Chapter 167 – 167. The Real Mastermind (2)
“Joe!”
At the same time as the command of the gangster who seems to be the boss, the two gangsters rush towards Erinn.
Erin, dodging all the thugs’ attacks that threw her fists at her, took her steps and picked up the envelope of her grilled skewers that she had dropped earlier.
“Is this crazy, really?”
In this situation, in the eyes of the thugs who didn’t know what to do when she picked up her bag of food that she had dropped, it seemed that Erin was just messing around with them.
When she realizes that her ego is being bruised by a girl in school uniform, her irritable thugs attack Erin again.
Erin, seeing her thugs rush in, put on a look of concern for a moment, then she tossed the envelope containing her grilled skewers at the thugs.
‘Mister! I’m really sorry!’
As she laughs, she apologizes to the owner of the street vendor who sold her yakitori to her, and apologizes inwardly.
“Aww!”
A few seconds for the chicken skewers sauce in the flying bag to splatter on the hoodlums’ faces and block their view.
Erin picked up one of the chicken skewers that had fallen on her floor, pulled all of the chicken off her skewer, and held her skewer in her hand and pointed it at the thugs.
“What are you going to do with that wooden skewer!”
Ignoring her sarcastic cries, Erin lowered her stance, bringing her knees together.
She concentrates all her strength so that she can attack at any time, and her rogues are startled and her actions harden at the approach of Erin, who rushes like a swift beast as if her spring is springing up.
“Keugh!?”
In the eyes of the gangsters, as if they were teleported, they hesitated for a moment at her approach, which was surprisingly fast, but Erin caught their embarrassing reaction fiercely and stabbed her with a wooden skewer on the shoulder of the gangster. Plugged in
The gangsters put on a dumbfounded expression at the sight of the weakly thin wooden skewer piercing the flesh and piercing the bone.
“Uh?”
While the thug who had been stabbed in the shoulder quickly pulled out a wooden skewer and stabbed the shanty arm, leg, etc., One after another, except for vital parts, that would lead to an incapacitated state, before he even felt pain.
Quickly
“Ah.”
The wooden skewer that had stabbed the gangster with an onslaught could not withstand its weak durability and broke.
“Ouch! It hurts! It hurts!”
Amid the belated pain all over his body, the gangster screams and collapses on the floor, complaining of pain.
“This bitch!”
As her fellow gangster collapsed on the floor screaming, another gangster, unable to hide her urgency, lifted her leg and kicked Erin in the side, but Erin only evaded her by shifting her steps to the side. Took no action.
She passed her own left side as it was, dug into the arms of her thug who threw her through the air, and swung her right elbow, hitting her thug’s chin with precision.
“Eww… That’s right!”
Her face is distorted, her head is not functioning properly due to the impact of a direct hit to the lower court, and she is in a completely defenseless state when she loses focus and staggers backwards.
“Ha!”
With her screams, Erin rotated herself and lifted one of her legs, traversing her sideways and striking her chin as she landed her high kick on the distraught thug’s temple. Put in
As her skirt flutters, a scene appears as if a single colorful flower petal is fluttering, and Erin’s legs, accentuated by their beautiful lines, dance in the air.
“Cheak!”
As she rotated her body, the thug who was hit by Erin’s kick, which gained speed, let out a short scream, and at the same time, she lost consciousness and collapsed to the floor.
Erin, who had sorted out her three thugs in an instant, shifted her gaze to the head of her thugs.
Taking Erin’s gaze, her knave flinched at her, shuddering at her body and spitting out disgust.
“Shit…”
It is obvious that her Erin is not a girl with her normal skills, seeing her ability to quickly organize her own gang.
Each time her erin slowly walked towards her, her thug hit her back as if to keep her distance from her erin.
Her rogue was agitated, with no time to enjoy the feeling of hurting her ego at having her spirit weighed down by her little girl, who was a lot older than she was.
“Oh, don’t come!”
“…”
“Aaaaa!”
When Erin didn’t budge, she eventually jumped at her Erin with a fight.
In that act, she is nothing more than a man drenched in fear who is unable to inspire her, let alone threaten Erin.
Erin dodged her rogue’s fist, which she only wielded at random, and she burrowed into his arms.
He placed her palms on her abdomen with her five fingers folded together.
Soon after, she concentrated her mana on the tip of her palm and burst her condensed mana at once.
[Juhyeonseong Polar Plain]
[Hwajeopbalgyeong (胡蝶發勁)]
When her magical energy condensed in her palm exploded, a powerful shockwave was created, which shook her intestines as it hit her thug’s abdomen.
Before she had time to scream, the aftermath of the shock threw the gangster’s body flying through the air, crashing into the wall of her alley at high speed.
“Uweah!”
Erin watched blankly as the gangster made her vomit, in the aftermath of her internal organs shaking.
‘Seo, succeeded…’
The sense of succeeding with the skills she learned from Eun-hyeon for the first time gave Erin a fresh and thrilling sense.
‘I should brag about it to Hyun-i later and ask him to praise me!’
Leaving behind such a joyous feeling, Erin, who confirmed that she had arranged all the thugs, immediately grabbed her Marva by the wrist and tried to move her.
“Let’s go.”
“Leave this!”
“Huh… ?”
“I… When did I ask you for help? I will just run away!”
“What is that…”
Erin put on a dumbfounded expression at the words of Marva, who suddenly resented her.
“Why, why is it you? . Why do I have to show you this… To you, not to anyone else…”
Erin, whom she despised, ridiculed, and disregarded her personality, had her self-esteem severely damaged by her help, and she looked so shabby in Erin’s eyes that she self-helped herself.
What the hell had happened to Marva? Erin couldn’t hide her embarrassment.
“There! What a fuss!”
Soon after, someone heard the screams of the gangsters and the sound of the walls in the alley being destroyed, and rushed to them.
“This voice…”
Sensing a sense of deja vu at the familiar voice, Erin turned her head to stare at the sound of her armor clattering closer and closer.
“What happened… Oh? Erin?”
“… Ayra sister?”
It wasn’t just Erin who was taken aback by her unexpected encounter, but also because she was on duty as an apprentice knight.
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“Drink. Cocoa.”
“Oh, thank you.”
Erin sipped the cocoa Eira had brought her and opened her mouth.
“How are you? What is the life of an apprentice knight?”
“Um, not easy. My father’s eyes are too strict… Still, I’m doing well because other people are doing well.”
In the end, even after she completed her training in the Great Labyrinth of Archis, Aira, who through her steady training proved her growth to her father, Artia’s leader, Riod, joined as an apprentice knight in Artia. I was able to get permission formally.
“I feel like I haven’t seen you in a very long time. You don’t do well in school either.”
“It’s like I’ve already graduated.”
Eira had already reached the end of her fourth year, and she was a model student who had always maintained top grades, and she was an exception among exceptions given that fulfilling her duties as an apprentice knight was a priority.
Now that she was just about to graduate, it also meant that she had no more learning to accumulate at her school, and that she received a glorious exception in the form of her early graduation.
Joining her father’s knights, which she longed for, it seems that she is going through hard and difficult days, but her Eira herself seems to feel very rewarding about the job.
“Marva… What happened?”
“Details will be judged from above… I can’t get rid of the ominous thoughts.”
“Is this an ominous idea?”
“Recently, not only Marva, but also many other students have been affected.”
“Blood… Sun?”
“Huh.”
“Ara. The interrogation is over. She took the boy straight away and came to her headroom.”
“Ah, I see.”
Just as she was about to explain her, she lost her timing at the voice of a man calling Eira, and she answered the senior member.
“Let’s go. Erin.”
“… ? Yes.”
Erin couldn’t understand why Artia’s leader, Riod, would bother to explain to her, so she put on a puzzled expression.
However, she did not bother to dispel this question, and Eira, who led the way to her leader’s office, followed her obediently.
Smart
“Captain. I brought Erin.”
“Come in.”
Eira’s attitude of getting her permission through her courteous knock and notification and entering her leader’s room is clearly an attitude that values the public hierarchical relationship between the knight commander and the knights rather than the private relationship between father and daughter.
From the moment she stepped into her dressing room, Erin shivered slightly as she felt her cold gaze pierce her body.
It was because Cain, the vice-captain of Artia, who was standing beside Riod, engrossedly resting her posture and glaring at her Erin, was staring at her Erin.
‘Ugh, uh… Feeling intimidated is no joke…’
Riod, whom I met several times, both at the mansion and in private, is unusually in work mode, creating a very serious and heavy atmosphere.
The air inside the leader’s office became very cold, and Erin was also nervous.
Her Erin’s body automatically recoils just by receiving the gazes of Artia’s leader and her sub-captain.
“Could you two loosen up your expression a bit? Erin is so nervous that she looks like she’s going to die.”
Eira, in her official position as an apprentice knight whenever possible, had no intention of interfering with her to maintain her hierarchy.
But seeing Erin hardened in a cold sweat, she opened her mouth to help her Erin a little.
“… You made a mistake. I was analyzing it without my knowledge because the nobleman said he was a disciple he was raising himself.”
“That… If it’s a nobleman…”
The only spiritual pillars that have nurtured him and led him until now were Erwin and Eunhyeon.
Erin, who first thought of Eun-hyeon, who had a strong connection with Riod rather than her brother, Elvin, opened her mouth just in case.
“Are you talking about Hyun-yi?”
“Yes.”
The face of Cain, who was smiling brightly and respecting a young girl with the status of a baronet, did not have the fierce gaze that had been glaring at Erin until earlier.
“Whoa…”
Feeling that she was breathing a little, Erin let out a small sigh and asked Leode.
“Yeah… Captain, why did you call me…”
“Of course, there are rewards for saving her aristocratic daughters from danger and subduing suspicious thugs, but… The real business is to ask you for a favor.”
“Please?”
“Okay. Can you pass this on to them?”
Lyod handed Erin the paper-wrapped envelope and letter lying on the table.
“To Hyeoni and Illyana-sama?”
“Hmm.”
“What is this?”
“… Please don’t ask about the contents. It is a confidential matter of the investigation, so I cannot reveal it yet.”
“Well, but… Hyun-i is not at home right now?”
“… Is it?”
“Yes, she said she would not be coming home for a while to investigate.”
“… She’s too lazy to take his advice. Cain.”
“Yes.”
“Send this to Cecilia and have her composition analyzed.”
“All right.”
“Hmm…”
That it was a serious matter could be seen from the reaction of Leo, who had a serious and heavy expression on his face.
But Erin didn’t ask what was going on.
No matter how unknown she was, she was neither a member of Artia nor a knight.
She accidentally discovered Marva and the gangsters and subdued them.
Erin was well aware of her position and the line she had to defend.
“This is a small reward to Ms. Erin for helping us a lot in our investigation.”
“Ah… Yes.”
Erin took the pouch out of her arms and looked surprised when she checked the contents of the bundles of silver coins in her pocket.
“The reward… Are there many of them?”
“That means that Miss Erin made a great contribution to our investigation. And the skill of subduing the four assailants was very good. If you graduate from Aether, do you have any other career paths in mind?”
“Yes? Oh, that’s… Ah, yet…”
Erin put on a puzzled expression when she was asked an unexpected question.
“Think about it. With Miss Erin’s skills, I don’t think joining the team will be a problem.”
“Ah yes…”
A career of her own, she hadn’t even thought about.
Her sincerity towards Eun-hyeon and her vague desire to restore the honor of her own brother, Alvin, were the driving forces behind her enduring the training of Eun-hyeon with her life-and-death.
‘Stay here…’
Erin glanced momentarily at her own senpai or at her Eira, who was no different from her.
Specifically, as a means to regain Elvin’s honor, she imagines herself becoming a knight of Artia.
‘Will I be able to do well… ?’
But I keep thinking of her face about Alvin.
Even though he performed the honorable feat of joining the Magus, the court magic corps, where the country’s elite mages gathered together, as a commoner with no talent, Elvin was ostracized and scorned and ridiculed within the Order of Magic because of his status as a commoner. Because there was a precedent for
There was a hesitation in Erin’s heart that she couldn’t readily accept Cain’s proposal.
Even though she knows that this is different from Elvin’s case because there is Eira, and there is a guy like Cain who recognizes her skills and Riod, she cannot make a decision easily because it is embedded in his mind. Because the wound hasn’t healed yet.
It was purely a matter of Erin’s heart.
Erin answered her with a smile on her face, hiding as much of her own shyness as she could.
“Thank you very much for the offer. Once… I’ll think about it.”
