chapter 44
return to the academy (2)
When I left Silence at the academy stable and looked up at the sky, the stars that embroidered the night sky were shining in the night sky.
I returned to my room lit by the starlight of the night sky, and while I was unpacking, I saw the sculpture of Pierre’s statue and became frozen.
‘Why did I bring this?’
I do not know. I don’t even know why I did such an absurd thing.
If I had to give a reason, there was no way I could explain it other than that it was just a coincidence.
Once I put this ugly lump of iron away in the corner of the room, when I entered the room, I opened the letter stuck on the door.
‘Is this a letter from Otar?’
Less than two weeks have passed, so it would not be strange to have a new forge by now.
When I read the contents of the letter, as expected, it was written that Otar had built a new forge and that if he was alive, he should come to me.
The location of the new forge, quite far from the center, was similar to the previous one.
‘I’m going to go this way tomorrow… .’
Returning to the academy, the first place I set foot in was Hori’s room.
I had to return a potion I hadn’t used yet when fighting Robo as a greeting that I had returned.
‘Would you like to take this too?’
The staff and the rapier ripped from the statue of Pier in Pom Pong Village.
Keeping these abominable items in the room is just as good as it is a souvenir of a tourist attraction, so you can just throw it away.
I decided to hand over the rapier to Otar, so I took the staff and headed to the women’s dormitory.
Avoiding the guards patrolling the female dormitory, I quickly broke into the dormitory like a ninja, and stood in front of Hori’s room as I had before.
There is no one around. A patrolling guard passed this road a while ago, so he won’t be coming back here for a while.
I climbed straight up the wall to Hori’s window and knocked on the window slightly.
He couldn’t sleep because he could see a light from the window, but he knocked a few times and there was no response.
‘Are you sleeping with the lights on?’
I turned my body slightly and looked inside the window to see Hori, who was sitting at the desk, writing something.
It looked like he was very focused on not even moving his arm except for writing something.
‘I can’t help it.’
I can’t help it because I’m so focused. Using the wall as a footstool, I jumped up as hard as I could, and when the window came in front of me, I shot towards the window.
– Swoosh!!
If you break the window with your fist, it will make a loud noise. So I had no choice but to reduce the noise as much as possible by cutting the window with a knife.
One of the window glass splits in an X and I skillfully unlocked the lock by inserting my hand through the hole the glass had disappeared.
And he went inside, but despite someone entering the room, Hori didn’t look back and was absorbed in her own research.
“… … .”
The feet in his heart flew straight to Hori’s head. Hori got up from her seat, startled, as if she was covered in cold water.
“Hey, Mr. Ian?!”
“Oh, I’ve been.”
There were no extra chairs in Hori’s room, so when she roughly sat on the bed, Hori jumped up and grabbed the top of her head and said.
“Gee, now… !! What the hell happened?!”
“You know what I told you before when I was fighting robbers. I can throw a spear at my opponent just by thinking to myself.”
Only then did Hori realize what had happened to her, and trembled with her hands.
“Never do that again! If you do, I’ll be really mad!”
“okay. But I can’t help it because I’m so focused that I can’t answer no matter how many times I knock on the window.”
“A window?”
Hori remembered the fact that the window was locked at those words and looked at the window.
Then, looking at the window with one glass missing, he asked with a puzzled expression.
“I… I don’t have a single window glass… .”
“Fix this.”
Having said that, Hori gave a disappointing laugh as she placed a few silver coins on Hori’s desk.
“The window… I’ll tell the manager later. But what about that beast called Marang? Were you strong?! Did the medicine I gave you help?”
Hori kept asking about the duration of the drug, the effect, and how severe the side effects were, but unfortunately I couldn’t give any answers.
Instead of answering, Hori opened her eyes wide as she offered a potion and a pill that had never been used.
“Hey, didn’t you write one? why… .”
“I was going to use one, but I didn’t have a good time to use it.”
“Timing?”
If this was a game, you would end up eating a pill with the push of a button, but the reality is not.
He takes a bottle of pills from his pocket and takes another pill from the bottle and swallows it.
It was easy to put into words, but there was no time to show a gap against a strong enemy like a robo.
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Moreover, without knowing the exact duration of the drug and not knowing how severe the side effects were, he could not take that risk.
There was a time to eat when Robo transforms, but it is polite to wait without doing anything during the original transformation.
Besides, I don’t think that all the enemies I’ll meet in the future will show it through that way, so improvement was necessary either way.
“… okay. Then, if you apply it to the body instead of ingesting it… . No, instead of lowering the medicinal effect a little, the duration is greatly increased so that it can be consumed before battle… . Then the bad effect will be reduced, so I’d rather keep it in my molars like the assassins and improve it so that I can use it when I’m in the car… .”
After hearing all of his feelings about the battle with Robo, Hori grabbed the pen again, picked up a piece of paper that was rolling on the floor, and started taking notes.
Thinking it would last quite a while, I grabbed the pen and paper from Hori’s hand. Then Hori raised her head as if she had come to her senses.
“I’m sorry… . All that comes to mind is I have a habit of taking notes… .”
“Don’t mind me, but can I ask you a favor?”
“Please?”
“Yeah, Peter… So, can you give this to the teacher in charge of the Knights Department?”
Having said that, what I handed over was a duel application that I wrote in my spare time while returning to the academy.
After receiving the duel request form that looked like a letter, Hori flinched when she heard what it was.
“Oh, no! If you do that again this time, you might be expelled from school instead of three weeks!”
“So this time, the dueling location is outside the academy, so it’s okay.”
“No, though… !!”
“I’ll take the medicine you made during the duel.”
“Can I tell Mr. Peter?”
When we talked about drugs, Hori nodded eagerly, as if it were a lie that he had objected to that a while ago.
“By the way, when is the duel date?”
“date?”
First of all, it was written in two days in the letter, but it will be a little later if it is not two days later, as Peter also has circumstances.
“two days later… . Until then, I’ll try to improve my medicine as much as possible! Please use it in duels!”
“… Don’t make anything too weird.”
“It’s not strange… . When did I make that… .”
I’m sure I’ve never ostensibly made anything like that before, but when I first came to this room, I clearly remember the names of the herbs used for torture.
“Anyway, this is Marang… , It’s a souvenir I brought from the village I stopped by when I went to subdue Robo. I’ll give it to you, so just decorate it.”
“yes? uh… !”
Hori accepted the staff statue, but the alchemist Hori’s power could not help her lift it, so she dropped the staff as it was.
Before the staff fell to the floor, I hurriedly caught the staff falling down.
“What if I drop it?”
“It’s a little heavy for me… . I will accept the gift only in my heart. I think it will be a little difficult for me to move.”
The staff of the statue of Pierre, who had been carrying them so many times, had no choice but to bring them back.
Let’s pass this on to Jessica later.
I’m sure you’ll like it because the staff’s blunt appearance is roughly similar to a hammer.
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“what… .”
The next morning, after a simple breakfast, I couldn’t hide my disappointment when I saw Otar’s new forge on the map.
The new smithy was not the same place as the old ruins, but it wasn’t a fancy building in the center either.
To put it bluntly, it’s mediocre. It was such an atmosphere that if you go into any city and ask for a suitable blacksmith, you will be introduced to it.
‘It’s not even where I live anyway… .’
Above all, I should have expected such a building from the moment it was said that it was a blacksmith built on the outskirts of such a city, not in the center.
-smart.
I knocked on the door like I did when I first arrived, but the door didn’t open and there was no sound to come in.
There’s no smoke coming out of the chimney, and no sound of knocking on the iron, so it’s not like you’re busy with your work.
‘Are you sleeping?’
It’s still early, so it’s not strange even if you’re sleeping. Let’s wake up with feet, open the door and enter… .
“… … Wow, you are really here.”
“… I don’t know if this is fortunate or unfortunate.”
Otar was waiting for me with a black-haired woman I had never seen before.