episode_0097

“How about it?”

“Yes? Ah… I slept so soundly…”

In fact, there was no need to massage Ethan’s body.

Ethan’s body began to recover quickly just by lying in bed with the scent of flowers on a warm day.

All I did was gently press Ethan’s tense body with my hands to relax his muscles.

With that alone, Ethan fell asleep with a peaceful face and felt refreshed when he woke up.

Ethan slowly turned his arm a few times and shouted in surprise.

“I think it’s really improved!”

It must have gotten better.

I don’t know if it’s entirely because of me.

I nodded exaggeratedly and said.

“Yes, it is a special massage given only to close people around you. Do you understand?”

“Yes!”

Ethan replied, twitching the corner of his mouth as if he was happy to receive a massage that only people he was close to received.

Except for Dana, the knights of the other knights were busy making fun of themselves, so they seemed to be even happier about being treated like this.

I don’t know, but if you look at that expression, it seems like you’re itching to show off, so won’t you spread the word about it yourself?

“…Okay, let’s go out and train in the afternoon.”

“Yes!”

When I looked out the window, the sky was already turning orange.

At this point, the knights might soon return, so it was good to go out and show them training in front of the dorm.

When the knights came back, it wasn’t good for them to find out that they only skipped training in the morning and that Ethan and I slept all the time during lunch.

You need to appeal that you trained hard from morning to evening.

“Wow!”

And as if to help me with my thoughts, Ethan quickly swung his sword as soon as he went outside.

It was inevitable that I still saw many shortcomings.

However, the sloppy appearance of yesterday was no longer visible.

Perhaps because I showed him swinging a sword, he now seemed to be practicing some form of swordsmanship, albeit vaguely.

It wasn’t bad for the first day of training.

That’s why I told him to stop swinging his sword.

Now was not the time to swing the sword.

“Let’s increase basic physical strength first.”

I had Ethan do just three exercises.

Squats, sit-ups, push-ups.

Of course, there are various other exercises that will be helpful to Ethan, but I decided to start by teaching you three representative bodyweight exercises that can increase muscle strength.

Ethan had trouble maintaining the correct posture due to the somewhat unfamiliar exercise method, but with just a few corrections, he began to exercise with perfect posture.

“Phew… Why am I so out of breath…?”

In fact, Ethan, who had achieved that perfect posture, was exercising out of breath as if he was embarrassed.

Originally, these three movements had some aspects to them.

As it boasts a high intensity among bodyweight exercises, if performed with the correct posture, it quickly consumes stamina and causes muscles to respond without having to exercise for a long time.

If you were in Ethan’s physical condition, you would feel that even more easily.

Ethan also felt this and seemed embarrassed.

“Do as much as you can, then do 4 sets.”

“Yes!”

Demonstrating swordsmanship and teaching one of the modern exercise methods.

That alone would be enough to make Ethan grow.

Anyway, he’s the main character.

Clutch, crunch.

“Huh?”

I turned my head towards the sound.

The sound of steel scraping and hitting together with the sound of pounding footsteps.

That constant sound automatically caught my attention.

Then, as if a black fog was rolling in from the entrance, a group of knights wearing black armor slowly walked in.

It was the return of the Black Knights.

Director Dana looked at me and smiled faintly instead of greeting me, and rather than raising my voice, I lowered my head and gave a light greeting to Director Dana.

The knights following him also waved at me or said hello.

What was unusual was that, except for Leader Dana, everyone had their armor covered in dirt and were breathing heavily as if they were exhausted.

What happened?

“Hmm? What kind of movement is that?”

Director Dana asked as he looked at Ethan doing squats on the dirt floor.

“It is physical training.”

“Is it training to sit down and stand up like that? At least it’s a weight…”

That was a good point.

In fact, I was planning to make Ethan a barbell once he had built up enough basic physical strength.

If so, Ethan would become the first person in the world to measure the three major movements.

Director Dana was watching the movement, and perhaps became curious and imitated the movements himself.

Spread your legs a little wider than shoulder width, sit down deeply with your hips back, and then slowly stand up.

It was a good attitude.

Then he repeated the squat several times and nodded.

“It’s not enough stimulation for me, but it’s not bad.”

“…I’ll make a barbell… no, I’ll make a weight.”

“Um, please.”

At the same time, I refused the favor of Director Dana, who wanted to provide me with funds for the Knights.

Because I have a lot of money left anyway.

I don’t know, but I thought that even if I combined the entire funds of the Knights, it would be similar to the money I had.

In the distance, I saw knights muttering and imitating the squat movements that Director Ethan and Dana had done.

At first, I followed it because it seemed fun, but later on, I realized that it was quite effective as an exercise and started doing it seriously.

I slowly looked at the vacant lot in front of the hotel.

Should we make this place like a small outdoor gym?

There was nothing bad for me if the Dark Knights’ power became stronger.

Surely the entire Dark Knights won’t turn into hell?

With that thought in mind, I approached Ethan, who was already exhausted and had collapsed on the floor.

“Ki, driver.”

“That’s it. Rest.”

As I approached him, he stumbled and tried to force himself to get up, so I threw up my hand.

The first day is like this.

Ethan, whose legs were shaking, was told to sit down.

What is important is continuity.

If you overwork yourself on the first day and can’t exercise the next day, that’s a problem.

Considering the condition of my legs, I will have to think about exercising focusing on my upper body muscles tomorrow.

And then a woman approached the two of us.

It was Cecil.

“Ha…”

With a deep sigh, he placed his hand on my shoulder.

This was possible because I was quite tall and Cecil was also tall like a model.

“What happened?”

I was already curious about everyone except Leader Dana’s dirty armor and expressions that looked like they were about to collapse.

Cecile then spilled out the story, saying that it was a good question.

As I was quietly listening to Cecile’s words, I muttered the words that came out of Cecile’s mouth again.

“…Dungeon?”

“Yes, dungeon. It’s also very spacious.”

Cecil sighed at the word dungeon and scratched her red hair.

It was my own way of letting go of my anger.

“I thought this year would be a bit easier…”

Leaving behind Cecil, whose mouth was pouting, I slowly recalled the contents of the original story.

In fact, the dungeon was one of the most important places in the original work.

The main character grows up, and later monsters escape from the dungeon and the leader faces danger.

It was a very important place in the story.

I wondered at what point it had been around, but it couldn’t have been so early on.

“…is the strategy very difficult?”

“It’s not that difficult. Even fighting is difficult unless you are at the level of leader Dana.”

At the same time, he told the story of how 10 knights worked together to defeat a golem made of clay.

The dirt all over his body seemed to be the remains of a golem.

Still, I finally defeated it.

It’s a golem.

I had no idea how strong it would be.

“Well, it’s such a dangerous dungeon…”

Ethan glanced at Director Dana with a worried expression.

Among them, I was worried about the strongest person.

“Anyway, I plan to report this matter to Director Dana. If you don’t provide reinforcements, you won’t be able to conquer the dungeon.”

Saying that, Cecil sighed deeply.

“…Reinforcements will come properly this time, right? Last time too, they only sent one old knight…”

Contrary to Cecil’s worries, the perfect person will come as reinforcements.

Having seen the original, I knew that.

However, skill was not the problem, but personality was.

“Ugh, my body is sore, I need to get some rest.”

Cecile, who looked somewhat refreshed after spilling out the story, began to move as she watched the knights around her go to her room one by one.

Ethan said to me in front of Cecil, who was twirling her shoulders and stretching.

“Cecil, don’t you give massages to the driver?”

“Massage? suddenly? He?”

Then Ethan’s finger pointed at me.

Cecile’s expression contorted as if she were perplexed.

“Do you also do massages?”

“…A little something?”

“Hey, how do you know? Did you get it?”

“? Yes… you said you only do it for close people…”

“Wow, hey! Then why don’t you do it for me?”

Cecile, with an aggrieved expression on her face as if she had been betrayed, appealed to me.

I too, who didn’t know Ethan would do what I wanted so much, was taken aback before answering.

“…Well, then do it?”

“Good! I was tired too!”

Cecile appealed to me with her sore shoulders, saying that my suggestion went well.

I told Ethan to skip today’s training and get some rest, then went into my room with Cecile.

Cecil was sighing as she looked at my completely transformed room, not knowing what was going to happen.