After seeing Aisha burst into holiness, Vera’s first action was to grab Aisha and walk her sleeve.
It was to check the stigmata.
There were no cases of a person who did not have the divine to suddenly manifest it except for the stigmata, so it was confirmed that Aisha had received the now vacant Apostle of Sabbath position.
however.
“what are you doing!”
There were no stigmata. There was only Aisha’s struggle.
Vera felt confused. This is because it was a variable that I had not even dared to imagine.
Divinity was an innate power. It is the power that the mana organs in the body mutate while in the fetal state.
But why did Aisha come to awaken mana now? Is it possible that the butterfly effect is caused by your actions?
It was the Crown Prince Maximilian who came to the mansion two days later to clear up those doubts.
“People who have awakened to their divinity have appeared throughout the islands.”
“yes?”
“Literally. There are people who have caused mana mutations.”
A voice calmer than the last time we met.
“For now, the imperial healers and wizards point to the saint as the cause of this situation.”
“I, me?”
Renee shrugged her shoulders in bewilderment.
Did I do something wrong? Have you ever had a major accident? It was because of anxiety.
“It is a miraculous aftermath that St. Mary caused on the day of the terrorist attack. Such a diagnosis.”
“ah… .”
“I’m not blaming you, so there’s no need to cringe so much. No, I should rather say thank you. If the saint had not performed a miracle that day, I would have already been buried.”
“no… It was something I had to do.”
“You don’t have to be so humble. Well, anyway. I have something to ask you about it.”
Renee’s head tilted.
“Please?”
“Some of those who have awakened the divine and some healers want to return to the Holy Land. Could Seongguk be able to lead them? Maybe it’s because I don’t have enough hands here.”
Renee’s eyes widened at the words he heard.
“Are there any healers?”
“How many miracles did you see that day? Some of the healers were quite shocked by it, so they suddenly made such a request.”
There was a hint of fatigue that could not be hidden in Maximilian’s words.
Renee could understand why Maximilian had such a look.
‘Well, because healers are high-level personnel.’
It would be quite a headache if they suddenly escaped.
“There is nothing that cannot be done. It’s something we can send together when Marie-sama returns to the Holy Land.”
“Thank you. The case… .”
“it’s okay. After all, it’s because of me.”
Renee smiled awkwardly and waved her hand.
‘I’m sorry for nothing.’
A strange feeling as if he stole the manpower of the Empire.
“Whew… .”
Maximilian let out a deep sigh.
“Oh, by the way, what’s your schedule after that?”
“Nothing has been decided yet. Why?”
“My brother’s coming-of-age ceremony, which was scheduled, has been delayed a bit. Isn’t this a situation that needs a fix?”
“Oh, then I decided to bless you.”
“if you do not mind… .”
“I will do it. There is no place I need to go in a hurry anyway.”
“Thank you.”
Renee let out an awkward laugh at the voice that showed signs of deep fatigue.
‘It was because of that that Aisha manifested her divinity.’
The thought came to mind that Doban would also let go of the hour. This is because Doban’s worries were growing day by day because of Aisha, who suddenly manifested divinity.
‘I’ll tell you later.’
Still, I was weak physically and mentally from the accident that happened as soon as I left the mountain range, so I should only share the good news as much as possible.
Renee was thinking about it.
“Ah, the festival is going to start again next week. If you want to see it, go take a look.”
Maximilian uttered those words.
Renee added a question to that statement with a surprised face.
“Isn’t it stopped?”
“It’s a temporary pause. There are those who have doubts about the status of the Empire if the biggest event of the year has been passed because of this.
“Uh… You are suffering a lot.”
“It’s my job, what can I do? Then I’ll just go Rest in peace.”
“Ah yes. Goodbye.”
There was no answer returned.
Kick-.
The door opened and then closed again with a ‘click’ sound.
“Vera?”
“Yes.”
“Well… How was your expression?”
“It was the face of a kid who had his pocket money stolen from him.”
The commentary was very unique.
No, it’s a fitting metaphor given that Vera grew up in a gutter.
“I’m sorry.”
“You don’t have to do that. It was the healers who made the choice.”
“Yes.”
As Vera watched Ren scratching his cheek, he recalled a fact he had forgotten until then, and continued with an ‘ah’ sound.
“Aisha wants to learn swordsmanship. I’ve been asking you, can I teach you Aisha?”
“yes? It doesn’t matter to me… .”
“thank you.”
“It’s surprising. I thought Vera would hand it over to Lord Norn.”
“I saw a ssaksoo, so I’m going to teach it myself.”
It wasn’t just a word.
For Vera, it was a judgment with his own calculations in it.
He’s no one else, he’s a hero from a previous life. It was a job to undermine the outstanding hero Aisha Dragnov, the master of the magic sword.
Although there was no magic sword, that was not a big problem. Even without a magic sword, Aisha was Aisha. That talent has already been proven.
‘Slowly alone, you can see the limit.’
In some cases, he would be by Renee’s side, but there were cases where he had to leave inevitably like this one.
Suppose a battle takes place in such a situation.
There are Norn and Hela, but they are only slightly superior among the criminals.
In his absence, he needed a sword to protect Renee instead.
“Then, knowing that it is permitted, we will start education from tomorrow.”
“Ah yes.”
As Renee was nodding her head, she suddenly felt a surge of curiosity.
‘The practice of Vera… .’
Looking back, Vera always went out to practice late at night or early in the morning when he was asleep. What kind of training do you do so that you don’t want to do it in front of yourself?
‘I’m curious.’
Renee slowly continued to worry about the appearance of Vera next to him, and then spit out such a question.
“Can I go take a look?”
It was an answer with a slightly recalled face. It was due to the rising curiosity.
Vera trembled at the words, then hesitantly spewed out an answer.
“… Yes.”
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One reason was that there was no excuse for rejecting Renee’s request.
‘… I have to be quick.’
I was going to roll hard from the first day, but if Renee was watching, I felt like I had to lower the intensity.
For some reason, it was an emotional reason without logic or anything, that he didn’t want to show a bad side in front of Renee.
*
The next day, a small vacant lot was prepared at the back of the Count’s mansion.
Standing there, Vera spoke with a firm voice to Aisha on the other side.
“Go ahead.”
“yes?”
Aisha’s head tilted.
Because he taught me swordsmanship, I thought I would learn basic techniques such as slashing and stabbing, but the reason I was puzzled when I started talking about fighting.
Vera added a brief explanation to Aisha, who was tilting her head.
“You don’t need the basics. Is it faster to learn while fighting?”
It was a conclusion that Vera came to after much deliberation.
Aisha is a beast. Basically, their physical abilities are superior to humans. In addition, while serving as a blacksmith’s apprentice, his stamina was fully trained.
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Of course, the basics weren’t unimportant, but first of all, it was necessary to polish Aisha’s animalistic sense.
Aisha nodded her head in agreement with Vera’s words.
“Then are you going?”
“Wow… .”
Tadat-.
As Vera spoke, Aisha rushed in.
The short dagger in his hand was already reaching for Vera.
Vera watched the flying dagger with a calm face, and with a slight divinity on his index finger, he deflected it.
Tuo-!
Contrary to what he had done, a loud noise. Aisha came to mind in a big way.
“Oh!”
Aisha, who rose to a height that would be three times the height of a human, struggled briefly, then quickly balanced herself and landed on the floor.
“The intent is clear. If you’re going to make a surprise attack, do it better.”
“profit-!”
A look of anger appeared on Aisha’s face.
Vera recalled a pouty smile as Aisha looked at him with an angry expression.
‘Thinking and moving is not a good fit.’
In order to be able to aim for the vital point while moving emotionally, the fighting method had to be engraved into the realm of instinct.
While I was thinking about it, Aisha ran to me again.
Tadat-. Tuung-.
Renee made a worried expression on the sound of the collision and Aisha’s scream and asked Hela, who was standing next to him.
“It’s okay, are you okay? Isn’t Aisha injured?”
“Yeah, it’s fine. It’s definitely a cat and a beast, so the sense of balance seems to be amazing.”
“Ugh… In case of injury, it should be dried immediately. You know?”
Hela said in a slightly embarrassed tone when she saw René restless with a worried expression on her face.
“Saints, the original training is a sword that is done while hurting… .”
“Still, I’m still… .”
“I also broke bones several times when I was that age. So you don’t have to worry.”
Renee sighed deeply when he saw Hela talking like a sword for some reason and nodded her head.
There must be a good reason for Hela, who used to answer in a blank voice only when it was not really a big deal, spoke so decisively.
When it comes to swords, they don’t know much better than themselves.
Tuung-.
“Damn!”
Aisha’s screams continued again.
“Oh, Aisha has landed again. I really think a sense of balance is awesome.”
Hela’s relay continued.
Renee pouted her lips for some reason, feeling as if she was separated from herself.
*
“Oh, you’ve been through a lot.”
“no. Were you not bored?”
“Not at all.”
Immediately after the battle with Aisha was over, Hela took Aisha, who was clad in dust and spunky, and the conversation continued with only the two of them left.
“Are you serious? Since it was the first day, I thought I was going to teach you something like how to hold a sword.”
It wasn’t like a rebuke.
Just saying what you feel.
However, Vera, who had educated himself ‘smoothly’, felt like he was being stabbed by Renee’s words and continued to speak as if he was making excuses.
“… Since I was an apprentice, I thought I would have some knowledge in that area.”
“iced coffee… .”
Renee quickly finished convincing.
Whatever it was, Vera knew better than him, so he thought he would do well.
“Well… .”
The sound of stroking the tip of a stick and letting it flow.
Renee let out such a sound for a while, then turned the handle of the staff and pulled out the knife, and said with a smile.
“I thought about how to hold a knife, is it correct to hold it like this?”
In the past, more than ten days have passed, Renee, who had held a sword for the first time in her life while opening the door to the new world, felt the question arise as to whether it was right for her to hold the sword straight at that time.
At that, Vera, who turned his gaze over Renee’s hand, felt his eyes narrow.
‘The sword… .’
Why are you holding it like this?
The thumb and index finger should wrap the wand in a circle shape, but why does Ren’s hand wrap around the handle of the wand with five fingers firmly attached?
“… Did you not hold it well?”
When Renee, who had been ashamed of Vera’s expression belatedly, asked the question, Vera placed his hand on Renee’s with a slightly troubled face.
“Thumbs like this… .”
Vera’s left hand lifted Renee’s thumb from the handle of the wand, wrapping the tip of his finger elsewhere.
“… It’s like holding the other four fingers around it.”
“ah… .”
Renee’s face turned red like an apple. It was due to the shame that came from not knowing how to hold a sword straight.
“Hmm… !”
It’s just nonsense that you do. Vera was startled by that and comforted Renee.
“… It doesn’t matter if you don’t know. It is my job to wield the sword.”
Do you know that those words make you even more ashamed?
Renee felt her face heat up for nothing, and continued as if muttering.
“… Please teach me more clearly with Kim who teaches me.”
It was red all the way to the nape of the neck.
Vera began to explain the obedience without adding anything else to the figure.