Academy Ankle Reaper

24. No matter how much it is, people can’t believe it

The door to the private bar for the five pillars opened roughly.

The one who entered was Edgar Lemnos, who was defeated in a duel yesterday.

Perhaps he had just woken up from the hospital bed, bandages were wrapped all over his body.

“What is this article”

Lemnos had a newspaper in his hand.

This is an article about the duel that was spread all over the academy this morning.

The result of your defeat could be nullified… In a way, it was a good thing, but it didn’t look very happy.

“Edgar! Are you okay?!”

“Zeke, get out of the way! Who wrote this article..!! Are you Ferda?! Or is it Phrygia!!”

Edgar Lemnos’ closest friend, Zeke Albion, approached first, but Edgar shook him off.

Albion fell backwards, but Lemnos didn’t even look back.

It seems that nothing else comes into his eyes, which are full of veins.

“Now, Edgar, I am so excited. Let’s calm down first.”

The wound on his leg seems to have healed, but Lemnos staggered as if the aftereffects were still there.

Seeing this, Ferda smiled and got up from the sofa to help him, but Lemnos pointed the newspaper at Ferda.

“Don’t come closer.”

I just lifted up the newspaper, but a lot of killing spewed out as if I was aiming at a real sword.

It was a spirit that could not be imagined for a person who stumbled after being brutally defeated yesterday.

Ferda didn’t seem afraid of it, but he obediently gave it to him.

“Be scared~ Let go of your anger because it’s not me.”

“!!!”

At Ferda’s words, Lemnos’ life was fixed to one side.

One still lounging on the sofa,

Shaara Phrygia was leaning back on the sofa, leisurely watching Lemnos’s actions.

“… I hope it’s very comfortable, Lemnos.”

“Four years… !!”

As Lemnos’ eyes were fixed on him, Phrygia spoke first.

“Yes, I did. I worked on it as soon as your defeat was confirmed.. Is that something to be angry about?

I took the initiative to clear your stigma, and you should be grateful.”

“That duel is my duel. Winning is my victory, losing is my defeat. You are meddling with the outcome of my duel. “

Before the Five Pillars, Edgar Lemnos was a swordsman.

A duel means a lot to a swordsman.

The weight of a duel, a means of resolving individual disputes, is the weight to be borne by two people fully involved in a duel.

Whether the result was victory or defeat.

Phrygia casually insulted such a duel with a lift of her hand outside her field.

To turn Atlas into an unscrupulous person who cheated or used it was an act of humiliating even one who had been defeated by him.

“I… Did Lemnos’s name sound so easy, girl?”

“That’s what I want to say. Do the five pillars of you look so easy?”

“It’s not the Five Pillars.. This is my duel..!”

“As long as you wear the name of Lemnos, that’s not your only duel. It is the duel of our five pillars.”

Prygia shot Lemnos.

Her For her, her five pillars are a community.

Even if each person does not think so, in the position of a third person, the five families are collectively called the Five Pillars, so if one person does something ugly, the four unrelated people suffer as well.

“You are not losing. The sword of the five pillars is broken.

Your risky image looks like it’s going to collapse. Are you satisfied now?”

Unlike the other four families, who value swordsmanship and magic skills and live on the profits earned from the territory, Phrygia is a huge business.

The Five Pillars brand is the biggest signboard of Phrygia, but what will happen to its image if a family called the strongest sword loses to a newcomer whose name he doesn’t even know.

From the beginning, Phrygia did not like the duel.

“This is… !!”

Edgar grabbed Phrygia by the collar.

As Lemnos, as tall as Lucia, grabbed Phrygia the size of Atlas by the collar, her feet fell off the ground and she dangled dangling.

Phrygia frowned as if her breath had been choked, and her thin, chalcedony hand gripped the arm of Lemnos, as thick as her club.

Unlike the other Five Pillars, Phrygia does not fight with her body.

Therefore, Phrygia has at best only the physical ability of an ordinary person.

If Lemnos, who became a sword expert and spread her superhuman realm, gave a little strength, Phrygia’s thin neck would break like her sorghum can.

“… Try it.”

Nevertheless, Phrygia was confident.

Even though she was on the verge of dying if hit right away, she said as she caught her breath.

“Here you go. If you get angry with one hit, hit it.”

She even provoked Lemnos, saying that rather she would slap her cheeks and hit her if he wanted to.

Vessels form on Lemnos’ forehead.

Her hand went up to her shoulder level and then lowered again with a shudder.

She wasn’t afraid of cleaning up after she hit her.

In such a excited state, if she made a mistake in power control, she could not move it because she was afraid that Phrygia’s throat, which was as weak as a normal person, would drop.

Phrygia saw her hand go down again.

“Can’t you? Then, stop the habit of raising her hand first if you have nothing to say.”

From start to finish, he had a consistent expressionless expression, hard accent, and attitude, but Lemnos felt different about what he had just said.

It felt as if Phrygia had laughed at herself.

The fiery nature of Lemnos was reignited.

“This is..!!”

“No Edgar!! You really die!!”

The hand of Lemnos, which was going down, went up again.

It’s dangerous even if you hit it lightly, but if he was excited to the top of his head like that, Phrygia would die unconditionally.

The moment Albion panicked and tried to stop Lemnos,

“Come here.”

The door to the private bar burst open.

Lemnos’ hand stops.

“You… ?”

It was Atlas who opened the door and entered.

When he saw Lemnos grabbing Phrygia by the collar, he smiled and said sarcastically.

“What were you fighting about? Don’t mind me and keep going.”

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When I came in, Lemnos was holding Phrygia by the collar.

The difference in physique between the two is about the same as mine and Lucia, so it was funny to see Phrygia with her feet off the ground.

Even though the five pillars are supposed to refrain from doing that, Phrygia must have scratched her pride.

It is said that the average personality of Phrygia is like that, but she doesn’t seem to be going anywhere.

If you fight inside like that, it’s good for me, so I want you to fight more.

“Why are you here… !”

It’s surprising that Lemnos is still standing on his two legs.

I thought I would lie down for more than 3 days even if I couldn’t because I obviously broke a bundle of calf muscles in yesterday’s duel.

It’s… It’s been less than 24 hours since my calves are tattered, but the dragon is also awake. How many elixirs did you take?’

No matter how much medical technology in this world claims to heal traumatic wounds magically, seeing that such a deep wound healed in one day without sequelae, it seems that some expensive medicines that boost vitality have been used.

One drop of that would equate to 10 years of money earned by a commoner’s family, and that’s five pillars.

“I also have something to do with the thing in your hand.”

As soon as she correctly pointed out herself, Phrygia’s expression changed slightly.

Did you expect it to come this far?

‘I could never have done that.’

It moved so fast, how do you assume that a mere freshman can handle it right away?

“I don’t know how I knew this place, but this is a place where only five pillars can enter. I want you to leave.”

Zeke Albion came and tried to get me out the door again, but a hand appeared from behind me and stopped him.

“My party.. Outsiders… no.”

“Russell? Is it your group? A companion to you… ?”

Albion was surprised when he saw Lucia, who had just arrived.

It’s pretty well known that Lucia Russell doesn’t have any other human relationships at her academy, because it’s the first time she’s ever shown up with anyone.

Even more so if it was me who defeated Lemnos.

“I came here… I came to inform you. All the newspapers with the bullshit written on them have been collected, and a correction will be released tomorrow.”

“With whom? I don’t understand what you are doing..?

You challenged us to a fight. Do you think you can just move on?”

Phrygia’s eyes moved slightly when she said that all the chirashi she had instructed to root had been collected.

“… Atlas has been under Russell’s protection since yesterday.

That duel is between Russell and Lemnos. Phrygia is not worth intervening in.”

“That guy went into Russell’s asylum?

Russell, no matter how many friends you have, isn’t it a bit of a waste to spread such a precious spot? Our image… “

“I told you it was none of your business, Phrygia.”

Lucia rarely spoke straight.

“Yes~ After all, it’s as if I had a duel with Lemnos instead of Russell, isn’t that acceptable?”

When I touched it slightly, Phrygia’s eyes became ferocious.

Russell and Lemnos are the most influential families in the Five Pillars as they are called the two swords.

Most of the opinions are given by Lemnos and Russell is reticent, but if their opinions are united, even if the remaining three pillars agree, they will inevitably lose.

I don’t know why, but Lemnos was also unhappy about trying to overturn the outcome of the duel, so it became more advantageous.

“Rarely, the two agree. I am on the side of Lemnos.”

As expected, Albion stood on this side. Lemnos and Russell are of the same opinion, but there is no reason to disagree.

“That’s it. Shaara will I also side with you?”

“… I do not need.”

Perda extended her hand to Phrygia, but Phrygia refused.

It’s a bad feeling to pretend to be condescending when the majority of people turn away and it’s meaningless.

Left alone in an instant, Phrygia trembled with both her hands.

As we are not strong, we have to solve it with words, politics, and money, but the one thing that has all been blocked is division.

“I want to go back.”

Frygia, who had been keeping her mouth shut, turned around and went out to the private bar.

None of her stopped her.

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After leaving the private bar, Lucia made sure no one was around her and took her necklace out of her pocket.

“This is what I said yesterday..”

“I’ll wear it well.”

A necklace with the crest of the Russell family engraved on it.

She held out her hand to accept it, but Lucia raised it again.

“I will.. Fill it up.”

Lucia bends down to put on her necklace.

The angle of the waist bending in front of my eyes is painful.

Because it meant that there was a difference in height as much as the waist came down.

Lucia, who was putting on her necklace, must have found something strange. She touched the thing hanging around my neck.

“… What do you wear around your neck..?”

“At the neck… ? Wow??? It’s still hanging.”

I heard that something was already hanging, so I put my hand on my neck and was startled to feel the familiar jingle.

I still had the black dog tags I used as a knight and the white dog tags I used as an adventurer all hanging around my neck.

When I lift the rare metal chain by hand, it makes a clicking sound.

I’ve been wearing it for so long that I seem to have forgotten it’s worn on my body.

All of my high-grade dog tags are made of metal that doesn’t react with the human body, so I don’t feel fatigued, but I’m sure I’ve gone crazy for forgetting what I was wearing.

Fortunately, Lucia didn’t seem to know what these things meant.

“Recognize… graph?”

“No big deal. Did you cut it down separately? The length of the necklace is just right.”

“No, I got it as a gift when I was 10 years old.”

“Whoa… It’s like you’re 10 years old… It’s a necklace….”

This necklace, which was neither too big nor too small, was the right size for Lucia’s body at the age of 10…

Lucia would have just brought it without much thought, but her heart aches.

Lucia nodded as if she liked the way she wore the necklace.

“… Phrygia looks bad… Is it okay?”

It looks like she’s worried about Shaara Phrygia, who eventually ran out of the private bar.

“You must be hiring assassins right now? Thinking like, ‘I’ll just have to deal with it without knowing who did it’.”

“What… ? Then it’s a big deal..!”

Lucia’s voice trembled.

She seems to be thinking about how to deal with assassins.

I think I scared you too much.

“I’m kidding, I’m kidding, can you be such a crazy bitch?”

“That… yes?”

Lucia follows me with a small smile.

I said that to cheer her up, but my eyes weren’t smiling.

Perhaps… They’re really hiring assassins right now.

Prygia That bitch is really that crazy.

At the earliest, an assassin will come tonight.

If you don’t come by today, Phrygia has really withdrawn, so I’ll leave it alone until the next event is over.

Because now we have to start identifying demon followers in earnest.

Ironically, Phrygiana Lemnos was taken by me this time, so I was able to confirm that she had nothing to do with the devil.

But if the assassin comes today, I’ll kill him right away.

I’m busy with work, but I can’t afford to pay attention to Phrygia’s nervousness anymore.

Because I had eyes to see earlier, I sent it obediently.

Perhaps if Phrygia had been alone in the private bar, if I had come alone without Lucia, she would have been holding me by the collar, not Lemnos.

Prygia, the head of the newspaper department, must think that I got through the crisis thanks to Russell and Lemnos.

Half right and half wrong.

If this had happened without Russell… Since there is no other way to solve it anyway, I would have solved everything with a sword.

The two pillars, Russell and Lemnos, did not save me, but actually saved the lives of the newspaper department and Phrygia.

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That evening, even before evening, I felt the presence of an assassin.

I’m not rushing right now, but I’m quietly observing my actions.

How long did Phrygia really call her crazy bitch?

She is a woman who does it when she does it.

I took care of that first and then went back.