John went up the quiet hallway to his room. Thinking about how to maintain a relationship with Miri.
John’s footsteps echoed dully in the empty hallway.
A light leaked through the crack in the door of his room. With the low laughter of men and women.
‘Hmm?’
Among them, the woman’s voice was Arien’s. And it was a voice that even a male voice knew.
Holding the doorknob of his room, he took a deep breath and opened the door.
Arien looked at herself first. He had already sensed his coming by the sound of his footsteps.
“I thought you might need this.”
It was a wooden sword. [Arms of Justice] are displayed in the system log.
“How did you know it was mine?”
“I saw John fight. A swordsmanship test.”
It doesn’t make sense to tell them apart by appearance. [Equipment of Justice], which is the older brother of a wooden sword, is not different from other wooden swords.
As John tilted his head while accepting the [Arms of Justice], Arien understood his question and added.
“It sounds different.”
“What are you talking about?”
“The sound made when wooden swords collide with each other.”
“Well. I see.”
The analysis of the ‘sound’ that Arien was able to grasp was literally magical. Bastia then confirmed Yohan’s face and stood up from the desk.
“I don’t know why you brought a wooden sword, but I won’t argue with that.”
And Bastia, who walked towards John, said without looking at Arien.
“Miss Arienne, don’t get involved in what’s happening from now on?”
“yes?”
Bastia first bent her neck left and right. The sound of bones crunching came from his thick neck.
“Where did you come from now?”
“… I want to get some fresh air.”
“Young guy, Cheongseung-eun… . Anyway, there is something I couldn’t ask because I was excited earlier.”
John thought with a bitter smile.
Adrine, Miri, and even this Bastia.
Everyone said they couldn’t ask themselves anything.
However, Bastia’s words were not a question.
“Think of me as a Frodogan idiot.”
“yes?”
“Replay the situation from before.”
“reappearance… What?”
Bastia rushed at John.
while raising his fist above his head.
Johann soon understood Bastia’s intentions.
It was because Bastia lowered her height by bending her knees.
It was the height of a jackal’s attack. And if he stayed still, his raised fist would fall on his head.
And John did as he had done to the jackal.
fault-
Johann’s outstretched hand grabbed Bastia’s fist. Then John brought the fist to his chest.
Same situation as tried on jackal.
Although he had seen it with his own eyes, Bastia was impressed that the outstretched hand could be guided in this way. Then John embraced his pulled arm and turned half a turn.
But the next moment was John’s turn to surprise.
“What?”
Bastia’s thumb was clenched with four fingers. John wasted a second trying to remove the finger. It was enough time for Bastia. He presented the lesson he had prepared for the kid in front of him.
Fuck-!
Stars flashed before John’s eyes.
“Ouch! Oh, it really hurts.”
This sweet night, how many times are you getting hit just today?
John’s hand went up to the back of his head by itself. Bastia touched her arm and said.
“The core of taijutsu is its transformation. Be sure to consider exceptions, especially when performing movements that may show you the back or side of your opponent.”
“Even if I speak, I understand.”
“Did you invent that move yourself?”
Of course, you can’t answer, ‘No, that’s Earth self-defense in the 21st century.’
“What roughly.”
“okay… Hmm. What. The lesson is here. Now comes the real question.”
There was another reason why Bastia waited for John until this time.
Bastia pushed her face right up to John’s nose and said.
“I will ask you three questions. If any of them lie, you will have the lesson from before.”
Johann was able to believe that Bastia’s words were true.
“If you feed honey chestnuts, they will not kill you.”
Bastia did not accept the joke.
“This is the first question. Is this the first time you’ve used it on a person?”
Johann glanced at Bastia’s hand that had struck the chestnut. When you say something like ‘If you lie, you’ll get scolded’, it includes the meaning that you can identify a lie.
John told the truth.
“It’s not the first time I wrote it.”
“great. Then the second question.”
Arien was surprised by Bastia’s appearance. It was very different from the way he was joking with himself just before.
“Did you intentionally break the shoulder of the idiot from Frodoga?”
When Johan hesitated to answer, Bastia added.
“For reference, I am not a person who intends to expand this further.”
John was happy.
Because Bastia showed goodwill.
“yes. I broke it on purpose.”
Bastia nodded and said.
“Also… So, the last question. And depending on your answer this time, I may put you behind bars, so please answer well.”
“uh? Doesn’t that sound different from the tone from before?”
Arien was also surprised.
“Hey, there- John, is he in prison?”
Bastia raised her palm toward her back. It meant not interfering.
“Answer me well. What was the reason?”
John swallowed.
Then, I thought about what the answer would be for the character Bastia to really ‘close her eyes’.
Spring Gladiator Bastia.
He is a man who has won the Spring Gladiator Competition 4 times. And he announced his retirement after winning his fourth championship. Leaving people a memorable speech that will never be forgotten.
‘Recruiting lovers!! First 100 people!!!’
And the bizarre female pilgrimage given to the character of Bastia is not just to give a humor code.
A man under a curse.
A man who loves all women in the world but cannot be loved by any woman.
John thought of an answer that would move the man’s heart. It wasn’t difficult.
“I love a woman.”
After John spit it out, he was a little surprised.
Because his words are surprisingly similar to his heart.
And he wasn’t the only one who discerned the sincerity of John’s voice.
The wizard of sound, Arien’s eyes sharpened slightly.
And Bastia didn’t laugh at or make fun of the kid’s words.
“By the way?”
“The jackal slapped her on the cheek.”
“under.”
In the next moment, Bastia’s hand grabbed Johann’s collar.
Bastia looked into John’s eyes.
“John. I was going to make you a man.”
Johann did not avoid Bastia’s eyes staring at him. After a while, Bastia’s mouth widened.
“But you have already become a man.”
Bastia liked that look as much as John’s answer.
A large fist from Bastia rose in front of John’s face. John, who was quietly looking at the fist, struck it with his own fist.
“You know, though.”
“What?”
“Frodoga’s idiot, that shoulder, takes half a year to heal.”
John’s complexion did not change.
“It will be worth the lesson.”
“Are you fearless or have you good guts? After all, the opponent is a prestigious family among noble families.”
The next moment, Yohan remembered what had happened after the [Grade President Election] event. Election Day is now tomorrow. And after Adrine becomes the school principal, you will be able to receive the rewards from [Bastia’s Hazing Ceremony] early.
“ah. Even if you don’t, I have something else to tell you.”
“What?”
“Let’s call it a push. There is a student who brought alcohol into the dormitory.”
“mainstream?”
“yes.”
“who?”
“Evangeles, who was called with me earlier.”
Johann did not miss the sight of Bastia licking her lips. Favors and bribes are tossed together.
“And looking at the admissions brochure… Regarding bringing in alcohol, the academy has an interesting corporal punishment.”
“… Did you read all of them?”
“yes.”
Then John took the bribery climax. He secretly added one more condition to the corporal punishment to be inflicted on Evangeles. After carefully listening to John’s story, Bastia nodded.
“It will take three days. don’t let that happen only.”
“only?”
“At least five.”
John laughed.
Originally, Mr. Lee is quantity over quality.
Yohan then threw a questioning gaze at Arien. ‘Why are you here?’ She didn’t look away from John’s gaze and threw her own question.
“Who is that?”
“Is that it?”
“The person John loves.”
“… I have. just.”
“Let’s just say there is, so who is it?”
“… I’ll tell you later. But why are you here? Didn’t you come here because you had something to say?”
I did have some news. Arien said with a somewhat sullen face.
“I became a full-time wizard.”
Originally, he had come to tell John about it. He seemed interested in becoming a wizard himself. But she changed her mind a bit.
“… okay. It’s something to celebrate.”
“Only in words? Come to think of it, I remember helping John.”
I seemed to know what you were talking about. He was probably referring to the incident when a mercenary soldier attacked his room.
“Have you heard of a wizard’s trade?”
“… Calculations are thorough. Do you want anything?”
Arien wiggled her hand a few times before pointing to Johann’s bed.
“Wizards have the right to freely decide where to live.”
“… You’re not saying that’s my bed, are you?”
“That’s right.”
Such a confident love flag.
While Yohan was thinking about his rejection, Bastia, who was next to him, suddenly clapped his hands.
“Puhahahaha. That’s great, Miss Arien. It’s nice that women these days are hot as well.”
“… … .”
“Well done. Those stiff, muggy bastards are just thinking about it.”
It is point-in-time. Bastia clapped and laughed, and after a while the door to Johann’s dorm room burst open.
“Oh, how are you… Eh?”
It was a familiar face.
“What? This.”
It was a handful that accompanied [First March]. On his shoulder was the armband of an officer on duty. John could understand the situation at once.
‘Hansu, you’ve been promoted… .’
Bastia, Arien, and Hansoo stared blankly at each other. Then he made a puzzled face.
Of course, Hansoo was embarrassing.
“no… Do you come during roll call time? Who is that lady over there?”
“I came out to inspect the school.”
Hansoo looked toward the window. 12 o’clock passed in the evening.
“… this time???”
“why. Any problem?”
Of course there is a problem. The academy’s roll call is the time when all access is controlled. But Bastia opened and closed his fists like that, saying ‘Is there a problem?’ When asked, Sabaki is the only character who can say “there is a problem”.
Hansoo slightly lowered his eyes and then turned his head.
“What about the young lady?”
Arien responded with more common sense. She pulled a card out of her pocket.
“I, officer… . This proves my identity.”
Hansoo accepted the card Arien held out. It was written that she had become an official wizard of the academy.
“Eh, a wizard?”
Thinking it worked, Arien nodded slightly. However, Hansoo was not taken aback, but was rather curious.
“Does that have anything to do with the lady being open now?”
“uh? What is it? The wizard frees the dwelling… .”
Hansoo smiled once and said.
“Could it be that, lady, are you going to sleep with us?”
Arien glanced at John and nodded. Bastia was glaring at John somewhere, and John implicitly sent a help sign to Hansoo.
Hansoo, who confirmed the complicated gaze exchange between the three, smiled bitterly.