Cardboard Houses Do Not Tear

25 – The simplest way to relieve anxiety

After thinking for a while, she nodded.

“Okay. Then we do this. No matter what-“

I raised my hand to block the leader of the prianian squad.

“Wait a minute. It was unlucky to say things like that carelessly.”

“What did I say?”

She asked quietly. Then she slightly leaned her body forward.

“What was I going to say?”

The smell of tomatoes that remained in her nostrils disappeared, and another scent began to hover.

This is another pattern.

But people evolve. So I asked in reverse.

“Then Prianian Squad Leader, what did I stop you from saying?”

Ichae came to mind in his blue eyes.

“With a question, with a question?”

“Because the answer is possible even as an answer. That’s why the question and the answer are one body. Priyanian Squad Leader.”

Eye to eye met. At the same time, both eyes looked up to the upper left of each other.

Incomplete questions and answers awaken the viewer’s imagination.

And imagination makes a man a writer, and he is willing to do so now.

The small room has turned into a fill-in-the-blank field that can be short or long. The paper was in my head.

The text in the blank I filled in was a secret. Because just thinking about it made me sick.

And I don’t know what the Prianian squad leader would have filled in.

It was because I was not a mind reader who could read something from an expressionless face.

“I will go down first.”

She reached the door and nodded her head. She then added a word.

“You don’t tell me the answer until the end.”

“The same goes for the squad leader.”

With a thump, the door closed.

I think I saw something small right before the door closed.

After thinking for a while, she shook her head.

“I am not crazy. The squad leader laughed.”

So what I saw was not in vain. Thinking so, I went downstairs.

It was quiet on the first floor, which has forever kept the night of the campsite.

Since the satisfied guests went about their business, the owner seemed to have taken a break too.

But he was still sitting at the table where Vieri was sitting.

“So, what are you going to say? Customer?”

With Miss Mary bubbling as much as an ownerless stew pot.

“Uh. Therefore.”

I quietly passed him. Ignoring the earnest stares from the side.

I am not the type to speak well, and that is not a problem that others can solve.

Because the guy who gave Miss Mary underwear as a gift, the guy who was slapped with it, and the guy who had to apologize were all Vieri.

After giving Vieri a thumbs up, she left the inn door.

The blurred world was dull before I knew it. So, it was a good day to grieve.

***

“The quality of the knife, as always, is not special.”

While holding a sharpened longsword, Huar’an said calmly.

There was no one else but me at the parade ground.

“The knife is heavy. Hands light.”

“Eyes like an eagle, heart like a lion, feet like a deer.”

Hwar An finished his speech and took a stance.

“The longsword is elastic.”

As soon as he finished speaking, his left hand deflected the flying sword as if it were bouncing off its axis.

The longsword collided with the mana-laden sword let out a scream full of metal, and I was pushed back five steps.

Hwar’an’s teachings always began with catching the floating clouds and ended with the sword catching the living.

The big data accumulated as much as the height of the teachings that I realized half-forced after being beaten for 5 years did not go astray today.

“Get your posture back.”

It was not mercy. It was a notice.

This time it was stuck vertically, and I aimed for his legs.

Kaang!

Five steps again. Another word.

“Injury should always be aimed at the upper body. There are not one or two bastards who thought that if you scratched the skin of the stomach and scratched it, they would go after it, cut their heads, and then fly away.”

“You always said that.”

“Then please always try to do that. You f*cking bastard.”

Hwar’an said slyly. I decided to follow his advice.

I gripped my left hand a little more loosely and released my right hand beforehand.

As usual, ‘Persimmon’ did not show anything to Huaruan, who was standing still.

“Ahhh!!”

The sword and foot went out at the same time, the blade pointed at his left arm.

Kang!

It flowed straight up. Hwar’an lunged at me.

It was as intended.

He retrieved the sword even if he strained his arm, and Hwar An hesitated for a moment.

He quickly moved his right hand and grabbed the middle of the sword blade and shot it down like a harpoon. It was half-swording.

Rather than having his right collarbone pierced, Hwar An chose to surrender the blade of his sword,

Kagagagak!

Two blades were entangled in the air and replaced in a taut state.

“Are you going to try more?”

Hwar An, who seemed calm, asked, unlike me, who was flushed with blood on his face. It was there.

But instead of shaking my head, I kept pushing.

“Excellent! Even if it doesn’t work, you should try it once. Because that’s what people are!”

Only then did he smile.

And the conclusion was notified.

“And now I’ll let you experience what needs to be fixed, assei!!!”

After his words, Hwar An twisted his wrist slightly, throwing him off balance. My joints and Carl screamed.

“First! If you’re going to sword wrestling, stay a little lower and use your opponent’s weight balance!”

Hwaruan quickly squeezed through the gap in the blade that suddenly appeared.

His left arm, which was trying to balance again, was suppressed by the grip inside the fire.

My sword is stuck in the air.

“Second! If you only engage in a confrontation with swords entangled, you will be hit by an enemy’s sword flying from behind! Squeeze in and grab it quickly, or aim for the next opportunity!”

He put down his sword. I tried to cut it down with the blade of the sword held in my right hand.

But with a squeak, the right hand that rode down my arm like a snake violently grabbed my shoulder and pressed me down.

After the sound of bones crunching, I felt a sharp pain in my joints.

As Faran intended, there was only one thing I could do, as I lay flat on the ground.

Tak! Widely! Widely!

“aaa!!! Hwaran, arms! Eight! Eight!”

Like a detective in an old movie, Hwaran overpowered me by bending my arm and shouted loudly.

“Third and last! Aim for the easiest part to subdue, the joints. Asshole! Did you even threaten that the guards will take you if you aim for the joint?”

“How can a teacher like heaven suffer in his later years? Aww!!”

“There is a guy in front of me who is not able to properly use what that sky-like teacher taught me and makes me suffer even in his later years. What are you talking about, hey!!”

Hua Luan, who had released the suppression, picked up the longsword again. I got up quickly.

Oops, that’s my shoulder.

As I turned his arm gently, he started talking to himself.

“Still, I’m holding on a little bit now. When I first came, I did some parenting and then I just hung it on the ground and stuck it.”

I got used to his unique way of speaking and replied with a smile.

“Isn’t it natural for people to develop? Hwaran.”

“Then you are not human. Aye.”

“What are you talking about?”

“By the way, Lorna is going to work.”

Hwaran looked at me, bouncing the blade as if in a show of force.

“Shouldn’t you go too, huh?”

“What answer do you think I will give you, Hwaran?”

Hearing my answer, he laughed out loud and lifted his foot slightly.

Myungchi still fondly remembered the meaning.

I was taken aback and quickly came up with an answer.

“I already said I was going! Please don’t get kicked!”

“Try to cut that fast, Tsutsuk.”

Hwaran’s feet touched the floor again.

The arrogance that was laid down quietly blended into the dust under the boots.

At the same time that a sigh leaked out by itself, he smiled very benevolently.

“Anyway, you are doing well on your own. He is also my disciple Aye.”

“It is less than Huaruan.”

“If you are better than me, you should be my teacher. Get your posture back.”

I nodded and tilted my longsword.

Damn it, my shoulder still hurts.

***

After training with Hwaran.

After being caught for about an hour by Vieri, who returned with a smile.

“So, you didn’t buy food and only roasted oats to take with you?”

“Yes.”

“Why? You can go to the grocery store and buy something like dry weight.”

This time, I was caught by the prianian squad leader who said he was looking for me while roasting oats in the kitchen.

She had been standing next to me since earlier, asking questions about my behavior.

What is this?

Why are you doing that?

These were all simple questions to answer.

And this question. The reason for ‘why do you eat human feed rather than beef jerky’ was also simple.

“This is free, isn’t it?”

I didn’t eat anything except me in the mercenaries, so you can stir-fry it as much as you like. Rather, he liked Hwaran.

If you don’t take it out in time, you’ll become food for weevils.

“And just boil it in water with salt and it’s done, and it’s pretty easy to wash the dishes. It will be a bit difficult to chew and eat raw.”

I continued to spin the skillet full of oats over the cooking pot.

“Are you out of money?”

“It’s delicious.”

For some reason, the prianian squad leader’s eyes changed as if he were looking at a pitiful guy.

“…Don’t look at me like that. This was the only thing the slave had to eat, other than the food for his friends’ ancestral rites and drinks.”

“I’m sorry.”

“It’s okay. By the way, did you make a second plan to prepare for anxiety?”

“Is the person in front of me the plan?”

“I am not a means.”

The oats were almost completely roasted. Now I had to get rid of the heat inside.

I spread a thin layer of her oats on her wide wooden board and looked at her.

“In a way, you can think of it like a teddy bear sleeping by her bedside.”

“I think the teddy bear is a bit big.”

“What can I do? The one you chose is the squad leader.”

She smiled faintly, as if it suited her taste.

“Then it’s time to give the teddy bear something.”

“Yes?”

The prianian squad leader held out an elongated thing wrapped in bandages.

“This is the bastard sword used by Sarian Potter. Did you say Selendian?”

She said quietly.

“…Isn’t this the sword that Hwaran took?”

I’ve never seen a knife come out of Hwaran’s bosom again.

The reason why the leader of the Priianian squad got what this Celendian was was simple.

“I heard that Hwaran came earlier and only lends me money for this mission?”

Oh my God.

How bad is her anxiety that Hwar An even pulls out her knife?

‘If it’s that much of a burden, just give up the mission.’

Of course, I can’t say that out of my mouth. To reject her nomination out of fear is a handshake of self-worth.

How can you say something like that to your boss? I’ve already spit out the word that helps.

That’s why I received the Selendian and said while saving it.

“What. Will there be anything Squad leader, don’t trust me alone.”

“Isn’t that usually the case, don’t you just tell me to trust you?”

“Just because I say that doesn’t mean the squad leader won’t trust you? I’m joking, not some mythological hero.”

After making such a joke, he quietly lowered his voice.

“I don’t know what the C-class double mercenary is so anxious about, but there’s no need to mention the knowledge I don’t need to know. I don’t want to die with a dagger in the chest in my sleep.”

I have to go to present my thesis again.

“……”

The leader of the prianian squad was silently looking at me.

“So, there are things we need to do if we want to go on not only this ordinary, ordinary mission, but also the next and the next one.”

“What is it?”

I changed the tone and answered in the most pleasant way possible.

“Serving only one person.”

Didn’t Vishkar Symmetra of India say that? Everyone can only win if they do their own thing.

I don’t know, and I don’t want to know, what the hell happened before I received that bastard’s assignment.

At least, doesn’t it look a little droopy like someone who accepted me to die?

I’m about to get depressed, so I’m done talking.

“As a bonus, if you smile a little more often, your anxiety will be relieved. Last time I saw you aiming a crossbow at the back of my head, you smiled a lot.”

This is an unexpected tip.

This is a method I often used in my first year, just laughing ha ha ha ha ha. If you force yourself to smile while doing it, you will feel much better.

Of course, you shouldn’t keep using it.

I’m fine, but a small steamer wakes up that makes the people around me anxious.

I’ve been laughing nonchalantly for a few days, to the point that Hwaran, who saw it, thought I had lost my mind and horrified me. It was like an extreme drug.

On top of that, he added a bit of a joke.

“It’s a bit strange for a person who looks good with a smile to walk around without smiling like that.”

“……”

After hearing my tip, she stared blankly for a while.

Then she asked for something terrifying.

“G-House, I think you’ll laugh if you aim the crossbow at the back of the head one more time. How is it?”

“Oh my God. I would refuse to order that.”

I quickly covered the back of my head with my hand and said.

If you say that while already laughing, who will take it as a joke?