episode_0067

I spent the whole morning dealing with tomorrow’s business and barely made it back to my room.

I was constantly walking around in the cold, so I was sweating and then cooling down repeatedly, and my physical condition was terrible.

Although I was able to hide my expression… … I couldn’t help but feel nervous because I thought Alice might notice.

It’s a good thing that I became the main character, but the problem is that my physical strength can’t keep up with those kids. And Mamia Crowfield wasn’t the type to fight with physical strength.

Me… … Well, I was in a position where I could just shoot from afar, but there was bound to be a huge difference between what the group expected from Miakrowfield and what they expected from me. After all, I was basically someone who could easily dodge attacks from humans who engaged in close combat.

“… … .”

I’m sure Claire will wake me up tomorrow morning too.

Not only tomorrow, but I will continue to do so for the rest of my life. I am taking a short break now, but after this short break, Claire will come to visit me again.

Of course, if you follow Leo and Claire, you will definitely meet Kensei. But by then, it will be too late. Kensei will be more interested in Leona, Claire, Alice, or Charlotte. Or Jake.

Mia Crowfield and I were far from swordsmen, and would not be talented enough to catch the eye of the swordsman.

But that shouldn’t be the case.

Up until the moment I woke up this morning, I hated climbing mountains and was planning on somehow avoiding facing the black castle, but after going through all this, I really felt the need for a means other than shooting.

……good.

I jumped up from where I was rolling around in bed.

Anyway, I have the ability to turn back time. I don’t want to turn back time by a few weeks at a time because it’s burdensome, but I’ve already spent over a month by turning back time by a few hours. When I assassinated Count Crowfield, I practiced and tried various assassination routes and extracted information.

Although I was immature in many ways, time was on my side. I could correct my mistakes. Although it was impossible to increase my physical strength through training, I could repeat the same thing until it became a habit.

Fortunately, the sun was still high in the sky.

I got up, opened the door, and went out.

And then I headed towards the room where Jennifer was.

*

Jennifer’s room was plain in many ways for a duchess’s room. It wasn’t luxurious, but it was neatly organized and had almost no decorations. There was no porcelain or small marble statues, and the only mirror was one hanging on the wall.

There wasn’t any lace on the bed or anything.

To be honest, it has a more ‘officer’s quarters’ feel to it than the Duke’s Young-ae. Of course, I’ve never actually been to an officer’s quarters, but that’s just the way it is.

“Please let me meet my teacher?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

Jennifer looked at me with interest after hearing my request. Jennifer, sitting on the chair, also looked completely uncluttered, just like the image in this room. When I saw her at the academy, she seemed quite free-spirited for a former officer, but here, I should say she was rather formal.

“Hmm.”

Jennifer closed the notebook she was holding.

“I hear you know who my teacher is.”

Jennifer looked straight up at me and asked, perhaps intrigued by my request to introduce a teacher she had never even mentioned herself.

“Aren’t you the Imperial Sword Master?”

It’s not just ‘Black Star’. Jennifer had several teachers. However, the only teachers whose names are directly mentioned in the game are Black Star and Jennifer’s grandfather Abraham.

Jennifer is a master of all weapons, so of course she had many mentors, but if I had to pick the two people who had the greatest influence on her, they would be those two.

“And you already seem to know that I know where he is.”

“Yes, I understand you are in this Winterfield Estate.”

“Then why don’t you just go and find it yourself?”

I looked down at Jennifer, who kept asking me questions with an amused expression, and said,

“I don’t know the exact location.”

Because in the game, the mountainside is simply expressed.

But in reality, that is impossible.

“Hmm.”

Jennifer put her hand on her chin and looked at me quietly, then got up from her seat.

And then he started walking towards me with heavy steps.

In reality, he was about the same height as me, but because of the intimidating aura he gave off, he seemed much bigger to me than he actually was.

And Jennifer, who came to me,

Exactly!

“Ouch!”

He fed me honey at high speed.

“Huh?”

But it seemed like he thought it was strange even though he was the one who hit me on the head.

……again!

*

I had to turn back time three times to narrowly avoid the high-speed honey chestnut.

I’m proud that I evaded it in three attempts. It seems that Lucas really practiced when he swung his sword at me. It was a swing that was infinitely closer to sincerity than Lucas’s, so it was harder to dodge.

“… … Is that so.”

I don’t know what she read in my expression, but Jennifer must have read something in my eyes.

“Then what about the grades? To be honest, it’s a long walk to get to where he is. Even if you can drive to the bottom of the mountain, you have to walk a long way up the mountain. It’ll be midnight when you get there.”

… … Was it that far?

Well, in the game, I spent a day at the swordsman’s hut and came down.

“Even if you want to learn something properly, a few days is not enough… … Ah, is this something that doesn’t apply to you?”

For a moment, I felt goosebumps running down my spine as if I had read that I was turning back time.

“It seems like you have basic talent. If you just want to hear some advice, a day might be enough.”

Jennifer, who had said that, added with a smile as if she was provoking me.

“No, isn’t it a ‘basic’ level?”

It’s not at a basic level.

In fact, there is no basis for it.

Of course, I couldn’t say that out loud.

“One night is enough.”

“… … .”

Jennifer quietly looked at me as I answered like that, then shrugged her shoulders.

“Well, there are a lot of things I want to ask, but I guess I can think about them after you come back down. It doesn’t look like you’re going anywhere right now.”

But there’s no time to ask me that.

Because you won’t even remember me saying that.

Jennifer was the type of person who would do something without hesitation once she decided to do it. Even now, the moment she thought about going to her teacher, she brushed past me and walked toward the door.

I turned around to follow Jennifer, but just before she opened the door, Jennifer stopped walking as if she remembered something.

“Oh, yeah.”

Then he glanced back at me behind him and said.

“Come to think of it, unilaterally helping a daughter of the royal family would be a blow to Winterfield’s pride.”

… … .

Normally I don’t even care about that kind of thing.

“There is one thing I would like you to do in return for introducing me to my teacher.”

“… … .”

“I know you’re not an ordinary teenage girl. At least it’s easier and more honorable than assassinating the Count.”

It was an expression of complete certainty that I had killed the Count.

It doesn’t seem like he’s trying to threaten or anything with that fact. It wasn’t even something to threaten in the first place.

So, this was literally a ‘deal’.

“Can I hear the transaction details in advance?”

“There’s a warlord running wild in the border area and he’s causing me trouble. I’d like you to snipe his leader. Imperial soldiers have been dying for months now. ”

“… … Is this the battlefield I was supposed to go to?”

“Yeah.”

Jennifer nodded with a serious expression.

“The reinforcement that His Majesty the Emperor was going to send was definitely you.”

“… … .”

I can’t be sure, but it’s very possible. In fact, I was planning to go to the Northern Front instead of the Academy.

In the original, Claire probably went. Although the details are not given, she must have played a major role in dismantling the warlords in the border area.

“Okay, I will do that.”

“Thank you.”

Jennifer nodded and opened the back door.

*

Leo and Claire were in the dining room, and Alice and Charlotte were in their rooms.

Mia Crowfield was also in the room. I don’t know where Jake went, but it didn’t seem like he had any intention of causing a major accident.

That’s why we didn’t run into anyone else on our way out. There were a few other students from the noble class, but they didn’t bother to talk to the princess and teacher who were walking together.

It was natural that I couldn’t talk to them, considering that they weren’t just a princess or a teacher, but a suspected assassin directly affiliated with the royal family and a former soldier who was active on the northern front. It would have seemed to anyone that they were going to have an incredibly serious conversation.

“There is still a road to the bottom of the mountain. There is no speed limit ordinance here, so you don’t have to worry about speed.”

As a result of the fierce opposition of the coachmen, who were afraid of losing their jobs, the system made it impossible for steam-powered cars to run at speeds exceeding 20 km/h. That’s why I never got a driver’s license. In the first place, there were hardly any people who drove their own cars.

It would be much better to learn horseback riding.

“I’ll drive, is that okay?”

Jennifer said as she got into the driver’s seat without a care in the world.

“It’s okay.”

I nodded and got into the passenger seat.

And it wasn’t until I got in the car that I realized there were no seat belts in the car.

ah.

But by the time I realized that, Jennifer was already stepping hard on the accelerator.