Chapter 24 – Victoria (3)
*
Kerry trained with Lina for a week. Lina’s teachings were so valuable that I could feel myself growing.
‘I think I know how dangerously he swung his sword.’
It was fortunate that most of the guys I fought were stupid goblins or kobolds, but if I had dealt with a slightly more skilled swordsman, I would have been stabbed to death at once.
“More important than attack is defense and evasion.”
The sound of Kerry and Rina’s wooden swords colliding echoes in the gymnasium.
Compared to before, it looks completely different. Rinaya was always relaxed from start to finish, but Kerry has changed to look quite like a prosecutor.
It’s not like she used to wield her sword randomly.
The effect of training focused on the basics was only for a week, but it was clear.
Kerry grabbed her wooden sword and gasped, catching her breath. Faced with her like this, I understood how strong Lina was.
Up until now, Lina had never lost her breath in sparring. I’m really dying
Her sparring Lina was a little impressed inwardly.
‘Kerry learns faster than I thought.’
I don’t feel like a genius. However, she obviously learned quickly. Lina said the reason she saw was because of her experiences with Kerry’s adventurer.
Kerry is beginning to fully appreciate the need for her swordsmanship and she is working hard to learn. She was quite venomous, she could say.
‘She must have been melting for two years as an adventurer.’
Kerry’s hard work was not in vain. That experience was steadily becoming bones and flesh.
But Kerry shook her head inwardly.
‘As expected, I like magic!’
There was no reason why it was so difficult when learning magic from the White Witch.
Of course, if I had learned the standard way, I should have been studying that thick book until my head was pounding.
‘There’s an easy way, so why bother?’
It’s unfair that I was brought to this world, but I don’t want to suffer even more. I want to suck honey as comfortably and easily as possible. That was petit bourgeois Kerry.
“It’s still a long way! Mr. Kerry. At this rate, even the guards can’t win, let alone the captain of the guards!”
It’s a lie. Now Kerry would easily beat her guard. She said it in the hopes that Kerry would provoke it a little.
‘Damn the guard captain!’
Although complaining inside her, she felt Kerry needed to learn her swordsmanship.
Even if she focuses on magic, the danger of close combat always lurks in battle.
Let’s train hard for this. Kerry practiced swordsmanship with Lina during the day, and accumulated mana in her heart through mana breathing at night.
The interesting thing was that it was getting easier and easier to build up mana through the mana breathing method even though the training of the body had not begun.
‘Come to think of it, I heard that swordsmen above the level are strengthened physically with mana…’
Lina and Natasha’s powers like superhumans are all thanks to Mana. I don’t know the principle, but now that Kerry can handle her mana, it might be possible.
She’s been learning magic for a while, but can she go the path of a swordsman? Intrigued by her curiosity, she asked Lina.
“People who combine magic and swordsman are called magic swordsmen. There are certainly magic swordsmen, but as far as I know, they are not very efficient jobs. It’s hard without talent and hard work.”
A lot of hard work means a lot of hard work. Kerry erased the magic swordsman’s path from her mind. I want to suck honey!
‘As expected, comfort is magic. There’s a white witch on this side, and there’s also an expedient through marbles.’
The magic storage beads I accidentally obtained felt precious again.
‘Sooner or later, I’ll go to the White Witch and find out more about the beads.’
Break time is over Lina’s teaching continued. It is hot and sweltering weather. Just standing here is painful enough.
“Lina-sama, your fair skin will burn. How about taking a little rest and then when the sunlight fades?”
“It’s okay. Thanks to the strong body with mana, I don’t burn in the sun for a while.”
The secret to Lina’s honey skin was mana! The excuses she made up for Rina are not going to work for her. Lina was a tough woman when she gave her lessons.
“Seobang-nim, fighting! Your skills have improved a lot!”
“You’re doing great! Son-in-law!”
Natasha and Granny send cheers. Yes, I was grateful for the support of those two people, but for some reason the medicine went up.
It’s because the form of Natasha and Granny was definitely a Poomsae from a picnic.
“Where are you looking?”
While glancing at Natasha and the old woman for a moment, Lina rushed in. There is no real acknowledgment.
Of course, seeing as I can stop it, I’ll be watching for a while.
“Do you want to rest?”
“Yes. It’s too hot today. Shall we take a break?”
“The enemy does not discriminate between hot days and cold days.”
If so, why did you ask! I blocked Lina’s wooden sword from pushing again.
Lina’s attacks are always varied, and if she’s not paying close attention, she’ll get beaten up.
“If you hold out with me for one minute, I’ll finish it here for today.”
“Really? You promised?”
With that said, Kerry ran. Lina told me to focus on her defense and evasion, but that’s only when both her skills are similar.
If Lina decides to knock me down, there’s no way she can stand it.
Based on what I had learned so far, I took the most aggressive position and pushed Lina.
‘Hold on for one minute! Hold on! Let’s get some rest today!’
Kerry’s happy life in another world did not include rigorous training.
However, it was unreasonable to last even one minute.
*
There were people who secretly kept their eyes on the gymnasium. They were guards. I came to observe Kerry on the orders of the chief of security.
“It’s quite a bit, but that guy.”
“I’ve improved a lot since then. When I first saw it, I thought there was nothing to worry about.”
The guards reported Kerry’s growth. Upon hearing the story, the captain of the guard became annoyed.
“No matter how much I’m going to lose to the guy who learned a week? The bastards are arrogantly making fun of their mouths.”
‘If you’re so confident, then why did you ask for reconnaissance?’
The guards who reported were swearing inwardly, but could not speak out.
‘There’s no way I’m going to lose to a guy who looks like that.’
The chief of the guards, his appearance was very ferocious even among the men of this savage other world. His overbearing face and scars served him very well in guard work.
It was to the point where even a few guys wouldn’t mess around in front of the captain of the guard.
“Captain. If you don’t believe me, why don’t you see it for yourself? It’s because your skills are really different from before?”
“This bastard? To peek embarrassingly?”
“Anyway, isn’t it the same whether we see it or the captain sees it himself?”
“Shut up.”
At those words, the guards shut their mouths. It’s really scary when you get angry with a face like that.
The captain of the guard has recently accumulated a lot of irritation.
Fortunately, I was given the sweet title of guard captain, but because of the two idiots, I had to take responsibility for myself as well.
Miss Victoria certainly said this.
[If you win the bet, I won’t hold you accountable for not managing your subordinates. But if you lose… You know my personality, right?]
If you lose, it’s clear that you’ll do all kinds of shit. Contrary to her appearance, Victoria wasn’t as docile as she seemed.
She had been cheating a bit, so I could tell just by cutting off her men’s hands.
‘Isn’t this dangerous for me too?’
I wouldn’t even cut my wrists because of a subordinate, but the chief of the guard has not only committed one or two corruptions.
The problem was getting serious, because Victoria was publicizing the fight between the outsider and the captain of the guard as if it were some kind of event.
“Did you hear about that? The captain of the guard said he was going to sparring with an outsider this time. In the meantime, he’s holding a sparring tournament for commoners, right?”
“Ah. I heard about that. At that event, you said that you were allowed a special road trip, right? Maybe we could pull a penny too.”
“It’s been a long time since I’ve had something interesting to see. It’ll be the most fun when the guard captain gets beaten up.”
In another world where entertainment is scarce, violence is a very entertaining pastime.
Of course, it’s just sparring with a wooden sword, but it’s more than enough to watch when you’re bored.
On top of that, it was even more so if the target was the captain of the guard, who was usually arrogant towards the residents.
“Damn it. It’s unlucky.”
The captain of the guard was swearing at his men for no reason. Because it all seemed to be because of the stupid subordinates.
At that time, Kerry finished training with Lina. Sweat pours from her body like rain.
After washing my sweaty body, I went out to have dinner with Lina and others.
“Beer. I want a cold beer.”
“Yes. Then let’s go get a beer.”
When not in her training, Lina was as amiable as usual. How nice it would be if she did this even during training.
It was time for her to hurriedly move to a store that had beer that she said tasted good.
Some scruffy beggar catches the pants dance.
“What?”
“Give the poor beggar a penny.”
It was begging. It was a common beggar found anywhere in another world where there was no concept of welfare.
At other times, if I was fine, I would have yelled at him and ignored him, but now it’s different.
There are eyes to see. A regressor like the embodiment of an angel is looking at Kerry. You’re lucky.
“Buy me some bread with this.”
“Thank you. Thank you.”
When Lina sees me, she smiles happily. Natasha seemed not to like her very much.
“Seobang-nim is so nice that it’s Tal. If we continue to help people like that, we may continue to live as beggars in the future.”
Personally, Natasha’s values are similar to mine. Lina seemed to have a slightly different opinion, but she didn’t bother to argue.
Kerry spread her hands unknownst to her party.
‘What is this?’
In Kerry’s hand was a note. When she had just given the money to the beggar, it was the note the beggar had secretly given her.
[Miss you. Adventurer. I’ll be waiting for you at the inn with the red roof on Inn Street. Please let me know when you have time. -Ellie]
Ellie? Could it be that brown-haired Ellie? But why does that beggar have Eli’s note?
Looking behind her, the beggar was nowhere to be found.
‘Ellie has a secret rendezvous? She doesn’t suit me.’
There was no reason for Ellie to be here in the first place.
Is it some sort of trap? If it were a trap, it could have been a trap dug by the skeleton and the pig. No. That’s weird too.
They weren’t seriously injured, their bodies were split in half and they ran away. How could they know that Kerry met Ellie without her company knowing?
To be honest, I felt uncomfortable, but I was curious. More than anything… When she thought of Ellie’s great skill, she started to freak out.
*
Early that evening, Kerry went to see Ellie at the inn.
If this were a trap, I wouldn’t have chosen the inn street where many people stay.
It’s a place where the soundproofing isn’t good, so obscene moaning is heard every day.
If it meant harm, she should have chosen a more private place.
When we arrived at the inn, the owner was sitting reading a newspaper.
“Master. Did a man named Eli come in?”
The host stared at my face while reading the newspaper. Then he nodded his head.
“Are you talking about the brunette lady? Hey It’s a meeting of young handsome men and women. It’s a good time. The lady is in the second room on the left hallway on the third floor. He said you’d be coming.”
“Thank you.”
Have brown hair The color of her hair didn’t make her feel safe, but she had a feeling Ellie was right.
I knocked on the door of the inn the owner said. What. No response. Did you leave
Knock Knock Knock
When I knock on the door again, I hear the sound of the floor creaking and walking from inside the room.
And the door opened slightly. Ellie’s eyes or not, her eyes were looking at me through the doorway.
“…Ellie? Right?”
Kerry was very nervous that her blade might come out. So that she could blow her body at any time.
Now that the situation is like this, I don’t know how strong the swordsmanship I learned from Lina is.
“That man is right.”
The voice wasn’t Ellie’s. She was started when she put her hand on the hilt of her sword.
The door was wide open.
At the door was a woman who looked like Missy in her well-toned shape. She stands with the pipe in her mouth.
The woman took a sip of cigarette smoke and said.
“Come in. Self.”
Who are you looking at?
“Why am I in there? I know what will be. In the first place, I came to see Ellie. Who are you?”
“Ugh. They say he’s big and his things are big, but he’s very timid.”
‘Where did you hear that my stuff is big?’
“Would you like to introduce yourself?”
“Let’s hear who it is.”
It was when the tense tension entered the hallway. A bright and cute voice came from inside the room.
“Adventurer! I really missed you!”
It was Ellie. She was cute the way she waved her hand as if she was happy. She was so nervous that the atmosphere melted in an instant.
And the woman in front of her smiled as if she was having fun.
“Heh heh. What are you so scared of? A man of great size. Still, I don’t think it’s young blind. I am Ellie’s madam. Nice to meet you. Self.”
What the hell did these women come to me for?
