Volume 2 - CH 3

“I didn’t know there’s going to be a martial arts festival. You could have told me, Anna-chan.”

“You’re so annoying! Just shut up!”

Julis returned, and was currently conducting a self-study session in the training center without the instructor.

Of course, it was the S class. And Julis was conducting self-study with the usual members.

Now Julis and Anastasia were having a mock battle.

The students who were not engaged in the mock battle were all looking at Julis and Anastasia.

[Hey…… can you beat him?]

[It is impossible. Even Anastasia-sama hasn’t been able to land a single blow since a few minutes ago.]

[I wonder…… what they meant by him being “inept”?]

The students around were in an uproar. The content was, of course, Julis.

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The existence────that was once mocked as inept, but now there is no one to mock, only to recognize his strength.

Gradually, his classmates no longer called Julis inept.

Meanwhile, Anastasia boldly thrusts her rapier into Julis’ neck. But sadly, it bounced off before it touched him, and Julis immediately swung his sword with all his might at her defenseless body.

“……my lose.”

“Okay.”

Cecilia akhirnya sampai di depan makhluk buas itu.

Perbedaan ukurannya begitu besar sehingga ia harus mendongak untuk melihat wajah binatang itu, dan Cecilia yang ramping akan terinjak-injak dalam sekejap.

"GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!"

"Aku ngerti...... aku ngerti kok, Julis ......"

Cecilia memeluk kaki depan yang besar dan kokoh itu.

"Itu pedih, kan? Itu menyiksa, kan? Aku yakin Julis berusaha ngelindungin seseorang terus menjadi kaya gini....... Beneran deh, Julis itu baik banget. Biarpun dia sangat menderita sendiri."

Makhluk buas itu mengarahkan kaki depannya yang lain ke Cecilia, mencoba menarik Cecilia yang memeluknya menjauh.

────lalu.

"Eh!?"

"I, ini......"

Kaki depan itu berhenti tepat pada waktunya.

Cecilia tidak terluka, dan kaki depan itu berhenti tanpa tanda perlawanan.

Namun penderitaan itu muncul dalam bentuk teriakan.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRR!!!"

Tetapi.

"Aku belum bisa balas budi sama Julis buat segalanya...... Julis selalu ngelindungi aku, tapi aku terus banyak ngerepotin Julis.────Cuma ini yang bisa aku lakuin buat Julis sekarang."

Cecilia menguatkan lengannya yang memeluk kaki depan itu.

Ia ingin kehangatannya dirasakan, ia ingin perasaannya tersampaikan.

Cecilia tersenyum lembut pada makhluk buas itu, mengatakan kepadanya bahwa tidak apa-apa sekarang, bahwa dia tidak perlu berusaha terlalu keras.

"Aku bakal ada di sisi Julis...... sepanjang waktu, sepanjang masa. Julis ngga cocok sama penampilan kaya gitu, tahu? Kalo kamu balik lagi ke Julis yang biasanya, yang konyol, yang bisa diandalin, sama yang lembut.────Aku bakal seneng banget."

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Anastasia raised her arm in surrender, and Julis lightly replied by returning his sword to its scabbard.

“You’re still so unfair. I don’t feel like I’m fighting a human either.”

“What do you mean? This is totally my full power, okay? I mean, as a human.”

“Still, it’s a foul to not let me land a hit on you.”

Julis and Anastasia slowly returned to the edge of the training area.

Anastasia had been complaining for a while now, but Julis did not even lend an ear to her at all.

“Welcome back, you two!”

“I’m back, Cecilia.”

“Oh, I’m back.”

When Julis and Anastasia returned, Cecilia rushed over to them with a cute gait.

She looked just like a pet waiting for her master to return.

Julis, whose heart was somewhat warmed up, patted Cecilia’s head as she came up to him.

“Ehehe.”

Cecilia was pleasantly stroked. As usual, she was very attached to Julis.

“…….Come to think of it, Cecilia didn’t tell me either.”

“……Fue?”

“It’s about the martial arts festival. I was happy that everyone came to visit me, but no one told me such an important thing……. sob.”

Still, the way Julis said that sounds annoying.

Or rather, his tearful gestures were more annoying.

“It because, Julis-kun seemed to be too lazy to take part in such events, yes~.”

“That “I’m a sloth, so I won’t participate in such an event!” I was about to do it!”

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And Ricardo and Mirabelle, who were waiting with Cecilia at the edge of the training area, answered instead.

They both know Julis very well, despite their short time with him.

But────

“Damn fools! This time I’m definitely going to participate! No matter what, I’m going to in! Definitely, even if it’s through the back door!”

This time Julis was different.

He is dead serious. He is absolutely serious about participating in the event.

“Why is Julis so motivated to participate?”

“Th, that because……..”

Di depan kami, ada sederetan piring kayu yang kosong.

“Anjiiir, akuh udah makan banyak... akuh gak bisa nambah lagi ....”

Firia mengatakan itu sambil menepuk-nepuk perutnya. Jumlah yang dia makan sangat sedikit, hanya sekitar sepersepuluh dari porsiku.

“Gua pikir elu tipe yang ngabis-ngabisin, tapi enggak nyangka elu cuma makan dikit, ya.”

Karena dia bilang 'enak, enak' jadi kupikir makanannya sesuai dengan seleranya, tapi sepertinya perutnya tidak sebesar itu.

“Akuh pingin nambah lagi, tapi tangki bensinku udah penuh nih. Akuh iri bat ama elu bisa makan banyak gitu, Yuri-san.”

“Penampilanlu keliat ringan banget. Gimana kalo menambah berat badan dikit lebih banyak?”

Aku mengamati tubuh Firia sekali lagi.

Meskipun dia mengatakan bahwa perutnya kenyang karena makan, tidak ada perubahan sama sekali pada tubuhnya yang ramping.

Ketika aku menatap Firia seperti itu, dia menyilangkan tangannya seolah-olah menyembunyikan dadanya yang sederhana.

“Ah, Yuri-san mikirin kalo akuh menyedihkan....”

“Jangan sembarang nuduh lah cuk!”

“Apa, salah ya tod?. Alhamdulillah.”

Sambil tertawa ringan seolah bercelu, Firia berdiri sambil mengatakan 'Oi sho'.

“Makasih badhogannya. Rasanya mantul, manjiw tenan.… Kalo gitu, akuh pikir akum mesti cepet-cepet cabut deh.”

“Sek sek, mengko disek cuk.”

Gua manggil Firia yang berdiri dan berniat meninggalkan rumah gua.

Dia mencondongkan lehernya seolah bertanya, ‘Ada apa?’.

Sama Firia yang kaya gitu, gua ceritain perasaan jujur gua sama dia.

“Gua juga pengin cabut dari hutan ini. Apa gapapa kalo gua cabut bareng lu sampai luar hutan?”

Gua gak pernah ngerasa kesepian sejak gua tinggal sendirian di dalam hutan ini.

Gua juga gak merasa ngga puas sama mata pencaharian gua di sini, karena ada fakta kalo gua bisa dapet beberapa magical beast buat makanan gua ndiri.

Tapi, aku ketemu ama dia.

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While being stroked, Cecilia looked up at Julis’ face and asked such a question.

(I, I can’t say it…… Because I want to get a peerage as a reward so that I can marry Cecilia…… There’s no way I can’t say that, right!?)

Yes, Julis is after the prize that Musée told him about.

She said that whatever the wish is, all countries will come together to grant it────, If so, then he should get enough of a peerage to tell his feelings to Cecilia without people around complaining! That was what Julis thought, and that was why he was so serious.

Normally, he would have just said, “What a pain in the ass!”

But, he was not sure if he will be granted even if he wishes for it.

“Because……?”

“A, a a a anyway, someone please tell me how I can participate in the martial arts festival! Help me!”

Julis, who didn’t have the guts to say it to her, hurriedly diverted the conversation.

He was still the ultimate in ineptitude.

“What? Are you going to participate in the martial arts festival, Julis-sama?”

Then a silver-haired standout named Emilia, who had just been in a mock battle with another student, came up. The person who seemed to know the most about this…… appeared.

“I am! I am going to, Emilia! So can you please tell me how I can get in? These guys won’t tell me.”

“Man, if you ask us, we’ll tell you, okay?”

“Can you not make it sound like we were mean to you?”

Ricardo and Anastasia glared at him, but Julis didn’t care.

At the training ground where the members of the knight order practiced hard.

As an instructor, I was teaching swords to all the Knights.

"Then, the next step is to swing the sword a thousand times. You won't improve just by swinging blindly. You need to imagine the opponent's movement."

""A, thousand times?""

"Kaizer-san. Are you sure you not making a mistake one digit?"

"Oh, right."

"Hoo~..."

"When I and Elsa were in the village, we used to swing 10,000 times a day, but, you guys won't be done until the day changes, will you?

""You misinterpret the word mistake on one digit, are you?""

The standard of my and Elsa's training was probably too high, and most of them couldn't follow even the light menu.

"Come on, you'd better hurry up or it's going to get dark."

I clapped my hands and urged them.

The knights began to swing their swords while screaming.

As the warming up, they were running ten times around the training ground with their armor on, few of them could swing their swords properly.

"Is Knight Commander Elsa doing this training from an early age..."

"I thought she was a genuine genius swordsman.....that's why she's so strong.. we didn't even reach half effort she did."

"Either Kaizer-dono or Knight Commander Elsa is outrageous..."

I saw the helpless knights and mumbled.

"Umm. Looks like our normal isn't everyone's normal.''

"I was surprised when I came to the royal capital, because the training of the Knights, which was known to be tough, was felt only in lukewarm water. The training I had done with chichiue was, to most people, out of the norm."

Elsa murmured next to me.

"I didn't mean to be particularly strict...."

"I think so, too"

The knights couldn't endure the training and exhausted. Then one by one, they fell like a broken doll.

But, one person among them――.

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“Fufu, I don’t mind.”

“You sure? Emilia is a good girl after all!

Julis was so moved that he held Emilia’s hand tightly and turned his shining eyes on her.

In response, Emilia’s face was completely flushed red. It might seem like it was just a matter of holding her hand…… but in a way, it was probably inevitable.

(Ju, Julis-sama’s face is……!)

Emilia, inwardly panicking.

“Muuuu! Muuuu!”

On the other hand, Cecilia was staring at Julis with her cheeks puffed out.

Her appearance was cute without a trace of intimidation, but Cecilia herself was seriously glaring at him. It was like a menacing squirrel.

“Is Julis, doing a lot of things on purpose? Sometimes I wonder if he does that way.”

“Well, it’s Julis we’re talking about, so it can’t be helped.”

“How nice…… Emilia-chan……”

“……Mirabelle must be having a hard time too, yes.”

“Th, that is….. not…. it…”

Today’s self-study, it seemed, would be mainly talking about the Martial Arts Festival.