“One hand… … Are you really okay?”
Elena asked, raising the corner of her mouth as if it were nonsense.
Instead of answering her, I respond with a shrug.
“Are you sure you promised? If I subdue you, I will… … No, to be able to help my grandfather.”
“of course.”
“… … let’s move If you make a fuss here, it could interfere with your meal.”
Saying that, she starts walking ahead, and I slowly follow her, feeling the cool breeze.
Is it because it is also a rural village? I feel like I am healed just by looking at it.
It was at the same time that I arrived at the forest under the hill with such a refreshing feeling.
The movement of magical power felt from the front.
“Tinkerbell!”
With Elena’s voice, the wind begins to roar and rush towards me in the form of blades.
“I didn’t even say I was starting.”
“You never made a promise like that?!”
I put an aura on my left hand while laughing at the sight of her sticking her tongue out towards me with a nasty smile.
“Certainly, I didn’t promise that.”
The first thing to come at me is a blade flying towards my leg. When I lightly jumped and dodged it, I immediately encountered a blade flying towards my waist.
It seems that it was blown like this so that it could not be avoided when it jumped into the air.
However, this was a method that really only worked for beginners.
“The attack is too light.”
As if to drive away flies, the blade of wind disappears in an instant with a slight wave of the arm.
The other blades also looked at her, blocking all similar methods.
“It’s not over yet!”
Even though she deliberately defended with overwhelming skills, she reached out to me with eyes full of fighting spirit.
“Emission!”
At the same time as her shrill cry, extremely compressed air was fired from her handgun-shaped fingertips creating a sonic boom.
“hahahaha!”
Once the fight passed.
Wouldn’t that be a bit dangerous if you hit it directly?
Instead of emitting an aura, focus on your fist and swing your fist as if hitting a flying ball.
──Quaang!
Compressed air that spreads to the surroundings while scattering red auras.
The tingling of his fists seemed to have attacked him quite seriously this time.
“Have you ever learned combat from someone else?”
“… … I don’t have it!”
So, you’re able to do this kind of attack by yourself… … .
Combat sense also passed.
“I’ll go there now.”
His right hand runs toward her with his hand behind his back.
In response, she hurriedly raised her hand and aimed at me.
“Emission!”
Simultaneously with her cry, I also pull out my pistol and pull the trigger in line with her finger.
────Pain!
An air bullet that hits the auror bullet with a sound as if the air is bursting.
At this, her eyes toward me widen.
“You only use your left hand!”
“I pulled it with my left hand, but didn’t you promise not to use a weapon?”
As he spoke, using the line he had just spoken, her eyebrows furrowed.
“really… … ! Emission! Emission! Emission! Emission! Emission!”
Perhaps she thought that she couldn’t do it with a single shot, but this time she started shooting openly.
However, when she pulled the trigger in line with the trajectory of the air bullets she fired, a series of explosive sounds rang out.
“Really!”
She pointed at me with both hands this time, perhaps because she was angry at being shot down in the air.
However, for some reason, the atmosphere felt different from what I had seen before.
“Tifone (typhoon)!”
Unlike just before, the wind that covered a huge area raged and hit the body directly.
In other words, the posture just now was fishing to confuse me.
The center of gravity of the body was tilted for a moment due to the huge wind that hit the body, but as the aura was activated throughout the body and the physical ability was improved, the body that was being pushed back gradually began to stop.
“stop… … ! do it… … ?!”
She spoke with both hands outstretched and a frown on her face.
“I am still relaxed.”
I began to feel the wind slowly pressing against my body.
Canary and Tinker Bell, who had been flapping their wings beside her, had long since landed on her shoulder.
The light emitted softly from Tinkerbell’s body was also noticeably weaker compared to the beginning.
Endurance is lost.
However, compared to his age and environment, it can be said that he has endured quite well.
“… … how is it. surrender? Or would you like more?”
When I asked with a completely relaxed expression, she glanced at Tinkerbell on her shoulder.
-Beep… … .
Tinkerbell shaking her head. Her eyes wavered for a moment, then she looked at me again and raised both hands.
“… … Surrender.”
It seemed that he could no longer see his partner struggling.
“okay. end. Any complaints?”
After confirming that the mana is waning from her body, I also let go of my aura and approach her.
“… … It seems that the way you speak suddenly changed?”
“I’ll see you often from now on, so I’m trying to make things a bit easier. Are you comfortable too?”
Of course, there were no honorifics in Italian, but from what she heard, it seemed like she noticed a big difference from my initial attitude.
“You’re young! They look like ages! How old are you?!”
“me? I’m in my first year at the academy.”
Upon hearing my answer, her eyes widened.
“If you are an academy student… … . You are older than me.”
Are you also the age when you haven’t entered the academy yet?
With this, one fail out of the total pass three.
“Then you are my brother. Are you comfortable talking?”
“… … Is that so?”
Is it because he lost in a match with a lot of handicaps as well as his age?
Unlike the first time I saw her, she was completely sullen and answered in a weak voice.
Is it something to be sad about not being able to be together like that?
“… … I will ask you one thing.”
“What is it?”
“Why are you trying to help old Ludvio so much?”
She must have known how dangerous this was.
It’s a matter involving the mafia, not the neighborhood gangsters. It was also not an ordinary family, but the Medici family, which was one of the best in Italy in terms of economic power.
Still, why did she want to help him so much?
“That’s what I said earlier. Grandpa is my lifesaver——”
“──It seems that the reason to put an end to the Mafia isn’t enough.”
At my questioning, she finally closed her eyes tightly and squeezed the hem of her skirt.
“… … You’re annoying!”
“what?”
“The Medici guys! Saying it’s for us, it’s for the reconstruction of Italy, and you’re doing tax collectors! They take our harvested crops and products under the name of tax, but they don’t even protect us! Thanks to that, Uncle Bill, who was a vigilante, passed away last year!”
Her expression, which had been drooping until just now, had completely changed.
“I want to take this opportunity to kick them out of here. I hope our village becomes a little more peaceful!”
hmm… … to romance.
“pass.”
“… … yes?”
“therefore. I want to take this opportunity to pay back the favor to my grandfather and regain the freedom of the village. Is it like this?”
“that’s right.”
“By using me from Carlione?”
“Use! Not until… … You can do a favor at least.”
After all, isn’t it asking for help for himself, the village, and Ludbio? right with yourself.
“I’m sorry, but I’m not a person who is swayed by sympathy, so I don’t think I can accept such a request.”
“… … Is that so too?”
“but.”
He lowered his head towards her. He raised an eyebrow and added a word.
“It’s different if it’s a trade.”
“… … transaction?”
Then, slowly, her head rises and faces my eyes.
“What school are you currently attending?”
“A small school in the village. Aunt Emily, who was a teacher in the city, is telling me.”
“Are you registered as an Awakener? What about the academy?”
“I’m registered, but I never thought about the academy. Because it costs a lot of money.”
The set conditions are also perfect.
Are people looking for overseas FA markets because of this taste?
It felt like I had found the best gemstone.
“Then, go to the Seoul Hero Academy next year. We will cover not only lodging, but also tuition, food, and living expenses.”
“… … yes?”
“Of course it’s not free. Because you have to work for the club and company I belong to. How do you think it’s a pretty good deal?”
I secure a promising youngster early, so she can fit into the job, be supported and educated at the best academy in the world.
An ‘offer you can’t refuse’.
“But I guess I should ask my mom… … .”
“Well, because it was so sudden. Think slowly. It looks like it will be here for quite some time.”
“Then it’s okay to move with us for now, right?”
He hasn’t accepted my deal yet, but he quietly raises his head and glances at me.
I took off the Midas glove I was wearing on my hand to the guy who was watching intently. He held out his hand with a mischievous smile.
“… … for now?”
“… … Please take good care of me.”
“Eugene Han Callione. Call me Eugene.”
“Monica Anna Elena. You can call me Elena.”
She smiled as she held my hand.
overseas prospects.
GET.
or
Caught a wild ‘spirit wizard’!
* * *
“Huh, despite the noise outside, you came back pretty good friends?”
As we were about to go up the hill again, we ran into Ludbio, who was smoking a pipe outside the door.
“grandfather! Since when have you been with me?”
“I’ve been watching since you guys hit each other. You seem to be stronger than before?”
“How hard are you training with Tinkerbell these days? of course!”
Elena scratches her head and puts on an embarrassing expression at Ludvio’s praise.
“And Eugene. You really do look like your father.”
“… … Is that so?”
“Because it is. How he looked like the guy who used to run through the woods in the past. The fact that they always hold out their hands after a fight is exactly the same. Chuck!”
After saying that, he immediately poured the contents of the tuk-tuk pipe on the table and looked at Elena again.
“So, did you decide to go out too?”
“… … yes.”
Apparently, he noticed why we had such sparring.
“I knew. How strong are you than your peers? The fact that it is strong enough to match other awakened people. but… … I can’t help but worry.”
“… … grandfather.”
“please. Don’t overdo it. And Eugene. Please take good care of this child.”
“You don’t have to worry. maestro. No matter what happens, I will protect you.”
Really hard, no. How could I give up the gem stone I found by chance?
I was going to take this child with me until I graduated from the academy.
“Chuck! That’s right! chuckle! Yes, please.”
Ludvio bursts into laughter at this, and Elena lowers her head for some reason.
“Well then, let’s talk a little bit. Eugene. How are you going to move first?”
With the now-empty pipe in his mouth, Ludvio looks at me with an expectant expression.
“Well, shouldn’t we say hello first?”
“… … greeting?”
“Hello?”
“yes.”
──A real Mafia-like greeting.