Chapter 579 – 579. Trial of the Lioness (5)
Thud!
Hanseong Cha looked at the pair of bracelets, anklets, and vest thrown in front of him and flinched.
The sound of the equipment hitting the floor and the vibration of the ground were very unusual.
It didn’t take long for Cha Han-sung, who swallowed his saliva, to realize that what was attached to the equipment was lead.
‘No way… Isn’t it?’
What came to Cha Han-seong’s mind was an ignorant training method that was only possible in comic books he read on Earth.
A ridiculous way to increase one’s strength and agility by carrying the burden of wearing lead-filled equipment on purpose and getting used to it.
“This… Something?”
Cha Han-seong deliberately forcibly erased the contents of the comic book from his head and pretended not to know, asking Eun-hyeon.
Please, I hope I didn’t guess.
“Cha Han-seong. Did you see that comic book?”
When Eun-hyeon and Cha Han-seong met face-to-face for the first time, the first story that came up as a topic was the contents of the comic book that came to Cha Han-seong’s head.
He commonly chose Freeza as his favorite character, and even formed a consensus with the playful story that if that character were his boss at work, he would have been the first to sell Ziku.
However, Eunhyeon’s remark was the one that Cha Hanseong didn’t want to hear the most.
‘Damn it!’
His face contorts in despair that his own earnestness did not reach him in the end.
At some point, Erin, who changed her clothes and came out of the tent, came running to Eunhyun and hugged her tightly.
“Hyunah. What is a cartoon?”
“There is. Something like that.”
Eunhyun smiled and brushed Erin’s hair.
“… When Hyun-i is with Cha Han-seong, she sometimes goes and says strange things.”
Erin expressed her sense of alienation as she talked only among themselves with unknown concepts such as ‘skill proficiency’, ‘HP’, and ‘MP’ that she talked about earlier.
Her expression of affection was quite cute as she rubbed her face against Eunhyun’s chest to further show off her presence.
“Sorry. Calm down.”
“Look at what Hyun-i is doing!”
However, contrary to what she said, just by gently stroking her hair, Erin smiled again and put on a bright expression.
A tail that didn’t look like a puppy enjoying the attention of her owner seemed to wag.
Eunhyun comforted Erin, who was in her arms.
She then looked at her Cha Hanseong, who had a blank expression on her face, as if she still did not believe in the future that would come to her.
“Put it on right away.”
“No. But…”
Cha Hanseong hesitantly looked at the equipment containing the terrifying weight of lead.
He couldn’t contain his astonishment inwardly, as the desire and expectations he had been filled with until just now had been broken in vain like a tree breaking.
‘This… Training that really works?’
She never thought she would do the ignorant training she knew only in the setting of a cartoon.
“The content of the training is very simple. You just need to hold on to Erin.”
“… Yes?”
Cha Han-seong made a puzzled expression at the content of the task that was reduced too concisely.
To overtake Erin.
Seeing Cha Han-seong’s reaction, which he did not understand, Eun-hyeon continued with a more detailed explanation.
“From now on, Erin will run through this forest avoiding Cha Han-seong. Cha Han-seong just needs to hold on to that kind of Erin. Is it easy?”
“…”
As if asking if he had heard it right, Cha Hanseong’s gaze blankly turned to the equipment with a bewildered expression.
“Are you wearing this?”
“Yes.”
“No. How… ?”
How could he present such an unreasonable task so confidently?
Even so, Erin’s physical abilities easily overwhelm the regular knights of Artia.
It was absurd to hold Erin while carrying the penalty of wearing such heavy equipment.
“Of course, Cha Han-sung isn’t the only one wearing this equipment.”
“What is that… ?”
“Erin.”
“Huh.”
As soon as Eun-hyeon finished speaking, Erin untied her arms from Eun-hyeon’s body and approached Cha Han-seong.
Erin is wearing a training suit, as if she were really wearing it for training, rather than her usual combat outfit that reveals her coquettish yet innocence.
Perhaps it wasn’t long before she became an adult, she felt something strange about Erin’s visual, as if she were a high school student wearing a school uniform.
With each step she came towards herself, she felt the heaviness in her step.
As much as her light and nimble movements were her main focus, Erin’s current outfit, which shows her completely different, is somewhat thicker than usual.
“No way… ?”
Cha Han-seong recognized the identity of her sense of incongruity and stiffened her body.
“Cha Han-seong. Would you like to hold my arm?”
“Yes? What!?”
Unexpectedly, Cha Han-seong, who caught Erin by her arm stretched out in front of her, was startled by the heaviness of her equipment on her arm.
As Erin momentarily loses her strength, she weighs the weight of her gear on her arm as she supports it entirely on herself.
‘… It’s heavier than mine.’
About twice as much with a little exaggeration.
It is not a weight that an ordinary adult woman can handle, even on her legs and arms, and even on her upper body vest.
It is certain that most adventurers and knights would run away in fright at the thought of carrying this weight all over their bodies and running through the mountains.
But Erin, who was outwardly very beautiful and slender, bore the weight unconcernedly.
‘How is this possible… Ah.’
Cha Han-seong belatedly realized how that was possible.
Enormous aura that surrounds Erin’s entire body.
‘By magic… Have you strengthened your body?’
It was so large that it took her breath away for a second, but she was so calm and stable that I didn’t notice it from a distance at first.
It covers her skin naturally, and the naturalness that feels like a part of her body makes Cha Han-seong startle.
“With this, the conditions are the same.”
Although Eunhyeon said so, the penalty imposed on Erin was actually more severe.
Here, Cha Han-seong could not express any more dissatisfaction.
“… All right.”
She put on the gear right away.
“Nice…”
Cha Hanseong groaned involuntarily.
After wearing all of her equipment, including her legs, arms, and vest, the burden of weight on her whole body easily exceeds her expectations.
A cold sweat came out on its own at a level where it was not easy for her to even step forward.
“Okay then let’s get started. Erin.”
“Huh!”
Damn!
Eunhyun’s strong applause signaled the start of training.
Erin hurled herself into a mountain full of thick trees, as if her conditioned reflexes were quickly disappearing.
“This… !”
On the other hand, Cha Han-seong, who was standing awkwardly, distorted her face.
Even before she explained the contents of her training, Erin came out of the tent with all her equipment and training clothes on.
Unlike Erin, who strengthened her body by enchanting her whole body and prepared to run away as soon as her Eun-hyeon signal dropped, Cha Han-seong groaned under the burden of the equipment on her body. Was just shedding.
Cha Han-seong, who hastily raised his mana and strengthened her body, chased after Erin, who was already running ahead in the forest, but it was not easy to close the gap that had been widened from the start.
‘I made a mistake… !’
If this wasn’t training and it was a fight to the death, then to put it slightly exaggeratedly, it would mean that she was already dead.
As soon as she put on her gear, or before, she gritted her teeth at her own lapse in not strengthening and properly preparing her body.
In order to close the distance with Erin, who was running ahead with an impatient mind, he raised more magic attribute to strengthen his body and increase his speed, but the gap with Erin was not narrowed at all.
It was getting wider and wider with Erin, who was running around freely like at home in this dense forest where there was no proper straight course, let alone narrowing it down.
‘How can you do that at such a speed… !’
As if she doesn’t know deceleration, she accelerates even more, but deftly turns to her left and right as she moves through the woods.
In the eyes of Cha Han-seong, who couldn’t accelerate properly due to the nature of the forest with many obstacles, Erin’s speed, which was showing off the speed of a wild animal, was astonishing.
In addition, the more she ran, the more the weight of the equipment she wore increased and pressed her body.
She felt as if invisible hands protruding from the ground were tugging at her own body, which was running in front of her.
The burden further imposes fatigue and strain on her body, and her impatience consumes a greater amount of mana, causing rapid depletion.
‘It’s going to be slow.’
Eun-hyeon, who was quietly observing the two of them playing hide-and-seek from a distance, sensed that Cha Han-seong had quickly reached his limit, as expected.
Damn!
As Eunhyeon clapped her hands again, Erin, who was running far ahead of her, flinched and glanced behind her.
It was a predetermined signal to stop her first attempt.
‘… Already?’
However, Cha Han-seong, who was chasing her, confirmed his limit that she could feel on her face, and Erin immediately stopped her.
“Omg… ! Heo-eok… ! Omg… !”
Cha Hanseong, who was breathing hard for her, stopped her running and sat down in her place without even reaching Erin who was standing still.
The wobbly legs couldn’t stand it any longer and reached their limit.
In a way, it is natural that Cha Han-seong, who was not able to properly pace himself due to the unfamiliar training he was doing for the first time, the gap with Erin, who had come to face it realistically, and his impatient mind, did not show his full potential.
‘Well, it’s not that I don’t understand…’
Erin also thought he was really crazy when he first started training.
At that time, the opponent he had to chase after and catch was Eun-hyeon.
Erin’s face is filled with a bitter smile, perhaps because she recalled her past self from Cha Han-seong, who sat down as she gasped for breath.
“Twenty minutes off. Let’s start over.”
“… Yes.”
A hunch strikes me that I may have to do this crazy thing again and again until I succeed.
Cha Han-seong must have felt dizzy, but he had no intention of quitting as long as he had followed his training without saying anything.
It’s so damn hard that I wonder if I’m really going to die.
‘… Can I really die?’
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The first day of Cha Han-seong’s hide and seek training to catch Erin is over.
The number of times of tagging is 4 times in total.
The first is 20 minutes.
The second is 50 minutes.
The third is 90 minutes.
The fourth is 120 minutes.
It was the time it took Cha Han-seong to reach his limit while chasing after Erin to catch her.
This meant that as Cha got used to training little by little, he was growing surprisingly fast.
“Whoa! It was hard!”
Returning to the tent after training all day today, Erin immediately threw herself onto the cot mat.
“I need to wash and lie down.”
“Yes… I’m tired…”
“No. I’ll wash you later, so wash up and go to sleep.”
“Lol. Huh. Okay.”
Eunhyun climbed on top of Erin, who was lying on the bed with her back to her.
In order to release the muscles that were knotted up from the hard training, I started massaging Erin by applying acupressure on her shoulders, back, and legs.
“Uh ha ha… Good.”
Erin’s mouth flowed out of her mouth, as if Eunhyun’s acupressure with her fingers felt good.
“Massage. Are you going to do it for Cha Han-sung too?”
“Why? Would you like me to?”
“No! Just do it for me!”
Erin, who wanted to monopolize Eunhyun’s attention, responded immediately without hesitation.
Eun-hyeon smiled a little and continued her massage, as if her young wife’s whining, revealing her exclusivity in a strange place, was quite cute.
“How was your day?”
“Hmm… I’m honestly a bit surprised. Hansung Cha. It was really no joke.”
It was very different from the first day of her first tag training, when Erin cried out that she was too tired and said she didn’t want to train by clinging to Eunhyun.
Cha Han-seong gnawed his teeth and chased after Erin, enduring with evil.
“That’s different from Erin when I first started doing this.”
“No, that’s not it! When I did it, the opponent was you… Wow! There! You can’t press there!”
When Erin, who was in a fit of heat, pressed her blood vessels precisely, she fluttered and tried to resist, but Erin’s resistance, who had already been caught behind her by Eunhyun, was overpowered in vain.
“Stay still.”
“Eww… Awesome! Whoa!”
Erin snuggled the pillow on her bedside into her arms and buried her face in it.
This is to prevent her uncontrollable sexuality from spilling out due to her massage.
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Cha Han-sung’s hide-and-seek training continued even four days after Riod returned.
As of today, exactly one week has passed in the month of the period that Theresia offered as a condition.
“Captain. You are here.”
Through the gate, Cha Hanseong bowed his head and nodded when he saw Riod, who had just come to the forest.
“…”
He carefully observed Cha Han-seong, who had changed so drastically that he wondered if he was the same person he saw four days ago.
Her gaze directed at herself and her eyes piercingly sharp, even though it was her shaggy beard that showed her poor maintenance, or her face wracked with her fatigue.
She had a bit of a keut side, but her 3 days ago was so different from him.
Perhaps the cause is Eunhyeon and Erin, who helped Hanseong Cha while he was away.
“… What have you done?”
“Ah, ahaha…”
“Well, I rolled it a little stronger with independent training.”
Erin just laughs embarrassingly as if it’s a little awkward to explain, and Eunhyun shrugs her shoulders and responds casually, the attitude is very subtle.
“Captain. I’m sorry for coming, but…”
With his straight eyes, Cha Hanseong held out a steel sword he was holding in his hand to Riod.
Seeing Cha Han-seong’s eyes filled with awe as a prosecutor who wanted to test his strength and skills, rather than his eyes that had been difficult for him as a boss at work or in another sense, Riod narrowed his eyes and faced Cha Han-seong. Did.
Riod is also a nobleman and a swordsman before being a knight commander who sets an example for all knights.
There is no change in the dislike of Cha Han-sung, but as a prosecutor, I couldn’t help but accept this challenge.
“It’s good.”
