60. Perhaps the real purpose is surveillance
Chapter 60. Perhaps the real purpose is surveillance.
“Heo Eok. Huh.”
Tail breathed heavily.
Air rushed in and out of the lungs.
Sweat soaked her whole body.
Tails wiped the sweat with her arm.
“Hoo-wook. Hoo-wook.”
Currently, Tail was riding the mountain under the name of a ‘special class’ supervised by Alan.
That is also a very steep mountain.
Dozens of students were following him with their faces completely crumpled.
There were more people than usual because the special class was held by combining Class 1, Class 7, and Class 2.
They staggered and grumbled.
“Ai. What kind of climbing is this all of a sudden?”
“Haa…. Ha…. I will follow you.”
“Hey. Hurry up!”
Sounds full of pain came from here and there.
There was one reason why students who could easily reach the top had a hard time.
Because I couldn’t use mana right away.
If I had spent mana, I would have arrived without difficulty.
Following each of the students climbing the mountain, Alan personally checked whether the students were using mana or not.
Since Alan, whom he admired so much, watched from the sidelines with his eyes wide open, no one thought to use mana.
His logic was this.
“In the end, the vessel that holds mana is also the body, and mana and the body can be seen as complementary or synergistic.”
Alan insisted strongly as if he had become a religious leader.
“If you try to live her life comfortably with mana, you will hit a wall. Just feel this shortness of breath, muscle aches, and the screams of your body that you are alive until you woke up and were able to handle mana freely.”
That’s how the climb to hell began.
“Huh….”
“Heo Eok. Huh Eok. Help me.”
Many students who had done better than usual screamed in agony.
However, even in the midst of that, Tail managed to make progress.
No, should I say I was at the forefront of these?
When he learned swordsmanship for 5 years, Tails noticed that he was naturally lacking in physical strength.
So he climbed the mountain behind him every morning.
‘I never thought that would be so helpful.’
Tale smiled.
There were two people closely following Tails, Alice and Ethan.
Alice climbed well with little sign of difficulty.
Ethan also climbed the mountain with this grin on while sweating profusely.
‘It’s natural that the elf, Alice, rides well, but Ethan is unexpected.’
A person with such a high mana sensitivity will naturally be able to use her mana well from an early age.
In other words, the dependence on mana is high.
Tale was genuinely impressed.
He’s himself. He doesn’t even have a mana hole, so he can’t handle mana properly. As he often climbs her mountain on his own, her stamina grows.
‘Edan, who has high magic response, has this much stamina.’
By the way.
‘Eugene and Ricky will be behind me.’
Since I was with Class 7, Eugene and Ricky also went mountain climbing together.
Eugene, who is usually in poor physical strength, and Ricky, who has a fragile body, seemed to be following behind.
In the meantime, all the students have reached the top.
“Ahh!”
“Wow! Arrived!”
Students were immediately scattered on the floor.
Some sprayed cool water on their bodies to overcome the heat.
Tail was one of them and was spraying bottled water on himself.
Chack!
As the cool sensation ran through my body, it seemed that my heated body had subsided.
In the meantime, Eugene and Ricky also arrived.
Tayl asked as he looked at the two of them, who looked like they were almost exhausted.
“Yoo Jin-ah. Do you spray it too?”
“Heo-eok, heo-eok, what… ?”
Tail lifted the water and looked at Eugene’s answer as he sat down on the ground and caught her breath.
“Heo Eok. Specification… I will.”
Eugene was even wearing a thin vest.
“Hey, then take off your vest.”
“No.”
Eugene said while lying down almost halfway.
“It’s white clothes inside. I’m covered in sweat right now.”
Tail was puzzled by Eugene’s comment that she was wearing white for no reason.
‘I’m taking off my vest, so why does it have anything to do with my white clothes?’
Are you afraid it will get messy?
With that thought, Tail took off her upper clothes.
And water was poured over it once more.
Water flowed down the muscles that were firmly established.
Eugene, who had been watching him with cloudy eyes, sighed and moved her steps toward Ricky.
It wasn’t until after Eugene disappeared that Tail felt the eyes of the people around him.
Looking at the most overwhelmingly trained tail, it was the look in his eyes that he did not know that his physical strength would be strong.
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It was the first time that they revealed their pure physical abilities to each other without mana.
Feeling such stares, Tail looked at one person who was fine even after paying attention one by one while climbing such a steep mountain.
Alan Pyle.
Tale thought to himself.
‘As expected, that person rolls people well.’
I’ve seen him train his men even in the monastery with the logic that they shouldn’t be lazy.
I still feel it.
It was really about pushing people to the very limit.
However, strangely, it didn’t seem to go beyond the absolute limit.
His subordinates went about their daily routine without difficulty even after that training.
Push as far as possible without breaking.
It would be difficult to plan a training like that.
‘That’s probably the role of the greatest educator.’
At the same time, there were long memories that came to mind.
‘I wanted a residency at a university hospital just like that.’
It’s almost invisible now.
It was such a memory.
But what did I do there?
I couldn’t even remember properly.
Looks like you put in a lot of effort for something.
I couldn’t remember what it was or what I was trying to do.
‘Ah.’
The expansive scenery from the summit was drawn in front of my eyes.
I can feel this wind and sunlight vividly.
And everything you see and hear.
At the same time, Tail was recognized.
I could no longer say that I was possessed by the book.
I could see the academy in the pouring sunlight.
It was only then that I felt it.
It’s time to let go of the lingering attachment to Hansol that I’ve felt all along.
That those are just memories of the previous life.
This world no longer felt like a book.
* * *
Ethan caught his breath and approached Tail.
“Good job. Your stamina is amazing.”
“You too. Aren’t you kidding?”
After exchanging good wishes, they came down from the mountain.
“Everyone did a great job.”
Alan shouted at the gasping, staggering students.
“Let’s disperse.”
At his words, the students each walked their way with happy faces.
Tale, Ethan, and Alice are also going back to class.
“And Tails, Alice and Ethan. The three of you, stay for a while.”
Tale was puzzled by his words.
What’s going on?
No matter how much he thought about it, he had no reason to call the three of them.
If you only called yourself, you’d think it was related to Chloe-sama.
You called three people like this?
‘Come to think of it, will Chloe-sama be all right?’
As soon as he remembered that, Tail let out a big smile.
After being betrayed like that, what would you be curious about?
Til waited for Alan’s words, thinking that there was no such thing as a true hukou.
When all the students except three had passed away, it was then that Alan opened his mouth.
“Today’s training was a kind of test.”
A test?
The faces of the three became puzzled.
“You three are the only ones with usable bodies.”
He continued with a firm gaze.
“Would you like to do a separate special training this semester?”
Special training?
The three eyes widened.
“Of course, it is okay to refuse. There won’t be any problems with grades.”
Ethan answered right away.
“I am good.”
But Alice didn’t answer right away, she pondered and then asked a question.
“Is physical training your main thing?”
“Yes. First of all, I’m a knight, so I’m thinking of training in swordsmanship later.”
“Then I will leave.”
Alan didn’t look surprised at Alice’s calm reply.
She nodded, as if expecting something.
Tail’s eyes deepened when he saw that.
‘This doesn’t seem to be the purpose of training.’
Perhaps the real purpose is surveillance.
So he must have expected that Alice, who doesn’t like swords anyway, would refuse.
Then the remaining members are himself and Ethan.
Unfortunately, all three of them showed excellent grades in the first class.
If you teach yourself with a noble under the pretext of cultivating talented people, the students around you will not be dissatisfied.
In other words, with only one aristocrat attached, it was monitoring under the guise of training.
However, there was no reason to avoid Tails.
I don’t care if I’m being watched because I’m proud, and there’s no such thing as an ulterior motive to find out from myself anyway.
Besides, due to the nature of Alan’s just and silent nature, she won’t put anything against her in training.
I’m just going to watch it in the name of special training.
‘Yes, it’s good that it turned out this way.’
It was said that his swordsmanship was very good.
Hopefully he can even learn his swordsmanship.
‘If I’m being used, I’ll have to use it too.’
Tale replied with a smile.
“Me too.”
He smiled brightly while hiding his insides.