6. Please Live Quietly (2)
After praising Siu for two hours, Ancora finally calmed down and left.
It had been five hours since she came to Ensis’ mansion.
Si-Woo, exhausted, leaned on his chair like laundry. The noisy, quiet space enveloped him warmly.
At that time, Hastina came into the parlor carrying a blue car.
“Here, Ensis. Please eat.”
“Ah… Thank you. “I’ll drink it well.”
Siwoo took a sip of warm tea and sighed. As a result, the tension in his entire body began to relax little by little.
Hastina raised her eyebrows when she saw that.
“That is unbecoming of Ensis.”
“No, you don’t have to say that now…”
Siwoo screamed and twisted his body. He leaned sideways and his fatigue seemed to be relieved twice as easily.
Hastina stared at Siu blankly. As if wondering how long she could keep doing that.
In the end, Siwoo had no choice but to correct his posture in front of those eyes.
“Great. “That is the attitude of the Anima family.”
“I’ve felt this for a long time, but why do you even count family origins for just one attitude?”
“That’s the culture of this world.”
Siwoo shook his head as if he was fed up. Hastina, seeing that, made a strange expression.
“Really… “I can’t get used to seeing Nsis like that even after three years.”
“Isn’t it time to get used to it?”
“I don’t want to get used to it, do I?”
“Don’t do that.”
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“Please quickly follow me to the restaurant. “Because I’ve prepared everything.”
Siwoo followed Hastina and walked to the restaurant. The distance was quite long as he was going to a room for individuals or families, not a restaurant or banquet hall to welcome guests.
A scale that is difficult to get used to even after living there for three years. As Siu was walking while watching the sunset outside her window, Hastina’s back suddenly caught her eye.
That girl with light blue hair was the one who managed everything in this mansion by herself. On the other hand, she was also a lance user who practiced spearmanship every day.
“But Hastina. “You manage this entire mansion, right?”
“Hmm? Yes. Yes.”
“Are you all right?”
“Not really… ?”
Hastina tilted her head.
“If you could manage Ensis’ mansion, wouldn’t there be tens of thousands of people in the world who would volunteer?”
“Because Ensis is a sword master?”
“Well, there is that too.”
To the extent that being a sword master is treated as ‘that’s part of it’.
Siwoo once again realized how great the reputation Ensis had built.
“And this is harder to do than I thought. Ensis doesn’t grow a fancy garden, and that doesn’t mean there are more Gasols in the mansion. “All you have to do is take care of the visible parts whenever you rest.”
That’s right, Siwoo said. He answered listlessly.
No matter how much I thought about it, I didn’t think managing the mansion would be that simple, but since the person in question said so, I decided to think about it.
Siwoo went to the restaurant and had dinner with food prepared by Hastina. After a quick wash with the bath water Hastina had prepared, her body was laid out in Hastina’s neatly tidied bedroom.
The girl bowed her head politely to Si-woo, who was lying on the bed.
“Have a good night. Mr. Ensis.”
Every slow movement of the girl was imbued with excessive extremeness.
Even though Siwoo is not someone who deserves to be treated with such courtesy.
Siwoo, who received that greeting, looked at Hastina with meaningful eyes. Anyway, Hastina left her room with the lantern on her nightstand.
Looking at Hastina’s back, Siu asked as if shooting her arrow.
“But Hastina.”
“…”
“How long are you going to call me ‘Ensis’?”
Hastina, standing on her threshold, looked back at her Siu with a faint smile.
The girl pursed her lips as if she was about to say something, but she could not form a sound and she remained silent.
A clear sign of distress.
Siu smiled bitterly, stroking her own light-colored hair, and Hastina left her bedroom with her eyes downcast.
Hastina thought.
If one day. At some point. If Siwoo leaves as suddenly as he came.
What if Ensis, who returns like that, is called ‘Siwoo’? If she doesn’t recognize Ensis, even if it’s her mistake, she calls him that.
I feel so sad and guilty that I feel like I’m going crazy.
*
Next day.
As always, Siwoo received Hastina’s guidance at the training center. Ensis is learning a new sword technique that he originally used.
Hastina was a lance user who trained her spear, but she was also Ensis’ student, so she was able to teach him at a basic level. Hastina’s efforts paid off, and Siu also recently became a sword user.
In terms of magic, he is a 3rd circle warrior, and in terms of martial arts, he is a second-class warrior. It wasn’t a high level, but it was enough to fool the customers who came to Siwoo.
The unusual ability here was not to collect magic power, internal energy, or aura like in other worlds, but to permanently strengthen the body itself. This was possible because there was rarely a way to detect the opponent’s state unless there was direct weapon contact.
Of course, I did not become a sword user with ordinary effort.
“hehehe, hehehe. Well, stop…”
“Great. Rest!”
As soon as Hastina allowed her to rest, Siu lay down on the training ground. The training was so harsh that as soon as he relaxed, it felt like all the muscles in his body collapsed at once. In fact, sometimes the muscles were torn and even melted.
A training method that modern trainers would be shocked to see.
However, this was the fastest and most effective way to train this ability in this world.
The process of pushing your body to its limits to build and strengthen it. If used well, it can have effects close to evolution, so Si-woo was changing his body by referring to SF Si-woo’s advice.
The method was simple. When Siwoo uploads a picture of his own movements, SF Siwoo converts the body of ‘Ensis’ into atomic data based on that, and from that, finds a way to optimize the body with minimal modification and changes it. Original yenIf he were a Sith, there would have been no place to touch him, but this was possible because Siwoo possessed him and became an ordinary body.
The effect was so great that even though Siu was only just starting out as a sword user, his various outputs, including his normal stamina and instantaneous explosive power, were comparable to Hastina’s. Even considering that Hastina is the type that uses technique rather than body, the effect was by no means low.
Of course, because he simply had a high index and his body was not optimized for specific swordsmanship, training was not without difficulties. There were many creaky parts when using ‘Kertatio Ars’, a combat technique that immediately became the origin of Ensis’ swordsmanship.
However, I had no intention of quietly learning Kertatio Ars.
Dīvínĭtas. This is because the swordsmanship studied by SF Si-woo, named Gwangoh-han, meaning ‘perfection,’ will soon be perfected.
“… Ensis. Mr. Ensis?”
“Ah oh. Why?”
“What are you thinking like that?”
“I’m thinking about the swordsmanship I would receive from me in another world.”
“Ah, that sword technique…”
Hastina guessed roughly and nodded her head. The slightly raised corners of her mouth showed clear anticipation.
She watched from the sidelines how Siwoo’s body was optimized and evolved. Regardless of Ensis’s regret about giving up his swordsmanship, he couldn’t help but have expectations about his swordsmanship.
“I want to see that swordsmanship too. If Ensis learns it, you can spar with me…”
Hastina stopped speaking and turned her head. There was a bird with pure white feathers.
As one of the animals found only in this world, it was a bird that was trained to normally wait at the entrance and come and inform its owner when guests arrived.
The fact that such a bird came this far meant only one thing.
“It looks like a guest has arrived.”
“Okay. “It’s already hard, but more work comes up.”
“No. Ensis, please rest. “If you greet guests in that state, you will definitely get caught.”
Hastina stopped Siu from getting up. Siwoo immediately lay down again after hearing those words. There was no trace of elegance in the way his arms and legs were freely stretched out as if it were his own bed.
Hastina, though dumbfounded, skillfully beckoned her bird back to its original state and tidied up her training grounds.
“Ensis, please rest. “Today, I will send the guest away appropriately.”
“Okay. Thank you…”
Hastina left her training ground, and Siu remained alone to replenish her stamina.
Siwoo suddenly felt that this situation was familiar. In reality, this happened quite a lot. In the early days of Possession, when Siu was not yet used to playing Ensis, Hastina often served and moderated her guests appropriately.
At that time, even if I didn’t do anything, I felt like her heart was tightening every day. If it weren’t for the chat window, he might have given up already and tried to run away to a deserted place.
As he thought about that, he suddenly wanted to see the chat window, so Siwoo dragged the chat window out of the corner of his eye.
In the chat window, as always, bustling conversation continued.
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-Zombie Siwoo: Eating canned food while looking at a corpse vs. Eating canned food from inside a corpse
-Zombie Siu: Which of the two is better?
-AkaSiwoo: Why are you giving birth?
-Nut Pan Siu: This choice is not easy… I’ve never taken food from a corpse either.
-Urban Siwoo: This is a bit…
-London Siwoo: I’m in hell too, but he’s not easy either.
-Yori Siu: But why are you asking such a stupid thing?
-Zombie Siu: That’s because I’m eating the canned food I farmed from zombie corpses among them, damn it.
-Yori Siu: Ah
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Siwoo did not participate in the conversation and just watched quietly. Not only did he have nothing to say, but he also had no energy for conversation.
The conversation continued one after another. Zombie Siu’s complaint led to a discussion about what the principles of zombies were, which led to the Necromancer, and when he came to his senses, they were discussing who would win between the sword and the baseball bat.
While Siwoo was taking a break while watching it, Hastina sent her guest away and returned to the training center. She looked slightly angry, which was rare.
In hopes of making her feel better, Siwoo removed her chat window and asked lightly.
“Why are you looking like that? “Did someone crazy go there?”
“No. “It would be nice if that were the case.”
Hastina opened her clenched fists.
There was a badge with the royal seal on it.
“The royal family came to visit. “He said he would like to invite me to a banquet in a week.”
“Why is that? “If you refuse, that’s it.”
“They dared to mention the founder’s oath.”
“… Her.”
‘Anima’, the family to which Hastina and Ensis belong, has had a close relationship with the royal family since ancient times. This was because ‘Anima Honor’, the founder of the Anima family, a great fighter who went beyond the rank of Master and reached the level of Emperor, was once greatly favored by the royal family.
To repay this, the founder promised that anyone belonging to her family would obey the royal family’s orders at least once. Since then, the Anima family has been loyal to the royal family and enjoyed power commensurate with that loyalty.
But such powers have rarely been used recently. It was so long ago that it felt trivial even to people in this world who valued family, and it was because the Anima family produced a sword master and the balance of power changed.
The Sword Master was a being who alone supported the social system, and a superhuman who could destroy the social system alone.
Yet, even bringing out the progenitor’s oath and using it for something as trivial as inviting someone to a banquet.
“You are suspicious and wary of me.”
“That’s right! How on earth can you doubt Ensis? Ensis has done so much for the royal family. Things that don’t even know grace…”
With Hastina’s words in one ear and out the other, Siu thought about why she might have been suspected.
There were so many points to point out.
In the end, Siwoo was not ‘ensis’.
It’s just that what will happen someday has happened now.
“Hastina. “Reply that you will attend the banquet.”
“Yes? Are you sure you want to go? “I don’t even know what to do at the banquet?”
“I don’t feel the same way, I just want to live quietly.”
But the world won’t leave it like that.
Therefore.
“If you really want to live quietly, you have to bump into someone at least once. “That way it will continue to be quiet.”
Siwoo immediately stood up. And he found Ensis’ diary again.
She has one week left.
It seemed like she was going to be a lot louder in the future.
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