183 – Salty & Sweet (5)
─This winter vacation, hit the [Pod Company] In the northern magic city.
What I said to Jang Woo-hee is true.
At the same time, I will save Jang Woo-hee’s friend, Woo Hyo-yeon.
The owner of [Ford Company], Mytree, plays the role of the brain among the 13 main executives in [Turning White].
He is good at information gathering and internal disruption.
Moreover, Maitri is a person who has been entrusted with full authority over Ellinia Academy.
If you can’t stop him, the strong within the academy will side with [Turning White].
As time goes by, he will become a major nuisance.
Francis and Melon, whom I arrested earlier, are also Maitri’s subordinates.
Of course, his forces are in the form of point organizations, so Francis and Melon have no idea who their boss is.
···Siena’s ability to deal with high-level spirits at this point is a big boon to me.
Somehow he managed to seduce her too, so she should hit [Ford Company] Together during this winter break.
Maitri and her group are by no means easy opponents.
In addition to my team of warriors, other forces are also essential.
We must use the means available to us to the fullest.
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······First of all, let’s develop the ability of people who are kind to me.
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After dinner, Theo and Amy headed to the training ground for the Knights Faculty to retrieve her fist.
As expected, there was Irene in the training ground.
She was sitting and meditating with her knuckles in her arms.
She had her eyes closed, her fists curled in her arms.
Amy’s eyes widened.
“Lord, fist!”
Amy hurriedly ran to Irene.
The sound made Irene open her eyes.
“Welcome, Theo.”
Likewise, her knuckles opened their eyes.
─Kiyiying, gong?
Her knuckles stared up at Amy, who was looking at her with a worried look.
“Ah… Fortunately, nothing seems to be happening.”
Embarrassed for nothing, Amy stroked her fist on the head. Whether her knuckles had crossed the rainbow river, she was seriously worried.
Irene stood up from her floor and smiled slightly at Amy.
“Yes. Since Theo left her, she had kept her eyes closed, but her pulse was beating normally and her breathing was steady.”
“Thank you, Ms. Irene. You unintentionally took up precious time.”
“No. It was also a car I was going to meditate on anyway.”
A smiling Irene nodded her head at her Amy.
Right after that, Irene looked at Theo with her firm gaze.
“Did your trip go well, Theo?”
“Yes, thanks.”
Theo continued.
She said, “I said I would explain why I entrusted her knuckles. She met Sienna by chance. She has an antagonistic relationship with her fist, and she fights every time she sees her, so Irene has been entrusted to you for a while.”
“I see. Even looking at Siena, she is unique. But Theo. What I’m really curious about is—”
Irene looked at Theo, still fixed, and continued her words.
“Why did you recruit Miss Seria as her first aide? For me, without even bringing out Ade’s ‘e’. If you’re going to make a recruitment offer, isn’t it right to make it to me first?”
“Ah, that thing?”
Theo didn’t care and met Irene’s eyes.
“Irene. It’s only natural that you’re with me.”
“…Yes?”
Irene was rather dumbfounded by his confident appearance. His expression was all the more calm.
Her attitude is that it is only natural for her to be with her.
That terribly arrogant self-righteous look was really ‘him’.
Maybe that’s why I was angry in my head, but not in my heart.
“Ha ha ha ha ha. It’s really Theo… That sounds like you. All right. I will be your aide.”
Irene smiled dejectedly.
Theo smiled lightly.
“Thank you, Lin. Let’s make the best team in the academy together.”
“······I don’t intend to just laugh like that. Theo, make sure to tell Miss Seria that I am your first aid.”
“Of course I will.”
Looking at his still smiling face, Irene’s cheeks turned slightly red.
‘I lost, Theo.’
She regained her senses and asked a question.
“By the way, Theo. When you’re a student, you can have up to 4 aides, right? Who are the other two?”
“The one with a dot is the Alps. Irene She’s a knight undergraduate like you. One is still undecided. “
“The Alps…? Alpine Superior? I know the class rank is at the bottom, but…”
It was a very unexpected name.
Since there are many undergraduate students in the Faculty of Engineering, classes are divided according to grades. So, sometimes the motives don’t even know each other.
And since Irene was the head of the engineering faculty from the time she entered school, she had never been taught in the same classroom as Alps.
But Irene knows about the Alps.
This is because Alps has been bullied and ignored by many students since the first semester.
She belongs to the [Cult of Light]. All students belonging to the church have divine power, so most of them belong to the upper ranks.
But Alps is 18 years old, which is a lot for a freshman, and her grade rank is at the bottom of the list.
Thanks to that, she is bullied and ignored accompanied by verbal abuse by all students from upper, middle, and lower ranks.
But even after being treated so horribly, Alps responded with a smile.
Whenever I saw her fragile smile, Irene felt sympathy.
However, this is the best educational institution on the continent, Ellinia Academy.
Her sympathy without a real solution could hurt her even more, and until her Theo changed, Irene only devoted herself to training to join the Imperial Knights.
Anyway, Theo, who declared that he would make the best team in the Alps… Put a dot on it?
‘Theo isn’t the kind of person to say useless things.’
Theo looked up at Irene, lost in her thoughts.
“The Alps have great potential. He won’t let himself do his part until he starts to grade his team in earnest.”
“Well, I see. . . . You must have an idea.”
Irene nodded her head.
‘Yes. I’m used to waiting anyway. This kind of waiting is nothing.’
Then, Theo with her serious face took her one step closer to her.
“Irene. . . . I have something to tell you.”
“······What, are you going?”
Irene looked up at him with her anxious eyes.
Her eyes were quivering, as if she was imagining something terrible.
Theo looked down at her, questioning her inwardly.
‘Why is the reaction like this? What are you thinking?’
Outwardly unconcerned, Theo opened her mouth.
“It is the breathing method. Do you know?”
“······Huuu.”
After Irene took a deep breath, she answered.
“Of course I know. Doesn’t that mean you take a long breath at the moment of attack? Like this.”
Every time Irene stabbed with her practice longsword, she breathed heavily.
Theo shook her head.
“It seems that the concept of breathing that we know is different. Wait a moment.”
Theo pulled out a practice longsword from the weapon stand and held it up.
He glanced at Amy, who was standing nearby, and swung her sword.
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Five minutes had passed since Theo showed a demonstration of swordsmanship using the breathing technique learned from Jang Woo-hee.
Irene was watching him without missing every little movement.
‘It’s different from the breathing method I learned. ······No, it’s much higher-level. There are almost no inefficiencies.’
In addition to sword attacks such as stabbing and slashing, he was also applying the breathing method to attacks using legs, ankles, elbows, and head, as well as evasion such as front rolling and back rolling.
Wedge love liquid—!
Huuugh—!
Theo wielded his sword for another 10 minutes, then stopped his sword demonstration.
He took a quiet breath and tidied up his clothes.
“How was it, Irene.”
“······It’s a much more efficient and superior breathing method than my method.”
Irene expressed her honest feelings. Theo showed her how to breathe, she hadn’t seen her since she was a child and she grew up watching countless excellent articles.
Theo nodded.
“Then learn it and make it your own.”
“But can I just tell you this?”
Irene looked up at Theo blankly.
Who are the tribes that handle long weapons such as swordsmen and knights?
He cares about his skills.
Moreover, the level of breathing that Theo showed must be as valuable as arcane magic for a wizard.
They don’t show it well, and of course there are very few cases where they pass it on.
The breathing method that Irene used to use was also secretly passed down to her family members from generation to generation.
“·······.”
Theo looked at her calmly.
“It doesn’t matter. To you.”