The Escort Knight Who Is Being Obsessed Over by the Villainess Wants To Run Away

34. Getting to Know (3)

“Has the injury healed?”

Gawain asked.

I was warming up in front of him.

Since the intense warm-up was over, my body was already sweating.

“Thanks to you, I recovered on the spot.”

“It was a bolt flying from behind.”

“Yes. I had to protect her, so I couldn’t avoid it.”

“Excellent.”

He was injured to protect his master.

As an escort knight, it was an unparalleled honor.

‘I’m not sure about glory….’

Thanks to me, Elijah was not hurt.

It was true that it wasn’t too bad, she said.

I warmed up and raised my sword and shield.

Gawain’s armament is a sword.

A two-handed or one-handed sword that can be held in any way.

It is his main weapon.

Neither of these are ordinary equipment.

Specially made training equipment with an iron core embedded in it.

It is a little heavier than the sword used in real combat.

The same goes for shields.

A horse is a wooden sword, it’s just an iron club.

If hit, it bruises.

A normal person would be broken somewhere.

Gawain approaches with his sword pointed.

Before we start, he always talks.

“Don’t hesitate.”

*

It can be compared to Gawain’s black line.

That’s a very simple line.

His movements are restrained.

A clean Dongse cut out all unnecessary parts.

It’s even obsessive.

Dylan’s thorough upward compatibility.

It just connects movement and movement, but attack and defense are done at the same time.

Therefore, the exchanges with him are very honest.

Honest but not obvious.

If you draw countless simple lines, they become planes.

As such, Gawain constantly connects classic movements, transforms them, and eats up space.

Boom!

If you block the sword with a shield, it sounds like a cannon.

The state of strengthening the body with each other’s magical power.

The ground shakes.

A wave that ordinary people could get caught up in and get hurt just by being nearby.

I moved forward with my shield attached to the blocked sword.

Don’t give the enemy a chance to adjust their posture.

Forefoot that takes a big step.

Poke the sword under the shield.

An attack from a blind spot using the obscured sight.

But.

Tok, do it. Something blocked my knee.

The body that was advancing hesitated, and the sword could not escape the desired distance.

Poke the empty air.

Gawain, who had taken a step back, rearranged his stance, and then rushed at half a beat.

It feels like his body is about to lean backwards with just the momentum.

If you block it, it will only go as he thinks.

You have to catch them off guard.

Unexpectedly.

Instead of blocking, I rather moved forward.

Wields the sword with both hands.

A shield over his left elbow.

Following the trajectory of swinging the sword, the shield deftly sheds Gawain’s sword.

At the same time, my sword touches Gawain’s side.

Puck! A dull sound.

The battered Gawain hesitated.

I took a step forward and struck the shield.

Gawain hurriedly raised his sword to block it.

I quickly turned to the side, caught my sword in my hamstring, and knocked it over.

Thump!

Gawain fell.

Aim the sword at him.

The tip of the sword stops exactly in front of the neck.

Every time you shake your tired body, sweat drips down to the ground.

The fallen Gawain is also covered in sweat.

He smiled contentedly.

“Excellent.”

*

Sometimes I beat Gawain like this.

Of course I know he’s been giving it a little touch.

As proof of that, after several more fights, I kept losing.

Today’s record is 1 win and 4 losses.

“Today is enough.”

Gawain said, catching his breath.

I answered while lying on the floor.

“Thank you… You did….”

“I said I can use my sword skills now.”

“Yeah, what…. You can do it.”

“Hmm…. I hurt my back while protecting the lady last time. Speaking of which, has he ever transferred that energy into his body?”

The horse isn’t black, it’s just that it was released enough to show mana and applied to the weapon.

Similarly, you can wear that mana on your body.

Like thin armor.

I forgot for a while that there was such a way to use it.

‘It must have been a lot of work.’

I got up and answered.

“I haven’t tried it yet, but isn’t it going to be easy?”

It is different from putting magical power on a sword.

Generally, most of the mana is released toward the hand.

In addition, the mana released by the hand is easy to handle.

This is why sorcerers reach out when aiming.

Similarly, it is easy to apply magic to objects held in the hand, such as swords and shields.

On the other hand, it is very difficult to apply magic power evenly throughout the body.

“Let’s try it once. I heard that the lady wants to give you good armor, but you shouldn’t rely on the equipment.”

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“Yup. Let’s try something at least once.”

I did as I was told.

Like when using a sword technique, it emits mana out of the body.

First of all, changes occur in the hands.

Ivory-colored magic that covers your fingertips.

‘It’s the same as the one extracted by Epona.’

It was the same when I used the sword skill.

Broken blade.

Ivory light fills the spot.

The light covering his hands did not spread to his body.

Gawain looked at me and said.

“There is one quick way. It’s close to a fluke, but would you like to try it?”

“Wouldn’t it be better than not doing it?”

“Good.”

And then, I encountered a rather strange situation.

“… Sir Gawain?”

Both hands were tied.

The rope that restrained him was suspended from the ceiling and lifted his arm.

And he covered his eyes.

Gawain’s voice came from the front.

“From now on, I will beat you with this wooden sword.”

“… Yes?”

“And you just block it.”

“In this state? What do you mean by raising your leg to stop it?”

“No. Defend with magic. If you can’t control the magic coming out of your hands, the rope will break. So, you have to defend yourself with magic while not letting the rope break.”

“What is that…. 100 Million-!”

A wooden sword with an iron core struck him in the stomach.

It wasn’t even easy.

He swung vigorously, as in sparring.

Gawain said as if warning.

“Begin.”

After that, I was beaten all over my body with a wooden sword.

I couldn’t do anything hastily.

Make sure the rope doesn’t break.

Do not twist your body to avoid it or block it with your legs.

You can only block it with magic.

‘Is that going to be easy… !’

While avoiding bones and vital organs, only pure muscles were beaten over and over again.

The sound of Gawain changing her place.

And the sound that cuts through the air.

In summary, it is predicted from which direction it will fly.

‘And put the magic there… !’

Of course not.

“Ugh-!”

I was beaten beautifully.

‘Let’s focus, focus….’

While being beaten, I kept thinking.

One by one, one by one.

What should I do?

Infer why this method is a quick shortcut.

It should not be a simple indoctrination education.

I have to think and learn.

It is said that I have no talent for using my brain, but this is a little different.

I am confident in exploring and understanding things related to the body.

‘Why is this the way it is? Why did you tie your hands?’

You have to control the magic so that the rope doesn’t break.

In other words, it means that mana must be efficiently distributed.

It’s not an explosive release.

‘Then, with the feeling that the mana spreading from the hand wraps around the body….’

A vague sense.

Then, the air suddenly changed.

His location, judged only by sound. Target point.

‘… Is that a long term?!’

Utilizing such an extreme method?

The survival warning did not trigger.

But I instinctively feel threatened.

The sound of the slow wind.

A wooden sword that cuts through the air.

The position is vulnerable flank.

‘We have to stop it!’

I desperately shouted inwardly.

f*ck-! And a heavy blow sounded.

However.

‘… Uh? Doesn’t it hurt?’

There was no pain.

The sound of a wooden sword falling.

Afterward, Gawain speaks.

“I had a hard time.”

“… Yes? Could it be that I was successful?”

“Yes. You would know.”

“I can’t be sure because I can’t see it. It definitely sounded right, but it didn’t hurt.”

“Wait. I’ll let you go, so check….”

That moment.

Clap.

Someone opened the gymnasium door.

Gawain stopped moving closer.

I turned around and took a deep breath.

Surprisingly.

‘Who is it?’

“Eh, Lady Elijah.”

“… Oh, miss?”

I can’t see the front.

I can’t even set an example because my hands are tied.

And for some reason, Elijah came in and was quiet for a while.

***

Elijah came to find Judas.

There was no specific purpose.

She was just curious about something.

It’s not uncommon.

Sometimes I watched Judas training from her side.

Not for long.

And, Judas, who came today.

“… ….”

Her hands were tied and her eyes were covered.

She must have trained hard just now. Her whole body is wet with sweat, and her body is shaking.

Rough breathing. Her face, slightly painfully frowning, is visible through her eyepatch.

At the sight, Elijah couldn’t move.

A heat of a kind she had never felt tickled her body from within.

It was shocking at the same time.

She is a savage landscape where no aesthetic beauty can be found at all, but she felt an indescribable aesthetic value from him.

Something like the pulsation of a living, breathing wild that can never be expressed by human artificial acts.

Suddenly, the stern evaluation of Judas by the public comes to mind.

Someone who wants to keep her on a leash.

Or someone you want to put on a leash.

How dare you, to someone’s property….

“… Miss? Are you okay?”

Gawain asked.

Judas had to be freed, but Elijah came and she was unable to do anything.

Only then did Elijah come to her senses.

“I just came to see something. I am training diligently.”

He wears a mask skillfully.

She walked out of her gym as if nothing had happened.

The figure of Judas, like sticky melted sugar, trembled at the tip of his senses.

She tried to ignore that feeling.

***

After I realized Bang Ho, I went to see the doctor.

Not Mei, Elijah’s exclusive member of the council, but a councilor who mainly looks after the soldiers. She

She was in the training center at the same time, and she is also the councilor.

I moved here after the training center closed.

I couldn’t throw out the medical personnel because they were precious.

“Why are you training so ignorant and barbaric….”

He grumbled, but applied the paste of herbs to the bruised area.

It feels good because it’s cool.

“Anyway, knights are insane. Eh…. I can not understand.”

“But wouldn’t it be necessary for a ignorant person like me to be hurt in order for the Congressman to live?”

“I recognized you 5 years ago, but you are really crazy. Does that make sense?”

“You’re right…. Evil!”

He slapped me on the back.

“Don’t talk nonsense and take care of your body!”

“Using one’s body is one’s job, so how can one use one’s body gently….”

“Shut up!”

“Oh stop hitting me!”

Anyway, the old man has a dirty temper.

… I’m not in a position to say anything about the nature of others.

After the treatment, I went to see Elijah.

But she shut herself up in the magic lab and didn’t show her face at all.

I was told to come back later.

This is my first time ever.

I always looked at her face and talked to her no matter what.

‘Looks like he’s very busy.’

It looks like he’s been busy researching various things since he went to the Magic Tower.

I think Elijah is taking care of my equipment issues as well.

‘I’ll summon you if there’s an urgent matter.’

I always take care of my necklace.

Whether it’s sleeping or washing up.

Fortunately, he was not called to wash or Elijah did not come.

‘It’s impossible to leave it out just because you’re worried about it….’

Elijah told me to come later, so in the meantime I went to see my colleagues.

A large playground located on one side of the mansion site.

I see several people training.

I noticed a familiar face on one side.

Three sitting side by side. Richard, Esmo, and Dyke.

I was sitting and resting as if I had finished training.

Richard spotted me first and shook his hand.

“Here comes the escort driver who is busy being beaten up by Sir Gawain.”

“Thank you for the compliment.”

Esmo and Dyke also saw this and smiled and waved.

I sat casually next to them.

“Are you three done with training?”

“Uh. Today is hard, so I can’t do it any more.”

A group of people training on a playground.

Nine of them can be seen especially well.

Room 13. No, now they are the rest of the members of the SS.

They are sparring with their weapons against each other.

“If I had been educated by Sir Gawain just once, I would have no wish.”

“Can I ask you a favor?”

“Shall I?”

“Maybe they won’t?”

“Are you kidding me now?”

“A little.”

Richard put a headlock on my head.

We giggled and chatted about nonsensical things like that.

Then suddenly.

“There are only a few days left before the founding festival.”

Niels said in passing.

Congratulations.

It was the day the Helios Empire was founded.

A day commemorating the end of an era without a state or unified order.

“Do you want to participate too?”

And it is also the day when all nobles gather.

The number of people will be incomparable to that of Elijah’s coming-of-age ceremony.

Yeah, actually, Elijah’s birthday is just a birthday, and it’s a national festival.

“Don’t you know anything about the escort knight who clings to you?”

“… I don’t know because I haven’t heard anything.”

An annual founding festival.

Until now, Elijah had not attended.

I don’t know why.

She never asked.

But I think he avoided it because other people from the Bevel family were also coming.

Elijah didn’t attend most events unless it was absolutely necessary.

She said she had to do something different than that.

She didn’t know what she was so busy doing.

I know now.

‘The Imperial Family, Bebel, and the Church of the Moon….’

I heard that the three forces are conspiring to kill Elijah.

Then she confided in the garden. Atmosphere at the time.

Everything was memorable.

‘It must be difficult.’

She is likely not going to attend this time either, especially since she seems busier these days.

“Sorry.”

Dike said.

“I wanted to go to the ecliptic at least once.”

The founding ceremony is held in the capital of the empire.

However, the outskirts of the capital are the places as many people flock to them.

“I want to see a place called Giudecca.”

And there is that huge amphitheater in the ecliptic.

Gudeca.

The place where Judas lived before I became possessed.

To commemorate the founding of the country by driving out demons, watching and enjoying gladiator fights in Giudecca is an important event of the founding festival.

The party didn’t ask me about Giudecca in detail.

A slave who lived in Giudecca at a young age.

Because it can’t be a very good memory.

I can’t even remember.

“Wouldn’t there be an opportunity sometime?”

One thing that comes to mind.

Unlike when I was young, now is a time that is pretty close to the future I know.

And I know what’s going on at this year’s founding festival.

‘The monster captured in Giudecca was released. Thanks to that, the capital is in ruins.’

At the time, quite a few civilians died.

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The Imperial Knights were put in and managed to subdue the demons, and in the aftermath, the Imperial family’s position was further strengthened.

It’s because everyone learned that the greatest power to protect them is the Empire.

After all the monsters were subdued, the power behind it was revealed.

They were proponents of war conspiracy theories.

Those who claim that the Empire deliberately does not end wars for tax purposes.

I heard that they broke into Giudecca and released the monster.

That claim is not unfounded.

The Empire actually doesn’t really want an end to the war.

‘But at that time, the monster appeared, I don’t think I was completely confused….’

Since I was studying Elijah for a while, I didn’t dig into the story behind it.

‘Do those who believe in that conspiracy theory have the power to manage monsters in the first place?’

Somebody fell while sparring on the playground.

It was Lindel.

“Oops, that must be painful.”

Dyke said from the side.

Rindel stands up again and takes a stand.

Judo, which I have been teaching Room 13 for a long time.

A posture that shows the basics.

‘… Maybe it’s because I’m tired, but it’s a little twisted.’

“Oh, sir. What else do you not like?”

Richard saw my expression and said teasingly.

I shrugged and stood up.

“I should go and educate myself.”

*

Evening time.

Elijah said after finishing his meal on the other side.

“I will attend the founding festival.”

Inconvenient sickness has become a daily routine.

Fortunately, now it doesn’t ask for food every time like it used to.

About 3 years ago, I ate well on my own.

Of course, they still ask for food often.

Rather, it’s rare to eat on your own like today.

‘But today I don’t see eye to eye.’

“When are you leaving?”

As it is a festival, people from various classes come.

Of course, commoners come to play on the day.

However, nobles often arrive earlier than that.

“I’m planning to go there one day before arrival.”

“Is there anything I should know?”

A place where all nobles gather.

Of course there will be an emperor, and Balak will come too.

As well as the children of the Bebel family.

They are obviously enemies of Elijah.

Maybe I have something in particular in mind.

Elijah laughed lightly at my question.

“Not yet.”

Not yet.

Does that mean there will be later?

I said no, but I couldn’t ask more.

Anyway, she’s higher than me, she’s my master.

I just nodded her head.

***

That night.

Elijah couldn’t sleep.

It was a different experience than before.

She wasn’t to blame for the nightmare.

Since I’ve been with Judas, those experiences have subsided.

Recently, she doesn’t have nightmares even when she sleeps alone.

My insomnia was also quite good.

Of course, I still sleep the most when I hold Judas.

Anyway, it’s a strange feeling, different from not being able to sleep because of nightmares or unpleasant memories.

I constantly think of Judas I saw during the day. She

The more she tries not to rise, the thicker and more sticky she wraps her consciousness.

The one who was tied up with the muscles of her upper body exposed….

Elijah jumped up. She

Without hesitation, she teleported.

Her destination is the room next to her.

The place where Judas lives.

The space is reversed.

The familiar bedroom of Judas.

And then, Yuda spreads out and sleeps.

A slightly lifted top.

You can see a little bit of the inside.

The moonlight shimmered the outline of her muscles.

‘… ….’

Elijah stood there, and she watched him silently.