#029 Please save me, princess (3)
The sun was shining pleasantly through the window, and I put down the breakfast I had prepared on the table.
“Enjoy your breakfast, lady.”
“Umm…”
Perhaps because it was the weekend, Ruby seemed to feel comfortable sleeping in until late.
With her hair a little frizzy, she lifted her heavy body and sat down at the table.
Steam rose from the plate in front of her.
Everything about this dish was perfect, starting with the cooking process. Ruby will probably like her too.
“Go ahead and eat. “The breakfast is going to get cold.”
Ruby looked silently at the meal I prepared for her.
“···Uh, I’ll eat when Amber leaves.”
“Really? Then, lady, do whatever you feel comfortable with.”
Needless to say, the reason I was so busy preparing on the weekend morning was because of training with Amethyst.
I started learning swordsmanship in earnest a few days ago, and it has now become an indispensable part of my daily routine.
I was quickly changing my clothes, and the bruised area started to hurt when touched.
“Ouch…”
“What’s wrong, Amber?”
“It’s no big deal. “I have a little bruise.”
“You’re bruised?”
Ruby didn’t just ignore my remarks and came closer to examine her body.
“Raise your arms.”
“Yes…”
When I took my arm out of the sleeve of my shirt and lifted it up, bruises were revealed here and there.
“What hit you?”
“It happened while training with Ame. “Even the bamboo sword hurt more than I thought.”
“···Damn princess.”
“Yes?”
Ruby’s face flashed for a moment, but it disappeared when she made eye contact with me.
“···No. “It’s proof that you’re working hard.”
“Thank you for knowing.”
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I picked up the bag containing the sparring uniform and greeted him with a bright face as usual.
“Then I’ll be back, lady!”
“···Yes. “Don’t push yourself too hard.”
***
“Amber, when you pick up the knife, focus on your opponent!”
“Yes…!”
Amethyst and I faced each other, holding our practice swords.
I have felt painfully in the past few days that there is no such thing as moderation when it comes to Amethyst.
She has a free-spirited personality, but perhaps due to the strict education she received from the royal family, she had the mindset to do the right thing.
Thanks to that, I was beaten so hard today that my body was in no good shape.
For a short break, Amethyst handed me her water bottle.
“Isn’t it hot? Drink mine too. Amber.”
“Really? Thank you!”
I was in trouble because I had forgotten my water bottle.
She watched me drink the water carefully, then took it back with a slightly regretful expression.
“It doesn’t really matter if you drink comfortably with your mouth.”
“It’s Ame’s, how can I do that?”
Since she last revealed her secret to me, she seemed to be friendlier to me.
In the past, when we talked, it always felt like there was some distance between us, but now I felt like I was comfortable opening up about anything.
She looked at me with a completely relaxed face and a bright smile.
After a while, training resumed and Amethyst shouted at me.
“Don’t procrastinate!”
Amethyst, holding a weapon in her hand, has changed 180 degrees as a person.
“Pick up your weapon again, Amber!”
“Yes…”
In front of my eyes, the innocent boy from before was nowhere to be seen, and there was only one knight with a burning passion for education.
She said that she was adjusting her strength to a certain extent to my level, but honestly, all she could do was hold on to her sword without letting go of it.
I swung my sword hard to block attacks that could come from any direction, up, down, left, or right.
Ame, who had already come right in front of her, shouted loudly.
“Head!”
It literally meant hitting the head.
As this is also true, my reaction speed has increased significantly and I am now able to respond to obvious attacks to some extent.
I held the sword with both hands and tried to block the attack coming at my head.
“Evil!”
However, this time the attack was aimed at my abdomen, not my head.
I let out a pathetic scream and fell to the floor.
Amethyst, who landed a brilliant blow at me, walked towards me with a satisfied expression.
“There is still a long way to go. Amber.”
“They said it was the head.”
As I looked at her with a chagrined expression, Amethyst said with a grin.
“No one recognizes honesty in real life?”
“Ugh…”
I’ve been hitting him honestly up until now, but this time I hit him for the first time.
As she was glaring at her with her angry eyes, Amethyst took off her own headgear and spoke.
“Then, I guess I should get the punishment I promised, right?”
“···Again?”
“Of course. “It’s no fun if there are no penalties.”
The new penalty felt simpler than the last time.
The content of this punishment is to hug her.
The only difference from last time was that now I had to do it directly to her, not from her side, but from her side.
Amethyst took off all his protective gear, spread his arms, and spoke.
“Come here, Amber.”
“Can you not speak in that tone?”
“Doesn’t it suit you? “I was trying to imitate royalty.”
‘A true royal…’
I approached her, step by step, with a sullen look on her face.
Then, timidly, she opened her arms and lightly wrapped them around Ame’s waist.
“···Okay?”
As soon as I finished speaking, Ame hugged me tightly.
“Yeah, that’s it.”
I could indirectly feel the touch of Ame’s soft skin through her thin sparring uniform.
Since my head was right next to her chest, I couldn’t get used to the soft sensation of touching her face no matter how many times I tried it.
It felt like I was being injected with something like the scent of a mature woman.
···The problem was that I felt like I was slowly becoming addicted to it.
“When I hold Amber like this, all the hardships go away.”
“···How long are you going to hold me?”
Normally, it would have been time to slowly fall apart, but for some reason, today the hug was long.
“Let’s stay a little longer. Huh?”
“···Okay.”
Since she honestly didn’t like it, she decided to make it a little more playful.
Does Amethyst like skinship, or are all women like that?
These days, I feel like there isn’t a single day that goes by that I don’t hang out with someone.
“Ame-sama, now slowly…”
It was around the time when I was about to talk about resuming training.
-Kkiik.
I heard the sound of the training room door opening behind me, and somehow a chill ran down my spine.
“···.”
When I noticed her strange appearance, I raised my head and looked at her, and her expression was as frozen as ice.
“···Ame? “Why are you doing this?”
“Back, behind…”
“Yes? “Back?”
She turned around after hearing those words, and there was someone familiar standing there.
My master and one and only lady, Ruby Sarka.
“What are you doing now, you two…?”
Ruby stands with one hand holding the water bottle I left behind.
She squeezed her water bottle in her hand so hard that it squished.
“I sent him to train… But he was doing these things without me knowing…”
“Miss, let me explain everything, this is so…”
Ruby threw away her water bottle, took out the false sword hanging on the wall, and grabbed it.
“Stop making excuses!”
‘It’s ruined, Ruby has completely lost her mind…!’
Ruby was so angry that he couldn’t be stopped anymore.
Ruby, who was randomly attacking the objects in front of her, changed her target to me and ran.
‘Why me!?’
I couldn’t see Amethyst, who had run away with me, so I looked around.
Now I see that Amethyst had already escaped and was hanging on a high railing on the wall.
‘No, how did you get up to that place?’
As I was feeling quite betrayed, Amethyst shouted at me with an interesting expression on her face.
“Amber! “Let’s show the results of your training!”
“Yes?”
“Try to fight back!”
“Is that what you’re going to do in this situation!?”
She had no time to argue.
-Kwasik.
Ruby’s deadly sword blade penetrated the wooden floor right in front of me.
I knew instinctively that if I was hit with something like that, not even a bone would be removed.
‘I’m scared…!’
Ruby lost her temper and attacked, giving him a greater sense of fear than when he previously encountered a pack of wolf bats.
Blows with tremendous force flew at me at random, and I rolled my body desperately to survive.
‘Huh…?’
However, Ruby’s attack hardly hit me.
‘Is this an increase in the evasion rate?’
Come to think of it, there was only one way to increase your evasion rate in the original Miyeonshi game, and that was to fail to evade in battle.
It can be said that it is strange that the evasion rate increases due to failure, but in reality, the game system is like that.
The increase in the number was so small that it was often treated as a non-existent stat among users, but it seemed to have increased to the point where it could be clearly felt.
After trying hard to avoid attacks that barely grazed the hem of her clothes, the light gradually returned to Ruby’s eyes.
“···Phew.”
Ruby, who had almost completely expressed her anger, exhaled and retracted her sword.
“···It looks like you haven’t trained very well.”
“Huh… Wow….”
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Only after confirming that Ruby had given up her intention to attack did I let down my guard and collapse to the floor.
As I was taking a hard breath, Amethyst suddenly came down to the floor and came towards me and said.
“What do you think? “I taught you pretty well, right Ruby?”
“I haven’t said I’ll forgive you yet?”
“···Ugh.”
Amethyst and I flinched at the same time as the blood chilled our stomachs.
“···Still, I can’t help but admit it. “I can’t believe Amber has changed so much in such a short period of time.”
To be honest, the only thing that improved was my evasion ability, but I was glad that even that improved.
Amethyst and I naturally knelt solemnly in front of her and apologized.
“I’m sorry…”
“Sorry, Ruby…”
Ruby, who was glaring at us with her arms crossed, let out a deep sigh and said.
“From now on, we will thoroughly monitor the training process. If you do something stupid again… “You know, right?”
“”···Yes.””
All training from that day on was carried out under Ruby’s watch.
——–(Interlude Q&A)
I hope there is an answer