Academy’s Genius Swordsman

< 51. Express Adventure Club (3) >

#51

clearly saw The magic that Ophelia was trying to use at first was the same kind of magic as Sita, which deals with blood. Ronan opened his mouth as if possessed by something.

“···pass.”

I didn’t even think about asking the interview questions. Upon hearing the word of success, Ophelia slowly turned her head. The white skin that contrasted with the red eyes was pale and transparent.

The moment he saw the contrast, a certain race came to Ronan’s mind. One of the three beings predicted to have influenced Sita. A race that failed to achieve coexistence with humans in the past and eventually left the Imperial Territory to establish their own kingdom.

“Ophelia. Perhaps···.”

Ronan, who could not overcome his curiosity, was trying to ask a question. Ophelia’s voice resounded in Ronan’s head.

[…you saw it too.]

It was electrical magic. It was only heard by Ronan, not Adeshan. Ophelia continued.

[You’re right…but let’s keep it a secret for now.]

It was a cautious voice, even in the whole tone. Ronan nodded slightly. Ophelia sighed in relief.

[thank you.]

In response, she approached slowly. Sita was staring at Ophelia with her eyes wide open.

“Bye?”

“Can I touch you then?”

It was like a child asking if he could eat the candy he was holding in his hand. Ronan scanned Ophelia’s face and shook his head. He now knew perfectly well what kind of person Sita liked.

“Yeah, well… you’ll probably like it.”

“···hehehe.”

Ophelia, who smiled bashfully, reached out and touched Sita. Sita didn’t show any rejection, and immediately rubbed her face on the back of her hand.

“Baya~”

He was a very consistent guy. After completing the interview, Ronan left Arena 1 with Ophelia. I had a lot to ask.

After leaving the Gallerion Pavilion, they moved to the plaza. There were no people passing by and the wind was blowing so hard that it was a suitable place to have a secret conversation.

“Can I speak here?”

“yes.”

“Didn’t all of your people leave the Empire?”

Ophelia didn’t answer. The wind took the place of silence. After a few more minutes of walking, a chime echoed in Ronan’s head.

[…not all.]

“okay. If you don’t want to talk, you can’t do it.”

[Nope. Although there are very few, there are still vampires living all over the Empire. I was the only one who joined Phileon Academy.]

“Does the others not know at all?”

[I don’t know, except for Principal Kratir and a few faculty members. If their identity was discovered, only troublesome things happened.]

Ophelia shut her mouth. She did not explain how or why she joined Phileon. Ronan didn’t ask any more. Ronan, who sensed that the atmosphere would become heavy, changed the topic.

“Honestly, did you come here because you were interested in Sita, not in a club?”

[yes.]

“It’s nice to be honest. I don’t think it’s just because it’s cute, but what’s going on?”

[The magic of our kind… So, I felt the energy of blood magic.]

Ophelia raised her index finger with those words. A rose made of blood appeared above her slender fingers. Sita, who was sitting on Ronan’s shoulder, pulled her head out and her eyes twinkled.

“Byeah!”

Suddenly, Sita’s eyes lit up brightly. The shape of the rose was crushed and reconstructed in the form of a bird resembling Sita. The blood bird was absorbed into Sita’s feathers as it was. Ophelia patted Sita and smiled.

[Also.]

“It seems that monster-like magic is called blood magic.”

[yes. It’s so strange… I’ve felt the mana of blood for a long time, but what is the principle of using blood magic by a non-vampire race…?]

In her tone of voice, there was an inquisitive spirit that could only be felt in the conversations of scholars. Somehow, it felt similar to Werewolf Blacksmith Didican. Suddenly, Ophelia, who was touching Sita’s wings, tilted her head.

[By the way, what kind of animal is he…? Just like Orsay-sama, it has four wings.]

“The dream bird is a fantasy species. I don’t know how it happened, but he knew how to handle blood.”

Ronan told the story of how he met Sita and the characteristics of the dream bird. Hearing that two months had not passed, Ophelia’s eyes widened.

“Two months…?”

“yes. Is there any problem?”

“Wait a minute…but you just manipulated the shape of blood…?”

“…was that a surprise? They do more great things.”

Ronan told the story of Sita’s actions. In the battle with Dolan, he made the bleeding worse, creating a gap. In Gran Cappadocia, the blood of survivors was extensively manipulated to create a pole indicating the location.

As the story grew longer, Ophelia’s face gradually hardened. Pointed fangs glistened between Ophelia’s gaping lips. Sita, who looked at her worriedly, suddenly lit up her eyes.

“Bye.”

Suddenly, a rose made of blood appeared in front of Sita. It was exactly the same shape that Ophelia had made. Sita took a blood rose and held it out to her as if giving her a present.

“Oh my gosh···!”

“What’s wrong?”

“This is… really great. Did you say your name is Sita…?”

Ronan nodded. An excited voice escaped Ophelia’s mouth. Little by little, emotions were revealed on his face, which had always been expressionless.

“Maybe…maybe this child might be able to do it. Hey, can I just ask you a favor…?”

“Tell me first.”

“This child’s blood… no, can you give me just a few feathers?”

“A feather?”

Ronan shrugged his eyebrows. Suddenly, I remembered going to Baren following the feathers of Marpez the dream bird. Ophelia said pleadingly.

“Originally, my purpose was not to be active but to do research… I will participate really hard. So three, no… just give me two…”

“Calm down. Where are you going to use it?”

“I’m going to use it for research on new blood magic. This time I got a feeling. When I come back, I will definitely teach this child… huh?”

“…you’re going to teach me magic? To Sita?”

Ronan’s eyes widened. It was an interesting story. I was still feeling it, but Sita was very fast in learning and using something.

‘Yeah, even the most stupid people get smarter if they learn…’

The problem was that the magic he handled was so bizarre that he had no one to mentor him. In such a situation, having someone to teach you about blood magic was a very attractive proposal. Ronan asked, stroking Sita.

“Sita, are you okay?”

“Bye.”

Sita nodded her head. Ronan plucked out three feathers after verifying her thoughts. Ophelia grabbed Sita’s feathers while shaking her hands.

“Thank you…but Ahayute…? What does … mean?”

“It’s the name of a monkey with hemorrhoids.”

“It’s a strange name… Anyway, thank you. I will definitely come back…”

Ophelia turned her back and walked away, leaving those words behind. Suddenly, a silver bat flew out from the shadow created by the Gallerion Coffin.

The bat flew westward with a speed nearly as fast as that of a raptor. Looking at the bat that was now indistinguishable from the star, Ronan murmured.

“…are you okay?”

****

Training continued every day. Fortunately, the members actively participated in the club activities. Otherwise, Ronan had no choice but to go to catch La Mancha.

They really came to Nest in their spare time to train. Basically, it was backed by talent and passion, so the pace of growth was fast.

“No, can’t this be done? You can just come in and cut the shock off.”

“ha ha ha! I want to shave your head too! Is that a horse or a donkey!”

“Hold on, Braum.”

“I don’t understand. let’s try again. Twisting your back and shinning like this!”

Ronan really did her best to teach the two of them. Of course, he could not say that he had the talent of an educator, even in empty words.

For Ronan, who can see and copy most of the martial arts, Marya and Braum’s sluggishness was only seen as a kind of physical disability.

“The way I see it, it’s all because of a lack of effort. Let’s see who wins.”

In the end, Ronan, who failed to understand, came to introduce the punitive military training system. If you can’t do it, do it until you can. However, he couldn’t beat the chicks who had not yet bled on their heads, so he replaced the beating with a nightmare physical training.

“Huh, what the hell…! How many laps will it spin…!”

“The most important thing is stamina. It’s all useless if you don’t have stamina. And if your stamina improves, you can train longer.”

“Wow! help me!”

Ronan not only did physical fitness, but also did strength training at the same time. They soon became Nest celebrities. Nowhere were they more active in using the training facilities than them.

As I did that shit every day, my body naturally changed as well. One day, after training, Marya called Asher.

“Cute, touch me.”

“uh? huh?”

“Don’t take it off, come on.”

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Marya grabbed Asher’s hand and dragged her to touch her belly. The touch of a stone passed through Asher’s fingertips through the sweat-soaked fabric. Marya wiped the sweat and smiled.

“How about it, will you finish it? One thing I like about my body is getting stronger.”

Asher couldn’t sleep that night. Originally, Braum also enjoyed showing off his body quite a bit, but after three reports of mistaking him for a monster at night, he was a little stingy.

After about a fortnight or so, Marya was able to demonstrate the imperial swordsmanship with her great sword. The very next day, she came with an early completion certificate from the Imperial Swordsmanship class.

“Keep it up! I saw it!”

“Good job. Now I have to study martial arts.”

“aah!”

The next day, Braum completed intermediate martial arts early. He said that he had achieved overwhelming achievement among sophomores and received praise from the instructor.

“Wow! In particular, his stamina stands out! It’s all thanks to you guys, thank you!”

“It’s pretty good, Braum!”

“Gagging!”

wow! Braum’s leg was loosened by Marya’s habitual fist. But it didn’t go down like the first time.

Seeing this, Ronan nodded curiously. I thought that maybe a weapon other than the greatsword might suit Braum. A one-handed sword and a gigantic shield.

‘By the way, when is that child coming?’

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More than a fortnight had passed, but Schlieffen still did not return. There were only rumors that a large-scale purge was taking place in the Grancia Street.

Nabirose delivered the news that the information they had gleaned from Cyrilla and Dolan was documented and reported to the upper levels of the world.

“It seems that the Emperor was aware of this as well. I heard rumors that a special organization targeting only Nebula Clazier was about to be established.”

“It will be more confusing in the future.”

“right. By the way, what are you doing these days? Baren’s worries weren’t the only thing he had to worry about.”

“Exactly, I’m preparing to run around. It’s as secret as the instructor’s pajamas.”

Ronan’s scream echoed through the first arena. He became afraid of showing his ears to others for several days.

Ten more days have passed since then. Marya and Braum succeeded in completing two classes earlier each. They displayed their early completion certificates on the cork board of the club building.

“This is the third chapter!”

“I am four!”

“Everyone has suffered.”

Ronan applauded. Now, their timetable was no different from that of Ronan or Asher. When the timetable was adjusted, all members of the club were free to leave for five days, including weekends.

“Finally ready to go.”

Letters were coming from Ophelia periodically. Three days ago, a letter stating that this was really the final stage came, but I couldn’t wait forever.

Now was the time to set off. Ronan immediately contacted the guild called ‘Pale Horse’. It was the only company that could rent a ghost horse that rides on the wind.

As Ronan was making plans, he found out that if he rode a ghost horse, he could get to Baidian in half a day. Of course, there was a cost that wasn’t cheap, but that was the school’s problem, and Ronan didn’t know.