Academy’s Genius Swordsman

＜ 156. Toward the Holy Land (3) ＞

#156

Nabirose walked out to the water. He still had no intention of covering himself up. she said, stretching her fingers.

“Can you bring me some clothes from there?”

“…that’s right.”

Nabi Rose’s clothes were lying on the edge of the lake. From the coat to the underwear, it seemed to represent her personality.

I can’t conscientiously look at this. Ronan, who handed the clothes, turned around. A playful voice came from behind him.

“It’s funny. On a topic that I already enjoyed enough to enjoy.”

“So you said it wasn’t intentional. I didn’t know you were bathing there.”

“You are the only man who has seen this, so you can be happy. Come to think of it, Adeshan is everything, including women. That child is also quite…”

Nabirose started talking about going to the bathhouse with Adeshan one day. It was a really interesting topic, but things didn’t go very well. Ronan cut off her waist.

“So, what happened?”

“Let’s go for a walk.”

Nabi Rose, who was all dressed up, stepped forward. Dae Tae-do was strapped to his back. Water was dripping from her undried hair.

The two began walking slowly along the lake shore. As the wind blew through the grass, the song of the grass bugs grew louder. she opened her mouth

“You are right. This is the wound I got from fighting Jaifa earlier this year.”

“After all, there were no injuries…”

“okay. I lied because of my face.”

Nabi Rose chuckled. She raised her shirt up to her belly button, showing the scar. Looking back, it was a pretty serious injury.

“With this injury, the game was decided. I thought he must have won because his sword broke along the way, but that damn cat was hiding his skills. Claws flying like ten swords were not what I could afford.”

“Damn it, isn’t that a foul?”

“It wasn’t funny, but the skill was real. And I didn’t have the courage to question whether it was a foul on the subject of losing to the claws with the famous sword made by the master Doron.”

Nabirose described the match against Jaifa at the time. The sword fight itself could have been seen as a victory for her, but after Jaifa pulled out her claws, she said that she was unilaterally pushed back.

“I’ve said it before, but I didn’t think I could ever win. In fact, I couldn’t even say that I won with a sword, because even Eonwoldo couldn’t handle his strength and it was broken. This wound tore not only my body but also my heart.”

“Isn’t everything better that day?”

Ronan remembered the match he had with her right after returning from Haeju. After the battle, Nabi Rose was clearly smiling. I thought I had cleared the wounds then.

“I thought so too. In fact, I feel amazingly better after losing to you.”

“To be honest, it is not a defeat. Because the instructor was not normal.”

“Defeat is defeat. It was a pleasant defeat. Anyway, in conclusion, I thought everything would be better, but it wasn’t. The frustration I felt then killed the snake that lived in my heart.”

“I hope the snake is dead…”

“okay. Aurors cannot be manifested.”

Ronan’s face hardened. The word that the auror could not be manifested fell like heavy lead on my chest. Suddenly, something came up from deep within.

“Damn it, I don’t understand. Did you even hurt your core?”

“The core is not easily damaged by physical damage. The wounds ripped my heart out.”

“Then why the hell…?”

Ronan drew the tail. I didn’t understand. Nabi Rose, who had been silent with a bitter smile, opened her mouth.

“Ronan. Do you know how the types of aurors are distinguished?”

“What is that all of a sudden, can’t we just stop talking about it?”

“It’s not like that, so answer me. Some create a breeze, while others create a storm that sweeps over the kingdom. Have you ever thought about this unreasonable standard?”

Ronan frowned at the sudden sound. I knew by what standard the unique mana auror was expressed as a problem that had not yet been decided. Taking a deep breath, he shook his head.

“···no.”

“It’s speculation, but I think the ego is the standard. A consciousness or an idea that constitutes an individual.”

“Ego?”

“okay. I was born in the great jungles of the South. An adventurer found it abandoned on a road infested with wild beasts. I have never even seen the faces of my parents.”

Ronan’s eyes widened at the sudden past. Although we were close friends, it was the first time I heard of a personal history. Nabirose continued.

“The southern part, which was in the midst of a war, was not a very good place for a young girl to live. Especially if you are an orphan with no one to look after you.”

“Instructor.”

“I did anything to survive. All he had was his body, but fortunately he had a talent for martial arts, so he didn’t turn into a prostitute. I paid the price for the life that I killed while orphans of my age were being embraced by soldiers and receiving flowers.”

Nabirose’s life was rough. Her life was to walk on a road built with corpses. When Ronan from his previous life was complaining to Iril that he was tired of potato stew, Nabirose was already paying for the enemy’s nose and ears cut off from the battlefield in the barracks.

“There has never been a time when I sought strength more than then. At that time, all I had in my mind was to overwhelm the opponent and not look down on them. It was around that time that the auror appeared.”

“At the time, I was chasing a notorious wanted criminal. I had torn my ankles with a sword beforehand, so all I had to do was follow the bloodstains. After traversing the jungle for hours like that, a snake caught my eye.”

“snake? Is that the snake I know?”

“okay. It was a huge poisonous snake. The blue scales were as beautiful as jewels, and three monkeys that looked like a family were frozen in front of them. If the three of them ran away or faced each other at the same time, it seemed that one could survive, but it didn’t. Overwhelmed with fear, it seemed that he had lost the will to live.”

“The snake eventually began to swallow the monkey one by one. It was just picking up what fell. I forgot to pursue the wanted criminal and stood still, watching the monkeys disappear into the snake’s mouth.”

“Uh…why?”

“Because that was the ideal I was looking for. A dominant force that overwhelms the opponent before the fight and does not require any effort at all. It was thanks to the snake that I realized that it was my wish. And at the moment of realization, an arrow that flew out of sight hit my arm.”

Shukpak! Suddenly, Nabirose raised her hand and pretended to shoot an arrow into her arm. Surprised, Ronan hesitated and backed away.

“Sir, you were surprised.”

“It’s because your expression is so serious. Seeing this, you have a pretty cute side.”

“Please stop it. So what was that arrow?”

“It was the guy who was being pursued with his colleagues. By that time, I was already a notorious bounty hunter. When I woke up, I realized that I had already been surrounded. The arrowheads were poisoned.”

Ronan made a gesture that he was listening by flickering twice per second. Seeing that his hands were sweating, his ability to tell a story was not normal.

Rain of arrows and a narrowing encirclement. A consciousness that becomes hazy. Nabi Rose, who was tormenting Ronan while describing the urgency of the time, suddenly stopped in place.

“And at that very moment, my auror appeared.”

“her.”

“It was truly a miracle. It was getting dark everywhere, and the viper I had seen a while ago appeared. After that, things went as you expected.”

Nabirose took care of the paralyzed wanted criminals’ heads one by one. He said that the feeling of being decapitated as if harvesting crops is still unforgettable.

“What I wanted to say was that the driving force that brought about everything was ultimately derived from the will to overwhelm others and to become stronger.”

“Then the reason why the instructor can no longer handle Aurors is…”

“okay. It was because his will was broken as he was defeated one after another by Zaifa. At least I think so.”

Nabirose smiled bitterly again. She muttered softly as she touched the scar.

“The arrow is gone, but the hole remains.”

Ronan said nothing. I wanted to come up with a solution, but I couldn’t think of anything.

It was a very complex type of wound. To the extent that it would be better to suffer from depression openly. In this case, the only answer was to overcome it somehow.

“It’s amazing. When I meet you, I can say everything.”

“I’m glad you said that. Do you need this?”

Ronan glanced at the cigarette in his pocket. Nabi Rose laughed.

“It seems like you keep forgetting your duty as a student. What good are you continuing?”

“So you don’t need it?”

“anyway···.”

Nabirose silently picked up a cigarette and bit it into her mouth. Ronan brushed off the cigarette powder with a gentle movement like flowing water and lit it with a match.

“Ha ha ha…”

Taking a deep breath, she looked out at the lake and exhaled. White smoke like a cloud scattered over the two moons. Again, his posture was perfect. Ronan looked at her side face and smiled.

“Did you start blooming when you were young? Perhaps from the battlefield.”

“okay. How did know?”

“So did I.”

Nabirose tilted her head. Soon after, he was asked if he had ever been to the battlefield, but Ronan answered with a smile. He was admiring the lake with his hands clasped behind his head.

“Well, then, I have a question for you.”

“What?”

“The sword you used to fight me. Who taught you that?”

Ronan raised an eyebrow. It seemed to be referring to the savior’s swordsmanship in context. He scratched his head and asked.

“Uh…why is that?”

“It looked too much like the swordsmanship of the person who gave me my first defeat.”

“Defeat? Wasn’t this your first Jaifa?”

“Before that, there was one more. He was the man who helped establish my sword. Perhaps even Zaipa will be reduced to just a cat in front of the man’s sword skills.”

Ronan’s eyes widened. A swordsman capable of turning Jaifa into a cat. As far as he knew, there were only two people with such skills. savior and traitor.

“Did that person have white hair?”

“okay. How else did you know this?”

“What about your face? Do you remember the face? Like the color of your eyes.”

“It was a long time ago, so I can’t remember the details. Oh, I don’t know if I said this…”

Nabirose dragged the horse’s tail. She turned and began to gently stroke Ronan’s cheek.

“I felt the same way as you. I’ve been thinking about it since you made Cardan bald for Adeshan. It has been three years already.”

“What exactly do you mean by feeling alike?”

“I should say it is an air of energy… Why, isn’t there such a thing? Words cannot describe…”

Nabirose closed her eyes and drooled. It was absurd that he couldn’t speak up and tell where he resembled.

All the while, her palms were touching her cheeks. It felt strange to think that it was my hand that I had been scrubbing my body for a while ago.

He was just about to say something. A shriek rang out from somewhere.

“Ahhhh! Save people!”

“What the fuck?”

Ronan turned his head in the direction of the sound. Birds woke up and flew in unison. Nabirose opened her mouth to say that it was not a big deal.

“Probably a rookie hunter.”

“A rookie hunter?”

“okay. If you’ve come this far, it’s time to show up. They are the ones who pick and plunder whoever wants to become the master of the holy sword somehow.”