100. Interim Assessment (1)

Yuri Gilbert.

The expressionless girl with black bobbed hair and dark eyes trudged toward the mansion.

“Did you come, my lady?”

At the servant’s greeting, she nodded with a tired face.

“yes… … . bath.”

“Yes, I understand.”

Coming back covered in dust on the day of swordsmanship lessons was no longer a new sight.

The servant did not change his complexion and lowered his head.

I wanted to go to my room right away and lie down, but my whole body was covered in dirt, so if I lay down without taking a bath, I would feel uncomfortable.

She flopped down on the sofa in front of the bathroom.

Waiting for the bath water to be ready, I opened my eyes.

You see yourself reflected in the opposite mirror.

Fortunately, today, the weight of the training for rolling the body has decreased, and it is in a cleaner state than usual.

‘Ha-. do not want to do it. it’s hard… … .’

Recently, Yuri sighed.

In fact, she had no interest in swordsmanship at all.

No, there were few things that were particularly interested in everything in the world, but it was even more so when it came to moving the body.

He didn’t have any passion for swordsmanship like Serena or Rosnante.

He didn’t have a strong interest in Zeke Kleiman like Iriel or Elise.

He only knew that his father, Earl Gilbert, owed something to the first prince.

Because of those circumstances, she was forcibly put into swordsmanship lessons regardless of her will.

– Yuri Gilbert. Our family swore allegiance to the first prince. We are proud nobles, so we must not refuse our benefactor’s request. Fortunately, it seems that Prince 1 took good care of your irritating hair and eyes. Now you’ll do your part

– Since you were born with northern blood that even your father couldn’t, you must be able to achieve great results in swordsmanship lessons, right?

– This is an opportunity. Yuri Gilbert. 1 Who knows if you can get a place in the aide-de-camp if you stand by the prince and take good care of him? If that happens, the Gilbert family will be able to take flight once again.

‘I have no conscience… … .’

It was his father who always looked at him with cold eyes and ignored him.

But since he seems to be useful, now pretending to be friendly with the Gilbert family?

Not only that, but because she was the concubine of the 1st prince, seeing her father dreaming of absurd dreams was enough to disgust Yuri.

‘It’s disgusting… … .’

She just twisted her messy hair.

‘I didn’t want to have dark hair or dark eyes… … .’

dark hair and dark eyes. It felt like a cursed stigma to Yuri.

If he really had become a noble from the north like the instructor, he could have been proud of it, but both his father and mother were born and raised in the central system.

Their hair color was plain brown.

When Yuri Gilbert was first born into this world.

Seeing her dark eyes, the father suspected her mother of cheating.

They told me how a child like this was born from his own blood without a single dark trace.

However, the mother who was treated as a whore was only unfair.

She got engaged at a young age that she didn’t even know a man, and all she did was get married by mortgaging her life to the Gilbert family. She pleaded with tears why she had to endure such insults and shame, but no one listened to her desperate cries. did not

Eventually, she committed suicide to assert her innocence.

It was only then that Yuri’s father thought something was wrong and launched an extensive investigation.

and found a name.

Yuri Gilbert.

A distant ancestor with the same name as hers. A woman from the North.

The ancestor did not leave even a single ray of black to his descendants with his black hair and black eyes, and then came to Yuri and suddenly revealed his presence. Also in a very dark color.

After learning the truth, instead of regretting his choice, his father decided to hate Yuri for making that choice.

A life without a mother, rejected by a father.

The girl lost her expression and lost her emotions.

Yuri hated this black hair and eyes.

When I go out with my father to an aristocratic meeting that I must attend by chance, I catch the chattering nobles and explain to them one by one about their ancestors with the same name as me.

Students who see themselves misunderstand them as northern nobles and assume that they will be good at swordsmanship.

Also, on the way back, he left himself behind and was reprimanded for his bad face, saying that there was a back story again.

it was all annoying

So, coming to Ramielli Academy this time was quite a welcome event for her.

It was because I had moved out of the Gilbert family mansion and lived alone.

All the attendants are newly appointed, and no one treats them carelessly, and no adults doubt their relationship with their father, claiming that they have black hair.

Now, I will save money normally, leave the family normally, and live a normal life.

Yuri had a dream for the first time.

However, was it a dream that was too big to fit the fountain?

His life again began to flow in an unexpected direction.

A few days after the entrance ceremony, I received a call from my father.

1 Order to find the prince.

Ilios Leonine, Yuri also knew the rumors about him.

Delicate and gentle lineage of the great imperial family.

Although he had the disadvantage of looking weak, he had the virtue of being a great ruler who looked out for and took care of his people.

People’s rumors about the first prince were mostly favorable.

That made Yuri’s heavy heart a little lighter.

‘Yeah, what’s not the 2nd prince… … .’

But when I opened the lid, what was it?

It didn’t take long for Yuri to realize that Ilios was a completely different person from the rumors.

At first, he acted like that in front of himself. However, as soon as he found out that he was tied up by his father, he changed his attitude and called himself at all times.

Soft is just a way of speaking. It was a sigh of relief when he ordered me to do all sorts of troublesome chores, such as spreading rumors or getting information, and my motivation just plummeted.

However, I couldn’t say I couldn’t do it.

Even if the first prince conveyed a light reprimand to his father’s ear for no reason, even this small amount of freedom he had sought could have been taken away.

As I was staring blankly in the mirror, the butler approached me.

“Prince 1 is looking for you.”

“… … I need to wash… … .”

“You say you are in a hurry.”

ha-

Yuri let out a deep sigh and shuffled his feet toward the first prince’s mansion.

‘Who is it. why. 1 The thing that the prince said was soft and kind.’

From Yuri’s point of view, Prince 1 was not that kind of person at all.

Rather, the closer I looked, the closer I was to a shady and messy person.

‘Uh… … . I wonder if the instructor won’t let me run into it again… … .’

At least, the most fun thing these days was watching the first prince get flustered in front of Instructor Zeke Kleiman.

Last time, Instructor Zeke told me not to speak rudely to him, and when Prince 1 got annoyed, he almost burst into laughter without realizing it.

And at the banquet in Justia, I tried to stop the instructor, but I supported the instructor in my heart. The rare scene of the first prince who had been tormenting her was enough to satisfy her heart.

‘How can the instructor be so confident… … .’

He was a really strange person.

He gets along well with the princesses of the ducal family, who are said to be dog-like friends, and accepts the second prince of Rosnante, whom he beat once, into his arms again.

smart smart

“Come in.”

Let’s knock and open the door.

1st Prince Ilios Leonine, with her blonde hair hanging down, met her eyes.

The sticky gaze moves as if evaluating himself.

Yuri first quickly bowed her head and said hello.

“I came because you were looking for me.”

“Yes, I called to inform you about the midterm evaluation.”

“… … !”

Yuri widened her eyes.

“Once the midterm evaluation method will go to public sparring.”

“open… … Dalian.”

“yes. It’s going to be pretty fun. The method will be 4-4, picking four people from each other’s camp and sparring.”

four wrestlers.

In the end, it was a trick to pit all students except Yuri Gilbert himself in Zeke’s class.

Since the number of people in the two classes was overwhelmingly different, they seemed to think that the percentage of people who were good at it would be the same.

Also, Instructor Zeke’s class is overwhelmingly female in terms of gender, and there are no females in that class at all.

It was an evaluation method that had no knightly honor or anything.

Yuri furrowed his eyebrows.

“But then, the students who don’t get evaluated in Instructor Dios’ class… … .”

“That’s something Instructor Dios will take care of.”

“… … Yeah.”

However, Yuri still had a hard time convincing.

‘Even so, how confident are you… … ? If you’ve heard all the training you’ve been through, you won’t be able to be careless like this… … .’

Instructor Zeke’s class was truly a murderous training intensity.

To the extent that I couldn’t believe it was a class that the duke’s princesses and the second prince were taking.

And Yuri definitely told the first prince about him.

Regardless of status, everyone goes through the same training.

‘Besides, it seems that Rosnante-sama is the top priority… … .’

Yuri recalled the scene he had seen today.

Elise, who rushes wildly, and Rosnante, who throws away all dignity and authority, evades by rolling on the floor.

And the image of Iriel Justia, who did not blink an eye at the attack that made her hair stand on end, also came to mind.

‘2nd Prince… … . I’m weak.’

Perhaps the weakest in the class would be Rosnante and himself.

But among them, Dalian, excluding himself. Ilios hadn’t thought about it for a while.

What if I don’t tell you this here? Yuri organized her thoughts.

– What a useless thing! What if I can’t even do what I was told to do! Don’t even think about going out of the mansion after you come back now.

It seemed that his father would never forgive himself.

“majesty.”

“Well?”

“… … I’m sorry to say this… … . those couples. You might want to think again.”

At Yuri’s words, Ilios raised an eyebrow. As if I expected you to say it or not.

Seeing that smile, Yuri’s hand was squeezed tightly.

‘It tested me.’

“Huh, I heard about the way you trained. I know. If you stick with this now… … . Anyway, it’s not like there’s no odds on your side.”

“Yes… … .”

“So, Yuri, I have something for you.”

“Do you have anything to say?”

“Okay, feed this to your class three days ago. It is a muscle relaxant that takes effect after 3 days. It is colorless, odorless and tasteless, so if you secretly put it in water during training, everyone will drink it without question. I can’t believe that the medicine I drank three days ago had an effect. Just in case, Yuri, let’s drink together.”

Ilios lifted a small vial containing the drug.

Yuri’s pupils shook.

After all, does this person even do this to himself?

Disgust stirred up Yuri’s stomach.

‘By the way… … . How can I not get caught by that monstrous instructor?’