Chapter 42 – Now I’ll Do It
“… What did you say?”
“Huh? I don’t have a boyfriend…”
Hearing that, Allen Bout turned his head and looked at his champion.
There was a naive expression on the face of the warrior who casually uttered shocking remarks.
“Then… Why would you do such an obscene thing…”
“I thought so too at first, but I declined. Yuria said this is what all wizards do, so…”
There can be no such training method.
If wizards were training and they were a tribe that did such lewd things, Allenbaut would not have walked the path of a wizard.
“Then… A woman named Yuria is not a lover, is she?”
“Huh. And most of all, Yuria already has a boyfriend named Hod.”
At the feast of shocking remarks that continued, Allenbout seemed to lose his mind.
‘She already has a lover?’
She has a lover, so why did she lie and do such filthy things?
When Allenbaut looked at the warrior with an expression asking what he was talking about, the hero hesitantly opened his mouth as if he had committed a crime.
“It’s embarrassing, but… Yuria has a boyfriend named Horde. Even so, he is helping me by sacrificing himself for my magic training.”
“…”
No matter how ignorant and insensitive she is when it comes to dating, there’s no way she can’t figure out what Yuria is thinking after listening to that.
‘She has a lover, and to seduce her while telling lies like that to straddle her?’
In Allen Bout’s head, Yuria’s stock price, which was already low, starts hitting her bottom in an instant.
‘This, such a lascivious… Hwa, Hwa-nyeon… !’
Terrible anger begins to form in Allenbout’s blue eyes.
The anger in his eyes was gradually transmitted to Allenbaut’s hands, and Allenbaut’s fragile hands turned into small fists that didn’t look so painful.
“Whoa… Whoa…”
Today is the first time in my life that I have felt such intense anger towards another person.
It didn’t take long for Allenbout, who was gasping for breath with rage, to realize that this rage wasn’t just anger, it was murder intent.
“Allenbout… Are you okay?”
Upon seeing Allenbout, who was out of breath, the hero reached out his hand, and Allenbaut grabbed the hero’s hand and said,
“Follow me.”
“Huh? What is that all of a sudden?”
It was Allenbaut who took the bewildered hero by the hand and tried to drag him halfway by force.
“Ugh… !”
There was no way that Allenbaut, who had never heard anything heavier than a book, could drag the hardened warrior, the warrior, by force.
Allenbout looked at the hero, who didn’t budge no matter how hard he tried, with annoyed eyes.
“Just don’t ask me anything and follow me quickly!!”
“… I don’t know what it is, but I’ll figure it out.”
So, Allenbout headed to the library again holding hands with the hero.
Seeing the two holding hands, library users looked at them with eyes asking what the hell was that.
But Allenbaut, whose head was half-turned with anger, did not enter the mind of such a gaze.
Allenbaut opened the door of the library roughly and immediately found Yuria at the desk reading a magic book with Lina.
I was definitely with Lina before I went out to practice, so if nothing special happened, I would still be with her.
‘Found.’
As Allenbout speculated, Yuria was reading a magic book with Lina in front of the desk on the first floor.
The two of them whispered something into each other’s ears in between, but it was so soft that Allenbout couldn’t hear it.
“You.”
Perhaps it was because she was so focused on her magic book that she was reading, Yuria only noticed when Allen Baut approached her and started talking to her.
“Oh… ! Ah, Lord Allenbout…”
When Yuria saw Allen Baut holding hands with the hero, her eyebrows narrowed involuntarily, but she immediately regained her senses and relaxed her expression.
“Uh? Are you here? I read all of these, can you summon me for the next book?”
Unlike Yuria, who has a low profile due to her position as a wizard, Lina treated Allen Bout in a light manner as if meeting her friend.
Allenbout, who was usually far from the word friend, liked this sense of distance.
“Because it was from 1st to 10th… Shouldn’t it be the next 10 books?”
With one flick of Allenbout’s hand, the books stacked next to Lina disappeared and new ones appeared on the desk.
“Thank you, but I don’t think I came here to do this…”
Saying that, as Lina glanced at YuRia, Allen Baut nodded her head with a slightly firm expression.
“… I have come to tell you something.”
“… To me?”
For some reason, when Yuria stood in front of Alen Bout, she became depressed and her heart kept trembling as if she had become a sinner.
Whether he knew that feeling or not, Allenbaut calmly spoke to YuRia.
“Okay. I hear you’re having some interesting training with this guy.”
“Training… ?”
When the word training came out, YuRia and Lina looked up at Allenbout, as if they had any guesses.
They were two people who did the same thing, but their eyes were completely opposite. Unlike Yuria’s eyes, which trembled as if guilty, Lina’s eyes sparkled with anticipation.
“Wh, what kind of training method are you talking about…”
“It’s training at night. Do you know what I mean when I say this?”
She was YuRia, who let go of her pretense just in case, but Allen Baut wasn’t kind enough to just let her go.
“Really… I came up with a creative training method. I am sincerely admirable.”
As Allenbout clapped with a cynical smile, dry applause echoed through the library.
Contrary to the words that sound heartwarming at first glance, the atmosphere between the two was stern.
Amid the tension between the two, the hero asked Yuria without notice.
“Yuria? What do you mean she came up with? To me, all wizards do it…”
“Uh? That, that…”
When Yuria was taken aback by the unexpected hero’s attack, Allenbaut tapped the hero’s side and said,
“You fool. If you hadn’t made such an excuse, you would have trained like that. I even lied for you, but I shouldn’t question you, I should say thank you.”
When Allen Boutt scolded him, the hero scratched his head and said,
“Ah… I didn’t mean to. I’m sorry if it sounded like that, Yuria.”
“No what…”
YuRia’s embarrassment at Allenbout’s unexpected behavior only increased.
‘What… You think?’
I thought she would criticize herself if the training was discovered, but why did she say something to protect Yuria?
As if she wouldn’t give her time to think, Allen Baut continued, saying to YuRia, who desperately shook her head.
“Speaking back to the training, she must be strong enough to do such training with a body that has a lover. Let me do it instead.”
“… No.”
Her words flowed out of Yuria’s mouth, which would normally have been closed tightly, as if her head had turned from hearing such shocking words.
“What’s wrong?”
“… Ah, I can’t give the daughter of the Allenbout family such training. And if bad rumors circulate…”
“I have no fiancee, and my brother, the head of the household, is not a great man who will forcibly marry me somewhere without asking my will. So even if rumors like that spread, I don’t care at all.”
“Yeah, but…”
“And I wasn’t going to say that, but I would be a better training partner than you.”
“Yes? What else is that…”
At her bewildered Yuria, Allen Baut pointed to the badge with the number 6 on her chest and said,
“Looking at that badge, you seem to be a 6th class mage, am I right?”
“Yes… You’re right.”
When YuRia nodded her head politely, Allen Bout took out her badge, which she normally doesn’t wear and hides in her arms, and said,
The badge, which looked exactly like Yuria’s badge except for one part, had a 7 written on it to prove that it was a 7th circle, not a 6.
“I am in the 7th circle. Now, my side will be more helpful to this guy than the four circle that he soon caught up with.”
“Oh, no… That, though… !”
Even after saying this, Allen Baut pointed at her own ear as if telling her to bring it closer to YuRia who did not give up.
Shortly thereafter, when Yuria carefully brought her ear to Allen Baut, Allen Baut spoke in a very small voice that only her Yuria could hear.
“… Now this guy will be on the 6th circle soon. Wouldn’t it be better to do some circle training in preparation for that time? Otherwise he would be really useless and thrown away.”
“… Ugh, ugh… !”
At her irrefutable words, YuRia could only bow her head while clenching her teeth.
Allen Boutt left behind Yuria with her tail lowered like a defeated dog and spoke to her warrior beside her.
“Then, I think the talk is over, so I’m going to visit you tonight.”
“… Hey, I haven’t agreed yet? In the first place, what the hell is this situation…”
Allenbaut cut off the warrior’s words and said to the warrior who was embarrassed because he could not grasp the situation yet.
“Aren’t you looking at me too funny?”
“Uh… ?”
When the hero was taken aback by the sudden aggressive words, Allenbaut said,
“I don’t think you know what a valuable opportunity it is to have a 7th Circle mage coach me by my side, even though I don’t get paid. I said it first, but shouldn’t you have asked for it originally?”
The opportunity to receive 1:1 education from a magician like Allenbout was not something money could buy.
Realizing the preciousness of it, the warrior lowered his head and said.
“Surely… That’s right. If the favor continues, I know it’s a right… I think I took this precious time with you too lightly.”
“Valuable time… !”
Hearing those words, the corners of Allen Bout’s mouth went up, but he desperately suppressed his laughter and said:
“I don’t know why… You want to be strong, right?”
“… Huh.”
“Then you must have that kind of earnestness. Talent is important, hard work is important, but the most important thing is mindset. You are perfect in both your talent and effort, but your mindset is a bit lacking.”
“… !”
Hearing that, the hero made an expression as if he had been hit with a hammer.
As Allenbaut said, even though he was shouldering the great task of subjugating the demon king, did he really have the right mindset as Allenbaut said?
“There is nothing wrong with what you said…”
“Yes?”
“But that and this seem to be a bit different. Even so, with a girl who never got married…”
“Then, did he do that kind of training because he was a married, non-virgin? Ah… Aren’t you a virgin even if you haven’t married?”
YuRia, who had been hearing those words, shook her body, but Allen Baut didn’t care and continued.
“Looking at your personality that I’ve seen so far. I don’t think it’s just a thoughtless pursuit of power. I don’t know what it is, but I’m sure you have an idea.”
“…”
“I don’t know what you’re thinking, but I’ll help you to the best of my ability.”
“Allenbout… Then I really don’t mind, but is it okay if I ask you?”
“You said that from the beginning. Then I’ll come see you tonight. Don’t sleep, wait, okay?”
“… Huh!”
