Chapter 229 – If You Draw a Sword, You Must Cut a Mound
The meeting, which started with my worries, ended in the blink of an eye with a smooth progress that exceeded my expectations.
“Then it would be better for the Northern Church to send the Holy Knights and Priests under the direct control of the Pope for safety. If I send Priest Thomas as the leader, he won’t die from serious injuries, right?”
“It would be good for the student council to send some seniors who are good at fighting in the name of helping the juniors. The student council president, Agnes can bake, right?”
“Leave that to me. It won’t be difficult since we have already negotiated with the academy office to some extent. If it’s not enough, how many members of the Imperial Court Maid and Knights Templar will be dispatched?”
“Don’t worry Senia-sensei, I’ll keep Al’ Miraz and I as close as possible! This time, I got golems from her sisters her just in case!”
“Uh…Yes…”
To be honest, I had nothing to do. Right now, I’m just Agnes’ fiancée, who has little power or connections.
But my lovers were different. When things like the Imperial Guard and the Holy Knights under direct control of the Pope were mentioned casually, I felt a sense of confusion.
‘What kind of girls have I been messing with?’
I wondered if it would be possible even if I gathered my lovers and planned world domination like this, somehow the burden began to mount. How could I only seduce such great people even if I bewitched a woman?
When I was unable to participate in the conversation because of this complicated state of mind, the Heavenly Demon, who had been silently observing the meeting, came up to me and patted me on the shoulder.
“Heavenly Demon…?”
“Don’t worry, I won’t go with you either.”
“Yes?”
“What am I going to do in an academy without you or Cayenne? Being stuck in the back room with nothing to do is something I have done enough at Taesan Dojang. Now is the time to take care of the disciple.”
Perhaps the Heavenly Demon misunderstood that I was not yet relieved despite the content of the meeting. That’s not what my expression is hard on…
But as I was still making a puzzled expression, the Heavenly Demon’s expression twisted strangely.
“What, do you think I am not enough? Wouldn’t they be better than me by bringing in youngsters like the Three Swordsmen? Ah, since I came to see the Overlord of Hell, I can’t help but raise my eyes…”
“No, no, it’s not like that, it’s because I’m embarrassed! How can I cover people? Thank you Master!”
“Right? It should be who am I? The Heavenly Demon who sent two officers of the Demon King’s Army to the Nether Road.”
“Yes, you are a great person. It’s believable.”
…I forgot seeing how he handled it like an adult earlier, but I forgot that he was originally a person with a strong child-like side. She overflows with confidence and self-esteem, but she is a strangely narrow-oldminded woman on the inside.
“You didn’t curse at me right now, did you?”
“Please. I didn’t say anything. Isn’t that Unicor?”
I asked for help from Unicor, the only person here who could read my thoughts. Unicor doesn’t like the Heavenly Demon too much, so will you help me?
“Then, as Artin’s contractor, I can read thoughts, but I didn’t come up with a word of profanity!”
“Look. What did I say? Not even a word of sweating…”
“In the first place, the word ‘grandmother’ is not an insult, but the truth, so there’s nothing wrong with it! Could it be that you have lived in a human body for over 100 years and wished for the voice of a young lady?”
“Ah.”
But Unicor betrayed me. With a very cheesy laugh.
A bitter taste rose from the betrayal of the person he trusted enough to entrust his life to, a feeling he felt for the first time in a very long time since his death.
[Accept it obediently, this is the punishment for deceiving me and Xiaomei and going to the Demon Realm.]
“… Huh, grandma?”
“Ah.”
The Heavenly Demon’s hand, which was rubbing my shoulder, somehow got heavier and heavier. And it hurt a lot. It is a familiar touch that twists the internal organs that the pagans treated in the third playthrough.
“Khehehehehehe.”
“You rotten disciple! That’s why I said I don’t raise black-headed beasts!”
It was unfair. For no other reason, my hair is red, not black.
However, for that reason, the Heavenly Demon’s touch did not soften.
**
The next morning, Senia, who came to school excitedly at the thought of seeing Artin during assembly time, had to feel embarrassed 10 minutes after going to work.
“Yes? The Priests and Holy Knights are participating in this dungeon practice…?”
“That’s right. It is a guideline given by the church, so I think Senia’s assistant teacher should be familiar with it.”
“Ah… I’m sorry. It was unprecedented, so I was taken aback for a while..”
At the sudden words of Sergei’s homeroom teacher, Senia tried to nod her head even though she put on an expression that she couldn’t understand.
As if understanding Senia’s reaction to her, Sergei Chelevskiy nodded her head and handed out a document with the changed instructions officially handed down from the academy.
“In the last Rose Crown case, there was an incident in which the warriors Cayenne and Artin were exposed to the officers of the Demon King’s Army. Even as an academy, it must be an inevitable decision to protect the hero and his companion his, who have been born for the first time in decades. The church has decided to actively cooperate with this matter.”
“Ah.. Is that so? Now that I’ve heard it, I can’t deal with it as easily as I normally do!”
“I’m glad you understand. This time, I will lead the students in the field together, so you just need to be familiar with it.”
“All right!”
Senia could fully understand Sergei’s calm and reasonable explanation. And if this was the end, I might have just said that and moved on.
“It is said that the Royal Guard Knights will participate in this dungeon practice. Why? To protect the imperial family’s sire…”
“Did you hear Senia? Looks like some of the student council executives are participating with the seniors in this practice! What did you say? Was it to create a place for new freshmen to interact with their seniors?”
“Miss Senia! Did you hear that the kingdom’s warriors are participating this time? Why? Why why! Don’t you remember the Lexton Weiss case last time? It’s a big deal if something happens to the victim, Artin Ludwig! Then you know!”
“Can I also participate in this practice? Don’t make a fuss and go quietly! It’s boring without Artin!”
“To…? Yes…?”
It was not just a simple dungeon practice, but seeing the lineup of additional participants who seemed to be going to stop the demon king’s army anywhere, Senia’s mind became distant.
Apart from Unicor, who participated in a group at the end, no matter how much you think about it, isn’t it excessive force to have all the knights of the empire, the paladins of the church, and the warriors of the kingdom participate ?
‘Wasn’t the original dungeon training meant for first-year students to participate in actual combat experience… ?’
It was the first time since the death of two of the Demon King’s followers that this amount of bodyguards had been deployed when the students went to practice. It was a story that was already over a hundred years old, so it was difficult for Senia to understand.
No, it would be normal for an ordinary person to feel something strange and have doubts about this excessive protective force.
‘…Still, it’s better to be safe, right? Artin and the children shouldn’t be in danger for nothing!’
But unfortunately, Senia didn’t notice that much.
Instead, she was relieved. Where in the Republic of Korea did not come forward to participate in it? If so, all human forces in the human world, except for the Desert Sultanate that exists across the desert, would participate in this exercise.
For Senia, she didn’t have the confidence to lead and lead such a grandiose group. She herself is only the burden of teaching children for the first time this year, and she is only a first-time professor.
‘What? You seem to have forgotten something? What?’
Suddenly, a feeling of uneasiness crept up from Senia’s large chest in her. The feeling of forgetting something important.
─Ding-dong-dang-dong
“Ah! It’s breakfast time! Gotta go fast!”
However, that little spark of anxiety was easily extinguished by Senia’s anticipation that she would be able to meet Artin. For a woman in love, minor insecurities were not the subject of much attention.
*
“What did you say just now?”
“Are you old and deaf? It is said that if one sense is lacking, the other senses develop accordingly. How come you have one eye and yet have a bad ear…Tsk tsk.”
Vincent Nottingham had to doubt his ears. Although he decided to cede the title of duke several years ago and bury his bones in the academy, he is still one of the Three Swordsmen, although he is the former, and he is the vice-president of the academy.
Besides, why did he give up the title of Duke and Three Swords Castle? It was because he lost one eye instead of protecting his legion after a fierce battle as a commander of the Demon King’s army on the northern front. His swordsmanship has not rusted yet, but being one-eyed in real combat is a bitter injury.
Vice dean Vincent did not find his eyes uncomfortable. Rather, he regarded these eyes, which could not be restored because of Magi, as a medal. An irreplaceable medal to prove one’s honor and service.
No one could dare to say that he was one-eyed. Especially if this is an academy.
But to the woman who saw him right in front of her and called her one-eyed, Vincent did not dare to punish the rudeness.
Of course, she devoted one eye to defending the front line and saving her legion, but the woman in front of her is a living legend who killed two officers of the Demon King’s Army and saved the Republic and most of humanity in exchange for dyeing herself with demonic energy. Because it wins
“So… Did you say you wanted to participate in the dungeon practice that will be held soon?”
“Okay, I got it, so why answer a question with a question? Are you trying to fight with me right now? Young people these days have no manners, in our time, if we didn’t answer a question, we were beaten until our heads were broken!”
Vincent’s one remaining eye narrowly lifted at the magnificent bullshit of the Heavenly Demon. Isn’t it a well-known anecdote that the world knows that she learned martial arts, went to her academy her, and stalked her fiancé her despite the disapproval of her father and her family her?
If she had had her head cracked open for arguing with the elder or not answering properly, her skull would have already been ground to pieces and scattered into the South Sea.
“Write it, eye color. If you have one eye left, you have to know how to open it properly. Where do you dare to open your eyes?”
“…Speak like words, Heavenly Demon-nim. At most, first-year students go to practice, but why does Heavenly Demon-nim follow them?”
“Didn’t I say I wasn’t deaf? I heard that the Holy Knights, the Knights, and the Warriors went, but why can’t I be the only one?”
“Yes? Where else did you hear that?”
“I overheard you while meditating at the Moon Viewing Pavilion. Didn’t you hear that the Heavenly Demon’s eyes can see beyond a thousand miles, and its ears can hear breathing outside a thousand miles?”
“Yes, to be honest, I don’t think even the Dragonlord could do something like that.”
“That’s why the Dragonlord is weaker than me even though he is a god. So what’s the answer?”
Can’t be done. He had to answer that right away, but Vincent, who was also called the Tiger Vice President and had a fiery temper, couldn’t.
It wasn’t because the woman in front of him was simply a living legend, the Heavenly Horse.
“Didn’t the Heavenly Demon say that she would stay, so didn’t she even call in the student of Dean Ruberus to restore the Moon Viewing Hall? But do you really have to make such a ridiculous request?”
“Anyway, isn’t it more difficult to provide a place to live in an old building than to pass on the rituals of meditation to a foreigner? Do you remember?”
Remember When Vincent, who had a more fiery temper than he does now, came to visit Taesan Dojang and asked him to show him about martial arts, the essence of Taesan Dojo, how much he was upset.
Still thinking of that time, Vice Dean Vincent kicks the blanket even while sleeping. It was because the heir of the ducal family had been sleeping in front of the dojo for several months due to absurd coercion, which almost led to a diplomatic dispute between the Empire and the Republic.
“At that time, who stopped the elders who tried to kick you out by beating you up, saying it was unprecedented?”
“…That’s right, Heavenly Demon-nim.”
“Who arranged a place for him to practice for half a year, even giving pocket money to his grandson, who said he did n’t want to show his martial arts to others?”
“……”
“After I’ve been teaching them for half a year, who was it that kindly told the kid who was messing around saying that he wanted to challenge the Cheonma Singong, which he had only heard about through rumors, and made him a devotee himself by kindly telling him about the difference in rank?”
“Ah yes! All right! Do whatever you want! I won’t stop you, so Heavenly Demon-nim, do whatever you want!”
In the end, it was only after Vincent gave permission, that the Heavenly Demon nodded with a satisfied smile.
“It should be. Other people may not know, but my Bin shouldn’t disobey my words. Is it not?”
“I am over 50 now. Isn’t it respectful to be called by the nickname Bin?”
“I haven’t been counting since I was over 100 years old. Even today, if you’re curious about her age her, ask her great-granddaughter her. Do you want to brag about your age her in front of me?”
“No. I guess I said something else. Call it Bean, Vincent, Barney, whatever you want to call it.”
Vincent’s wrinkles deepened. At the same time, at the same time, he was envious and resentful of the Heavenly Demon, who still looked like a 20-year-old.
How old am I and should I be teased by others for my age? He doesn’t want to admit it, but his daughter his, who has recently married, will look older than the woman in front of her.
“Sweep, open your eyes kindly! After all, I’m your teacher, so can you look at me like that?”
“…I will correct it, Heavenly Demon-nim. So please take care of your mind and body while eating the donuts I prepared.”
“Uhm, I don’t mind seeing your sincerity.”
The donuts specially prepared by Vincent, knowing that his former teacher had a fondness for sweets, disappeared in less than 5 minutes, despite the fact that there were more than 20 of them.
Of course, Vincent couldn’t eat even one of them, but he had no choice but to roll his eyes at the Heavenly Demon’s words to open his eyes.