185. Tailing (1)
A teahouse in the corner of the Ramiel Islands.
In the same place where Lily gave a new taste the other day
The five girls in Zeke’s class were reunited.
“Ha, I’m going to fuck it up… … .”
Lily banged her head on the table and groaned.
But in the case of the other four, it was okay or not.
All of them were sitting there with exhausted, haggard complexions, sucking their drinks out of habit.
“under… … . Originally, Sieg’s training was difficult, but… … . It’s worse today… … .”
Iriel tilted his head back and muttered while counting the patterns on the ceiling in a daze.
Then, everyone nodded their heads in agreement.
The usual training was also training, but the training I went through today was different in the kind of suffering.
Even though I had been wearing heavy weights all over my body before, there was still a short break between training to catch my breath, but there was no such thing in today’s training.
It’s training that you don’t have to endure with your own will, so you just have to leave your body.
Depending on what you hear, you may have thought it was an easy training, but
They wielded high-level swordsmanship that they were not accustomed to without resting for four hours even though the muscles of their whole body were torn and their lungs were about to explode due to shortness of breath.
It was as painful as holding a heavy weight in the water.
Training so crazy that instinct and rationality shouted in unison that it was already the limit and that it was really dangerous to go beyond this limit.
They begged Zeke to stop several times, but
He hit the sword and drove it without hesitation.
“I thought I was really behind… … . I have to do this again tomorrow… … .”
A slow sigh escaped Iriel’s lips.
She was so exhausted that she couldn’t even taste the taste of the five-grain latte she was eating.
“still… … . Even if the instructor catches us like he always kills us, he doesn’t really kill us. And like every first training session, you’ll get used to it after another week… … .”
kung-
Serena also swept her silver hair and fell face down on the desk.
“… … Whoa. But that’s because that week was so hard… … .”
“sympathy.”
Soi and Yuri also replied in tired voices.
Hearing them complain, Lily lifted her head, which had been planted on the table.
“… … By the way, you Why the hell are you even doing that?”
she asked incomprehensibly.
Then, the thinly opened eyes of the girls turned to Lily.
“No, I don’t understand a little bit. Serena, being a knight is my dream, so even if I say so… … . Soi, Iriel, and Yuri. You guys have no reason to work so hard… … ?”
These are the four girls who have the strongest connection with Zeke.
Therefore, even in the master’s notebook, only the rough circumstances and the degree of the danger of death were written.
Lily, who does not know what kind of relationship they have with Zeke or what kind of conversations they have had with each other,
He couldn’t figure out why his friends were doing this.
to remember
Iriel just wanted to enjoy wealth and honor without any worries rather than fighting someone.
Soyi just longed for an ordinary and peaceful petit bourgeois.
Even in Yuri’s case, because she was haunted by the brilliance of the sword and suffered for so long, in her next life, she wanted to live a life where she would never pick up a sword.
Serena, who longed for him and Zeke, was the only one who wanted to protect others with his power.
“By the way, how did you know that my original dream was to become a knight… … ?”
“Of course, since it’s the school I’m going to, it was basic to research what kind of students there are in advance. Serena, you’re a bit famous, so I had no choice but to know.”
“… … ah.”
Of course, it was information obtained through the master’s notes, but Serena nodded at her excuse.
It had been a long time since he had said that he would become a knight, so if you dig a little, it wouldn’t be hard to find such a rumor.
Lily looked at Iriel, Soi, and Yuri at once.
Iriel’s eyebrows twitched for a moment, then drooped.
“… … Whoa, well, I don’t have the energy to fight for nothing right now, so I’ll tell you. yes, you are right To be honest, the first time I came to this swordsmanship class was to make up for the number of students in Zeke’s class. I really had no intention of learning the sword.”
Iriel, too, thought about how his situation had come to be like this, and laughed out loud.
“… … That’s right, but Zeke Clayman is… … . really… … . Idiot.”
“yes. Idiot.”
“sympathy.”
Soi and Yuri agreed with Iriel’s words.
“Bah, stupid… … ?”
At the completely unexpected accusation, Lily opened her eyes wide and stuttered.
“Uh, what… … . If there was another way, I would have used it. That damned swordsman idiot.”
“What, what are you talking about… … .”
“There is nothing romantic even if you wash your eyes and look for it, the conversation is a breathless short answer that is cut off, and approaching is also an iron wall. Ha, Mr. Ha who notices again… … ! Talking about it makes me angry.”
Iriel stopped talking and twisted his face as if he was bursting with anger and wheezing.
“Instructors like that are different when it comes to swordsmanship.”
Serena took the place of Iriel, who was grinding her teeth.
“Because a person who is usually so quiet, just talking about swordsmanship makes me feel like an ordinary boy.”
“Um… … . My bread, which I made to eat in the first place, is also a person who wields it instead of a sword… … .”
“Sword-headed, sword-headed, sword-chung.”
Lily was more confused by their words.
Why doesn’t it seem like everything my friends say is that they practice swords because of Zeke Kleiman?
“No, that… … . Well… … . So you guys are just the instructor and that… … . I’m just trying to have a conversation… … ?”
Lily’s voice trembled in embarrassment.
“… … Well, that’s not all. He even saved my life several times.”
“Eh, he’s also Joheiden’s benefactor… … .”
“And he is also the benefactor who protected our bakery… … . Even if you come and take a swordsmanship class… … .”
“He is also the one who brought me back to life after being completely separated from my family… … .”
Dumbfounded by her words, they averted their gaze and each picked up an excuse.
A suffocating silence fell in the tea house.
Lily heard their words, but it took her a little while to fully grasp their meaning.
“That is strange! no! Is this just weird? Not even liking the sword! Hey, you keep going through crazy training like this!?”
He jumped up and looked around at them once, but no one took his side.
Even Yuri Gilbert, who hated swords so much!
In her head, what Yuri said in her previous life,
It’s okay to live a painful and painful life, but the image of him begging me not to lift the sword still vividly remains.
He even felt betrayed by his old friend who took up the sword again with a shameless face just to talk to Zeke Kleiman.
“What, why are you heating up so much?”
Iriel frowned and said.
“Well, okay. stop talking about this Because I answered your question with the loyalty of letting you know about this store. Whoa. Now I have to wake up, wash and put on makeup.”
“… … Makeup?”
“Huh! Iriel, you know it’s my turn to go first today, right?”
Soi suddenly raised his head and intervened.
Iriel stared at Soyi and said in a small voice.
“… … I’ll buy you a lot of bread. I’ll do it first today.”
“No. never give up And you buy a lot of bread every day.”
Soi firmly shook his head, saying that would never happen.
“What, what is it? What do you do first?”
“That’s a secret.”
Yuri Gilbert, who was suddenly alive at Lily’s question, put a finger to his mouth with a thin, goblin-like smile.
* * *
“I need to know what the heck they do at night.”
After disbanding at the teahouse,
Lily simply washed up at home and went out with Karen.
Friends who have changed so much.
Of course, compared to the villain she met before returning, she felt much more natural and better now.
However, all of them seemed obsessed with Zeke Kleiman as if they were possessed by something.
“Princess, what are you doing here?”
Karen, who came out of nowhere with Lily, asked because she couldn’t let Lily wander the streets alone at night.
“… … Something fishy.”
“Awards?”
“Yeah, I’ll go to Iriel’s mansion first. And let’s ambush it nearby.”
“Five? If it’s Iriel… … . Clearly, shit! Could it be that we can see the skills of the Justia Knights today!?”
Karen really liked combat and sparring, as if paying for it.
While Lily went to the academy, Karen has been training alone in the yard of the mansion with the training method Zeke taught her.
She wanted to see the results of her training.
If it’s the Duke of Justia, it’s the same duke as Ira!
Even if it wasn’t, it was an opponent I wanted to stick to at least once.
“no. just dormant It’s just tailing where Iriel goes at night.”
“Ah, what is that? If you’re going to do it, you have to hit it for sure.”
“… … These days, do you feel somewhat comfortable? By any chance, was the punishment not enough last time?”
“I think the top of a big tree near it would be good for burrowing. I’ve already figured out the geography around here. Princess Lily.”
chuck.
Karen, not wanting to hear Lily’s bombardment of insults again, got down on one knee and spoke like a knight.
Lily looked at Karen with cold eyes.
‘By the way, you’re a maid… … .’
Lily didn’t know if taking Karen with her was really the right choice.