Swordmaster of the Red Light District

Luna (3)

Episode 4

During one day, Luna was explained by Adele about the facilities of the orphanage and her future life.

There were a lot of small rules to memorize, but Adele explained only simple precautions for Luna’s stability and guided her to the dormitory where she would be staying.

At Jimmy’s Nursery School, four people live together in one room.

As Luna entered the room, three pairs of eyes turned to Luna at the same time.

There was an awkward silence for a moment, but one of the three children who had been using the original room, a girl with red hair, stepped forward with a courageous expression and put her hand on her waist.

“Hi! I’m Karen! What’s your name?”

“…Luna.”

“It’s Luna! I’m the manager of this room, so if there’s anything you don’t know, ask me!”

“…Yes, thank you.”

Karen was lively, talkative, and active, so she was able to quickly close the distance with the children in the room, whether she liked Luna or not.

Karen, Mia, and Johanna.

Karen was usually leading the conversation between the three, and the topic of the conversation was usually Rey.

About 80% of the children at the nursery school, which numbered over 100, formed a relationship with the nursery school through Ray’s efforts. As the question ‘How did you come to be here?’ quickly turned into ‘How did you meet Ray?’, the common denominator of the children was always Ray.

After talking for a while, Karen leaned close to Luna and whispered in an excited voice.

“I have Ray’s class tomorrow.”

“…class?”

“Yeah! Arithmetic class! Rei is so smart that even older brothers and sisters who are much older than us are teaching!”

“…Wow.”

Luna pretended to be admiring.

Karen seemed to like Luna’s situation, so she blew her nose and gave strength to her neck.

“Well, I’m probably the smartest next to Ray! Anyway, you have to work hard in class! If you don’t do well, you’ll be punished!”

At the word “bee”, Mia kept her calm, but Yohana shrugged her head with a fearful expression.

Luna sat still and imagined what a ‘bee’ would be. Does it hit your ass? Or do you starve? Or do you have to sweep the floor all day?

Luna gave Karen an anxious look, but Karen put her finger to her mouth and shouted.

“The details are a secret!”

Luna nodded obediently and climbed onto the bed and covered herself with a blanket.

Now it was bedtime.

There were still a lot of anxiety including ‘bees’ in her mind, but Luna closed her eyes, vowing that if only a warm meal and a bed were provided, like the blankets that are now covered, she promised that she would be able to endure as many as she could.

And the next day.

About 20 students rushed into the classroom in the nursery school.

Ray, who was doing squats, closed the classroom door when all the children arrived on time and took the first word.

“From now on, make me use respectful words. All of you.”

“Polite word?”

“Yeah, respect.”

“Do I?”

“Yeah, Karen, you too.”

“I’m the same 9 years old as Ray?”

No, there were a lot of kids older than Ray in the classroom.

Ray nodded and pointed to himself.

“Because I’m your teacher. Students need to respect their teachers. If you speak rudely to me in the future, it will be a penalty.”

“Woo! Then Rei is my brother? Do you call me Ray oppa?”

“You can call it whatever you want.”

“Stupid! Dumb! Shit! Anemone!!”

“Call me teacher.”

“No! I hate it! I’ll call you Ray!”

“Because I understand, respectful words. If you speak nonsense one more time, I will give you a penalty.”

Karen’s mouth popped out, but Rey ignored it.

Ray knew that age was a very important factor in the hierarchy of children, and in order to master the discipline of the orphanage, Ray needed to differentiate himself.

Even if it wasn’t intentional, John Dae implicitly defined and bound each other’s upper and lower relationships, so it was convenient and quick if we didn’t beat each other up.

“Anyway… Luna, can you count?”

“?”

“You know how to add and subtract.”

“…I know.”

“He knows letters and can add and subtract. That’s great.”

At 8 years old, this was an elite in this world.

Of course, Luna remembered what she had seen over her shoulder, not something she had learned, but Rey didn’t even ask.

“Is double-digit addition possible?”

“…?”

“34 plus 77?”

“…111.”

An astonishing gasp erupted all around.

Oh My God! You know how to add double-digit numbers without taking Ray’s class! Besides, the answer is three digits!

While everyone’s eyes were shaking violently, Karen bit her nails. He sensed the emergence of a strong competitor.

Ray scratched the side of his head for a moment.

“Do you know how to multiply and divide?”

“…?”

“ok.”

Ray walked to the church and briefly explained the concept of multiplication and division.

There are three bundles of two apples~ Then there are six apples~ so it is easy for children to understand.

“It seems that the review is done, have you all memorized the multiplication table? You won’t watch it today.”

“yes!!”

Karen’s voice was the loudest among the exhilarating exclamations.

Rey, imagining that courage, took a heavy pocket and approached Karen.

“6 times 5?”

“30!”

“3 times 7?”

“21!”

“Great.”

“Hi-Hi!”

Rey took a teddy bear-shaped cookie from her pocket and gave it to Karen.

Karen smiled broadly and immediately put the cookie in her mouth and bit it.

It was a delightful sight for anyone to see, but Yohana, who was actually sitting next to Karen, was contemplating and made every effort to avoid Rey’s gaze.

Rei ran out of luck towards Yohana, who was crawling under the desk more and more.

“Johana, what is 4 times 7?”

“…”

“5, 4, 3…”

“Twenty-four?”

“Last chance. 9 times 4?”

“…this, twenty-six?”

“Study again.”

“Huh…”

Rey stood in front of Yohana, who was crying.

“Should I be punished?”

“Oh no! No way!”

Johanna’s scream sounded dreary, but Ray pulled out a teddy bear cookie with a stiff face.

Let’s apply force between our fingers and say, ‘Pogak!’ With the sound, the separated bear’s head fell to the other hand.

Johanna hoped that Ray would hand over the teddy bear’s body, a glimmer of hope.

“If it’s wrong next time, there’s no such thing.”

What returned was the head of a teddy bear, which was only the size of a finger.

“After that…”

Yohana, who received the bear’s head, burst into tears with an empty face.

Luna looked at it and raised a question mark above her head.

to punish you? is that the bee? Is giving less snacks a punishment? Is it sad that Johanna is crying again?

Luna watched in confusion as Johanna gnawed and scratched the bear’s head.

In the meantime, the multiplication table quiz continued, and Rei, who gave cookies to most of the children, stood in front of Luna.

“2 times 3?”

“…6.”

“3 times 2?”

“…6.”

“Well done.”

The moment Rey stroked Luna’s hair once and was about to take out the last remaining cookie.

“Wait! Wait!”

Karen woke up screaming.

“Why do you have an easy problem only for Luna!! It’s a foul!! It’s unfair!!”

“Polite word.”

“It’s not fair!!”

“Yeah, that’s not fair.”

Karen, you are telling the friend who learned multiplication today to set the same difficulty level.

Karen wasn’t too unaware of her own stubbornness, but she was far ahead of her in her desire to make clear the difference between each other’s skills when a new competitor appeared.

How smart would you be if you were smart?

I also know how to add three-digit numbers, right? Did you memorize the multiplication table perfectly?

Rey looked into Karen’s eyes, burning with a competitive spirit, and opened her mouth again.

“Well, then…”

At the same time, I was curious about Reido Luna’s mathematical sense and arithmetic ability.

“9 times 7?”

“…63.”

“6 times 8?”

“…48.”

“12 times 27?”

“…324.”

Double digit multiplication!!

Karen clenched her fists as surprise erupted from here and there again.

There’s no way someone who just learned multiplication today can do double-digit multiplication already. I would have spit out any number. Karen was sure.

Meanwhile, Ray felt uncomfortable and frowned.

The answer is correct. Second, for some reason, the delay between the easy multiplication and the difficult multiplication process was the same for Luna.

Ray asked again just in case.

“1254 times 627?”

“…786258.”

“…”

Ray stood still and stood still.

At first glance, it seemed astonishing, but in fact, he was busy doing mental calculations.

If I had just grabbed a pencil and calculated, my authority as a teacher would have collapsed.

It took more than 30 seconds to get an answer.

“Uh, um.”

786258. That was the correct answer.

“Good job, Luna. That’s right.”

“No way! You must have just thrown it! Or are you making fun of us with Ray and Luna?!”

“Why would I do that, Karen?”

“Then there’s no way Luna can solve a problem that I can’t solve!”

“Karen.”

You are a rare orphan, but Luna is a unique orphan. Have you ever heard the saying that there is a flying man above a running man? Luna is me. No matter how much you run and run, I will only stare at his tail.

Ray expressed the sentences that went through his head in a pure way as much as possible.

“A strong competitor has appeared? You should be nervous, Karen.”

Karen’s cheeks swelled up.

*

“Oh my gosh, he’s a real genius.”

Ray munched the apple and looked at the formula Luna had written down.

In fact, multiplication and subtraction operations are fast enough, so you can skip it.

This is because computational speed is not an unconditional measure of intelligence, and Luna may have learned mental arithmetic somewhere else.

For this reason, Ray set Luna aside and recited multiplication, division, Cartesian coordinate system, area concept, formula for area of right-angled rectangles and triangles, unknowns, and propositional logic for about an hour.

Then, after drawing an obtuse triangle, I told him to find the area by giving only the base and the height, and Luna immediately derived the formula on the spot.

(a+χ) × h ÷ 2 – χ × h ÷ 2 = a × h ÷ 2

“No shit… how’s this going?”

The formula for the area of an obtuse triangle is known even to elementary school students in Korea, but analogizing it to Hankyu and proving it is a completely different matter.

That’s a friend who’s been learning math for an hour.

I wondered if it was a coincidence, so I drew a long curve on the coordinate plane and asked to get an approximate area, then I immediately split the curve at right angles to the x-axis, averaged the height, and added the sum of the areas of the rectangle to get it.

“Did he also reincarnate in Korea?”

If not for reincarnation, Luna’s intelligence was far beyond the realm of ordinary gifted children.

Wouldn’t some humans look similar to monkeys? Whoops whoops whoops?

“I need a teacher.”

As for the academic part, Ray can take care of a lot of it.

Ah, this is called the fundamental theorem of calculus. It’s the first day you go to college.

Ah, this is called Faraday’s law. Knowing this, electricity generation is possible. In Korea, it is common knowledge even middle school students know.

anyway.

There were some extraordinary children in the nursery, but Ray couldn’t tailor the exact use of their materials.

Teachers in each field were needed to find fields where flowers could bloom.

Luna also looked like a high-ranking wizard’s lumber in terms of computational power and intelligence alone, but the knowledge to handle mana could be a gem, or it could have a meaning for ordinary science rather than magic.

“Anyway, it would be nice if we could invite wizards and knights periodically… The problem is that we have to convince Jimmy.”

No matter how good Jimmy was, he was teaching the children at the orphanage, and there was no way he would invite wizards or knights.

“Well, if it’s Jimmy’s affectionate power, maybe he’ll listen to it once in a few months…?”

“Stop eating it.”

Jack grunted as he took the third apple that Ray had held.

“These days, there are more things being ripped off by your family than they are selling.”

Rey, who had a guess at Jack’s dissatisfaction, shrugged.

“The water got a little bad? Before the organization grew, everyone listened to Jimmy and was quiet. Except for the protection tax, he threatened to cut off his wrist even if he was caught twice, but nothing changed.”

“What are you talking about?”

Jack took a deep breath and asked again, throwing the apple back.

“You should talk to Jimmy well. The atmosphere on the street has gotten a lot worse lately.

The screams of people echoed inside the store across from Jack’s glance.

Jack’s fists trembled with anxiety and anger.

Rey, who understood Jack’s feelings, got up from his seat, chewing the apple.

“I was still trying to improve my discipline.”

“…Lay?”

“Originally, I thought that Jimmy would take some time to solve it himself, but I think I’ll have to do some self-appeal, and I’ll have to slow down these bastards…”

Jack caught Ray as he was about to walk into the shop where the commotion broke out.

“Wait, Ray. It’s dangerous. They don’t listen to Jimmy properly.”

“Don’t worry, Jack.”

Ray laughed softly.

They were the same bastards who flirt with orphanage kids and mobilize criminals, and bastards who don’t listen to Jimmy and make the organization slack.

“I’m just going to sharpen my discipline a bit .”