Imperial Rankings. (2)

-Ta-aak! Ta-aak!!

The sound of trees clashing violently echoes through the forest, and a golden doll rushes at a black doll.

“Hot!”

“Oh my!!”

-Bam! Bam!!

“Oh my, you’re blocking this?”

“Who, me? I think it would be okay if I came in a little more gently…!!”

At the same time as the sound of a blow that seemed like they were going to cut each other down, the black doll, Rudis, took advantage of the difference in their physical size and forcefully pushed back the wooden sword, widening the distance and falling apart.

However, the golden water spirit Yuria, who had retreated as if pushed back by his power, tilted her head and answered while earnestly collecting the hooks, poking her own cheek with her empty hand as if nothing had happened.

“But even if I try to knock him down half-seriously, Rudis-kun, you’re blocking everything? Honestly, even if you say that his swordsmanship is not level 2 but 4, it’s believable, so wouldn’t it be pointless to make it weaker than that?”

“… Haha. Thank you for your high regards. “

In fact, I had the chance to advance to level 3 right away when Yuria was designated as my teacher at the start of my training, but there was no way to explain it.

The only problem was that my older sister, in response to my leveling up like that, thought, ‘You’re only level 2, how can you block all of this?’ and gradually increased the intensity of her attacks, and now she started to attack so hard that it almost felt like my skull would split if I got hit.

“Hmm… Not only is the black magic trait excellent, but the swordsmanship trait is also excellent. How about Rudis focusing on swordsmanship and sub-spells to aim for the magic swordsman?”

“I’ll think about it when I have time.”

“Yeah. I think you’re much better than our daughter or Harve, so I hope you think about it seriously.”

My older sister, who seemed to be having a leisurely conversation as usual, then kicked off the ground and almost disappeared from my sight, once again swung her wooden sword sharply, taking advantage of my opening.

At first, I blocked it with my waist, and then, as I barely managed to block it, a slash aimed at my other leg followed in the blink of an eye, causing me to lose my balance and stumble backwards.

But, not wanting to miss that gap, a stab that seemed like it would pierce my heart came at me, and I tried to block it by raising my sword.

-Bam! Bang!

“Ugh… !”

“Ouch!”

In the end, I was unable to block the wooden sword and was hit in the chest, so I fell backwards on my butt, and as if she had not expected this to happen, my sister let out a short exclamation and… a soft pouch of consideration fell down on my chest.

-Malkan.

“Oh my. I failed to control my strength. Are you okay?”

“Haha. It’s okay. I’m not as good as the knights in terms of training, right?”

My sister, who fell with me, entangled in my legs as if she didn’t know I would fall, leaned against me, exuding a fragrant scent despite being drenched in sweat, and furrowed her eyebrows as if she felt sorry.

How many times has it been since I fell down like this with my older sister?

I haven’t counted since it passed 5 times, but it seems that it was probably because I didn’t have the basics of swordsmanship compared to the knights my older sister was training, so I fell at a timing that seemed impossible, and my older sister’s steps also got tangled up.

-Squishy.

“No~ I’m doing well, but I’m doing too well, so it seems like my older sister keeps putting too much effort into it. Oh, right. Sorry, my tail is tangled, wait a minute~?”

And how many times has this gotten tangled up?

My sister’s golden fox tail was always so fluffy and luscious, but now it had turned a muddy color after rolling around with me so many times.

But I just can’t understand how, wherever she falls, there are tree roots that wrap around her tail.

-Slurp, slurp.

“… … “

Every time my sister turns around to untangle her tangled tail, soft consideration flows through my stomach and chest.

Moreover, my sister’s healthy thighs are slightly pressed between my legs, and my heart is madly warning me that this is both a good and bad position for a man.

I wondered how I ended up in this position every time I fell, and I sang the national anthem from my past life, thinking that if anyone came and saw me, I would definitely be misunderstood.

Seriously, I feel like even the reason I’ve suppressed through self-hypnosis is going to explode.

“Ouch! Hehe, I missed it.”

The sight of my older sister holding her own tail covered in dirt with her hand and showing it to me while making a small cry as if it was in pain, perhaps because I pulled it a little too hard, was so cute that I couldn’t believe she was her baby’s mother.

Sister, I’m seriously going crazy.

While Rudis was singing the national anthem in her head and enduring Yuria’s strange actions that seemed to break even her self-hypnosis.

‘Hehehe. My face is red too. I guess self-hypnosis has its limits?’

Yuria, who was checking Rudis’ reaction properly, was ‘intentionally’ knocking him down without being caught.

In the dorms or other places, arm-linking would be the most skinship possible, but in the ‘accident’ called training, any skinship is nothing more than a ‘coincidence’, so she, the former captain of the knights, was thinking about the story a former female knight of the knight order used to seduce her husband and putting it into action.

“Sigh, should we take a short break and then do it?”

“Oh, is that so?”

-Malkan.

The knight said that he usually only wears armor or suits that completely hide a woman’s charms, but during sparring while wearing slightly thinner clothes, he ‘deliberately’ falls a little too much or sticks too close to her to make her charms known. In fact, she married her husband and retired from the knighthood.

In other words, if you have a confident body, this is a method that is completely possible for you, and even if you intentionally press your chests together or your thighs together, it is only skinship during ‘training’, so the other person will not ‘misunderstand’ it.

Even if I think about it, it’s a bit too much, but I’ve never thought of anything other than going into his bedroom and banging him, so now that I’m finally in a situation where I can ‘legally’ get close to him, wouldn’t it be literally ridiculous to give that up?

Furthermore, Rudis said that he was able to control his reason to the greatest extent possible through self-hypnosis.

That doesn’t mean he isn’t interested in women, but rather that he is suppressing his interest and there must be a gap there.

Even just then, Rudis showed a slight trembling the moment my chest touched her body, from a movement she had taken slightly too far, deliberately putting strength into her arms before I got up.

As expected, just like Sister Paula said, he also sees me as a proper ‘woman’.

“I think I’m training too hard and my steps keep getting messed up.”

“I’m sorry. I’ve never really trained in swordsmanship.”

“Oh my, for someone like that, your fundamentals are really solid?”

“Ah, that’s… um. You know, Lord Butap? That Broken Brother told me when I was little that in order to survive in the back alleys, you had to know not only magic, but… uh, how to handle extensions… “

My heart races at Rudis’s reaction, which seems to be telling me about her own shameful past.

They say that the swordsmanship trait was developed while handling the extension, but doesn’t the fact that the swordsmanship trait was developed mean that he had talent for swordsmanship from the beginning?

I, who could enjoy listening to any story about Rudis, smiled brightly at him as he awkwardly told the old story, then sat down next to a tree and started to rest.

“If it’s an extension, something like a piece of wood or a pipe?”

“Ah. That’s what happened.”

“Oh… Well, it’s natural for people living in back alleys to carry extension cords. But there aren’t many people like that these days, right?”

“That too… It’s because the Master and the Lord of the Tower absorbed all the people in the back alleys. Before, there were a lot of people carrying extension cords. Right now, there’s Chunshik hyung too… “

I like it when he tells me stories from the past as if he’s opening up to me, but I hate it when he mixes in some lies with the story.

I put my head on Rudis’ shoulder, as if to say that I wanted her to remember the times we met, as she spoke with a soft smile, as if she was slightly embarrassed but also recalling memories. As expected, he flinched slightly, tilted his head normally, and started making hooks at me.

‘That’s why I can see it. When I stick to it, it reacts definitely, but in less than a second, its expression is instantly controlled, and even its flinching disappears in an instant.’

I heard the general story he told about why he put himself in self-hypnosis, but if he was scared of attacking people and killing things that looked like people, how much better it would have been if he had just walked in that direction.

If that were the case, by the time I came to the empire alone with him, we could have already become lovers beyond the front lines.

Now that I’ve somehow managed to get into the Imperial Academy and have become a powerful rival in the form of the princess, I honestly feel a little resentful.

“Are you having a hard time?”

“No. It’s just that when Rudis talked about his childhood, I remembered when I met Rudis.”

“… Thank you for your hard work.”

“Yeah. But I feel much more at ease after meeting you. I was able to let go of the pressure of having to raise Ellis on my own, and it was also very helpful to have a good friend nearby who I could trust and leave my daughter with while I was working.”

Besides, if you weren’t here, I would have irresponsibly died that rainy night, leaving my daughter behind.

I swallow those last words with my heart and look at him lovingly.

At that time, I was suspicious because I thought that it was impossible for such a young boy to defeat the demon who had suppressed me, a level 5 swordsman, with just brute force, but when I actually heard the story, I found out that he was my benefactor who saved me without even having a teacher.

Suin is a race that repays a favor by sacrificing everything to their benefactor. My daughter is a mixed-blood, having inherited her ex-husband’s blood, so unlike me, she stabbed Rudis in the back, but even that turned out well for me now.

-Slurp.

“Hey, sister?”

“Let’s take a short break and then train again?”

Because my daughter pushed me away, I got another chance.

I lean my whole body against him, look at him with the softest gaze I can muster, and express through my actions that I am available to him at any time.

I don’t want to lose you to a princess or a gumdrop, and I don’t want to give you to my daughter anymore.

Originally, I wanted you and my daughter to be connected, but now I’m just a female beast.

So, from now on, I plan to approach the task of capturing you, my benefactor, with more sincerity than before.

“… Aren’t you hot?”

“Yeah. It’s warm.”

If I lean my head against his chest, I can clearly hear it in my fox ears.

‘It seems that even with self-hypnosis, you can’t suppress your heartbeat.’

Your heart was clearly pounding hard, not only for the princess but also for me.