Chapter 46.
The sky was clear. It was just the right day to go out without the hero around. I gently shook the fan Emily gave me and reached the alley, not entering directly but confirming it from a distance.
Eckhardt of the Imperial Sword, no thanks to having the title, took the knights’ martial arts time very seriously and couldn’t be interfered with casually.
I also don’t want to get hit like last time.
Luckily, I dispelled that thought. Right now the martial arts practice team is training.
I hid between the trees and peeked.
There was a group of people doing physical training, as well as some people dragging heavy pieces of iron.
I also saw a party practicing cutting scarecrows with wooden swords. Most of the wooden swords were for apprentice’s.
I looked around and found Illyx.
When I found him, my expression immediately froze. Why is he so forlorn, all alone in the corner ……
Unlike the other apprentices lined up in horizontal columns, he was training alone in a distant place.
Being ostracized was expected, but seeing it with his own eyes was another matter. It was a mess inside.
But watching him train, that thought vanished.
Pah, strike-!
The ones who just became knights do the practice of hitting or poking the scarecrow’s vitals.
But unlike them, Eryx doesn’t just poke and hit, he cuts the scarecrow down.
Snap, Strike-!
Every time he swung his wooden sword, the scarecrow, which was as big as a man, was sliced into turnips.
Straw dust splattered everywhere. Not with the scabbard, but with power, striking endlessly, it looked like it was going to be too much to hold up and the wooden sword broke.
Oh, is that the ability of a master swordsman?
Of course, not knowing much about swordsmanship, I was just impressed.
Soon after, it felt like it was a wrong idea.
The pole exposed by the completely broken straw connects with the blind sword swung by Ikris.
Crunch-!
With a loud cracking sound, the wooden sword he was holding broke in two. Irix shrugged and stopped, looking at the pieces of wood that were broken in two.
“Hey!” At that moment.
“Shit, fuck, fucking broke a couple times! Will you pay for the wooden sword, you little bastard!”
Someone quickly approached and mercilessly kicked away Longyricus’ sword. What was he heading for, I restrained my body from wanting to jump out of the way.
Because I think it’s better to watch the situation first rather than blindly stepping in.
As expected, Ikris didn’t fall backwards. Only a few steps back.
But the guy who hit him looked more like he was high on drugs. “Hey, are you taking a sword?”
“…… Sorry. I’ll be more careful in the future …….”
“Have you done this once or twice? Do you know how hard the vice president’s face looks every time you say you’re ordering a new wooden sword! Alright, hands out.”
“Hands out!”
“…… is now training. Punishment comes after training is over.”
Ilyx lowered his head and replied, it seemed that this guy was the knight in charge of watching over the communal items used during training.
Ilyx’s words made sense.
It was a chore when the tools used for training broke down. That’s why cheaper ones are usually purchased in large quantities for use. Therefore, it was unreasonable to discuss punishment for breaking a cheap wooden sword in front of everyone.
However, the way Eryx replied that he would receive a punishment after training looked like a rare occurrence.
I looked at his expressionless face.
“Ha, look at this kid. Slave themed training is what it is! Why don’t you quickly reach out?”
“Wow, don’t you dare have any doubts!” Was the disobedient Illyx’s brain burnt out as he slapped Ikris on the cheek with his hand.
“You’re talking to the wrong person, pup.”
“You think that fake one will stick around when our Ms. Ibn comes back? And your future is over?”
“Don’t insult the master.” That instant. Ikris, who had been only looking at the ground, snapped his head up and said.
In response, the knight who hit him let out a loud laugh.
“Huh? There’s no place to go man. What’s wrong with you being scolded for being here, your master who doesn’t even take care of you? Huh?”
“As a knight, insulting a lady is not allowed.”
“Yes, yes. Listen to the confession of the weeping slave. All right! Get down, get down.”
“Damn, hang in there! Oi! Get him!” He suddenly yelled to the other knights around him.
They seemed to be in a group, watching with amused eyes trying to grab Eryx.
He didn’t resist. Just lay down and looked into the void with his eyes.
I noticed why Ikris did what he did.
I asked the Duke to recognize him to stay in the Dukedom. If he resisted here, I’m afraid the news that caused problems would reach my ears.
Hence the fear of returning to the slave market again.
The ones who captured Illyx roughly took him down to the ground. Several others
dragged from this place to the straw mat.
“Hey! Stomp! Stomp ……!”
I moved my body when the first guy who moved his body shouted in excitement.
The only weapon I possessed was a fan.
Approaching wordlessly, the fan I raised, slammed his head.
“Ah, shit, who is it ……!”
“Hello.”
The noisy smoking gun rattled my voice or geomembrane.” Oh, huh! Male, male female ……!”
The eyes of the fellow who had just smiled and laughed with a vile expression suddenly grew wide, and he rolled and crawled to the ground.
The moment he shouted a sentence, the movements of the knights who grabbed Eryx all came to a screeching halt.
Some of those who found me later opened their mouths.
I, who was scrutinizing the ridiculous looking ones, touched my eyes to Illyx.
Probably surprised by my appearance, his out-of-focus pupils slowly widened.
[Favorability 27%]
Looking at the rising favorability, I was relieved. It seems like because it appeared on time.
Reassured, as if a stone fell from my heart, I opened my words with confidence.
“Taking my guards in an interesting game ah.”
“Someone explain what’s going on right now.”
Of course no one stepped forward to answer.
The people who were making a lot of noise just a moment ago now became instantly quiet like they were entrapped in cool water.
Even the knights who were elsewhere stopped training and looked at me silently.
I fanned myself with my fan.
“What’s your name?”
“Uh, um ……”
“Okay. Where are you attached to? 1st Division?”
“I’m Mark, attached to 2nd Platoon, 3rd Infantry Division.”
I was amused by the guy’s answer because he looked like a mouse caught by a cat.
In the capital, where there was no war, the 3rd and 4th Infantry Divisions were nothing more than watchdogs.
It means “insignificant guys”.
“Explain yourself about this situation.”
“Ah, that ……”
“It looks to me like you’re the first to start.”
“Ah this ……”
As soon as I heard that I had been watching, I was scared to death and my heart was in my mouth.
The expression of sarcasm I used with “Fake” was nowhere to be found.
As I looked at those people, I realized that yesterday’s news about Sekido’s maid was spreading throughout the house.
“What are you doing? Aren’t you going to explain quickly?
“Good, good! That, that …… Ikris had an accident during training.”
The guy mumbled at my urging.
“What accident?”
“He …… he broke his wooden sword …… The price of wooden swords has also gone up a lot lately, and it’s not like they’ve been broken once or twice”
“So.”
“I was reprimanding them, but that guy, all of a sudden, talked back to me, yeah, that guy ……”
“Yeah?”
“Uh-huh!”
In a voice that was mildly rhetorical, perhaps getting the hope that “I accepted it,” he nodded and said, “The guy, like a clam.”
“But what if it doesn’t?”
“. . . . . ?”
“In the absence of because of cursing him, and also cursing the master. What if the master was present.”
His face froze. I curled my mouth and smiled brightly.
“Committing the crime of insulting a noble, can I kill you here?”
My words creeped him out.
“Ah, that ……”
The guy in front of me just ate and grinned with his mouth open.
“Male female.”
In the cold atmosphere, a knight who couldn’t stand such a thing appeared.
Compared to the others who were sweating profusely, he was cleanly dressed and looked more like a “superior” than a “savage”.
“You take it easy for now. You’ll be here in a minute, and we’ll discipline you then.”
“Elyx.”
I ignored his words and called him up.
He was still sitting on the floor staring at me, his gaze changing all of a sudden.
“Kill him.”
I pointed at Mark with my fan.
Just then, Elyx suddenly jumped up from the ground.