Chapter 44 – Chapter 3 – Wise Academy Life
Hororok- Sipping-.
Natasha, who was not particularly fond of coffee, was drinking coffee with a gentle smile and a rather dignified posture.
Certainly, the fairies are beautiful, but they look like pictures even though they are just sitting and drinking coffee.
‘In contrast, our demon lord…’
Unlike Natasha, who drinks well, Yulia has a young expression on her face.
It’s a bonus to glance at Klaus and Natasha as if asking what the hell they taste like.
I tried a few times, but all I could do was sip a little.
I drank coffee with Klaus the other day, but that time I drank it because I added milk and a lot of sugar to make it extremely sweet.
‘Suddenly reminds me of my friend.’
I had a friend who grumbled that he couldn’t understand people who eat Americano.
Klaus himself wasn’t particularly fond of Americano, but he didn’t particularly like it because he was okay with coffee.
“Hmm? Cadet Julia. You don’t seem to be drinking much? Is there anything you don’t like? Could it be that you can’t drink coffee with a fairy because it’s suspicious?”
“… I hope.”
“Then have a quick drink. I’m really castle. I rode it with all my might.”
It was Yulia who unintentionally discovered Natasha’s weakness.
No, honestly, it could be said that it was just a taste that was ambiguous even to say it was a weakness, but since she showed weakness in front of the fairy, it was clear that Yulia would think that this was a weakness.
“Well, I can’t stay like this forever.”
It’s not good for everyone if Natasha continues to prevail.
For that reason, Klaus opened his mouth and ventilated the atmosphere.
“He said he had something to tell me. About the sparring that both of them were at that time.”
“… Oh, did you?”
“… Yes Yes! That’s right!”
He bluntly said that he had no intention of doing so.
The picture they imagined would be sitting alone with Klaus and having a very ‘personal’ story, but it turned out to be Yulia and Natasha who suddenly became two very eager students.
‘I’m sorry, so I’m throwing it this time. There is no next, these.’
Klaus parted his lips as he put down the cleanly finished coffee cup.
“Anyway, because of that part, both students must have wanted to talk with me. What part should you target when fighting someone whose one side is more outstanding than your own? And which part should I supplement?”
“Uh… That, right? Right, cadet Natasha?”
“Yeah? Oh, that’s right. That’s right! Cadet Yulia!”
Two women nodding to each other with very artificial smiles.
Klaus shook his head inwardly at that appearance and continued.
“Compared to Cadet Yulia, Cadet Natasha clearly lacked close combat skills. Cadet Natasha, on the other hand, was absolutely inferior to Cadet Yulia in terms of magic. Originally, as a very formal answer, I would say that Yulia needs more swordsmanship training, and Natasha, on the other hand, needs to improve her magical skills, but…”
Unfortunately, unlike Yulia, Natasha’s magical talents remain mediocre until the end.
Even at that level, Klaus helped him develop his characteristics, and he managed to get to that level.
A woman who, despite being a fairy in her own right, was much better at wielding her spear than magic or archery.
So, Natasha was the one who always served her coldly in the Belarusian family.
“Cadet Yulia.”
“Yes, Professor.”
“If the opponent is stronger than you think, it may be better to avoid it than to hit it. Close combat isn’t just a fight where the offense and defense come and go. Attack is defense, and defense is attack. You may be killed the moment you prepare your magic.”
Sometimes there are people who go there and misunderstand.
When you attack, you only attack, when you defend, you only defend, and so on.
There was a time when Klaus also thought so when he didn’t know anything.
But now, through experience, I know very clearly with my body.
When the enemy’s attack flies, you don’t block it, but attack together.
As a very simple example, if an enemy attacks with a slash, you can use that big movement to stab it as it is, and if the enemy’s posture collapses as a result, another attack is possible.
Or you can hit the face with the handle of the sword instead of simply blocking it.
‘Unless it’s a real battle, it’s a part that is hard to accept with the body even if it’s understood with the head.’
That’s why those proud noble bastards lost a lot during the Continental War.
When attacking, you think you just have to attack, when defending, you think you just have to block and then take the offensive again.
“Cadet Natasha… I’m sorry to say this, but I’m lacking a lot in terms of magic.”
“Eww…”
Maybe it was because he was openly pointed out in front of Yulia where he was lacking.
Natasha let out her saliva and glanced over at Yulia, who was sitting next to her.
Fortunately, Yulia didn’t do anything to make Natasha smile as if she was sorry.
She only harbored the idea that since each of them had many shortcomings, they should learn together.
Nervous about being teased by her, Natasha let out a sigh of relief inside herself.
“Leaving aside the fact that fairies were originally good at magic, they were inferior to most human cadets. Fortunately, it can be said to be superior to beastmen in close combat, so the key is to smoothly start with magic control as soon as possible.”
“Yeah. I’ll try. Professor Klaus.”
In fact, Natasha’s magic control part has improved considerably.
Thanks to the development of Klaus’s skills and characteristics, what should have taken several years to develop has risen all at once.
Of course, it didn’t rise above this point, and even if it was done like this, Natasha’s magical operation was still poor, so there would be almost no growth beyond this point.
‘I can’t help it. As for Natasha, even later on, she’s not the type to attack with magic, but the style to attack with pure force.’
If it wasn’t for Yulia, she would have become a strong person who proudly made her name in the history of the continent.
Unfortunately, thanks to someone who wanted to finish the novel quickly, ‘Actually, the demon king Julia Agnesa was too powerful! Die! I shouted, and everyone died!’ It was just a problem with an explanation.
“Personally.”
“… ?”
“Yeah?”
“These are the cadets I pay the most attention to in the combat magic lecture. Cadet Yulia, Cadet Natasha, who was sitting next to me right now, and Cadet Cecily, who was not here. These three.”
If I said something like this somewhere, I might have been dragged away, saying it was sexual harassment.
However, this world is not a world that shouts equality only in words.
It is a world where people are evaluated based on their skills, abilities, and the level they can achieve.
And because of the confidence that comes from there, there is no bullshit about not making a difference between men and women.
“Cadet Cecily has excellent magic-use skills, so why do you put your hopes on them? It’s because they’re the closest to combat magic.”
“Closest?”
“This is not academic. It’s for the sake of battle, it’s the way to fight. There, there is no place for those with innocent eyes, those with dull eyes, and those stupid people who speak only peace without strength. To be honest, half of the cadets in my class feel like throwing them away.”
Especially those human aristocratic cadets really want to do that.
However, if you cut it off, you talk a lot, and above all, you have to live on the salary that comes out of here for a while, but it was absolutely not possible if the number of lecturers was small.
Let’s be patient, if you stay like this for a few months, the money will come on its own.
Didn’t you go through all the hardships of taking on the difficult southern front anyway during the Continental War?
‘… Southern Front, Southern Front. Yes. Come to think of it…’
Sabaksabak-.
Just around the same time, he met the guy from the southern front.
Muttering that, Klaus drank the contents and grabbed the empty coffee cup.
“Professor Klaus?”
Then, without a hint of hesitation, he immediately turned around and hurled it backwards with all his might.
“Professor?!”
Whether Yulia and Natasha shouted in embarrassment or not, he sat back down.
Meanwhile, the two women, startled by Klaus’s sudden action, tried to see if anyone was seriously injured by being hit by the coffee cup, but something was strange.
There was not even the sound of a broken glass, let alone someone’s scream.
Sabaksabak-.
Soon the two women could confirm that someone was walking this way.
I don’t know who he is, but what I do know for sure is that he’s not an academy cadet.
And it was that he was a member of the military side belonging to the Western Union.
Click-.
The coffee cup that Klaus had thrown on the table came up intact.
“You are still the same.”
“I don’t know what is still there.”
“When I was angry to the end, I always broke a glass one by one. It was during the Continental War and it is now. You don’t know how anxious I was when he threw it anywhere.”
“Why. What if you get hit and get hurt?”
“Nope. I’m afraid that people who don’t know anything will misunderstand you as violent and intolerant of anger. In reality, it’s just expressing the wounds that are about to burst.”
At that, Klaus slowly turned his head.
A woman in a Western Union military uniform was standing in Klaus’ line of sight.
Her neat aura emanating from her body told her that she was not an ordinary person.
She may have lost one eye, but she was wearing her black eyepatch over her left eye, which gave her a more subdued soldiery feel.
‘… Who is this woman?’
Julia glared at the woman wearing what looked like a Western Union military uniform.
The Continental Academy, she said, under no circumstances should outside pressure come in on her.
But why did a stranger in a military uniform come suddenly?
‘Human? No, no.’
The ears, which should have been there for a human being, were not in the right place.
Instead, a pair of animal ears that rose above her head were prickling.
In addition, the stripes on the cheeks were shaped like animal camouflage.
“I thought there was no way, but did you really become a naturalized kingdom? The beasts must hate it.”
“Not only my relatives, but even my parents cut ties with me.”
“Why did you do such a foolish thing? If you are a prisoner, you can just live in the land of a prisoner.”
“Because you were living in the land of men. Commander Klaus.”
“I am no longer the commander. When did you come out of there, are you still talking about the commander?”
“Is that so? Okay. If so, please stop treating me badly. If you are no longer my commander, I am no longer your lieutenant. Klaus.”
Julia and Natasha were surprised once that this prisoner woman suddenly called Klaus by name, and then they were surprised again when she was told that she was an adjutant.
Suin was an adjutant? A haughty and proud beastman almost similar to a fairy lived while humbled himself under a human?
“It looks like the cadets next to you are surprised.”
“I guess so. Because your existence is almost unknown. He came down to the South in the form of reinforcements, refused to return, and served under me. Even though Suin told me to come back like that, I gave up everything and went to the southern front. Did you say you would stay under me?”
“It was. That’s why you appointed me as your own adjutant. But why do you keep doing it? If I were to tell you that I am not a commander, I would have told you to be polite because I am no longer an aide-de-camp.”
“Ah. I’m sorry. Is not it? I’m so sorry about this, Kaela Tigger. This lowly commoner did not know anything, and even in the current kingdom’s military, he was disrespectful to the powerful among the powerful.”
“…”
When Klaus answered seriously, the expression on the face of the tiger beast, Caela Tiger, became even more distorted.
Does it look like he is trying to hide his strong dissatisfaction?
“Rather than that, what are you doing here, Kaela-sama? The military must be busy.”
“… I came to the academy to investigate after receiving a request. Of course, this is a formal investigation with the permission of the Academy President.”
“A formal investigation?”
“Yeah. Are you curious about what kind of investigation it is?”
No, not really. You already know everything.
Klaus thought so while looking at the tiger woman Kaela.
However, Kayla, who did not know that at all, continued with a rather cold voice.
“This is the part about the attack on the human aristocratic cadets that happened a while ago.”
