I Became a Time-Limited Swordsmanship Genius at the Academy

25. Cat

The next morning.

I was on my way to Professor Dyurahan after class.

Meow.

“Nya, meow…?”

Meow~

“…Meow! Is this correct?”

A cat and a woman’s voice were heard outside the building.

‘Who are you?’

The voice was familiar.

I couldn’t overcome my curiosity and looked for the place where the cat’s cry came from.

“Meow~ Now, I can make a decent cat cry. How do you like it?”

Kyaaah!!

“Kyaaah! Why?!”

The cat hissed and raised her claws, scratching the woman in the face.

I can hear the panicking sound of not knowing what to do.

“That, stop! I was wrong! Stop… Huh?”

The eldest daughter of an iron-blooded swordsman.

Leah Tis Penrose froze as she tried to get the cat off her face.

From the side, I turned around and saw L looking at Leatis with a pitiful expression!

There was silence for several seconds, as if time had stopped.

The cat, the only one able to move, leisurely slipped out of Leatis’ hand and licked her own.

“…Hmm. Nice to meet you. My name is Leatis Penrose. El, I’ve heard a lot of rumors about you. I never expected to meet you here.”

I will.

I really couldn’t have imagined that the eldest daughter of the Sangvis swordsman would make a cat cry and even fight.

“…Please say something.”

Leatis’ face turned bright red as he answered the shameless greeting with silence.

“Do you like cats?”

“…L. Please erase that from your memory.”

Leia Tis bowed her head and asked. She cheered and reluctantly nodded her head.

“I’ve heard a lot of rumors about you too. The eldest daughter of an iron-blooded swordsman and a genius who even skipped grades with overwhelming swordsmanship skills.”

“Did you know about me?”

Leatis affirmed L’s praise.

But she wasn’t happy.

‘It’s about swordsmanship again.’

Very disgusting. Swordsmanship here too. Swordsmanship there too. Whenever he met someone, he only talked about swordsmanship, so he felt like he had become a swordsman now.

She tried to think that in the end she was the same human being as Eldo Theo.

“But after seeing it myself, I don’t know.”

“I don’t know? What do you mean?”

If only I hadn’t denied it.

“Originally, rumors tend to grow like snowballs. A lady who likes cats is a sword… You don’t know how to be lonely on the iron side of a knight? Seeing that, cooking or knitting would be more suitable. “

Leiatis couldn’t hide her shock and couldn’t keep her mouth shut.

Cooking or knitting?

It was a story she wouldn’t be able to choose to die by biting her tongue if she heard a passing student.

Besides, her opponent is Greatis Penrose.

That Leatis who stuns the student sitting next to her by dying and makes her obey with red eyes at night!

“I, I…”

“Are you going to deny it? Look at your face. Skin as white as if it hadn’t been exposed to sunlight, black hair flowing down. The eyes are like rubies, so beautiful. What about your hands? It’s hard to believe that you’ve held a sword for decades. It’s so good that you can’t. But can you really say that you skipped a class?”

I was so confused about whether this was a compliment or a curse.

But after a while, El’s compliments liked Leatis enough to get stuck in her chest.

‘I look pretty! What you said then was really because I was pretty!’

I remembered what I said in the arena.

A sword? Go away!

From the beginning, Leatis’ hobbies were cooking and knitting. He liked to dress up like a princess and like to hang out, but he was destined to pick up the sword according to the will of the iron-blooded swordsman.

L, who finally understood her true nature and praised her, seemed very kind.

“Kuh, keuh…! What did you mean! I am the eldest daughter of the Sangvis Blade! I am Leatis Penrose. Any further insults to me will be taken as a duel.”

Leatis said, barely controlling the corners of her mouth that rose slightly.

‘As expected, he seems to like it.’

I knew that. I was honestly heartbroken.

Like all of her swordsmen, when she is criticized for her sword, she is not the only one who turns on the light in her eyes and rushes at her.

It was common for him to run like Gallihad at such a clearing time.

“I apologize if I offend you. And don’t worry, I’ll keep your love for cats a secret.”

“Please excuse me for that. Why don’t you like cats more than that… Um?”

Leiatis, who was trying to find the cat again, looked around her.

Meow.

The cat’s cry came from somewhere else.

A white cat rubbing El’s leg.

‘Have you been selected?’

I met the cat’s purple eyes head-on.

***

“I really envy you. They say that there is a legendary cat that sometimes follows humans. I thought you would be the owner of that fate.”

Leatis looked at the cat following me with envy.

‘Is this someone’s cat?’

The white hair was very clean, as if someone had taken care of it.

It’s the first time I’ve seen a cat with purple eyes, but I thought it was because it was from another world and passed it on.

It’s not that I don’t hate cats, so if you try to pet them, they will run away.

If you leave it behind and go on the road again, it will chase after you.

‘What are you doing with that?’

A cat following me.

Leatis follows the cat.

I felt like a kindergarten teacher.

“So where are you going?”

Leatis, who was trying to touch the cat somehow, asked in a war of nerves.

“I was on my way to Professor Durahan. I needed a personal training center.”

“Individual training center… Do you have any plans to use the training center provided by default?”

“Anyway, it’s a bit awkward. There are a lot of people around, and it’s too nerve-wracking to practice swordsmanship to your heart’s content.”

“All of them are right.”

He nodded his head in envy. Leatis didn’t have money, so he couldn’t buy it even if he wanted to.

The reason I wanted a private training center was as I said before, but the real reason was the chill of the Frost Sword.

If you swing your sword once there, the ground will freeze and it will become very cold as if you came to a snowy mountain. Doing it in front of other people?

It won’t end with stupidity. If it gets worse, Professor Dyurahan will come and make it into Dyurahan.

As I entered the academy, a professor who recognized L greeted me.

“Hey, you’re an L student! Classes are over. What are you doing here?”

“Professor Kukado.”

Professor Cuckado was moving with a stack of papers so large that he covered his face.

“I was on my way to see Professor G. Gren.”

“G-Gren? Ah, that swordsmanship professor. It doesn’t look like he bought anything… Are you thinking of becoming an assistant professor?”

“No. I need a private training center. I was on my way to ask Professor G.Gren.”

Professor Kukado smiled as if he really liked it.

“Kiya! You’re working hard as a student again. You’re very passionate! Hmm? Isn’t the student in the back Leatis Penrose?”

“…Nice to meet you.”

As Professor Kukado pretended to know, Leatis’s eyes narrowed. It was because of the tension.

However, Professor Kukado, who had no way of knowing this, began to make small guesses.

“Whoa, whoa… That Leatis Penrose and El are hanging out together after class. Besides, that eyebrow frowns as if he’s been disturbed. Aha! Is it because he was young too!”

He laughed as the stack of papers fell as if he had just noticed.

“hahahaha! Looks like I stopped interfering! I thought this was an innocent guy, but it was actually a thief who stole the heart of a lone wolf!”

“Professor Kukado?”

“Yes, yes. I won’t disturb you anymore, so let’s go first. My advice would be to do a lot while you’re young!”

Looks like that crazy professor.

There was no line in talking about it, perhaps because he was a person who lived through the war.

Leatis, who understood the meaning without difficulty, flushed bright red.

‘Do other people see us that way?’

If so, wouldn’t it be a nuisance to El? I was worried.

As we walked in awkward silence, another professor blocked the way.

“L! I see you from here!”

“El student. Cuckoo.”

It was Professor Chico and Emily.

“Thank you for your permission at that time. Thanks to you, I was able to study this ‘mysterious concentrate’. Cuckoo.”

“Listen! This seems to be about life for sure. When I mixed similar ingredients and sprayed them on the ground where plants grew, they grew bigger within a day!”

Emily shook Elle by the shoulder in her excitement.

Her mysterious juice was handed to her. It’s because I don’t have time to research anyway, and the process of realizing Emily’s research itself is beneficial to me.

“Are you working with Professor Chico?”

“That’s right. The time will come when I will be widely known with you soon. Ah! With Professor Chico, of course.”

“Kkkoko. Emily’s passion is always amazing.”

Professor Chico chuckled and smiled.

“Oops. We’ve taken up too much time. Let’s go now. El, I look forward to the day when you will achieve great results as well!”

Professor Chico and Emily appeared like the wind and disappeared like the wind.

‘L’s friendship is much wider than I thought.’

Leatis stared blankly at El’s back.

She herself has no friends, but she wasn’t El.

What makes it so different?

There were many rumors that even Ladia, a bigwig in the Department of Magic, famous for having a bad temper, was on good terms with El.

In fact, on the day of the confrontation with Galihad, she used flame magic and intruded into the confrontation.

‘Can I get to know you too?’

Leatis desperately needed her swordsmanship skills at this time.

El also inspected. She likes swords because she is a creature that dies.

If you leave a deep first impression even once, you will be able to form a deep bond of sympathy.

***

Smart smart.

– Yes. Who are you?

“I am Professor. This is L.”

After a short time that felt like a long and long journey, I was finally able to reach Professor Dyurahan’s lab.

Jumping.

“Welcome, student L. In case you don’t know…?”

Professor Dyurahan greeted Elle and was surprised to see her black hair behind her.

“Les, Leatis Penrose?”

“……”

I’ve never met her because she skipped a class… No, she’s Leatis, who only saw El being dragged away by Professor Dyurahan from afar in the arena.

The sight of her black armor with her head tucked under her armpit caused tension and fear.

“Student Leatis. It’s nice to meet you like this. But… Can you stop emitting your aura? I don’t want to fight with you.”

“Ah, that…! I’m sorry.”

Professor Durrahan noticed Leatis’ aura at a glance. Ordinary students would have turned their eyes away because they couldn’t overcome the aura, but the professor was a professor.

‘Besides that, I’ve never been like that. Was it because the first meeting was so intense?’

Usually, Leatis is nervous about everyone. Especially if it’s someone you haven’t even talked about.

I think you talked well with me without feeling burdensome…

Is it just because of my favorite cat?

Professor Dyurahan took out his tea and served it.

“So what’s your business? If you have any questions, feel free to ask.”

Except for the frost swordsmanship.

Professor Durrahan said that with a wink.

Since the frost sword was handed down as a one-person tradition, it was forbidden to tell others about swordsmanship in any form, be it word or action.

Of course, you cannot imitate just because you know. If there is no extreme negative retardation, it is a frost sword without frost.

“I need a private training center.”

“Individual training ground…? Ah.”

Professor Durrahan clapped his hands as if he had forgotten.

Then he headed somewhere and brought a marble the size of his palm.

“I’m sorry. I forgot to give you this.”

“What is this?”

“You can think of it as a kind of small private training ground. This orb is enchanted with space, so you can enter it with a small body.”

I was not surprised because I already knew the information.

But Leatis was taken aback by the information he had never heard of before.

“You mean there is such an artifact?”

“Yes. Everyone is reluctant to do so because it is expensive, but the professors at Orion Academy each have one. Most of them are crazy about battles, so if you don’t warm up for even a moment, you’ll get very upset. By the way, I don’t really need it, so I told L student I’ll give it to you.”

Professor Durrahan kindly told me how to use it.

“If you press the bead once, a menu will appear. You can press enter here. When you enter the marble, you will be faced with a white room. If you select a difficulty there, a wooden training doll will come out and give you a sparring.”

This is what you see in games.

As in all games, you might be wondering how much damage your character can pull out.

Beads for training were made to satisfy the needs of such users, and they made wooden dolls to serve as punching bags as well as training.

“Wow…”

Leatis salivated at the marble in El’s hand.

I envy you!

I really envy you like crazy!

An artifact that allows you to train to your heart’s content without having to move your body and without paying money!

If you have this, you will be able to quickly reach the level you want in your family and pursue the hobby you want.

‘There’s only one of those, right?’

He thought of getting training beads from someone else like Professor Dyurahan, but he quickly gave up.

Looks like El and Professor Dyurahan looked very close, and as Professor Dyurahan said, it was because there was absolutely no way that the war-crazed authors would give this up.

“Haa…”

When you sigh out of envy and frustration.

“By the way, the maximum number of people that can fit inside is 3 so that you can engage in sparring with others…”

“Three, three people?!”

Leatis’ eyes sparkled.