I Became a Blind Swordsman at the Academy chapter 117

117. white crown

117. white crown

“…hot.”

Beads of sweat trickled down the boy’s cheeks and dripped down his chin.

The endless sands above the boy’s eyes swayed as if they were dancing.

Sand begins to rise above the horizon.

It hinted that another strong wind would blow.

The desert wind was hot and accompanied by sand and dust, which stung the skin when it brushed against it.

If the wind gets too strong, it will quickly turn into a sandstorm.

The boy’s eyebrows naturally furrowed, and he ducked into the hut behind him to avoid the sandstorm.

It was relatively cool inside the hut, and it was safe from the wind.

Although the sandstorm was difficult to withstand, there was nothing that could not be endured if prepared in advance. So far it has been.

“Grandma, the wind blows again.”

The boy puts the bucket full of water he was holding in one corner of the hut.

“Would you be careful…”

The body of the old man, who was shaking his hands, was weak. It seemed insufficient to endure the rough hut life.

Originally, they had a proper house, not a hut like this. A sturdy house designed to withstand sandstorms without having to go far to fetch water.

However, the old man made a fuss about opening a hut on this spot, so the boy who lost his parents early and lived with her also ended up living in a hut.

The boy had no major complaints about it.

Because her grandmother, who had not uttered a word in recent years, suddenly began to speak.

Her first words were to open the hut.

Sitting in a hunched posture, she was said to have been one of the best ‘astrologers’ on the continent a long time ago.

It was before the boy was even born, so he didn’t have any further information, but he was grateful to be able to communicate with his grandmother who took care of him.

“A guest is coming…”

The old man’s voice was rough and hoarse, as if his throat had been hoarse.

No one had come to the hut yet, and the only thing that could be heard was the sound of a sandy wind blowing outside, but the boy ran and found the tools needed for astrology in one corner of the hut.

The old man’s face full of wrinkles blooms as he watches the boy.

“Cluck… I’m fine today, I’ll just talk to you for a minute…”

The boy scratched his head.

Even so, the sound of a carriage outside the hut suddenly reaches the boy’s ears.

A guest has arrived.

The carriage stops in front of the hut, and soon after, a person steps into the hut.

The unknown person who stepped in was wearing a high-quality robe, even if it looked pretense.

Soon, the robe over her head and the veil around her mouth are lowered, revealing her face.

She had straight bluish hair and smiled at the old man.

Soon she came up to the old man and knelt down and sat across from him.

It was she who spoke first.

“Cassandra-sama, how have you been? I came to see you after hearing the news.”

“Ah, Sicily… Calm wind… You’re here at last…”

The boy in the corner of the hut widens his eyes at the old man’s continued reply.

Delgrade is an oasis-based city in this desert, and the only one.

As far as he knew, ‘Sicily’ was the name of the lord who ruled Delgrad.

Lord of Delgrade, Sicily Windris.

Realizing this, the boy’s head naturally went down.

“Is that your child in the wagon…?”

The old man, Cassandra, did not use honorifics to Sicily, the lord. She had been acquainted with her father since childhood in Sicily.

“Yes, my second daughter, Liqua.”

Sicily turned her head to the place where the carriage was outside the hut and answered in a calm voice.

How did Cassandra find out that Sicilian’s daughter was in the invisible carriage? The boy tilted his head in wonder.

It’s just that Cassandra could read the stars in the sky and see things people couldn’t see.

“A child with the right mindset that resembles you will rule Delgrad well… Crap…”

At Cassandra’s praise, Cicily smiled thinking of Liqua in the carriage.

“…That’s too much praise. Rather than that, I’m glad I can hear your voice again, Miss Cassandra.”

“Cluck… It’s a dragon that he didn’t take his life.”

Cassandra was punished for revealing the heavenly secrets while announcing that there would be a war with the demons.

Her punishment was silence.

The main god took her voice away.

But for some reason, her voice started coming out again a few days ago.

Is it the Lord’s whim?

Did he pay the penalty?

Only the Lord knows the answer to this.

“What did you ‘observe’ this time?”

Cassandra’s mouth snapped open at Cicily’s cautious question.

“Sicily, in the past few years, the ‘star road’ has been twisted several times… It’s gotten worse lately… It’s as if the stars and the sky are fluctuating…”

The boy didn’t know what the “star path” Cassandra was referring to was, but Sicily nodded lightly, indicating that she knew what it was.

Judging from Cassandra’s expression, at least it wouldn’t be a good thing, the boy inferred.

Soon Cassandra swayed back and forth, muttering intensified. She was trembling with anxiety.

“It’s coming… ‘it’ is coming…”

“If that’s the case… by any chance… are you referring to ‘catastrophe’?”

Cicily asked calmly.

It seemed that ‘it’ was a difficult word to get out of my mouth.

Sicily learned from her father that questions and answers are best at times like this.

Even so, it was not possible to avoid leaks, but it was possible to organize the information by narrowing it down even a little.

As the word ‘catastrophe’ came out of her mouth, the boy remembered the faces of his parents, whom he could no longer see.

A huge group of ‘other species’ called ‘disaster’ took the lives of many warriors in Delgrad. Among the dogs were the boy’s parents.

Dealing with alien species pouring out of the Gate of the Other World was a daily routine for the people of Delgrad, but that day’s ‘disaster’ was a little different.

The lord of Delgrad, Sicily, also took part in the battle to clear up the ‘disaster’, but even taking this into account, considerable casualties occurred.

It was like a terrible nightmare that should never happen again.

Cassandra shook her head at Sicily’s question.

“It would have been better if it was a bunch of scrap metal…”

“”……””

The boy and Sicily were shocked when the boy’s father and the reason Cassandra’s own son was lost were said to be better than ‘disaster’.

Cassandra opens her mouth again before their shock is over.

“The ‘it’ that came from a faraway place, not from this land, was wearing a ‘crown’. A pure white crown… His visit would stop the slaughter of the soldiers who lost their king, but the invasion that would lead to destruction of everything began. I don’t know if it’s going to happen… I don’t know… There are so many… so many paths intertwined…”

It was a very vague story that was hard to understand.

When Sicily asked if she was talking about the resurrection of the demon king, Cassandra shook her head again and nailed it, saying that she was not the king of demons.

After that, Cicily asked a few more questions, but Cassandra kept her mouth shut by saying that ‘it’ was already heading here.

It was hard for her to answer any more.

There was no need to make Cassandra commit another leak, so Sicily had to get on the carriage without any other income.

Rikua, who was waiting for Sicily in the carriage, looked at her eagerly.

In Liqua’s face, Sicilian’s first daughter, Lucia, was faintly visible.

Cicily was worried.

All of a sudden, it overlapped with the time when the cadets were supposed to visit the academy.

‘It shouldn’t be anything special…’

Sicily wanted to think that Cassandra was just talking nonsense because she was old, but she couldn’t ignore it easily because she had seen with her own eyes how Cassandra had been helped by astrology like prophecies since her father was the head of the household. There was no

‘King…’

At least, as far as Sicily can remember, no country wore a white crown.

A crown for the elves that is said to have been made by weaving the branches of the World Tree. At least it belonged to the white crown side.

However, Cassandra said that it was not a heterogeneous species, and that ‘it’ looked as if it were wearing a human mask. There was an unknown darkness lurking within it.

Neither the king of humans nor the king of demons, what the hell is ‘it’ trying to do by coming to Delgrad?

It is too late to postpone the academy tour schedule now.

Sicily’s worries grew like a mountain when she remembered Lucia’s bright smile on her way to Delgrade.

***

Zeto, who was wearing a white bandage around his eyes, sat leaning against the carriage.

It was on the way from Innocence Academy to the desert.

Unlike the shabby carriage he used to ride every time, it was a luxurious carriage with comfortable cushioned chairs.

As soon as Jeto saw the wagon, he thought it would be a comfortable journey.

…did.

On either side of Zeto, red hair that was finely braided and platinum hair that was shining in the moonlight were visible.

Yuri and Eisel took Zeto’s shoulders one by one and fell asleep.

In Jeto’s head, Sierra’s voice muttered, [The disciple’s shoulder was the original woman’s seat…].

Sierra was pushed aside by Yuri and Eisel, holding Jetto’s head in her arms.

Zeto, unable to move at all, was counting sheep while bruising.

Being unable to move my body was quite painful, so I tried to fall asleep somehow.

But maybe it was because I was accustomed to going outside the academy every night, so I wasn’t sleepy that much.

Jetto, who had been counting sheep all of a sudden, thought he might finally be able to fall asleep.

ㅡRumble!

That would be if the carriage that was going well hadn’t suddenly stopped.

Jetto, whose lips were twitching with a slight fever, wanted to annoy Edward.

Suddenly, Edward’s voice is heard from outside the carriage.

“Everyone~! It looks like we were attacked by bandits~! But there are a lot of them?!”

Edward’s booming voice, full of excitement, passes the wagon containing Jetto and others, waking others inside and raising them to their feet.

“Ugh…”

Yuri hit his head on the carriage and made a painful noise.

“…”

Eisel was clenching his teeth, probably because he was disturbed by his sleep.

“…They said they met a group of bandits. Since there are so many of them, I think the cadets are asking for help too.”

Finally getting his shoulders free, Jeto got up from his chair and opened the door.

The cadets, who had just woken up, didn’t understand why, but soon followed Jeto.

Lucia, who was on one side of the carriage, was still not waking up, but everyone nodded in affirmation at Amon’s words that although they didn’t know what the situation was, they would never be of any help.

So no one woke Lucia.

When Jetone and his party got off the wagon, they saw cadets getting off the wagons as well. It was quite a messy atmosphere, but no one was nervous.

I thought there would be no problem with the instructors. The thought that the bandits would dare to touch me.

At that time, various thoughts were running through the cadets’ heads.

“Kill the woman and save the man’s life!!!”

From the road the carriage was heading towards, the thieves’ wild shouts came from far away.

When I heard the shouts, it seemed that they were all female bandits.

Zeto, who was crossing his arms, scratched his head.

He had already noticed their approach through his senses.

This was an event he had experienced in the game.

A thieves’ event that attacks the wagon train lined with academy cadets.

This was an event that only happened when Edward was an instructor. Naturally, no cadets were injured.

Except for Edward, the other instructors were hiding in the woods to keep an eye on the cadets. They will shoot out when a cadet is about to suffer a dangerous attack.

Yuri, who noticed that Edward, who was the main cause of the situation, was approaching, asked him a question.

“Instructor Edward, should we kill the bandits or arrest them?”

Edward, who was excitedly running around the forest, answers Yuri’s question.

“Even Yuri cadet, wouldn’t murder come soon? I’m sure you’ve learned all the ways to deal with the opponent without killing them, so I think this is part of the lesson!”

After hearing Edward’s crazy answer, Yuri glanced at Eisel and wondered, “It seems like they’re already killing thieves casually.”

Soon after, Eisel, whose face had hardened due to the interruption of her ‘sweet time’ with Jeto, threw out a somewhat bloody question to Edward.

“Instructor, what if a ‘misfortune’ occurs in which the thief dies while dealing with a thief?

“…I’m curious about this too.”

Then, Jetto, who was next to Eisel, helped.

Edward’s suspicious eyes narrow even more as he deliberately pondered over their question.

Soon, his mouth opened with his index finger raised.

“At that time… I can’t help it! It’s a life-and-death situation right now!”

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Comment

  1. LexusMaximus says:

    Shady *casually biting and draining zeto’s life force*: Don’t mind me…

  2. BioBlueZ says:

    He’s the slim shady

  3. simplethrone says:

    ^not that there’s something shady about him, but there’s shady IN him

  4. It’s not that there is something shady about him. Rather, shady is with him, in his body.

  5. fr0t says:

    “Kill the woman and save the man’s life!!!”

    LMAO. this bandits are a bit different

    1. zarph says:

      because they woman and you know just like men when capturing they also………………

  6. Arcus 101 Arcus 101 says:

    Dammit Cassandra, you misread the stars. He is not the one who is trying anything shady right now. Rather he is there because something shady is about to happen. Well he does have a lot of dark energy around him tho, you got that part right.

  7. Silver says:

    ^The next part:
    EHE sorry 😔

  8. Woops, i accidentally attacked with the sharp edge of my skill, beheading all the bandits! Silly me

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