Became the Idiot Young Master Who Tormented the Main Character

48 – #48. Unexpected Reunion (2)

“I thought you would understand… “There’s nothing I can do if you interfere.”

An ominous energy leaked out from inside Laura’s body, like a haze.

The concentration of black magic is incomparably higher than that of regular units.

The black blooming water covered Laura’s whole body and trembled.

Soon she gets to her feet.

-Sssss!

Agile movement that is incomparably faster than before.

It was an abnormal and explosive physical movement that used a mixture of magic and black magic.

She circled around Iris.

Movement that is difficult to follow with the eyes. Afterimages appear.

“You don’t even know how much it’s rotting underneath! “That pig who just ignores it and continues to lead a peaceful life!”

-Whoosh!

-Chaejaeng!

Iris quickly struck down three of Laura’s daggers that she took out from within and threw in both directions.

Sparks flew out when the dagger was struck. It was a dagger that flew out in an instant, and Iris caught it and struck it down.

“It’s not enough that my family was killed! On the contrary, you went into the mountains and rivers to protect them!”

“I don’t want to talk to a monster who uses human life as a source of power.”

“… hahahaha.”

Laura jumped in.

-Kaaang!

Iris’s honest sword and Laura’s double daggers that drew an X intersect.

-Gagagak!

The swords interlock and compete for strength.

The two mighty forces collided, causing Iris’ standing position to become dented in the ground.

In that state, Laura spoke.

“In the end, you are no different from them… “I was thinking about old times, but I can’t help it.”

“You can think whatever you want. “I just do what I think is right.”

“… ….”

After hearing the answer, Laura became silent and distanced herself.

And she stepped on herbivorous food.

The highest level of wisdom in the Northern Sword Style.

I was planning to end Iris with this attack.

Iris noticed that and also took a stance.

Honest fast sword style movement.

Are they trying to take Laura’s attack like that?

The only sound was the sound of the wind blowing, and the two moved quickly in the brief silence that suddenly appeared for only a few seconds.

Laura got to her feet.

Iris held her position and just moved her arms.

-Chaaa!

The results were instantaneous.

“Cough!”

Laura moved behind Iris and knelt down on both knees, coughing up blood.

“No words… no….”

And then he fell down without even making a groan.

I could no longer speak.

“Whoa…” .”

Iris turned off her aura and casually dusted the blood-stained sword on the floor.

Unlike Laura, who is currently in a state of complete disrepair, Iris did not have even the slightest scratch.

Xian could not help but be impressed once again by Iris’s strength.

They are the same Sword Master, so how can there be such a difference?

If the person she had to deal with was Iris and not Laura.

… Just thinking about it made his stomach tingle.

Iris puts her sword in its sheath and trudges towards Xian, who is lying down.

“… ….”

“It’s okay…” Do you know? “Iris.”

Iris held the hand of Xian, who was lying down in silence.

Then, a blue light slowly appeared from the area where she held hands.

“…… !”

Xian felt her magic circulating rapidly.

Perhaps it helped her recover her magical power, but her heavy body felt a little lighter.

“Thank you….”

“… ….”

“… ? “Iris?”

Even after her magical power was finished, Iris continued to hold Sian’s hand.

Sian wondered if there was another reason, but she could see that no changes were occurring anymore.

When her cyan was about to say more in her puzzlement, she opened her mouth, releasing her hand from where Iris was holding her.

“It’s the first time in a long time that I’ve been healing after all the humid work I’ve done.”

“Yes?”

“It’s nothing. Rather, was Young master chosen?”

Xian did not understand Iris’ abstract question.

It’s a choice.

As her cyan continued to look at her Iris curiously, Iris pointed to a certain place with her finger and said.

It was a magic stone sword.

“Are you saying you were chosen by the Holy Sword?”

“The holy sword… ? “That is not a holy sword.”

“… “No?”

Iris tilts her head.

After recovering her body, Xian approached the magic stone sword lying on the ground and picked it up, she said.

“It is a magic stone sword. “This is a sword I made by processing a magic stone I found in the labyrinth.”

“The magic stone… ?”

“Rather than that, now is not the time. Iris. My colleague is in danger… ! “Did you happen to see the one woman left in the underground waterway?!”

“… ….”

Iris was speechless.

She also ran into the underground waterway, following her traces.

In the process, she could see a woman lying down.

A woman lying forward while holding a sword.

Of course, Iris had her pulse checked.

But….

“Woman with white hair… Were you a colleague of Young master?”

“-Did you see?! What is her condition?!”

Iris seemed to hesitate for a moment without being noticed, and then she spoke to Sian.

“… “It would be a good idea to see it for yourself.”

Dark and humid space.

You can only hear the sound of water flowing from the central waterway.

It was the silence that occurred between them.

Sian clenched her fists and couldn’t say anything.

… A woman with pure white hair is lying down with her sword in her hand.

The will of chivalry could be seen in the way she did not let go of her sword until the very end.

Last….

That’s right. It was the last time.

“Emil….”

I knew of course that if he had lost that much blood, he would not be alive.

In fact, she wasn’t breathing, and her skin was also pale.

But he was holding the sword tightly to protect someone.

Sian carried Emil’s body and walked toward the exit of her underground waterway.

Iris just followed him silently as if to comfort him.

***

“Thank you for saving me. “Iris.”

After leaving Dordom.

Leave Emil’s body and Rosaria to the safe hands of the Knights of the Empire.

I thought I had completed everything I had to do and had a long-awaited reunion with Iris.

The current time is the night when the moon has just begun to rise.

This was a bar in a village located at the end of the Lyanna Empire.

It was a luxurious store that sold food that went well with wine, and thankfully Iris paid the cost.

“Originally I should have bought it… “I don’t know if I can get it like this.”

“What kind of money does the student say he has? “This sister has to pay.”

My sister.

I burst out laughing at the familiar joke.

Even when Iris was teaching me in her duchy, she often made light-hearted jokes like this.

Even though it hadn’t been that long since she entered the academy, she was somehow friendly.

It was when Iris sipped the wine in her glass.

“Iris. Now I’m asking… “How did you come to save us?”

Then Iris put down her glass and said.

“I have received your request.”

“Request?”

“Yes. The imperial family also sent me a letter, probably because they were anxious. “The request was to investigate the kidnapping of the princess and rescue her.”

“Ah….”

Iris was the only sword master near the empire, so her imperial family requested it.

Iris is my older sister Sarah’s tutor.

Therefore, the range in which we can move around while attending the academy is limited.

Maybe the timing was right.

What would have happened to her if she had not been able to come because Iris was far away….

The situation reached its worst, and I was barely able to finish off Laura.

Emil was hit, and Rosaria was still unconscious.

At that time, when she assumed a situation where Iris was not present, she felt chills just thinking about it.

While she was thinking that, Iris spoke to me.

“I never thought I would see her renegade old friend there.”

“May I ask what the situation was with Laura?”

Laura was strangely obsessed with Rosaria.

Meanwhile, she seemed to know Iris.

… Iris swirls the glass lightly.

The wine sloshed around in a circle.

Iris, who was staring at this while resting her chin, soon opened her mouth.

“I don’t have a family name. “Do you know?”

“I roughly knew it.”

Iris is only a first name, no last name.

Therefore, it was easy to infer that he was not the son of a nobleman.

“I grew up in an orphanage. “Laura is a close friend of mine who grew up with me at the orphanage.”

“… Ah.”

“When the 4th princess was 5 years old, the emperor of the empire granted the 4th princess the title of lord of the border territory of her empire…. That was the territory of the orphanage where I lived.”

Afterwards, Iris continued to talk about her past seriously for a long time.

In summary, the 4th princess, who was the youngest, was afraid of increasing her power and confronting her brothers and sisters and fighting for power.

As a result of that neglect, it was said that those in management positions in the territory could not be prevented from committing collective corruption.

When the upper water began to openly trade drugs or commit illegal activities, the lower water also began to stagnate and rot.

It was said that the security of the territory was becoming more sophisticated day by day.

As a result, the orphanage did not receive proper support from the state at some point.

They suffered from serious financial difficulties and eventually ended up on the streets.

… The result was as expected.

Laura and Iris, who had just become adults, each found their own way to live.

It is said that the children and director of the orphanage had no choice but to meet a miserable end.

“Laura was a child who was especially attached to her orphanage. “She really thought of herself as family and was very devoted.”

“… “Iris, don’t you hate Rosaria?”

Laura had a terrible hatred for Rosaria.

Although not as much as Laura, Iris could also hate Rosaria for making the orphanage like that.

“Of course I hate it. But… The reason why the orphanage families met a bad end was largely due to those who encroached on their territory. Although it is said that he stood by… How can I hold a grudge against her for a girl who just turned 5 years old. “I have not fallen to the point where I would defect and join hands with her demonic cult to take revenge on such a girl.”

Iris smiled weakly, filled with resignation.

She could read a lot from her expression.

She grew up in an orphanage and became a sword master.

How many prenatal hardships did she go through?

Although I deeply knew her sorrow for losing her family, having also lost her younger sister.

Others… It was an unimaginable hardship for me.

She must have also been very distressed that she had to meet and end her former close friend, Laura, in this way due to her request.

Her heart became heavy and she spoke to her from the bottom of her heart.

“… “Thank you for your hard work.”

“Puhup, are you comforting me now?”

Then Iris lightened her mood.

Her calm, beautiful doll face had returned.

“Let’s leave the heavy talk for now. You have changed a lot more than that. Young master. “You finally kept your promise to lose that much weight.”

“Yes…. “I don’t think I did anything very special.”

“No. Great. Isn’t this proof of consistency? “I’m really proud of you as a teacher.”

“… ….”

Master….

Does Iris think of me as her student?

The period of learning her swordsmanship was only a few weeks due to the first day of school at the academy.

Actually, it’s safe to say that we just taught each other a few times… For no reason, my heart ached for her consideration.

“Just for your information, I don’t hire just anyone as my disciple.”

“It’s okay. “You know.”

“hehehe….”

Iris tilts her glass on her table again.

I also lifted her glass.

Mine was milk.

Are they treating it like a child? I know that in this world, drinking is possible even at my age.

She said it was still early and ordered milk.

-Tak.

Iris sets the glass down on her table.

Her face was a little reddish, probably because she was drunk.

When I drank a few glasses of milk, she drank more than ten glasses of wine.

If you are not a serious drunkard, you will naturally have no choice but to get drunk.

In that state, Iris spoke to me.

“Young master.”

“Yes?”

“Let’s give it a hug.”

“… Yes?”

But what I said was a bit strange, so I asked back.

For a moment I thought she was joking, but she really opened her arms as she sat down.

It was a gesture of hugging.

“Uh….”

“What are you doing? Are you disobeying your teacher?”

“No, that’s….”

I couldn’t keep up with the situation, so my pupils just shook as if there was an earthquake.