Chapter 88 – Rules of Barbarism.

My heart was beating fast. A strange and warm feeling that I feel for the first time. Even though it was obviously the first time he had experienced it, he could only call it love. The boy couldn’t take his eyes off the girl even for a second after he entered the banquet hall. She was obviously one of the guests who came this time. Otherwise, he who lived in her castle wouldn’t have known her. If she had been a child who originally lived here, wouldn’t she have been popular before?

“Wow, she’s really pretty.”
“That’s more than Lady Mediah?”

As if to prove it, his friends couldn’t take their eyes off the girl. Somehow it made me feel bad.

“Hey, cover your eyes.”
“Why all of a sudden?”
“If you want to lay it down, just lay it down!”
“What did we do wrong?”

The guys grumbled at his words and looked at him as if they noticed.

“No way… Did you fall for him?”
“Wow, at first sight?”
“Yeah! Why did you fall in love?! Any complaints?”

As if he found something interesting, when the guys showed signs of making fun of him, he went out even stronger. Trying to hide something like this would only make fun of it. This would not be an unnecessary weakness.

“Oh, no, not really.”
“Even to the point of complaining.”
“Don’t go near him without my permission.”

And he did not forget to warn. Because it was difficult when someone hit the player. But a bigger problem remained.

“Then what about the kid next to him?”
“Looks like you’re already dating someone.”

He didn’t know that someone would stick to the girl’s side and fall off. He couldn’t help but feel the heat when she even showed a special way of preparing her food, and at the end of the meal, holding hands and heading somewhere. As his face turned red, he said to the watchers.

“You know where he lives and who he is.”

At first, I wanted to deny it. However, the news they brought every time felt like it was fueling a roaring fire inside him. From the way we slept leaning on each other in the morning to the way we take care of each other every mealtime.

“How dare you hang out with Lady Mediah?”

He and other children even hung out with Lady Mediah, who was not easily approachable. As her daughter of Aiolus, her elders always warned her that she should make no mistake in dealing with her. There was no way he could approach her because he knew what had become of the girls who sometimes were jealous and had framed or harassed her. Still, the boy got along without hesitation. Even more resentful was the fact that Lady Mediah didn’t seem to hate him that much.

In his eyes, he was just a pathetic guy who only liked to flirt with pretty girls. He could even tell the children that he only lost to his opponents in sparring every time he trained, so he had no favorites from one to ten. If he is also the son of a vassal and is staying in the castle, he should be able to show his skills, but he would not like a guy who only loses in battle every time. The bad impression of him continued to grow.

“Are you not going to use Charlotte anymore?”
“I’m just going to watch it, so finish it quickly.”

He was tired of always using a woman’s underwear to masturbate, so he gave in to his friend and volunteered to watch. He was no longer attracted to Charlotte or the naked bodies of women he had always found attractive. To the point where the guys cheering that they can finally use her Charlotte to their heart’s content look pathetic. And finally on the third day. He couldn’t stand the situation any longer.

I watched for three days. It was because he was trained as a knight’s son, but he was weak enough to use his strength in Dalian, and he was just a bad guy who liked to play with pretty girls. He didn’t want to see the way he cut the girl’s knee and took a nap with Lady Mediah. So it was. I asked for a duel. He thought he would accept the duel, at least if he was proud of being a knight’s son. But he didn’t even accept that duel. He didn’t even have pride in him.

“That bastard is real!”
“He refused to duel?”
“They say he’s the knight’s son?”
“You guys follow me too. You have to step on that bastard thoroughly.”

So next time he called his friends to prevent him from running away and asked them to accept the duel. The girl and the lady of Mediah did not know what he was thinking and wrapped themselves around him and threw him away. I was so sad and angry that I couldn’t stand it. That’s how we got to the present.

“Hey, Pavel! What if I asked to go with you but ran away first?”
“What’s wrong? Seeing even Lady Mediah like that, I couldn’t even dream of a duel.”

He agreed with the words of his friends who followed him belatedly. Yes, if Lady Mediah covered that guy, he had little way to use his hands.

“Then just make him regret not accepting the duel.”

But it wasn’t that there was no way to do it at all.

“So what do you plan to do next?”
“What?”

To Medea’s question, Usher asked back, not knowing what she was talking about. At that, Medea touched her forehead.

“Did you refuse the duel without thinking?”
“It can’t be.”

As Usher responded with tears in her eyes as if she were looking at him as if he were helpless, Medea looked at him with a really surprised expression.

“Why do you look at it like that! Let’s say I accept that duel and fight. Wouldn’t it just be a nuisance to Mr. Donar, who has just settled here?”

If he was the son of an existing vassal, things would become even more troublesome. Moreover, he couldn’t tolerate the fact that he might have to risk Belka for something like that.

“Oh, that’s not what I meant to say, but I’m glad you thought about it that much.”
“What else is the problem?”

Isn’t this enough? As Usher was sullen, Medea smiled bitterly.

“It will be easier to understand if you experience it yourself.”

It made Usher even more uncomfortable because it wasn’t an attitude that made fun of him. As he talked like that, he could tell that bedtime was quickly approaching. It was now time for Usher and Belka to return to their rooms.

“Still, it’s a pity that I can’t sleep with Belka.”
“Sweet dreams.”
“Yes, Belka too.”
“Then we go!”

Mediah felt sorry for her and couldn’t let go of Belka’s hand, but Usher took Belka’s other hand and led her by the other side, in case they wouldn’t let go of her hand. Looking at her, Medea waved her hand. Belka waves her hand accordingly. Until the door is completely closed. Usher, who looked at the scene complicatedly, walked down the aisle with the girl.

“Rather than that, she became Mediah’s handmaid because Belka wanted her to do it, right?”

When Belka told her that she had become Mediah’s handmaid, she initially thought that she might be deprived of time to be with her, so she opposed it, but she had to convince her. Usher had a reason to travel. And for him, it was important to build strength, but also to raise funds. The girl wanted to earn money for him.

“Yeah, I was originally going to do something a little different.”

Usher thought about it as expected, but this time he was grateful for Mediah’s decision. Otherwise, the girl could have done worse. Although she is said to be Mediah’s handmaid, in fact she seemed like a playmate and she didn’t seem like a particularly hard worker. Even so, asking Belka if she was forced to do it was a little grumpy towards Medea.

“Phehe.”

The next day, it was hard to start training from dawn today, but Usher worked hard in the gymnasium. She said that Belka did the job because she wanted to make money because of it. She told him she was busy developing the strength to protect the girl, but she didn’t have the ability to earn money. It made Usher even more angry. If she was stronger than she is now, if she could have made more money. She wouldn’t have hurt the girl and she wouldn’t have to be Mediah’s handmaiden now.

She didn’t even have the means to earn money. Because he had no strength. Even though he is an adult, he is still young. But all of this is just an excuse for not being able to protect Belka. Hate. I really hate it. He was so disappointed that he couldn’t help it. Or he would be fine if he could use some kind of magic to solve all of this. Unfortunately, that is only an imaginary story. Even the conditions under which magic can be used by itself are unknown.

She said that she had met users before, so she couldn’t learn and use them the same way. Usher decided to think of a more realistic alternative than longing for magic that he didn’t know if he could get it or not, and even if he could use it, he didn’t know when it would be. That is why he accepted Donard’s offer, prepared to look pathetic. He didn’t put up with his training. Even when he was out of breath, he ran and ran. It was then.

“Evil!”

The ground he was running on suddenly came crashing down and he fell. Rogi, who had been running ahead of Usher’s voice, turned to him in surprise. Donard also approached, wondering what was going on, but he noticed something wrong.

“It’s not a mole… It’s not.”

It was clearly a gymnasium with flat ground. No, it wasn’t originally a gymnasium, but it was still flat enough to be used as a gymnasium. However, where Usher fell, there were traces of someone digging the ground so that anyone could see it. The surrounding area was full of grass, so the appearance of the brown soil was clearer. Running starts from a place farther away from here, so maybe I didn’t find it before? It seems that I passed without thinking about it in the middle, but this time it seemed that I was unlucky.

“Who dug it up?”

Rogi awkwardly reached out to Usher as Donnar was examining the traces, puzzled and replenishing the excavated soil.

“Tsk, put it away.”

He did not sprain or injure his foot, although he fell because of the digging. Above all, he didn’t want to be helped by a guy like this, so Usher got up on his own. But for three days, this place was fine. Who the hell would have dug the ground like that all of a sudden and for what reason? I felt dubious, but this was just the beginning. Strange things continued to happen after that.

“Usher, hold on.”
“Why?”

During breakfast, the girl stopped him from eating the soup with his spoon. She knew that a large fly had fallen into her soup when the girl with a slight frown took his spoon and brushed it into an empty plate.

“Why is this here…”
“I don’t think I can eat this. Let’s share.”

Fortunately, we were able to solve breakfast by sharing Belka’s portion of soup. Up until this point, I was just unlucky, so I was able to move on. But the problem was next. On her way out to the garden to meet Belka, who had visited Medea first for her maid, a potted plant suddenly fell from the second floor near him and shattered it. I looked up in surprise and saw no one on the second floor.

“Usher. I think you should shake off your shoes.”
“What else is this?”

It was only when I noticed that it was really strange that the shoes I had taken off to give my tired feet a rest from running early in the morning were full of sharp needles. The shoes were not wooden shoes that Usher had worn in the countryside, but army boots that Donnar had given him to use when training, and the inside of the shoes was invisible. Because of that, I shuddered at the fact that if it wasn’t for Belka, I wouldn’t have been able to walk properly.

“Whoa, it looks like it’s already started.”

Medea said as if she had finally come.

“What are you starting with?”
“What. They harass Mr. Usher.”
“The guys who talk about duels and honors come out so naive?”

When Usher asked in disbelief, Medea nodded her head.

“But it seems to be particularly severe this time.”

Meanwhile, Medea gave a tired expression when she saw the needles protruding from his shoe. She kept whisking to see if she still had anything left in her shoe, but luckily she didn’t have anything more in it.

“So I asked what you’re going to do next?”
“Was it like this?”

Usher was taken aback, but his response had already been decided. Now he was busy There was no time to worry about these things.

“It’s okay. You’ll get tired of doing it. If I say something, you’ll like it more?”
“Wow.”

At this time, Usher didn’t know why Medea was admiring her worried expression.