055 – Matchmaking (2)
“······slave?”
Rakan reflexively scanned Irene’s expression.
[Red face.]
[The pupil constricts.]
[The trembling right hand.]
[danger. danger. danger.]
Rakan’s Survival Instinct switch turned on.
Rakan bowed his head 90 degrees.
“sorry! No, that’s…!”
“Can you explain it properly?”
If someone else had said something like this, Irene would have thought that it was insulting her and immediately entered into a duel.
But this guy is Rakan.
To others, he was nothing more than a geek or a madman, but to Irene, Charlotte and Linia, he was a very special guy.
Rakan was the one Tigris cared about as much as they did.
Although the reason was not known at this time, Tigris acted with Rakan whenever important cases were resolved.
Irene, Charlotte, and Linia were slightly dissatisfied with that.
We are here, so why did you go to Viscount Kayle with someone you’ve never heard of?
Are we still not hot enough?
What was so special about Rakan’s talent that he turned to Rakan for help and not us?
Irene wanted to know that.
Rakan said after taking a deep breath.
“So, when you say you want to become a slave, you don’t mean that you want to become a real slave, but that you want to help you that much. I am ready to support as much as possible in this ranking battle.”
Rakan’s words were crude and unorganized.
It felt as if a village boy in the mountains was making a confession of love to his city wife.
Ironically, it felt so sincere.
“and······.”
“Wait a moment”
Irene interrupted Rakan.
Hearing more doesn’t seem to mean much.
“Tell me why you want to be on the same team as me.”
“uh······.”
“Did Instructor Tigris do it? You two seem to have gone into the woods to talk for a while?”
Irene watched Tigris and Rakan briefly enter the forest.
If Tigris had asked Rakan to take care of him, it would have been a bit of a split.
That’s why Tigris thinks Irene is unreliable.
“No, no, absolutely not. I was just trying to get some advice on how to be on the same team as you.”
“Really?”
“Then you can ask Instructor Tigris. And there’s no way Instructor Tigris would ask for that.”
Irene immediately understood.
“It’s not like that…. Then why do you want to be on the same team as me?”
Rakan decided to go out plainly rather than attaching various reasons.
Like Tigris.
“I just want to be on the same team as you. That’s all.”
Tigris could be seen in Rakan’s expression.
“What are you hiding?”
“uh? I was actually sent by Instructor Tigris…”
“I know it’s not. But I feel like you are hiding something like Master.”
“Oh that······.”
Rakan scratched his head in embarrassment.
“Sorry.”
Irene thought for a moment.
The only people who came to Irene to be on the same team were those who came to try to get acquainted with Tigris.
Irene didn’t really like it, so she hasn’t saved a team member yet.
If Irene rejected Rakan now, she could be on the same team as the kind of people Irene hates the most.
To be honest, Irene was also not in a position to hide.
“great. I will accept it.”
“really? really?”
“Instead, if you take off your clothes in front of me, I will beat you to death.”
Rakan clenched his fists.
“Of course! I will never take it off!”
[New Quest!]
Taking off her top in front of Irene.
Reward: 500 points
Time limit: 5 days
Rakan’s expression hardened like a broken clockwork doll.
“what’s the matter?”
“Oh, no. just······.”
Rakan screamed in his heart.
This isn’t a matter of shame, it could have really died.
‘How do you do this…’
ding- ding- ding-
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Just then, the head of Nation rang the bell.“All students, pack your bags and assemble.”
Rakan decided to consider the quest of taking off his shirt in front of Irene later.
Since there is 5 days, there will definitely be a chance to take off the top.
I have no choice.
“Ah, I need to bring my luggage…”
“After all, when you report to the crew, you have to report, so let’s meet in the middle.”
“yes! Then I will go.”
Rakan ran back and forth towards his tent.
“senior. I’m coming.”
Behind the tent, Charlotte appeared with a hesitant smile.
“Did you know?”
“You didn’t hide it on purpose so that I could find out.”
Charlotte sighed and said.
“greatness! Well, anyway, I can understand why you accepted it, but is it okay? He’s not very well-known.”
“If you take off your clothes and run at me at night, I will break my neck.”
“It’s hard to break your neck.”
“Should I break my hand?”
“No, just pop it up and hit it. Mash the two marbles altogether.”
“I think that’s even more terrifying.”
“Is it okay to cut your neck?”
Irene lifted the black dragon and put it on her shoulder.
“Who did you decide to work with more senior than that?”
“me? I decided to go with Ephrin.”
“Who is Ephrin?”
“Friend of the volunteer group. Lately, I’ve been crying because I’m only hanging out with you.”
Irene tilted her head.
“Did your senior attend a volunteer club?”
“I have been in a volunteer club since my freshman year. There is no need to participate in volunteer activities during the semester, and you can do volunteer work once during summer and winter vacations.”
“Why do you volunteer?”
“Well······.”
At Irene’s words, Charlotte’s expression hardened slightly.
He seemed to recall some bad memory.
“Well, there is something like that. I’ll tell you about that later. Are you more confident in winning this ranking battle than that?”
Irene laughed a little.
“Absolutely.”
Irene has shown a lot of smiles lately.
there is room in the mind.
When he met with Emperor Todd, the emperor promised Irene and her mother Laura that he would spare no effort to support the establishment of the Welf family in the Black Land.
However, Irene’s role was important because if the Welf family was reinstated and the fief was returned for no apparent reason, words could come out among the nobles.
Irene had to build achievements that other nobles would convince.
Irene decided to start with first place in this ranking battle.
If you get first place in the rank-and-file battle, you can receive a prize from the principal and be inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Imperial University.
When her name is inducted into the Hall of Fame, Irene’s name will appear in the local newspapers.
Not because she was a disciple of Tigris or because she was a member of the Welf family who had a duel with Roy, but only because Irene defeated other Imperial University students and took first place in the ranking battle.
Charlotte didn’t have to go to a rank fight because she finished first in last year’s rank fight, but Irene asked me to come out.
The reason was simple.
Irene didn’t want to hear that she was able to get first place in the rank order because Charlotte wasn’t there.
So Irene sincerely asked Charlotte to participate in the rank-and-file battle, and Charlotte agreed to grant Irene’s request.
So Charlotte was seriously planning to come out.
Because what Irene needs is not cheap sympathy, but to truly defeat Charlotte.
Of course, there was also the problem of pride that I did not want to lose to Irene.
“Then let us go. Now let’s start slowly.”
“yes.”
* * *
Irene and Rakan.
It was noisy when the two, who did not seem to fit together, became the same team.
“I heard that Rakan asked Irene to join the team?”
“I’m going to become a slave, so you said you asked me to join you in a rank-and-file battle?”
“slave? Did you say that you would be a slave to Irene for the rest of your life?”
“Isn’t it a lifetime?”
“If Irene establishes the Welf family, it must have been an indirect expression of wanting to be accepted as a knight.”
“But why the Welf family…”
I could hear all the voices of people talking, but neither of them were interested in whether people were talking or not, as they were both blunt in their gaze and interest.
They just checked their equipment and made a plan of operation.
“What weapon do you use?”
“this. Blink magic is on it, but if you use it, it will reduce 200 points, so I try not to use it if possible.”
“…isn’t that saying not to use it at all?”
“But if it is necessary, I will write it. Oh, of course, it’s just individual scores, so you don’t have to worry too much. Are you only going to use that great sword?”
Irene nodded her head.
“uh.”
“Well. So, how would you like to earn points? Monster hunting? Or a duel with the participants?”
“It would be nice to get points by doing it regardless, but it would definitely be best to find and fight for the participants and get points. I can get points, but I can also drop other players’ points. The question is, how do you find them…”
Irene knew how wide the water lily forest was because she had experience caring for the water lily forest with Tigris.
The duel itself isn’t too much of a concern, but finding other players will be very difficult.
And since it was clear that they would run away as soon as they saw Irene, it would be a matter of going to catch them.
Rakan chuckled.
“If that’s the case, leave it to me. One of the things I am good at is finding people.”
“you? ah······.”
Come to think of it, Rakan had a history of finding Viscount Kayle hiding in Gray Town.
After all, it didn’t look too bad to find out how Rakan found Viscount Kayle.
“You’re just arranging your stamina. I’ll do the rest. I told you, I’ll be your exclusive supporter.”
“Didn’t you call me a slave?”
“Are slaves okay?”
“I’ll do it as a supporter.”
“OK.”
ding- ding- ding-
The head of the Nation department rang the bell again.
“Operation meeting time is over, so let’s all get buckles and coins!”
Rakan jumped up.
“You stay still. I will bring it.”
“Nope. me too······.”
“Leave all these miscellaneous things to me. you said I’m a supporter. Then let’s go!”
Irene looked at Rakan’s back as she ran away, curiously.
* * *
Irene, Rakan, and many students entered the forest of water lilies.
The reason why the current students did not attack each other was because the buckles of the students were all blue.
When the buckle is blue, it is forbidden to attack between students.
If a student with a blue buckle was attacked, the student was eliminated unconditionally for any reason.
A surprise or duel was possible only when the buckle was dyed red.
This action was taken for the safety of the students.
The blue buckle symbolized two things.
Either you were just killed or you were resurrected less than 6 hours ago.
If he was killed, it meant that one of the buckle’s double barrier magic had been removed, so there was only one barrier left to ensure the student’s safety.
So, when the buckle is blue, there was a rule not to attack.
Irene and Rakan could not stand still for 6 hours, so they decided to hunt monsters.
As Irene learned from Tigris, Irene began chasing monsters.
First, we decided to head to the river that crosses the water lily forest. But everyone else was heading to the river to see if they had the same thoughts.
‘If I run, I can arrive first, but…’
Irene glanced at Rakan.
Rakan now has 1 ring.
If Irene truly ran, there was no way Rakan could chase after Irene.
‘Once in line with Rakan’s stride…’
“Irene. Come here.”
“yes?”
As Rakan carefully called for Irene, Irene turned to Rakan.
“I found traces of the mankey.”
“A mankey?”
Mankeys are small and medium-sized monsters that live on trees.
The size of an adult male is only that of a normal adult male, and the physical strength is three times that of a normal adult male.
It was one of the most difficult monsters for knights to hunt because the fur was black, which is hard to find in dense forests, and was quite agile.
So, in the case of goblins, it was only 1 point per animal, but in the case of mankeys, you could get 3 points each time you hunted one.
Rakan pointed to the feces and fur on the trees.
“It’s Mankey’s poop and fur.”
“How do you know that?”
“Remember when you were in basic monster studies class? Mankeys are omnivores, but they rarely eat meat and eat mostly fruits from trees?”
“Is that so?”
“The fruit that Manki especially likes is the ‘mero fruit’. The seeds of the Mero fruit are very flat and are characterized by a reddish color.”
Rakan touched Manky’s feces while wearing gloves.
He then showed me the red, flattened merofruit seeds mixed in the feces.
Irene observed it without raising an eyebrow.
“Is this a mero fruit seed?”
“uh. right. Of course, there may be other monsters, but considering the monster ecosystem of the Water Lily Forest, there is only one monster that eats Mero and marks the tree in this way.”
Irene looked at Rakan with curious eyes.
“How do you know this? Have you been hunting monsters?”
“I just learned from reading books. I’ve been reading a lot of books in the library lately.”
Thanks to Rakan’s use of his ‘Advanced Search’ ability, it is true that he could easily recognize that this furry feces was a mark of the Mankey’s territory.
However, advanced search is used based on Rakan’s knowledge.
If Rakan did not study hard, advanced search only provided very one-dimensional information, so Rakan had to study hard.
Rakan said as he rubbed his glove against the tree.
“Maybe there is a mankey around here. Follow me.”
Irene unconsciously followed Rakan’s footsteps.
Originally, Irene tried to lead the team because she had experience hunting monsters with Tigris, but strangely, the initiative was passed to Rakan.
And what’s even more strange is that the passing of the initiative itself wasn’t that uncomfortable.
Rakan continued to follow the mankey’s trail, and after 10 minutes, he found a group of mankeys resting on a tree.
“…are you really there?”
“Do you know how to hunt a bunch of mankeys? I don’t know there.”
Irene remembered the mankey hunting method that Tigris had taught her.
“Manky is a very timid monster, but when it smells blood, it gets excited and runs away unconditionally. You should aim for it.”
“then······.”
Rakan pulled out a dagger.
And when she took off her gloves and relentlessly tried to take a picture of the back of her hand, Irene quickly grabbed Rakan’s wrist.
“What are you doing now?”
“I need the smell of blood.”
“No, it’s like that, what do you do if you injure yourself?”
“Then what do you do?”
“It doesn’t have to be your blood. You only need to catch one mankey and kill it.”
Irene said as she looked at the mankeys hanging from the trees and pulling each other’s hair.
“The problem is to drop that one mankey…….”
“Can you catch the mankey just by dropping it?”
“uh.”
“OK. Then leave it to me.”
Rakan took a deep breath and muttered as he measured the distance between Manky and himself.
“The distance is roughly 30m, so is the margin of error about 12cm? This should be enough.”
Rakan sang with concentration.
A blue-white magic circle was created from Rakan’s fingertips…
The magic bullet was completed in 5 seconds.
The magic circle was attached to Rakan’s right wrist like a bracelet.
The preparations for the magic activation are over.
Now all you have to do is set the target and shoot.
“I’ll drop one, so go and kill it. OK?”
“······OK.”
Irene had heard that Rakan could use magic, but had no idea that she could use it so skillfully.
Rakan’s eyes looked like those of a veteran sniper.
[The mankey yawns.]
[I think I’m going to sleep soon.]
‘It’s that guy.’
Rakan found a mankey hanging from a thin branch and trying to sleep.
Rakan reached out and set his target at Mankey’s slumbering branch.
Rakan’s magic bullet is not very destructive.
Since it can only break one rib of a human, it has little ability to kill.
But it was enough to break one such branch.
container-!
With a clear and graceful sound, a blue-and-white magic bullet pierced through the trees and precisely broke the branch the mankey was treading on.
simplicity and honesty-!
– Kye hee hee!
Mankey fell to the floor.
At the same time, he struggled with the terrible pain of breaking his breastbone and heart.
As soon as the mankey fell to the floor, Irene shoved a sword into her heart.
Irene fired the mankey hanging from the sword at the other mankeys with pure force.
The mankeys were very startled when their comrades died and tried to run away, but when they smelled Irene’s greatsword and the blood of their comrades, their eyes turned red.
Like the monsters created by the ancient demon king, they couldn’t use their four limbs for the smell of blood.
– Kye hee hee! hey hey hey!
They ran towards Irene.
Irene took a deep breath and waited for the mankeys to arrive.
Irene’s eyes lit up.
Hung- Hung-
An all-round oblique cut that cuts through the wind.
Irene’s great sword succeeded in intercepting all the flying mankeys.
Irene looked around to see if there were any live mankeys, and then saw Rakan staring blankly.
Irene seemed to be able to understand a little why Master believed in Rakan.
Rakan is also a tracking technique, but he knew what he had to do and made it hard.
If Irene had tried to catch those mankeys, it would have taken at least 5 minutes, but with Rakan, it took less than a minute.
‘······It is more comfortable than I thought.’
On the other hand, Rakan swallowed saliva as he saw Irene standing still among the corpses of the shattered mankeys.
A system window appeared in Rakan’s eyes.
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1. If you don’t want to be behind, don’t be fooled.
‘······I know.’
It was clear that if I hit the woman who wielded that formidable greatsword like a branch, her neck would be blown away.
‘But how do you take your shirt off?’
The moment I took off my shirt in front of Irene, I felt like I was going to be shattered like those mankeys.
Still trying huh? brave boy