chapter 5
duel.
In general, it was used in the sense of fighting to determine victory or defeat, but the duel of knights has a different attribute from the normal meaning.
It was meant to stand up as a knight in order to restore the honor that had been lost due to personal attacks, evil deeds, or conspiracy.
The cool meaning of confronting the other side with dignity in order to protect the honor that one should pursue as a knight.
However, the religious people of medieval Europe regarded duels as a barbaric custom, and there was even an anecdote that excommunicated the nobility who participated in the duel.
This was because the Catholic Church regarded suicide as a very grave sin, but from the religious point of view, duel was seen as a barbaric practice of throwing one’s life for no meaning.
However, despite this, knights and nobles applied for a duel against their opponents for their honor, for their families, and to be proud of themselves.
Whereas duels were sinful in modern medieval Europe, this world regarded duels as sacred battles of knights.
Duels between knights were also popular, and there were many duels even by families. In this era, duels were popular as entertainment rather than just connoting sacred meaning.
Like a Roman gladiator.
“Why is that? Does the dreamer of knights avoid duels?”
“It’s not…”
Now I was quite stunned.
I was fortunate to have escaped from the clutches of the wretched, strong Hans, but what was happening right before my eyes was a very embarrassing situation for me as a victim.
And one more thing.
A girl who previously identified herself as Edinburgh Rose.
The blonde girl I met at the library also introduced herself as Edinburgh Rose, and the woman caught also said that she was Edinburgh Rose.
One of them was lying now.
Why would you lie like that?
Why did you name the family Edinburgh?
what do you want from me
As these thoughts kept popping up in my head, a cold sweat began to flow naturally.
‘ ..I’m tired. ‘
I thought I was living my life at the academy while saving myself, but I got tangled up in an unexpected place.
Maybe I had already been caught up in something I didn’t know.
To be honest.
There was some cognitive dissonance now.
“Raise your sword, Gorfin Hans.”
“Rosé-senpai… I…”
“You talk a lot.”
” …. “
Meanwhile, Hans, who was over 2m tall, was embarrassed by Rosé, who looked less than 160cm tall.
“Come out to the 3rd rehearsal hall of the Knights Faculty by 11 a.m. on the same day, this is the Edinburgh Rose formally requesting you a duel, and a notary public will watch the duel fairly.”
Hans bows his head, sweating profusely at the words of Rosé, who pierces his spear.
In the meantime, the two chins were shaking and shaking, unable to grasp the atmosphere.
” sorry! “
“What did I do wrong?”
“As a knight, I have committed an act contrary to chivalry!”
“I know you well.”
widely.
Rosé brought the wooden sword to Hans’ chin with a wooden sword.
If the wooden sword Manyal Rose was holding was a true sword, Hans would have been bleeding from his neck by now.
“Ignorance is an unavoidable realm. If street bullies committed acts contrary to chivalry, it would have ceased to be a stinging admonition, but to say that a person who learns chivalry for the sake of the weak does something contrary to chivalry. This is an insult to the entire knighthood. .”
” …. “
Hans doesn’t say anything about Rosé’s assault on the facts and just bows his head.
“Can you still call yourself a knight?”
” sorry. “
puck!
“Ouch!”
As soon as Hans has finished speaking, Rosé smashes Hans in the face with a wooden sword.
light swing.
But with that alone, Hans grabbed his face and knelt down.
Fortunately, he didn’t load mana, and Hans was just bleeding from his face.
If mana had been loaded onto that wooden sword, Hans’ skull would have already been broken.
And he’ll probably be taken to the medical wing and won’t be able to show up at the academy for a while.
“Apologize to that boy right now.”
Rosé looked down at Hans with contempt and ordered me to apologize.
Hans turned his head towards me with an angry expression, lowered his gaze and slowly opened his mouth.
” sorry. “
“The sound is low.”
“I’m sorry! I did something I shouldn’t be doing as a knight.”
what to do
Should I accept an apology or not?
If you think about it emotionally, you can refuse to apologize and leave this place with the mindset that you must die.
If you think about it rationally, it wasn’t a bad choice to fill a debt with him.
Anyway, Hans is one of the first-year knights in the Knights Faculty, so he stands out.
Although the conduct itself is ruined.
Then, in my head, I remembered a blonde young girl I met at the library.
Now, there was a possibility that I would get involved in something without even knowing myself.
In order to survive, even Hans’s force was needed.
With a sense of grasping at straw, I forgave Hans.
” ..I forgive you.”
” Thank you. “
Look at me, me, those eyes.
I’ll sneak up on it later and give it a shot.
“Anyway, if you bully that boy later and get caught again by me.”
“It will never happen! Yes!”
Hans has turned from a beast full of poison to a mutt that wags its tail softly at its owner.
Also a class society.
Even human emotions can be controlled with one identity.
It’s exciting, it’s new.
Also, power is the best.
“Shut up.”
” Yes! “
Hans quickly leaves the seat at Rosé’s cold tone.
As Hans disappeared in the distance, Rosé started walking towards me.
“Are you okay?”
” it’s okay “
“Looks like you’ve been caught by the neck.”
Rosé’s red eyes turned to my neck.
It must have been that I had seen Hans grab my collar and shake it.
” ..this is fine.”
“Well then, I’m glad, if he ever retaliates against you, please let me know.”
” It is an honour. “
Oh, and you even take care of insurance.
He’s a really nice guy.
Edinburgh Rosé, this is the first time I met this person, but I got a rough idea of what type of person he is.
A knight (騎士), a specimen of a knight who protects and protects the weak and values honor more than anyone else.
Edinburgh Rosé, she was a knight.
“Recently, there have been a lot of students like that. Those who persecute the weak because they say they are stronger than others.”
Selfish bastards. Rosé, who added the words, looked at the building where the Knights Faculty was for a moment, and let out a deep sigh.
Apparently, he seemed to be looking at the present age in which the spirit of chivalry was faintly disappearing.
“What can I do, what the times want.”
“Even if the times change, there are values that do not change.”
Rosé responds to my words with firm eyes.
‘Really, you’re a fat knight. ‘
article, good.
But the times are cruel.
If the times do not need knights, they should disappear into history.
Because the new era comes from breaking away from the old era.
However, there are values that do not change regardless of the times.
The spirit of chivalry, which represents the spirit of knights, has been established as the morality and universal value of many people to this day.
A firm person who pursues universal values pursued by mankind.
The Rosé right in front of me was such a person.
A person with a strong conviction as a person who will become a hero in the future.
“What do you think?”
At that moment, we looked into each other’s eyes.
Armed with a strong wick, Rosé’s eyes looked a little sad.
A knight armed with a noble spirit is lonely.
Maybe my guess, but maybe I’m wrong.
Now Rosé seemed to be suffering from loneliness.
was shaking
However, this was a set order.
There is a saying that the goddess of fate deliberately sends trials to test her heroes.
Now, Rose was enduring the wave of ordeal sent by the goddess of fate.
“Rosé-senpai is right.”
I got up and brushed the dirt off my butt.
“It is very important to keep the values that do not change regardless of the times.”
Rosé was questioning her own values.
As the saying goes, in a village where the blind live, a person who can see with both eyes straight is abnormal.
Rosé may have felt that she was abnormal among the many knights who had abandoned the chivalry.
“Even though I am not a knight, I will tell you what I said to Rosé-senpai.”
So I decided to quote for Rosé a sentence from a famous novelist’s book.
nod.
Rosé quietly looked at my face and nodded.
Whew.
Suddenly, darkness began to fall over the academy.
The stars were revealing themselves, and the moonlight was faintly illuminating the earth.
The wind from the shore was blowing towards us, full of starlight and moonlight.
Weeds blooming on the street sway back and forth in the wind filled with light.
I embraced the stars, I looked at the stars.
And dream of the stars
The article is like this.
Chivalry, like common weeds on the street, have unfulfilled dreams.
“To dream impossible dreams.”
Suddenly, I looked up at the dark night sky and murmured.
The passage I am talking about is from Don Quixote by the Spanish novelist Miguel de Cervantes.
Cervantes wrote the novel to satirize the spirit of chivalry prevailing at the time.
However, the more we read, the more we doubt the author’s intentions.
Did Cervantes really write this novel to ridicule and satirize chivalry? doubt that.
To say that the book was written to satirize and ridicule chivalry, many quotes from Don Quixote warm our hearts.
Maybe Cervantes.
Maybe Don Quixote.
Wouldn’t he have written a book to tell the knights of that time what true chivalry was?
“To overcome an invincible adversary, endure unbearable pain.”
My gaze is now slowly moving towards Rosé’s face in the night sky.
Rosé was shaking all over her body like a person engulfed in an unknown emotion.
I drew an arc on the corner of my mouth and looked at Rosé.
“To die for a noble ideal.”
Each time he recited a verse, Rosé’s eyes trembled slightly, but only a little, but surely.
“To know how to correct mistakes, and to love innocence and good will.”
I took a moment to catch my breath and started talking.
“Falling in love in an impossible dream.”
and.
He raises his hand and points to the stars in the night sky that are scattered in the night sky.
“Having faith, reaching the stars.”
At that moment, Rosé dropped the sword she was holding.
“It is the duty and duty of a true knight. No, it is not a duty, it is a privilege.”
silence for a while.
I implied a question to Rosé.
“Senior, are you a knight?”
” ..I am a knight.. “
warble.
However, on the contrary, eyes filled with firm beliefs.
Red eyes that looked like flames were looking straight at me and blazing.
“Are you really a knight?”
“I am a knight, I must raise my sword high to protect the weak.”
The sincerity of Rosé that I heard from deep in my heart.
I smiled brightly and declared to Rosé.
“Then the senior is a knight.”
” Ahh.. “
Rosé begins to tremble.
There was a feeling of awe and joy in those eyes.
“You have to go on, even if you are criticized by someone else, you have to go on your way.”
” ..what if everyone points at me that I’m crazy…what should I do…?”
“Who is crazy? Is the senior who imagines the world that could be achieved in the future crazy? Or is the person who only sees the world as it is?”
“…”
Rosé didn’t answer any of my questions.
He just quietly clenched his fists.
“Go through the ordeal, if you are Rosé-senpai, you should be able to walk on the path.”
After saying those words, I turned around and started walking towards the dormitory.
To be honest, I didn’t even have anything else to say.
It seems that Rosé also reaffirmed her beliefs in herself.
A third party, an extra giving advice, was right to leave this place.
“Wait, wait…”
Rosé’s voice eaten by darkness.
I heard a voice grabbing me somehow, but I deliberately ignored Rosé’s voice and kept walking forward.
It is a specification to be tied to the main character more than this.
My life is in jeopardy because of the blonde girl who has already introduced herself as Edinburgh, and my life is in jeopardy if I get involved with it anymore.
So it was good for each other to get out of here.
Obsession. Difficulty.
Human relationships should be fluid, not just looking at one person.
So, let’s make a lot of friends in the future, Rosé sunbaenim.
I don’t know who the real Rosé is.
After giving advice to a senior who might be Rosé, I hurriedly left the area.