Episode 6.
It was the first time I knew that my father had a friendship with the swordsman. The swordsman had never visited the Caldert family.
Even when his father passed away, the Sword Saint did not come.
My father’s relationship with the Sword Master was full of questions, but once the Sword Master called me, I had to go to the garden. After the entrance ceremony, we headed straight for the garden.
There were quite a few students gathered in the garden. It seemed like he was trying to find out who the swordsman mentioned was. One of the gathered students said.
“Who is the son of the Caldert family?”
It was a little burdensome to receive such attention from the moment I entered school.
I made my way through the students to the garden. I heard whispers behind me, but I didn’t care.
When he reached the center of the garden, he saw the swordsman dressed as a gardener. The Sword Saint also came to me as if he had found me.
I bowed my head and said hello.
“hello. It is called Suhar Caldert.”
“Are you the son of Medion Caldert?”
Medion Caldert, my father’s full name.
I replied with a nod of my head. The Sword Master frowned, as if there was something he didn’t like.
“Is there anything I’m sorry about?”
“no. He said he was the son of Medion, so I thought he looked like him.”
My father’s appearance was normal. On the contrary, I could say that I was quite handsome. It was because many aristocratic ladies blushed when they saw me at a party when I became a count at a young age.
“Unlike the son of a Medion guy, he’s annoyingly handsome.”
“thank you.”
The Sword Saint turned around and headed to the table in the center of the garden. I cautiously followed the Sword Saint.
The swordsman sat down in a chair and asked.
“So you are talented?”
“To be honest… .”
“You don’t know either?”
The Sword Master, who somehow noticed what I was about to say, intercepted my words.
“It looks rough. Without appearing to be superior in physical talent.”
“It’s not that I’m smart either.”
“Then, as written in the letter, there is only one thing you are good at.”
Apparently, the father sent a separate letter to the Sword Saint.
“But I never thought that my basic movements were perfect.”
“If you don’t have talent, you don’t even know if you are doing well.”
For some reason, the words of the Sword Master made me feel worse. No matter how much I didn’t have a special talent, I couldn’t help but feel bad when I said it over and over again.
“Still, you seem to have a pretty good feeling.”
In the words of the swordsman, he didn’t even know he was swinging it well, but he swung it with the correct posture because he had a good feeling.
“It reminds me of the training you need to undergo.”
I felt chills for no reason at the sight of the Sword Master with a sinister smile.
“Can you tell me what kind of training it is?”
“I can’t tell you what kind of training it is. Think of it as a pleasure later.”
Seeing the swordsman’s appearance, it seemed that he never intended to teach training first. I hurriedly changed the topic.
“But how does Sword Saint know about my father?”
“huh? Did Medion not talk to you?”
“Yes, I first knew about it today.”
The Sword Saint began to tell me an anecdote with my father. It was a long, tedious time that made me fall asleep.
Besides, the reason why the swordsman didn’t come to his father’s funeral was unknown.
Rather, according to the story of the Sword Master, his father and the Sword Master were best friends. My doubts about what didn’t come grew, but I couldn’t ask what hadn’t happened, so I had no choice but to keep it in my heart.
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I was able to leave the garden only after hearing about the sword castle and my father for two hours. Before leaving the garden, the Sword Master told him to come to the garden after the academy ended and it was getting dark.
Fortunately, after two hours, all the students near the garden had disappeared somewhere.
While looking around the inside of the garden outside the garden, I found a person.
“uh… ?”
It was a typical brown haired woman. However, with white skin, pale pink lips, and large eyes, it was a beauty that naturally attracted attention.
Unknowingly, my eyes turned to her. Noticing my gaze, the woman smiled softly at me, turned her back, and left.
Even after she left the garden, I stood there blankly for a long time.
I couldn’t meet women because I was busy with work, but because I had higher eyes than others, there was no woman I liked.
She was such a beautiful woman that I could direct my eyes at her.
“hey.”
I turned around at the sound I heard from behind.
A boy with impressive freckles, he seemed to be the same age as him.
“Nice to meet you, Suhar.”
When the boy reached out his hand to me, I grabbed it without realizing it.
“nice to meet you. But do you know me?”
Of course, I was the first one I saw. While thinking about it for a while, I was able to think of a person. Unknowingly, I cried out loud.
“Baron Keeper!”
“Oh, did you know?”
It was an aristocratic family that governed a small piece of land adjacent to the Caldert family’s domain. However, I recognized that it was Baron Kiefer, but I couldn’t remember the name.
“It’s called Fried Keeper.”
Fortunately, the other person gave me the name.
“By the way, do you have any business with me?”
“Yeah, I’m curious about what you talked about when you were called by the Sword Saint.”
“Is that all?”
“And I was trying to get along with the neighboring nobles.”
After all, when you think of aristocracy, the first thing that comes to mind is social circles. It seemed that he was trying to make friends with me from an early age.
However, I was last in the county succession order. I was the one who had no power whatsoever. There was nothing to gain from being friendly with me like this.
“But there is no way I will inherit the county.”
Fred started laughing out loud.
“You are a funny kid. I didn’t ask you to be friends because you thought you might have some kind of power.”
“Then why?”
“I heard rumors.”
The rumor that Fried had heard was this.
A son of an aristocrat threw himself into a fight with the goblins to save the village belonging to the manor. And the aristocratic son, worried about the future of the village, trained the villagers by making his own knight.
“Ah, that… .”
“As I found out, they said I was the youngest member of the Caldert family. Also, did you say that the youngest just entered the academy?”
Only now did Fried’s actions make sense. Fried simply wanted to get to know me after hearing rumors.
It was clear that Fried wasn’t a bad guy either, as he wanted to be friends with people who did good things.
I smiled brightly at Fred and said.
“Then, it would be good to introduce yourself again. My name is Suhar Caldert.”
“I say Fried Keeper. It’s already been 2 years here at the academy. If there is anything you do not know, ask me anytime.”
“Okay, let’s be friends from now on.”
“I agree.”
I made my first friend at the academy.
“however… Suhar, you saw it too.”
Apparently, Fried saw that I was looking at the woman in the garden. I didn’t get stabbed, but I stuttered without realizing it.
“What, what?”
“The Empress of the Carnivore,”
“Empress of the flesh?”
“Isn’t it really pretty?”
Fried explained to me about the Empress of the Fruit. The family was said to be the Kirton family in the Mycenaerian Empire. She said that she came to study at this academy, and that the empress of six departments was a nickname she got because she was ranked first in six departments at the academy.
“Fried, what is the name of the Empress of the Six Family?”
“Ea Kirton.”
“Earra… .”
I repeated the name of the Empress of the Six Kingdoms, not wanting to forget it. I headed for the dormitory with Fried, hoping to meet the Empress again.
Since it was a Lotto Academy where non-nobles could not enter, the dormitory became more luxurious. In addition, the room is a single occupancy room.
As I unpacked my luggage in my assigned room, I thought about what to do next.
“As expected, mana breathing is the priority.”
Since I will spend my days healing in the future, the work I had to do consistently was close to impossible. That’s why Hancheol was good.
And among the representative ways to make money in one season, there was a good thing called mercenaries.
“Because the stronger the mercenary, the better the money.”
The mercenaries were divided into grades according to their strength, and the incoming requests differed according to the grade. The higher the rank, the better the money.
“I have to go there to do that.”
Twenty years later, ruins were discovered in the mountains near the capital of the Kingdom of Loto. In the ruins, there was a mana breathing method that could be called a treasure.
But to get there, I needed to be a little stronger.
“I heard that strange goblins appear there.”
I didn’t hear why it was strange. It could have been because he wasn’t interested in the first place. As I was thinking about my plans for the future in my room, I heard a knock.
“who are you?”
“Suhar, it’s me.”
It was Fred’s voice. I opened the door and welcomed Fried. Fried lived in the room next to me.
“Then why did you come?”
“Yeah, I’m here to tell you how to sign up for a lecture.”
“okay? thank you!”
Fried did a pretty good job of explaining. If you are a student of the academy, you can take all the lessons without any restrictions.
However, he said that he usually only listens to one or two things that he really needs. There I had a question.
“Suddenly, I wondered, how is Ea Kirton able to rank first in six departments?”
“Yes, of course you can.”
Fried looked at me as if he was asking something strange.
However, at the academy, there were two opposing departments, the magic department and the swordsmanship department.
“By the way, can I get first place in magic while taking swordsmanship? Is Ea Kirton a magic swordsman by any chance?”
Fried clapped his hands and made an apologetic expression.
“ah! I need to tell you about the test. First of all, Ea Kirton is a swordsman.”
“Is it possible for a swordsman to be first in the magic department?”
“To be honest, Lotto Academy doesn’t take the magic department.”
Then I got it. It was said that if there was no practical skill, there was only writing. If Ea Kirton had an extraordinary brain, it was possible.
I said.
“Because even people without circles can do magic research.”
“yes. But that doesn’t change the fact that Ea Kirton is amazing.”
When I thought of Ea Kirton, the face of Ea Kirton I saw in the garden came to mind. My face turned red involuntarily.
Before Fried found out about me, I cleared my mind and chose the department I wanted to apply for. It was swordsmanship. It could be said that it was similar to the Knights Department, but it was a department that only taught swordsmanship. It was the best course for me, who had no intention of becoming a knight.
“Fried, in the lecture with the swordsmanship department, the Sword Saint-sama will teach you something, right?”
Fried was troubled by my words.
“There is, but you can’t apply.”
“why?”
“Only those with excellent grades in the swordsmanship or knights department can apply for swordsman’s lessons.”
If so, the freshmen couldn’t hear it anyway. It’s because you can’t get grades as soon as you enter.
ohh he become a reborn simp now ….