chapter 25
Originally, Hansoo was not the type to sleep deeply.
Especially if you are training.
However, it was nerve-wracking to take the freshmen from the academy on a route other than the one on the left, and after two days, the food started to run out. My backpack became lighter, but I still had two more days to walk.
Hansoo, who fell asleep after setting a vigil, was having a nightmare. And in that dream, the princess was having an interview with the academy dean.
– Princess. Wasn’t the first march hard?
-it’s okay. Rather than saying it was hard, I was a little annoyed because I was sweating.
-indeed. She is a princess who excelled in martial arts. Usually, they experience minor dangers on their first march.
-There is one thing I would like to say about it.
-What is it?
-that… There was a Private First Class in our group as the leader.
– So what?
– It doesn’t help at all in battle?
The dean’s mouth fell open.
-… Is it a single bottle?
-yes. And even before that battle… They’re telling me to get rid of the corpse.
-her! Such a bad thing!
Hansoo felt unfair at the last part of the delusion.
‘That’s what you volunteered for!’
And at that time, he was in a hurry to feed the tired soldiers a quick dinner.
“Private Hansoo!”
– Private Hansoo! I will put you on trial by military tribunal. The charge pertains to deception while on the march. Warden Kirov put him in a cell and let him confess his crimes himself!
“Private Hansoo!!!”
Everyone in the barracks is unaware of Kirov’s notoriety as the warden. A crazy idiot who is obsessed with torture. Ah, that yellow-haired girl called the princess would watch me being tortured from outside the iron window with delight.
“Private Hansoo!!! Can’t you hear me?”
yes, that’s right The torture will continue until I can’t even hear a sound… .
“I’m back!”
Hansoo came to his senses only when he saw the hand stirring in front of his eyes. It was Adrine’s hand.
“John is back!”
“What, what? really?”
Hansoo, who jumped up like a spring, looked in the direction Adrin pointed at. The almost ragged outfit and disheveled hair make it impossible to guess the identity.
However, the sword.
It was hard to recognize the glare of that enormous sword. Even as the sword dripped blood, it reflected the moonlight dazzlingly.
Some of the children who felt the commotion stood up in a hurry. Adrin threw away the torch she was holding and ran out. It was a rush close to surprise. As she ran, she fell into John’s arms and rubbed his cheek.
“thanks! Thanks, John!”
“Hey, wait a minute-”
“Thank you for being alive!”
It was, so to speak, the return of a person who was willing to sacrifice for everyone. But John’s concerns were on the other side. Excessive skinship increases the affinity with the character.
“Get away from me, Adrine. It smells like sweat.”
“yes? … oh There is no environment to wash.”
“no. It’s my smell.”
Adrine, who fell from John’s arms for a moment, was put back into his arms. It didn’t matter even if Johann drank water from the academy’s sewage system. She was so thrilled that she wept for a long time, but there were no words that Yohan could understand.
“Do, I’m back, really!”
“What did I say? He’s the one who won Bastia too!”
crew members knew Ever since he came out of the cave, only she had waited for him tenaciously. It was she who looked back the way she came from carrying a torch throughout the night and diligently left a mark at each resting place.
clap clap clap-
Applause started coming out without anyone saying it first. Adrine’s embrace had an aspect that represented the children’s feelings. There were many children who consciously tried to forget John, but none of them did not thank him.
“Hey, don’t do that, hug me tight!”
“right. Do you know how much Adrine was worried about?”
One by one, the members of the crew gathered around the two men and women. ‘Please drop him.’ No one listened to John’s words. He couldn’t even hear his own voice because of the applause. Adrinne’s hands, interlocked behind her back, were tightly entwined like handcuffs with a padlock.
And Hansoo had forgotten that it would be difficult to make noise at this time. Instead, he looked at Yohan, who was cradled in an awkward position, and inferred a fact.
‘Absolutely, that’s completely muggy, isn’t it?’
And he thought It was about John and the wonderful princess, who had now become life savers and lucky returnees. It didn’t seem like they were going to be in need of money anyway, with a tremendous background. If so, there was only one thing he could do.
‘When I go back, those two, I’ll push them properly.’
***
Hansoo made the break a little longer. It was because he cared for me when I returned.
hot.
Every time you move your body, the sound of bones clamor.
I didn’t tell the people who asked me this and that, but the hardships I went through on my way back alone were truly enormous. Even after shaking off the fangs that gave off vicious murder, I had to encounter monsters several times.
A fight without an ally was like hell, and a night that had to be greeted without a watch was terrible. Every time I felt like I was about to collapse, what raised me up was the memory of Miri. Only the thought of seeing her again was my support and lighthouse.
Still, thanks to that, I got something. One important level had increased in my status window.
[Swordsmanship 2Lv: This is the level at which you have learned the basics of the sword.]
->
[Swordsmanship Lv 3: You can understand and apply sword techniques.]
Originally, it was a level that could only be raised in the middle, swordsmanship.
The difference between skill level 1 is huge. In ‘Savior from Another World’, 9 is the maximum for both ability and skill level. Therefore, the combination of [Mulcan’s Sword] and swordsmanship level 3 more than offsets the risk of close combat, which can be said to be Johann Espertz’s early Achilles’ heel.
‘When I go back, I have to take maintenance in earnest.’
So-called deviations from the scenario should be corrected as much as possible and risk factors removed. At this time, the risk factor included the affinity with Adrine.
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No matter what the process was, the fact that she was embraced by a character of the opposite sex was a clear sign that she was able to ride the [Adrine route].
In order to return to the original world, I have to set the flow of the scenario to the true ending. And there is no possibility of going to the true ending in [Adrine Route].
The second thing to do is to make Adrine the head of the school year in the upcoming [Grade Principal Election]. No, more precisely, Jackal should be eliminated from the election for the school year president.
The academy’s election for the head of the school year is a political scene that eats a lot of money, and only Adrine can counter Jackal’s financial power.
and third. This is the most important thing. You must be able to enter the Forbidden Library while maintaining an appropriate affinity with Adrine, who has become the school principal. In the original ‘Savior from another world’, the ‘grade leader’ means access to all areas of the academy.
The third scam event following [Sword of Mulkan] and [Secret of the Clock Tower].
[Forbidden book, Escomin].
Through that event, I will be able to learn all about the bizarre conversation I had with Hamma Crescendo.
***
“The students were already overdoing it. How about taking a break now?”
The man who was called a student looked at the female teacher with an expression of what kind of bullshit he was talking about.
“Who overreacted… .”
“The tip of the sword is already shaking.”
Savaki gritted his teeth as he watched his sword sway. everything was a mess Even this languid attitude. Even the powerless grip.
The doctor was delighted, saying that it was a miracle that a person who had been tortured so badly could get up and walk. However, Sabaki could not agree to this. At this rate, the lying asshole became a walking asshole.
Yuli held her hand as if trying to raise the sword.
“Go back to the hospital room, Taro Sabaki. I was definitely told by the doctor to allow me to do only moderate training.”
“It’s not too much, for me.”
“No one can cut anyone with a sword like that.”
Yuli’s military tone offended the pride of the man who was called the ‘sword demon’.
Sabaki said curtly.
“… Still, I think I can cut at least one of the female teachers chattering next to me.”
“I can’t.”
There was no warning or even a foreshadowing. First, Sabaki’s body leaped, then his wooden sword. towards Yuli’s neck.
And Yuli showed why she was the academy’s swordsmanship teacher.
Fuck-!
The better the action, the simpler it is. She deflected Sabaki’s wooden sword with just a light snap of her wrist. It was a defense without much skill, but Sabaki let go of his sword.
Just- again.
The wooden sword that Sabaki missed rolled on the floor. He never imagined he would miss the sword this way.
‘This woman… .’
Although his body was damaged, his keen eye for the opponent’s sword was the same.
He stared at the sword that fell on the floor and said.
“I… Did you read the action?”
“All I can say is, you are still young.”
It was humiliating. Soon after, the female teacher’s expression, which shed her sword, contained sympathy.
“So don’t be in a hurry, student. you are a patient The more you rush, the more you go back.”
The female teacher’s words of overdoing it must not have been wrong.
Sabaki tried to pick up the fallen sword, but realized that his back would not bend. It felt like going crazy.
“You said you were also the academy’s swordsmanship teacher.”
“okay. I teach girls.”
“Then you must know Bastia.”
“… Wouldn’t that man be rarer in the empire?”
“What are you doing with him?”
“I’m not particularly friendly. They are just colleagues teaching different students.”
To put it a little differently, it can be said that it was a relationship in which he slapped me badly because he flirted with me a few times.
Sabaki looked down the hill and said.
“What will happen if you and Bastia fight?”
“I win.”
Sabaki was surprised by the answer that came so easily. However, there was no bluff in Yuli’s tone.
“… I don’t see you as the bragging type.”
“It’s not a bluff. That man never draws a sword against a woman.”
“ah… Kut.”
Even though it was a nonsensical joke, Sabaki laughed.
“It’s nice to see you smiling like that. Why did you ask what the two of you were doing earlier?”
“I thought it was a lover.”
“Oops. With what resentment?”
“You are too kind. I wondered if he would take care of me instead of the one who captured me.”
“… You might think so.”
“And since it’s a request, I’d like to refrain from looking at you so pitifully.”
Yuli let out a small sigh.
“It’s not to the point of being pitiful, but I think it’s too bad.”
“what?”
“About the situation in the Empire where children who are only 18 years old have to hold the sword. But one thing must be made clear.”
Yuli said while picking up a wooden sword in place of Sabaki.
“I feel sorry for the student’s misfortune. I heard you were framed for murder and locked up in a brothel. But before that happened, you left the roll call.”
“… So?”
“This is a place to nurture you into the army. Although military discipline tends to go awry, roll call is the basic of the basics of group life.
Before you feel unfair about the misunderstanding that happened to you, reflect on why you bought such a misunderstanding. Even if I were Bastia, I would have doubted you.”
Sabaki made a bloody expression at the word ‘Bastia’. Eventually, after confirming that Yuli was concerned about his expression, he lowered his long hair to cover his own face.
This conversation was the groundwork laid by Sabaki. To disguise as if his anger was directed at Bastia.
The direction of his anger was not directed toward Bastia. Whatever the process, the match against Bastia was a one-on-one match.
Bastia was stronger than him, and he was weaker than Bastia. That’s all there is to the relationship between the prosecutors in the confrontation.
However, there was someone who gave emotion to his relationship. It was the woman who tortured him.
The thought of stepping on the same ground as such a person is unbearable. The kind of technical torture you did to yourself is only possible under the mindset of ‘I will give you pain’, not ‘I will destroy you’.
For a long time, delicate torture techniques were performed only to keep herself from fainting.
Perhaps she also had knowledge of medicine.
And Savaki knows the torturer’s name.
When a visitor he did not know came to visit, he did not faint.
At that time, Sabaki heard the clear voice of a young girl.
‘You, Kirov, have you made a half-baked person who is not even sure of his guilt!’
If I could meet her, I would call that girl a benefactor. Not because he saved me, but because he taught me why I should live.
Kirov.
It was the name of the person he was to kill.
Yuli silently picked up Sabaki’s wooden sword and inserted it into his belt. And while looking down the hill, Sabaki did not pull out the wooden sword again.
“You are here.”
“… what?”
“Benefactor.”
Yuli looked back in the direction Sabaki was looking. As Sabaki said, I saw a group walking around the west gate of the academy.
“Yes… . It must be the last group that never returned.”
“Even if you interfered with swordsmanship, wouldn’t you even interfere with expressing your gratitude?”
“Are you saying thank you?”
“I heard that the only group that hasn’t returned so far is the one that Adrine belongs to.”
Sabaki did not say how he learned the name of the person who helped him. Yuli thought it was a name she had heard somewhere, but immediately remembered it. In her first swordsmanship class, she was a female student who handled the rapier with taste.
“… do you know him?”
“yes. He is the one who helped me get out. I want to meet you, can I ask for help?”
Yuli nodded her head.
There was no reason for her to stop students who wanted to express their gratitude.
The academy’s swordsmanship teacher held the tortured student by the shoulder. To meet Sabaki’s benefactor, the two went down to the alumni of the academy.