Bullied but Popular

37 – Count Cloud 4

Three days have passed since the members of the Diphus family left.

“Oh, no matter how many times I see it, it’s amazing, son-in-law!”

“… Yes… Father.”

Aren was now watching Tia’s training with Count Gran at the gymnasium in the Cloud family.

Sitting in the corner of the gymnasium wearing an auror, she was training with the help of Aren to become a true aurorite.

“Son-in-law! Can you do that for me too?”

‘I don’t like it because it’s a burden.’

The nickname Count Gran used to call Aren was son-in-law.

At first, I asked to correct the title because it was burdensome, but he proudly declared that he would call me son-in-law because he would be my son-in-law anyway.

From then on, Aren could not say anything anymore and accepted it awkwardly.

“Keuheum! You can do it, but it won’t have a big effect. If you don’t have a certain amount of room for growth, there won’t be such a big effect. Since the Count is the Master, it won’t have much effect.”

“Hmm, sorry.”

Count Gran licked his lips in regret.

From noble mtl dot com

At that time, Noah Cloud appeared from somewhere and started shouting while aiming a wooden sword at Aren.

“Aren Deepus! It’s a match!”

“……”

“Do you think I would give my sister to someone like you!?”

‘I’m tired.’

Noah provoked loudly, but Aren disregarded it.

After Aren entered the Cloud family, Noah had challenged him to a duel several times in this way.

‘I guess he thinks he’s stealing his sister.’

Tia and Aren’s engagement.

On the first day, they only glared at Aren from afar, probably for a search, and when they saw Aren and Tia training in the gymnasium, they were pointing wooden swords like this.

Aren also understood it to some extent, so he was just accepting it in moderation, but the problem was that Count Gran was also present here today.

“Noah Cloud!!!”

“…!? Ah, Dad?”

Noah shook his head and stammered, probably surprised by his father’s more violent reaction than he thought.

But Count Gran doesn’t seem to have any intention of ending it here.

“What kind of habit is this guy talking to his brother-in-law!!”

“……”

“I apologize quickly…!”

Count Gran was scolding Noah, but suddenly a voice that could not be pushed back by his voice came from behind.

“Aah!!! You were released because of your dad!!!”

“hop!?”

Count Gran kept his mouth shut at the sudden shouting of his daughter.

But she wasn’t the kind of person to end it like this either.

“Don’t interfere with the training, everyone get out!!!”

Hurry up

Hurry up

‘me too!’

The moment when Aren turns his back to join them as the men of Cloud run away.

“Where are you running!! Buff again!”

“… uh.”

‘Why are you mad at me?’

I want to ignore it and leave, but since I am a guest at this house, I cannot ignore the landlord’s words.

Aren finally sighed and tried to use the shore again, but a new man entered the gymnasium.

“Aren, it’s training time.”

‘Leave me alone.’

Professor Byron was approaching in a simple outfit.

Seeing this, Aren felt a deep stress.

What made it so was that after Aren came to Cloud Street, all he did was eat, train, and sleep.

In addition, Professor Byron had to live tenaciously in training because his only daily routine was training with Aren.

“Professor Byron, today’s promise with Tia…”

“Then quickly apply the buff and come this way.”

“……”

Aren had no choice but to give Tia a buff and immediately went into training with Professor Byron.

“Let’s try the exercises we learned yesterday, let’s see how much you’ve improved.”

“yes.”

After Aren answered right away and straightened up, Professor Byron put mana on his right hand and stretched it out towards Aren.

In response, Aren gathered mana and clenched his fists.

“come.”

“yes.”

Whoa!

When Aren’s swearing-in blade hit Professor Byron’s palm, the sound of impact and the sound of air bursting rang through the gymnasium.

‘… a monster bastard.’

He was perfectly using the exercises he had taught him for only one day.

Professor Byron tried to ignore the pain rising up in his right hand and evaluated Aren’s technique with a calm expression.

“I guess this is all right.”

“Oh! I guess it hurt this time?”

“It’s still a long way off, a true smash is just barely there.”

Smashed.

It was a terrifying technique that moved the shock internally to inflict damage using the martial arts practice method described in the secret book given by Teacher Tristan.

“It’s a cool name no matter how many times you’ve heard it.”

“Of course, it’s the name Master gave himself.”

‘Where?’

At the sound of Professor Byron and Aren’s conversation, Tia felt a question and tackled it internally.

Thanks to this, her aura shakes and her concentration is disturbed, and cold sweat forms on Tia’s forehead.

Unknowingly, Aren and Professor Byron were immersed in their stories.

“If you continue to hone this skill, you can use it for weapons later.”

“A weapon?”

“Yes, by smashing the opponent’s weapon or impacting the armor. Aren. Since you are a swordsman, learning martial arts will not be of much use.”

“Ah, for some reason I thought it was strange that you taught me martial arts first.”

“It’s strange?”

At Are’s words, Professor Byron sneered and said,

“Hmph! If you had mastered this technique, how do you think it would have turned out against Aaron?”

“… Iknow, right?”

I’m sure even one blow would have twisted the insides.

According to Professor Byron’s theory, Aren decided to attend the training in silence.

Looking at Aren like that, Professor Byron took up his posture again.

“If you keep honing your smash, this will be possible.”

Having said that, Professor Byron once again blew the regime into the air.

Wooooung Kwaaang!!

“wow!”

“Kyaaak!?”

Aren and Tia’s screams broke out at the sudden explosion.

Either way, Professor Byron kept his fist raised and continued his conversation.

“Name the bomb!”

“Oh! That’s a cool name…”

“Come on, it’s unlocked!!!”

Tia’s shouting reverberated throughout the gymnasium.

***

“Hmm? Is training over already?”

“… yes.”

Eventually, Aren and Professor Byron, who were kicked out of the gymnasium, decided to train again in the evening and dispersed.

So Aren ran into Count Gran on his way back to his room.

“Oh, that’s great, let’s have a drink with me.”

“…is it still broad daylight?”

“Why is that?”

“……”

“…?”

‘There are definitely similarities.’

They don’t look alike at all, but there are similarities with the Cloud Sisters.

After thinking about it for a while, Aren finally nodded and went over to Count Gran’s proposal.

“Okay, I also have something I want to say to my father.”

“Oh! Is that so? That just happened, ha ha ha!”

Count Gran, who seemed to like that Aren had something to say, took Aren to his office with a proud expression on his face.

jump

“It’s here.”

“… Shall we clean up?”

“What is the arrangement?”

There were broken clothes and wads of paper on the table here and there, but Count Gran put them aside and took out the bottle of wine he had brought.

“Oh, I’ll bring you a glass.”

“Okay, here you go.”

druk

Having said that, Count Gran opened the drawer of his office desk and took out a wine glass.

‘Why are you out there?’

While Aren was staring at the wine glass from a strange place, Count Gran started pouring the wine without paying attention.

“Now! Shall we have a drink?”

“yep!”

snap

Is it delicious because it is secretly drunk?

I drank the high-alcohol wine at once.

“Big~”

“Puha~”

The two people who shot one shot at once began to laugh while looking at each other about what was so good.

“hahahahaha! You’re drinking some, son-in-law!”

“Hmm, honestly, it’s delicious.”

“Then of course! What kind of liquor is this?”

Count Gran, who had been bragging about alcohol for a long time, looked at Aren blankly and said, as if he wanted to get to the point.

“So, what does our son-in-law want to say?”

“The atmosphere is good, so I won’t turn around, but it’s about engagement…”

Aren just a little bit? When he said something sensitive, Count Gran frowned and glared at Aren.

“No way… I like Tia…”

“That’s absolutely not the case, Father.”

When Count Gran tried to point it out, Aren hurriedly retorted and continued.

“Why are you so active in our engagement?”

“Hmm? What do you mean?”

“I think you know what I mean by my question.”

“……”

The engagement of Aren and Tia.

As far as Aren knows, the engagement between the two began with the acquaintance of Count Gran and his father.

When he first heard this, Aren thought Count Gran was an insensitive person who did not listen to his daughter very much.

However, Aren, who had been living on Cloud Street for the past few days, knew at once that it was a misunderstanding.

Rather than being insensitive, Count Gran was a father who was weak to his daughters and truly loved them.

Being such a father, Aren could not understand even more.

“I could tell just from what I’ve seen so far that the Count truly cares for Tia.”

“Hmm…”

“But I don’t understand why you send your daughter to a man you’ve never seen before, even though she’s the son of a close friend. I’m not really a great family boy.”

“……”

Cloud Gar was unmistakably one of the pillars of the country.

And Tia Cloud didn’t need the second daughter of the Cloud family, or even the family’s reputation.

Just by looking at her looks, there will be a line on her wedding day.

However, Count Gran did not care about such things and was trying to marry Tia to Aren.

It was a situation that Aren could not understand at all.

After listening to Aren’s words, Count Gran stared at Aren’s face for a moment and then began to grin.

“Good choice.”

“yes?”

“I made a good choice.”

‘what?’

When Count Gran said something incomprehensible, Aren just looked at his face with a blank expression.

Looking at Aren’s stupid expression, Count Gran grinned and continued.

“There are two things I need to correct.”

“Do you have two?”

“Yeah, one is that it’s not the first time we’ve seen it.”

“Huh? Is that so?”

“Yes, secondly you… no.”

“…yes?”

The Count of Grans stopped talking abruptly and drank a glass of wine.

Aren looked at him and asked again.

“What am I?”

“It is nothing.”

“… You’re very concerned?”

“That’s the first thing we met.”

“It looks like you’re blatantly turning the fire on, but I’ll move on.”

At Aren’s words, Count Gran smiled and spoke.

“I saw you about 10 years ago.”

“… is it so?”

Aren tried to remember it for a while, but unfortunately, it seems that it was not a memorable moment.

When Aren couldn’t remember, Count Gran began to explain the situation, saying he knew it.

“I went to your village to fight Hans ten years ago.”

“yes.”

“At that time, I bumped into a kid.”

***

Ten years ago, the domain of the Difus family.

“There’s really nothing here.”

Gran came to an unnamed rural village located on the border to meet Hans.

Gran, who looked around for a while, lost interest when there were only rice fields nearby and focused on walking with a bored expression.

“Haa, from now on, I’ll have to tell Hans to come…”

The moment Gran complained, a girl’s scream came from afar.

“Quaaah!”

“Is that it!?”

pang

Hearing a scream, Gran ran like an arrow and soon arrived at the source of the sound, saw a shocking scene and stopped in place.

‘… what?’

A group of dozens of goblins stood still.

A girl crouched down in front of her as if she had fallen, and a boy who stood proudly in front of a group of goblins as if trying to protect her.

‘What’s the situation?’

Gran killed the presence so as not to provoke the goblins and slowly began to approach.

A dangerous situation in which two children could die if done wrong.

But even when Gran came closer, for some reason, the goblins didn’t pay attention to him and only fixed their eyes on the boy in front of them.

‘now!’

cloud expression

Chaaa

A single slash killed a group of goblins.

After arranging the goblins in an instant, Gran could finally look into the boy’s eyes.

“…!? This!”

As if embracing the sea, the soft blue eyes were staring at Gran.

Gran was so surprised that he looked at the shore with a stunned expression and reached out his hand hastily when he saw Aren passed out.

From noble mtl dot com

“hey!”