38. Learning never ends
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A prayer room in a church. Evan, who knelt in front of the goddess statue that embodies the appearance of a merciful goddess, prayed for a very long time.
“—You seem to be worried about something.”
“…… Sister.”
Near the end of the prayer-the nun of the church spoke to her first. Evan looked at her nun, holding back her tears.
Evan doesn’t believe in God. But she believes in the human nature of priests. Especially the nun of the church here, who took care of her many orphans as a single woman.
She thought that her experience and her wisdom would solve her own troubles, so Evan cautiously opened her mouth.
“I, uh- it’s a bit difficult to say. She recently experienced something… ….”
“Oh, yes. You see.”
“After experiencing that, I became weird. That’s the only thing that comes to mind. To the point where I forgot the sword I always carried…….”
Woman, the nun nodded her head in understanding as she realized what Evan’s worries were about her through her experience of raising and leaving so many men.
Looks like this little kid got a taste for women. Well, in a way, she was okay with being late. Isn’t she a swordswoman with more power than a noble?
You don’t have enough money or power, so it’s overflowing, so if you want, you could line up as a beauty…….
“So- what do you want to do?”
“…… I want to go back to normal. The me now is a little too strange. Is there any way to make it not come to mind…… ?”
“Evan. Do what I tell you from now on. Come on, don’t think about anything from now on.”
“Yes…… ? Yes.”
She’s Not Thinking What the hell is she doing? Evan realized that she was thinking thoughts she wasn’t thinking right now.
After that, no matter how many times he closed his eyes and tried not to think about anything, Evan’s brain kept thinking.
“Have you been?”
“No… Anyway, other thoughts come to mind.”
“Yes. Humans are not made to be unfaithful. It is possible to even believe in an invisible God, but just as it is impossible not to think about anything.”
With that said, the nun’s benevolent smile blossomed and gave Evan several ways to solve his worries.
“Therefore, stopping a thought from coming up is not turning away from it, but focusing on other things. What does Evan like next to women?”
“Sword…… No, I didn’t say it was a woman problem!?”
“Oops, I said it wrong. Anyway, are you saying that you like swords the most? Then the results are out.”
The nun, who accidentally read Evan’s heart, quickly changed her words and finished her counseling.
“Swing your sword. Just focus on it until you can’t think of anything. Then, naturally, the thoughts you have right now will fall away.”
“Thank you, Sister!”
“If that doesn’t work- there are other ways, so come find me then.”
“Uh…… Can’t you just tell me how to do that now?”
“No. Because not knowing is the medicine.”
Evan was puzzled by the nun who didn’t tell her right now, but she tried to avoid the nun by averting her eyes.
How can you tell? The fact that the only way to fix a woman’s madness is to hug her like crazy.
…… And if you want, I will cleanse that negativity with this body.
‘Me too, what am I doing when I get older?’
The nun looked pathetically at Evan’s back as he walked out of the church, bowing his head in gratitude.
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Guild’s personal training room.
Evan, who borrowed a place where he could train without worrying about others, swung his sword in it.
—!
A sword without a sound was swung through the air. However, Evan frowned as if she didn’t like the sword she wielded, then swung the sword again.
Evan, who had been wielding the sword until sweat dripped from his whole body, stopped breathing heavily.
“Why not?”
Evan looked down at her sword with an annoyed look. He was attempting a triple stack of demonic swords.
He realized a total of three demonic swords.
The essence of the sword.
It unconditionally cuts down everything it touches.
The efficiency of the sword.
Shoots multiple sword strikes at the same time.
The limit of the sword.
Cuts the opponent regardless of the distance.
Among them, Evan focused on the efficiency of a sword that can wield multiple swords at the same time. Anyway, a human being will die if a knife blade goes into the vital part. If that’s the case, he’s best at attacking multiple times at the same time. He thought so and he practiced shooting more than nine sword strikes.
‘Up to nine…… No more than that.’
The stacking of Absolute Slash, which cuts everything it touches, and the stacking of Sky Slash, which cuts down opponents regardless of distance, were over in no time.
There was no big difference between Sky Slash and whether or not it was overlapped, and Absolute Slash was quite dangerous, so I tested it once and stopped.
In other words, the only thing left is one three-step punch. Evan’s goal was to stack this three times.
‘It’s okay to mix Absolute Slashing with Team Defeat, but why can’t I mix 3-level Strike with Team Defeat?’
If you think about it simply, it’s a matter of numbers, but considering that you can’t do 3 stacks of Absolute Slash or Sky Slash, it’s not simply a matter of numbers.
As if to say that it is impossible to climb to that spot yet, that it is too soon, a large wall blocked Evan.
It’s a wall so big you’ve never felt it while swinging a sword.
“…… Someday it will huh. Someday.”
At first, I thought that even 2 stacks would be impossible. Now that that has become possible—there are 3 stacks and 4 stacks, and nothing is impossible.
If there was a problem- it was that you could never reach that level with simple sword-wielding training alone, and that training with unpredictable results quickly became boring.
“Ah, ah- ah ah ah-!”
The sweet scent of the female body that he had smelled from a very close distance and the voluptuous breasts began to linger in her mind. Evan screamed and scratched her head.
Considering that this couldn’t be the case, he immediately cleaned up the training room and went out on the street. The cool air and warm sunlight repeatedly heated and cooled his body.
Evan took a deep breath and felt his heart pounding again when he saw the women wandering the streets—warriors in bikini armor, wizards in tight-fitting robes, and so on.
‘Ah…… Why is this again…….’
It started hurting enough to tighten my pants. Evan, who was organizing the pants dance to avoid the eyes of others, thought about whether he should run to the nun again and ask her to teach her the second method.
But then a leaflet on the floor caught his eye.
“…… Mukcheon Kendo Hall?”
An oriental name like Seolhyang. Seeing the flyer, Evan felt an inexplicable attraction.
‘Yes, if I can’t do it alone… ….’
It is enough to learn from someone.
Immediately after taking the flyer, Evan moved his feet to the place written on the paper.
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Muk Yeon-hwa, the director of the Mukcheon Kendo Hall, sighed as she looked inside the empty Kendo Hall.
‘There is no official…… If I keep going like this, I’ll starve to death.’
There was no problem until Mukcheon, who learned swordsmanship from a school in the east and opened his license, asked to open a dojo here in the kingdom.
Rather, the father and daughter were looking at the future full of dreams and hopes.
I realized that the price of land in the capital of the kingdom was so high that I couldn’t afford a proper house with the money I had, so I was driven here to South Elly…… Somehow the father and daughter succeeded in opening the dojo.
‘…… Damn adventurers.’
At first, I got a lot of attention. Adventurers always had to fight, and thanks to that, I had a temper that didn’t save money to improve my skills.
The problem arose about a year after the establishment of the kendo hall. It was when adventurers who had learned everything to learn started spreading the swordsmanship of the Munpa for pennies.
My father, resentful of the adventurers who sold their secrets and clothes for a few pennies—unimaginable for the culture of the East, attacked the adventurers and, of course, was defeated.
Adventurers cowardly used crossbows, nets, poisons, etc.—And Mukcheon, a mediocre swordsman, was not strong enough to escape those tricks.
In the end, she took over as the manager of the dojo in place of her father who was lying down…… Naturally, the officials of the dojo left the dojo.
‘What? Is it useless in practice? Could it be… !’
If you want to learn swordsmanship, you can just pay a penny to an adventurer in the street to learn it, and even if you learn it, it’s useless in real life.
Muk Yeon-hwa was so angry at this reality that she couldn’t stand it. She wanted to tell her that there was nothing wrong with her swordsmanship, but that adventurers who casually used cowardly tactics were at fault.
If my father had died, Mu Yeon-hwa would have picked up a sword and become an adventurer herself. So it would have been proved. They said their swordsmanship wasn’t wrong.
But now that I need someone to take care of my father who is recovering, I can’t. The best she can do is to silently guard her dojo and greet the visiting officials…….
“I…… Excuse me.”
“—Welcome!”
After welcoming her voice for the first time, Muk Yeon-hwa looked slightly disappointed when she saw the other person’s face.
She was there with a boy about the same level as her. She looks too young to have come to learn swordsmanship.
But she immediately changed her expression and asked with a grin.
“What brought you here?”
“I want to learn the sword.”
“—Did you get permission from your parents?”
“Uh…… Do you need it? You are not here.”
“How would you get money if your parents weren’t there… ….”
As Mu Yeon-hwa opened her mouth, she closed her mouth tightly as she saw the boy pulling out her wallet. Evan’s wallet was full of hundred elso bills.
“I have money.”
“Yes, yes.”
Muk Yeon-hwa, who felt that the money in his wallet was more than her entire fortune, looked at the boy with a puzzled expression.
“Your name?”
“This is Evan.”
“Yes.”
It was a name I had heard a lot, but Moo Yeon-hwa immediately shook her head and shook her thoughts away.
I can’t imagine that the swordsman came to his dojo to learn swords——I couldn’t imagine it.