Chapter 291 – 291. The Weight of Time (1)
“Erin.”
“Huh?”
“That won’t work. How disrespectful to a person.”
Erin’s attitude, blocking the gap between Cha Han-seong and Eun-hyeon and blocking his approach, definitely feels different than usual.
“But…”
“What are you so anxious about? It’s me who decides.”
“Yes…”
Putting her hand on Erin’s shoulder and slightly pulling her towards him, Eunhyun opened her mouth with an awkward smile.
“Sorry. I can’t afford to teach Cha Han-sung. Now…”
“Lol.”
She moved the palm of her hand on her shoulder and gently stroked it over the girl’s head. A smile appeared on Erin’s face, which was wary of her, expressing her happiness.
“Just raising this guy is a bit daunting.”
At Eun-hyeon’s polite refusal, Cha Han-seong made a regretful expression and nodded his head reluctantly.
“But I hope that someday I will have time to talk with Cha Han-sung. We will find time to visit you again soon. Now… I have a little schedule.”
“Great. I’m looking forward to it too.”
The conversation from earlier made the two realize that they were not ordinary ancient people.
It is a similar case to the ‘reincarnated person’ who clearly has memories of the days when he lived on Earth.
It was a very happy moment for Cha Han-seong to meet someone who shared the same civilization with Eun-hyeon.
“Has the conversation been sorted out?”
Eira, who was smiling bitterly at the end of the conversation that was about to get confused due to Erin’s intrusion, stepped in and settled it.
“Huh. That’s right.”
“Eunhyeon. If you came to the headquarters with your father…”
“That’s right. I was asked to look at Lady Theresia’s condition.”
“Ah…”
Eira let out a small sigh and nodded her head with a happy expression on her face.
Eun-Hyeon, who has medical knowledge comparable to most doctors, was confident that her mother’s condition would become healthier.
“And before that, I had a request from Riod.”
“Are you asking?”
“Huh.”
As soon as Eunhyeon nodded slightly, the door to the leader’s office opened and two people came out from inside.
Cain and Riod came out together after recording all their future work and schedules and organizing them.
Riod looked at Eunhyun and nodded.
“Okay.”
As the two headed straight for the training ground rather than leaving the headquarters, Erin, who soon felt doubtful, asked Eunhyeon.
“Hyun-ah, didn’t you say you were going to visit the marquis’s mansion?”
“That is one of the schedules, but finish this first.”
“What is that?”
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“Hey hey hey! Get out of the way!”
“Ah! Narrow! Look at it from a distance!”
“Captain’s sincere sparring! How long has this been!”
Upon receiving the sudden news, the inside of the training ground became noisy in an instant, and the members competed fiercely for positions.
“Close two seats right now.”
“Ah! Vice-captain! You are really too good!”
“Are you sure you have to insist on your position and rank from here on out!?”
In the end, Cain’s words and actions, which were trying to show a naive move to preoccupy a good position by using his position, were booed by many members.
“… I know what you’re misunderstanding, but that’s not where I want to sit.”
“Yes? Then…”
The members who noticed the two women standing behind Cain nodded with expressions of understanding.
“Oh, then please tell me right away. Hey! Make the first two seats right now!”
The members of Artia readily gave up their seats to Riod’s daughter and Eunhyeon’s disciples, Eira and Erin.
“Go, thank you…”
Erin, sitting in the front seat, smiled awkwardly as she walked along the road opened by the members in an awkward mood.
After hearing the news about Eunhyeon and Riod’s sparring, this situation, which was gathering a lot of attention, was still too heavy of an interest for Erin.
In the midst of the heartwarming concessions bloomed amid fierce competition to watch the Dalian in a nice place that was a little closer, Erin and Ayra looked at Eunhyeon and Riod, who were looking at each other.
“My sister…”
“Huh?”
“Who do you think will win, sister?”
“Well…”
It was a question that was not easily answered by Erin and Ayra, who had never seen the two collide.
There weren’t that many times when Riod, Eunhyeon, Ayra, or Erin showed their true feelings in front of them.
Although they say that they have been training together for a long time, the skills of the two women are not that great enough to draw conclusions about who is stronger.
“I am… I’m sorry for my sister, but she wants Hyun-yi to win.”
Eunhyun is the hero of Erinn.
If possible, I don’t like thinking or imagining him losing.
He thought that that’s why he wished he hadn’t lost.
But, in other words, it means Riod’s defeat.
Is it right to say this to Rio de’s daughter, her close sister whom she trusts and follows?
“Whoa, if you put it that way, do I want my father to win too?”
The same goes for Eira.
It is her Eunhyeon who trained Eira, who was a student of her child Ter, to become a knight of her Artia.
It’s a favor that you will have to repay someday.
But it wasn’t grace so deep that she wished her own father’s defeat, Eira thought.
Just as Erin holds her Eun Hyeon as her hero in her own heart, Ayla also harbors her longing for Riod in her own heart as the mightiest knight in her world.
That feeling never loses to Erin’s own heart.
“So, shall we make one promise?”
“A promise?”
“No matter who wins, we will not be disappointed with each other. How is it?”
At her act of smiling and holding out her own little finger, Erin nodded her head with her delighted smile.
With her bright face, Erin, who placed her own little finger on her little finger of Eira, responded right away.
“Great!”
In the center of the audience that filled the training ground, Eun-hyeon, holding a wooden sword, smiled and said as the gaze focused on them.
“I can understand your intentions of having to engage in sparring in front of the members.”
After returning from his honeymoon, Eun-hyeon had asked Riod for a sparring match to see how well he applied the swordsmanship he had learned from Siete.
Originally, I was planning to use the gymnasium in his mansion or the gymnasium installed in my dungeon house.
The sparring that was established under the watchful eye of many members in the Artia Headquarters was unexpected.
Even Leo’s intentions are clearly visible.
“It’s really like you to go out on your own to motivate the members.”
His honesty, his honesty, and his willingness to lead by example are really suitable for a leader who leads a group.
In addition, the intention to inspire one’s own motivation for another reason is also mixed.
“I will tell you in advance, but I have no intention of watching. Because it is in front of my men.”
“You’ll be fine.”
With a wry smile, Eunhyeon swung the wooden sword in his hand to check the weight and stanceed at the same time as Leo De.
As a chilly atmosphere was formed in which they exchanged glances while aiming their swords at each other, the voices of the members gradually became quiet.
“…”
At the same time as one member swallows a gulp in an atmosphere that gets heavier every second.
Percussion!
It was Eunhyeon who took the lead.
Even though it was a pure movement that excluded all of the power of the goddess, the knights missed Eun-hyeon’s movement for a moment.
“… !”
In the blink of an eye, Eun-hyeon’s movement burrows into her arms, making all the members look surprised.
The sight of his body disappearing leaving behind an afterimage like fog, reaching in front of Liode in an instant and brandishing a wooden sword, created an optical illusion as if two Eun-hyeon were present in the same place.
On the other hand, it was not such a surprising sight from Erin or Eira’s point of view, who had already experienced his ‘heteromorphic transformation’ several times.
Rather than admiring Erin and Eira, they were busy following Eunhyeon and Riod’s movements, capturing them all with their own eyes.
It was the same for Riod, who was currently blocking Eunhyun’s wooden sword.
Repelling the wooden sword aiming at his shoulder with very little movement, Liod, who maintained his body balance, was not shaken or lost at all by Eunhyeon’s surprise attack.
While defending neatly, it immediately switched between offense and defense, and Eun-hyeon’s sword blade, which was slashing fiercely horizontally, was held in reverse and held downward, making the defense.
“… Tsk.”
Eun-hyeon, who was tongue-tied at the enormous weight of his sword, pulled back and rotated his body to let go of his attack at the attack of Riod, who was pushing in with the entire wooden sword he defended.
Powered by his left foot as an axis, he amplified the power of the wooden sword by using his nimble agility.
As the rotational force increased, the wooden sword rushing in at high speed pulled back like Eun-hyeon to avoid the attack, and the distance between Eun-hyeon and Riod widened once again.
“Wow, wow…”
Watching the battle that took place in a very short moment, Erin let out a small exclamation.
The other members were just observing the swords of the two men without saying a word, swallowing saliva.
Amid the increasingly heavy tension, the silence where even the sound of breathing is not allowed.
The two men, aiming their swords, were staring at each other and shooting fierce eyes to find each other’s gaps.
‘That kind of Hyuni looks… First look.’
It’s like the look on his face a few days ago, when he created the ‘key’ and hammered it for over 10 hours.
Eunhyun thought in the silence.
‘A power fight with Riod is at a disadvantage.’
Face-to-face confrontation is unfavorable.
If so, what should I do?
You have to poke any gaps he sees while draining his attacks as much as possible.
Riod’s swordsmanship is a classic swordsmanship that balances attack and defense as well as a solid body balance.
It wasn’t easy even for Eunhyeon to break it and poke holes in the broken balance.
After repeated movements over and over again, he reached the state of ‘unification of new swords’ where the sword and body became one with each other while being sophisticated.
Eun-hyeon has yet to reach the pinnacle of being a swordsman that his own mentor, Xie Te, showed.
Even though he has trained for a long time and put in effort, his desire for that section that he does not realize is getting bigger and bigger.
This is not a fight in which each other’s lives are cut down and the premise is that ‘murder’ is the difference between victory and defeat.
It is to compete with each other’s ‘swordsmanship’ and each other’s ‘martial arts’ that have been accumulated by investing effort and time.
A battle between “Warriors” Whose victory or defeat is determined by whose skill has reached a higher level of perfection.
It is not right to use the power of the goddess you have in this fight.
This is also a fight with himself, testing how much he has accepted Siete’s swordsmanship.
‘Can my efforts fulfill Master’s wishes?’
Pure curiosity about whether the efforts he has made so far have been able to achieve.
On the other hand, even though he was over forty, the best knight in the kingdom, who was looking upward rather than aging, stared at his friend who broke his limits when he was young.
The friend who led them by always providing answers in any situation is their benefactor and the hidden hero, Riod’s goal.
While Eunhyeon was thinking about Siete and his achievements, Riode also had some thoughts about Eunhyeon.
A pure question about how far his power will reach Eun-hyeon.
‘With my efforts…’
‘With my sword…’
Eunhyun and Riod stared at each other and smiled as if they read each other’s thoughts.
What the two of them have is a burning sense of selfishness that they developed while meeting their rivals as prosecutors.
Excluding the power of the goddess, he had a strong desire to defeat Riod with only the skills he had accumulated through his own efforts.
Shiete, who was called the Sword Saint on Earth, is a perfect opponent because she checks to see how far she has accepted the swordsmanship.
I thought as I looked at the man who carried the title of the best knight in the kingdom with his swordsmanship talent.
‘I want to beat your talent.’
‘I want to beat my idol.’
The two swordsmen with the same thoughts rushed at each other and exchanged swords.
