episode_0396

“I’m sorry…”

Lila was looking down at me, looking like she was about to die.

Because he spent the entire meal apologizing to the training assistant and me, he didn’t get to eat even a single bite.

When I see the two shady knights laughing while looking at me, I feel the urge to expose them.

“It’s okay, so you don’t have to worry.”

Elves grow slowly.

Mental age is unknown, but the elves seen here are in their mid to late twenties or over thirty.

Sincere apologies from such people were too heavy compared to the effort I had put in, so it was difficult to accept them willingly.

Even if the other person is sincere.

“It’s far away, so don’t stand and eat. It’s going to cool down.”

The next training was close combat.

There was a time when I was most confident…dog fighting.

And my specialty is tracking.

It is said that tomorrow they will head to the hill within the unit, not the military parade ground.

“It looks really good? The way it goes up and down on its neck looks so sick.”

Laquilo chuckles.

It seemed like he never got tired of it.

“You…!”

Amilla interrupts Jean by holding out her hand.

“Leave me alone, I’m a misfit who has no one to practice fighting with.”

“Heung.”

“Just because you’re a misfit doesn’t mean you don’t have friends. That’s just trash.”

“Sometimes the assistant driver who watches the training will come and watch. And then? You just have to stare at the back until the driver comes back!”

It was like that.

Jeongwon is twenty-seven.

One person has no partner.

“Chief! With me! Do some fighting techniques with me! If you show me some fighting skills, I’ll give you some meat for dinner!”

Since Susan and Amilla were paying back multiple times whenever Laquilo opened his mouth, there was nothing he could do to get angry.

If I join in, won’t Laquilo be so miserable?

“Friend. Let’s cheer up.”

Laquilo did not respond to my sarcasm.

I simply left the table with my own plate, and became a true outsider that I could never turn back from.

After all, men talk with their backs.

I am an idiot who eats alone. do.

The assistant technicians came to live with us.

The male Terup’s side is Ali, and the female Hosot’s side is Bessie, and since the genders are the same, each seat next to them is occupied by a person of a different race.

For example, there were Amila and the assistant technician next to me, Jean next to the assistant technician, Laquilo next to Amila, and Susan next to Laquilo.

Horribly, in front were Coober, a nobleman whom Laquilo was afraid of, and Isabel, who bullied people without conscious thought.

Surrounded by monsters, Laquilo showed no heed and spewed out harsh words, causing Amilla and Susan to pick on him throughout his free time.

‘Then he deserted.’

Laquilo’s eyes were filled with venom.

It was really difficult for me to deal with the two hosts on either side as I was.

Even if Bessie said that, it was because Amilla, who was 2 meters tall, tried to touch her without hesitation.

If you react, you’re a heterosexual. If you ignore him, Amilla, who enjoys skinship, attacks you without hesitation. Bessie turned her head towards me, talking in her sleep.

“Um···.”

like now.

It’s because of the smell coming from me.

Amilla was teasing me by disguising my sleeping habits.

But there is another reason why I can’t sleep.

Crunch…!

It’s thanks to Laquilo.

The asshole does not know that he is an asshole.

But assholes are also people.

People’s brain structure itself desires direct and indirect relationships with others.

When you experience friction in your interpersonal relationships, you may wonder, ‘Am I wrong?’ Me, ‘There is something wrong with the world and humans.’ They are divided into groups who think that, the former can be ordinary people or half-assed idiots, but the latter are not.

Such a person becomes poisonous.

Either a great person with perseverance or a bug-like bastard. So, there are many successful people among the real idiots.

However, there are different types of poisonous edema.

─If you have a poisonous tumor, you become a criminal.

His emotions continue to seep into me.

I could feel it even while I was sleeping, so I repeatedly reached for the air rifle hidden in my body.

Again and again.

That social misfit clearly causes accidents.

I won’t let him kill anyone.

Susan and Amilado.

Because, unlike me, they are people who approach life with passion.

* * * * * *

“Ugh. It stinks.”

Amilla frowns and gags.

Apprentice knights gathered in poorly maintained combat uniforms were looking forward to training while looking through the heavy crossbows they had received in batches the previous evening.

···.

Pigment smell.

The clothes have a lingering pigment smell.

“The skill you need to learn is not a self-defense skill, but a skill to kill your opponent. It is safe to say that there is no need to use martial arts in an actual battle.”

The training director glances at the sitting apprentice technician.

I know those eyes.

These are the eyes that raise to catch the pod.

The box the assistant engineer brought was full of blunt, bladeless daggers.

” I will tell you how to kill people more efficiently. To the assistant technician.”

Two knights step forward, pulling out blunt daggers.

ah. Now I see it’s rubber.

“Holding a dagger in battle means facing an unavoidable situation or when assassination is necessary. This means that you should not use a wide sword to check as if you were doing an old-fashioned battle.”

But why did they give me a dagger?

For someone who is new to sneak attacks, a machete or a shovel that can be used as an ax is more suitable.

“There are two methods of sneak attack. These are the arterial cutting method and the cervical spine cutting method.”

“Narrow swordsmanship means using the hand holding the sword, the body, and the remaining hand to subdue the opponent and drive the sword into a vital spot. First, we start with a sneak attack. Have the assistant technician demonstrate how to cut an artery.”

Ali stabs Bessie’s lung as she turns around, then plunges the sword into her armpit and neck.

He didn’t stop there and stumbled again.

Ali instantly crushed Bessie, who was falling, and plunged his sword into the back of her neck.

It happened in less than two seconds.

The apprentice knights just stared at the two lying down for a long time, not understanding what had happened.

“Even if an artery is cut, the opponent does not die immediately. The opponent will resist in order to survive. Noise spreads along the way. To prevent that, pierce the lungs first.”

“Next, you have to knock down your opponent. The neck muscles that extend from the clavicle to the back of the neck… Yes. there. Remember this. The official name is sternocleidomastoid muscle. Cutting this muscle causes the opponent to lose their sense of balance and trips their leg to make them fall.”

“The best way to determine the location of an artery is not to touch your own neck, but to feel the pulse of another person. If stabbed properly, blood will flow out when the weapon is drawn. If it doesn’t come out, you have to stab it until it comes out.”

“This causes excessive bleeding, causing a bloody smell to spread everywhere. Keep in mind that this skill is only to be used in bloody battles or when the wind is on your side. When you finish and stand up, mix the spilled blood with dirt to hide the smell as much as possible.”

Just stick to the main points.

Instructors are only people who are worthy of being instructors.

“Spinal amputation is the most difficult method of assassination. And it’s the neatest.”

yes.

I don’t know how many times I cut a corpse to practice cutting into the cervical spine.

Among the cervical vertebrae, the upper cervical vertebrae.

Among the upper cervical vertebrae…

“The place the sword is aiming for is the upper cervical spine. Among them, it is between the occipital bone and the first or second vertebra.”

“Where is the upper cervical spine?”

“If you look at the back of your head, there is a bulging area where the vertebrae begin. From there is the upper cervical spine.”

Apprentice knights check the back of their heads.

“The upper cervical spine is small in size and has many gaps in order to accommodate maximum head movement.”

What Director Yang said was right.

Although it has a lot of muscles and tendons, even taking into account that area, it is the weakest.

“Nerves descend from the spine, and if the nerves within the spine are cut, a person becomes unable to move his or her body. Even if you happen to survive, you will be unable to move your body for the rest of your life.”

“This is a fake death… an assassination method favored by Dantalian’s agents, and more than fifty people were killed in one clean cut. It’s a proven assassination method.”

···me?

“The downside is that it is extremely difficult to learn. Actually, you can’t do it.”

“What are the advantages?”

“Everything else.”

“Didn’t Dantalian’s agent say it was a success?”

Amilla speaks as if she were protesting.

“That means Dantalian’s agent is a natural killer.”

─Murderer.

The eyes of the group of apprentice knights turned gloomy.

There is almost no hatred in the way the public views me.

He’s a character that appears in a Korean language book, so I’ve said everything.

In ‘that book’, which doesn’t even have a title, I was described as a kind of natural disaster that fulfilled the servant’s will and as a person who loved a saint.

It’s really cute to see apprentice knights trying to refute something but not being able to do it.

‘What I did was just murder.’

A murder committed to remain by Jules’ side.

The attitude of the apprentice engineer who did not bend his arms inward was wrong.

Thanks to this, anger appears in the eyes of the head of the training camp.

I think it was my fault that the body had to be removed several times.

“This is the guy who killed nearly a thousand innocent people. My friend and classmate were also killed by that bastard. Don’t treat a murderer like a servant’s will. I’ll skip this since it’s my first time, but if you defend that guy in the military, there might be someone trying to kill you.”

A group of apprentice knights fell silent at the sharp voice.

“Spinal amputation is an assassination method, and I am telling you this for one reason. If you see a clean stab wound on the back of the neck, it means that your opponent is a natural assassin.”

The training director looks down at the apprentices.

“If you see a body that has been assassinated by cutting the cervical spine, retreat or report immediately. You may have entered the realm of an assassin who is as familiar with murder as Dantalian’s agent.”

It was sincere advice.

This wasn’t something only I could do.

I learned it from a pretty old executioner elf, and now that I think about it, I don’t know why he taught me this skill.

Elves live long.

A life of 200 years or 200 years.

Except for 30 years, you don’t age until you die.

I tend to get really old all of a sudden.

Considering the time it takes for humans to grow old, the time they grow, and their physical limitations, the time they can play on the field is only 20 years.

But elves are 150 years old.

It takes less than two years to rot in the military, but 150 years?

The 10,000-hour rule does not apply to elves.

The elves of Yunaira have been sharpening their swords for 100 years, and the swords are extremely sharp.

So much so that even I am in danger.

“You may not believe it, but the saint is bringing those who experienced the Great War, who should have retired, back to the field. This means that there are countless people who have been killing people for 100 to 150 years.”

A master who should have retired has returned.

The elf who taught me how to assassinate must have returned, and Gregory, a member of the elf watchman family, must have also returned.

From the legendary people that Dennis admired, to Alice Gregory, whose head was broken after being hit by Jules.

What appeared on the apprentice knight’s face was not fear, but trembling.

There was no way I could believe that I had been killing people for more than five times my age.

“Representative of apprentice engineer. What do you think is the most difficult thing for an assassin?”

I know this best.

“This person is very fearful and suspicious.”

Director Yang Yang nods.

“An opponent with a lot of fear and suspicion. Accurate. Just remember. Assassination is hunting people. Under the instructions of the instructor, be sure to have a deer-like attitude and seriously engage in training. After learning narrow sword techniques and eating lunch, we will learn about ambush and tracking methods.”

where···.

Isabelle is staring at me.

“Neck, can I touch it?”

“Of course.”

Isabel held my neck gently as if strangling me and began to search for blood vessels.

I also grabbed Isabelle’s neck and squeezed it.

“The jugular vein enters behind the temporomandibular joint. From there, the pulse starts…”

“···My Mac is not running.”

“Yes?”

“Am I not able to find it? Why isn’t my Mac running?”

Isabelle tilts her head and looks up at me.

‘You can’t feel the pulse?’

That can’t be possible.

The neck is one of the places where you can feel the pulse the most.

He moved his hand down my neck, searching for my jugular.

There is no pulse…

Why?

Exciting!

It was just a moment.

A strong pulse pushed the blood out as if it were alive.

I heard that the more your heart is trained, the slower it beats.

Because you can pump that much at one time.

Even so, does your heart beat once every three seconds?

Isabelle is not like that.

About 40 times per minute?

“My heart is beating so fast that it beats slowly. Keep holding it.”

Isabelle smiled and put her hand on my neck again, then looked at me intently.

“If you receive the servant’s blessing, will everyone live like Lee?”

“No. I also saw someone who spent 13 years in the ruins because of a single order from a former servant.”

Isabelle, who was staring at me, soon shifted her gaze to my mouth.

“The carotid artery must be pierced starting from the point where the shield cartilage protrudes, or pierced downward.”

“Why?”

“If you go over it, it splits into two strands and the amount of bleeding is reduced.”

I just pretended to get along and let go, only for Isabel to wrap her arms around my neck.

“How about tilting your head back when stabbing?”

“Because the opponent’s reaction speed becomes faster, you should only stab. Touching one’s hands is done by cutting the sternocleidomastoid muscle, and many of the Unai Line people grow out their fingernails. If you sit on your arms without armor, your skin will dent.”

“···Really?”

“Yes.”

‘driving me crazy.’

Why do people talk by looking at their mouths and eyebrows?

To find out how that person feels.

For me, who could tell emotions just by looking at her eyes, Isabel was very difficult to deal with, and it became very difficult to read people’s facial expressions.

“Assassination practice. Can I try it?”

“Yes. I don’t mind if I don’t.”

When I turned back, I saw Laquilo standing alone in the distance.

It’s really hitting me hard.

“Hehehehe… What?!”

Sigh! Sigh!

A rubber knife pierces his lungs and armpits, cuts his throat, and walks on his feet.

When I obediently tripped and fell, Isabel quickly climbed on top of me and stabbed me in the back of the neck.

‘You’re skilled.’

This woman might have talent as an assassin.

As I stare at the dirt floor, Isabelle’s weight falls off me.

Regretful.

No matter how talented this woman is, arrows do not discriminate between people.

“Among the enemies waiting for us there, there will definitely be some Immortals.”

“···Yes?”

“This is a way to kill ordinary people. To kill an Immortal, you have to cut off its head.”

“Representative of the trainee engineer!”

Old town catches my attention.

Bessie was there, glaring at me with her eyes wide open.

“Do not reveal your prayer secrets!”

‘Gidobinik?’

Only then did I look around.

Isabelle was as hard as stone.

“···Yes.”

Not only that, all the apprentice knights were looking at me.

‘Isn’t this something you just turn a blind eye to?’

It is unknown how Shir survived for 15 years, but he must have created an order of knights made of immortals.

Looking at Shir’s actions now, it must have been like that.

People who have trained for over 100 to 150 years, gone through wars, and gained practical combat experience become younger, become immortals, and target children around the age of twenty.

─Children like these, my younger brother.

It’s scary to even think about it.

‘After all, war should not occur.’

If possible, I would have to do the numbers myself.

Even if it means meeting Shir.