022 – Rain Rover
Matteo opened his mouth.
“The Salamander’s sword contains two powers. One is the ‘Fire Sword’, which sets the blade on fire and burns whatever it cuts. It can also burn spirit bodies such as demons.”
Burning something meant ‘purification’ from generation to generation.
It was a good ability against a warlock or a demon magician who wields evil spirits with the power to burn and destroy unclean things.
However, it was not the ability Tigris wanted.
Lota’s Mouth To kill Levis, the power of fire that burns the unclean was not enough.
Levis is a witch doctor.
Curse was derived from witchcraft, and it was a technique that twisted the cause and effect of the world through the body of a magician.
The curse that Tigris was particularly wary of was the ‘Curse of Corrosion’.
Under the Curse of Corrosion, which corrodes all metals, ordinary steel will crumble in less than 5 seconds.
The effect of the sword of fire could make some resistance, but I did not know that the curse of corrosion would make the sword unusable.
“What is the second ability?”
“One is the ability of ‘a lizard’s tail’. It is the power that automatically restores itself when the sword is cut or broken.”
Tigris’ eyes widened when he heard that the sword would be restored.
“How fast will the sword be restored?”
“Would you like to try it now?”
“Is it possible to take a test?”
“Yes. Available.”
Matteo turned towards the dagger and brought a dagger with a long hole in the middle of the sword.
It was an artifact created for the purpose of destroying a sword or spear blade with a sword named ‘Breaker’.
“Could you give me the sword for a moment?”
Tigris meekly handed the sword to Mateo.
Matteo passed the Salamander’s sword through the breaker’s deep groove and twisted it.
drop!
The sword was just broken.
At the same time, the blade turned to dust and disappeared.
Mateo said, handed him the sword of the Salamander that had been cut in half.
“If you want to restore it to its original state, it will be restored immediately if you just want to restore it.”
Tigris grabbed the sword and thought that he wanted to restore it.
Then, the vaguely cut sword grew up in an instant.
It seemed to take about half a second to fully grow.
“What if the pommel is cut off instead of the sword or the handle is cut off?”
“If even the slightest bit of the shape of the sword remains, any part will be restored.”
If the curse of corrosion is applied, the sword must be thrown away.
However, if the cursed part was removed and a new sword was created, there was no need to throw away the sword, and there was no need to fight Levis with a rusted and unbalanced sword.
Tigris thought there was no need to check the other swords.
“Don’t do this.”
* * *
Since you can’t carry a sword inside the Imperial Palace, he handed it over to Mateo.
“If you leave the Salamander’s Black Palace, I will hand it over to you.”
“I see.”
After seeing that, Tigris met an unexpected person.
Long wavy pink gold hair and golden eyes shining like gold.
A woman who shines with her elegance and preciousness like a beautiful jewel.
It was Princess Rain Rover de Lucet.
Tigris immediately knelt down on one knee and bowed in the manner of the zodiac.
“I see the great golden clan.”
Matteo and the knights behind them also showed their respects in accordance with the etiquette.
“I see the great golden clan.”
Rain Rover waved his hand and said.
“You don’t have to be so rigid. I don’t really like that.”
The Rain Rover didn’t like the hard manners of the Imperial Palace.
As Summoning Wizards are usually friendly and friendly, they did not like high-pressure and hierarchical things.
However, Tigris did not solve the example.
“Without etiquette and laws, the foundation of the empire collapses. Please take the orders.”
“It’s really okay. Do you think we are very far apart?”
“In military relations, it’s good to keep a reasonable distance. If you are close, you will be drawn to it and you will not be able to speak directly, and if you are far away, it will be difficult to give advice.”
Rain Rover’s lips twitched.
I will have a heartache.
“Tigris was a tougher person than I thought~?”
“It is just knowing and obeying the rules and regulations.”
Rain Rover suddenly felt that he wanted to tease this stiff man.
“good. Tigris di Norberd. Just explain the example and get up.”
Tigris just woke up.
The Rain Rover hurriedly approached Tigris in front of Tigris without notice.
The sweet scent of roses emanating from Rain Rover’s body tickled the tip of Tigris’ nose.
Her white jade-like skin and cute fluffy fur were visible, and her golden eyes shone beautifully like a lake reflecting the sunset.
If it were an ordinary man, her heart would be pounding and her face would have heated up at her burdensomely elegant appearance.
But Tigris was not like that at all.
He looked at Tigris’ black eyes for a while, but when nothing changed, Rain Rover opened his mouth.
“Why don’t you ask me? Tigris?”
“I’m not curious.”
“Aren’t you curious? Everyone else was wondering?”
“I am an exception. majesty.”
Rain Rover furrowed his eyebrows.
They were like old eunuchs or savvy officials in the imperial family.
You look so good-looking that you can get around 100 women just by looking at your face, but why is your tone and behavior so rigid?
Then Tigris took a step back and took a handkerchief from his bosom.
And handed it to the Rain Rover.
“What is this?”
Tigris approached the princess’s ear.
Rain Rover froze in embarrassment for a moment.
It was fine when he approached me, but when Tigris approached me in the opposite direction, I was very embarrassed.
Then Tigris whispered in her ear.
“I got ink on my right cheek. Wipe it with this.”
“··········!!!”
The princess’s face lit up like a blush.
“Look… a mirror!”
The court lady behind the princess quickly turned over the mirror.
The princess looked closely at her right cheek.
There were tiny marks of ink on her white jade-like skin.
She quickly cast the magic.
“Cleans.”
His ability to wipe only ink at once was unusual.
If the cleans magic is used incorrectly, the makeup will be removed at once, but the Rain Rover only blew out the ink marks despite using it urgently.
Rain Rover turned the mirror to the court lady and looked at Tigris and said.
“…you have very nice eyes.”
“If you hadn’t come as close as I just did, I wouldn’t have known. So I think you don’t have to criticize the court ladies too much.”
Rain Rover pouted his lips.
“under! I didn’t think of that, did I? By the way, are you caring differently from your savvy personality? Are you taking care of all the court ladies?”
If it was Tigris before the return, he would definitely have stepped forward and pushed the court ladies.
However, the current Tigris did not.
The princess loved her people very much.
He overlooked minor mistakes and didn’t take much offense even when he made big mistakes.
But even before her return, Tigris was hated by such a kind and friendly woman.
– Tigris! Do you need to be so harsh on your subordinates? They are servants who believe in you and follow you!
– It’s good to be perfect, but don’t force it on others. To me and my people, to your knights and servants, and to all!
– . . . You poor bastard. It is the bad luck of this empire that a bastard like you is the heir of Norberd.
Tigris opened his heavy mouth.
“Because I’ve come to realize that a true leader doesn’t have to be strict.”
“···what. Why are you suddenly serious? disappointing people. Oh, were you serious from the beginning?”
Rain Rover coughed and evoked a heavy atmosphere.
“greatness! Well, I came here because I had a question for you.”
Rain Rover glanced at the tea sets the court ladies were holding and said.
“So, if you have time, why don’t you have a cup of tea? Tigris.”
* * *
Tigris and Rain Rover sat alone on a nearby terrace.
Without a court lady, she started to ride the car herself.
As Tigris tried to ride, Rain Rover waved his hand.
“You recently studied the tea ceremony at Imperial University, haven’t you? Let me see if you’re okay.”
Tigris stood still, knowing that it was actually an excuse and that he enjoyed giving others a ride.
“Drink it. are you okay?”
Tigris tasted the tea.
Tigris had never tasted Rain Rover tea in all of his pre-return.
Before returning, he didn’t make tea himself because he hated Tigris.
“Great.”
“Isn’t that a polite thing to say?”
“I don’t tell unnecessary lies.”
Rain Rover said with a smile.
“Then are you saying that you don’t think of me too hard now?”
“Because it tastes great without the need to tell lies.”
“He’s such an ungrateful yangban.”
Rain Rover shrugged as he grumbled, feeling good inside.
Rain Rover drank tea and closed his eyes.
“Um, as Tigris said, it tastes good. Did I boil it?”
Tigris did not respond to Rain Rover’s self-congratulations.
I was just tasting the tea.
“It sounds like you’re talking to a wall. Are you that stiff in your house too?”
“Just as everyone has different comfortable clothes, this looks just as comfortable for me. So don’t worry too much.”
“…well, I have nothing to say.
Rain Rover has now decided to give up.
I thought that it would probably be impossible for me to listen to Tigris for the rest of my life.
“Anyway, I called you this way because I have a few questions.”
“Please ask.”
“How did you get four rings?”
“Because I found an elixir in the Forest of Mist and took it.”
Even Rain Rover knew the essence of ice with starlight.
An elixir of heaven that a guardian spirit named Jane is in charge.
Many adventurers went to Jane and asked for an elixir, but they were all rejected.
“Then I hope you kill Jane…”
“no. Jane is alive now.”
Tigris briefly explained how he got the elixir.
Rain Rover listened to Tigris’ adventures with his eyes twinkling like a child listening to a fairy tale before going to sleep.
“So you mean that Jane is now in the penthouse as the guardian spirit of a child named Lenny?”
“yes. That’s right.”
“Can I take a look? I’ve never seen that spirit before!”
Tigris nodded.
“It would be an infinite honor if the princess came.”
“Really?! I promised.”
Rain Rover rejoiced like a child who promised to go to the amusement park the next day.
“Still, I heard you are a genius, but I think you are great too. It’s great to have digested all of that heavenly elixir, but at the age of nineteen, there are four rings… Besides, he even won the tournament…”
Rain Rover said in a playful tone.
“Just looking at this makes me feel like a first-class groom! Shall we get married?”
“Impossible.”
He was joking to embarrass Tigris at the empty words, but when he said no too emphatically, Rain Rover was hurt.
“···what. Why not?”
Tigris answered briefly.
“I and Princess Rain Rover are sixth cousins. Under the law, it is forbidden for the imperial family to marry a nobleman within the sixth degree.”
This was to prevent the concentration of power in one place through blood-related marriage.
This is because the ‘Pax Empire’, which dominated the Dragon Age, collapsed due to the concentration of power and corruption of the foreign families who held the prestige of the imperial family.
The Lucet Empire, who succeeded the Pax Empire, used this as an antithesis to prevent blood-related marriages by law.
Rain Rover sighed.
“It’s so hard to find a good groom…”
The reason Rain Rover, who is of marriageable age, couldn’t get engaged was that it was difficult to find people who were not related by blood in a complex aristocratic society like Octopus’s feet.
In the first place, Rain Rover had no intention of getting engaged unless it was the right person.
“If you have a good person, please introduce me. I think I will grow old and die alone for the rest of my life.”
“Yes. Okay. majesty.”
“Or I should change the law altogether.”
After taking a sip of the tea, Rain Rover opened his mouth.
“By the way, I heard that you are coming as a swordsmanship instructor at your Imperial University. How did Principal Bastian pass it right away?”
“It’s a secret.”
“what. Why is it a secret?”
“It is also a secret.”
“…as a princess, won’t you let me know even if I give you an order?”
Tigris shook his head.
“If you give the order, I will give you an answer.”
Rain Rover got tired of Tigris as blunt as a megalith.
“under···. This person is really trying to turn me into a kkondae-like person. That’s it. I am not that curious.”
I’m curious, but hearing this way was not comfortable for Rain Rover.
“I can’t tell you right now, but I will tell you all when the time comes.”
“I don’t know when that was. Well, roughly what do you expect? The swordsmanship that you showed in the tournament surprised even Bergan. To be honest, when I look at pure swordsmanship, if you don’t become a swordsmanship instructor, I wonder who will do it.”
Rain Rover said over a cup of cold tea.
“Do you have any questions for me?”
“There is not.”
Rain Rover exploded with unknown sadness.
“Are you too adamant? I think I’m going to get hurt Aren’t you not interested in the princess too much? It hurts my pride as a woman.”
“I have some advice for you.”
Rain Rover’s eyes twinkled.
“Advice?”
“I don’t know much about summoning magic, but I do know that the princess has a talent for summoning magic.”
“.
It wasn’t just the level of talent.
Rain Rover was a genius in summoning magic.
There was only one thing I could advise her.
Recommending a good summons to make a contract with.
Tigris just knew a summon that was suitable for the Rain Rover.
“If you are a princess, I think you will be able to make a contract with the ancient spirits that often haunt the Godiva Desert.”
“An ancient soul? What is it?”
As a Rain Rover who knows all the monsters that can be used as summons, it’s the first time I’ve ever heard of a monster called an ancient soul.
“It is a legend from the wandering merchants of the Godiva Desert. There is a story about the appearance of the souls of dragon hunters who hunted the flame dragon ‘Taikes’ that made the Godiva desert barren on the night of the full moon.”
“It’s just a legend. Besides, I’m not a spirit wizard, I’m a summoning wizard. I don’t know how to make a pact with the spirit.”
“I heard that you also signed a contract with Ghost, a spirit monster.”
“…that is true. Ghosts are really just low-intellect monsters. They are not souls with bitterness or high intellect like spirits.”
“Still, I think it’s well worth the challenge.”
Tigris spoke confidently.
Because the Rain Rover in the past made a contract with an ancient soul and used it as a pet.
The scene where an ancient spirit slaughtered hundreds of ogre chimeras and gryphon chimeras still remains in my memory.
If he made a pact with two or more than one ancient soul, it would be useful in the great war to come.
“…well, Tigris, this is advice you gave me after thinking deeply, so I’ll think about it.”
Rain Rover smiled softly.
“Still, thank you. are you thinking of me Are you interested in me or not?”
“The Princess will be of interest to all.”
“…it’s not funny. Anyway, today’s conversation was fun. And I also learned that the proverb of our ancestors, that people only know when they meet in person, was not wrong.”
Although Tigris was good at swordsmanship, rumors circulated in social circles that he was arrogant and had a bad heart.
But when we met and talked to him in person, it was different.
Rather than being arrogant, he was aristocratic, and his philosophy was firm rather than bad-tempered.
Rumors of being mean to commoners and subordinates were also false.
If the rumors were true, he wouldn’t have given his sword to the mercenaries, and he wouldn’t have told the court ladies not to criticize them.
“You are a little stiff, but you are a very nice person. If anyone insults you, I will come forward and give you my soul.”
“I can find my honor for myself.”
“I know that. I mean, if possible, avoid seeing blood in the Imperial College.”
Rain Rover knew the whole story of Tigris blowing off Morita’s arms.
“If anyone insults you, call me. I’ll mediate. Wouldn’t it be better to solve the problem amicably without seeing blood?”
Rain Rover was worried that Tigris would be ignored by the students because he was young.
As an instructor, whenever he behaves in a manner that defies authority, Tigris will have to knock them all out in a duel.
Rain Rover didn’t want to hurt Tigris’ reputation and cause one person to be unconditionally hurt.
I wonder if Tigris would be so concerned about it, but Rain Rover was a very kind and broad-minded person.
After Tigris was silent for a while, Rain Rover tilted his head and said.
“Smart smart. Can’t you hear people? Do you not like it?”
“no. If that’s the case, I’ll ask you to mediate.”
Rain Rover furrowed his eyebrows.
“This can’t be done. You have to make an appointment.”
Rain Rover held out his little finger.
“What are you doing. Come on, don’t put your little finger on it.”
“That makes no sense. There is no evidence left…”
“Uh-huh! You’re running out of words! command. Tigris. Come on, put your little finger on it.”
Tigris reluctantly held out his little finger.
Rain Rover laughed happily like a child.
“I think this is going to be addicting. From now on, I will give you more orders than requests.”
“A servant has the right to refuse any orders that are not correct.”
“So is this an invalid command?”
Tigris thought for a moment and answered.
“…a childish command.”
Rain Rover laughed out loud because it was so cute.
“Ha ha ha ha ha!”
Rain Rover’s little finger and Tigris’ little finger got caught.
“I will protect your honor. So, don’t look at the blood recklessly. You know?”
Her body temperature, transmitted from her little finger, was warm. like her heart.
“All right.”
Rain Rover was hiding it with a smile, but it was hard to control the slight burning in his face.
Because Tigris’ little finger was rougher and hotter than expected.