I Became a Time-Stopper at the Academy

3 – Accept the duel

There is a training ground system in .

That hasn’t changed even in the academy after possessing.

There is still about an hour left until the lecture time.

I left the dormitory and headed towards the academy’s main building.

If you keep passing through the empty classrooms, you will come across a small room.

[Individual training ground]

I opened the wooden door and entered.

As expected, it was early in the morning, so no one was there.

A crystal ball is placed in the middle of a room smaller than the one I lived in before I became possessed.

About the size of a soccer ball, it glows blue.

“Boss, how can I help you?”

“Attack me in interpersonal mode.”

“Even, attacking the young master is a disqualification as a servant of the young master.”

“I told you to do it, so it’s okay. And I’m not trying to get hit by Luisa’s attack. It’s an exercise in avoidance.”

Louisa glanced at me and hesitated without answering.

I took out two swords from the corner of the training ground.

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Type: Weapon

Rating: D

Description: A dull-edged sword. Suitable for training

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… This training sword and my [Two-handed swordsmanship] Skill are D-class, which means they’re on the same level.

I realized how useless D-class skills are.

Luisa put the [Blunt Sword] In her hand and said.

“You can’t stand me at all. It never hurts.”

“Even a stick can kill a person.”

No, that’s true, but….

I never thought I would be so reluctant.

It seems that the shock of my collapse for three days has not gone away yet.

“You didn’t ask me to order anything before, did you? It’s the training I need to do to become strong. You know I only have you now.”

“I-I am the only one… ?”

“Uh, only Luisa. So please attack me. Understand?”

Luisa nodded slowly.

I felt like I was doing it reluctantly.

It seemed that his face was slightly red.

Did I say it too cheesy….

As she placed her hand over her crystal ball, a blue window popped up.

[Welcome to the Lauris Treaty Organization Knight School Personal Training Center.]

[There are 55 minutes until the start of the first period. Please note that use of the personal training ground is not permitted due to tardiness or absence.]

I quickly skipped the cautionary phrase by pressing [OK].

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Please fill in the information below accurately.

Number of people: [0] People

Time Zone: [Day] / [Night]

Space: [Random] / [Forest] / [City] / [Outdoor] / [Underwater] / [Desert] / [Snow Mountain]

Situation: [Person-to-person combat] / [Monster subjugation]

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The number of people was [2], The time zone was [Daytime], The space was [Outdoor], And the situation was [Person-to-Man Battle].

And when I clicked [OK], A message window was displayed.

[Did you hold hands with your companion?]

Use this crystal ball to move to the subspace I set.

When moving with multiple people, you must make skin contact with the person who touched the crystal ball.

Since holding hands is the most certain, the message window seemed to guide them in this way.

I held Louisa’s hand tightly and pressed [OK].

She was startled by her body.

… Are you offended by the sudden touch of her hand?

Well, it was worth it.

From now on, I’ll tell you in advance.

[You are moving to the training ground.]

[########——— (76%)]

As the progress bar went up, Luisa and I became more and more transparent.

Every time I used it, it was a bit of a strange sensation.

Soon after reaching 100%, after a short period of darkness, the field spread out in sight.

Me and Luisa’s hair and short grass danced in the cool breeze.

It’s not like virtual reality, it’s a real subspace.

This is also a reality.

“Boss, how should I attack now?”

Louisa took her stance, extending her arm forward, holding her sword.

It was a cleaner pose than I thought.

… Aren’t you better than me?

No, you can.

Originally, the academy couldn’t bring servants, whether nobles or commoners.

However, he enlisted a servant of his age as a cadet and asked him to wait on him.

In other words, since Luisa is also an academy cadet, she has basic skills.

“Wait a minute.”

I haven’t checked yet what the hidden skill that I said I acquired with [Chronos’s Egg] Is.

I called the status window in my mind. It floated with a clear sound of

Ding.

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[Abilities]

HP: 382

mana: 48

Physical attack power: 654

Physical Defense: 123

Magical attack power: 38

Magical Defense: 41

[Possessed Skills]

Two-handed swordsmanship (D) LV. One

Time stop (???) LV. One

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[Abilities] Really don’t change.

Well, it must have changed since I rode in a carriage for a week and slept for the other three days.

But there was something strange about the newly created [Time Stop] Skill.

First of all, the skill name itself looked really good.

But since the ratings were not displayed, I couldn’t tell if this was really good or bad.

Even with similar skills, A-class and D-class are as different as the sky and the earth.

Press [Possessed Skills] To read the detailed description of the [Time Stop] Skill.

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[Time stop]

Rating: ???

Level: 1

Description: Once in 24 hours, the time of living beings other than the user can be stopped by 2 seconds.

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So the cooldown is one day, and you can stop the time around you for only 2 seconds.

Seeing that it is called a life form, it seems that things do not apply.

But it’s 2 seconds.

Although it is short, it is also a time of life and death.

It just means that I have to somehow finish the counterattack during the 2 seconds I stopped.

Even if you launch a preemptive strike, within two seconds.

Is that really possible with my [Two-Handed Swordsmanship] Skill….

‘I have to practice, what can I do?’

*

The academy is similar to the university lectures I used to know.

There are no assigned classrooms, and you have to go to the classroom for each subject.

The subjects are also divided into compulsory subjects and elective subjects.

Today’s first class is an introduction to magic, a required subject.

As expected from the lecture in the first semester of the first year, we started with the introduction.

… For me, it felt like I was listening to the contents of the Setting book as a class.

Thanks to that, I got a perfect score in the entrance exam as well.

“I heard that if I don’t graduate at the top of my class, I might be kicked out of the family. What on earth are you thinking? I forgot my attendance score because I was absent for 10 days.”

“I heard you went on a trip. Are you shocked and out of your mind?”

As I entered the classroom, the other cadets glanced at me and whispered.

Do you think I can’t hear you?

If you’re going to gossip, at least keep it out of my ears.

But if you get hot for nothing, you’ll look like a moth.

Drove through one ear as much as possible and sat down on the chair Luisa had pulled behind her.

She said, “Excuse me.” And took a seat next to me.

The sound of shoes was heard again and again.

A young female professor stood at the podium.

She looked around her classroom and said.

“Candidate Joel, you are here today.”

“Yes, sorry.”

“I’m sorry. Because it only reduces Joel Candidate’s points.”

Academic Rules The academy prohibits discrimination based on social status.

Therefore, surnames should not be mentioned at all, and only names should be used to refer to each other.

Whether between cadets or between professors and cadets.

The school rules are the same, but unless you are a lower noble, rumors spread all over the academy.

Moreover, the Margrave of Jahe is more famous than other margraves in the empire.

In the Game, the Margrave Command of Jahe didn’t mean much because it was just a road to the Demon King’s Territory, but really….

“Then let’s start the lecture. How far did you go Ah, I even did the justice of mana. Let’s talk about what we did last time.”

What you already know.

Since I moved my body in the training ground early in the morning, I felt drowsy.

I ended up yawning reflexively.

I thought he kept as quiet as possible,

“Candidate Joel, do you think my lectures are boring?”

It must have reached the ears of the female professor.

“Sorry.”

“Do you know what we talked about in the last lecture? You won’t know because I’m absent.”

“I know.”

Didn’t you say you did justice to mana?

Then you know.

But the female professor glared.

It seemed like he knew I was lying to protect my pride.

“Stand up and tell me. About what mana is.”

You mean to shame me openly.

This female professor is not easy either.

I jumped up from my seat. She

And she said confidently.

“First of all, mana is a component of magic. What mana is specifically has not yet been clearly proven. Currently, the majority theory is the natural atmosphere theory. The theory is that mana is literally dispersed naturally in the air. Minor theories include the lion’s soul white theory, the influx into another world, the life force theory, and the new number theory—”

“I know that. Such minor minority theories are not covered in the introduction stage, so there is no need to talk about them. It’s just a perfect score on the entrance exam. Sit down please.”

As soon as I sat down again, Louisa complimented me strangely, saying, “You are indeed a young boy.”

But she is the only one in her academy who praises her like this.

The other cadets laughed in low voices.

“As expected, he is a young boy who only knows theories and can’t fight.”

“Who would have known that a famous martial arts family would fall like this.”

I’m sure it would have been if I didn’t answer properly.

I was burning with heat, but I held it in for now.

Knowing how to be patient when you have to be patient is also a skill.

Now is the time to be patient.

*

After all the lectures today, I returned to the dormitory.

I should go to the training ground to practice after dinner and before going to bed.

To be able to thrust the sword into the opponent’s body within 2 seconds.

“Hey, the maid over there.”

Today, without fail, the marquis’s son-in-law sang.

But not me, Luisa.

What kind of plan is this?

“What are you doing with me?”

Luisa asked him, lowering her head.

Then he suddenly grabbed her wrist.

“Come to work.”

“Uh, where… ?!”

“Because I have a smooth face for a commoner, I specially allow my night partner.”

“Yes, yes… ?!”

No, now they are messing with our maids.

This wasn’t something I would put up with either.

To commit such disrespect to a servant of another nobleman naturally leads to a dispute between the families.

“Do you think the store run by your parents doesn’t know that they sell goods in our estate? If you keep doing this, we could raise tariffs only for your company.”

The Marquis’ son glanced at me.

I realized it right away at that moment.

This isn’t about looking at the real Luisa with s*xual eyes.

I act like a dog because I want to duel with me somehow.

However, if I refuse this time too, it is certain that through his father he will damage the business run by Luisa’s parents.

“Hey, let go.”

As I raised my voice, he raised the corner of his mouth and relaxed.

A red mark was clearly visible on Louisa’s wrist, as she held it so tightly.

“Are you ready to duel?”

“Yeah, it won’t work.”

“Okay, then tomorrow—”

“No. Since you challenged me to a duel, I have to set the date.”

As for the duel, the party receiving the request has the right to designate the date and time.

If you say let’s do it tomorrow, of course I lose.

The Marquis’ son smiled.

“Yes. Decide when to do it.”

“I’ll let you know in three days. It says in the school rules that you can notify within three days.”

After that, he nodded happily and passed us.

You unlucky bastard….

Luisa said, shaking his head.

“Boss, you don’t have to endure humiliation for me. Please cancel right now….”

“There are things I do for you, but don’t worry because they are bigger for me. Just help me.”

It’s okay to criticize me, but are you trying to harm the people around me?

That is unacceptable.

I also got a hidden skill called [Time Stop].

If you don’t use it at a time like this, how can you use it?

I headed to the training ground with my fists clenched.