreign country.
They immediately surrounded us and looked at us… No, the river with curious eyes.
“Is it true that you are Sword Saint-sama’s fiancee?”
“What happened? Sword Saint didn’t even leave the country…”
They, who had slipped away, gradually closed their encirclement towards us.
They didn’t notice us like the students at the academy.
‘If I don’t get out of the way, I’ll be beaten.’
“Atlas.. If we lose now, it’s a diplomatic matter..! The Sword Saint is here too..”
How did I know that I was trying to clear the way with her fist, and Amy grabbed my arm.
It’s called a diplomatic issue, but when was it not a problem to beat the aristocrats of one’s own country?
You may think it’s a terrible way to thoroughly destroy the chain of hatred until it comes to an end, but I’ve lived like that until now.
At that time, a loud sound rang out from the back of the group.
“Get out of the way.”
A woman walked away, killing the crowd who narrowed the distance by thinking only of their own position.
Appearing with one hand stroking her coveted purple bun hair, she wore a thin sword around her waist and was dressed differently from the other Clover Academy students.
Yes, he was definitely the student representative.
It is memorable that the event was held after the swordsman flew into the sky.
Appearing through her crowd, she stood in front of River, crossed her arms, and glared at River as if to compliment her.
She felt that the look was very cheeky.
“Hmm… It doesn’t look like you’re bewitched by off-white… What did you do with the swordsman?”
River wasn’t laughing at the student representative who was talking very unpleasantly.
And it was the same for me.
Amy came out and grabbed one of River’s arms at a time when it looked like the two would jump in and start a gang fight.
“Let’s go somewhere else quickly…!”
Looking for a gap created by the appearance of the student representative, Amy desperately tried to avoid a dispute between us and Clover Academy.
However, the student representative blocked Amy from trying to escape peacefully.
“Where are you going? This is what I am talking about.”
“I’m busy, so I’ll pass..”
Looking at Amy trying to get out of here peacefully and River being dragged there, the student representative clicked her tongue and gave a fishy smile.
“.. I heard that she was Sword Saint’s fiancée, so I thought how great she was, but she was just a prostitute.”
-Pajik!
As soon as she heard her words, blood ran through her head.
What did this bitch just say?
“I don’t know what price she paid to take her fiancee’s place,
I can’t accept that you are part of our kingdom of clover. She’s out of character.”
At the student representative’s rude remark, blood flowed backwards from her head.
“Ah.. Atlas doesn’t work!!!”
Knowing what to do, Amy grabbed my arm, but she wouldn’t stop with that.
I could hear her, but her head wasn’t thinking anymore.
My hand was pulled back greatly.
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The fist that was thrown at the student representative’s abdomen did not reach.
“River?”
“It’s my job, so I’ll do it.”
My fist came to a close stop in front of River who was blocking me.
If I had noticed it a little later, the river would have been blown away.
It was a very dangerous move.
Did I really believe I could stop?
River didn’t even look back.
“Do you have a lot to say to me?”
A student blocked the river that made me back and walked in front of the student representative.
“It’s rude to know who this is..! This is Margaret Alban, the successor of Duke Alban, who rules the plains of Suar!!”
“Put”
Listening to the student’s lengthy explanation, River just laughed.
And at that sneer, the student representative… Margaret glared at her.
“What’s so funny?”
“No, it’s kind of funny.. The Clover Kingdom is, at best, smaller in land and economic scale than the Principality of Phrygia… Isn’t it a bit funny to come to the empire and boast about having a duke there?”
In an instant, Margaret’s face flushed red.
I put forward my position in the kingdom, but considering the overwhelming difference in national power that exists between the empire and the kingdom, it was just like a frog in a well coming out of the well and croaking.
“There is nothing to offer…!”
“I don’t have much to offer, but I’m rather confident in my sword skills. If you have so many things you want to say to me, would you like to duel?”
“…!”
As River touched the hilt of her sword that was hanging from her waist, Margaret grabbed the hilt of her sword as well.
Right before they started fighting each other right away, fierce speculation erupted from each other’s bodies.
“… Go back.”
“”””Four!!””””
Margaret frowned and pondered, then ordered her to withdraw.
In the same way as when they came in, they rushed out at their own will.
‘I won the fight. Thank god.’
The fighting spirit is not always proportional to the actual skill, but the swordsman who exudes ferocious fighting spirit was generally strong.
Margaret, slightly pushed by River’s speculation, ran away by curling her tail.
River clicked his tongue hard as he watched the crowd of people rushing to Clover Academy.
“Tsk… Not so much stuff.”
“It was great!”
After kicking Margaret out, River grinned again and yanked my face with the palm of his hand.
“Atlas straightens his face! He’s making a terrifying face again.”
I am flattered.
The expression seems to be asking for praise for resolving the immediate situation without any problems.
“Didn’t I say I could fix it?”
“Yes, you are great.”
Looking at Margaret who was leaving far away, I thought.
… He obviously had a sword at his waist.
It is said that he will come to the exchange meeting with the Swordsmanship Research Club tomorrow.
‘I’ll have to talk to my sister.’
I think I should go to an exchange meeting.
Because I tend to have a bit of a back end.