Academy Ankle Reaper

28. I can’t forgive absurdity

Devils are evil demons from a world other than ours.

They are evil demons who seduce people to lose their senses and tempt them into evil ways.

Demons don’t belong to our world, so they can’t even be scratched in the usual way,

There are three ways to kill these demons.

The first is divine power

The second is a pure substance

And the third…

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A lot of things happened, but life at the academy is already entering its second week.

It’s been such an uproar, and it’s not even been two weeks… It’s terrible, really.

For a week, I really cut myself without a break.

At the academy, the problem is that there are too many budding scumbags who grew up asking me if I was too good or bad, and only had useless high self-esteem.

When it comes to living in a group, you should think about getting along well with each other, not trying to crush someone….

My duel is a bit stimulating, so it is talked about in many ways, but just like River had a duel right after the semester started, there were countless small duels at the academy in just one week.

It doesn’t make sense for kids with such high self-esteem to get along well with each other.

They bumped into each other, fought, dueled, and then one or two of their arms were cut off, so the hospital was always full of patients.

There were idiots who looked down on me and pushed me until the first week, but these days it’s quiet.

It seems that the results of cutting people off for a week have come out.

It didn’t make sense to just live quietly.

As expected, human-to-human respect comes from clear fear.

It seems that rumors have spread in earnest that he even invaded the newspaper department and made a mess of everything.

It’s creepy that he physically destroyed the newspaper department, but seeing that he’s still going to the academy even after arguing that the student council can’t touch the newspaper department, you’ll wonder what’s behind it.

Of course, this is what kids with a certain amount of brain think of, so there are still people who can’t figure out the subject.

But with Russell on my back, I was in a state where my inhibitors were one level off.

They all ended up in hospitals, not dorms.

Excluding those things, the atmosphere has been quiet lately.

There were some things, but it was nothing but commotion.

I think this calm is the calm before the storm.

In the 2nd week of the academy, the club will recruit new members in earnest… And there will be a dungeon search event.

Devil worshipers in earnest… The Church of the Devil begins to appear.

Now River and Amy really need to put their strength into it.

“After…. I haven’t even won a game today.”

“My skills are improving. Is the holding time getting longer?”

“You are still looking after me.”

“If you feel bad, you should become stronger.”

I am doing my morning exercise as usual.

In the knights, as usual every morning, exercise is followed by sparring with wooden swords.

River hasn’t landed me a single effective hit yet, but considering the first day when the match was decided by an even match, I’ve had a bit more time now.

It always made River think about what kind of move it would have been good to do at the end of a sparring match, saying that it was because of this psychological warfare.

There was no noticeable improvement in her skills, but her basic skills are getting stronger.

‘Since I’m following you well… I should give it a noticeable power-up.’

What she is doing now is to create the basic foundation.

The aura blade she creates, which is the beginning of her expert, is so bright that a cluster of light hovers around the sword, and even then, her rock can be cut, but it is thin.

Considering the events ahead, she needs to become stronger.

The most fundamental difference between expert beginners and advanced players is the output of the aura blade.

Aura Blade is a skill that is a symbol of swordsmanship that is manifested when the three elements of Shim, Ki, and Body are balanced and become one.

No matter how strong you are and how much mana you have, it is impossible to form a strong aura blade if your skills and inner strength are weak.

It is for this reason that wizards can imitate the aura blade, but cannot use it properly.

River has strong perseverance, so if you just support her with her ki and her body, she will quickly reach the advanced level of expert.

The upper part is not something anyone can tell you, so you have to learn it yourself.

The skill part will grow if you practice steadily, and let’s fill the body.

I have a few, and there are some that can be picked up at the academy.

Most of the things are no longer useful to me, so let’s drive them to the river.

As I was working on River’s curriculum, it reminded me of the old days.

One of the biggest reasons why I was able to become this strong now is that when I was young, I grew up in Titan and took terrible-tasting medicine every day.

It’s because he said he had to learn arcane swordsmanship and received swordsmanship training to the point of being abused every day.

A normal person would have been broken in the middle, but I knew the structure of this world.

I really feel like I’m going to die, but I’m not going to die like this.

The pain that doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.

Titans wanted to grow taller even if I died, and I wanted to grow taller as well.

For me, who gritted my teeth and endured all the torture, an abnormal tile body was completed.

Of course, that didn’t make me taller.

“….”

Amy, who gave River the water, is still keeping her distance from me.

She should be strong too, but it was hard to recommend her because of this subtle distance.

I refused several times.

I don’t want to get too close, but this subtle sense of distance that doesn’t seem to have lost my hand….

First, let’s focus on the river.

River, who was drinking water after finishing his morning workout, stared at him as if he had discovered something, then jumped up.

“What is Atlas?”

Did you see that?

My eyes are bright anyway.

What River pointed to was a large tree.

At first glance, it looks like an ordinary tree, but if you look closely, it has two scars carved with a blade in the middle.

It drew attention because it was too straight to be said to have been formed by cutting.

“My height.”

“Your height?”

“Yes, say my height now”

There is also one drawn in the dormitory.

Check your kidneys once before going to bed.

I usually stop doing it when I’m young, but I’m still doing it.

“There are two marks. Did you grow up after entering school?”

“The top is the goal now”

Looking at River displayed above, he said.

At first glance, it seems that way.

It’s not a problem, but… The one displayed above is exactly 150.

“Then this is….”

“My height is below that.”

The height of the wound right below it is exactly 149.5.

This is my height now.

“When did you measure it?”

“You wouldn’t have seen it because I started doing it as soon as I arrived. I did it today.”

“Did you do it today too? No wounds… Ah..”

River stopped talking when he realized what he meant.

“Yes, it stays the same, so it doesn’t increase.”

“… I’m sorry for asking something pointless.”

River apologizes for touching a sensitive subject.

But it’s okay.

I’m not mocking or sarcastic with that.

I like River because he’s a good boy with good manners.

“It is true that I am small, and it is true that I make a fuss every day because I want to be big.”

It is true that he is short.

It is also true that they are making a fuss every day because of that.

It’s okay as long as you don’t make fun of it or make fun of it.

“Let’s see, someday he’ll grow up to the same eye level as Russell.”

Aura blades and demons are all trivial matters that I have no priorities for.

My goal has not yet been fulfilled in the slightest.

I’m still hungry.

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At the academy, classes are divided into classes that classes take together and liberal arts classes that each class can choose to take separately.

Me, who only searches for places as wide as possible, and Amy and River, who listen diligently to what they lack, do not overlap in their culture.

As a result, inevitably, the three fall out every time in liberal arts class.

The liberal arts course I am taking now is the history of different races.

This course is well-received because it is not a specific race, but a history of different races, so it does not go into detail and depth, so it is just interesting.

Actually, there were not only humans in the classroom, but also elves, dwarves, and beastmen, the different races explained in the course, mixed in little by little.

At least, the history of one’s own tribe is right, so it’s free.

I found an amazing scene while moving after a lecture.

‘Amy..?’

Three new girls are walking in front of Amy.

Amy carried the thick books and bulky textbooks that were supposed to be their burden in both her hands and on her shoulders.

The class I was taking was definitely magic engineering theory.

No matter how you look at it, they don’t look like friends.

Amy’s expression looked very troubled.

I can’t tolerate that.

“Hey, what are you guys doing?”

“What….”

Annoyed, she replied and took an exaggerated pose as soon as she saw my face.

“Ah~ The master is here. I have to go before I get scolded. Give that back.”

While making sarcastic noises as they are with the surrounding gang, the three giggle as if nothing had happened, take her luggage from Amy again, and try to walk away.

“Ha ha..”

Amy is looking at me with a bitter smile.

Many emotions are reflected in that smile.

‘Did River and I do that to Amy in the shadows, out of sight?’

Maybe that’s why Amy keeps a delicate distance from me.

The thought that someone might have been taking that stance because of a third person made her head tingle with blood.

“Atlas..?”

I ran after the three schoolgirls who were running past her Amy.

“Where are you going?”

I landed a low kick on her shin as she turned her back on me.

-Fuck!!

“Oops!!”

A female student with a broken leg kneels in the hallway.

Her knees aren’t broken on the soft carpet, but her shins are swollen and she can’t hold her body properly.

“You say that this is a pierced mouth.”

“Ah yaya yaya yaya yaya!!!”

I grabbed the fallen female student by her hair and lifted her up.

The schoolgirl was taller than me, but my gaze rose higher as I knelt down on her.

“You…you know who I am…”

“Who are you, greater than Lemnos?”

“It’s not like that…”

“I don’t think so, so what do you believe?”

I was more angry than what he did to me.

You’re mad at me for just doing that, but you even say sarcastic things?

What on earth do they believe in?

They all have the same head as Ji-deul. Did you think that River and I treat Amy as a pet?

“Where are you guys going?”

“Ah..aaa let go of this… !”

Suddenly, I walked towards the two people who were trying to run away.

She screamed as the girl who had been grabbed by her hair was dragged.

“I still haven’t come to my senses about this.”

“I… We didn’t do anything!!”

As I violently shook the girl by the hair, she let out a painful scream.

The other two students saw it and made excuses, but it was all bullshit.

“Yes, you didn’t stop.”

He strode forward, kicked her in the shin, knocked her down, and gave her a cool slap on the cheek.

The faces of the three female students who had cheeky expressions were full of fear.

“If I see you doing this one more time, I will shave all your hair and make you bald.”

“”Yes… yes….””

“Answer!!!!”

“””Yes..!!!”””

The three female students were terrified and shouted loudly.

They tried to run away from the spot, but I saw what Amy was holding.

“Take this, you trash!!”

“””Hey!”!!””

Amy threw all the textbooks and books she was carrying at the three students.

A few hit me in the face or arm, but since I was grinning, I took them all and ran away.

After the situation was sorted out, Amy cautiously opened her mouth.

“Senior… They say it’s natural for freshmen to carry bags..”

I don’t know what you’re talking about.

I’m guessing he made a joke about how easy it was.

“It’s all lies. If there’s anything else like that… No, I’ll come around often.”

“Thanks for your help…”

Amy smiled and thanked her.

I just smiled and said thank you, but I felt a sense of incongruity in that greeting.

A sense of incongruity continued to be felt from Amy after the first day.

A strange sense of distance between me and her.

I don’t know what caused it, but now I feel like we shouldn’t break up like this.

It’s just a hunch.

“I don’t know. It must be your circumstances.”

“Yes?”

“I thought I was a little more comfortable, but I don’t know why it’s not that I’m not very far away, and I don’t know why it’s like that.”

“That… sorry..”

“I have nothing to apologize for. I don’t know what you think of me My thoughts haven’t changed so far.”

Amy is taller than me.

Standing right in front of her, I lifted her head slightly and stared straight into her eyes.

“Tell me if you have a hard time like the one you just had. Anything I can help with, I’ll help. If it’s hard to say, I can’t help it…. “

“..Thank you for saying that.”

That expression again.

Not the bright smile I saw on the first day, but a smile that looked bitter.

“Everything… I’m sorry about everything… But it’s not like that… “

Amy said that and turned her back.

But it was visible to me.

She was biting her lip so hard that she bled.