97. Taunt (2)
97. Provocation (2)
The man who started a fight with me. Staffin Corroman is the second-in-command of Melgard’s 2nd year with the title of . As I said, this guy is a huge opportunist, so he harasses people who are judged weaker than himself for fun. He makes his subordinates bully someone, and then he often puts on a play in which he saves them himself. For the evaluation of the surroundings.
In the original work, Staffin falls into ruin after failing to abandon this bullying temperament. If the main character is Ren, Staffin will quarrel with Ren. It is because of the reason that Lelisha cares for Ren. At the end, after he was formally challenged by Ren, he was crushed to death, and all his evil deeds were exposed and he walked the path of downfall.
If the main character is Rin, she will be smitten and ruined as she flirts with Rin. Apart from his personality, this guy is the second-ranked second-year student at Melgard, so his skills are genuine. He was the kind of guy he didn’t want to associate with, if possible.
But if the other person starts a fight. And if you put me down like this in front of my juniors, I can’t just let it go.
“Woros, did you just say you would let it go? Someone like you, none other than me?”
“Do I have to write it down to understand it?”
“Jesse… Yes, you must have wanted to keep your form in front of a woman.”
Staffin smiles at me and walks slowly toward Sotia. Then he opened his mouth with a sinister smile.
“As I said, since we are Melgard’s senior line, I can only give you one piece of advice.”
“I don’t want to hear it.”
“… Woros Blood. I think I went crazy just by looking at this guy’s appearance—”
“I said I didn’t want to hear it.”
Staffin’s eyes twitch at Sotia’s words. Sotia’s cool tone made me feel refreshed. If the opponent is Staffin, there is no way an accident will happen. That’s because Sotia is stronger than that guy.
Staffin seems to have suffered some serious scratches on his ego. She’s for a woman. And being ignored by Sotia, who is pretty enough to be given the title of , Seems to boil her anger.
He narrowly opened his eyes and glared at me, as if he had judged me to be the cause.
“… You used that face to seduce a woman well. That’s because I picked someone who didn’t know you from last year.”
“What do you want to say?”
“What… That’s the story. It’s a pity. I should have shown Sotia the image of you who was beaten by me last year and crawled.”
“…… “
He giggled while saying that. Sotia clenched her teeth tightly. And when she drew her sword a little, I opened her mouth.
“Hey, Staffin Corroman.”
“What.”
“I think you are misunderstanding something, so I will tell you.”
“…… “
“I tend to tolerate the mistakes of people weaker than me. It’s also the reason why you can act so rudely in front of me.”
After I finished talking, he grabbed me by the collar. At the same time, Sotia drew her sword, but she shook her head at her. Because it could be a problem for nothing. Sotia then, indignantly, puts her sword back in place.
I know. That Staffin, who cares about the evaluation of the world, will never hit me.
“Staffin Corroman. I guess you should know a little bit about fractions.”
“There is a limit to what this bastard can tolerate. If you keep going like that-“
“Melgard Tournament.”
“…… “
Staffin’s eyes twitch at the word Melgard Tournament. Staffin, who likes to show off to others, naturally participates in the competition. Also, unlike Sotia, this guy’s opponent wouldn’t even be announced yet.
In the case of Sotia, whose opponent has already been announced. This is because it was announced in advance to attract public attention by creating an issue that the senior and second students of Melgard are attached. In short, it is a special case.
In addition, in the case of Staffin, he would have submitted the application belatedly after checking whether someone stronger than himself had participated in the same grade, so the opponent would not have been caught even more.
And as I said before. In the Melgard Tournament, students can send and receive challenges. Of course, it is not 100% repaired, but if both the challenger and the challenged side want the match, most of them are repaired.
“I will also go to the Melgard Tournament. And, Stephen Corroman, I will send you a challenge.”
“What? Ha ha ha ha ha. What did you say?”
“I hope there will be no unfortunate incident where I refuse a challenge because I am afraid.”
I said that and nervously removed the hand that was holding me by the collar. If you are a Staffin who likes to show off yourself to others, you will never refuse my challenge. That’s because this guy considers me completely under him. He approached Sotia with such thoughts.
“Let’s go to Sotia. Time is wasted.”
“Yes.”
“Woros!”
I stopped at the sound of the guy’s voice behind me. The guy had a calmer face than expected.
“It would be better to come prepared with the coffin. This time, I have no intention of going over as kindly as before.”
“…… “
Ignoring his words, I walked towards the entrance of Melgard Dormitory. Then Sotia, who was in front of me, turned her body and approached Staffin.
“Senior Staffin Corroman. I hope this time I can fix that personality a bit. Goodbye then.”
“What, what dude? Hey. Hey! Sotia Sonia!”
Ignoring his words, enter the Melgard Dormitory. After finishing the errands, I walked towards District 6 with Sotia.
“Senior. I am so upset.”
“I know. Thank you for your patience.”
“Senior. If possible, please do it in a pleasant way.”
“I think so. I guess I need to increase the amount of time I practice.”
As I said that, Sotia stopped her steps.
“Sotia?”
“Senior. Then, how about exercising with me starting tomorrow? I canter early in the morning.”
“Gu Bora. I get it.”
“Because I think I work out with my seniors. I’m already excited. Efficiency would be even better.”
Is Sotia really happy? Shaking her shoulders, she says so. Upon closer inspection, it was not that her shoulders were moving, but that she was raising and lowering her tiptoes over and over again.
For me. Even for Sotia’s sake, this duel must be won. No, winning is not enough. I have to press him with a refreshing and overwhelming force.
To do that, you need to be strong. I guess I’ll have to tell Ansink about the situation and ask him to increase my training time.
“Senior. So proud junior. Sotia Sonia, let’s go back now.”
“Yes. A lot of trouble. As promised, wait in front of the statue of Shayza tomorrow.”
“Yes. I will wait.”
That’s how District 6 is. I broke up with Sotia in front of the statue of Shaiza. She goes to the dormitory on the grounds of the cult. I went our separate ways through a secret passage in the forest. Returning to the greenhouse like that, I immediately felt strange.
Sora the snow woman. It was because he was stamping his feet while looking at the wall of the greenhouse, and the greenhouse, which should have been peaceful, was cluttered. In the midst of this chaos, Sora didn’t even notice that I had returned.
“What happened to Sora?”
“Oh! The Bocchan is back! All right, I’m glad. The truth is.”
“Yes.”
“While the master is away… This has happened several times today.”
Sora said that and pointed at the transparent wall of the greenhouse. On that side, there was a passage leading to the second greenhouse. I moved closer to the transparent wall and looked towards the 2nd greenhouse.
“… Something seems to have happened.”
“Yeah…What the hell happened?”
An old tree growing in the 2nd greenhouse was hitting the ground with its trunk. You have to defeat that cryptid to enter the greenhouse area 2.
It’s a plant from District 1, and it’s doing well, so I think I’ll have to deal with it soon. Because the frequency of such an uproar will increase more and more. The problem is, I don’t know why it’s making such a fuss all of a sudden.
“Sora, you can ignore that. Do not worry. I will take care of it as soon as possible.”
“Yes. You are very late anyway.”
“Something like that happened.”
“I will prepare dinner.”
When I nodded, Sora went into the break room and she came out with meat.
“I bought it because the freshness of the meat was good. I also boiled the bath water.”
“Thank you always.”
I went into the break room, packed my pajamas, and went into the bathroom. After washing my body in the bath, I entered the bath and looked up at the ceiling.
I closed my eyes and drew the composition of the confrontation with Staffin in my head. It can’t be said that his spearmanship is overwhelmingly excellent, but it’s not a skill to be ignored anywhere.
His real power comes when he uses magic. Just like the title , He fights by covering his spear with cold air. Now that I think about it, his fighting style and mine are quite similar.
We both wear spears, and we both put something on them. It’s cold magic, and I use alchemy synthesis to cover the effect.
Thinking like that makes me feel like I can’t lose even more. I got up, dried myself off, and went out to the greenhouse. I see a delicious dinner set on a white table.
“Sora, didn’t you eat dinner?”
“Yes. I’ve been waiting to eat with you.”
“… Is that so sorry for coming late Of course I thought I would have eaten first.”
“Surely the young master ordered us to have dinner first. But Bob had no idea. When I felt hungry, the owner returned.”
Sora said that and smiled. I talked over the dinner she made for me.
“Sora is actually a horse.”
I told Sora what happened with Staffin today. He judged that he would need Sora’s help to quickly become stronger.
Even now, as we were having dinner and talking peacefully, the old trees in Greenhouse 2 were making a mad noise.