188. Fox Herding (3)
The sun has completely set, and the cool night wind blows.
While the women were having a bloody conversation.
Baron Greta and I quietly walked through the garden of the mansion.
“….”
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The Baron stared at me and observed my appearance.
Then, he nodded, saying that he acknowledged what he had to admit.
“It looks like you trained pretty hard.”
Obviously I was hiding my mana.
However, for some reason, both Balderian and the Baron in front of me noticed my extraordinary nature.
“Although her mana is minimal, her body looks slimmer than other Subangsa knights.”
As if responding to his evaluation, I also asked back.
“Were you also a knight?”
In response to my question, the Baron silently nodded his head.
A middle-aged man with black hair cut in half.
Despite the fact that he was addicted to alcohol and gambling, he had a good physique and an unusual spirit.
“Okay. “As you can tell by the color of his hair, he is a former mercenary from an alien race.”
What is a particularly developed trapezius muscle?
It was as if I was looking at the northern people, Ornn.
“The title of Baron was given to me and my father because of our performance as ‘Mace Fathers’ on the battlefield.”
‘Yes, I’ve heard of it.’
Mace is rich.
In the past, previous war heroes who were active before me on the northern front.
The number of enemies the two of us crushed with mace was as many as 200.
‘For some reason, Miya’s sturdy mana and athleticism were unusual….’
Especially the deep kiss he gave me while he was clinging to my body by his thighs.
The tightening force was quite incredible.
‘Was everything inherited from my father?’
“I was now meeting a hero on the battlefield.”
I bowed my head politely to show respect.
However, even after receiving the praise, Baron Greta’s eyes were still cold.
“There is no need to be humble to me.”
The Baron turned his back.
Afterwards, he looked at my thin eyes and asked.
“Haven’t you accomplished much greater feats than me?”
“Am I saying…?” ?”
Pointing to myself with his finger, the Baron stared at the lighted window of the mansion.
“An hour ago, the princesses came here. “And that includes all three.”
The princesses are here.
My pupils shrank when I heard those words.
“Yes… ?”
“All three princesses are very interested in you. “So much so that as soon as you hung out with my daughter, he came to keep you in check.”
As his father, the Baron instinctively noticed.
“They want to make you their husband.”
“I know.”
When I answered calmly, he flashed his murderous black eyes.
“Are you saying you kissed Miya knowing that?”
The Baron’s voice becomes increasingly cold.
Even though he squandered his fortune through gambling, his love for his daughter still seemed to remain the same.
“That’s….”
“Of course I know. “My daughter is cute and beautiful, and she is so true.”
He pictured Miya leading her family instead of him.
The corners of my mouth naturally rose at the sight of that true and unique appearance.
‘I’ve seen this scene before….’
How every father I meet is an extreme idiot to his daughter!
“But what if I become the fourth wife after the noble princesses?”
He picked up a club that was leaning against a tree.
“My daughter will live each day receiving harsh criticism from those people!”
A thick club like a mace is aimed at me.
With the power to crush 200 human heads.
“No, no matter how many ex-wives there are, I will treat everyone equally. Because I love them all… !”
At this, I smiled and waved my hand.
“Ha, fair?”
He approached me leisurely.
Baron Greta is a little taller than me.
However, thanks to his uniquely large trapezius muscles, he looked like a giant.
“How can a rookie baron like you want to treat the princesses fairly?”
A bloody sound of contact was heard from his hand holding the handle of the club.
As if he was going to swing at me at any moment.
“I will definitely be caught and manipulated, and even if my precious Miya is scolded, I will eventually pretend not to notice.”
A baron who met many upper-class couples before his downfall.
He radiated powerful energy as if he didn’t want his daughter to be in that situation.
“I may be a bad father, but I am not the kind of person who will just let her daughter walk down a thorny path.”
He seemed to mistakenly think that Miya was trying to marry me because she was so ugly.
His credit was ruined due to gambling and alcoholism, and no one would hire him.
“I can’t see myself getting married to a fox-like man like you.”
“I am not that kind of person…” !!”
My daughter, who is as cute as a cat being raised on a piggyback, is taken away by a fox that looks strange and gloomy at first glance.
The Baron, who could not bear that sight, made a request to Bale.
“Then prove it yourself!”
Proof.
I swallowed deeply at those words.
“Is this a man who can embrace three of the highest-ranking women in the empire and even embrace my daughter?”
“….”
When I thought about it, what he said was not wrong.
Even if I were a father, I would have been quite anxious if someone like me met my daughter.
So, it would be good to provide some reassurance.
“Good.”
I tried to take out Irina’s treasured sword that was on her waist.
However, the Baron had already put up his mace as collateral, so he was just going to spar with his club.
As if responding to this, I also grabbed the old wooden sword that was leaning against the wall.
“I will respond.”
“I like your spirit, Baron Bale.”
Just as Miya wielded her hatchet, her father wielded a similar one-handed weapon.
“Don’t think of me as old.”
His eyes are determined.
Like a seasoned hunter trying to hunt a fox.
“I’m probably not as tough as I thought… !!”
We drew a large circle while taking steps with each other.
I was looking for an opening like that.
“Huh!!”
The Baron rushed in first like a battlefield hero.
His huge club was aimed squarely at the top of my head.
‘It’s an easy orbit to avoid… !’
However, is it because of his pride and curiosity about past heroes?
First, I decided to hit back at the baron’s club.
That moment.
Quaaang―――!!
An intense sound of an attack as if hitting the ground.
A wave so big that the barren tree branches in the garden shook.
‘What power…? !’
It is as powerful as the hammer god in northern mythology.
I can finally understand Miya’s sturdy mana.
It was definitely not a powerful mana and trained attack like the vice-captains.
However, even though he was skinny, he was strong, like a woodcutter who lifts dozens of pieces of firewood alone.
“Indeed…. “You look like you have good tenacity and stamina, Baron Bale.”
White smoke rises from the wooden swords and clubs that touch each other.
We began a power struggle, competing with almost equal strength.
“The Baron also has great skills that have been honed through actual combat.”
I worked hard on the northern front and came up with experience.
It was a nice feeling to meet a senior on the same front line.
Thanks to you, the corners of my mouth naturally rose.
“Now…. “Did you laugh?”
When he saw my leisure, his expression became distorted like a plaster statue from a myth.
The Baron’s face had dark eye shadows like those of an emperor.
“There is room. Okay, then let’s try blocking this too.”
Strong blue mana soars in his hands.
Afterwards, the moment of wielding that bloody blunt weapon.
“… !”
I lowered my head with an instinctive quick movement.
Boo!!
I only swung the mace, but the bloody sound of the air splitting rains down.
As if responding to this, I also bowed and swung my wooden sword.
The target is his side.
They aimed the same way as the gladiators at the gambling house who punished them during the day.
But.
Kwaaang-!!
“An excellent counterattack, Baron.”
Surprisingly, he sensed my attack and raised one of his calves.
Then, I focused my mana on my legs and caught his wooden sword.
“However, this is a country that has taken down the axes of the northern people with its bare body.”
A unique, sturdy mana similar to Miya’s surrounds the Baron’s entire body.
It looked like sturdy armor.
“That’s why you need to be more manly and make heavy attacks!!”
When the Baron wears armor made of mana, he attacks more harshly.
As if responding to his attacks, I countered them all with a wooden sword.
However, as long as the opponent has mana.
The situation has no choice but to be pushed further and further.
As much as he was a war hero, I also could not keep my skills hidden.
‘I’m embarrassed.’
If he spews out this mana and gets hurt.
It’s like I knocked down the father of a precious woman.
Furthermore, he has lost his pride as the head of the family.
If overwhelmingly suppressed in this situation, the picture will be strange.
I repelled his attack and slowly gathered my thoughts.
Soon.
As if responding to the Baron’s sincerity, he began wrapping mana around his arms.
The deep blue power that has been forged strongly over the years.
Kagagak―――!!
The smell of burning wood wafted from the clubs and wooden swords that clashed again.
However, the Baron had no intention of stopping.
“You’ve finally started using mana, Baron Veil!”
He did his best to understand the level of the person I am.
Because my daughter was that important to me.
“Now reveal your skills!!”
Blue flames wave from the club.
There was no weapon as dangerous and scary as a reinforced blunt weapon.
“As expected, you are strong….”
But.
Conversely, I did not strengthen the wooden sword with mana.
“I think I know where Miya-senpai’s strong will and talent come from.”
Even though I can hear the sound of the wooden sword splitting from inside, I just leave it as is.
Bloody enemy―――.
“Huh… !!”
I raised the mana of my entire body and blocked his attack.
Afterwards, he glared at him and activated a powerful golden aura.
“I will serve you with all my heart as you are a hero of the Empire and a senior of the Northern Front.”
Bright golden light pours into the dark and desolate garden.
Baron Greta’s eyes sparkled at that warm sight.
“Sword Master….”
I knew well that the man in front of me was unusual.
However, I thought he was just seducing the princesses with his smooth face and tongue movements.
“Besides, it was on the northern front…” ?”
His eyes widened at the level of sword master he had achieved through long-term training and strong mental power.
The doubt that had filled his black eyes began to fade.
“Then, I will go.”
I held the wooden sword tightly like a long sword.
And then, it rushed towards him at high speed, leaving an afterimage.
“Okay, now I’m sure…” .”
Baron Greta looked at me rushing through the wind.
Then, he soon came to his senses and raised his club with expert eyes.
“However, just because he is a sword master doesn’t mean he completely acknowledges it.”
Like the ‘Mace’ who punished the emperor’s enemies on the battlefield.
“Are you the man who will embrace the best women in the empire?”
Her skilled knight struck down her club with the last of his determination to protect his daughter.
However, the moment when the sword was about to touch me.
“… !!”
He witnessed it.
A white aura gently rising from my left chest.
“That…” !!”
In the past, Greta was a knight who saved the country and fought alongside the Emperor from afar.
He remembered him handling the White Aurors and fighting before his men.
By nature, high-ranking people were busy using their subordinates as shields and protecting themselves.
Leonhard took the first step for his people.
Looking at him, Baron Greta thought.
‘Ah. Indeed, Leonhard is a man worthy of being an emperor.’
That he is a true man who controls all things.
But, this young man standing in front of him.
The man who only believed in his smooth face and thought he was bewitching women was showing the same power as the emperor.
Quaaang―――!!
The golden aura and the blue aura collided with each other.
Then, a strong wave began to shake.
“Huh…” !!”
The Baron tried to hold on to my power somehow.
However, he also instinctively knew.
He said it was a force he couldn’t handle.
In the end, he will have no choice but to fly helplessly and fall to the ground.
And then, her daughter will be taken away.
The Baron thought so and eventually quietly closed his eyes during the fight.
But, at that moment.
What a disaster… !!
The experienced man’s eyes immediately lit up when he heard the cracking sound coming from my wooden sword.
My wooden sword against a club.
Because I didn’t put any mana on that wooden sword.
“No way!”
Baron Greta noticed that I intentionally broke my wooden sword.
Soon my wooden sword broke and our bodies crossed.
――――――.
We passed each other and stopped fighting.
The mana surrounding me soon began to subside.
“….”
The Baron stared at me holding the broken sword.
Then, I immediately said with an embarrassed expression.
“Oh my…. Unfortunately, my weapon broke….”
I showed him the wooden sword that was split in half.
And then, he took a deep breath and said.
“If the opponent uses a blunt weapon, I should have thought about the durability of my weapon…. “I think I made a mistake.”
Since he was unable to fight, the sparring was invalid.
I told the Baron that there was nothing I could do.
“Actually, it’s as if I lost.”
Baroness Greta pursed her lips as she saw me claiming to have lost the decision.
And then he looked at my face….
“You are such an interesting person.”
She said, raising the corners of her mouth.
“I think I now understand how you bewitched the princesses.”
The Baron dropped the club he was holding on the floor.
And, he continued speaking with serious eyes.
“He is not intoxicated with his own strength, but instead lifts up his opponent. “It’s similar to His Majesty the Emperor.”
He knew.
I deliberately caused the wooden sword to break.
“I guess even the haughty princesses fell in love with your appearance. “My Miya too.”
The Baron snorted like a wild animal.
Then, he clenched his fists and said.
“It was a trick to intentionally induce a draw due to an accident for my pride as the head of the household. Honestly, I don’t like it. “Because you were playing a trick on me!”
However, Miya’s father soon sighed.
Soon….
“However, if you act considerately by considering the other person’s feelings, you deserve praise.”
He knew it well because he had served the monarch by his side even for a moment.
My actions are the ideal example of a leader who leads others.
“….”
The Baron looked at the living room window of his mansion for a moment.
Thinking of someone there.
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“Thank you for your understanding.”
I quietly bowed to him who was silent.
Then, Baron Greta glanced at me and spoke quietly.
“With someone of your caliber, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to leave my daughter in charge…” .”
He opened his thick lips.
“I’m not opposed to dating, but….”
The Baron looked down at me.
Then, he shook my hand and asked me for a favor.
“I hope that my feelings will never change.”
“….”
I looked down at his hand silently for a moment.
Then, he raised the corners of his mouth and held his hand.
“I understand, Baron.”
We smiled and smiled at each other.
“Please take care of me in the future.”
Afterwards, they acknowledged each other and stopped shaking hands.
“But, it would be better for you to develop your tenacity even more.”
“Yes?”
After we resolved our resentment, he gave me sincere advice.
“I have seen His Majesty the Emperor many times, and even if you don’t know it right now, his daughters have a lot of potential power.”
He grinned and tapped my shoulder.
And then, he whispered quietly.
“Just like you saw me, my daughter won’t be easy.”
Is he low key saying his daughter will become a succubus in bed?