215. East, Hwaguk (3)
Around the end of treatment for the wounded.
A shrine maiden and a ninja head came to the village after hearing the news, and now they were talking with them.
To be honest, it wasn’t a place that a cadet dared to join, but after we kicked out Miho, a special class member, we had a special seat together.
The black-haired woman standing in the middle of the group of flowers bowed her head first.
It was a shaman from the country of fire that will be the center of this incident.
She couldn’t remember how many generations of shaman she was.
“Hino, the 53rd shaman and the heir to the fire, would like to express my deepest gratitude to the people of Innocence Academy on behalf of the country.”
53 Generations, a long history indeed.
Certainly, ‘Hino’ was a name indicating that she was a shrine maiden.
It means there were 52 Hinos besides her.
“We just did what we had to do.”
Edward, who acted as the academy’s representative, bowed his head along.
Simple greetings from both sides were exchanged, and the conversation went straight to the main topic.
“People from the academy said they were on a trip, but I’m not happy that I showed them a bad side of Hwaguk.”
“I understand. Every country has one or two headaches.”
“It would have been much better if I had held on a little longer.”
One of the ninjas next to Hino said in a low voice.
A disgruntled expression like that of a poisonous toad.
He was the head of the villages around here.
“Happo, the way you talk is quite annoying. These are the people who saved a village without any connections.”
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“I’m sorry, Mrs.”
Looking at his outward appearance and cheeky attitude, ‘Isn’t that guy a traitor?’ He could have thought, and wanted to, but unfortunately Happo was not a traitor.
It’s just that he has a bad personality and hates ‘strange things’ like strangers.
…On second thought, maybe not ‘a little’.
“I’m not the one who deserves an apology.”
“…”
Hino let go of his hot po, and then Hino lowered his head, unable to overcome Hino’s fierce eyes.
It wasn’t strange that the leader of the ninjas who ruled the villages couldn’t even shout at the shrine maiden.
It was all because of the Hwaguk system.
The king entrusted the management and protection of the territory to 10 heads. And the heads have many ninjas under them, that is, they can be seen as private soldiers.
But there was no coup.
All ninjas have an iron rule: never disobey the king.
If you break the iron rule, you will die.
Even if there were leaders who wanted to stage a coup in the history of China, I think they would have been removed before they even started.
This is because the original ninjas are people who are good at such things, and the heads are in a position to check each other.
The same goes for advanced ninja under the leader.
If the leader you serve plots to betray the country, you will always have a justification to get rid of him, and the vacancy created after eliminating the leader who was trying to stage a coup will belong to the high-ranking ninja who brought the head of the head.
So, now there are no more reckless heads who walk the road where all kinds of death lurk.
So what kind of position is a shrine maiden?
The shrine maiden has power almost equal to that of the king. No, to be precise, she must see that she has the power to do so.
She has tremendous power to control all divine beasts possessed by Hwaguk, so even her head sticks out her tongue when the shaman is fully equipped with divine beasts.
What’s more, if I kill that shrine maiden, I’ll lose my current appearance.
Just a few years ago, an ignorant head assassinated her shaman. Du-ryeong was immediately killed, but at the same time as the shaman was assassinated, the country was thrown into great confusion by the divine beasts.
Inheriting the shaman’s resentment as it is, the divine beasts who ran out of control were turning all over the country into a sea of fire.
In that way, Hwaguk, in a state of half-desperation, set up Hino, who was influential as her next shaman, as her shaman, gave her all her powers, and then retrieved her divine subjects.
That was the reason why Happo, the head of the shrine maiden, could not stand up to Hino, a shrine maiden who had not been properly succeeded.
“hahahaha, that’s okay. Maybe our cadets weren’t enough.”
When Happo did not apologize until the end, Edward greeted him warmly with a smile.
“What do you mean by cadets?”
Happo raised an eyebrow when he said that the cadets had stopped Shinsu.
“It’s true. The cadets standing behind me, not the instructors, stopped Shinsoo.”
“I’d like to hear more about the circumstances.”
Hino asked, tilting her head.
“Hmm… Can someone explain?”
At Edward’s suggestion, Yuri, who was behind me, tapped my back with his finger.
“Jetto explains.”
“…Let me explain.”
“……”
After being pushed out of the back, a strange gaze pours out from the Hwaguk side. It was a gaze that tried to explain properly.
“The white bandage… Maybe… No. Could you explain it first?”
At least Hino seemed to know about me, but that wasn’t the point right now.
I immediately explained how I was able to exorcise Miho.
“…That’s why I thought his weakness was water.”
“Exactly, but it requires a lot of water.”
Happo, who was crossing his arms, nodded.
“So I decided to make it rain.”
“Rain…? Of course, rain is the most effective…”
“Can Western magic change the climate?”
“However, that is impossible for us as cadets. All they said was that it was raining, and it was only a brief stream of water. The Orfel cadet here was skilled in water magic, so he shot a huge drop of water into the sky. After posting…”
“After…?”
“…I cut the drops off. That’s how I made them rain down from the sky.”
“I don’t understand even after listening to the explanation. Among the low-level ninjas left in the village, did any of them witness the scene?”
“I… I saw it nearby.”
“Your name must be…”
“…My name is Daijin, Chief.”
“Yes, Daijin. Is that student’s words true?”
At Happo’s question, a low-ranking ninja named Daijin, who was on crutches, scratched his cheek.
“A huge water ball did float in the sky. After that, that cadet ran towards another cadet…”
“Go on.”
“That’s… I couldn’t follow it with my eyes after that. It’s true that it rained with a roar reverberating through the sky.”
“…A speed that even ninjas couldn’t see?”
Happo, who had a strong pride in being a ninja, asked questioningly.
“Sorry, Chief.”
“Happo, what is the importance of what is invisible to the eyes of a low-level ninja?”
“But it’s possible that these strangers are cheating by jumping on the lucky shower. They’re just cadets in the first place. They’re still just students in terms of academy.”
Happo pointed at me and opened his eyes.
“Furthermore, the sword of a blind man… If it were me, I would have avoided it without even opening my eyes. In many ways, it’s an unreliable explanation, isn’t it?”
“Happo…”
As if angry at Happo’s rudeness, Hino’s voice lowered.
“…Really?”
In the end, I couldn’t stand it and spit out those words.
This Happo crossed the line a lot.
If you are a stranger, even if you are a stranger, you can do it by yielding one hundred steps to being a conservative personality who first suspects and sees, but you can not pass by ignoring the sky-like master’s swordsmanship.
“What?”
“That means you can avoid it without opening your eyes.”
“Huh, really…”
Before Happo, who had been laughing in amazement, could answer, I grabbed the sword at my waist.
In that instant, the whole world stops.
The tent entrance was lifted slightly by the wind that blew into it, and Hino’s eyebrows as he glared at Happo narrowed.
In a world where everything stopped, only I could move.
To be precise, there is Sierra, so I am not the only one.
I leisurely walked in front of Happo.
My eyes couldn’t keep up with me at all, it seemed that he couldn’t keep up with the speed of the reversal.
ㅡ Wooddeuk.
Then I gently thrust my sword into the chair he was sitting on. It was right next to his neck.
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Sierra, who was watching all this in real time, looked at me with interest and tilted her head.
After taking a breath, the world starts to move again.
ㅡQuaang!!
With a deafening roar, the impact Happo was sitting on pushed the chair back without resistance.
ㅡKudangtang!
Then I heard a rather funny sound.
“Diryeong-nim!!”
“…”
The ninjas behind Happo brought out their memorized secrets and took a cautious stance against me, albeit belatedly.
“……”
Happo, who was the victim, was unable to keep his mouth shut while glaring at my red sword that was visible from the side of his neck as he fell over with a chair.
“How dare you…!!!”
Happo shouted, frantic at my hostile behavior.
“From the fact that I can hear the voice properly, it seems that I was blinded and couldn’t aim for the neck.”
He calmly took out the sword stuck in his neck and continued talking.
“But I think you couldn’t avoid it… Were your eyes closed? Were your eyes open?”
Well, it doesn’t matter either way.
I looked down at Happo and smiled slightly.
“This goddamn bastard… Dares to attack me, the leader…?”
“Happo, that’s about it. I can’t keep my eyes open anymore.”
“But…”
“How far are you going to undermine the prestige of the country? There is no change in the fact that they saved the people of the country. It’s not that proud ninja, it’s them.”
“……Sorry.”
“Zetto cadet?”
Hatpo, intimidated by Hino’s painful words, lowered his head.
“I’m sorry. I think I was terribly rude. I swear I didn’t mean to hurt him.”
As Edward wished, he bowed his head and apologized politely.
“I think our cadet went too far. He’s famous for his good personality…”
“No. I saved people with hard work, but instead of thanking them, I was despised. So, it would be strange if someone could be generous with this.”
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“…”
Happo was still glaring at me, but it didn’t matter what he thought of me.
He didn’t matter.
“My dear, what’s your name?”
I was only pardoned for the favor of this woman in front of her eyes.
“I…”
And since she was showing me the exact opposite of her face looking at her hot po, I think I was halfway through it.
“My name is Zeto.”
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