Chapter 15 – Outrage. ( 3 )
After returning home from school, Cashew Nut changed into comfortable clothes. When she took off her school uniform, which was a bit cramped, the flow of her thoughts seemed to open up.
‘What should I do now?’
The cashew nut, which took out some cookies from the cupboard and chewed them, thought.
I didn’t think I would lose because my ability was my ability. Nowhere else in the world was there anyone talking about being ‘invincible’ except for himself. If you hold on, it was obvious that you would see the numbers.
Still, I had to be prepared for any unexpected dangers. Lilia is not an easy opponent. She seemed to like figuring out a way to apply this shield.
‘I wonder if there’s something in my memory.’
I had a sudden thought and ran my fingers through her hair as I searched through her memories. Clues were soon discovered. Before entering the academy, she lived only in the castle. Instead of going to school, she recalled those days when she was receiving private tutoring from various teachers.
As a child, cashew nuts did not have an invincible shield ability. She was just an ordinary normal person. She still had one thing to protect her body.
Longsword swordsmanship.
If she is a noble, she must know how to protect herself. She started by hearing those words, but she was more suited to it than she thought, and she became familiar with the sword.
She went to swordsmanship competitions, and she also achieved results in her own way. Several medals on display in her display case were proof of that.
Then, as she gained her shield abilities, she fell apart from her sword. It’s because she uses a two-handed sword and it’s difficult to use a shield.
However, there was one weapon that could break this rule.
“Valnir.”
The name she had retrieved from her memory, Cashew said briefly.
Valnir. It was a one-handed sword made by specially processing obsidian to inherit Cashew’s ability and swordsmanship.
Looking at the basic specs, it was nothing better than an iron cold weapon. It was a bit heavier and had a taste of wielding it, but that also meant heavier and duller.
When the cashew nut held that sword, it completely changed.
Balnir was the only weapon that could cover the shield of cashew nuts. It wields a sharp sword that cannot be destroyed by anything, with the overwhelming power it has stored up. It was a special move that could turn the cashew nut’s ability, which was properly coordinated, into an extreme ball in an instant.
Balnir was now at Lüberg Castle, the home of cashew nuts. I have such a good weapon, but don’t bring it? Nonsense. I need to send it soon
I picked up my phone. He found the phone number of ‘Leo Lüberg,’ his father and current duke. He tried to call me right away.
But all of a sudden, I had a thought.
‘He’s one of the few people who knows cashew nuts well.’
Before entering the academy, Cashew Lüberg was only stuck in schools or castles. Even in elementary school and middle school, there was no way I would have friends because I maintained that distance.
However, cashew nuts’ father, Leo, has seen cashew nuts in the past since he was born. He had to be careful.
‘I have to act very clearly.’
I shouldn’t have shown the appearance of cashew nuts that give closeness to people who are close to me while maintaining a moderate distance like now. It had to be a cashew nut closest to the original, making only cool judgments.
With that thought imprinted in his head, Cashew pressed the call button. The phone rang a few times, and then a heavy male voice came from far away.
“Cashew, it’s been a while.”
“Yes, father. Were you healthy during that time?”
“I am doing well.”
Leo’s voice was serious and full of resonance.
“So, are you doing well with your academy life?”
“I am taking classes diligently and getting good grades.”
“What about your new friends?”
“I have one.”
“That is a bit unfortunate. You have to know how to get along with a lot of people.”
Perhaps even in the duke’s family, after all, a family is a family, and the words exchanged between the two were ordinary.
Among the greetings, cashew nuts were also mixed in.
“I heard what you did recently. That I was beaten for standing up to a teacher who wielded authority. Are you okay?”
“Yes. I drank the mana potion and got better right away.”
“I never hit you, even if I scolded you. Still, I hope it will be a good experience.”
Actually, it wasn’t just a good experience, it was an experience that would blow my mind, but I decided not to show it off.
“So, what did you call me for? I wouldn’t have called just to say hello.”
“Yes. I called because I have a business.”
When the main topic came up, Cashew focused and said the necessary things in turn.
“I need Valnir. It’s the sword I custom-made in the past. And one duel notary.”
“A duel notary in Valnir?”
“Yes.”
After a moment of silence, Leo asked a question.
“Was it a duel or a walk?”
“I walked.”
“I really didn’t expect to duel your personality.”
Leo, who was so steadfast, trembled a little when he heard the word ‘duel’ in his voice.
Leo continued to ask questions while maintaining that trembling.
“Can I ask why you walked?”
My friend was badly beaten, and as a human being, I couldn’t contain my anger. Cashew Nut, who was about to spit out these words, hesitated at the moment that came to mind.
‘Wait, there’s no way we could have a duel like this with cashew nuts, right?’
When Efri was being bullied, she said, ‘her memory’ was not her, so she advised her to just watch. However, she listened to the advice and did not act, so this division was born.
She wiped her chest in surprise as she subconsciously realized that she was about to cause a major accident. And she struggled to fit the duel into the image of cashews.
Again, there was nothing wrong with it. Soon the scenario was created. Cashew nuts read the lines in her head again in a calm voice.
“Her new friend was attacked. To the teacher who abused her authority. It was indirectly because no one could ever put me down. Personally, I couldn’t tolerate such an act, and I couldn’t wait to see the prestige of the Duke of Lüberg fall like that. So I threw the arena.”
Needless to say, it was really like the original ‘Cashew Nut Lüberg’, and his soul waited for the Duke’s reaction with a satisfied expression.
As if thinking for a moment, the Duke’s voice came from the silent speaker. His voice, which had been slightly trembling, had returned to normal before he knew it.
“I see. Protect the duchy’s prestige. That’s a good thing. I taught you that way too.”
“Can’t we stop talking about his prestige?”
At the sudden intrusion of a new voice, Cashew listened to her. It was clearly male, but the voice looked a generation older than Leo’s.
The protagonist of the voice was Leo’s father, ‘Heinz Lüberg’, a former duke until a year ago.
Haines continued to attack Leo.
“Anyway, I became a father, and when I have to play the role of a father, I sit as a duke, so won. Can it be done right Tsk tsk.”
“Father, but this case… “
“You made a cool decision? Yes, I judged very hard. But that’s a duke’s job, not a cashew nut’s, you bastard! Give me a call.”
Soon after, along with the sound of the phone moving, Haynes’ voice, which had been small, became clearer.
“Oh, cashew nuts. How much is this?”
“Grandpa, it’s been a while since I heard your voice.”
“Well, then! Long time no see! Haha!”
Haynes had returned to his normal grandfather figure before he knew it.
“By the way, what are you doing with the castle?”
“Because our His Excellency needs help. So I stopped by for a day. I was about to solve it and leave, but suddenly the phone rang.”
“Oh, I see.”
Her grandfather’s voice, which she heard for the first time in this world, somehow contained the same grandmother’s warmth that she had felt in her previous life.
‘Suddenly… I kind of miss home.’
I felt a strong nostalgia for a moment. Her busy life and her masochistic pleasure reminded her of the embrace of her forgotten family. I didn’t see her often, so it wasn’t close, but the power of the word ‘family’ was very strong.
She got a little gloomy, but it’s been too long already for that to make her gloomy. She had long since accepted the fact that she couldn’t go back.
Obstacles are to be overcome, not to be stumbled upon.
Still, Haines’ voice soothed the depressed cashew. She felt the warmth and tried to suppress the memories of her past.
“Yeah, it happened anyway.”
“As expected, Grandpa is living a fun life.”
“If life is not fun, is it worth living? Living like this is the secret to being happy.”
After Haines finished speaking, her cell phone rang for a moment.
And as soon as the sound ended, Haines’ question, which was much more serious than before, was heard.
“So I want to ask you. Cashew, are you having fun?”
Cashew Nut was speechless at her sharp question.
Was the cashew nut memory interesting? She wasn’t at all What’s fun about a life where there’s no interaction and no conflict, she asks. From the very beginning, she accepted her masochistic desires because of her boredom.
However, what did the original cashew nut Lüberg think of the past life of the person who lived this life?
She couldn’t answer, so she spat out an ambiguous answer.
“In moderation, I think I’m living well.”
“Be moderate. Suitable life. Not bad.”
After a brief pause, Haines gave her last words to the cashews.
“But remember this one thing. That we need to experience the passionate life once in a while.”
Passionate life. It had so many meanings.
After hanging up her phone, she chewed on the words. She herself was living a passionate enough life now.
When others see me, I do things like pervert that I would wave my hand at, with friends who have similar tendencies. She felt the pounding emotions associated with her friend, and the feeling of anger at seeing her friend suffer.
But this feeling was entirely his.
“Ha… “
What is cashew nuts now? She wondered if the original self she had shown to Efri, the original self from Earth, was correct, or was the self the world knew was correct.
The answer was completely waiting for his own choice.
Her head ached and she felt nauseous. It was an unanswerable question, so she decided to put it off.
