The Vampire Is an Academy Honor Student

Chapter 061. ignition (3)

It would have been a difficult situation if he did not accept Dalian, but fortunately the duke accepted Dalian.

After arriving at the gymnasium, the duke dismissed everyone except me.

“Thank you for accepting my rude request. Your Excellency the Duke.”

He looked this way and asked with a puzzled expression.

“Ask me one.”

“yes.”

“Why are you doing this?”

Is it because there is no Yuriel around?

It felt like the atmosphere had definitely changed from a little while ago.

“It is for the sake of the young lady.”

“Do you think I am using my daughter as a political tool?”

“I thought so.”

“… did?”

But it’s not because he won’t benefit from me.

Then what is it for?

There was one thing that could be inferred from his cautious attitude toward Uriel and his past.

He is a knight who has gone through war.

so… .

“Your Excellency the Duke was really worried about the young lady.”

“… Did you apply for sparring knowingly?”

“Because it is a useless worry. The young lady is not that weak.”

At the answer that came without a second thought, he let out a laugh with an expression of absurdity.

“Do you know war?”

“I heard it from my father.”

“Hearing and experiencing it are two different things.”

“It could be, but is that what the prime minister in public office is saying?”

Under the threat of monsters, war, no matter how devastating it may be, is something that someone has to do.

He deliberately pinched it with the intention of making things uncomfortable, but the duke answered calmly.

“It doesn’t matter if it’s selfish.”

“dismissal.”

“… The introduction was long. start.”

After ending the conversation one-sidedly, he exuded intense speculation.

Hwaaak!

Even if a long time had passed since leaving the battlefield, the speculation of those who had gone through the war had a special corner.

However, for me, who had been trained by Kayla by dying countless times, it was nothing more than an itchy level of speculation.

got a sword

“I will go.”

So, the sparring began.

* * *

When the Duke and Roan’s sparring is in full swing.

‘Stay with me for a moment.’

At Roan’s request, Uriel was waiting in the drawing room with Noah for the sparring to end.

“… … .”

“… … .”

A very awkward atmosphere flowed when Roan, who usually played the role of a middle bridge, disappeared.

An atmosphere where you feel like you have to say something.

The one who spoke first here was Yuriel, who was at least social.

“excuse me.”

“?”

“sorry. I showed you my embarrassing side.”

It wasn’t a father-daughter relationship that was appropriate to show off to a maid from another family who came as a guest.

And it wasn’t our intention, but didn’t the attendant go all the way to Dalian?

So he apologized, but Noah tilted his head, not understanding the meaning of the apology.

“So, it wouldn’t have been a pleasant conversation.”

“????”

“?”

Noah still couldn’t understand the meaning of the apology and tilted his head.

Uriel realized that the conversation was diverging from a fundamental point.

So when you stop talking for a while and reflect on what you said.

Noah moved his hand for the first time.

– It’s a lie.

“yes? What?”

– said the Duke.

“… ?”

This time, it was Uriel’s turn to put a question mark on his forehead.

‘It’s a lie?’

All the things my father said a moment ago?

It makes no sense.

If that was true, there was no need to go through the trouble of confronting the family until now.

“No way… .”

So I tried to tell him that it couldn’t be, but the moment Noah and I met eyes, the words went right in.

It was because her expression seemed to ask why she didn’t know this obvious thing.

So, Uriel moderately reduced his words.

“… There may be. yes.”

She looked at Noah and thought.

‘An unusual person.’

I don’t know what kind of story the two had because Roan didn’t talk about the details.

However, considering that the opponent is an elf who is mostly consumed as a slave in human society, and that he cannot speak.

It was possible to speculate that Roan might have found and saved her from suffering as a slave.

And this speculation turned into certainty over time.

It is because Noah showed a dependent figure to Roan to the extent that people around him could tell.

That level of dependence is inexplicable unless it is a life saver.

‘Is that why he looks like that?’

Originally, his expression was close to expressionless, but the last few days had a particularly sharp feeling.

It wasn’t intentional, but given the circumstances, Noah might have felt like his person was being taken away.

Yuriel, who had been thinking that far, quietly opened her mouth.

“Nothing to worry about.”

“… ?”

“We agreed anyway.”

As he said, even before meeting the duke, he and Roan had agreed on what to do with each other.

‘If things go well, I’m thinking of proposing an engagement to the duke.’

‘engagement… ?’

‘huh. Please wait until you graduate from the academy.’

Now that the second year has begun, there are a little less than three years left until graduation.

‘Does it work? Isn’t that just slowing down the timing?’

‘that’s right. So let’s leave out the family, and let’s make an agreement among ourselves.’

‘… ?’

After proposing the engagement to the family, he said that they would write a separate contract to break off the marriage and notify them later.

‘that… !’

In a word, it was a scam.

marriage fraud.

At the words of confidently deceiving the heads of both families, even the least agitated she was, was quite taken aback.

But Roan simply dismissed all these worries.

‘That’s for later.’

‘ah… ?’

… Come to think of it, he was right.

At that time, I had nothing to lose after graduating anyway.

‘… I’ll pass the decision on to you, since you’ll be in trouble if word spreads that you’ve been rejected by all of your brothers.’

‘Roan… .’

‘I do not care. There were a lot of bad rumors in the beginning.’

After speaking, Roan handed over a document.

breakup contract.

His name was already stamped.

‘Later, you just need to stamp it.’

As he said, it is a problem that can be solved by holding the contract well and then stamping it later.

“… So nothing will happen, and I don’t want it either.”

to be a knight

In the process, you will never have to turn your eyes elsewhere.

So I said don’t worry.

“… ?”

Noah turned around with a look on his face asking what he was talking about and answered simply.

as if to say the obvious.

Took, do.

-lie.

* * *

Everyone who has gone through war has one or more mental illnesses.

The current Prime Minister of the kingdom, Duke Hayward, was no exception.

It is unavoidable.

Because of the continuous war, the front line was literally hell.

Watching someone die, die, and die every day, I feel that something I have as a human being is disappearing one by one.

Even though it has already been more than tens of years since he came down from the front, the wounds of 10 years at that time still open up and make him suffer.

So, when he returned to his family, cleaned up his remaining brothers and sisters and their aides, and became the head of the family.

I made a decision.

‘never.’

I will never raise my children to be knights.

I know it was something someone had to do, but if it was someone else, I did it.

‘Advance into politics.’

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Fortunately, the sons followed the Duke’s words well.

In the first place, they did not even have a talent for the sword, so it was a natural flow, each taking a seat in the public office, making him comfortable.

The problem arose out of nowhere.

the youngest daughter.

A child who resembles himself and is the only one born with a talent for swords among his children.

‘It’s a genius.’

‘Even compared to the self-restraint of the samurai… !’

Everyone around her said that and recommended raising her as a knight.

However, the duke rejected all these offers.

Ironically, this was also because her daughter resembled him.

‘I won’t be able to stand it.’

just like he did

And if there is no one by your side to protect your child, you will end up unhappy.

The Duke tried his best to change her mind, but the youngest daughter’s stubbornness was beyond imagination.

There was an extraordinary level of action.

‘

I hate it.’

Having said that, I left the house.

In order not to get caught in the family line, he even cheated on his family name to enter the academy and belatedly notified.

The duke felt increasingly impatient.

And that impatience peaked when she won the King of Knights in the Empire.

‘… … .’

So, I tried to break the stubbornness even by using a somewhat coercive method.

Because of this, when he goes out to find a suitable partner while recognizing the children of influential families.

Something caught his eye.

‘… hmm?’

This was when Uriel briefly returned to his family after the War of the King of Knights ended.

Unlike usual, when he often came empty-handed, he had both hands full of souvenirs from the Empire, and his expression was a little relaxed.

The duke could very sensitively sense the slightest change in his daughter.

‘… … .’

then i made a decision

If you’re going to stop being a knight anyway, find someone you want, even if it’s a partner.

That’s why I overturned the marriage talk with the jangdam of the Alpharis family, which was in full swing, and looked for that partner.

‘Roan Karziel?’

That was Roan.

‘… … .’

I feel sorry for the Duke of Gilead, but to be honest, I felt sick to my stomach at first.

It’s not Ian, it’s Roan.

When comparing him and his daughter, isn’t it clear who’s to blame?

there today.

‘Why me?’

‘… … .’

Why do you think you are the partner of marriage talk?

My stomach was even more twisted at the top board asking shamelessly without knowing anything.

However, that thought faded little by little as we talked.

Roan was a better person than I thought.

The snow was clear with no cloudiness.

Even in front of the Prime Minister of the kingdom, he did not feel intimidated at all.

Although there were somewhat rude words and actions, I liked it rather because I knew that this was only for the sake of my daughter in the end, just in a different direction.

‘It’s fortunate.’

It was for that reason that he accepted sparring, which was almost a waste of time.

Because the effort was imaginary.

And Roan was stronger than I thought. I couldn’t believe that it was at the level of a cadet.

Just a year ago, because of an incurable disease, I wondered if I was the person who would speak out today and tomorrow.

‘That’s amazing.’

Indeed, Karziel.

However, it was not yet to the point of becoming an opponent of a knight who had gone through a war.

As the sparring continued, large and small bruises piled up on Roan’s body, and he could see his stamina gradually declining.

how long has it been like that

“Are you thinking of doing more?”

Still like Taesan, the Duke of Sun asked Roan who was on the verge of collapsing.

This was caring.

Instead of putting an end to it, I will give you a chance to finish it moderately at this point.

But instead of quitting, Roan took a deep breath and said,

“Didn’t you say there was something you wanted to show me?”

“… … ?”

The duke narrowed his brows for a moment.

Come to think of it, I did say something like that.

Of course, I thought it was a lie to make her sparring.

‘It wasn’t?’

“I will show you now.”

Quaang!!

immediately after speaking.

Roan charged, burning the remaining mana.