I Picked Up a Witch With Amnesia

4. Island Lumentium – 06

“Cain, I will be direct. You have no talent for swordsmanship. As much as this.”

The princess was talking in a feminine tone, as if she was deciding on the breakfast menu for today.

“……”

“Right now, I am fighting a life-and-death battle, so my skills are improving rapidly, but one day I will inevitably reach my limit. No, in your case the limit will come even faster. It’s because I don’t have enough talent to go to a higher place.”

“……”

“So I’ve been thinking about it for a while. Now that I have claimed to be your teacher with my own mouth, can’t I give up my one and only disciple easily? As a result, I came up with a plan.”

“……”

“If you ask me what the method is…”

“…Turn off!”

That was the limit. I couldn’t stand it any longer. While I was doing push-ups with the princess on my back, I couldn’t overcome the shaking of my arms and my posture collapsed. No, to be precise, it was the moment when his posture was about to collapse.

“posture!”

With those words, the princess swung her hand and slapped my butt.

slap-!

“Keep-!”

The moment the princess’ small palm touched my buttocks, a truly terrible pain rose from my buttocks and wrapped around my whole body. It was not my taste to show such ugliness in front of her, but it was not the kind of thing I could control. It sounds like an excuse, but what the hell is she doing? The violence she inflicted on me was really causing extreme pain.

“Turn it off…”

As I let out a moan like an animal and tried to use a dragon to straighten my posture, the princess let out a small sigh as she sat on me.

“Cain, you are very strict. I touched the cheek a little, but that kind of reaction. Anyone who sees it will know that I tortured you.”

“…..”

I felt dumbfounded for a moment at the princess’s words. Could it be that she didn’t consider the series of harsh treatment she was inflicting on me as torture? Did I really think that all of this was part of the training that became my flesh and blood?

“I was trained in this way by my master, and my master was also trained in this way by his own master. Traditionally, physical training inevitably comes with pain. The pain you are feeling is the same as I also felt I know very well what it is, and how much it is. So don’t be afraid and get up. You didn’t even hit you hard enough to spread to the floor in the first place.”

Hearing those words from the princess, I gritted my teeth and opened my mouth to her.

“Then, are you saying that you too were trained by being spanked like a wolf by your master?”

To my question, the princess showed a hesitant expression, and then answered in a small voice.

“…Hmm, now that I think about it, I don’t think the cheek was hit. I’ve been hit a lot in other places, but I don’t remember being beaten by the teacher as much as the cheek.”

“Then I think it would be a little unfair for you to hit me on the cheek this much.”

“Do you think I’m sitting on top of you and making you do push-ups because I have nothing to do?”

The princess said that in a tone that seemed somewhat angry, and then hit my butt hard once more.

“…Ugh!”

“As I’m riding on top of you, I’m activating your muscles by infusing aura into your whole body. This is also a kind of strict training, so I hope you don’t disparage me so blindly.”

“…But, being slapped on the buttocks was unexpected.”

“Did you know that training your own martial arts was so easy?”

Like that, the princess said something as if she was lamenting something, and this time she continued talking while gently stroking the back of my head.

“Ha, let’s finish talking about what we were talking about. How you can overcome your limits and become stronger. They think it is to learn Choi Sang-seung’s swordsmanship.”

“…The highest level of swordsmanship?”

“Yes, the martial law contained in Choi Sang-seung’s swordsmanship will be able to lead you to a higher level. What do you think, what do you think?”

Even at this very moment, I didn’t stop doing push-ups and kept repeating the princess’s words in my head, and quickly came to a conclusion.

“…No matter how much I think about it, it seems impossible.”

In fact, it was an idea and an unnecessary remark. If you knew how to roll your head a little, you could draw a conclusion right away.

“As the princess said, I have no talent. Even if you learn Choi Sang-seung’s swordsmanship, it’s obvious that you won’t be able to master it properly. Would it be possible for me to learn such a swordsmanship since I couldn’t even properly learn the secret swordsmanship of the Duke of Estelle in the first place?”

When I spoke in a slightly sarcastic tone, the princess smiled bitterly at me.

“If it were general, what you said would be the truth. However, the swordsmanship I will teach you from now on is a swordsmanship where such common sense does not apply. Even if you learn the form of this swordsmanship properly, I assure you that you will be stronger than you are now.”

“…is that really it? Are you saying that there are all kinds of great swordsmanship in the world?”

Was there such a fraudulent swordsmanship in the world that would make the user stronger just by learning it?

“I will explain in detail later. The name of the swordsmanship I will teach you is ‘Flowing Star’. It is the swordsmanship of Choi Sang-seung, passed down only to the direct descendents of the imperial family, and taught only by me in the empire.”

…Passed down only to the direct descendant of the Imperial Family? I don’t know why, but it can’t be a word that feels ominous.

“…It’s only passed down to the direct line of the imperial family, so can you teach me?”

“Of course, it is not normally possible. However, I am also flexible. It’s an emergency right now, so it can’t be helped, right?”

Saying that, the princess smiled refreshingly at me.

“Ah, by the way, don’t use this swordsmanship in front of other people. It is said that if someone outside the royal family is discovered to have mastered this swordsmanship, that person’s limbs will be cut off and their tongue pulled out. Wouldn’t it be terrible if you did that?”

“…..”

…Then why are you teaching me such swordsmanship? Could it be that this woman, pretending not to be the case with her mouth, actually hates me very much? My head is filled with strange thoughts that teaching me such swordsmanship is actually trying to lay a foreshadowing to accuse me of being a private person later on…

“In addition! Your posture is breaking!”

slap-!

“Turn it off!”

****

“Lucian von Tournisen, I have something to ask you before engaging in a duel.”

“…what is it? Cain von Estel?”

Lucian answered me with a very condescending attitude, as if he was already convinced of his victory even before the duel started.

“Well, it’s nothing. Just to ask you if I can use something other than a sword in this duel. For example, a fist or a foot. My swordsmanship school is a rather peculiar school.”

“…Hmm, I heard that the swordsmanship of the Duke of Estelle is an orthodox swordsmanship. Like a pathetic guy.”

Saying that, Lucian put a fishy smile on that unfortunate face and spoke to me with a confident expression.

“good night. accept the offer In this duel, I won’t mind if you take out a memorized skill and throw it, not a fist. Do whatever you can in this place. For me, I can’t even be a handyman at that level.”

Lucian looked me up and down and said that in a confident voice. At this moment, does that bastard know that he has dug the grave he will enter with his own hands?

“Then, without hesitation.”

With a smirk, I raised my heel slightly and kicked the ground. It took about two months to move my body, but my condition was close to perfect. Of course, it was not comparable to the body of 10 years later, but even this amount seemed to be more than enough to distort that young master’s confident face.

“Goes. Lucian von Tournisen.”

“huh! I’ll give you the first shot, Cain von Estel!”

Lucian speaks to me in a truly arrogant voice, as if patronizing.

Unfortunately, his arrogant attitude did not last long.

Poo-!

“Keuheuk-!”

I hadn’t heard of a man who couldn’t be humbled when his fist went down his jaw.