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The saint standing before my eyes gave me a strong feeling that could only be described as truly special.

It was clearly a beautiful and elegant sight, but somehow it seemed a little off.

Iris, who loved perfection, frowned at her appearance, but she could not express everything she was like in front of the emperor, the saint, and the priests of the Holy Empire.

Especially since I haven’t even properly responded to your greeting yet.

“Ah. My name is Iris Luasa Ermunt, the moon of the Ermunt Empire. Welcome, Saintess. ”

The saintess seemed to think deeply for a moment at the words of welcome, but soon smiled brightly.

It was a smile so clear that it made the onlookers feel as if everything was being purified.

‘… … .’

But strangely, the Crown Princess found that smile quite uncomfortable.

“Hehe, our saint is a true saint who brightens the world just by smiling.”

“Your Majesty, too. I am ashamed. Oh, His Majesty asked me to apologize on your behalf for not being able to attend this time due to illness.”

“No, I’m just grateful that you showed up to the party despite your illness.”

Of course, the emperor, who was completely unaware of his daughter’s condition, was busy just laughing and praising the saintess.

“Yes, Iris. Come and sit down. Since the saint is here, I want to say hello and tell you something, so I’m sorry for calling you at this late hour.”

“No, Your Majesty. The saintess herself has come, so how could I, the crown princess of the empire, not walk?”

The conversation between the two was stiff, but that was natural since there were both saints and priests present.

The two usually got along quite well, unlike the parent-child relationship of other noble families.

“Iris, you probably know that our Ermunt Empire and the Holy Empire are currently negotiating to establish proper exchanges.”

Ermund and the Holy Empire have not been on good terms since before.

In Ermund, they did not believe in God, and the Holy Empire was a country built on faith, believing in one God.

As such, they have fought many wars with each other, and their relationship has been one of long-standing hostility, with only gains and losses.

However, this time, the Emperor of the Ermund Empire wanted to break the long-standing hostility and seek reconciliation with the Holy Empire.

‘We need the Holy Empire to further develop and rise to higher places.’

So, Emperor Ermund was pretending to want peaceful reconciliation, but ultimately, he wanted to absorb the Holy Empire into Ermund.

Of course, the Pope of the Holy Empire was also aware of Ermund’s intentions.

However, the reason they accepted Ermund’s ulterior motive for the peace treaty was because they also had the same thoughts in the end.

“To show that the two empires are on good terms, Iris.”

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

“There was talk that you and the saintess were attending the Imperial Academy together.”

“Imperial Academy… together…?”

Anyway, Iris was scheduled to naturally enroll in the academy next year.

You might think it strange that someone with the status of a crown princess would go to the academy, but she would rather associate with the children of the nobles, form her own faction, engage in politics, and further solidify her power.

It was a long-standing tradition of the Ermund Empire to live together with the common people and help them create a better world to live in.

“Next year, Iris, you were scheduled to enter the Academy anyway. I will prepare for the Saintess to enter with you at that time. I hope you will be of great help to the Saintess, as she is not familiar with the Empire.”

It was Iris who first began to hate her father, who would raise his hand and pat her on the shoulder to encourage her.

After entering school, I was busy taking care of my own things and looking back, but I felt like I had been given another burden to bear.

“I will also do my best, so don’t worry too much, Your Highness the Crown Princess.”

Estelle was the first to act friendly, as if Iris’ expression was somewhat reflected on her face.

“Oh, no. I have to work harder.”

“You had this look on your face like you were getting one more piece of luggage.”

Estelle, who honestly blurts out the expressions she reads, has a very honest personality.

He is the type of person who is not intimidated by anything and must say what he wants to say.

That kind of personality gave Iris a great deal of discomfort.

“No, no. Why would I think of the noble saint like that?”

“You’re still being sarcastic.”

“Not at all?”

The emperor and priests were at a loss as they watched Iris force a smile and the saintess speak with an expression that seemed to say she was having a blast.

It was the beginning of a bad relationship between the two.

***

Quite a bit of time has passed.

When I heard that the Crown Princess and the Saintess would be entering the Academy next year, I also started training to enter the Academy six months ago.

There have been quite a few changes during that time.

first…

[ Status Window ]

Name: Theo (Kim Min-seong)

Age: 20 years old

Occupation: Awesome villager

Titles: Proud Son, Best Talented Man in the Village, Swordsman with Great Swordmanship

He rose to become a villager with a really great job.

Wow, really, this is so good.

What the hell! Why the hell can’t I escape from the village people!

A while ago, while I was practicing swordsmanship diligently, I earned the title of “Swordsman with Great Swordmanship”, and as soon as I earned that, I was suddenly told that the conditions for promotion had been met, so I got promoted and became a really cool villager.

No, how can you give someone the title of inspector but still call him a villager?!

You have a fitting title!

A title that suits a townspeople who are really good at swordsmanship is a swordsman?!

Hey, huh. I’m really getting pissed.

“Hey, Inma. Theo! Stop fooling around and hit all the scarecrows a thousand times!”

“Ah, I said I’m not being a slacker!”

The person who was yelling at me as I was despairing because I couldn’t figure out the relationship between titles and occupations was the butcher who had been my swordsmanship instructor since I decided to go to the academy.

There was a time when I thought, ‘Hey, I’m going to learn swordsmanship from a butcher.’

Chook! Chook! Chook! Chook! Chook-!

The wind blows, and an invisible flash of light flies toward the pigs running between the scarecrows.

“Kuweeek-!”

All the pigs fell down in one fell swoop.

Yes, the butcher was one of the hidden masters.

“Oh my, these little bastards are running away here all day and causing trouble. Hey, hurry up. I cleaned it all up.”

And that muscle strength to carry five or six pigs that were caught like that without any problem.

He was such an incredible man that it was hard to understand why he was running a butcher shop in such a small town.

Chomp-! Chomp-!

“Yes, I will. I will do it.”

So, I try not to get into trouble and just work hard… .

“Ha, but when are you going to build up the skills to advance to the academy if you just catch scarecrows?”

The man who said from the beginning that the basics were the most important still hasn’t taught me anything beyond the basics even after several months.

Shit! How important are these basics!

I feel like I want to slit a pig’s throat right now…!

Should I jump?! Should I jump and go to a pig farm and have a 1:1 fight with a pig?!

“You little shit, are you thinking of going to a pig farm and slaughtering a pig?!”

“Huh? Yep? Oh, no… ? W, what are you talking about.”

Chomp! Choaaaak! Chomp-!

“Hey, you’re working hard on cutting down a scarecrow.”

“Really? That’s weird.”

Besides, why is that guy so perceptive?

No, isn’t this not just a case of quick wit but mind reading?

I was really, really wrong.

To call that a master.

Choaak-! Ss …

“Huh, Master! I hit this 999 times and it broke!”

Scarecrows that didn’t seem to break even after being hit thousands of times began to break one by one.

“Oh, really? How many?”

Even if I try to count how many are broken…

“All of them.”

Since everything in front of my eyes was completely destroyed, there was no need to even count them.

“Oh, you finally finished it all? How is it, do you feel like you’re starting to build up some foundation in your body?”

[ You have earned the title! ]

[ Scarecrow Slayer ]

Well, I don’t know about the foundation, but I guess I got the title of a slaughterer who killed scarecrows.

“Now then… ”

“Oh my gosh, we’re finally going to the next stage…!”

Yeah, so what if you’re a scarecrow slayer!

Does that matter right now?

What’s important is what you go next!

“What are you talking about? There are still that many scarecrows left.”

“in…?”

Behind the barn where the pigs and livestock were kept, I could see a lot of scarecrows spread out in an area that looked twice as large as the area where I had just put up the scarecrows.

“When you break all of that, then we’ll move on to the next one. Cheer up!”

Haha, shit.

The life of a free spirit isn’t easy.