episode_0404

The rainy season was in full swing.

Rainy season adaptation training lasts four days, with the remaining three days off.

In other words, it had been raining for four days.

Although everyone had tired faces, everyone was listening to my theory class.

“Okay, it’s over.”

“Ugh… Is it because it’s raining…? Why do my joints hurt so much?”

Jean cried out as he died and put a blanket on his seat…

“Arthur. You know that next week is intensive training, right?”

“Huh? That’s right…”

“Are you being lazy just because you could be a knight?”

“Oh, no.”

I couldn’t put it down so I pushed it back in.

Jean closed his eyes tightly as if he was horrified by Isabel’s soft voice that seemed to be admonishing him.

“Isabel, Jean is not the one who received the blessing of a servant.”

“What’s the problem with that?”

“If I were Jean, I would have ignored everything and just laid down.”

To defend it, I won’t say more.

“···If you want to sleep, sleep.”

I just look at Jean with slightly stinging eyes.

Jean avoided Isabelle’s gaze and started laying down the blanket again.

Isabelle has changed a lot since that day.

He accepted teaching without hesitation, and began taking care of and advising apprentice engineers along with the assistant engineers.

“Ugh! Now I have to exercise.”

Amilla jumps up from her seat and goes out of the dorm.

Isabelle stared at Amilla as she left, and then took out a rubber dagger.

And then he looks at me subtly.

“···Please help me with sword training.”

It’s a voice that sounds like it’s crawling.

But contrary to Isabelle’s thoughts, I wasn’t that tired.

“Yes. Of course.”

Isabel and I followed Amila to the indoor fitness room.

Amilla was working on iron bars with weights that bent them.

“Can Isabelle do that?”

“Of course. I now weigh 300 pounds.”

300 Bounds.

The 0.1 ton of that body must be muscles so densely packed that it is difficult to explain in words.

The diet of feeding only meat to three-year-olds has seen the light.

“Oh my. Congratulations on gaining 200 pounds in just two months.”

“······!”

Isabel caught the dagger thrown with emotion and took a stance.

“Now, let’s start by practicing turning the sword from integer to inverse.”

Most people often talk about dagger techniques.

It’s not good swordsmanship to strike back.

It certainly is.

The strength to hold the sword comes from the lower limb, but if you hold the sword in reverse, it cannot be held steady.

But Isabel and I had no such limitations.

The reason why there is such a need to teach swordsmanship is because defensive skills also come from experience.

The more abnormal the sword technique, the more difficult it is for the opponent to deal with it.

“It hurts!”

“Ah!”

“Profit─?!”

Also, Isabel was seriously lacking in skill with the assassination sword.

“···I think it would be better to change the sword.”

Isabelle, who has never been able to land a successful hit, glares at me.

“What?!”

“A claw sword or machete are perfect.”

Here, Kukri is called a claw sword.

It literally means that the shape is similar to an animal’s claws.

Perhaps because the sword she had to wield suddenly became too large, confusion appeared on Isabelle’s face.

“···Isn’t it so big that it’s useless?”

It’s useless, right?

“Sometimes there are people like Isabel who are not good at narrow swordsmanship.”

“This happens to people who have too much natural strength or are already accustomed to broad swordsmanship.”

“To begin with, the south is a jungle, so everyone has to carry at least one machete or claw sword.”

“The blade is thick and versatile, and when Isabel strikes, she can cut the opponent in two.”

Isabel threw away the rubber dagger with a self-deprecating smile.

This person is very strong and is well-versed in broad sword techniques.

Dagger techniques would be quite difficult to learn.

“···The dagger technique is poor.”

“You can’t be good at everything, right? Use an entry-level machete.”

“Then will you teach me how to swing a machete?”

Machete?

“Don’t you know? That’s a broad sword technique, so I don’t need to teach it.”

I tossed the broom and Isabel caught it.

“Come on, come on.”

* * * * * *

I was beaten with a broom.

It was natural that a short sword could not defeat a long sword, and Isabelle smiled broadly as she beat me with a broken broom.

“Yes. I guess broad swordsmanship suits my constitution.”

“···I guess so.”

It is refreshingly clear and understandable.

I think he just wanted to beat me up.

And, looking at Isabelle, there was something I couldn’t understand.

“But why do you keep looking at the other person’s face?”

This was a question.

“Yes, yes?”

“During battle, it is correct to look at a moving body, not a person’s face.”

The difference in body reaction speed between a nervous person and a non-nervous person is about 0.1 to 0.2 seconds.

This is also very fast, and if you add thinking time, the time increases exponentially.

“What’s on my face?”

“Oh, no!”

“Perhaps Isabel’s inability to use narrow sword techniques properly also stems from such habits.”

“Dwin, that’s all pretense. Do you know how vicious Isabelle is?”

Amilla, who had finished exercising and was sitting down to watch, was smiling and giving a sly look.

“Sneaky?”

“Are you saying I’m only losing to you on purpose? If I do it, I won’t be able to get past ten…”

“Don’t say anything weird!”

Isabel wrinkles her brows tightly and glares at Amilla.

···why?

“Really?”

“That’s right─.” “No!”

···Why are you losing to me on purpose?

Is Isabel a masochist who likes to be stabbed with rubber daggers?

Why do you like being stabbed with a rubber dagger?

“Isabel.”

“Yes?”

“Why do you like being stabbed with a rubber dagger?”

“Ah, no…! Are you crazy?!”

ah. I’m angry.

Isabel blocked the recklessly striking broom with a rubber dagger and ran away.

* * * * * *

My life as an apprentice engineer is now coming to an end.

Soon the intensive training, which was said to be the most difficult during training, began.

This is the first and last quasi-real-world training.

Some say it’s fun, while others say it’s some kind of training and they grind their teeth.

However, everyone said in unison that the training was hellish.

” Make full use of what you have learned and go into the mountains to live for a month. ”

Director Yang Yang, who had started to age backwards, looked as if he was full of stamina these days.

“Everyone must take individual action. Every week, a training engineer will go into the mountain and give instructions, and the instructions vary from time to time.”

“If you are eliminated, it will be reflected in the evaluation and at the same time, you will undergo intensive physical training here for two days until the training ends and then you will be put back in. ”

As it is, those who are eliminated and those promoted will be determined based on this training.

Therefore, the training was carried out under intense tension, but there was no way that tension could have existed in a place where everyone could become a knight.

“Keep in mind that everyone is your enemy. You admit to looting all belongings except ‘that item’, and even if you have your own pigment on your body, you will be disqualified. The longer you survive, the higher your score, but if you don’t complete the instructions, you won’t get as many points.”

The rule was immediately stuck in my head.

“In addition, the representative of the apprentice knight hunts fellow knights as before.”

“Is it just me?”

“That’s right. The apprentice engineer representative uses red pigment. So that we can eliminate everyone with all our might without causing injury.”

I’m the only one who keeps playing the role of a hunter.

Aren’t they really going to hate me like this?

“Okay.”

“Good. Start training. The representative of the trainees will climb the mountain in 30 minutes, and the rest will climb the mountain right now. If you are bitten by a snake, etc., go down the mountain immediately and not the subject, so that you can receive treatment.”

–yes!!!!

A loud shout.

I see a few overly excited articles.

This battle royale-style battle is training assuming a field battle, and I also played the role of Immortal.

The knights scatter in all directions with their supplies.

It is really difficult to live self-sufficiently in the mountains.

Of course, because it is a jungle, there is a lot to eat, but I can assure you that it is not profitable to feed 26 people.

Was it easy to dig up grass in the mountains and eat it?

The apprentice knights scattered in all directions and began to climb the mountain, without anyone sticking together.

“Representative of apprentice engineer.”

“Yes.”

“Don’t look at the official assessment.”

“Okay.”

He wore a bow tie around his waist, took a crossbow from a training course, and draped a sling strap over his shoulder.

* * * * * *

Johnny, Den, Hollhobs, Benner, Hume, John, Garbüen…

More than half were eliminated in two hours.

The director of the training camp is probably acting like a dog.

He will inevitably grit his teeth and say that he will take revenge on me in two days.

rest of it···.

You hid well.

where···.

Rustle!

The sound of the bushes catches my attention.

“Die─!!!!”

It was Isabel who jumped out of there.

I picked up Isabelle’s arm as she fell and threw it on the fallen leaves.

Puck—!

“──────?!”

“Didn’t I tell you not to scream?”

With a sound like meat exploding, Isabel’s eyes filled with pain.

300 bound…

Isabelle, who weighed 150 kg, was a serious muscle pig, if not as strong as me.

Of course, the appearance is the same.

“It hurts…!”

“No matter how much you get caught, if you scream, you will give clearer information to the enemy. The reaction speed becomes faster.”

“Bone…! I think I broke a bone…”

It sounds like bones are breaking.

I stamped the colored box on Isabelle’s forehead, which was trembling as she hugged her side.

“Eliminated.”

Now there are fifteen people.

rest of it···.

Buuung!!!

I caught the flying Bakshi.

Isabel looked shocked, wondering if this was what she was aiming for in the first place.

“――Lila?”

Lila, who was frightened, gave up reloading and quickly began to run away at a cloud pace.

‘You’ll have to be careful not to get bitten by a tree viper. ‘

Even birds come down to the ground someday.

So, apprentice knights will have to come down to earth at some point.

‘Let’s make a trap first. ‘

Juul’s sense of smell clearly told him where to find animals or fruits that suited the knights’ tastes.

* * * * * *

The purpose of this training is to receive orders, meet one’s comrades who would be scattered across the mountain, take sides, and defeat the opponent.

If it’s the way it was originally.

However, all the apprentices were doing intense weight training, with none of them surviving after half a day.

The dozens of pairs of eyes trembling and staring at me are truly scary.

The training director’s eyes as he looked around at the apprentice were full of worry.

“Representative of apprentice engineer.”

“Yes.”

“Recite the pros and cons of your classmates.”

“Most people are unable to manage their footprints. They leave traces here and there, thinking that resources are falling from the sky. It seems like the other party doesn’t know that they can also covet natural resources.”

“What’s different?”

“It’s great that they moved on the trees, but there were a few people who stepped on trees that they shouldn’t have stepped on and fell.”

Coober flinched.

While he was walking behind me with that big body, he stepped on a tree that couldn’t support his weight and fell.

Excluding Nana Isabel, who received the blessing, she is a talented person who could have become an apprentice knight like Amilla.

‘But what? ‘

“If it had been a real battle, everyone would have died.”

Life is one shot.

“Okay. The trainee engineer’s representative is right. If it had been a real battle, you would all have died.”

Jean, who was doing sit-ups wearing the now-retired standard plate armor, looked at me as if it were unfair.

“But doesn’t the representative of the trainee engineer already have a wealth of practical experience? This is not fair.”

No! What should you do if such words come out of your mouth, the son of a knight?

“···Practical experience?”

As the apprentice knights looked at Jean’s grumbles in sympathy, anger appeared in the training director’s eyes.

“The opponents you must fight against are seasoned hunters who have been on the battlefield for 100 years. Even now, countless people are losing their lives on the front lines! Did they die because they were fair?!”

The training director scanned the trainee knights with shining eyes.

“After this training is over, you will all go to the front lines in the midst of the fierce cold war as deputy white commanders! It is a blessing for you to have an apprentice engineer with such practical experience!”

Why are you praising me like this…

“Representative of apprentice engineer. Open the stomach and pierce the head.”

“Yes?”

“Put it in the head.”

“Yes!”

As I had no choice but to put my head down, the training director began placing a gunny sack of sand on my stomach.

“You must have seen the speed with which the apprentice knight representative dealt with the immortals. I can assure you that even a seasoned knight who spent 10 years on the front lines is no more agile than the representative of an apprentice knight.”

Do I have to backbridge it and say it while putting a sack of sand on the boat?!

“It would be good to move diligently like an ant and learn. Because one of you will definitely die.”

Everyone froze at the low level scolding from Director Yang.

“Representative of apprentice engineer. Is there something you would like to say to your classmates?”

In this state, I don’t think anything I say will be persuasive.

The head of the formation had a look in his eyes that told him to say something, and he also had something he wanted to say.

“Yes. Yes.”

“Do it.”

······These are safety insensitivity.

“If there are good lucky days, there are also unlucky days, right? Like me who fell backwards and broke my nose.”

“Hehehehe…!” “Push!”

Are you laughing?

“Unlucky days that naturally come when you can’t do anything and can’t ask anyone for help. He might not come. They might come visit you.”

“But when that day comes on the battlefield, Pluto will also come to take you away.”

As Dantalian’s power was gently released, the laughter subsided.

“Life is one shot. Think about dying a few times beforehand, and keep dying to me for this month.”

I don’t want to see green things like you die either.

But once this training is over and I go through the recovery period, the real fight starts next week.

“Accept death sweetly. Because if you train your body for just two days, you can survive.”