The Genius at the Swordsmanship Academy chapter 1

Episode 1 Prologue

The main square of the Academy in heavy rain.

The bloody battle that had progressed without an audience was now coming to an end.

“No way, I can’t do this!”

While being helpless by Serine’s Bastian Knights Swordsmanship, he shouted desperately.

He was already covered in blood.

“I have to take control of the academy, subdue the 6 great swordsmen, and rise to the top of the empire… As a genius swordsman, I can’t be defeated by a woman like you!”

“Shut up, Ernas.”

Serine shot coldly.

“You are not a genius swordsman. no talent… He was a fake genius.”

The genius Ernas.

A fake genius who steals other people’s swordsmanship with the power of artifacts and pretends to be a genius who has mastered all swordsmanship.

However, I couldn’t get past the level of imitating other people’s swordsmanship, so I ended up trying to reach the top of the academy not with swordsmanship, but with knucklemanship… Now, all the conspiracies have been uncovered and the villain has become a public enemy.

“As someone who was once your fiancée, I will punish you for deceiving everyone.”

“Serine Bastian!”

Screaming, Ernas swung his sword three times in a row.

It was ‘Vertical Trinity’, a representative technique of Bastian Knight’s swordsmanship.

However, there was no way Serine could fall victim to the swordsmanship that was only crudely imitated by the ability of the Artifact.

“It’s no use.”

“Ugh… … !”

Paah!

With just one attack, Ernas’s skills were destroyed.

Ernas missed the sword, and Serine’s tip headed towards the nape of Ernas’s neck.

“Now put an end to that false life, Ernas.”

“… … !”

Towards Ernas, who was engulfed in despair, Serine launched her final attack.

All the sins of the great genius Ernas… Hoping to be washed away with this rainwater.

* * *

“I have checked the manuscript you sent me by e-mail, author!”

As I was taking a break after sending the manuscript, I got a call from the person in charge.

“Finally, the great genius Ernas is dead! I wondered when he was going to die.”

“Originally, I was thinking of killing him around here.”

“With this, 『Became the protagonist of the Swordsmanship Academy』 seems to be coming to an end soon!”

『I became the protagonist of the swordsmanship academy』.

As a web novel writer with 5 years of experience, it is a fantasy novel that I am serializing, and it falls under the so-called ‘academy’ genre.

It is a story of the protagonist who enters a school where he teaches swordsmanship and grows up as he becomes intertwined with various characters.

“Did you plan to let Serine kill Ernas, not the main character from the start?”

“Yes. To be honest, Ernas is too weak for the current protagonist.”

“Well, one attack will blow your throat away. It would be more fun to have Serine, my ex-fiancé, get rid of it.”

Ernas Landsstein, who loses his life in this episode, is a representative villain that has appeared from the beginning of the novel.

With the power of artifacts, he can imitate other people’s abilities, and with that, he pretended to be a swordsmanship genius who could use all of his swordsmanship.

However, his real skills were poor, and the effects of the artifacts were limited… In the end, he resorts to conspiracy techniques to plot all kinds of conspiracies.

In the latest episode, Ernas was killed by his fiancée Serine Bastian.

“Honestly, it is a bit sad that Ernas is dead. Among the characters, Ernas is the most proficient in scheming, so didn’t it add tension to the work?”

“There is that aspect as well. I used it whenever I needed it.”

“In the meantime, it was fun to play the brain while secretly playing among the six great swordsmen.”

Apparently, the person in charge felt sorry for Ernas’s death.

However, since Ernas is a character that is supposed to die, there is nothing he can do about it.

“Writer, do you have any plans to write a side story after the completion?”

“Again?”

What kind of nonsensical sound is it all of a sudden?

Occasionally, there are works that add follow-up stories or side stories after the main story is completed, but I have never written such a thing.

“I never thought about it.”

“How about something like an If route? It’s a story that develops differently from the main story.”

“ah… Are you saying that I should try using a different development?”

“Wouldn’t it be interesting to use Ernas as the main character to subdue the six major swordsmen and take control of the academy?”

“Well… … .”

It was an interesting story.

But it wasn’t very realistic.

“In order for Ernas to reach a non-destructive ending, he has to rewrite the story from scratch. It won’t be easy.”

“Is that so?”

“Yes, you will have to be alert and live straight from the moment you enter school.”

Ernas has a grudge against everyone from the beginning of the work.

As long as that resentment exists, Ernas is doomed to ultimately ruin.

So, to save Ernas, you have no choice but to start over.

“Even if we start all over again… Conflict between the six great swordsmanship masters still exists, and Ernas’s swordsmanship skills will continue to be poor, so it won’t be easy.”

“Haha, you don’t see it as easy.”

“It must be very hard mode.”

After all, Ernas is not a real genius, but a fake genius.

It will not be easy to get through the various events in the movie with such skills.

“But it is, writer.”

“yes?”

“Don’t you think hard mode would be more fun?”

“… … .”

I thought for a moment.

Anyway, I’m not really going to write ‘The Story of Ernas Not Doomed’.

Because this is just a joke.

So I took it lightly without thinking much.

“Yes, that would be fun.”

“Yes?”

That moment.

Suddenly, I felt a cooling sensation in my spine.

what the hell is this

“I thought a writer would tell me that.”

“yes?”

“A story in which Ernas is not destroyed… I’m really curious what the story will be like.”

The cold sensation became more pronounced.

Surrounded by an unknown fear, I hurriedly tried to open my mouth.

“… … !”

However, no words came out.

Because the great darkness had already begun to engulf me.

It was a terrifying darkness filled with countless swords.

‘no way… … !’

I’m really curious what the story will be.

What the manager had just said echoed in my head.

Understanding the true meaning of those words, I was drawn into endless darkness.