Episode 9
The day was bright.
Raon packed up the luggage he had prepared in advance and left the annex. Sylvia and her maids lined up in front of the garden waiting for him.
“I will be back.”
Raon waved at the people who looked at him with worried eyes. Sylvia’s eyes softened.
‘I’m glad I went alone.’
It was fortunate that the only people who could enter the dance hall were trainees. If I had gone with Sylvia, I wouldn’t have been able to arrive at the gym today.
“Sylvia. Are you going to send the master away with that expression?”
“Uh… .”
Sylvia’s hardened face slowly melted at Helen’s light rebuke.
“Laon.”
Sylvia stood in front of Raon, wiggling her gathered hands. I was still worried, but now I couldn’t get the word out of my mouth.
‘Because I saw what kind of child this child is.’
For the past month, Raon has not stopped training for a single day while enduring the chill that spreads from the mana circuit.
He ran and ran every day, exhaling painful breaths. I couldn’t send a child who worked so hard with such a gloomy face.
“Laon. Do well and come.”
Sylvia smiled, holding back her worrying emotions.
“yes.”
Raon nodded her head and turned her back. He walked straight in the direction of the 5th gymnasium.
“Are you okay?”
“You have improved a lot. If all goes well, he might come back after training.”
“I don’t even want that. I hope you don’t get hurt.”
“That’s the best thing about it.”
Sylvia and Helen watched Raon’s back until the end as he moved away. There was no need to pass the training, so I prayed that he would come back safely.
* * *
5 The gymnasium was installed in a rectangular shape with walls so high that it could not be seen from the outside, so it was like an elongated box.
To the right of the entrance was an outdoor training ground covered with finely ground soil, and to the left was an indoor training ground with a roof.
Raon looked around the theater and then glanced at the children in the center.
‘As I heard, there are a lot of numbers.’
Even though it was not yet time, more than 100 children were warming up in various places in the gymnasium.
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Not only Sieghart’s direct line or collateral, but there were also recommended students from the vassal family or from outside, so I heard that this number of people gather every time.
‘I said more this time.’
Helen had told me that this year, there were a lot of people, so the 6th gymnasium would also be in operation.
crispy.
I turned my head to the sound of something breaking. A green-haired, round-faced child was eating a cookie from a pocket on his stomach.
“Would you like some?”
As Raon stared blankly, he took another cookie out of his pocket and held it out.
“no it’s okay.”
“Yep.”
He nodded and put his hands back in his pockets. This time, a square piece of bread came out.
As I was about to unwind, thinking strangely, I heard a cold voice from behind.
“Is he right? Look at the wrinkled limbs. If you hit it, it will break. Can you train?”
“If it’s a patient, pretend to be rude and run away. I don’t know why you’re bothering me.”
“I closed my eyes when I saw the head arguing directly. I don’t know the subject. You know that Ji is a direct lineage.”
He criticized them so that all the children in the room could hear them. Rumors had already spread, so many children were glaring at Raon.
“What else is that bracelet?”
“A floral bracelet?”
“I can’t even pay for the night.”
The collaborators giggled at Lars hanging on his wrist. This bracelet seems to be visible to others.
– Are you talking about the main king?
Lars, who had been quiet as if asleep, trembled.
‘So you told me to change the shape of the bracelet.’
-They are fools who don’t even know what nobility is. what are you doing Break the heads of those bastards right now.
Lars’ voice sizzled like boiling water.
‘What are you doing?
– Not only did I touch the main king, but I also argued with you.
‘You don’t even know what’s going on.’
– It doesn’t matter! Just by looking directly at the real king, I have to pluck out my eyeballs… .
‘I’m not crazy like you.’
I’m really glad I didn’t give in to this madman.
“Hmm.”
Raon turned his head to see the children who had just made fun of their snouts. They frowned for a moment, but their chins were sticking out as if they were going to do something.
‘If it was a previous life, I would have ignored it.’
If it were you in your previous life, you would have pretended you didn’t hear it and turned around. Because the assassin doesn’t have to draw attention.
However, I decided to live this life not as an assassin, but as Raon Sieghard. There was no reason to ignore it.
“What did you just say?”
Raon gave off his cool eyes and approached the children who made fun of him. I didn’t know he would come in person, so embarrassment appeared on my face.
“uh?”
“Wow, what do you mean… .”
“Don’t flirt like a mosquito, speak straight.”
“Ugh.”
“That, that… .”
The children in the room looked at each other, not knowing what to do.
‘Also.’
These children simply did what their parents did. There was no way to deal with this situation.
“Didn’t you learn not to say what you can’t say in front of you?”
“Everyone, shut up!”
“Dare you dare to live in an annex because of the collapse!”
“You are not a direct line, you are a collateral!”
“You, too, are bastards. Dare is what you say when your opponent is in a lower position than you. You don’t deserve to spit those words out at me.”
Raon’s voice neither raised nor subsided. It was a simple tone to tell the truth.
“Wow!”
The three of them spread their legs apart and clenched their fists as if they were about to attack.
thump.
Raon loosened his fingers. It wasn’t bad to warm up before starting training and draw attention.
“Your guy… .”
“stop!”
A voice like frost was heard from the right as the gangsters were about to rush in. He was a young boy with blue hair who looked like he was in his early teens.
– What’s that guy doing? break your head
‘It was Beren.’
It was the direct line that showed the best talent in the discriminant.
“The training will start soon. What are you doing? Are you going to tarnish Sieghard’s name in front of outsiders?”
Contrary to expectations, he did not defend the three, but rebuked them all.
“Bur, Burren!”
“sorry!”
The collaborators who were about to rush to Raon bowed their heads like a mouse in front of a cat at Beren’s words.
“You still don’t understand the subject.”
After receiving an apology from collaborators, Buren approached Raon.
“You are nothing but dust that can be removed at any time. If you don’t want to be kicked out of the annex, live quietly like a dead mouse.”
Burren frowned in outright disgust.
‘You bastard!’
The less distant one in front of me occupied the attention of the headmaster a month ago. It wasn’t my ability, but the situation.
The thing he hates the most is the incompetent guy, and the second thing he hates is the cheeky guy who doesn’t know the subject.
Raon Sieghardt included both.
I was annoyed just to have caught the attention of the headmaster, such as a straggler who could not train properly and would fall out.
“If you don’t want to participate in training, get out of there. No, just get out. There’s no chance you’ll pass the training.”
At Burren’s accusation, the children of the collateral laughed at him. As they were about to return to their cool faces, Raon took a step forward.
“Even if you talk bullshit, you don’t really have a taste.”
Raon clenched his chin. He met Berren’s eyes with a twisted expression.
“Can you do anything?”
“What?”
“You are a direct line, and you have no status. kick you out of the annex? Do you think you can do it without even being a trainee? Oh, there is a good chance that you can go to your father and tell him.”
“How dare you… .”
A green wind blew in Burren’s fist. As he approached with bloody eyes, the door to the gymnasium opened as if it were about to break.
bang!
Through the trembling door, a man with a catch came in. He had pointed ears and an appearance that was not of this world. A mysterious atmosphere accompanied by a cheerful momentum.
“Are you fighting already? It’s because I’m not young and I’m too young.”
He groaned and entered the center of the arena.
‘Was the author here?’
Raon narrowed his eyes. A man who is so famous that you can’t even know it. It was Limer, an elf swordsman who was called Sieghart’s lightsaber.
‘I heard you’re retired… .’
I heard that Danjeon was injured and resigned, but I didn’t know that we would meet here.
“Heh heh!”
Rimer looked at himself and Burren once, then climbed up to the stage overlooking the entire dance hall.
“Great… .”
Burren bit her lip slightly and turned around. He looked at me inevitably, but it looked like he was telling me to be careful in the future.
“nice to meet.”
Rimer, who stood in the center of the stage, smiled.
“It’s called Limer, the chief instructor who will oversee your training.”
voice is light Feels light like the wind rather than frivolous. Limer continued with a relaxed smile.
“There were 160 participants in the training. There are 8 instructors. Too many numbers to teach you all? So I’d like to reduce it. Just a quarter.”
The playfulness concentrated in Limer’s relaxed smile was youthful.
“Lord, are you going to reduce it?”
“A quarter of that?”
“What does that mean… .”
The children’s faces turned blue. It was the first time that the number of people participating in basic training was filtered out.
“Literally, we want to cover the jade. I want to raise even a small number of good prosecutors.”
Limer waved her fingers as she looked at the children as if choosing a product.
“Eh, I, I came here because I was told to come… .”
The green-haired child who had offered cookies earlier dropped the bread he was holding.
“I am Sieghard’s collateral! It’s nonsense to say that you’ve been skipped before becoming a trainee!”
“you’re right! We’ve all been told to get involved in the family!”
“Ah, I’m ignorant, so I’m a direct descendant and a colleague. I don’t know.”
Limer frowned as she dug her ears with her pinky finger.
“In this gym, I am the rule. If you are dissatisfied, I will ask the headmaster who gave me the authority.”
It’s not like the head instructor, it’s like looking at a back alley Yangachi, but it looks great because of his good looks.
‘Strain… .’
Raon scratched his chin. Limer feels the temperament and potential of his opponent. He has a great talent and listened. He seemed to be using that ability to select children.
– What is that cheeky bastard?
‘What?’
– Dare looking down on the main king, I don’t like it. Pluck out that elf’s ear.
‘Is there anyone you would like in your eyes?’
Lars, as the name suggests, was furious at everything. He didn’t seem to like anything.
-When the main king was in the demon realm, no one could make eye contact. A true monarch worshiped by demons… Hey, this guy!
‘shut up.’
Lars’ tongue began to grow longer, and he tapped the bracelet.
“Then let’s start the exam right away.”
Limer blew out the earwax attached to her little finger.
“You learn martial arts, what do you think is the most important thing?”
“It’s a talent!”
“It’s a strong, flexible body!”
“Strong danjeon!”
“Swordsmanship and Auror training are the most important!”
The children raised their hands, thinking that the test had already begun, and each shouted out the important elements they thought of.
“Talent, body, danjeon, and swordsmanship are all correct. But they are walls and roofs. There is a foundation that needs to be well laid under it. It’s physical and mental.”
“ah… .”
“Well… .”
The children lowered their hands and nodded as if they thought he was right.
“There are some of you who have learned martial arts and some who haven’t, so I will take the test in the simplest and most reliable way.”
Limer’s fingers, who were pointing at the children, moved slowly and pointed to the outdoor gymnasium.
“Run through the gym until I say stop. Power!”
As soon as the words were finished, the two moved. It was Beren, a direct lineal man who had a discriminant with Raon, and Runan of the vassal family Sleon.
“profit!”
“Go, let’s go!”
“run!”
Following them, the other children also started running in the gymnasium.
– Don’t move. There is nothing I can give orders to the main king… .
Raon ignored Lars’ words and filled his lungs with fresh air. I followed the children running in front of me and kicked the ground.
‘Certainly different.’
Runan and Burren were already running a long way ahead. Although it seemed to run lightly, it reached a speed that others could not follow.
It is not because the quality of the Aurors is excellent and they have special properties, but because they have trained their bodies and minds from a young age.
– Hmm, if you’ve already run, go forward. Why are you at the back?
‘I don’t know what you want to do.’
– I just don’t want to lose.
‘This is not a competition.’
Raon sat on the podium and saw Limer whistling. The author sees the potential and temperament of others. We won’t just look at what we can see.
“Whew… .”
Raon exhaled a deep breath and his eyes lit up.
‘This is a test in which the one who endures wins.’
It was something I was more confident than anyone else on the continent.
* * *
“Certainly, Beren-nim and Runan-nim are unique.”
“It’s not just the speed. There is also stability. My speed isn’t the same as my power right now, so I’ll be able to run for hours at that rate. Being at that level at the age of 12, the future is scary. scared.”
The two instructors standing under the podium looked at the running children and chatted.
“This year, the level of protection is high. It looks like you were properly educated.”
“It’s the same with recommended students. There are a lot of good kids who have chosen well.”
They evaluated not only Burren and Runan, but also the children running behind them one by one.
“Well… .”
The instructors who looked after all the children frowned as they saw Raon running in the rear group.
“I can’t keep up either.”
“You are a patient. It’s great to run like that.”
“Well, you look tired already. It will fall soon.”
The instructors turned their eyes to the other child with a blank expression as if they had expected it.
However, Rimer’s gaze, who was humming behind them, did not depart from Raon.
‘It’s amazing.’
Lamer’s green eyes lit up brilliantly.
‘I’ve never seen a guy like that.’
He was blessed with a more luxurious nature than any other clan, and he excelled at understanding the condition and potential of others.
He thought that the only human beings that could not be grasped by that talent were the strongest people on the continent.
‘However… .’
Today, for the first time, that thought has changed.
Runan and Berendo, who run at the front, and the collegiate and recommended students who run with their teeth clenched behind them, could not escape their eyes.
I saw how big it would be and how strong it would be.
Only one. Except for Raon Sieghard.
‘Why can’t I see it?’
His future, and his potential, were invisible, as if covered in dark clouds.
no talent? That’s not the case. It meant that he had lost consciousness as if seeing someone stronger than him.
“It’s fun.”
Limer smiled brightly. boring times. After a very long time, an interesting person appeared.
* * *
“Look at that.”
“You trembled, last?”
“It’s an exaggeration to say that I’m the last. It will be gone soon.”
The children in the room raised the corners of their mouths as they watched Raon running in the subgroup.
“A guy who grew up in an annex can’t run properly.”
“Look at that bewildered expression.”
“I can’t last ten minutes.”
Besides the three of them, the other children also burst out laughing.
However, Raon’s serious expression wasn’t because he was tired or tired.
‘It’s a water lily, but you just run?’
During physical training in a previous life, he released a hungry beast behind him.
Just running until my stamina ran out, compared to those days, lying down and eating rice cakes.
Too easy?