My Disciples Know That I Am Strong

Episode 3. Misunderstanding that gets worse (4)

I glanced at his hand, but didn’t hold it. Embarrassed by my attitude, he holds out his hand and forces a smile.

“Why did you look for me?”

Although the duke’s personality is somewhat far from that of aristocrats, he doesn’t hold meetings like this in a hurry.

It is safe to interpret it as meaning that there is something clearly desired.

“Hey, Prause. Please write honorifics to His Highness the Duke.”

The guide cautiously gives advice.

‘Because it’s not going the way I want. Now that this has happened, why don’t you speak kindly to me, too?’

“Wouldn’t it be okay if you lowered your words too?”

There is probably no one in this world who would call a duke ‘that side’. It’s an execution, but who would speak ill of a high-ranking aristocrat?

This is me, who has the skills to manage shameless facial expressions.

“Good. Do as you say.”

He took it coolly.

I’m a duke, is it okay? I’m a commoner.

He sensed the vast class gap between him and me, and he anticipated how he would react when he later found out he wasn’t a sword master.

Not enough for pretending to be a sword master in front of a high-ranking aristocrat, the duke.

Isn’t this a life sentence?

Suddenly, a cold sweat broke out on my back.

You should never get caught. If you catch this, you die.

It wasn’t just about paying a fine.

I’m sure you’ll have your limbs torn off, or you’ll have to live as a slave for the rest of your life.

It’s too late to say now that I’m not a sword master, but just an ordinary villager.

I’ve already proudly spoken to one of the only four dukes in the empire.

It was an unintentional rumor, but since I started, I had no choice but to pretend to be a sword master until the end. Until the death.

I’m really excited.

As long as I don’t get rid of the facial expression management skill, I feel like I’m already going crazy at the thought of not only talking rudely, but also committing rudeness in the future.

“Sit down for now. It must have been difficult to come a long way.”

“…… Do that.”

“House, go and serve the best desserts and tea from this shop.”

“I understand, Your Highness the Duke.”

After realizing the reality, everything started to feel burdensome.

The guide goes down, and the children take their appropriate seats. Next to me

…… Next to me?

Tina and Iris took my side. Maria and Dex were seated at a different table, and Ariel snooped with a sad look on her face and sat next to Tina.

“Why are you sitting next to me? There are plenty of seats.”

“To protect the teacher is the duty of a disciple!”

What is he saying out of the blue?

“…… Student? What are you talking about?”

“Ah~ Maria saw Prauss and called her Master, so I wanted to call her that too.”

Please don’t do what I didn’t tell you to do?

I have no intention of accepting you as a disciple. Of course Maria too.

Why do you keep asking me, villager A, to be your teacher…….

“Mr. Prause, I have proven my worth to Mr. Prause. Will you accept me as your disciple?”

“Tina, Iris. I have nothing to teach you. Don’t be seduced by Maria’s self-indulgent voice.”

Even if I don’t do anything, the more demons they meet, the stronger they will become.

In order to reduce the time of trial and error, I had the idea to give advice after living together for several years.

However, that did not mean that he would make a disciple.

Does it make sense that villagers teach the warriors who save the world in the first place?

“You always do amazing things, but you don’t make disciples. Ah! Prause, no way!”

As if Tina noticed something, her eyebrows raised.

Could it be that you noticed my weakness?

I was about to hurriedly block her mouth.

“Is it because you want to get attention from other people?!”

“?”

What is this crazy sound?

She looked at her dumbfounded, her eyes shining as she fluttered alone.

“It just caught on. That look!”

“Foot!”

“… Don’t split, Ariel.”

“Ah. That’s right, that’s right. The reason why I intentionally showed the aura sword to adventurers was because I wanted to get attention from the world! Kuk-kuk!”

A rotten b*tch fooling around like this is the spirit king who protects the world tree?

Oh, my God.

“As expected, Prause is interesting.”

“Am I a clown?”

“Oh! It suits you well.”

Ariel claps and agrees.

Should I really hit you?

…… No. I feel like I’m going to cut off my wrist from hitting you.

“How about setting up a circus troupe like this?”

“Stop shutting up. I don’t want to waste my time unnecessarily.”

“Keuk kuk. Okay.”

Averts her gaze from Ariel, who laughs softly. Duke Tory was looking at Ariel with interest.

“You seem to have a strange energy.”

It was a comment by Duke Tori.

Currently, she is wearing a commoner’s clothes and killing her mana, so she will only look like a very pretty commoner woman to him.

“Hey. This person seems to have a keen sense, too.”

“Who are you?”

“I’m sorry, but I don’t know.”

Look at the way you talk.

If you look closely, Ariel is just as dirty as I am.

I’m like this because of my facial expression management skills, but that person’s personality itself is like that, so you can say Ariel’s quality is worse.

[As expected, Eriya. I can trust her because she clearly draws the line for her.]

I almost laughed at Phasma’s words.

There was a person here whose bean pods were less peeled.

“Are you saying that because you don’t know who is in front of you right now? If she was that cheeky to get on top of Prause—”

“Don’t try to force human culture on me. And then you really die?”

“This year… ….”

The atmosphere subsides.

From the perspective of the Duke of Tori, it would feel like a commoner treating him poorly.

“Wouldn’t it be better to just say it, Ariel?”

“Ariel?”

Duke Tori hesitated for a moment at my words. I think deeply as if searching for knowledge in my head.

“…… Are you referring to Ariel, the king of the wind spirits?”

I didn’t answer. Ariel shrugged her shoulders.

When her party, including me, didn’t deny it, Duke Tori’s face turned sour.

She bows her head straight towards her.

“Sorry. I didn’t even recognize the wind spirit king.”

No matter how dukes or emperors, humans could not stand against the Spirit King.

If S-class adventurers were to gather and subjugate, they could do it.

However, in order to subdue her perfectly, her demons and her corps commander level or higher must come.

Or a warrior who has grown enough to destroy the continent.

“Could it be that Prauss made a contract with the Spirit King?”

“Isn’t it—”

“It’s almost like that.”

Ariel interrupted me. I stared at her.

Looks at me with a sly expression. The giggling was about to get annoyed.

[It seems Eri has a taste for teasing you.]

I’m kidding, that’s good. This is it Okay.

But it was better not to say such things in front of the Duke.

I’m still mistaken for a sword master, so what if I tell you that I signed a contract with the King of Spirits?

Still, this was a city in the Territory of Ausu, ruled by a duke. If he tried to spread a rumor, he spread it throughout the estate and it was no business.

Of course, since it spreads in this huge territory, there will be no human who does not know me in the whole empire, or in the continent of Physis.

f*ck. How did it happen?

Is it from the time you made up your mind to take in the three warriors?

Is it from when you killed Dink?

Is it from when I stopped the Incuro attack?

Is it from when you showed the sword to the adventurers and drove them away?

I cried out as I tore my hair inwardly.

“Oh! Mr. Prause! No wonder! You signed a contract with Ariel! That’s why I didn’t attack Prause-sama even if I said it harshly!”

Here’s another ignorant man with another spoonful.

“Stop it. Noisy.”

“As expected, I am a teacher! Great!”

Tina making her fuss.

“As expected, I would like to have Prause as my teacher.”

Iris replied seriously.

“It was Master who told me to use it. Keep your promise.”

Maria insists.

I didn’t have the strength to deal with the three children’s stubbornness.

“Let it go, Prause.”

As she snaps her fingers, the wind wraps around her body.

Just as the whirlpool died down, she was wearing a green dress with her long blonde hair flying just as she had first appeared to me.

Duke Tori is greatly agitated by her transformation.

She seemed embarrassed to actually witness what she was dubious about. Ariel didn’t even seem to care.

“Because you are a sword master, you must be able to teach Tina and Iris a lot. Besides, you even signed a (verbal) contract with me, the spirit king of the wind.”

Why are there only guys who want to do whatever they want around me?

Why should I take the risk of making these kids my disciples?

In the first place, I wasn’t even a sword master.

Somehow, it was only by borrowing the power of Phasma for a while, and the ‘unshakable vengeance’ was the sword that Tina should use, not me.

Originally, while using this sword, the plan was to make Phasma learn the basics of swordsmanship and illusion swordsmanship.

But when Ariel gave away the ‘Wind Sword – Aura’, the vengeance was inevitable.

“Are you speaking straight?”

[Or are you really thinking of signing a contract with me?]

Use magic to make words ring in your head. It was transmission.

I didn’t sound like I was joking, but I had only one answer.

“… I don’t.”

“Keuk kuk. I thought Prause would answer like that.”

She laughed as she covered her mouth.

“Because I signed a contract with the wind spirit king, my swordsmanship level is sword master… ….”

Duke Tori muttered with his mouth covered.

“As if…… It reminds me of a sword master who died decades ago.”

[Isn’t this referring to me?]

“Right, Phasma.”

I answered without knowing what he said.

“Yes. Phasma. That was the name Decades have passed, but since you were the last sword master in the empire, there’s no way you, as a swordsman, wouldn’t know.”

[…] … The feeling that someone remembers me is more touching than I thought. If it was like this, I really should have raised at least one disciple.]

Phasma spoke in a voice full of emotions.

“You are still talking loudly next to me, how could you not know?”

“Even now…… ?”

Oops. I answered without knowing.

“I see. You…….”

He interrupted once.

“Was it Phasma’s ‘disciple’?”

Disciple of Phasma? What else is he saying

“Phasma doesn’t seem to have had any pupils in his lifetime, but seeing as a sword master like you, it must have been just a rumor.”

[This is a misunderstanding.]

That’s right. Get it wrong

[Rather, Prause is my teacher. He completed the unfinished welcome rampage!]

No, what are you talking about again?

There were a lot of people around, so I couldn’t bear to bet on Phasma.

“At this point, how about registering for the Adventurer’s Guild? If you are a sword master who signed a contract with the Spirit King, you will be able to become an S-class adventurer right away.”

You want to be an adventurer?

That’s bullsh*t. From the moment you officially register for such a thing, you have no choice but to notice the attention of the upper management.

Especially, when the emperor issued an order, he had to follow it without veto. Because they paid that much, other adventurers would not have any complaints, but my situation was different.

Because I am weak.

“I have no intention of becoming an adventurer. Of course, I have no intention of getting caught up in the useless politics of the aristocrats.”

“…… You seem to have that kind of ability, but you’re not willing to step forward. Well, you have a lot of time, so let’s relieve stress by eating a sweet dessert.”

Looking back at his words, the people in maid uniforms were standing there undisturbed.

They had various kinds of desserts in their hands. There were only very sweet things such as cakes, cookies, and macaroons.

As soon as the Duke finishes talking, he moves. They started setting dessert and tea on the table.

“I’ll pick it up.”

“Master! Teacher! Can I eat this?!”

Tina pointed to the chocolate cake and began to get excited.

“Oh, it smells delicious.”

Iris spoke calmly, pretending not to be agitated, but contrary to her voice, her tail was shaking very violently.

“Oh, that looks delicious…” ….”

I glanced to the side and saw Maria swallowing her saliva in admiration.

“You can eat it.”

At my word, the children started devouring their desserts. After watching this, he turned his attention to Duke Tori.

“Then tell me what you want to ask of me. I also got a cause.”

“…… It’s not like that. This is a pure-hearted treat—”

“Hot!”

I snorted.

“I know for sure that a high-ranking aristocrat called a duke, and a person with the highest authority over the entire Aus estate, is not in a position that is comfortable enough to come out to meet a person. Wouldn’t it be better to get to the point quickly?”

At my words, the smile on my face is erased. After a moment of hesitation with a serious expression, he opened his mouth.

“I want you to defeat an S-class adventurer.”

I see. Slowly, now is the time to come back.

The best escort of Ausu.

But you want me to defeat an S-class adventurer? Are you crazy?