Chapter 104 – 104. Camp Training (3)
“By the way, Hyuna. Can we stay here like this?”
“Why do you ask that?”
“No, Eira-sama and I are students for now. I was worried that if the absence period was this long, it might become a problem…”
“You participated as an official member of this expedition. Of course, I duly inquired with the school and got permission. Even Ei probably tried her hand at Riod. It seems that Eira, who was just about to graduate anyway, had no problems. Than that.”
Eunhyun rolled her fists and fed Erin’s forehead with honey chestnuts.
“Ouch! It hurts!”
“Focus. Her mana is running out again.”
“Uuuuu03000000000000000000000000’s in training…”
Erin, who made her cry, grunted and muttered at her, but she regained her senses and began to activate the circulation of magic within her body.
“Honestly, the most urgent thing at this point is to naturally bring out the power of the nine-tailed fox in your body. Gradually draw out the mana in your body and release it. It’s about keeping the image in your head.”
“An image that came to my mind…”
Erin immediately recalled herself fighting the succubus.
Fox ears that grew on her own head, and nine silvery-white tails that grew around her waist.
Recalling her own state that overflowed all over her body at that time, in order to recreate her appearance at that time, Erin was undergoing in-depth training to use the magic within her body.
“Ugh…”
Her concentration peaks, and sweat begins to form on Erin’s forehead as she squeezes and draws out the strength in her body.
Soon after, indigo blue fox ears formed on her own head appeared, and her Erin happily jumped around her, starting to like her.
“All right, all right!”
Before long, Erin put on her puzzled expression as she saw a silvery-white tail rustling around her waist.
“To? But this time it only has one tail?”
[Is that because of your lack of discipline? There is no problem at all. Keep working hard and working hard so that you can manifest all nine tails in the future.]
“Oh, what a surprise…”
At Miho’s voice echoing in her head, Erin shrugged her shoulders and put on a surprised expression.
“I guess he spoke.”
Miho’s voice was not audible to Eunhyeon, she was heard only by Erin, but seeing Erin’s reaction to her, Eunhyeon could easily guess.
“Huh? Do you know this person?”
“Little.”
Not knowing that Eun-hyeon had a history of fighting a nine-tailed fox possessing her body, Erin only tilted her head.
“If he has spoken to you directly, you’d probably be better off getting help from him regarding this power.”
“Yea, I got it!”
Although it was not in her plan, Erin’s current situation, which suddenly awakened her divine power, was an ambiguous situation where she could not even use her own power properly.
However, this was also a happy miscalculation, and she had no doubt that if she could handle the divine power properly, her future growth would be even greater than Eun-hyeon expected.
“Okay. Try hard.”
As she laughed and tossed her hair roughly, Erin nodded her head with a lively laugh.
“Huh!”
Next, Eunhyeon turned her head and approached Yuria, who was still lying on the mat on the floor.
“How are you? Are you okay?”
“It’s not okay, you bitch…”
“It’s a harsh and uncultured way of speaking, not like a princess of a country. Half way through now?”
Looking at Yuria, who had slumped on the mat and spat out cursing at Eunhyeon, Eunhyeon laughed in vain.
Eunhyeon must have had too many things piled up on her, and she seemed to have decided to get rid of honorifics and semblances of courtesy.
“Have you ever treated me as a princess? I mean a person If you make a promise, you must keep it. What? Magic class? To your common sense, the shitty PT gymnastics you get in the military is a magic class, right?”
“Shh, it’s too loud. If possible, I would like you to refrain from talking about it.”
“Aww. Why do I have to get this why! I am a wizard!”
It was so sad that he now starts crying and wailing.
Eleanor, who stayed by her side and took care of Yuria, had no time to take care of the bloodied wounds of Alex and his party in a mock battle with Eunhyeon.
“Even a wizard needs stamina. It’s not like other people are to use magic while fighting with a sword or weapon, just basic physical training is a necessary part for the princess. He seems to have built a wall after exercising more than I thought.”
“Where is the reason I need to train my physical strength! Even when I was being educated in the palace, there was no mention of that!”
“That is their way. Since the princess followed me, didn’t you promise not to fall for the way I present it?”
“…”
As if she had nothing to say, YuRia just stared at Eunhyun.
“Let’s make an assumption.”
“What?”
“Currently, Queen Diane’s forces dominate inside the palace, and in order to appoint Damien, Queen Diane’s son, as the crown prince, they are looking for the second candidate for the throne, Queen Helena’s son and the princess’s younger brother, Evan. They are frantic to criticize the princess and Prince Evan in order to keep them in check. Yes?”
“… So?”
“In such a situation, the princess is currently in a state where her power base that supports her is not properly, and she is in a situation where she is not free. She says that if a threat is looming over the princess and no one is around her, she is the only one who can protect the princess, because she is the princess alone.”
“Ah! What do you want to say!”
As if not understanding what she was saying, Yuria screamed.
“She’s at least getting to the point where she can fend for herself to the extent of her life, then she’s complaining.”
“Eww… !”
Yuria’s body trembled as if she had been caught off guard.
“So, she said she wanted to learn magic.”
“Magic isn’t the only thing a wizard needs to pay attention to in a fight. Didn’t the princess feel something while going through this expedition, wearing military gear and going through a long march together? That her own stamina was too low. I know that the princess was educated only in the palace and she grew up like a flower in a greenhouse. But wasn’t her fundamental reason for following me that she wanted to get out of the palace and prove her worth on her own?”
Not because of her status as the country’s princess, not as the daughter of Helena Houbi, and not as the older sister of her younger brother Evan, who is a candidate for crown prince, but because she wanted to prove her worth as ‘Uria Pernias’ to many people.
“…”
“I think the princess is misunderstanding something, but Alex and the escort knights can’t always stay by her side and protect you. The biggest reason why Alex escorts the princess is that her father, Monk Abro, is supporting Helena Houbi. “
Regarding his feelings, Eunhyeon did not mention anything else, only presenting a political stance.
“I know that the Royal Knights who protect the royal family, those who are veterans or those who hold power tightly in Krasir are all from Queen Diane’s faction. So it means that it is impossible for the current princess. Imagine a situation where there is no escort driver anywhere, anytime, and develop the power to protect yourself. Physical training is the beginning.”
YuRia was at a loss for words at the undeniable conclusion, but she put the existence of a person in her mind into her mouth.
“Then… What about Iliana-sama?”
When I mentioned her as an example of her being a magician and hating even her movement, let alone her movement, her Eun-hyeon frowned at once.
“He… To be honest, I have to see it as an exception.”
“What is the logic you just unfolded? Then?”
“Under… Illyana is a real exception. Do you know why? What about him? Even going directly to the next village, which is half a day away by carriage, is annoying, so he is a patient with ridiculous talent, so he improved teleport by self-taught, which is a disadvantage of ignorant consumption of magic power and long casting time. Even when I told them to exercise like that, they listened to me and didn’t hit me, but in the end, I also lifted both my hands and feet.”
“Uh, um… That, is it?”
Contrary to Eunhyeon’s sudden, rapid-fire complaints, Yuria, unable to find anything to say, gave her an ambiguous reply.
Soon, Yuria’s complexion turned pale.
“Yeah, but… Isn’t Illyana-sama a great high-ranking magician?”
“Then what do you do? I don’t listen to what people say. My body does not want to move to the extreme, and really, as time goes by, only strange stubbornness increases…”
“Okay? Didn’t I know you had those thoughts?”
“…”
Eun-hyeon’s face hardened at the cool voice that lingered in her ears.
“Uh… I’m here? Body? Aren’t you sick yet?”
When I asked her condition with her awkward face, Illyana made a puzzled expression as if her body was still not feeling well.
“It still hurts, but not to the point where I can’t stand it. More than that, were you talking about something interesting?”
“Uh, no, that’s what…”
“Are you okay. It’s true that I didn’t do it until now. But not now?”
“What?”
“I think I should do something called exercise now. I have a reason to do it.”
“…”
Illyana slowly approached her Eunhyeon, grabbed her by the collar and pulled her towards herself.
Illyana put her mouth close to Eunhyun’s ear, who was dragged in without resistance, and she spoke in a small voice that only Eunhyun could hear.
“Wait a month. I will never forget what happened last night.”
Illyana’s cheeks are red as she glared at Eun-hyeon, who gave her an unforgettable shame.
Eun-hyeon stared at Illyana with a blank expression as she relaxed her hand holding her collar and let go of Eun-hyeon before heading to YuRia.
“Now, should we start class?”
“I-was it really? I thought you tricked me… Really, Illyana-sama is teaching my magic class?!”
“Don’t look at me as a daughter of royalty. So, I will. Will you speak?”
“Ha, I will! Let me do it! Ugh!”
Joyfully, Yuria immediately stood up, and struggled to get up while groaning at the throbbing pain.
After staring at the two of them, Eunhyun sighed and turned her head again.
“Now, then, is it only Eira at the end?”
“Now, thank you!”
Eira bowed her head to Eunhyun in her nervous voice.
“Honestly, I don’t know exactly what your skills are. For now, let’s have a simple sparring.”
“Darren, when you say sparring…”
Eira looked at Alex with her pale complexion, and Eunhyun smiled as she realized what she was thinking.
“I’m not going to push you that hard. For now, I’m just going to block it. Attack without mercy.”
She lightly threw her wooden sword at Eira, and she responded vigorously by accepting her wooden sword.
“Yes!”
Caang!
As the two wooden swords crossed each other, Eunhyeon blocked Eira’s attack, she was estimating her level.
Every time she clashed her wooden sword with her, Eun-hyeon felt a strange feeling.
Kaaang!
“Kyaaak!”
As she gave her strength and deflected Eira’s attack, her body, including her wooden sword, floated in the air.
“Ugh, it hurts…”
Eira, who hit her butt as she fell to the floor, frowned at her pain.
“You use a fast speed sword. Hmmm, there’s no way Riod taught this sword… Did you follow me by any chance?”
Eira made a surprised expression at Eunhyun’s accurate analysis.
“No, that’s right.”
“Since when?”
“That… She had previously engraved Eun-hyeon’s image into her eyes when fighting a warlock…”
“Aha.”
Eunhyun nodded her head as if she remembered her.
While investigating Erin’s disappearance, she probably refers to the time when she and Eira greeted Elvin in her abandoned warehouse.
Eun-hyeon smiles her cheekily and aims her wooden sword at Daseiira.
“It’s fun. Just by seeing my movements then. It’s definitely fast, but too fast isn’t good. The power isn’t properly applied. Light attacks tend to bounce back with the whole sword like before.”
“Yes…”
At Eunhyeon’s point, Eira put on a sullen expression.
“Pick up the wooden sword again. Let’s put it together a few more times.”
“Please!”
