After escaping from the crowd, Noah and Thiu walked down the street.
Even on campus, the area where commercial facilities were concentrated looked quite bustling, but the city outside was different.
Noah liked the atmosphere of the city.
“Above all, there are too many talented people in Nightray. Even if you are just walking down the street, you will measure your distance with passers-by?”
“Ah, I think I know what that is. I think it will be difficult to stop him if he suddenly attacks? think about it.”
“It feels like being completely inside a cage of wild beasts.”
Even the teaching staff were the majority of those who ate kalgap.
Even if you didn’t hold a sword, you could send a person to the goal in an instant if you learned the martial arts.
Living in a place full of such people made me reflexively nervous every moment, even if I didn’t want to be aware of it.
“On the contrary, they say that if you are too weak, you will give up early and become comfortable. Isn’t the fact that you’re still nervous a sign that you’re doing well?”
“Even so, you never know when you’ll get used to it.”
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It was understandable that Aslan always hid his presence.
If he exudes an aura, few people will be able to approach him.
In Night Ray, it was common sense to keep one’s aura inside.
The problem was that even if you did that, you would be able to see roughly everything if you were a Noah-level.
‘Didn’t I just see Shiba-senpai?’
Aslan was invisible from the beginning, and Shiva misjudged.
However, if you look below, you can roughly see the skill.
It meant that Noah’s current skills were just around that level.
‘It’s probably because they recognized this fact that they were asked to make it to the top 100.’
If he was as strong as Regina, he would see through all the students’ abilities.
From the beginning, it was reasonable to assume that Noah was given assignments that matched his current skills.
“Now then, let’s buy a present while we’re out.”
“gift?”
“It’s Mia’s birthday soon, so I’m going to take care of her and show some condescension. Everyone knows the things you can buy in school, so it’s a little too much to give as gifts.”
Originally, the more a person took care of others, the less they took care of themselves.
What about a guy whose job it is to take care of others?
Even if it’s not a big deal, I was able to show that I remember it by giving it as a gift.
“Hmm. girl?”
“huh. So please help I have no idea what I will like.”
“Anyway, he must be someone who learns swordsmanship. Why don’t you give me at least an ornament to hang on the handle? I’m going to go to the western confectionery store I’ve been wanting to visit, so choose it yourself.”
Tiu’s eyes narrowed when he heard that it was someone else’s birthday present, then he said something random and quickly left.
Noah looked at him and scratched his head.
“Are you upset? You should also take care of tea.”
I just did that.
Thiu’s birthday was the day after their entrance exam.
At the time, we weren’t very close, so I heard about it later, so there was something I couldn’t take care of properly.
In the midst of that, I asked him to pick out someone else’s birthday present, so it wasn’t strange even if his mouth pouted.
“Let’s look back.”
* * *
It was only a little before the incident that Noah noticed it.
‘It’s a pickpocket.’
The movement that avoids others’ sight, the movement that kills the sound of footsteps, the way you look around excessively, etc.
Judging from my experience, that was 90% pickpocketing.
10% were just robberies on the verge of execution.
If you were as skilled as Noah, you could go and catch a pickpocket.
The only problem was that Noah was not what the pickpockets were targeting.
‘Should I warn you?’
Noah was wearing a sword.
There was no pickpocket who tried to touch someone who had learned swordsmanship unless he was an idiot.
Those guys are already in jail.
The pickpocket was targeting another middle-aged man in the store, and Noah knew about it in advance.
Not even a knight, he couldn’t catch someone who hadn’t yet committed a crime.
You have to catch it first, then it will be over if you take off the pretense.
However, it was ambiguous to wait for the stealing to be caught as a red-handed criminal.
‘sh*t. It’s annoying, but I can’t help it.’
Noah approached the middle-aged man and spoke to him.
“I don’t know who you’re gifting it to, but that doesn’t sound like much.”
“hmm? Are you talking to me?”
“yes. Seeing you enter such a shiny shop, it seems like you’re trying to get a present for a woman, but that’s a bit much.”
Noah pointed out the item the middle-aged man was choosing and spoke casually.
When Noah, who was wearing a sword, began to mix goals and words, the pickpocket naturally left the spot.
“Hmm. Is it that strange? At this age, it’s hard to choose a gift for my daughter. Is there anything you can recommend?”
“I’m not even going to recommend anything. Instead, when gifting something, he said that it is better to present a well-reputed brand to someone you know well, and a famous brand that everyone has heard of to someone you don’t know.”
“hmm. I’m sure it is. Then let’s go this way.”
Without much hesitation, the man picked up two identical items and finished the calculation.
“You wonder why you buy two of the same thing? Coincidentally, I also have a question for you, so how about answering each other one by one?”
“It will be fun. Let’s ask first.”
“Why did you just let the pickpocket go?”
Noah laughed bitterly at the question that came in without warning.
“Are you that obvious?”
“Criminals just need to be punished appropriately. But since you deliberately let the pickpocket go, I have no choice but to suspect that you are one of them.”
“I’ll give it back with the same words. Wouldn’t it be too much to cut off your wrist with just one pickpocket?”
“Are you that obvious?”
The man smiled and retrieved the aura.
The pickpocket did not recognize him as a knight because he was not wearing a sword.
But Noah could see the movement of the aura coiling around the man.
That aura was hidden in order to immediately turn into an intangible sword and attack the opponent if necessary.
“You won’t be able to see it with moderate skills, but you have pretty good eyes.”
“I’ve had some realizations lately.”
It was Noah whose understanding of Aurors rose rapidly as he replayed the final match against Veronica.
Even Noah, who was purely practicing swordsmanship, was able to learn other Aura skills besides swordsmanship.
The first thing Noah touched was the reenactment of Kuina’s skill.
It was not yet possible to create an alter ego, but in the process of imitating it, there were significant advances in auror detection and concealment.
“Still, I want to clear up the misunderstanding. I didn’t really mean Bell. How much would a guy who couldn’t even learn martial arts steal in this city? I just wanted to scare you away and get you out of your hands.”
“I’m glad that’s the case.”
It was sincere.
The reason Noah tried to let the pickpocket go without telling the person concerned was because he thought that if he had a disagreement with a man, he would never win if they fought.
Specifically, it looked as strong as Regina.
“Let me answer the question, too. I bought two of the same thing because my daughter is twins. If you buy different things for each other, you will have to be criticized for a month.”
The man said his name lightly.
“My name is Theodore. He is the head of the Ribéry family.”
* * *
“Frank is the first son of my third brother. Since I have to leave the house someday, I think I wanted to create a force.”
“Why are you talking about that? To be honest, I’m not curious at all.”
“If I could save my face, please have mercy on him. Well, it’s not that kind of story. Rather, the opposite could be said.”
“… … ?”
“I’m going to cut off the chaff of the family right now.”
It was Noah who tried to refuse the offer of a meal because he was uncomfortable and feared that he would be put on top of it.
When he sat down with meat as a hostage, he intended to eat quickly and part ways.
Theodore threw a bomb before the meat was even served, as if he knew all of Noah’s thoughts.
“… … Can you tell me, an outsider, such a story?”
“There are reasons for this and that, but I’m saying it because it’s okay in the end. I already left my checkmate behind in the first place.”
Theodore continued.
“My father did not want blood to be spilled between brothers in the family succession process. Thanks to that, those bastards still remain in the family and sh*t. I saw an opportunity and was eager to clean it up, but you were a big help.”
“It was not intended, so there is no need to thank you for it.”
“No, no. Thank you for your help. Intentions don’t matter.”
Theodore placed a luxurious wooden glove on the table.
“Young and weak. It’s just a small sign of s*x, so just accept it.”
The moment the wooden armor was placed on the table, the Holy Spirit Sword in the scabbard began to shake.
Seongryeon-gum, who grows by eating aura, was excited even with Noah, his main aura source, by his side.
It meant that there were more auras in that armor than Noah had.
“Even at a glance, the contents look unusual, don’t they?”
“It’s the magic medicine that purified the inside of a disaster-level monster.”
Disaster-level magic.
A living calamity that is said to be impossible to deal with unless it is Master Knight.
If it was such a monster’s inner world, it would have been possible that even after going through all kinds of processes and losing strength, it would still have that much energy left.
‘I’m craving… … .’
I was going to refuse whatever they said, but seeing what they put on it gave me a taste.
If you eat that, your aura will jump almost twice as fast.
And when the aura increased, it wasn’t just the stamina that increased.
‘As the Rating of Rigid Combat goes up, the maximum output and Aura reaction speed will increase. I’ll be able to use new skills that I couldn’t use with Aura at all.’
It was clear that the immediate combat power would jump considerably.
The elixir given by Theodore was just as great.
But since it was so great, I couldn’t take it lightly.
‘The inside story of a disaster-class monster comes out only when you catch it.’
And the disaster-level beast was a master knight, that is, a beast that could only be caught by a Regina-class knight.
If there is no master knight, it is a great beast that can be caught only by replacing countless knights less than that.
Naturally, there were no more dangerous monsters left in the empire.
It meant that it was a great elixir that could not be easily obtained even with Master Knight.
‘Isn’t it George who took it by mistake?’
It was too big for a small castle sign.
There was no reason to be greedy for things that were not needed right now.
“I will decline.”
Noah pushed the armor back to Theodore.
Theodore looked at it and smiled contentedly.
“I’m not even overzealous. I really like it.”
“Are you testing me?”
“I will not apologize. I am in a position to lead people.”
Instead, he took out another pair of gauntlets and held them out to Noah.
“Instead, be satisfied with this. It’s not comparable to the disaster-level monster’s secret, but this is a pretty good elixir. In fact, this inner affair was promised to present to His Majesty the Emperor.”
“It’s a real product… … What would you do if I ate the whole thing?”
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“Then I would have married you either Roselia or Linaria, or both, by any means.”
It was a pretty creepy statement.
“Then he must have wandered around the country in search of another disaster-level monster.”
“I lived by understanding the subject well.”
“Living within your means is so important. In that sense… … .”
Theodore, who fully understood what kind of person Noah was, finally got to the point.
“What are you?”