episode_0037
by fnovelpiaJump and jump. Revan approached Hendricks, who was breathing sharply and irregularly.
“I will put my hand on your shoulder.”
“Hmm?”
chin. Revan didn’t listen to the answer and placed his hand on Hendrix’s shoulder.
“······.”
“Oh…?’
Revan placed his hand on Hendrix’s shoulder and quietly closed his eyes. Saaaak – The poison that had spread throughout Hendrix’s body traveled down Revan’s arm and returned to its owner.
Hendrix’s symptoms, who had a yellow complexion and trembling arms, began to gradually ease. Eventually, Revan absorbed all the poison and withdrew his hand.
“There will be no aftereffects.”
He may be an eccentric old man, but he is a sword saint. Leaving an aftereffect on such a character would likely draw more attention than necessary.
Hendricks moved around his body and checked his condition. I was prepared for a long period of recovery, but it was surprising that I was cured all at once.
In the meantime, Revan quietly reviewed the sparring from earlier. As he charged and Hendricks rushed, Revan felt it. Hendrix’s sword was unable to overcome the sword’s energy and began to crack.
That’s why Revan avoided the collision by changing his trajectory just before that. If it had hit him like that, Hendricks wouldn’t have been from this world.
Hendricks was not a person who could not notice Revan’s strange behavior. The experienced swordsman noticed that there was a problem with his sword and changed its trajectory towards the neck. And he admitted his defeat.
But Revan was worried. If the sword energy that Hendricks showed was fully contained in the sword and they collided head-on.
‘Did I win?’
It was an unknown assumption. This cannot be resolved unless we compete with Hendricks one more time.
But that probably wouldn’t happen. In order for Revan to show his full power, he must first defeat a certain level of demonic beast before fighting. I didn’t want to compete with Hendrix again, even though it was such a hassle.
“Look here. Revan?”
“Yes?”
Hendricks opened his mouth to Revan, who remained silent regardless of what the crowd said.
“Would you like to become my disciple?”
It was a sudden and embarrassing suggestion that came without any warning.
***
“Disciple, you mean?”
Revan asked Hendrix if he had heard correctly. To that question, Hendricks nodded as if to say, ‘What you heard is correct.’
“That’s right. To be precise, it means traveling around the world with me.”
Revan’s face, covered by a gas mask, crumpled. Although it had been less than an hour since I met this old man, I could at least know that he was not normal.
At first glance, Hendrix gives the impression of a kind grandfather. But Revan, who had met him face to face, talked to him, and competed with him, could tell.
‘Something was twisted.’
The scum in the arena also had a clearer thinking structure than the old man in front of them. Revan put Babieka in his inventory.
At that moment when Revan was wondering what his answer would be-
“No!!”
Beep-! The microphone suddenly heard a high-pitched sound and made a tearing sound. The crowd covered their ears.
“Hmm? Why are you suddenly reacting like that?”
When Hendricks looked up and looked at the source of the sound, there was Faust standing on the podium, holding a microphone in his hand and grinning.
***
“Haa…! Haa…!”
Faust, who squeezed his body to produce a high-pitched note, took a deep breath and glared at Hendrix. His face looked somewhat impatient.
“Why doesn’t it work?”
Hendricks asked Faust as if he were curious, with his eyes wide open. Faust responded with an excited voice.
“After Revan graduates from the Academy, he plans to fight beyond the Wall. You can’t take me with you!”
Hmm. Hendricks, stroking his beard with a puzzled expression, asked Faust. Before I knew it, I had added military to Revan’s name.
“Has that matter been agreed upon with the Revan Army?”
“At least it was agreed upon to graduate from the academy-”
“You don’t necessarily have to graduate from the academy to go beyond the wall, right? Looking at your passionate speech earlier, it seems like you want to create a hero. If so, aren’t there many ways?”
Sigh. Hendricks, who had read Revan’s presence, spoke.
“This may be a pointless comment, but I don’t see any particular passion in Revan to go beyond the wall and become a hero of the empire, right?”
Hmm. Faust sucked in a breath as if he had been caught off guard. As Hendricks said, he never told me about his plans after graduation.
Hendricks had the strange ability to know a person’s personality by crossing swords with them. It was the product of decades of experience combined with keen senses that helped him become a sword saint.
As a result of crossing swords, Hendricks felt that Revan had no grand goal of becoming a hero of the Empire in his mind. Rather, the feelings I felt were deep boredom and fatigue.
Tsk tsk. Hendricks clicked his tongue and spoke as if giving advice to Faust.
“Just like in your previous speech, you treat Revan as if he is beneath you. That’s why relationships between men and women cannot last long. Men have a characteristic that the more they are bound, the more they want to run away.”
“······!”
Faust’s face turned as red as a ripe tomato. The audience murmured after hearing the sudden and crazy remark. ha. Revan sighed and spoke to Hendricks.
“Well, there seems to be some misunderstanding.”
“Hmm?”
“Faust That guy is a man, not a woman. It’s a misunderstanding that I sometimes get because I’m small and dainty, but I hope you’ll correct that.”
“···?”
Hendricks narrowed his eyes as if he didn’t understand what was going on. Look around, look around. Hendricks turned his head and looked back and forth between Revan and Faust.
“···Oh.”
Soon Hendrix shook his head as if he had noticed something. Still, he didn’t forget to say something to Faust.
“Anyway, think about what I said. It’s sad because I’ve been sick of this kind of relationship for as long as I’ve had wrinkles.”
Hmm. Hendricks cleared his throat and looked at Revan again and asked.
“So, what do you think about the offer to become my student?”
There was a strangely uplifting atmosphere in the audience. Sword Saint, Hendrix’s disciple. It was a privilege that no one had ever received before.
It was such an unconventional proposal. Because Hendricks hated those who claimed to be his disciples. No matter how famous he was for his eccentric personality, there were few people who would refuse him if he were the disciple of such a strong man.
Hmm. Revan looked like he was thinking for a moment while adjusting the gas mask’s purge can, and then quietly lowered his head.
“I refuse.”
“···Huh?”
It was a clean rejection that left no room for anything.
***
“Uh, why?!”
Hendricks, who had lost his composure earlier, let out a sigh. Revan sighed inwardly as he looked at that.
“I don’t even use a sword in the first place. What would it mean if I became a disciple of the Sword Saint?”
“It may seem like I am overly self-conscious when I say this, but the title of my student would be more valuable than an academy diploma.”
“So?”
“You already have nothing to learn from Geoff! Do you think there is someone at the academy who can ‘duel’ with you?!”
There was frustration in Hendrix’s earnest voice. Revan saw that and spoke quietly.
“Don’t you just need someone to spar with?”
Hot. Hendrix’s body trembled slightly. Revan continued speaking without missing a beat.
“I think I did myself a favor just by accepting the current sparring in the first place.”
“Well, that’s true…”
“and.”
Take a peek. Revan raised his head and looked up at Faust. Although it wasn’t as bad as before, his face still had redness.
“Faust is a friend who helped me quite a lot… It’s almost unreasonable.”
I have something to ask though. I swallowed the last words. Revan, who had wrapped his arms around Faust, uttered a word to end the situation.
“And you lost to me, right?”
“Uh, huh?”
“I wonder what I can learn from someone weaker than me.”
“Oh, if I get the intact sword, I’ll fight it one more time-”
“I will refuse. There is no reason to accept it.”
“···!”
Wow. Hendricks fell to the ground holding the back of his neck.
Revan sighed as he looked at Hendricks in shock. Do all the continent’s powerful people have such bizarre personalities? In that case, I felt that I needed to think about becoming stronger than I am now.
“······.”
As he returned to the entrance he entered, Revan quietly looked at Faust. Faust also looked into Revan’s eyes through the lens of his gas mask.
“······.”
He didn’t say anything, and his expression couldn’t be seen because of the gas mask, but Faust could tell. Revan will come to visit us sooner or later.
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