chapter 4
Road to Academy (3)
“You stupid robbers! The hawker and woman you missed is here!! As a bonus, there are nobles who can receive a ransom for their capture!!”
“You idiot!! Shut up!! Please shut up!!”
Boris cried out in a louder voice than I did, with his face flushed red.
Hori also rushed at me from behind to close my mouth, but my hand blocked me and I couldn’t.
“okay! You’re screaming like that!! That way they can come here quickly!”
Hearing those words, Boris, realizing his own strength, hurriedly shut his mouth, as if he was trying to make an apprenticeship.
“Dude, what are you thinking? ?! Are you going to die together like this?!”
“die? who?”
“Who are you… ! our word! we!! What are you talking about like someone else? Now it looks like we are going to die!!”
“her… I’m not funny What are you just afraid of the robbers?”
“Hey, it’s hard, they’re not just robbers, they’re ex-mercenaries… .”
“If they were really talented people, would they have been robbing? They’re sloppy people who don’t have anyone to write, so they’re robbing them.”
Real talented mercenaries never stop working. It seems that they are doing the basics, seeing that they are not caught until the rumors spread, but that did not pose a threat to me.
“It’s not my business, so it’s not my business, but there’s no reason to let it go like this.”
Now, I was starving for baldo because I couldn’t use it except for the time I had to rest Silence for a few days and before I went to bed.
If Grandma knew this, it wouldn’t be strange to run away with a katana and not have enough serious feet!!
Besides, looking at the crescent moon, I remembered my first step against a human, and I was even more hungry for it.
“It’ll be over with just a few knives, so hide in moderation. It would be better if we shout together.”
“How many times is it over, what the hell are you talking about now… !”
“there!!”
While Boris was tying her hair up, Hori, who was listening quietly next to her, said.
“Hey, are you also an academy student like me?”
“yes? Oh, by the way, I haven’t introduced myself yet. Baron Ian Ba Tow. Like you, I am a freshman entering this year.”
Upon revealing their identity, Hori and Boris crouched down, then bent 90 degrees and said,
“I, I, thank you very much! Junior Baron!!”
“Lord, semi-baron… !! Excuse me for not knowing the nobleman!”
“Oh, yes. I’m a horse aristocrat, but I’m only a semi-baron, so I don’t really care. You robbers!! There is even a weak baron here that can be paid for by a hefty ransom!!”
“Jun Baron!! please be quiet… !! What the hell are you going to do when you really come?!”
“How about what? I’m telling you to come here.”
“No, do you have any countermeasures?! Our enemies are far more numerous than we are!”
“It’s a measure… .”
Having mastered the world’s strongest swordsmanship, I’ve even taken measures to deal with mercenaries like that.
It’s like saying to a tiger that a Chihuahua is coming to this place soon, so take action right away.
‘Are these guys thinking that I can’t use the foot swordsmanship?’
this… I’ve been screaming for baldo before, but I don’t think a young person like me would use such a powerful swordsmanship.
If you thought what I said was pretentious, I can understand why you stopped me up until now.
‘No, maybe these people don’t even know the existence of baldosu… !!’
They may have lived a life without a sword and may not know what the martial arts is.
Alas, poor, poor people… If I had known the existence of foot swordsmanship, there would have been no need to run away from a robber in the first place.
I said to them, holding back the feeling that a tear would come out.
“Ugh… !! don’t worry. Because I am one of the few people who can use the strongest swordsmanship in the world.”
“Yes, yes?! No, what does that mean?”
“I mean… uh?”
As before, I felt a presence beyond the bush, and instead of speaking, I took a stance toward the bush.
When the two saw the scene, they trembled in fear when they realized that the dream they had hoped not to happen had become a reality.
“Now it’s over!! Everyone will die!!”
“Dad!! Mom!! I’m leaving now!!”
“It’s noisy… . If you were going to scream, I wouldn’t have yelled like that before.”
In the midst of such frivolous remarks, the first commemorative enemy to damage the bushes came out of the bushes.
“Groo”
“A dog?”
A dog with dark black fur that I would not have recognized without a bonfire, and wearing a thorny leash, it wasn’t a wild dog.
“Silence!! Today’s dinner is dog meat!!”
No, can’t horses eat meat?
With that thought in mind, I drew my sword at the dog that ran towards me with a light heart.
– Srreung.
The sword of the katana, shining faintly in the gloomy light of the crescent moon, was stained with red blood and became even more eerie.
The dog barked as hard as he could and ran, no, the dog was neatly cut from head to tail, and blood and guts were scattered on the ground.
The cut cross section is as clean as butter cut with a knife. Even if I think about it, it looks good.
“What, did these guys even have hounds? You guys managed to escape.”
“Uh… ?”
The two looked at the dog’s corpse on the floor in disbelief, then raised their heads again and looked at me.
“Daddy, what did you do?”
“Ahh… This is Baldo.”
It’s the world’s strongest swordsmanship.
*****
What the hell happened now?
He looked at the corpse of a dog that had fallen on the floor and asked himself a question, but no answer came.
‘Is it a black ornament and use magic?’
Even in a country that can only use basic magic, if she used magic right in front of her, she could feel the flow of mana.
However, the flow of mana was not felt. No matter what he did, at least it wasn’t magic.
‘Then, with that sword… ?’
It’s absurd, but at an unseen speed, he drew his sword, cut that dog, and put it back in its scabbard?
With that thought in mind, I looked at the knife and saw something like blood stains on the sheath.
Come to think of it, I think he was holding a similar posture towards me when I first saw him… .
Realizing that, looking at the dog again, I flinched at the thought that it might have been me lying on the floor.
“Daddy, what did you do?”
Ian replied happily to those words that came out without thinking.
“Ahh… This is Baldo.”
“Bar, foot?”
Is that the name of the technology just shown?
When I looked at Mr. Boris with the meaning that you don’t know what kind of skill it is, Mr. Boris looked at me with an expression that was indescribable.
“Does that mean Baldo?”
“Oh, do you know Baldo?”
“Yes… . Obviously, he draws his sword from the scabbard very quickly and cuts the enemy… .”
“Yeah, the technique of using the frictional force generated when the sword is drawn to cut the enemy at once is the foot――!”
Ian suddenly turned away from speaking and grabbed something the next moment and said.
“what… Do you even have a bow? on the dog… on the bow… How did you really run away?”
In his hand he said, he had not one but two arrows.
Seeing the arrow, Ms. Boris and I were terrified.
“I didn’t have anything like that at first… .”
Did you come here to kill us with the intention that we would make a accusation against the lord?
Of course, he thought that he would surely do that if he survived, so it may be the right decision.
“Is there a separate base… . It’s fun, like a game. First catch the mobs and then the boss… .”
Ian mumbled something he couldn’t understand, and looked over the bush from which the arrow had flew with a smile on his face.
Also, being wary of the arrows coming out, Ms. Boris and I did not get up and lowered ourselves.
However, there was no such thing as something flying or someone running from beyond the darkness where the light of the bonfire could not reach.
It was quiet.
Only the sound of bonfires burning and the cries of insects filled the forest.
But for a while.
– Beep!
Ian suddenly threw himself into the darkness as he heard a nervous flute-like sound from beyond the darkness.
“Lord, Baron Jun?!!”
“It’s like a signal to run away!! I’ll catch you and kick you!! Baldoo clothes!!”
With that said, I threw my body into the darkness, and within a minute, I heard someone’s wretched flurry.
“… … .”
I, who had been watching the scene still, thought this was an opportunity and got up immediately.
During the day, along with Boris-san’s wagon, his father’s research data were stolen by them.
In order to retrieve the last material left by his father, he must move now.
Thinking so, I plunged as hard as I could into the bloody darkness.
“Hey, Hori-chan?! Dangerous!!”
I could hear Mr. Boris’s voice behind me, but I did not stop and continued running.
It wasn’t that difficult to find Ian in the darkness where he couldn’t even tell an inch ahead.
Because the corpses of the robbers lying on the floor like garbage and the occasional wretched flurry pointed out where Ian was.
“ha… ! ha… !! Lord, Jun-Baron!!”
I ran as hard as I could and finally found Ian.
Ian was approaching the man who appeared to be the last survivor of the raiding robbers.
“Bee, if you don’t cut… !!”
Before I could finish my words, I heard an eerie sound like tearing wet paper.
The robber fell to the ground as it was, from the top of the head to the groin.
“ah… .”
Seeing the robber’s corpse on the floor in vain, I lost my pulse and fell to the ground.
As I bowed my head, thinking that it was all over, Ian tapped my shoulder and said.
“Hey, we need to interrogate him, so let’s go quickly.”
“Yes, yes? Poetry, interrogation… ?”
In saying that, Ian held three men who had lost their minds in their hands.
“Hey, these people… .”
“Baldo with a knife and the back of a sword for capture! I didn’t hit it with a blade, but hit it with the back of a knife and captured it in advance.”
“The feet… .”
Feet too… I thought to myself as I pondered the name.
What is the alternative foot?