The Sub-Heroine’s Butler Is a Vicious Bastard

11. The Crucible (2)

After eating a simple breakfast, Choji and Schmitz headed to the ordeal’s training wing.

Many middle school students and monks were already gathering and practicing.

Choji stood in a moderately empty seat and opened his mouth with a solemn expression.

It was because I had to tell them how important and dangerous training in the ordeal was, since I was in charge.

“The ordeal begins today. It won’t be that easy. If the ordeal is difficult, tell me immediately. There are cases in which they die while invoking Gaekgi. Since it’s the first day, I will give you the first level of trials.”

Choji, who was lucky about the ordeal, opened the marble storage box located on the wall of the training building.

On the bead was written ‘fourth level ordeal’.

‘Oh no, if you’re that great, you’ll easily do this.’

Choji lowered his head so that others could not see him, and smiled sinisterly.

Ordinary adults most often fail at the first stage when they first experience an ordeal.

The first stage of the ordeal was ‘rise in body temperature’, because this was quite painful.

Of course, if you repeat it a few times, you can get used to it and pass it…

There were almost no cases of people passing the first stage with a body that had not reached adulthood, and even that at once.

There was a case of a girl who had recently joined the ordeal, but what he was trying to give to Schmitz was a fourth-level ordeal.

‘They’ll beg to run away while shedding ugly tears.’

Choji returned with the marble and checked Schmitz’s whereabouts.

Schmitz looks around the training hall as if in a strange way.

In Choji’s eyes, he was nothing more than a runaway teenager.

“If you hold this marble, the ordeal will begin soon. The contents of the ordeal do not affect your body in any way. It’s just an illusion and pain-“

“Yes, please start.”

… Did this guy cut me off?

Choji almost showed his past behavior as a bully at the moment.

However, with superhuman patience, he endured his anger at Schmitz.

Didn’t he turn to the ordeal in order to shake off such a life?

Choji took a deep breath before opening his mouth again.

“…A little boy like you can easily drag on even at the first stage. I’m going to leave the ordeal right now… ”

“No, please start.”

A tendon rose from Choji’s forehead.

But he was able to stand it this time too.

A 4th level trial orb given to Schmidt.

Because that would ruin the boy in front of you unsightly.

Schmitz closed his eyes, holding a marble in one hand.

Choji managed to hold back the almost laugh at that appearance.

‘If you close your eyes, the senses will be maximized, so it must be more difficult… There is no sick person.’

There was no particular reason to close your eyes or close your eyes during trials.

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Just as your senses become more sensitive in a dark place, the ordeal only becomes more difficult.

In other words, it is one of the ways to increase the difficulty of the ordeal.

“…?”

However, Schmitz did not respond.

He didn’t even move with his eyes closed.

Could it be that the beads didn’t work?

‘…Looking at his expression, I don’t think that’s the case.’

His body didn’t move at all, but his expression was very serious.

The trainee’s uniform was soaked with sweat and quickly became a mess, and the wrinkles between the eyebrows deepened.

It was clear that he was enduring the ordeal properly.

… No, you’re enduring the ordeal?

Choji approached without making a sound and inspected the orb.

It was clearly marked as ‘fourth stage ordeal’.

But why

How the hell can I endure this?

The moment I thought something was wrong, Schmitz suddenly moved.

chin-!

“… !”

Schmitz raised his free hand and held it as if crushing a marble.

This was also a stupid decision.

The ordeal is a method of inflicting pain by stimulating the mana circuits throughout the body with the fire attribute.

Grabbing the orb, the source of the stimulus, with both hands is not just about wanting to intensify the pain.

‘I’m making the difficulty of the ordeal difficult for myself.’

A cold sweat ran down Choji’s neck.

Schmitz, who was shorter and dwarfed than himself, caught his eye.

His expression was still distressed, but he was clutching at the marble as if he would never let go.

The proof of the ‘fourth level of trials’ engraved on the marble.

‘I have to admit… There is none.’

Choji had no choice but to admit it.

The child in front of me really climbed the ordeal on two legs.

It means that the ordealer made the right choice.

“…crazy.”

“Eh, what is this… ”

“Stop it at this point… ”

Suddenly, people gathered around and started to mumble.

Choji barely came to his senses.

‘…this! The trial is already over.’

The beads were shining brightly in green.

The green color means only one thing.

It was proof that he had passed the 4th stage of the ordeal.

The boy who entered the temple without breaking the rules succeeded in the 4th stage of the ordeal, so it was only natural for the crowd to gather.

“…Stop it, stop it.”

Choji snatched the orb from Schmitz’s hand.

He was holding it so tightly that he was sweating to retrieve it.

Schmitz, who finally opened his eyes, blinked at the people gathered around him.

He looked like he didn’t really know what had happened.

‘I made up my mind not to judge everything by appearance… ‘

Choji thought as he took care of the marbles that were still hot.

The child in front of you… That you are a person who cannot be judged carelessly.

That he is a person with the tenacity and grit to endure trials that are not suitable for his age.

Choji finally acknowledged him.

And as an apology to him, he promised to help his life diligently in the ordeal history.

“…fourth level ordeal?”

oh

Schmidt, who had come to his senses, was looking at Choji.

To be precise, the marble he was holding.

More precisely, the phrase ‘fourth stage ordeal’ engraved inside the bead.

… It was time to pay the penalty.

* * *

“…Are you still mad?”

“Not so much.”

“I’m sorry, I… I think I misunderstood you a bit. It’s just a quick test… ”

“Is this a test?”

“I-I’m sorry… ”

Choji was at a loss right now in front of me.

Even in the middle of a restaurant where people are having lunch.

“You passed the 4th level trial in one go? That kid.”

“By the way, Choji-sama, why are you bowing your head like that?”

“I see, that terrifying monk Choji…”

Besides, he seems to have been famous for a kind of ‘tiger instructor’ image.

Each one threw out a question about my greatness and Choji and disappeared.

… Well, there are a lot of people who have seen it, so this should be enough.

“All right. Please stop now, Mr. Choji.”

“Sah, will you accept my apology?”

“yes. Promise me not to do anything like that in the future.”

As I said before, there are people I need to live with.

Anything that gets in the way of that is no longer acceptable.

After making such a threat, Choji still lowered his tail with a stern face.

Ignoring him who kept expressing his apologetics, I headed to my seat with my fill of rice.

And next to me, a child I’ve never seen before sits close to me.

“yes? you, you… ”

“Choji-san, do you know someone?”

Choji sat across from me, and the child I had never met sat next to me.

When I turned my head, it was a middle school student with his head shaved.

… Looking closely, he was short and dwarfed, and above all, his eyelashes were very long.

Are you a nun?

“Nice to meet you.”

“… … ”

“Hey, are you there?”

“… … ”

I spoke to her, but she just stared at me without saying a word.

Choji scratched his head in embarrassment and opened his mouth.

“This girl is a child who entered the temple full of scars… As you can see, I didn’t speak at all.”

“Aphasia? Or did you hurt your vocal cords?”

“Well… Even if you ask for his name, he just looks away and won’t tell you, so we decided to call him ‘Silence Sojeo’.”

After hearing Choji’s explanation, I checked the silencer again.

She was eating with chopsticks.

… Was it a coincidence that we sat next to each other?

“Well, have a good time. Silence Sozer.”

“… … ”

“Arthur, the child doesn’t say anything.”

Saying that, Choji started to eat rice.

I don’t think he looks like a gangster, so his dining etiquette is very shitty.

As he advised, I am eating my food diligently, but…

His gaze continued to go to the silencer.

Like I’ve seen it many times… It was because I was a little too familiar.

‘…was there a heroine character in the ordeal history?’

It won’t be like that.

No matter how special your tastes are…

Demand for bald women would be close to zero, so there would be no reason to bother making them.

There was no way that I, who was a deceased person in the first place, did not know the heroine.

‘Let’s eat.’

In the end, I couldn’t give the right answer, so I turned my nerves off that way.

If you don’t talk, you can’t get information.

Having resumed eating like that, I didn’t know.

“……”

The fact that the girl who was called the silencer was staring at me without even lifting a spoon.