139 – Heir of the Sword Saint
“…… Ha.”
No matter how large the world is and full of unique things, it is not easy to see snow falling indoors.
The ceiling of this special sparring hall, covered with numerous protective barriers, was stained white.
The sight of beautiful white snow floating on the ceiling like clouds was both beautiful and somehow a little scary.
The reason is that even for me, who is neither a wizard nor a person specializing in mana detection, the mana contained in that cloud was unusual.
‘I’m bored, so I want to spar for the first time in a while….’
This sparring, which started with the words of my older sister who returned to the academy almost a year after receiving the letter, started lightly but was full of excitement.
The cloud, filled with tremendous cold, changed into the shape of a spear and struck down at her sister.
That attack, which contained murderous intent but would inevitably result in serious injury if it hit, was by no means an attack that a teacher would launch at a student.
Nevertheless, the fact that she used it was probably due to her trust in her older sister.
While the clouds on her ceiling were aimed at her sister like a spear in an army of tens of thousands, her sister dodged all of the attacks with her rabbit-like quick feet.
No matter how many times I saw how such power came from such a small body, it was an amazing sight.
Eventually, as if she thought that a small attack would not reach her sister, the snow on the ceiling spread as if in an instant and rained down on her sister all at once.
The older sister hesitated for a moment due to the tremendous amount of violence that was reminiscent of an avalanche, but even for a moment, the older sister raised her sword high and hurled her sword with all her might in front of her.
As the light of her sword cut out her pure white eyes and made her way, the older sister threw her body towards the light without the slightest hesitation.
After a while, when the light emitted from the sword stopped, what she saw in her eyes was the dean with the sword pointed at his neck and her sister, expressionless as always.
“…… “I think I lost.”
“It was close.”
After saying that briefly, my sister put away her sword and the dean collapsed on the floor.
Her older sister, whom I met after almost a year, was at a level that I thought I could reach even if I trained for 10 or 100 years.
Returning her sword to its sheath, my sister turned her back on her dean and slowly approached me.
Meanwhile, no emotion could be read from her older sister’s face, and she had an expression that did not seem like she was the type of person who had just had such a heart-warming fight.
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To someone who didn’t know her, it would have seemed like the fight was so trivial that she didn’t feel much emotion, but her older sister was someone whose natural expression didn’t show up on her face.
“Sister, how do you feel about the fight?”
“Yes…. It was dangerous. “If it had been outdoors, I might have lost.”
As her sister said, if it had been outdoors instead of indoors, there would have been more clouds and the dean would have used flying magic, so it wouldn’t have been like before.
“Here’s a towel.”
As the chill that had filled her training ground subsided, a ray of sweat began to flow from her sister’s forehead.
When I heard about her sparring and handed her the towel I had prepared for her, my sister wiped her forehead and gave me her towel back.
By the way, this training ground was used by successive deans for training, so its durability was truly amazing.
My sister and the dean ran wild like that, but there wasn’t even a scratch on the barrier that surrounded the training ground.
“Rain…. “Is the man you talked about in the letter strong?”
It hasn’t even been 5 minutes since the fight ended and they already want another fight?
I was momentarily taken aback by my sister’s bold question, but after recalling the scene at that time, I nodded with confidence.
“Yes, I am strong. And this time, they said he went to the south and defeated Correa.”
“…… Correa?”
My sister tilted her head to the side as if to say, ‘What is that?’
I don’t know much about the situation in the south, but just by looking at the fact that he broke through the wall alone and defeated Count Pontgrind, I was able to easily guess how strong he was.
And this isn’t exactly confirmed news yet, but it is said that a demon came in to help in the fight, and it is said that he also cut that demon down.
“Oh….”
As she spoke up to this point, her older sister seemed to have become interested in her as well. Her expression was still expressionless, but her eyes began to sparkle with interest in him.
“That… “He must be strong.”
“Yes, he will definitely show the strength to satisfy her sister.”
“Yes…. If I were that strong, it might be okay for me to get pregnant…. I’m sure my father would approve….”
When the word “Pregnancy” Came out of the mouth of her older sister, who looked younger than her age, her body flinched without me knowing.
‘I thought she always thought about fighting. She was right, she was thinking about that too….’
Seeing her older sister thinking seriously while stroking her lower abdomen, she felt like she had seen an unexpected side of her older sister.
My older sister, who had kept her mouth shut as if she was thinking about something, suddenly turned on her foot and started heading outside.
“Sister? “Where is she going?”
“The man’s house. “I’ll go and fight now.”
“Yes? No, what now….”
Her mouth fell silent at the words, let alone her full name, that she was going to fight her opponent, who did not even know if she had returned to the academy yet.
My sister in that state does not listen to what others say.
If things continued like this, the people around her could have been caught up in an unexpected attack from her older sister on the day she returned.
“Sister, wait a minute!! I haven’t talked to him yet… !!!”
Perhaps my desperate cry reached her older sister, who stopped her steps and turned her back to me, looking at me with the same blank expression on her face as always.
“Rain….”
Then, in a rare occurrence, her older sister spoke first, so I listened to see what she was going to say….
“Where is his house? Now that I think about it, I haven’t heard it yet.”
These were words that shattered my expectations.
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In the end, unable to break her older sister’s stubbornness, I had no choice but to tell her the location of her mansion.
It’s not the first time that I haven’t been able to break my sister’s stubbornness, but every time something like this happens, I honestly get irritated.
If he was acting like a child, I would have thought about comforting him, but that wasn’t the case and he just stood there silently like a doll until what he wanted came true, so I couldn’t just ignore him.
“Sister…. Could it be that you were standing here all day yesterday too?”
“Yes…. “He didn’t come.”
The weather wasn’t sweltering right now, but it wasn’t cool either.
If she stood still, heat would rise from the ground, and she would stand all day without eating or drinking. Even though she was my sister, she was not normal.
“Sister, don’t do this, just wait at the mansion…. “If you want to fight in the best condition, it’s better.”
“… “Her heart is pounding so hard I can’t stand it.”
If you’re going to say something like that, you should at least change your expression. But I said my heart was pounding with an expressionless expression, so it only sounded like a joke.
“Then at least some water…” .”
“It’s okay. “He’s coming over there.”
“Yes? What on earth is coming….”
After hearing her sister’s words, she looked up and saw a gorgeous carriage pulled by two horses approaching the mansion.
The seal engraved on that carriage was the seal of the Vongrind family that I had seen before. In that case, there was only one person who would be riding in that carriage.
“…… “You must be relieved that your wish has come true, right?”
“Yes, it’s very cool.”
My sister, who lightly ignored my sarcasm, stood in front of the moving carriage, and the horses pulling her carriage began to howl and howl, and quickly stopped the carriage.
“Sister…. “I told you several times that you shouldn’t stop the carriage like that.”
“Huh? I won’t die from getting hit by a carriage….”
It wasn’t that kind of problem, but seeing her older sister with a childlike, innocent expression left her speechless.
“Anyway, I’m going to talk now, so please stay still. “Did you know?”
“Yes.”
She nodded her head silently, but I couldn’t tell if she really understood.
She knocked on the carriage door, intending to finish as quickly as possible before her sister did something unexpected again.
After a while, the carriage door opened, and the first thing that caught my eye was Ian, who had his head down so that his face was hard to see.
“What…?” . “Do you have anything to do?”
When he raised his head and looked at me, I inadvertently flinched back at the deep sadness in his eyes.
What on earth happened in the Pontgrind domain that could cause someone who always smiled innocently to become so depressed?
“… “What happened?”
When I said that without thinking, he just sighed deeply and said this.
“…… “I lost something precious.”
“It’s precious…” . Even if someone dies….”
“Miss Lane, this person is just upset because his favorite sword broke, so you don’t need to worry about it.”
“…… “The sword is broken?”
When I looked at Ian with a puzzled expression, he slowly nodded with the look on his face like a child who lost his parents.
“… If you were a prosecutor, you would understand, right?”
“… ….”
Well, it’s not that I don’t understand the feeling of attachment to things that are used for a long time, but his reaction was a bit harsh.
Before I knew the circumstances, I thought it wasn’t just a broken sword, but that it was a person who had suffered a grave injury.
“… “But what’s going on so early in the morning?”
“It’s because of what I said before. “My sister arrived at the academy a few days ago.”
“Sister? Then….”
“Yes…. It’s what you think. “I’m sorry it’s so sudden, but can I have a match with you right here?”