NOVEL NEXT chapter 48
48. Buy me a bottle of wine. I’ll teach you
Chapter 48. Buy me a bottle of wine. I’ll teach you
The young ladies thought that her pet fox was uncomfortable because she dared to share her name with a commoner.
“You’re in a bad mood too, aren’t you?”
“Did a commoner name him that way for no reason?”
“I will.”
Her daughters tried to somehow placate the purple-haired girl.
However, completely different words came out of the girl’s mouth.
“Go find out.”
“… Yes?”
The girl raised her head and said haughtily.
“I’ll give you a week to find out about the appearance, origin, and age of a commoner named Tail.”
The girl coldly looked over her young ladies.
“Go right now.”
At her command, the young ladies got up from their seats in a hurry.
“Okay.”
“Yes. All right.”
They left this club room faster than anyone else.
Her life will become tiring the moment they are out of her sight, but at the same time, their reputation will skyrocket like crazy if she, the flower of society, admits it.
After everyone left, the girl left alone stroked the head of the black fox.
“Tail….”
The fox wiggled her tail at the words that called her name.
The girl’s red eyes darkened with bitter longing.
* * *
The next day.
Students were standing with wooden swords on the sandy playground.
The girl in the front shouted.
“Is everyone here?”
Her white ears on the girl’s head twitched.
Behind her was a long tail with a black pattern on a white top.
“Nice to meet you~”
Her pink hair was blowing in the wind.
The girl with a wink in her pink eyes introduced herself.
“I am Titina Larry, the professor in charge of the swordsmanship class~”
The students were agitated by Titina’s words.
“Titina Larry!”
“Could that be the white tiger of brilliance?”
“Mr. The professor is a war hero.”
Then a voice came from one side.
“A mad tiger?”
At the same time, “Huh!” Was heard as she covered her mouth.
Titina’s most famous nickname is Mad Tiger.
‘It was also the nickname she hated the most.’
Tails clicked her tongue.
Certainly, Titina’s expression hardened.
The atmosphere became tense.
It was because life was pouring out of her small body.
It was a sticky and intense life.
It was also a wild energy that could not be refined.
A few of the students who were pressed by the sharp momentum hiccupped.
Seeing these students, Titina sighed.
“Ha ha. Is it so. What. I heard that students this year are troublemakers.”
She made up her mind to live fast.
The students all shut up.
It was a short time, but I felt how strong she was.
“Now, today’s first class will be a Dalian class to see each person’s capabilities~”
Titina spoke cheerfully as usual.
Tail glanced at Ethan and Alice on either side.
‘Let’s avoid Ethan for now.’
Because he is the best at swordsmanship.
I can never rub it.
‘Shall we try it with Alice?’
At that moment, Titina’s eyes twinkled.
“But there is~ Rumor has it that commoners and nobles are not on good terms.”
An ominous feeling ran down Tail’s back.
Titina’s mischievous smile deepened.
“Then, as a way of getting closer, I put together a group of commoners and nobles!”
Tada! Are you surprised?
-The students’ expressions became rotten at the way they spoke.
‘I think that would be fun, so I guess.’
I could feel it in those smiling eyes.
Wow, that sounds like fun!
– I think.
Now commoners and nobles could not mix like water and oil.
Shall we compete on the same team?
It was fortunate that there was no bleeding.
“Okay then, I’ll call Joe~ By the way, the use of mana is prohibited and we must fight only with pure swordsmanship~”
Titina winked her eyes refreshingly and called her Joe slowly.
“Matthew Beria, Tom.”
“Maria Giselle, Emily.”
“Olivier Column, Ella.”
“Ethan Philof, Timothy.”
“Emily Lyra, Alice.”
….
Once Ethan and Alice’s match opponent was decided, the two immediately moved.
And finally.
“Kromhell Wacker, and Tails.”
In an instant, the buzz grew louder.
The two most antagonistic people became the same group.
Tale sighed.
‘Ha ha.’
It must be the same Zorani as that guy.
Tail slowly approached Kromhel.
Meanwhile, Krom Hell glared at the approaching Tail with her face wrinkled.
‘Ha. f*ck. Not to use mana?’
Kromhell was a genius who had awakened to mana from an early age and listened to the sound of a genius.
However, it is true that her dependence on mana has increased.
Kromhell was well aware of that fact.
‘Even so, there’s no way that I, who’ve been wielding a sword since I was six years old, can’t be defeated by a commoner like that.’
At that time, he must have been running around the streets.
I couldn’t compare myself.
A arrogant smile appeared on Kromhel’s lips at that thought.
“Come on. Then get ready~”
At Titina’s cry, Tail stood in front of Kromhell and grabbed the sword tightly.
‘As expected.’
Her posture was sloppy.
A slightly drooping sword, even an ambiguous leg position.
Everything was full of loopholes.
The corner of Kromhell’s mouth went up involuntarily.
‘Looks like I’ll need some training using sparring as an excuse.’
Kromhell was thinking of beating that commoner in the name of sparring.
“Sigh!”
Titina’s voice resounded, and Teil’s eyes lit up.
He squeezed one foot tight.
“… Uh?”
Tail’s attitude hasn’t changed.
However, all the loopholes that were visible just now had disappeared.
Tail’s posture was that of a perfect and clean swordsman.
From then on, Kromhell felt it.
Something is wrong.
* * *
5 Years ago,
When I was in a monastery.
To learn swordsmanship, Tail endlessly taught himself swordsmanship.
However.
There was a limit to self-study from a certain point on.
In the end, Tail had no choice but to go down to the city and find a swordsman master.
The price of a sword master is high.
And the more famous the teacher, the more so.
Tale was troubled.
No one wields a sword here.
There was no way that a tolerable swordsman master would come all the way to the outskirts of this place just because he was teaching a commoner.
While thinking about it, the owner of a fruit shop happened to hear Tail’s concerns and said as if something came to mind.
“There is a small hut at the end of this alley. I heard that a former mercenary lives there.”
The owner of the fruit shop added.
“I heard he’s a bit of an eccentric guy…. According to rumors, he was originally a very strong mercenary, but when he returned from a mission, it was said that his entire family was killed by the enemy and settled here.”
Hearing that, Tail immediately headed there.
However, the mercenary I actually saw was shabby.
He was a drunkard and as if he hadn’t handled a sword for a long time, his body was covered with flesh and his stomach convex.
A car about to return disappointed.
He opened his mouth.
“Do you want to learn the sword?”
He chuckled.
Tale tried to say no, but he said.
“Yes. Buy me a bottle of wine. I will teach you.”
He didn’t believe it.
But for some reason, the moment he saw his empty eyes, Tails bought him a bottle of alcohol as if he was just patronizing him.
So, Tail learned swordsmanship from that mercenary.
At first, I wondered what this was.
However, as the days went by, his movements changed.
‘And then five years passed.’
Thought so, Tail gripped the sword tightly.
I felt the texture of hard wood in my hand.
Tail’s eyes flashed as he looked straight ahead at Kromhell.
Kromhell, who was about to attack first, didn’t move as if his body was stiff.
“We attack first.”
Tail shifted his posture slightly.
Then he gave strength to his legs and ricocheted forward.
The moment he kicked his whole body and jumped out! And the ground was deeply turned over.
It was a speed that was difficult for the eyes to follow.
Kromhell instinctively raised his sword to block it.
Kwaaang!
A wooden sword collided with a wooden sword, but a loud noise was heard.
Sweat was dripping down Kromhell’s back.
His own sword, which blocked Tail’s, trembled.
It is a lack of power.
I’m sure they’re about the same age, but he must have learned the sword first.
‘Why…. Are you being pushed back?’
Tayl quickly slipped backwards and then moved to his side, avoiding Kromhell’s horizontal sword.
Then he hit Krom Hell’s neck with the base of his sword.
“Keuugh!”
I felt a strong pain in my neck.
Krom Hell quickly turned back and swung his sword.
However, Tails, who had already sensed the speed and attitude, slightly moved aside.
The sword narrowly missed in front of Tail’s nose.
At the same time, Tail’s elbow hit Kromhell’s belly.
Puck!
“Cool!”
Kromhell’s posture collapsed.
Then the wooden sword struck him hard on his side.
“Quoc!”
Krom Hell screamed at the intense pain she felt for the first time.
Staggering up, she caught the eye of Tails, who was still holding her posture.
“This bastard!”
Krom Hell’s eyes flipped over as she kept giving her pain.
He instantly raised mana.
As her whole body gained strength, Krom Hell spurred her seat and sprang out.
And the moment when Kromhell, who had narrowed the distance to Tail in an instant, was about to hit Tail, which he couldn’t avoid.
“That’s it.”
Kromhell’s wooden sword was ricocheted off by the sword that suddenly appeared.
Thanks to that, his posture collapsed and Chrome Hell staggered his body.
Titina walked toward him. In her hand was the sword that had just blown Kromhell’s sword away.
“Kromhell Wacker.”
It wasn’t the usual playful voice, it was a cold voice.
“Are you ignoring me just now?”