Chapter 9
Episode 9 – Training (2)
As I wielded my sword and practiced swordsmanship with a heart of gratitude to the young wizard, the eyes on me did not disappear.
Watching me, I was already taking out the fourth bag of cookies to see how delicious the cookies were.
When I turned on my cell phone to check, the time was past 3:00.
Normally, I would have waited an hour or so before going in, but today I couldn’t because I decided to talk to that person watching me.
‘Because I don’t even know when that person will return.’
It would be embarrassing if the opportunity to have a conversation suddenly disappeared when there are only today and tomorrow.
Hardened her resolve, she turned and walked towards her.
She stared at me with her questioning eyes as I moved towards her suddenly.
With only the silhouette of the face visible, we only made eye contact, but for some reason it seemed like my breath stopped.
Her innocently twinkling purple eyes reflect my dumb-looking face as she stares at her.
Maybe there is some kind of magical power in those eyes that attracts people, and since I was looking at her eyes, I felt like I was going to be sucked into them.
‘Let’s calm down.’
The thing I possess is in a novel, but that novel is a parody novel of a game called [Akanak Castle].
That means that there may be characteristics or skills that can charm people just by looking at them.
‘Is it a mental erosion skill? But it absolutely doesn’t work for me, the possessor!’
After taking a deep breath, I moved my stiff steps and stood right in front of her.
She doesn’t seem to be particularly tall for a woman, so I tilted her head back to stare at my face.
She stood still with her eyes wide open, probably not thinking that she had business.
‘Do you think he won’t get caught because he’s wearing the artifact?’
I didn’t have the confidence to keep looking into her eyes, so innocent, so I called her with my eyes slightly diverted.
“Excuse me.”
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Of course she thought she had called someone other than herself. She turned around and checked who was behind her.
It was late in the morning, so of course there was no one behind her.
“… ?”
She tilted her head cutely and stared at me again.
I had no choice but to clear my throat and speak again.
“Hey?”
It was only after he called her, looking straight into her eyes, that she seemed to realize that she had called her. She was startled and answered, shaking her shoulder slightly.
“…… hehehe?”
I was so surprised that I even bit her tongue.
The bag of snacks in her hand rolled on the ground.
The pupils that had been staring at me since earlier have also become round and tremble as if an earthquake had occurred.
Shrinking her body, she asked in a crawling voice as her shoulders trembled.
‘It’s like looking at a frightened rabbit.’
“Ho, can you see me…… ?”
She was taken aback by the soft, thin voice that suddenly penetrated her ears, but she tried her best to pretend she was okay and answered.
‘Calm down. That must be a trait that attracts people. Cancer, no way.’
“You’re watching while eating snacks next to you, you wouldn’t know….”
“Can you see me?”
She trembled her body once more and looked down at herself….
“heheheuk!”
With a small scream, he disappeared before her eyes.
“???”
Teleport without casting time?
‘Ah, that’s ridiculous. Would someone who could do that run away just by talking to me?’
Probably ripped a return scroll or something.
Just as I was about to go home with my sword, I saw something that had fallen on the floor.
Snacks rolling on the floor… The mask she was wearing.
“Huh… No matter how embarrassed you are, are you leaving this expensive artifact behind?”
I’d be lying if I said I didn’t want to have it, but if we meet tomorrow, it would be right to return it.
I went home with the mask tucked into my chest.
*
“Whoah… ….”
Returning to her room in an instant using her magic, Dina leaned against the wall and sat down.
“I forgot to hide… ….”
For some reason, his senses had sharpened since yesterday, so he should have used the cloaking magic, but he forgot and left.
What would he think of himself watching while eating snacks while wearing a robe while he was working out hard?
It was almost certain that the first impression was ruined.
“Tomorrow…. You’d better go tomorrow and talk.”
I have to tell you that I didn’t have any bad intentions.
He must have seemed suspicious, so I have to clear up the misunderstanding…….
As she had the goal of getting to know him someday, it was a serious problem that her first impression was ruined.
She promised that she would go to sleep today and talk to him tomorrow, but Dina quickly fell into her dream.
She realized that she had left her mask at the park, and buried her face in her pillow again and screamed the next morning.
*
The next morning, I was drinking iced tea at Coffee Is Life, where Park Se-rin works.
“… ?”
I saw Park Se-rin from time to time as I passed by here, but it was rare to see her in such a good mood as today.
She always had a cold, expressionless expression, but today, for some reason, she was smiling slightly.
And above all….
‘Your face is glowing… ….’
His face was puffy as if he had eaten something good for his body.
“Senior? I guess something good happened.”
I couldn’t hold back my curiosity, so I approached and asked. Se-rin Pak glanced at me and she erased her smile and said with a serious expression.
“Is it visible?”
“Yes…. You said you had something to do yesterday and this morning, so it seems to have worked out?”
“Huh? Yes… That’s it. It’s what I’ve been wishing for for quite some time.”
Park Se-rin smiled slightly and looked at me with chic eyes before going to take the customer’s order.
‘Looks like you’re in a good mood.’
Come to think of it, I can learn proper swordsmanship from my senior starting tomorrow.
It is said that today is the last day to practice alone.
Feeling better after following Park Se-rin, I drank the remaining iced tea at once and walked out with dignity.
*
As usual, I practiced swordsmanship until dawn, so it was past 3 in the morning.
‘Looks like he won’t come out.’
It was time to finish the training and go in soon, but she didn’t come out.
‘Then, will the artifact I left behind be mine…? !’
Of course, if we meet, we have to return it immediately.
‘Still, I wanted to have a conversation.’
It was a bit disappointing.
I was about to finish the rest of the training and go back, thinking it was inevitable, but someone suddenly appeared from behind and started talking to me.
“Hey there.”
When I turned around, a woman wearing a robe was approaching right in front of me before I knew it.
Right in front.
‘It’s too close….’
Unknowingly, I took a step back and saw purple eyes looking up at me through the robe.
She seemed to be quite nervous as herself, so when I looked at her trembling eyes, she smiled for no reason and relaxed.
“Yes.”
“Is that… Did you not see the mask I forgot and left yesterday…… ?”
I took out the mask I picked up yesterday from the bag I had brought beforehand and showed it to him.
“This?”
As she shook the mask, her purple eyes widened and she nodded wildly.
“Yes! That’s it! Thank you…… ?”
As I evaded her outstretched hand to take her mask and lifted it over her head, the woman froze for a moment, then jumped and tried to snatch her mask.
She looked at me and said in a trembling voice that I couldn’t reach her because of the considerable height difference between her, who is small for a woman, and me, who is tall for a man.
“Hey… I can’t reach it because it’s too high….”
To be honest, it was so cute that I had the urge to give it back right away, but she barely resisted it.
‘That must be a trait that attracts people! Otherwise!’
Above all, if you return the mask, there is a high possibility that they will run away before you even ask.
I’m sorry, but I have no choice but to do it like this.
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“Before returning it, I want to ask you something.”
A question lingered in the wavering purple eyes.
“What, what is it?”
“For some time now, you have been watching me swing my sword every day. I was wondering why.”
“Hibb.”
The woman’s body trembled greatly, and at last she began to hiccup.
“What are you talking about… ….”
“You were standing over there every day watching me train, right?”
“That, that… ….”
The woman is restless and she keeps looking away.
‘Ah. This guy really can’t lie.’
It was too obvious that it was a lie in every way he spoke and acted.
“Aren’t you going to answer me?”
“No… me, that’s…….”
“What is that?”
“That, I just saw it because it was interesting… ….”
You really just watched it out of curiosity?
“Is that really all there is to it?”
“Yes, yes… ….”
“Hmm… “
I thought as I brushed my chin with my left hand.
‘No matter how you look at it, I don’t think that’s all… …. Can I just skip this?’
“Hey, there… ….”
As I was thinking about it, I heard a voice calling me from below, so I lowered my head and saw purple eyes in front of my nose.
I was so close that I was startled and backed away slightly.
“Now, if I go…. Can’t you give it back… ? That’s very expensive…….”
“Well, here.”
It doesn’t seem like there was any bad intention anyway, so I just returned the mask.
Upon receiving the mask back, he was visibly delighted and put it on.
“Thank you!”
“Yes, what. I’ll just go.”
I don’t think he’ll tell me anything about asking more anyway, so I’ll just give up.
“Oh. Me, there…….”
I turned around and moved on.
Tomorrow, I will learn swordsmanship from Park Se-rin, so it will be much more difficult than before, so it would be better to relieve the accumulated fatigue.
I tried my best to pretend nothing was wrong, but I was still confused because I was suddenly possessed by [Outside].
‘I’ll wash up right after I get back and go to bed.’
As I was walking with that thought, I suddenly grabbed my sleeve from behind.
“Hey, hey!”
When I looked back at her, she was fidgeting, avoiding her gaze, and she was holding onto my sleeve.
“Why?”
“Ah, that, hey, sorry… I’ve been secretly stealing…….”
I thought he was a strange person because he stalked me, but seeing that he apologized, he seems more normal than I thought.
“No, it’s okay.”
It’s not like there’s been any particular damage.
“But…… “
“It’s really okay. I’m just…….”
As I turned around and tried to go back, the voice caught me once again.
“Hey, maybe… It’s out of the blue, but can I ask you something… ?”
“What is it?”
He fidgeted and paused for a while before opening his mouth.
“If… Really, if someone with powers similar to that of a very bad person wants to be friends with you, what would you do?”
“… Suddenly?”
“Only, if only. If so, would you try to keep your distance?”
It’s so out of the blue.
“A very bad person… ?”
“Em, demon king or something….”
“Demon King? Hmm… …. You don’t seem to care?”
“As expected…… Yes?”
People in this world may not know yet, but the devil is a being from another dimension.
The dimension where the demon king lived was also a world where magic existed like this world, and most of the demons’ personalities became violent in the process of forcibly crossing the dimension due to an accident.
And the blessings of the stars and the holy sword given to the hero are a kind of compensation for the goddess not properly managing her dimension.
In terms of a game, it feels like rewarding users by doing server management like sh*t.
Even if it was a blessing from a star and a holy sword, the goddess was annoying and just made it roughly and threw it away.
‘The problem must be that Dina in [Akanak Castle] Suffered tremendously just because she had powers similar to that of the demon king.’
Numerous people distanced themselves from her strength, and the only people approaching were interested in her face and body.
Her
Her family was mostly indifferent to her, and her little brother, Pennheim Polaris, who was the only one interested in her, experimented on her own.
Perhaps around the time I possessed this place, someone else possessed Dina’s body and liberated her from her pain.
If you think about Dina’s case, the resemblance between her innate powers is just a coincidence.
Even if there are people who have the same power as other demons or villains, there is no reason why they should be discriminated against.
“Well, it’s not because we want to have the same natural abilities. It’s just that the powers are a bit similar by chance. Even if you have the same power as the Demon Lord, if you are a normal person, there doesn’t seem to be any reason to distance yourself.”
Hot. She gasped and slumped to her feet.
“…… Hey?”
Her shoulders trembled slightly, which seemed odd.
‘Are you angry? Did I say something wrong?’
Would it be right to apologize first?
“Hey….”
“Go, thank you!”
I tried to apologize, but I cut her off, thanked her, and then she disappeared before her eyes, just like yesterday.
“… ….”