episode_0247

“A…a sparring match?”

“Yes. I really wanted to compete with you again.”

A knight named Dylan looked at me with infinitely serious eyes.

Looking at his gaze, I once again felt an inexplicable sense of anxiety.

I looked around with slightly quickened breathing and saw the knights looking at me with interested eyes.

My eyes met with one who looked like a knight commander, and who had the most majestic appearance among them.

– I will obey your orders, my lord. I hope you won’t come to our knights in the future.

all.

– I must have told you not to come back again.

– That Dylan bastard. He left the Order due to the aftereffects of his injury. You’re saying that you can’t accept the young lady’s apology.

– So please go back now. And don’t come back ever again.

“Uh…uh…”

When I came face to face with a man who looked like a knight commander, my lips began to tremble, and my legs gave out and I fell over.

“”Miss!””

As I fell limply to the ground, Alina and Dylan simultaneously ran towards me.

I held back the tears that threatened to overflow and grabbed Dylan’s sleeve with my shaking hands.

“Miss! Are you okay!”

“I’m…sorry…”

Dylan’s eyes widened at my words.

He looked quite embarrassed, but I ignored him and knelt down in front of him, bowing my head like a sinner.

I don’t know why.

I couldn’t even find that clue.

I couldn’t figure out why I had been feeling this way since coming to the mansion, or why my body was so scared.

But one thing was clear.

I owe him an apology.

It felt like hallucinations were whispering in my head.

– I’m sorry.

– I’m sorry.

-I’m sorry, I …

“Miss.”

“I’m… sorry… I’m sorry… I was wrong…”

At that time, I was struggling like a child with a sense of guilt I didn’t even know existed.

“Miss.”

Dylan’s straight voice pulled me out of my reverie.

As I stared blankly up at him, he smiled faintly and grabbed the wooden sword in his hand.

“Let’s spar.”

“…..Dalsyeon.”

“Come to think of it, the young lady said this back then.”

He placed the wooden sword on his shoulder and looked at me with a mischievous expression.

“Are you scared, Miss?”

Wiggle-

I felt something inside me well up as I listened to his words.

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“Then please take care of me, miss?”

A knight of a young man with a confident smile.

Earlier, I accepted the duel out of anger without even realizing it, but now that I think about it again, I think it may have been a pointless thing to do.

An inexplicable sense of anxiety still lingered and tormented me.

The image of that seemingly normal young man keeps getting overshadowed by the image of a strange person.

Shallow exhalations that wouldn’t be strange if they went out at any time…

A man with a large hole in his chest.

“Haa….Haa…”

I started to feel short of breath again.

“Go!”

But as if he didn’t care at all about my condition, Dylan immediately kicked off the ground and started running towards me.

A wooden sword flying straight towards my neck.

Unlike the sharp and soft sword of Yeryeong, it was an attack that felt sturdy and strong.

I deflected his attack by lightly flicking the back of my sword with my wrist.

After that, his feet quickly flew towards my forehead.

At a faster than expected speed, I quickly raised one arm and blocked Dylan’s foot.

puck-

The shock from the strong muscles was fully transmitted to my body.

I was taken back abruptly with a dull thud.

Dylan smiled confidently at my appearance.

“You’ve gotten a lot weaker, Miss. Should we just stop here?”

The sight of him laughing playfully.

His playful provocations slowly began to heat up my body. I felt quite annoyed and my fists began to tighten little by little.

“What should I do?”

“…Come in.”

Maybe it was because of his mischievous behavior, but I felt like my guilt toward him had eased a little.

As I snapped my finger at Dylan, he lunged at me again, clutching his wooden sword.

‘left.’

I turned my head slightly to avoid Dylan’s attack.

Unlike before, when his feet flew forward, Dylan immediately changed the trajectory of his sword and struck again.

However, I had expected a follow-up attack, so I dodged the sword without any problems and immediately extended my foot towards his forehead.

No. I was trying to stretch.

Until the empty hole in his otherwise healthy chest came to mind.

thud-

“Ugh..!”

While I was frozen for a moment in an unknown fear, Dylan immediately tripped me and tripped me up.

“Ugh..”

“The young lady I knew wasn’t this weak.”

Dylan immediately raises his wooden sword high into the sky and then slams it down.

As I turned my head to the side in a hurry, his wooden sword fell into the floor with a deep crash.

“It’s not over, Miss!”

I tried to get up right away, but I had no choice but to roll over and dodge Dylan’s swift attacks that shot straight up from the sky.

His attacks are getting faster and faster.

It was gradually becoming difficult to avoid the downward strikes by rolling my body.

“Profit..!”

I felt like a worm as I continued to roll around on the floor.

The irritation that was slowly building up and the sight of Dylan looking down at me with that annoying expression on his face made me feel like I was boiling up inside.

“Let’s end it now, Miss!”

“Oh really!”

Finally, in unbearable frustration, I quickly raised my foot and kicked him in the face with all my might.

“Cough!”

Dylan flies into the distance with a heavy impact sound.

I quickly got up, smiling faintly at the refreshing feeling that cleared my mind.

But let’s look at Dylan sitting there in the distance.

thud-

My heart started pounding like crazy.

“What did I…”

My teeth began to grind, my arms and legs were frozen in fear, and I wouldn’t even think about moving them.

“D..Dylan…sorry..sorry..sorry…”

I was scared.

I was so scared that I wouldn’t hear an answer from him.

“D..Dylan…please answer me..”

please..

Please answer-

“Hahahahahaha!”

I was momentarily dumbfounded by Dylan’s unexpected, hearty laugh.

As I blankly looked in the direction of the laughter, Dylan slowly got up, shaking his knees with a hearty laugh.

“D..Dylan..”

Unlike my body that was trembling violently, he walked towards me with a confident gait and hit his own pubic bone hard with his fist.

“Look, Miss! Haven’t I gotten really strong since then?”

“Ah….”

“You are the youngest member of the Knights Order to reach the level of Expert. Maybe you will reach the great level of Master before you die.”

He smiled faintly and extended his hand to me.

“It’s all thanks to you, young lady.”

“Huh…?”

I looked up at him blankly.

“Since the day I first met you, I have gained the courage to move forward continuously. Thanks to that, I have been able to become this strong.”

I don’t know.

I don’t remember when that day was or what happened then.

But for some reason, tears began to pour out of my eyes.

“I really wanted to tell you this when we meet again.”

He looked straight at me with serious eyes that were free of even an inch of falsehood.

“Thank you, Miss. I have never once. resented you.”

I felt something slimy inside me melt away as he spoke.

My heart gradually became lighter, and an inexplicable sense of liberation began to surround me.

And above all.

No longer did he see the man with the hole in his chest overlapping with him.

“D..Dylan..”

“Get up now, miss. The floor is cold.”

His smile was so warm that I couldn’t help but reach out to him.

That moment when I tried to hold his hand.

Boom-!

“Ouch!”

With a tremendous explosion, Dylan was blown away into the distance.

“…eh?”

As I blinked blankly, someone urgently lifted my body up.

As I slowly wake up and look ahead, what catches my eye is Athena, with her cheeks flushed red and her face crumpled fiercely.

She grabbed my shoulder and screamed loudly.

“No matter what happens, I know that I will never be with a man while I’m alive!!!”

“….Huh?”

Athena frowned as she watched Dylan fly into the distance.

“I told you to treat me well…but you don’t even know the subject and dare to look down on me?”

….What the heck is this?

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“Ugh…heok…Captain…there’s…a rib…my rib…!”

“Tsk tsk. Why did you try to touch the young lady? The priest will be here soon, so just be patient.”

“I can’t breathe, Captain..!”

“Oh my. You’re joking about a guy getting hit once. If it was your old master, it would have been your head that flew off.”

“Isn’t that too harsh on your precious subordinate, Captain?”

“Don’t be so precious. If you whine any longer, I’ll consider you wanting to go on a spinning top.

“…..”

Dylan couldn’t say anything to the captain’s cold voice.

‘…What did I do wrong?’

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