[EP.21] A stepping stone to becoming stronger
Darling, who had removed the bottle fragment of the medicine that would transform her into a woman, instead placed another bottle in front of Krasch.
“This is a shapeshifting drug. The effect lasts for one week, as it is a recently made special product. “It’s not affected by magic or doping yet.”
Since they broke it a little while ago, they probably wouldn’t have given out the same medicine this time.
So Crasch took the vial and checked its contents.
“Disguise your identity?”
“You just have to register as a commoner from the kingdom.”
It will be like this from the beginning.
“For your information, this is the image I imagined when I thought of the kid’s personality.”
Even though Darling was talking nonsense, Krasch didn’t care.
From the looks of it, it seemed like it could be used during martial arts competitions.
‘That’s a good thing.’
In order to use the extreme blood poison, it was necessary to absorb more world erosion power.
There is a lot of world erosion in the lawless area between the kingdom and the empire border, so we can absorb that as well when the time comes.
“Are you more confident than that of being in the top three?”
At that moment, Darling asked with a subtle smile.
Krashuda was called Valheim’s half-baby until recently.
For Krashu to come in third place in a large-scale martial arts competition held by the empire.
Actually, it was a ridiculous story.
Of course, if Krasch was the same as before.
“Even if we talk about the guys who show up at the martial arts competition, they are the ones who haven’t been confirmed for Raheln Academy anyway.”
Those who were confirmed to go to Raheln Academy were already training to prepare for the exams the academy would take, so there was no reason for them to appear in the martial arts competition.
The unfortunate thing is that very few of the participants this time will have made a contract with God.
‘Because there aren’t that many people who signed a contract with God in the first place.’
Valheim was extremely special, but among ordinary families, only one in five had a contract with God.
So Krasch had to go to the academy even more.
‘Because that place is full of people with skills.’
And above all.
“I am 14 years old when the competition takes place.”
The martial arts competition that Krasch will participate in is for boys under 15 years of age.
Krasch was only 14 years old.
“I don’t lose to kids.”
No matter how talented you are, you can still overcome the gap in experience.
In fact, Anix was harmed by Krashu like that.
Even in the generation of the firmament, I was confident that I could defeat all Krashu unless there was someone as talented as Charlotte.
“I’m the same kid. Of course, I’m turning 16 soon. “Even though I’m not a kid anymore.”
Darling, whose eye makeup has become a bit thicker recently, smiled and said that she was an adult.
Krasch could only look at Darling with such pity.
Kids are the only ones who like to become adults.
In that respect, Darling was still a baby.
“done. “Please stop now.”
“Hey, I want to hang out more than I already did.”
“Now that I’m an adult, I wonder if I can use it to play with kids.”
“Are you using it like that?”
Darling, who does not want to go, and Krasch, who pushes away, are talking for a while.
The door where the two people were talking opened with a squeak.
When Crasch turned his head at the sound of the door, Bianca was standing there.
Bianca, who had one side of her head slightly pressed down as if she had been sleeping, looked at the two for a moment and then muttered to herself.
“… … Affair?”
Where did you learn such words?
Krasch silently thought that he should try to stop the maid who often made a fuss next to Bianca.
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Valheim’s training ground.
Crashu stood with the Crimson Garden in front of him, holding his sword.
Although his eyes were obviously closed, Krasch was feeling more information through his body than through his eyes.
My sixth sense acquired through secret arts.
Although the level is still minimal, the amount of information coming in was overwhelming compared to before.
At that moment, a presence was felt near Krasch’s left ear.
visor!
Before I knew it, the extended sword quickly filled the space.
What appeared there was a blade of wind.
However, strangely enough, Krashu’s sword filled the space before the blade of wind was created.
If the sword had not moved before the wind blade was created, it would not have been able to block in the first place.
Meanwhile, I felt a series of presences near my waist.
Krashu’s sword once again filled the space in advance and blocked the blade of wind.
In fact, it was a move that was almost prescient.
Chang, Chang, Chang, Chang!
And the movement continued.
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Krashu’s sword took its place repeatedly, faster than the blade of wind was created.
However, Krasch was actually in a worse state than when he was attacked.
My breathing became a mess, and my arms were shaking harder than ever.
The sweat dripping from his entire body seemed like it would make him exhausted at any moment.
“So far.”
The moment Crimson Garden’s voice was heard, the blade of wind stopped.
“Khaak!”
Krashu let out a sigh and rolled around on the floor.
“Haak, crane, crane.”
Krasch opened his mouth as wide as possible to somehow supply oxygen to his lungs.
Then Crimson Garden, who was watching the scene, laughed tiredly.
“Was it my sixth sense? That’s fun. “With the experience you have accumulated so far, swordsmanship is being created in a very interesting form.”
What Krasch was doing now was in the realm of blunt swordplay, where he raised his sixth sense to the limit, read the opponent’s intentions first, and countered their moves in advance.
As I trained Krashu in Crimson Garden, a skill that even geniuses find difficult to use, I noticed that he was better suited to blunt swords than I thought.
“The conditions for using a dull sword are, first, not to be scared, and second, to be able to perfectly understand the opponent’s intentions. Two things are more important than swordsmanship. And those two are areas that can only be gained through experience, not talent.”
Crimson Garden giggled and tapped Krasch’s head with its foot.
“You are truly excellent in that area. “Because I am born with a sense of how to read the other person’s intentions, combined with my sixth sense, it is actually coming out in a form close to precognition.”
Krasch is the only one with a natural sense of humor.
The experience of endlessly rolling over the world with the generations of the firmament.
And the sixth sense I acquired this time.
Thanks to the combination of these three things, Krashu was able to enter the beginning of dull swords.
It was certainly an incredible technology, but Krasch had one obvious problem.
“But I’m not in good shape. Nawon. What would it be like if you could predict all of your opponent’s attacks? “My body can’t keep up.”
Dunt swording is a sword technique that achieves spatial domination by controlling all of the opponent’s attacks by reading the opponent’s moves first.
Although it may seem slow to the opponent, Dungeom steadily controls all of the opponent’s moves.
As a result, the opponent has to just watch helplessly as the sword slowly narrows towards him.
That was a dull sword.
However, if you can’t block the opponent’s attack, it’s all meaningless.
As proof, Krasch ended up looking like this as a result of overusing his muscles to block the wind’s blade.
The body cannot keep up with Krasch’s wisdom.
‘I guess this is the gap in talent.’
Krasch was born with little physical talent.
Fortunately, because I am of Valheim blood, my body is stronger than others and my recovery ability is slightly better.
That’s at the level of criminals, but of course geniuses already have it all.
“It’s miserable.”
As Crimson Garden briefly commented, Crasch raised his head with trembling arms.
“… … Once more.”
“I don’t know how to give in to a topic like that.”
Krasch’s two poisonous blue eyes shone brightly.
Even though it swallowed up everything, including experience, secret arts and skills, and world erosion, this was the only area it could reach.
Anyone else would have realized their limitations at this point and would have broken, but Krasch’s will had no intention of breaking.
Looking at that, Crimson Garden let out an incredible laugh.
“So I made him my disciple.”
Although he was a contract teacher who started with a promise to erase immortality.
Crimson Garden began to like Krasch more and more.
To her, all talents were meaningless.
A self-contained mind that can simply endure its own training.
With just that one thing, she could make Krashu the strongest.
“But I guess it’s right to stop here for today.”
“what?”
“Didn’t you tell me? “The schedule is correct for starting today for the martial arts competition.”
Krasch, who frowned upon hearing that he would stop training, came to his senses belatedly.
Come to think of it, as she said, it was departure day.
“Training is good, but in my opinion, the elixir comes first for you. “There is nothing better than making that poor body human.”
Krasch had no choice but to get up after hearing those words.
My legs and arms were still shaking, but I fought through it.
“Damn, I need to get ready quickly.”
Krasch realized that he had wasted too much time in training and quickly walked away.
Then, after quickly getting dressed and washing my face, I came to the prepared carriage.
“Master Crashu.”
At that moment, Crashu faced Aliod, who was waiting in front of the carriage.
The day Darling brought medicine for discoloration disease.
Krasch immediately gave the medicine to Aliod.
Aliod was skeptical at first, but when he found out that it was a medicine for discoloration disease, he even took a leave of absence to visit his daughter.
And a day later.
Aliod, who came to see Crashu, knelt before him and expressed his gratitude with tears in his eyes.
He was someone who cared so much for his daughter that he even considered betraying his master for her sake.
Just because his daughter’s illness was cured, Aliod had no regrets even if he died.
“do not die.”
And Krasch spoke to him.
“For saving your daughter’s life. Aliod, don’t die until I give you permission. “You don’t mind if I tell you this much in exchange, right?”
And the moment he heard the next words, Aliod bowed his head in front of Crashu.
With the master he must follow for the rest of his life clearly engraved in his heart.
‘This is it.’
Krasch felt that he could now forget the day when Aliod died from poison.
He healed his daughter partly for Aliod’s sake, but he also wanted to erase a scene from his own memory.
Krasch felt at ease just because the first betrayal in his life was gone.
“Please take good care of Cheongsonggwan while I am away.”
“Yes, I will absolutely not let anyone in. Even if you are the head of the family.”
Hearing his firm promise, Crashu smiled.
Enough is enough.
That was when Crashu went to the front of the carriage, leaving Aliod behind.
In front of the carriage, Krasch faced a familiar figure.
Girl with white hair.
Bianca Hadenharz.
She was standing there holding a bag in her hand.
“Mr. Crashu.”
As always, she was calling herself with a certain tone.
The reason she was carrying a bag today was simple.
It was to return to Hadenharz.
The reason she returned to Hadenharz was none other than Krasch’s request.
The plan was to return to Hadenharz to obtain one of the two ingredients suggested by Darling: the Bacillus falciparum.
With her status, it wouldn’t be that difficult to get it.
“It’s been a while since I’m going home, so you can rest well before you go.”
It will take quite some time for him to come back anyway.
But Bianca shook her head.
“I’ll be back soon.”
I’ll be back soon.
For Bianca, Cheongsonggwan was now her home.
Crashu, who sensed what she meant, was somewhat embarrassed and burst into laughter.
Her treatment in Hadenharz is not very good.
Because being cursed lowers one’s value as a noble.
And since he has no talent in Valheim, he is the least valuable half-penny.
In some ways, just like Krasch, Cheongsonggwan might have been a place where Bianca could feel at ease.
Crasch raised his hand and stroked Bianca’s head once.
The pure white hair that moved back and forth following Krasch’s hand was rewarding to stroke.
“I’ll be back soon too.”
Crasch said this without noticing that he had recently begun to withdraw from Bianca.
Meanwhile, Bianca opened her bag.
What came out of that bag was none other than a lunch box.
“Eat as you go.”
I was wondering where you were wandering around yesterday and you were preparing for something like this.
“Who asked me to make this?”
“I’m going to Ellie.”
Well then.
As expected, Bianca’s maid, Ellie, seems to have said something to her.
Last time I told you to stop joining, didn’t it help?
“I’ll eat well.”
Still, since Bianca made it, I accepted the krash.
There was also a time when I was hungry after training.
“Goodbye.”
Bianca’s departure is later than that of Crashu.
Seeing her seeing her off, Crasch said he would come back and got into the carriage.
As the carriage began to rattle away, Crasch saw Bianca standing still through the window.
I won’t be able to see that face I used to see every day for quite some time.
“You look so sad that you are about to die. “Do you like that kid that much?”
At that moment, Crimson Garden came in through the window and asked that question.
“Because I feel like I have a younger sibling that I never had in my life. “I guess I’m just anxious.”
Unlike before, my relationship with Bianca has improved.
There were also many personal regrets.
“Tsk, tsk, let’s see what kind of sister you are to your fiancé, who still calls you a sister even after having four children in her sleep.”
“If you talk nonsense, I’ll pull out all your feathers.”
“Giggles, can you catch me?”
Seeing Crimson Garden deliberately showing a defenseless appearance by picking its fur, Krashu could only click his tongue.
He opened the lunch box instead.
It contained sandwiches and colorful salads.
Like Bianca, it felt like only efficient things were filled in.
‘It’s all right.’
Crasch took a bite of the sandwich and remembered how Bianca liked sweets.
On my way back from the Empire, I need to buy at least some Empire-ticket chocolate.
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