Swordmaster of the Red Light District

Practical (1)

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Rei stopped by Dinar after a long time.

The Dinar branch of Jimmy Orphanage had little to no chaos during Rey’s absence, as Rey’s influence was minimal in the first place.

Ray made an appointment with Pietro and stopped by Gadi’s lord’s castle.

While waiting for Pietro in the drawing room, Lipa came in with a knock.

“Long time no see.”

As usual, Lipa, who had a smile on her face, put down her refreshment plate and was about to leave, but Rey caught her.

“Oh, I brought you a present.”

“A gift?”

“yes.”

Lipa was also quite a rare orphan.

Ray handed a box containing a set of writing instruments that he had kept separately.

“Open it once.”

“…!”

After opening the box, Lipa was surprised to see a set of writing instruments adorned with gold rims.

It was not a gift worthy of giving to a person of low status.

“How do I get this…!”

“How do you receive what, how do you receive it. Just receive it and use it well.”

“What have I done to such a thing…!”

“Don’t all the people of the Lord’s Castle know that you’re struggling to help Pietro? Don’t feel burdened and just accept it.”

Despite Rey’s persuasion, Lipa repeatedly refused the gift.

Rey sighed and took out the last card.

“Lifa, I didn’t mean to tell you this…”

“…?”

“Your father, Carl. He told me this before he died.”

Ray looked out the window and recalled the past for a moment.

“If something goes wrong with your life, please take care of your daughter who will be left alone.”

“…!”

Lyfa covered her mouth with both hands and let out a gasp.

He smiled warmly as he held the present that Rey had prepared and placed it in Lipa’s hand.

“Lipa, I’m proud of you, who has grown up great on your own. Karl must have been proud of you too. So, you don’t have to burden yourself with something like this.”

Lipa blushed and held Rey’s gift to her chest.

“thanks.”

“Okay, stop leaving. Use it well. If it gets stolen, tell me. I’ll definitely find the culprit and bring it down.”

Lipa nodded and left the drawing room.

Shortly after Lipa left, Pietro entered the drawing room.

Ray nodded her head.

“I’m glad you fixed it.”

“You seem a little tall.”

Ray and Pietro greeted each other after shaking hands.

There were a lot of small chatter, but we couldn’t leave out the topic related to Ult and T.T.

Pietro said Ult was still spinning out.

A liaison with Ult said that Ult’s appearance was very depleted.

“Write…”

Rey frowned and clicked his tongue slightly.

The worst ending Ult and Titty could reach was stopped by Rey.

However, Ray was quite at a loss as to whether he should do anything more here.

Should we stop Titty’s extinction?

Or should I kill Ult, who was doomed to fall?

Otherwise, can I just leave it alone?

‘Ult, who has given up on seeing Titi, who has disappeared comfortably, may find his place…’

I couldn’t figure out which option to choose, or how to solve the problem if I chose a specific option.

“Oh, damn it.”

Whenever I encountered this kind of situation, the anger that had been condensed in my heart burst out.

Whether it’s the Titty Gun or the succession to the throne.

Without knowing the future and lack of information, it was difficult to intervene recklessly even if the matter grew a little bigger.

Right now, I’m crouching down as much as I can to avoid popping shrimps in a whale fight.

Perhaps, he did not know that he was neglecting a situation that had to be stopped immediately.

‘Succession to the throne… 1st and 2nd princes…’

Looking at the circumstances, the probability that the 1st Prince would lose the Crown Prince position and the 2nd Prince would take his place was high.

The second prince is capable but cruel.

Should the second prince have been prevented from gaining power? Can’t we just let the 1st Prince go wild alone?

I do not know.

If you think about it now, you will know what the correct answer was only after everything is over.

‘Well… I’m glad this is the outskirts.’

Whether the prince changes or the emperor changes, it will be okay for now.

Ray thought so.

*

After talking enough with Pietro, Ray came out of the lord’s castle.

As I walked out of Yeongju Fortress and walked through the village, I could see that I could still feel the Inkimchi that had been following me since morning.

Ray burst out laughing.

At first, he waited patiently for someone to talk to him first, but the opponent showed no sign of approaching him even after chasing him as far as Dinar.

It was a plate that had to go around with a shadow for several days.

Ray pretended to be walking around the alley and sneakily hid herself.

Inyoung, who was following her, stuck her head through the alley and looked around.

‘no one is here…?’

Yohana blinks.

At that moment, Rey suddenly appeared and lifted Johanna from behind.

“Wow!”

Yohana’s body flew into the sky and settled on Rey’s shoulder.

Johana, who appeared to be riding a wooden horse, was terrified.

“My, put it down!! Get it down!!”

Johana was ashamed of the fact that the inside of her thigh touched the skin of another person.

Moreover, I was sweating quite a bit as I followed him to Dinar.

Yohana began to pound Rey on the head with a sincere heart.

Rei tried to hold on for a while, but when her head felt like her head was going to split, she quickly put down Yohana.

“Aigoo…”

Rubbing his tingly crown, Rey asked.

“What made you chase me all the way here?”

“…”

Johana, who had barely calmed her heart, fiddled with the sword hanging from her waist.

Originally, I was going to express my gratitude to Ray.

Thank you for taking us back, protecting us, and giving us an undeserved ‘weapon’.

I was going to talk about that…

“Hey… heh heh…!”

The only thing that came out of my mouth was crying.

Rey stuttered with a puzzled face.

“Yo, Yohana…? Why?”

“Ugh…! Black…!”

Johanna took a deep breath as if trying to hold back her tears.

However, after a while, water drops began to fall on the ground.

“Hey…! I mean, I wanted a necklace too…! Huh…!”

The sadness that I couldn’t control turns into tears and flows out one after another.

In the end, Yohana started crying.

“I mean, I don’t need a sword…!!”

Even Johanna knows.

That what you are doing now is ignorant behavior.

Rei gave Yohana a sword with a value that was hard to imagine.

Even the knights could not easily hide their greed by looking at Johana’s sword.

I knew it all

Still, Yohana wanted to receive pretty accessories, even if they were cheap.

“I’ve been working hard…”

Johanna was gifted with a talent that was second to none in martial arts.

However, because Yohana was good at swordsmanship, he did not follow the knights’ education diligently.

I felt my own sense of accomplishment in my swordsmanship skills that were increasing day by day, but that was only it.

Yohana didn’t like the calluses that grew on her hands and feet the more she learned swordsmanship.

He didn’t like the training of putting his face into the intestines of a rotting monster, or the training of climbing a mountain while starving for several days.

Everyone praised Johanna as a genius.

In the end, Yohana was an ordinary girl who dreamed of becoming a pretty princess rather than a wonderful knight.

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Nevertheless, Yohana did not let go of the sword, not because of any great purpose or determination, but simply to meet the expectations of those around her.

Friends, teachers, knights.

And he just worked hard to live up to Ray’s expectations.

“I worked hard…! I worked hard, but why didn’t I give them a necklace…! Hah…!”

Johanna was so sad that Rei didn’t know her heart.

So, it was difficult to say a single word of ‘thank you’.

Ray watched Yohana crying.

The anguish, resentment, and stubbornness of a teenage girl seemed very cute.

Rey gently stroked Johanna’s hair.

However, the corners of Ray’s lips were hardened.

“Johanna.”

“Huh…?”

“You have to work harder.”

Rey looked at Yohana with dry eyes.

At that cold gaze, Yohana stopped crying for a moment.

“Johana, you have to work harder and get stronger faster.”

Wiping Johana’s face, covered in tears and runny nose, with her sleeve, Rei gave strength to her chin.

What the pieces of data were talking about in the labyrinth created by Risilote.

Harcia’s core, an organ that replaces the heart, severe side effects such as infertility and internal rupture, and death.

If the situation doesn’t work out, Rei will have to make a choice in the end.

So, before that happens.

“You have to work hard and get past me quickly.”

So that I don’t push you further.

or.

lest I do anything terrible to you.

You must jump over me in no time.

“Because I can’t protect you for the rest of my life.”

Yohana felt the emotion of sadness for a moment in Rei’s cold gaze.

Yohana, who was sobbing, forcibly removed Rei’s hand.

“Don’t touch me arbitrarily…!”

After a moment’s hesitation, Yohana murmured in a crawling voice.

“With permission, touch… yo.”

“Aigoo!”

Rey hugged Johanna in a flash. Naturally, lamentation followed.

“How did our Yohana grow up to be this big? In the past, there was no other child as honest as our Yohana.”

“…!”

Yohana struggled a few times in Rei’s arms, then withdrew her strength from her body.

For quite some time, Yohana rubbed her red, bloodshot eyes on Rey’s shoulder.

“…don’t leave us far away.”

Johanna said abruptly.

The words that I can’t protect you for the rest of my life have remained in my heart.

Rei giggled as she hugged Yohana and fixed it.

“It’s hard…”

You’re going to save this beggar’s world, and you’ll have to travel long distances if you look hard.

Since there are no jets in the world, even if the distance is a little far, the round trip takes more than a fortnight.

“If you want to stay by my side, you have to be strong enough to follow me.”

You can’t take kids who don’t even have power.

Johanna muttered in a muffled voice.

“Ray is doomed.”

*

Returning to the orphanage, Yohana slammed the door open and entered.

Karen, who lives in the same room, hurriedly tucked the necklace into her clothes without looking at the jewelry on the necklace.

Toward Karen, who smiled awkwardly, Yohana strode closer to her and stretched out her hand.

Swag!

Yohana pulled Karen’s necklace outward.

Johanna pouted and grunted as she looked at the beautifully crafted necklace.

“I will keep working hard.”

I hate to learn swordsmanship and train my body hard.

“And next time I’ll get a necklace too.”

Karen, who was taken aback for a moment by Yohana’s force that felt like a declaration of war, smiled bashfully and embraced Yohana.

“Okay. Yohana could get a much better necklace than this.”

Karen knew that Johana’s talent was superior to anyone else, and that Rey loved talented people.

‘I can’t keep up with Johanna.’

The gap will widen over time.

When Yohana stood next to Rei, she could not even step on Rei’s shadow and might be abandoned.

Even so, Karen had no intention of giving up.

“Let’s work hard together.”

“…yes.”

Seeing her friend’s smile, Yohana had no choice but to relax her expression.

Karen took Johanna’s hand and led her.

“Let’s go to dinner.”

The chain of the necklace fluttered from Karen’s neck as she leapt.

Adolescent children wander to and fro, and grow up while looking up at the sky that Rei pointed to.

So before the next spring arrives.

For the first time, Yohana showed off her sword .