104 – Studying and training are so annoying # 6

104 – Studying and training are so annoying #6

footprint.

reading the footprints

Ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

When I focused my eyes, I saw a dizzying set of footprints.

Like a building full of elementary school classrooms, there were many footprints of children.

Write, too many.

It’s just dizzy.

“How do I tell them apart?”

It reminded me of learning how to read footprints, but never learning how to tell them apart.

If it was Garot, he would be able to chase after reading only the traces he wanted here.

As expected, it was a skill I learned stealing for a day or two, so the limits were clear.

“I was careless, but to the point of ostracizing me. Great for a kid.”

It was a child wearing a gray robe.

He looked like he was in the first year of elementary school, but he probably wasn’t a student at this school.

Because I wasn’t wearing a school uniform and I wasn’t attending classes.

– Meowong.

Then something stuck to the nape of my neck.

As I moved my hand, it caught a warm, soft ball of hair.

It was Moru Moru.

“What are you doing here?”

ㅡ kong kong.

“That’s right. It just went well. I’m looking for a kid. He’s wearing a robe, not a school uniform. Can you find him?”

An anvil is an animal.

You should be able to catch it by smelling it.

But where is his nose?

Full-.

Soon Moru Moru jumped from my shoulder to the floor.

Then it began to move slowly forward, squirming its hairy body.

– Meowong.

Morumoru arrived in a place like an auditorium.

To be precise, it could be described as the roof of an auditorium.

In the auditorium overlooking from the roof, there were a lot of children gathered and taking classes, but I don’t know why, but it seemed like they were doing combat training or something.

“The spear is a long weapon. You should be able to make the most of your long reach strengths.”

“The dagger is short. Instead, it has the advantage of being easy to carry.”

Each weapon is explained.

But why did Morumoru bring me here?

Of course, I quickly figured out why.

I caught my eye on a girl on the roof looking through a window that had been opened into the room.

As soon as our eyes met the gray robe, he trembled.

“… … !”

It’s like someone caught stealing.

It was true that he was actually caught stealing.

He was secretly listening to the class being held in this auditorium from the roof.

In other words, it would be better to describe it as a river thief.

It is a river crossing.

Parbabat-.

The river thief in the gray robe tried to escape from me again.

But the entrance to the roof is blocked by me.

The only way to escape would be to jump off the roof of this 4-story auditorium.

“hehehehe-, now you’re a hamster in a dock.”

I said it, but it sounds like something a villain would say.

stride, stride-.

Step by step, I narrowed the encirclement and approached the little thief in the river.

A little boy trembling in a corner with his escape route blocked.

“It’s dangerous if you fall for no reason, so come this way.”

Shuk-.

I reached out my hand towards that guy.

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Just when I thought all I had to do was grab hold of it, the little boy slipped through my hands.

Then he jumped from the 4th floor!

“Is it true?”

I didn’t expect to jump from this height, so I couldn’t help but panic a little, but I quickly came back to my senses and looked down.

If a child who jumped from the 4th floor was seriously injured, even if it was me, it would be a little difficult.

Tadada dat-.

But to my surprise, the little boy was running along the outer wall of the auditorium as if it were flat!

Are you climbing the wall?

And that also rides a wall from top to bottom?

“Awesome.”

I didn’t think of him as an ordinary kid, but hey.

Was it a girl raised to be a thief or an assassin in a special ‘organization’?

pat-.

The girl who finally landed on the floor looked up at me.

Is the face hidden under the robe elated or relieved?

“You can’t think that you just ran away from me with that.”

I should stop playing with the kids.

Shuk-.

I reached out to my shadow and grabbed the girl by the ankle.

It was the technique [money guide and doll drawing] that was used to neutralize the magician Faust’s barrier earlier.

It was good to catch off guard like this by using my opponent’s shadow as a connected portal.

“Caught.”

I squeezed myself into the little girl’s shadow and moved the space.

Before I knew it, the little boy who was caught by my ankles and lifted upside down struggled.

It seemed like he was trying to put his hand in his pocket, so I shook the little boy lightly with the feeling of getting wet.

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Jiglang, jjallang-.

Warrr-.

Then, from under the robe, all kinds of things poured out toward the floor.

From blades small enough to fit in a pocket, to lockpick packs, smoke grenades, scroll maps, portable flints to start a fire, and so on.

“There are a lot of work tools. who were you Where have you seen us before?”

“… … .”

The little boy didn’t answer.

Thinking that he was more reticent than I thought, the little boy struggled even more, as if he was trying to get out of my grasp.

Of course, as long as I was caught, I couldn’t escape.

“Give up. Once caught, you can’t run away. If you’re quiet, I’ll drop you off.”

“… drop me… .”

“yes? Instead, you have to be quiet.”

Shuk-.

I lowered the little boy to the floor.

Pot-!

As soon as I put it down, the little boy moved his legs to get away from me. Fortunately, the guy couldn’t even take a step and fell to the floor.

“… … .”

A little boy looking up at me as if he couldn’t understand.

I was just stepping on the kid’s shadow.

A skill that interferes with the opponent’s movement by stepping on the shadow.

It was [Shadow Bind], the only binding skill I had.

“As long as I’m stepping on your shadow, you can’t run away.”

“Ugh… .”

He is a very ferocious and ferocious fellow.

Maybe it was the kid who scratched Salome with his fingernails and hurt her.

He took away the drawing diary, but he said he had a hard time struggling.

“Did you come to look for the diary?”

I asked.

Then, the girl with the robe pressed down finally nodded slightly.

Nodding-.

“I see.”

* * *

“Picture Diary… . no one can see… . The world is in danger… . Cheongi Leak… .”

The little boy with his robe pressed down deeply spoke in a low voice.

It was a story that was difficult to understand, perhaps because of his timid personality.

Still, compared to the time before when I was running amok like a wild dog squirrel, I was a lot calmer.

It must have been because he gave me a piece of cotton candy from the school canteen in my hand.

“… cotton candy.”

Toys and food are good to get close to the kids.

Anyway, to sum it up:

This little boy is a member of Tenebris and is called ‘The Shaman of Gluttony’, and he said that he came all the way to this school in search of a diary that Salome had stolen at will.

The diary contains the things that will happen in the future, and if an evil person gets their hands on it, something terrifying and unpredictable might happen—the little boy’s story was.

“Salome is a bad person. But it won’t be easy to get back what’s already in his hands. I will never give it back.”

“… … .”

Chuuk-.

Hina, the gluttonous priestess, was clearly limp.

It was a moment when I felt that this guy was a really precious thing.

I’m sorry.

Then the little boy rummaged through his arms, picked something up in his palm, and held it out to me.

“… request.”

“request?”

“… repair.”

“Aha, are you going to make a request to me? You want Salome’s diary back? Is this the reward?”

nod, nod-.

I looked at the nodding girl’s palm.

There was something like a round pearl in the small palm, and the color changing to red, yellow, green, and green was pretty.

7 color pearls?

Even just looking at it, it feels like a great treasure.

It wasn’t something the kids could hold on to.

“great. What will you listen to?”

Shuk.

I have accepted pearls.

I’ll steal the diary from Salome and return it to this child.

For some reason, I have a ‘feeling’ that I should.

And my feelings were generally good.

“First of all, I’ll have to wait until class is over.”

Salome must have been teaching the children now.

No matter how much I say, it’s hard to break through the eyes of children and open Salome’s pockets.

It would be a good time to steal things when he goes to the teacher’s office after class or when he is eating lunch.

I was waiting until then, but my client, Hina, took a quick step.

“Hey, where are you going?”

“… class.”

class?

what class.

I moved cautiously and followed Hina.

Hina headed for a sunny building, but lifted her toes and peeked through the window.

Is there something important beyond the window?

I also glanced through the window.

“Today’s class is about drawing. Contrast. light and darkness. Just adding them can bring a picture to life. As you can see here, apples like this, like this-. Did you see it?”

drawing apples?

Why is Hina here?

“Well then, the model will be that Modelina as always. Time is 30 minutes. Please draw while paying attention to the contrast. Then start-.”

As the bun-haired teacher sat down on a chair, the children surrounding her started drawing on their own white paper.

It’s an art class.

While I was nodding my head in agreement, Hinado, who had asked me to steal my drawing diary, also picked up a nearby wooden stick and drew a picture on the floor.

“… Contrast.”

It was crooked, but I could tell that it was drawing the bun-haired art teacher, Modelina.

indeed.

It’s crossing the river again.

I never thought there would be a child who would study by looking through a window or looking down from a rooftop like this without paying tuition.

Is the will to learn greater than you think?

Of course it was illegal.

If you want to learn lectures, it’s right to take the entrance exam and pay the tuition fairly.

However, Graham Academy was such a demanding school that no one could get into it.

The tuition fee is also quite expensive.

In this Pangea continent, the kids who go to ‘school’ were honestly in the top 10% or not.

The remaining 90 percent of the children entered commerce and industry to make a living from a young age, or found employment as servants serving nobles.

It’s probably because they don’t have enough money to get their kids into school right now.

Also, normal kids don’t like to study this or that.

However, it seems that there were also children like Hina who wanted to listen to the lecture even if they were stealing.

“… Contrast.”

Snip, snip-.

“Ugh… .”

“What’s not going well?”

“… … .”

Hey, how do you put light and shade into a picture you draw on a dirt floor with tree branches?

Even if it was possible, it was impossible for a child who now only looked like a first grader.

Ding dong dang dong -.

Then the bell rang.

Now, Salomedo will finish class and head to the teacher’s office.

I headed to the principal’s office where the teachers in charge of the first grade stay.

I saw Salome sitting at her desk.

“Hey, Salome.”

“Father Naru. What brought you to the teachers’ office?”

Oh wow, sheck-.

Because I’m good at acting.

You are playing the perfect teacher.

I said to Salome.

“Hina asked me to return the picture diary. He gave me this instead.”

Shuk-.

I held out the pearl in front of Salome’s eyes.

It was the moment when Salome’s red eyes flashed.