episode_0041

“Private Ainel. What’s with that expression? Are you dissatisfied?”

“Oh, no!”

“Okay. Then let’s continue. Next trainee, come out!”

Next up is Ember Kyle Road.

“…I’m Ember Kyle Lord. After the mercenary group I had been a part of for a long time collapsed, I was wandering around when I received great help from Lord Cornelius of the Sun Knights. That’s how I came to this point. I will always be grateful to Lord Cornelius. ”

“You’re not from the academy either.”

“Yes. I’ve been a mercenary since I was a child.”

“But… Are you short on words? Am I your friend, you little punk!?”

“……”

Adrian took out his usual black stick and poked Ember’s chest.

“Am I your friend, you little shit?”

“Teacher, this is the instructor.”

“Who is the Sun Knight? Is that some kind of official position? Where are you getting your arrogance from.”

“……”

“Special skill is.”

“In the mercenary group… I was mainly in charge of the vanguard… I mainly used shields and swords. ”

“Magic.”

“Magic is not my specialty!”

“Do you know how to use magic? Don’t you need to know how to use aura to become a knight?”

“Ma, I know how to handle magic.”

“Then why didn’t you say that from the beginning!”

Adrian muttered, pretending to be talking to himself, so that everyone could hear.

“Why are those who aim to become journalists so dumb? It’s not like they have any manners.”

The person who seemed the most ill-mannered in the room was Adrian, who ignored others and resorted to violence at the end of every sentence, but no one objected.

No, I couldn’t.

Because if that were the case, it would have been obvious what would happen next.

“Next.”

“I will do it. ”

Next up is none other than Sienna, who got hit in the face and bled after asking Adrian a question.

“My name is Sienna. Sienna Blake. I am from the Ilios Adventurers’ Group, famous for clearing dungeons. I specialize in wind elemental magic and can also handle a variety of weapons. I mainly served as a guide in the Adventurers’ Group. I came to this Pelot Knight Training School at the recommendation of Count Damian.”

Is it the power of violence?

It was the most spirited self-introduction among the four members.

Adrian didn’t even need to ask any other questions.

“Count Damien? How can someone like you be friends with someone like that?”

“Yes! Back when I was a member of an adventure group, I happened to rescue a group that was lost while exploring a dungeon. Count Damien’s son happened to be among that group. Because of that connection, I ended up running various errands and ended up here.”

“Really? You’re not going to the dungeon anymore?”

“That was… very hard work, so I wanted to get ahead too!”

“Success… In a word, you want to become a noble, right?”

“If I had to say so, yes!”

Adrian glared at her with a cold gaze.

“Where have you been to dungeons?”

“Yes, I’ve been to many places.”

“Tell me about the most difficult journey you’ve ever taken. It doesn’t matter how long it is.”

“Well… Then… About the underground nest of the Pioneer, the first to be discovered and successfully conquered by our adventure group…”

Sienna screamed for a full ten minutes, the veins in her neck popping out.

At first, he watched Adrian closely, but when he didn’t give him any trouble, he became very excited and started telling his adventure stories.

“That great feat was accomplished by a mere group of conspirators?”

“That’s… that’s right… and I also got certified by the Adventurer’s Association!”

“Just hearing the explanation, that monster seems incredibly strong…”

“That’s true. Even if I had ten lives, it wouldn’t be enough.”

“But you defeated him alone without a single knight? Are you asking me to believe that now?”

“I dare say, our Ilios Adventurers’ Group is different from the other adventurers’ groups around us. In particular, our leader, Given Luid Ilios, is so skilled that he is nicknamed Ilios the Destruction. And as for our vice-leader, Fiora, she was once recommended as a court magician, so skilled that…”

“Stop it. That’s enough, so shut up and go inside. If you’re so proud, why did you crawl all the way here instead of continuing to be an adventurer?”

“……”

Sienna was terribly hurt.

How great is the Ilios Adventurers Group.

Although she is here dreaming of becoming a noble, the Ilios Adventurers will always be a source of pride for her.

It was all thanks to my adventurer comrades that I was able to come this far.

I know the other person is a noble, but he is not someone a mere instructor at a training school can carelessly insult.

‘A guy who wouldn’t be able to say a word in front of Lady Fiora…’

This is why I want to become a noble.

A group of people who act proud just because they were born into a good family, even though they have no skills.

I want to get into the middle of it and turn the tables.

Close your eyes tightly.

‘Hold on… Hold on, Siena.’

There is a goal.

I didn’t come here just to become a low-level reporter.

The reason I came here, leaving behind colleagues I wanted to be with forever, is to rise up no matter what.

Siena braced herself once again.

“Next.”

“Hannah Rones. I came at the recommendation of Lord Netradi, the leader of the Scorpion Knights. I prefer swords as my weapon, and I love using elemental magic of the earth.”

A description as short and concise as her personality.

It was a self-help measure of its own.

To minimize the conversation with that fucking Adrian Floyd.

“Isn’t there something like where you came from? You’re not from the Academy, are you? Where did you come from and what did you do? Do I really have to ask you again?”

“I have been a servant of Lord Netradi ever since I was young.”

“You’ve been living as a seed… A woman? Was she a servant?”

“……”

“If you’ve been a servant to a knight for a long time, and even to a captain, you shouldn’t know that you shouldn’t dare open your eyes like that in front of me, right?”

“Excuse me… ”

Adrian walked back and forth a few meters in front of the autograph booth in silence.

The trainees couldn’t help but become more nervous.

I don’t know what kind of crazy stuff that crazy guy is going to say next.

Instructor Adrian stopped walking, hitting his opposite palm with the stick he was holding.

“I think you four will need special measures. Maybe it’s because you haven’t experienced the Academy, but you’re too arrogant. I’m a noble before I was an instructor. I’m from the Floyd Count family, the only one in the kingdom who inherited the magic of giving. Where are you, arrogant and lowly…”

The expressions of all four people distorted at the same time.

Mutual sympathy.

There were only four people who were not of noble birth.

* * *

‘I don’t want to talk about class, but… I have no choice if I want to survive.’

Those four are watchers sent from another faction to keep an eye on me.

We have to make it fall off at any cost.

The operation is as follows.

First of all, it makes you realize how pathetic it is to be stuck next to me.

And causing enough pain to make you fall out of your own way.

‘Come and feel what dog training is all about.’

Next, there was an introduction of four academy graduates who had originally belonged to the training center.

The guy with the fierce expression or the guy with the scarred face were surprisingly all of noble birth.

“Why do you think you weren’t chosen by other instructors?”

“That’s…”

“That’s right…”

“……”

Everyone kept their mouths shut.

I want to refute that, but I’m sure you already know it.

That their skills are far inferior to those of their peers.

“Then let me ask again. What do you think is the biggest difference between your peers who were chosen by Lord Karlstein and those of you here now? You tell me first.”

I asked a question to the guy with a face full of scars.

Was her name Rosie?

“First of all… My grades have not been good since my days at the Academy. From handling weapons to using magic power and even theory…”

“Next you. You answer.”

“Well… the difference in innate talent…”

Obvious answer.

A needless feeling of irritation welled up in me.

“Talent? Well, that’s not entirely wrong. You don’t have talent. If not, you have the worst.”

Following the four-person group, the expressions of the other three people also began to crumple in a similar way.

“But is that really all? The difference in talent. Well, let’s say that’s half of it. But that’s not all!”

I moved forward one by one.

Then, using the stick, he lifted the chins of each of the guys who had their heads bowed and made eye contact.

“The other half of the reason why you guys weren’t chosen until the end, unlike those guys.”

Everyone’s eyes were turned to me.

“Because you have no earnestness.”

The word that people who are working hard want to hear the least.

Desperation.

This is open to interpretation, so as an instructor I can be very unreasonable.

No matter how hard you try, you may be scolded for not being good enough.

Since I am the one setting the standard for effort, the guys can never refute it.

“You want to be a knight? Everyone here has that kind of goal. First, set your own goal. Right now! If you don’t set that goal by today, you won’t be sent home. ”

Everyone’s faces are surprised.

I came to the training school to become a knight, but suddenly they told me to have a goal other than becoming a knight.

It would be absurd.

“Oh, I forgot to mention one thing. Thinking is done while lying down. Everyone, lie down!”

From today on, group cheering will become your daily routine.

‘Twist? If you twist it, give up the mission and leave.’