episode_0101

As time passes, anything will eventually be forgotten.

Just as the foam of raindrops falling into a stagnant puddle suddenly disappears when you turn your eyes.

The same thing happened when one of our own writers went extinct.

A family that will no longer have any influence or meaning at the point of its downfall.

It didn’t take long for people to lose interest.

The empire was still at peace.

On the outside.

Like the books in a library that are becoming old and discolored, change always comes from invisible corners.

The signs were already showing.

There have been reports of monsters appearing once a month, five times this month alone.

A small village on the outskirts of the empire was annihilated by the mixed remains.

The spider birds that appeared on the border with Panam were subdued, leaving behind two hundred casualties.

Alfheim’s guardians were occasionally observed near the border.

In the North, the attacks of beastmen, which were a part of daily life, have completely disappeared.

Something has changed. How many people will have such a premonition?

At least the system probably hasn’t noticed yet.

But the transformation has already begun.

slowly. Just little by little.

Irreversibly.

The glass is getting full.

Until it overflows, one drop at a time.

—-

“Dispatch assistance?”

Friede, who was helping Milia train, turned to me.

While waiting for Damian, who had been blown to the other side, to stand up, I caught the great sword floating in the air and slammed it into the garden floor.

“Yes, about the academy’s recently changed policy. Have you heard of it?”

“I know that, but why?”

Milia, who ducked her waist to avoid Friede’s wooden sword, rolled on the floor with a subsequent kick.

Dust clings to green hair.

Although he managed to block it with his bow, he seemed unable to completely block it due to his unstable posture.

“Please help me with that. Damian and Miliana, it’s time for some practical training, right?”

“It’s a real game… That’s true.”

Although virtual experience lectures are useful, they only increase combat experience and do not actually accumulate any important work.

Damian rushed towards me, scattering the sand he was holding.

Now he uses all these stupid tricks.

It was so true that I was stubborn and just threw it away.

I swung my open hand to the side.

A strong wind whipped up the brown debris and blew it to the side.

Getting hit by something like this didn’t really bother me, but having a lump of dirt stuck to my face was a bit unpleasant.

Meanwhile, Damian grabbed the handle of the great sword that was stuck in the ground and pulled it out.

A slash with a great sword that is swung with the legs spread wide and the waist twisted elastically.

The heavy wave sound draws an arc.

I placed my left hand on the back of the wooden sword and blocked the approaching large sword head-on.

The surrounding grass lies down due to the spreading shock, and a dull metallic sound rings in my ears.

The wooden sword body was instantly crushed and the iron cores that made up the skeleton collided with each other.

Pieces of broken wood bounced in all directions.

The body is pushed back little by little.

So, about 2 cm.

“Keuuut…!”

Damian gritted his teeth and retrieved the great sword.

It was a good decision not to push with force.

Because there’s no way that would work.

By the way, it seems like the wooden sword doesn’t have much meaning…

Because every time we strike, it breaks.

It would be better to use the true sword as is, but request hardening slime for sparring from the academy.

I continued my conversation with Friede while moderately dispelling the constant barrage of great sword attacks.

“Let’s send them under ordinary 2nd graders, most of them are weaker than Damian. It’s useless.”

“Well, a second year student is an ordinary student. They are newbies who have just entered the article industry.”

Damian would have beaten most second-year students when he entered school.

We’ll win against most of them now.

Damian became nervous, pulled his greatsword backwards and twisted his body greatly.

You’re wrong, Damien. I was overestimating it at best.

Didn’t I tell you before?

When dealing with an enemy that is faster than you, do not hastily attempt a large attack.

I kicked him in the side and sent him flying.

Damian, who had been bounced like a ball, sprawled on the floor and coughed.

“So, Friede, aren’t you going to have to go on a dispatch mission anyway? Please join us then. Damian, Millia, and even me.”

Damien and me, Ophelia and Lana. And Milia.

These were the basic party members I had envisioned.

Having Ashana Friede and Lacey together would be the icing on the cake…

These three probably won’t be able to move around freely due to their status or roles.

For now, we should start with just the three of us.

Lana is not yet skilled enough to participate in a proper battle, and Ophelia is busy plotting to kill her sister.

“Would you like to be dispatched together? I think the power would be excessive if I included you.”

Friede quickly swung his wooden sword and struck down Milia’s arrow.

Broken arrows poured down like rain.

“That’s right. Still, if I think about the future, I will have to build up my reputation a bit more.”

That was the first step in destroying Isabella.

Because there was no way to touch her directly yet.

If you point a sharp sword at the empress of the empire without any solid evidence…

If you are harsh, you will be labeled a traitor and become an enemy of the empire.

So, first of all, you need to apply as much pressure as possible until Isabella, who is nervous, starts to move in earnest.

Until now, you may have been able to hide the shadow of your evil deeds well…but when you grow bigger, you can’t hide in the shadows.

One day, Isabella’s true face will reveal itself.

Isabella probably knows that I support Leopold.

The higher my reputation and power, the more burden I will feel.

“Well, you should do something to enhance your reputation. This time, you added another notoriety?”

“……”

Friede snorted lightly at my silence.

Let’s ignore it.

Because I couldn’t think of anything to justify it.

I have to remember something to explain it, but if you look at the situation, it’s like beating up a drunk person who got into a fight to death.

“Haaa!”

“It’s the same again, don’t fly around carelessly when dealing with people.”

He threw his wooden sword at the leaping Damian and shot him down.

Damian, who was thrown out, fell to the floor and rolled around.

Wow, this thing without wings really likes to jump.

Still, my skills have improved a lot.

If it had been before, I would have been pierced without being able to block it.

“Well, I guess it’s okay. However, with the number of monsters increasing these days, dispatch requests are overflowing.”

Friede readily agreed, grabbing Millia by the collar and slamming her to the ground.

They lit cigarettes with the fainting boy and girl in the background.

I also tried to offer it to Friede, but he rejected it.

The North hates magic herbs?

Because of the flame and smell, it would be easily detected by prisoners.

—-

Friede soon headed toward the main building.

Speaking of which, he said he would register the three of us as his auxiliary forces right now.

I reported this to Damien and Millia, who woke up shortly after.

“It’s a dispatch mission…can I do well?”

Unlike Damian, who nodded without hesitation, Millia looked a little anxious.

As expected, does it still bother me that I couldn’t beat a single troll a while ago?

“With your skills, there won’t be much danger. Anyway, I and Friede will probably follow.”

Most of the monsters that appear in the beginning are ones that can be easily defeated even at Damian’s level if you prepare properly.

“Besides…”

He gently put his head close to Millia’s ear and lowered his voice.

Don’t let Damian hear.

“She said she wants to continue being with Damien. To do that, you need to develop your skills and always stick together. Married warriors usually… met with a woman who was their colleague, and in many cases they ended up getting married. If you go away, you might get taken away by another woman?”

Millia’s face turned bright red.

“Well, that…Damian couldn’t have done that…”

“Milia. lets think. No one knows what will happen to people. Just looking at Friede, it is said that he will make a man who can overwhelm several beastman warriors as his son-in-law… If Damian becomes that strong, what will happen? I really don’t know. Millia, do you understand?”

He shrugged his shoulders and talked about a plausible future.

Milia’s eyes trembled, perhaps because she had imagined Damian becoming the Northern Grand Duke’s son-in-law. So much so that it seems a little pitiful.

“If you don’t want to be defeated by rolling stones, you have to work hard, right? I’m rooting for you, Millia, so I’ll continue to help you in the future, so just trust me.”

“Yes. Thank you Hashal. I need to cheer up too.”

My sincere concern must have been conveyed well, as Milia gathered herself and nodded her head vigorously as if she was making a promise to herself.

That’s good.

“What are you talking about, whispering like that? Just the two of you.”

Damien seemed to think we looked strange, so he spoke to us.

“Uh, that’s…”

“A story that should not be told to a man who has no sense of sense.”

On behalf of Milia, who stuttered as if she had trouble answering, I drew a line telling her not to be curious.

Maybe it was a situation where she was confessing her affection after making the right decision, but it seemed like Milia didn’t want her feelings to be revealed unintentionally like this.

I have a frustrating tendency.

So, I guess I couldn’t even confess properly, and I was just in pain, and then it was taken away.

“Ah, something like a secret conversation between women?”

Damian shook his head as if he understood.

“Well, I often saw girls like that in my hometown too. Every time I tried to find out what the story was, he said it was something he couldn’t tell me and ran away. Are girls really like that?”

Did this child really leave his senses in his mother’s womb?

It is understandable that such a good Milia became corrupted in the original work.

With that smooth face, I can roughly guess how many girls he may have been subconsciously seducing since he was young.