By Fongrind Territory (4)
“… … .”
Several hours have passed since the carriage departed, and the atmosphere of the carriage has not changed at all, even though the sun has set and the night curtain has covered the world.
Jessica, with a wrinkled expression on her face, was looking out the window all the time, except when she glanced at us infrequently.
On the other hand, Hori kept looking at the floor to see if she had motion sickness and kept her head down, except when she flinched from time to time, she was frozen like a statue.
The atmosphere of the carriage, in which only two emotions, nervousness and nervousness, floated like air, was not comfortable even with empty words.
The thought that this would continue until we reached the Count of Fongrind, if not for a moment, gave me a headache.
“that… .”
I thought about trying to lighten the mood a little by playing a game, but come to think of it, I have never played such a game with my friends.
I closed my mouth again when I couldn’t even guess what kind of game the three of us could play or what would be fun.
“that… What?”
“… Nothing.”
After such a brief conversation, the carriage was filled with silence again, as it had been before.
As the silence continued until the sun went down again, I even thought that it would be good if the barbarians would attack or set the wagon on fire.
The moment I was about to get up from my seat, putting my hand on Youngta, thinking that the atmosphere would change if I got up from my seat and did some footwork.
“there… .”
Unexpectedly, Hori, who had kept her head down and kept her mouth shut, opened her mouth.
“Now, can I change seats?”
“… … What?”
As she looked at Jessica because she didn’t understand what she was saying, Jessica blushed and spoke with an angry expression on her face.
“It’s not like that, so be quiet!!”
“What are you talking about? What else is it that isn’t like that?”
When I asked that question, Jessica just stared at me with sharp eyes and didn’t answer.
And I don’t know if it’s because of my mood, but after this conversation, the tension in the carriage seemed to have softened a bit.
“ha… .”
Jessica sighed and turned her head to look at the front she had been avoiding until now.
The carriage is not small, but Jessica’s warm breath tickled her nose as she sat right in front of it.
“… Did I say Miss Hori? I remember how Ian introduced you before. At the time, I thought it was just a joke… .”
Saying that, Jessica glanced at me with a meaningful eye.
“what? So, have you been forgetting who Hori is?”
“It’s disrespectful to Miss Hori, but at the time I thought she was just a poor girl caught by you… .”
If you listen to Jessica, you’ll think I’m a bandit harassing some kidnapped woman.
Even if it was me who suffered the damage, not Hori.
Jessica, completely unaware of such a situation, turned her head and asked Hori.
“Were you an academy student too? Which department are you in?”
“Oh, it’s the Alchemy Department! I got to S class in this promotion test!”
“In class S… ?”
Jessica didn’t say anything, but suddenly made an impression, wondering if there was something wrong with that statement.
“why? What’s the matter, you wrinkled your face all of a sudden?”
“Oh, no… . It actually reminded me of the bad rumors about the Alchemy Department circulating among young girls.”
I don’t know what the rumors that Jessica heard were, but I had a feeling that it would be the truth without a single lie based on the facts.
As proof of that, a cold sweat was running down Hori’s cheek, who had been smiling a while ago.
“What is the rumor?”
“It’s not a huge rumor, it’s a rumor that a commoner student is rampant in Class S.”
When I heard the details of the rumor, it was said that the commoner student had a bad attitude in class and always just slept in class.
It is said that when an assignment comes up, he sits down for a while, and then creates it in a timely fashion, as if ridiculing the efforts of other students.
If the level of completion of the drug fell, I had no choice but to watch her win first place with tears in her eyes because she boasted a superior level of perfection compared to other students.
“Even if another student tried to impose sanctions, it was rumored that someone who looked after him could not do anything because he was the count. .”
“Did you do that and whine that you didn’t have any friends?”
“… Rumors are always exaggerated. Those rumors are also a malicious interpretation by someone who is jealous of me… .”
“And any other rumors?”
“… … I heard that the student has eccentric beliefs and makes only drugs with severe side effects, except for the drugs for the assignment.”
“The exaggeration sucks!”
When he squeezed Hori’s head, who was sitting next to her, Hori trembled with tears in her eyes.
“… … I was bleeding strangely when I was kidnapped the other day, right?”
“yes?”
Jessica, whose voice suddenly became so cold as to be startled, continued to ask, squinting at Hori.
“At first I thought I had an internal injury or a cut in my chest. However… Come to think of it, you never had a cut in your chest, and there were no plausible marks on your stomach.”
“If you ask me if I vomited with medication, you are right. Did you really think you were going to die then?”
“It’s not my fault, it’s the dean’s fault!! I have adjusted it to the right level!!”
“If we hadn’t put such side effects in the first place, this wouldn’t have happened.”
“No, if there are no side effects, the motivation… .”
-bang!!
Suddenly, the carriage’s body shook violently, so she turned her head to see what was going on, and Jessica’s fist was nailed to the wall of the carriage.
There was no speculation in the fist, and the carriage was made so strong that there were no holes or holes, but it was still enough to make the car body shake.
Rather, I was worried about Jessica’s fist, which had pounded her fist into such a hard carriage.
“Why, why? Did I suddenly get jealous because I talked to Hori?”
“Is this time to play? I thought I was going to die!! But why are you drinking that kind of drug?!”
“If you don’t drink, you can’t win, so you drink. You can win even if you don’t drink, so would you like to drink that kind of medicine?”
I hate to admit it, but my body is still in the process of developing, unlike the perfect technique of baldotsu.
No matter how perfect he was, he could not defeat the possessor who had lived several hundred years longer than me without medicine.
“It’s a bit annoying that it’s a deliberately created side effect, but the performance is good, so I have to bear that.”
“… … A deliberate side effect? What else do you mean?”
“That, that… !!”
Hori, who was asked the question, didn’t seem to be able to open her mouth easily, remembering that the carriage had shaken violently.
“that is… This is my personal belief that a drug that brings great power should be given a risk commensurate with it… whoops… !!”
As Jessica held her hammer and gave off a bloody atmosphere, Hori, frightened, grabbed my arm and held me forward as if it were a shield.
Then, for some reason, Jessica became even more angry and threw the hammer into a golden spectacle.
“If you play with someone’s life, your own life is at risk.”
“Come on, this wasn’t a joke! I have always made only doping drugs that I can take!!”
Even with that excuse, Jessica had no intention of listening, and the speculation contained in the hammer only grew stronger.
“Jessica, calm down. Isn’t this something to be so angry about?”
“If this isn’t something to be angry about, then what is it?! You too!! It’s you, Ian, taking that drug, then you should have stopped him from doing something like that!!”
“It’s easy to give up, so why persuade me?”
Persuasion works only with people who can speak to a certain extent, and I am not the type of person who would be told to use slurred words or fists.
And, as I later realized, there was actually one reason the drug had to have side effects.
“reason? What is it?”
Jessica, with her arms folded, listened with an attitude of let’s hear it, and Hori listened with eyes full of anticipation.
And in the next moment, when I heard the words coming out of my mouth, their expressions began to distort.
“… … If there are no side effects, you won’t be told that you won with medicine.”
“… … … I beg your pardon?”
Come to think of it, I am still using the strongest technique that can be said to be the culmination of the intelligence that humans have accumulated, called baldosu.
By the way, does such a person even use drugs that greatly increase the performance of the body without any risk?
If this were known to future historians, I would be called a sleazy guy who barely survived even though I had no skills.
“Even in order to prevent such a disaster, side effects of doping drugs are absolutely necessary.”
“… … That’s crazy. Do you do such stupid things because future historians might underestimate you?! Even if not 100 years, but thousands of years, the world will never come where you will be told that you have won because of the foot swordsmanship!! So, stop doing that stupid thing right now and drink your normal medicine!!”
“no.”
“Ugh… !!”
Jessica, who had been staring at me for a long time, quickly turned her head to tell me whether to die or not.
Jessica, who has lived in a world where the swordsmanship was despised as a lowly assassination technique, may not understand it, but sooner or later there will be a singularity of swordsmanship where everyone recognizes the true value of the swordsmanship.
‘come… . The singularity of the foot is sure to come… !!’