In Sanuf

‘Luna did what now?’

Flare’s fist clenches.

She forces the corners of her lips up as she speaks.

“I don’t care if you insult me, but take back what you said about my sister. It’s not like that―”

Smack—!!

“How dare a commoner talk back? Huh? Did you forget your place just because it’s vacation?”

A hand taps her head.

“Please stop. This isn’t the academy…”

Smack—!

“What a joke. What? You’re saying ‘please stop’ after getting hit?”

Seeing Flare unable to resist, anger starts to rise within me.

Knowing Flare’s personality, she’s definitely waiting for an opportunity.

If I see even a hint of her attacking, I’ll rush out to help.

‘So just bear with it a little longer!’

I clench my teeth.

This is related to the destiny Flare must face.

‘Damn [Regret and Obsessive Hero]’

As expected, Flare’s gaze towards Ruijin is still alive.

“Oh, you’re glaring now? You think you’re something just because you learned from that hick for half a year… This won’t do. Teach her a lesson. Pat, Matt.”

The identical twin knights standing on either side of him step forward.

“Understood, Young Master.”

“Please do not resist. It will hurt more if something breaks badly, Miss.”

Only then does Flare lower her eyes, and Ruijin lets out an arrogant laugh from behind the knights.

“That’s right! Just stand there and take it! How dare you, a lowly commoner!”

I can’t take it anymore.

Thinking it was a good thing I brought the transformation ring, I rush out.

A hand as big as a pot lid, belonging to Ruijin’s escort knight, flies towards me.

‘If I get hit by that, I’ll be done for.’

I couldn’t hold back my anger at the insult to my sister and meeting such a guy after so long.

My wounds will heal quickly with my awakened power, so I’ll endure it this time.

‘Let’s get Revenge when we get back.’

Just as I was prepared to be hit, a back wearing a school uniform appeared in front of me.

Slaaaap!!!

A sound qualitatively different from Ruijin’s weak palm.

Hati’s face comes into view as my head turns.

‘Senior?!’

Blood drips down from his nose.

“S, Senior.”

“Are you okay, Flare?”

I blankly nod.

I’m genuinely surprised.

How long has he been watching?

‘Who wears a school uniform to Sanuf… Senior.’

This foolish man must have thought I was in danger and appeared like this without hesitation.

With no preparation and barehanded.

‘It’s always been something that would pass if I just hunkered down a little.’

Revenge isn’t too late to take later.

I’ve learned that painfully over the past five years…!

Ruijin smiles slyly, oblivious to my thoughts.

“Heh heh heh? What?! Who are you? You want to get hit too? Beat him up with her?”

“You don’t need to know, you little sh― Junior!”

“Just got hit once and you’re bleeding from the nose. New Junior? Are you an idiot like you look?”

I approach the Senior.

I’m fidgeting, unable to even touch his swelling cheek.

“Are you okay? Your nose!”

“I’m fine.”

Seeing the Senior’s blood makes my eyes roll.

‘I need to make that bastard the same right now.’

Even if I can’t win, I’m confident I can take one of them with me.

“Haa… What a show. Why. Is that slut giving it to you too―”

“What did you say, you son of a bitch.”

I heard the Senior swear for the first time.

‘Senior. I’ve experienced this countless times. I’m fine! I’m okay!’

My nose stings for no reason.

Ruijin, surprised, asks mockingly with a sneer.

“Senior. Are you perhaps a noble?”

His confident words.

“No. I’m a commoner.”

Ruijin lets out a dumbfounded laugh at those words.

“Ha! Just a crazy bastard? What a world. Are commoners taking drugs as a group these days? That’s insulting a noble. Draw your swords and deal with him.”

“Young Master. Swords are…”

“Are you defying me now, Pat?! Who pays your salary? I said deal with him quickly! A sword wound will heal quickly anyway! Ah. You’re beggars, so you don’t have money for treatment?! I’ll give you some compensation money, I guess!”

“…Your words are getting worse. What’s your Junior’s name?”

“Me? Why. What do you think will happen if you, a commoner, know my name? I am Ruijin, the eldest son of the Brookreddy viscount family. Kneel and lick the bottom of my shoes. Then I’ll let you both off. How about it?”

The Senior looks at me and speaks with his usual smile.

“Don’t worry about here, go. Flare.”

‘Looking foolishly innocent… leaving a bloody nose.’

I wipe his face with my sleeve.

“Thank you. I’m okay. Go quickly.”

Who would think that the trash Scarl is inside this person.

The first time we met, he stood up for me to protect me.

‘He even got them expelled in another form.’

Ruijin is furious at our appearance.

“What a show! Really!”

“Go quickly.”

I trust him.

“Okay.”

He’s definitely doing something that Scarl, who is hard to show to me, is trying to do.

‘The Senior’s swordsmanship, who fought Balrog and the Demon King, was unique.’

“What? What did you say! Now? You’re running away from me? Fine! Go! You’ll be somewhere in Sanuf anyway, right? It’ll be fun to find you and torment you. Yeah. You both run away like rabbits!”

The Senior stands in front of me again.

I thought I was unlucky to meet that bastard just now, but now I’m crazily happy at this moment.

‘As expected, you have to be alive. Our efforts over the past five years have not been in vain.’

I trust the Senior and run away into the alley.

Then I remembered the Senior’s invisibility robe that I secretly stole from Sophia’s room.

‘Kasha said there’s an invisibility spell on this.’

She said that if I use the built-in magic, people won’t be able to see me.

I’m so curious about the Senior’s appearance right now that I take out the robe from my chest and return to his side.

‘…I’ll just watch for a little bit.’

He was the spokesperson for what I wanted to say back then.

His confident tone and gestures.

“Why would I?”

‘A bastard who won’t even be able to look me in the eye in just one year…’

“Ha. You’re both crazy? Is Flare really your girl? Is that why you were bluffing in front of her? You made her run away for real. These two next to me are veteran knights… Aren’t you scared? Do you feel like running away now?”

“No.”

“Did you hear that? He wants to die romantically in front of his woman.”

That bastard is touching his reverse scale.

I want to rush in right now and smash Ruijin’s face.

But the Senior’s face doesn’t show any fear about the current situation, only anger and confidence for me.

‘…It’s not good for my heart.’

“Ruijin Brookreddy. You’ve crossed the line too much.”

“Don’t bring up your family. You lowly thing.”

“Come at me. I’ll beat you to a pulp.”

The Senior’s stance, raising both fists without a weapon, looked clumsy even to me, who had caught the Demon King.

My heart changes like a reed again.

‘Should I run away with him now?’

The opponents are two veteran knights who have drawn their swords.

“Then I won’t be lenient. Boy.”

“That’s quite a knightly thing to say, but it’s reckless. Next time, look at your opponent before you charge.”

Ruijin keeps nagging.

“You’re all noisy! Just get rid of him! He’s a crazy guy wearing a school uniform when it’s not even the academy?! He’s a commoner anyway. Kill him, kill him!”

The knights don’t respond and surround the Senior from both sides.

‘That’s too much! It would be hard even if they came at him one at a time!’

As expected, I have to step in…

The Senior’s mutterings ring in my ears.

“If you’ve been through things like this, it would have been okay to lean on me a little more. Flare.”

The knights’ swords come in swiftly, not missing that moment.

“Boy. Those are sweet words to hear, but.”

“It would be better to say that after you beat us.”

‘Veteran-like perfect stabs and slashes.’

Hati narrowly avoids Pat’s stab and quickly moves inside. Matt’s sword slashes horizontally next to him, so he crouches down, but Pat’s sword, aiming for this, strikes down at his legs again.

The Senior is constantly pushed back without a chance to counterattack due to the twin knights’ exquisite harmony.

“He’s quite good for a student.”

“He’s good enough to step up, but it’s bad that his opponents are us.”

Ruijin babbles as if his mouth is itchy if he stays still.

“The Pat and Matt brothers are well-known twin knights. Senior. You’re doing pretty well? What a pity. Even if your tendons are cut and you become disabled, will you be able to act like this~?”

“…”

There was a strange sense of composure in the Senior, who was cornered and clenching and unclenching his hands.

‘I want to trust him.’

“Shut up and come at me.”

‘How can he be so cool even when he’s swearing.’

Like when he fearlessly jumped in against the Demon King for me.

He faces the veteran knights for me.

That appearance is definitely Hati, but it felt like Scarl in my memory.

He dodges, dodges, and dodges the swords.

He got slightly injured to get out of the corner, but he continues the battle as if a shallow cut is nothing.

The twin knights’ words and Ruijin’s words pass through my ears, but I can only hear the Senior’s breathing.

Agile movements contrasting with his rough breaths.

Did he repeat it three or four more times? Now there’s a faint crack that even I can see.

But even if a crack is visible, it’s not easy to enter the knights’ domain.

‘It might be a veteran’s trick.’

So the Senior, panting, endures and starts dodging the swords again.

Clang!

The twins’ swords, which had only been tracking the Senior’s trajectory, clashed for the first time.

The Senior, not missing the perfect opportunity, quickly goes in and punches them in the stomach.

A liver blow sufficient to incapacitate a veteran knight who isn’t wearing armor.

“Ugh! …What, what are you?”

“An academy commoner student.”

“Young Master. Run away! This guy is!”

“Shut up, you bastard.”

Senior. You really looked like Scarl just now.

Thwack!

Incapacitating the two knights with just two blows.

Not only that, but he surrounds his feet with mana and breaks their arm and leg bones.

The image of Scarl overlaps with the Senior, who sweeps back his sweat-soaked hair.

Scarl’s eerie tone, which I had heard before, flows from the Senior’s mouth.

“You and I need to have a little chat. Ruijin or whatever your shitty Junior name is.”

The Senior approaches Ruijin, who is terrified and unable to run away.

“N, no!”

The Senior’s hand goes up.

Smack—!!!

“…Uh, uh?”

“This is my share.”

Slaaaaaap—!!

“This is Flare’s share.”

Ruijin, not knowing what he’s been through, flies away like a tragic heroine and touches his cheek.

“How funny. You think our Flare’s wounds will heal with just that, you little man?”

‘He’s crazy. He said our Flare.’

He steps on him. He hits him.

Ruijin’s screams and eerie beating sounds echo.

Ruijin and his escort knights, whose pants are soaking wet, can’t resist and are becoming disabled.

‘It’s the same as the old Scarl…’

Scarl overlaps with the Senior’s appearance.

But what’s certain is that Senior Hati is also inside Scarl.

Senior Hati, who is in front of me, has always been kind.

So the appearance that Scarl wanted to show me was…

The Senior, who had been beating Ruijin for a while, stealthily approaches this way.

A little taller than me, looking foolishly innocent, and his innocent face and round eyes evoke a gentle sheep.

Such a person got angry for me.

No.

Scarl, who was imitating such a person, got angry for me.

‘This is really dangerous for my heart!!!’

He stops right in front of me and says in a small voice.

“Are you there?”

“!!!”

‘How?!’

“Shh. Let’s run away!”

I’m dragged away by the Senior’s hand.