46 – #046 Question
“I’m sorry.”
While walking around her campus, Marianne, who was walking with her, suddenly stopped her steps and apologized.
It was a sudden action, but no doubts arose. She said that if she ever apologized to me, she had only one thing on her mind.
“I don’t really care. In fact, that’s part of the mild axis.”
“I don’t need to say that for the sake of her original daughter. She had already deeply felt that the students from the kingdom had animosity toward oriental people, but she never thought it would be to that extent.”
Marianne seemed to think that she was considerate of my words, but this was really nothing compared to the humiliation she had suffered countless times.
Rather, she said she was a monkey and ran amok, and I was thrilled that she didn’t throw shoes or trash.
For a moment, she wondered if her expectations were too low, but considering what happened on the first day and what she had experienced in the arena, she set them quite high.
“If it really bothers you, when you have a sparring class, you can put the guy who said I was inferior to you as my opponent. It was a little annoying.”
“Whoops… It’s fortunate if that eases her mind, but unfortunately, she’s already forgotten her face, so I doubt I’ll be able to tell it apart the next time I see her. Do you remember?”
“Well… There are so many of them.”
Even if you had 10 heads, it was not enough to remember them one by one, not just one or two.
I left a strong impression because everyone did such a thing while I was still, but there were so many people like that that I can’t remember their faces.
Is this really strong, or is it light….
It was when she was walking with that thought in mind. Feeling someone’s presence behind her, Marianne and I almost simultaneously stopped her steps and looked back at her.
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Where her gaze was directed, the red hair that had not yet been hidden behind her pillars was revealing its presence.
Me and Marianne laughed at the sight of her swaying in the wind as if she was asking for recognition.
“You are the daughter of the Agravain family. She doesn’t seem to be her guest. Is she your guest?”
“It seems that way. Let’s say hello for a while.”
Friends… It’s not that far, but she’s a little glad when she meets someone in her academy who has feelings for her, except for Annie, who can be called her acquaintance.
As Rose approached her pillar from her hiding place, noticing the sound of her footsteps, Rose emerged from her side as if she did not need to hide now.
“Hey, it’s been a while.”
When she appeared, she greeted me first.
Even though I said it was okay, she looked a little surprised when I, who had been using honorifics so stubbornly, used short words.
At that time, she was still paying attention to her, so even when she said it was okay, she used her honorific language.
However, in the yard where everything turned upside down, I had no intention of using honorifics against someone weaker than myself.
Rose asked me with a smile if she liked the change.
“At that time, I didn’t use it even though I was told to use it, so what was the wind?”
“Just… Back then, she noticed a lot. Now I don’t even have to look. But what did you come for?”
“Isn’t this the only business?”
Saying that, what she pulled out was none other than a spear. Like her name, which means rose, the long spear that glowed red had traces of the years that could not be erased no matter how well it was maintained.
Looking at those traces, it was easy to guess how much she had cherished that spear and how much she had trained, but apart from that, her strength was not so confident.
[Rose Lv: 21]
Although it was higher than Louise, it was only 1 difference, and since several weeks had passed since then, Louise would have trained more severely, so the difference must have been even smaller.
“Let me ask you a question, can I ask why you want to fight?”
“Because I like fighting strong guys!”
“… And?”
“Huh? Is this all? What else do you need a reason for?”
“… ….”
Since I can’t see the monkey running amok, what should I do if he says he’ll make it quiet, but this was a little difficult.
Anyway, since you said let’s fight, can I just defeat you?
No, but I didn’t say it was a monkey, and it’s natural for a warrior to want to fight a strong man, so can I just look at it in moderation?
With the first type of enemy in front of me, I just stared blankly at Rose, not knowing how to deal with it.
Whether or not she knows how I feel, Rose started telling me things she didn’t want to hear.
“Actually, I wanted to fight ever since I defeated the assassin who massacred the knights of my family on the train. But Grandpa told me not to….”
“… ….”
When I turned to Marianne to ask for her help, she just put her thumb up and pretended to slit her throat.
Oh, I don’t know. Just enough to stun it without breaking any bones.
“Wait a minute.”
After leaving her Rose alone for a while, I went back to Marianne and asked her.
“I’m going to knock him out right now, can you wait a moment?”
“Um… It seems that you accepted the original woman’s opinion. It’s a smart choice. Come on, go ahead. Let’s see your skills.”
When Marianne gave permission, I moved forward and moved away from her. I shouted at Rose, who had already taken her position.
“You can attack first!!”
There were no obstacles on this road, and there were no broken statues or benches, so there was no need to move.
Rose, who had been waiting for these words while holding her stance, rushed towards me, raising her mana as much as she could.
A classic charge with no extraneous movements that could be included in a textbook struck me.
I felt it at the test site, but unlike her rough words and actions, her fighting style was flawless.
But apart from that….
‘No matter how good your posture is, the basic spec itself is too far away….’
Just as a child cannot defeat an adult just because he has a good punching posture, it was not powerful enough to harm me.
I wouldn’t bother doing such a thing, but if I wanted to, it seemed like I could perform a feat of simply parrying an attack with my body, just like Vivian did.
“Whoa….”
I waited for her rose to come close enough, and when she got the right distance, she dug towards her in an instant.
Rose, who knew the trick on me to appear her body was missing, she wouldn’t take her eyes off me even for a moment.
But she moved at a speed that exceeded her expectations, and no matter how focused she was, her eyes couldn’t keep up with me.
“…… !!”
As her eyes narrowed and hesitated as she lost sight of me, my fist moved to Rose’s side and headed for her chin.
The shock applied to her chin was transmitted to her brain and her brain began to shake due to the shock.
Before long, her whole body gave out strength, and Rose’s body fell helplessly to the ground like her doll whose threads were cut.
“Have you seen your skills?”
After the one-sided battle, which was too one-sided to be called a fight, I asked Marianne, and she looked at Rose, not at me, and said calmly.
“He had a good attitude and no big problems with tactics, but the opponent was bad. Of course, if I had encountered it in a different way, I might have been able to endure it a little longer, but it wouldn’t have made a big difference.”
“Shouldn’t I be evaluating you?”
“Anyway, the difference in skills is too great, so in this case, the eyes are on the weak side. So let’s move on from there. You can’t just leave it alone, can you?”
“… Yes.”
“Hmm? I’m powerless to answer. Could it be that the bonnyeo didn’t praise her, so she got angry?”
“No, it’s not that, it’s just that I feel deja vu in this situation.”
“Sense of déjà vu?”
I think something like this happened a while ago….
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“I feel it all over again, but I feel like my world has changed since you entered the school.”
“Yes? What do you mean?”
Marianne, who had been watching her from behind, said as she laid her collapsed Rose on her couch.
“As far as I know, there have been several incidents in the past of commoners beating aristocratic students, but the number of cases left in her records is so small that I can count them on my hands.”
As such, it is very rare for a commoner to use violence against a high-ranking aristocrat, and it is shocking that it actually occurred.
However, within a month of entering the school, I knocked out three of the four nobles and threw the prince’s bodyguard out the window.
Even now, although it was a sparring that was mutually agreed upon, Marianne did not harbor any sentiments even after beating one of the four nobles.
“Even if you’ve seen one of them together, you can’t help but be surprised by her, but now you don’t have much appreciation for it, so isn’t this a pretty dramatic change?”
“If that’s what you’re saying, things started to change after I entered the academy as well. In the past, even if I heard something like a monkey, I just passed it over.”
“But why not now?”
“Well….”
There were things like Rebel becoming visible, things that he didn’t put up with in desperation for something he’d already committed, but the effect of his father’s passing must have been quite a bit.
In the past, I could endure the same humiliation because there was someone next to me who would comfort me, but now I am alone.
Since I think I have to endure all the humiliation from now on, there must be some things I couldn’t bear.
“Um… father… Speaking of which, who was your father? Where do you have your roots in the first place?”
“Basic… I don’t know for sure, but it’s certain that you’re from the East, not from Mongo.”
Since the person who pierced Vivian’s eye was her father, that was certain, but she had no idea what kind of person her father was in the East.
“I honestly don’t know about the others. My father was hiding something.”
“Is it for you, my family?”
“… Yes.”
I know I came to this continent to prevent the revival of demons, but I’m not sure why they gave me that role.
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It is not simply a matter of lifespan.
His father did not have much life left, and he was not a man full of humanity to the extent of dedicating his life for people living on another continent.
There must have been some problem, so he entrusted the role to me. What was the reason?
‘I thought my father died of an illness… Wasn’t he actually ill?’
If so, it might have something to do with the four evils that should be in the East Continent being here.
‘If there is a relationship, why didn’t I tell you about the enemy I should be most wary of?’
I don’t know.
I don’t know the answer to that question, nor the answer to what kind of person my father was.