Episode 42. Continent’s Best Sword (3)
“The trauma has healed to some extent, but I need to rest to recover from the internal injuries, so I think it would be better to rest here and not move today.”
“Well, thank you so much. How should I repay this favor… … .”
They say thank you, but their facial expressions don’t seem to say that.
This is a healing center located in the middle of Ruwen.
This was the place where Princess Arin was brought to heal Resimus, who had been assaulted by Barrett and his gang.
The blond maniac took out a mana sphere and tried to play with it, but then quickly ran away, saying he would do it later.
In fact, I thought about catching her and forcing her into it, but I thought her healing was the priority, so I accompanied Princess Arin to the healing center.
Including fractures, ruptured internal organs, and even minor concussions.
Honestly, looking at her condition, it wasn’t like it would get better with just a day or two of treatment.
It’s actually useful to maintain one’s sanity like that.
Is this the spirit of the continent’s greatest sword?
“If it’s okay, may I ask since when did they start bothering you?”
Resimus hesitated for a moment at the princess’s question.
“… … From when I first came. “I think they were just targeting me intentionally.”
In the end, she herself admitted that she had been bullied.
“It almost got into really big trouble. I had no idea it would come out so shamelessly. How dare you put your mana sphere into someone else’s mouth… … .”
It was truly a close call.
If Princess Arin had not appeared at that moment and stopped the situation.
If that were the case, Resimus would have been undergoing major surgery in the intensive care unit by now rather than resting in a general hospital room.
However, if things continued like this, it was obvious that their bullying would repeat itself.
Resimus also seemed to know this, and his expression was not good the whole time.
“Well, I’ve been curious about this for a while now… … .”
Resimus’ eyes, which had been watching, suddenly turned towards me.
“Do you know me?”
“hmm?”
“No, you’ve been staring at me since a while ago… … .”
know.
The continent’s greatest sword, Resimus Klein.
A knight revered as a god who cut off the heads of hundreds of people with a single sword strike.
The final guardian who protected the Garam Kingdom until the very end in the continental unification war that broke out after the subjugation of the Demon King’s army.
However, as I said before, I killed her.
Her original nationality was the Usif Empire.
However, after graduating from the academy, he joined the Count Klein family, a military family in the Garam Kingdom, and changed his last name, and later, his nationality as well.
At that time, the empire had captured all the castles in the Garam Kingdom, leaving only the Klein family’s territory.
For the complete unification of the continent, she tried to get her to surrender if possible, but Resimus refused to surrender, saying he could not abandon the kingdom that first recognized him despite his poor appearance.
In the end, the empire decided that it could not break her will and ordered me to assassinate her.
The empire’s order was to assassinate her, but I, who had infiltrated the castle, requested a formal interview with her.
There was no particular reason.
As a swordsman before being an assassin, I didn’t want to kill the best sword on the continent so vainly.
In fact, she was not a woman who would be easy to assassinate.
After the bloody battle with the Demon King, he was a strong man who once again made me feel the energy of defeat that I thought would never happen again.
For your information, she was also famous as a swordsman who did not use magic.
Most knights who were skilled with the sword used mana and magic to apply it to their swordsmanship, but
She was a swordsman who rose to the top by using only her unique swordsmanship.
When I think about it now, it’s not that I didn’t use magic, it’s that I couldn’t use it.
Because of that blonde madman, the mana flow itself must have been destroyed since I was young.
Despite this, he was promoted to the best sword on the continent.
How far would she have grown if she had combined magic with the sword?
Even if I couldn’t do it, I think I would have reached a much higher level than I did then.
Is this what Aer meant by looking around?
For now, I decided to treat her appropriately.
“I just thought he looked a bit like someone I used to know. But it seems like that wasn’t the case.”
“Ah yes… … .”
As the conversation stopped, there was an awkward silence.
Princess Arin changed the topic to improve the atmosphere.
“Well, come to think of it, Resimus, how did you get into this Royal Academy? “I heard that the instructors specially recruit people with special talents among commoners. Did you do that too?”
“yes that’s right. Instructor Jade, who was a swordsmanship instructor at this academy, hired me as a special swordsmanship instructor and promised to support me in the future… … He was suddenly expelled from the academy the day before I was to enroll… … .”
It was the sudden dismissal of the instructor who was trying to help with support.
This may be crossing the line, but somehow I don’t think it’s a coincidence.
“Well, it was like that… … . “Then where are you staying now?”
It’s obvious.
There was only one place to stay for commoners like her, neither royal nor noble.
“Common Hall… … .”
A commoner-only dormitory where approximately 5% of the academy’s students live.
Just because it is used by commoners does not mean that the facilities are old or anything, but it cannot be denied that it is different compared to other dormitories.
In fact, this wasn’t something the academy didn’t want to manage.
As I said before, our supreme nobles protested bitterly, asking how low-class commoners could be treated the same way, so it was inevitable that it would happen that way.
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It was a place where not only the guardian knights, but even the cleaners worked once a month.
“It’s a pitiful situation. If we go back, those people might come again… … .”
In the meantime, the instructor who was supposed to look after the support was kicked out, so it wouldn’t be surprising if those blond maniacs came back at some point and started misbehaving.
The princess was stroking her lips and wondering if she had any good ideas.
I said looking at her.
“Then shouldn’t the princess take you with her?”
“hmm?”
He tilted his head, probably thinking he heard wrong.
“Why don’t you take him directly and make him your squire? “Anyway, there is no rule at the academy that says you cannot stay in someone else’s residence other than your own.”
It’s because everyone refuses, saying how dare a lowly commoner share a room with a nobleman.
“W-what are you talking about? Anyway, how could I share a room with a boy I met for the first time today… … .”
“This is my friend Yeoja.”
“… … ?”
Princess Arin looked at Resimus with an expression of disbelief.
“that… … I didn’t mean to deceive the princess… … .”
A blushing face as if embarrassed, and both hands neatly folded together.
She had a simple appearance reminiscent of an eleven-year-old girl.
At this, the princess’s face also turned red.
“S-sorry! “Because you have short hair, I guess I unconsciously thought you were a guy!”
“No need to apologize! I did something wrong… … .”
Actually, I didn’t do anything wrong.
A commoner who inevitably faces discrimination due to his or her status attends the academy without a guardian?
Also, as a woman instead of a man?
I’m not going to lie, it wouldn’t be surprising if she was suddenly found dead and naked one day.
Cross-dressing is just a means to protect her safety.
In fact, even in the Empire, there were quite a few female knights who disguised their gender and joined the Order, so it was not that strange.
Arin looked at her with even more pitiful eyes.
“It must have been very difficult… … .”
Did he even see himself reflected in her appearance? The princess was even feeling feelings of pity.
“If you were hired as a special swordsman, it means that you were definitely skilled in swordsmanship. If the Princess herself takes it from her, wouldn’t she be able to learn her sword from him and later become her personal guardian knight? “I don’t think it’s a bad condition.”
Looking at the princess’s face, it didn’t seem like she would worry for long.
“May I ask where you are from?”
“Brenu, the southern city of the Usif Empire… … .”
Moreover, the nationality is still imperial.
Even though they were not citizens of another country, there was enough justification to collect them as seeds.
“what do you think? I think Xian’s suggestion is okay? If you become my person, you will be able to live comfortably without being harassed by such bad people. Learn what you want to learn, do what you want to do… … .”
Resimus was making a complex and subtle expression.
Maybe you don’t understand what’s going on right now.
It was amazing that the princess saved him out of nowhere, and asked him to stay with her.
You might want to pinch your cheeks to see if it was a dream.
“W-Why do you have to tell me…” … .”
“I am the princess of the empire. As a member of the imperial family, it is natural to save the people. I’m not saying I’ll take you without anything in return. “I heard you have a knack for swordsmanship, so I want to learn a lot from you.”
Tears began to form in the corners of her eyes.
“Actually, I just think it’s better to be alone. “I already don’t have any friends to talk to in the large dormitory, so wouldn’t it be fun to stay together?”
At this moment, Resimus may have thought that a goddess had come down from the sky.
A being of salvation who suddenly appears in a seemingly unhappy future.
Resimus finally burst into tears and was held in the arms of the princess.
“… … .”
This is truly a beautiful sight that cannot be seen without tears.
At this point, I think my role is over.
I quietly got up and left the hospital room.
I, too, do all sorts of things even though my nose is three inches long.
Have you changed your mind?
at all.
I just decided that it would be better to keep it by her side rather than collect it myself.
Well, it’s just a small sprout right now.
If those sprouts grow and become trees, and if those trees increase in number and form a forest.
That is what becomes one’s territory and power.
I only suggested a way to make the future continent’s greatest sword into an ally, and it was the princess who made it bloom into a new sprout.
After that, it’s up to her to do her own thing.
However, you should keep this one thing in mind.
Creating one ally is like creating multiple enemies.
Just as my enemy becomes my friend’s enemy, my friend’s enemy inevitably becomes my enemy.
You never know.
At this moment, a new enemy that has appeared without the princess’s knowledge may be sharpening her blade for her.
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-bang! bang! bang!
“Aaaahhh!”
Barrett screamed in humiliation for the first time in his life.
He, who had always stepped on someone under his feet, was pushed back by force for the first time, and the feeling was needless to say.
“Arin Sebellus… … “Are you going to preach to me about the Fifth Princess, who is just a shell?”
The pride of nobility was nowhere to be found, something that didn’t even make me laugh because it was so similar.
“What is it, saying this or that?! “I’ll just pass by quietly like everyone else!”
Another person who comes to mind before I can let go of my anger towards her.
“Sian Bert… … .”
No one had ever looked at him like that before.
Hadae’s eyes look as if you are nothing.
It was truly a humiliation so great that it shook my whole body.
“Ugh!” Barrett eventually began smashing everything around him with the sword in his hand.
“This can’t happen… … ! “It can’t go on like this!”
Not satisfied with the broken pieces, Barrett broke them into even smaller pieces.
When it was reduced to a powder that could no longer be divided, he smiled in satisfaction.
“I’ll make it all the same for you! I will give you so much pain that you won’t even be able to say words to save your life! “You will pay a heavy price for daring to offend me, Barrett Louismil!”
Barrett predicted the pulverized remains as if they were their future.
(Continued in the next part)
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