Chapter 57 – This Is the First Step.
“You don’t even know your sister properly…!”
Back-
Even as he spoke, his hands were too strong.
This is not just a story about the other person.
Same for me.
The relationship between the Dritna sisters is not what it used to be.
I don’t know if I’ll think about it again.
It wasn’t a fight, it wasn’t an accident.
‘Where on earth…?’
It is an undeniable fact that from a certain moment onwards, I felt that my sister was getting farther and farther away.
Even now, if you are in a large mansion in the capital city, the atmosphere is awkward and heavy.
I wanted to move to an academy dormitory where I didn’t have to notice.
It was hard for her to meet her eyes when she saw her sister, who had changed from when she was young.
But aside from that.
He lived in her mansion and watched her sister’s daily life.
I’ve never seen him take a break since he entered school, and he goes to bed later than me and wakes up earlier than me to prepare his own breakfast.
There were times when he worked without returning to the mansion, and there were many times when he returned covered in dark red blood.
On a day of heavy rain, she was surprised to see her older sister with blood tangled in her silver hair, but she couldn’t say anything.
Come to think of it, returning like that was a familiar picture even when I was at my parents’ house.
A few days later, the day when her older sister returned to her mansion, once again drenched in someone else’s blood.
Chloe lay in bed and thought about that.
Thoughts that disturbed her sleep and made her turn over.
Hello
‘Can I get used to this situation…?’
She had seen similar scenes in the past, but the impression was different from her runny nose when she was a child.
Everyone knows without having to worry deeply.
At the center of Dritna’s rapid growth and prosperity is her older sister.
Her older sister did what neither her honest father nor her mother, who was always in trouble to raise her family, could never do in her life.
Her older sister, who left her home and wandered here and there, made her family richer and stronger, and her standard of living was not inferior to those of the aristocrats who made business or trade.
At the time, she didn’t know herself.
Neither my parents nor the attendants… I don’t think anyone knew.
In fact, maybe we all knew and pretended not to know.
The moment you find out, do you feel uncomfortable?
In exchange for this wealth, how, where, and how my sister has been.
Who the hell are we stepping on and living a prodigal life.
…
…
Hwareuk-!
A blue aura burned from Chloe’s sword and drew a trajectory of falling down.
“Were you able to use an aura?”
The mana-visible sword slipped into a standard longsword and her knight asked.
There was no obligation to answer any questions.
“Whoa…!”
Chloe was further stimulated by the fact that she had internally admired her opponent’s unbelievable hand technique.
Although it was unconsciously driven by emotion.
Chloe had no time to feel the joy of having created an aura for the first time.
Even if I reached a level, I couldn’t bring out the other person’s sincerity, and I didn’t have the power to prove my words were right.
There was no such thing as omnipotence in mere auras.
“I don’t know why the cadets think I don’t know properly. It’s not that I don’t know, it’s that I know exactly.
Hearing the disparate voice of the knight who was scratching her nerves with nonchalant remarks, Chloe tightened her stomach and said,
“No! You don’t know!”
Chloe couldn’t back down because she could guarantee this.
“····”
He couldn’t fully express this frustration with his own insufficient sword.
Since it was a nominal class, assuming that he would not die even if he got hit, all he could offer was a single mouthpiece with no eloquence and no social skills.
Seeing the knight stopped as if nailed to the ground, Chloe gulped and opened her mouth.
“…Is the knight your sister’s lover?”
“Not··.”
“Then are you friends?”
“No··.”
“A colleague of the same knights…?”
The knight denies it by rocking the helmet from side to side.
Kkang-!!
Chloe’s sword slashed the knight down with a strong air current.
Seeing the knight who blocked his aura with only the pommel, not the blade of the longsword, Chloe vomited an angry voice that had never been alive before.
“Well, then what the hell does the knight… Speak badly of her sister!”
“····”
Chaeeng!
It was natural for her sword to get stuck, so Chloe pressed her longsword with his broken wrist and pressed herself as close as possible to the knight.
Big Deuk-!
Why am I like this
“It’s not the people around her who are really struggling, she must have been in the most pain because she ran away alone…”
Before coming here, after sharing swords with the instructor, his emotions were strangely fluctuating with a wide range.
No matter how many times she took a breath, she couldn’t calm down.
I think she’ll burst into tears when she thinks of her expressionless sister even though she’s drenched in her blood.
The more I exchange swords with this knight who denies her sister, the more I keep thinking about my sister.
“To say that a person who has sacrificed his whole life for the sake of his family… Doesn’t look around, the driver’s field of vision must be narrow!”
Tears rolled down Chloe’s cheeks as she spoke.
“Please apologize…”
Chloe’s mind, whose emotional dam had burst, was in a state where she completely forgot her afterlife in a situation that was nothing short of cataclysmic.
Just like the day she used to wear a helmet and unwittingly activate a skill.
*****
Chloe and Éclair’s sparring did not end until evening after the sun had set.
To make up for that, I turned the cadets around one more time.
After class, the cadets were busy rebuilding the bonfire before preparing dinner.
Seruk-
When you open the tent with the lamp hanging inside and enter, you can see Eclair taking off her helmet and covering her face with her gauntlet.
“Our driver~ Are you feeling refreshed?”
“Ah… Is it you?”
“Does your head still look complicated?”
“This and that… There’s something that comes to mind.”
They sat across from each other and stared blankly at the lamp that produced the light.
Hearing the clutter of the cadets coming in from outside.
Éclair looked at me while stroking his wrist, where the lines stood out.
“Come to think of it… Chloe cried sadly every time class ended, but she never ran away from class or skipped a class.”
Even though he was severely hurt at a young age, he did not run away, and he endured the time when others wanted to turn their eyes away just by looking at him.
Although he cries a lot and his actions are small, he is firm and firm on the inside.
“I told you. Don’t jump to the conclusion that just because the outside is soft, the inside will be soft.”
“Truly… A word that penetrates the heart.”
As if she was drunk, she had hazy eyes, and she was still casting red eyes at me.
“Since it’s like this, it reminds me of the past. I even got the essence of the Animus, which is said to strengthen the spirit, for Chloe, who always seems in danger, and secretly fed it… I was the one to do it.”
“No…Was that really good?”
At the great information mixed with the complaint, I sincerely praised the eclair.
Unlike Eclair, which went beyond the wall and developed overall tolerance, Chloe is still in the midst of growing.
Unlike other resistances, it was the best choice to feed the elixir to increase mental resistance, which has a value of 0.
Since there was such a background setting from the beginning, Chloe might not be a person who can’t be liked as a playable character, Robert.
“…Well, if that’s what you said today, I think so.”
As if my words sounded like a clumsy consolation or a joke, she smiled, raising the corner of her mouth slightly.
“It’s not yet a safe situation, shouldn’t it be better from now on?”
“That’s right… Now is the first step.”
It seems that Chloe has also had a change of heart, but the most important thing is the direction Eclair acts.
At first glance, he woke her up as she recalled the conversation she had with Chloe.
“Is there anything worthwhile?”
Eclair, who focused on my voice, showed a warm smile.
“It was one of the best experiences of my life. It was really disorienting… Chloe’s anger was so frightening that her pelvis tingled. She vowed to be careful.”
“What’s scary when a normally quiet person gets angry…”
I thought of Ricke, who executed Robert’s spirit today, and Eclair probably thought of Chloe.
Shiver-
Her cold coffee, which had been burned during lunch, was divided into two cups and placed one in front of her.
She raised her cup and reflected her own face in her flavorless coffee.
“… I feel as if I’ve been given more than I can give, so I have no face.”
“Why are you saying that again?
“I can’t hide this elation, so I keep mentioning it to you… I’m already looking forward to meeting Chloe at the mansion tomorrow after work.”
I caught a strange word in a sentence containing eclair’s pride.
“Tomorrow? Going to work tomorrow?”
“Is that so?”
Even so, I thought I had a leisurely vacation for a few days…
Eclair seemed to be planning to stay like this until morning and then go to work right away.
Considering her stamina, there shouldn’t be a problem, but isn’t that a bit off?
Even superhumans need to rest their minds as much as possible, even if their bodies don’t know.
“I was doing this alone in the first place, so now go home and rest.”
“…I have no problem.”
‘It’s a headache…’
I scratched the back of my head at the sight of an eclair stubbornly from the strange side with her arms crossed.
I decided to kick her out in a slightly different direction.
“I’ll call Rike here when the cadets fall asleep.”
“Lady Skadi…?”
“Okay.”
As if she didn’t understand what I was saying, she rolled her eyes and blushed as if she understood for a moment.
“… I’m not used to adventurous rhetoric or jokes, so I’ll stop.”
Haha- I’m not kidding, I can’t stand having a nice girl like that.”
“Stop…! Okay… I’m going back.”
It’ll be like that.
Eclair got up and tried to remove her armor.
“Why take off the armor? What if I get caught on my way out?”
“You were going to return the item now?”
Watching the eclair stopped in a strange posture, I habitually scratched my chin and pondered.
I don’t think I’ll ever use that stuff.
It is also something that Ricke hates, saying it is cramped.
“Just take it. Think of it as a gift for a friend who’s had a bit of trouble. Or give it to your younger brother.”
“···Friend?”
It’s not that I’m giving them armor, but seeing Eclair surprised in a different way made me laugh out loud.
“Why are you surprised there? If you share secrets, eat together and have a cup of coffee, you’re friends. Is that someone else?”
Clap-!
Éclair, who had the helmet in his hand pressed down tightly, did not respond to my words and walked towards the entrance of the tent with odd steps.
“… I will not forget this item and will definitely repay you. Just work hard until tomorrow, my friend…”
I couldn’t help but laugh when I saw Eclair disappearing in one step after awkwardly speaking.
“What to do with that slut, really…”
