How to Live as a Half-Dragon

075. talent gap (3)

A light flashed out of nowhere, startling Camilla on her guard.

It was natural for him to be careful, as he was caught off guard once after the mana shimmered a little while ago.

It wasn’t long before the light, which had been strong enough to brighten up the gymnasium, disappeared.

“uh… Has it grown?”

Camilla looked slightly surprised when she checked Cecily after the light had gone.

The guy who looked like a 10-year-old girl suddenly grew up to look like a 17-year-old lady.

After shaking herself off, Cecily stood up and grabbed the wooden sword again.

‘Is it faster?’

His movements were noticeably faster than before.

It’s a little bit, but it definitely seemed more stable than before.

“But nothing will change!”

Camilla took a good look at Cecily’s wooden sword and was about to return it.

Cecily split into three people.

‘illusion?’

First of all, not knowing what it was, she cut down all three Cecily in front of her eyes, but Camilla turned around after realizing that they were all fake.

Before he knew it, he saw Cecily running away from him.

Since it’s fast, most guys would have missed it.

Quaang.

Accompanied by a violent gust of wind, Camilla, who had attached herself to Cecily’s back, pushed her to the floor.

“after… Tired. Let’s stop… .”

“… no.”

Camilla held back a boiling sigh and instead pulled Cecily’s hair.

“Do I really have to do this? How are you going to get along later?”

“never… .”

Cecily swung her wooden sword.

However, the wooden sword was not headed towards Camille. The power wasn’t great either.

Cecily’s hair was cut off.

Camilla, who had been caught off guard, was hit in the jaw by a wooden sword that flew next and fell to the ground.

“under… really… It was cute, so I asked to see it… .”

At this point, the feverish Camilla turned terribly.

Ophelia, who had been watching all this time, opened her mouth.

“Okay, you can go.”

“mother… !”

Camilla was very surprised.

she is the referee

Her stepping out meant her own defeat.

“I still… .”

beaten with a wooden sword

Had it been a real fight, he would have been badly injured by Cecily.

‘But if you put it that way… .’

Camilla had a lot to say.

Because there were many opportunities to attack with a wooden sword in the first place.

“It’s okay, because I know.”

Ophelia spoke kindly to her.

He stroked his hair and congratulated him for his hard work.

“You worked hard, Camilla.”

“… yes.”

Although she was a little upset, there was nothing Camilla could do.

Except for retreating as Ophelia said.

As Camilla stepped aside Ophelia shouted at Cecily, who staggered away.

“But keep this in mind.”

“… … .”

“You are weak.”

“i know.”

“No, you don’t know. I tried not to say this, but… .”

Ophelia raised a voice that could pierce Cecily’s lungs with a cold face.

“What can you do next to a boy? Are you going to be foolish like you are now? If you knew, you wouldn’t be able to say that you would go by his side in that state?”

“… … .”

Ophelia sneered.

“When an elf’s mind grows, their body only grows.”

It was easy to say that Cecily had only now escaped the form of a girl.

It was that she had always been just a little girl.

“I mean, you don’t have to look to see how you guys have behaved towards the boy. And even after you take that step and arrive, it will be the same as before.”

Cecily, who had been listening silently for a while, turned around and replied,

“It will be different!”

“Even if it is different, there is nothing that can be done. because you are weak You are clearly a burden to the boy. Grabbing the ankles of a boy ten or ten years younger who can’t even take care of himself.”

Ophelia’s eyes were cold.

It was the same gaze as when he boasted that he could fill the void of his talent.

“If you go to the boy as it is now, you will put him in danger someday. Your weakness will surely make it that way.”

“… … .”

“If you like, you can go. If you want to make the boy unhappy.”

It wouldn’t have been said knowing.

However, the words of making someone else unhappy were the most accurate words to hold back Cecily’s steps.

“Are you not going?”

“… … .”

I want to go.

I knew where the lodging was, so I wanted to head there right away.

But I couldn’t.

I just don’t have the courage to say it’s sophistry.

Everything she said was true.

He is useless to Xian.

It is because he is weaker than Xian and there are always many capable helpers around him.

At best, it was all about bringing water or scooping water for the tired man.

cyan is good

And he continued to pamper himself with such kindness.

It was a fact, an undeniable reality.

It was clear that the kind Xian would act as if it were his own business later on if he faced a crisis.

It may not happen, but it will definitely come. Because he always made others unhappy.

“… I can’t go… same… .”

Tears flowed from Cecily’s eyes.

Tears that had dried up while sparring with Camilla flowed like rain again.

I hate Ophelia.

I hate myself for being weak.

Ophelia approached Cecily and gave her a hug.

“You have to be strong. To the extent that the boy could rely on it again. At least to the extent that I don’t think it’s a boy’s weakness.”

“… … .”

“This body will train me to the point where I can protect at least one man I admire.”

Cecily grew up like that while bathing in the moonlight at the gymnasium.

* * *

Arriving at the inn, Xian quickly fell asleep.

Contrary to the expectation that I would not be able to fall asleep easily because of guilt, I was able to sleep soundly for the first time in a long time.

After 10:00 a.m., Xian woke up and felt empty.

“ha… How are you?”

I thought I wouldn’t think about it after a night’s sleep, but unfortunately I wasn’t that harsh.

Perhaps it was the feeling of emptiness, since Cecily, who had always been asleep under the covers when she opened her eyes, was gone.

Xian shook his head as if to shake off thoughts.

“Am I in a position to worry about others?”

I got out of bed without a second thought.

As Drake said, there was no time to be distracted.

Without Hughes and Cecily to take care of me, I had to live more diligently and diligently on my own.

“Shall we eat?”

Thinking of eating something before going to the arena, Xian left the room.

Stain, who slept in another room, was waiting in the hallway outside the dorm.

“Are you going to eat?”

“Because my head doesn’t work well when I’m hungry.”

But before that, Xian had work to do.

I was going to meet Drake and ask him some questions.

As we moved to find Drake, who had taken another room, Stain opened his mouth, as if he had predicted it by looking at the direction.

“Drake left early in the morning.”

“Where?”

“Yeah, I don’t know.”

It’s true that he’s a newcomer, but he must have been sleeping too relaxed.

From what Stain knew, it would mean that he noticed Drake going out.

‘I’ll have to be careful in the future… .’

Without Drake, Sian had no choice but to move on to eat.

When Xian took his seat, Stain naturally sat across from him.

As the innkeeper approached, Xian ordered.

“I’d like something easier to eat, please.”

“Can I prepare two servings?”

“No, one person… .”

“It’s enough for two people.”

“I will prepare for two people.”

When the clerk left, Xian said.

“I will only count mine.”

Xian also paid for the lodging.

I don’t know why I have to pay for the accommodation when I didn’t bring it with me.

Even the vassal families of Alteon are nobles.

‘They say there are more people… .’

Stein reiterated the sophistry he spat out yesterday when he was looking for a place to stay.

“I am a vassal of Alteon.”

“Anyone who wants to bear the name of Alteon must know how to take care of his subordinates, right?”

“I’m glad you seem to remember.”

“Do you think of me as your master?”

The guy really wanted to do that.

The answer I would hear was roughly expected.

“No, I don’t consider anyone else to be the owner except the head of household.”

“Nuiye Nuye, you must be.”

“Also, strictly speaking, you aren’t even a member of Alteon yet, are you?”

Just as the innkeeper left the food, Xian said.

“Then, strictly speaking, you don’t even need to take care of it, right? Because it’s not ‘yet’.”

“Even if it’s not now, you have to train your mindset early on.”

Stain said so and took his share.

“Attitude doesn’t melt overnight, right?”

“If you can’t even speak.”

He was a nasty guy in many ways.

If my strength is weak, I’ll beat you even at night…

“How could I be with a guy I don’t like like this… .”

Thinking back to the time he had spent with the pretty and kind Hughes, who was so different from the unlucky Stein, he said something he couldn’t overlook.

“I’ve been trying to tell you before, but it’s hard to become great if you’re close to color from a young age.”

“Are you saying that I can’t help but ask what you’ve been thinking of me?”

“It wouldn’t be a harsh evaluation of a brute who puts an elven slave into his bedroom every day.”

There are so many things I want to discuss, but there are so many that I don’t dare to point them out one by one.

Xian, who only thought that he would get stronger later and be disciplined properly, started eating.

As I was eating meat pies and thinking about my hometown, I heard Stain’s voice.

“Rather than that, what are you going to do after dinner?”

“I have to go to the arena.”

Even if you don’t have Drake, you can’t be lazy.

Drake only sets the direction.

It wasn’t because someone told him to, it was because Xian wanted to do it.

After filling his stomach adequately, Xian moved towards the arena.

There is no reason to get lost on the way to the arena.

Because the building is visible from a distance anyway.

“hmm… .”

“What are you doing? Aren’t you going?”

But for some reason, Xian, who should have been able to go straight to the arena, stopped walking.

It wouldn’t make sense if the road didn’t get lost.

Stain confirmed where Xian was looking and said.

“It’s a beast slave, but that one is a male.”

“You know that without saying it?”

this made it clear

What he said at the restaurant earlier was not a joke, but the truth.

Seriously, Shian decided to punish that disrespect later, and looked at the guys in front of him for the first time.

“… … .”

The clumsy prisoners were somehow pitiful.

It was something I felt as soon as I first came to Semain, but Semain had a lot of slaves.

Even though they lost their place and flowed all the way to the south, it was very regrettable that they were living like that in the end.

Seeing that Xian watched for a while longer, Stain’s expression seemed to be surprising.

“Are you concerned?”

“a little.”

In fact, I care a lot.

At the time of Cecily, when Hughes was asked if he would help in a situation like this, he had always answered no, but he couldn’t just ignore it.

It must be a guy called Heaven.

Sian pulled out his pocket.

“I don’t know if you know it, but slaves are quite expensive.”

Xian knows it too.

I know that elven women are the most expensive because of their off-white color, but even ordinary demi-humans are worth more than two gold coins.

Xian, who checked the money in his pocket, belatedly realized the situation in his pocket.

Come to think of it, Drake confiscated everything except for one gold coin yesterday…

“Because I might have missed a few… .”

Sian turned his pocket inside out and swiped it away, but it was the same.

All that fell on his hands were leftover silver coins and copper coins, not a single shiny gold coin.

Stein said as if he had discovered something.

“But what about this bag?”

“pocket?”

Stain gave me the torn pouch that must have fallen to the floor while flipping it over.

It had been captured while rescuing Cecily the other day, but now, of course, it was an empty pocket.

“huh? what?”

I looked around and saw something inside.

Sian sneaked out what appeared to be a torn gap.

“What is this?”