14-2. A black heart for a knight.

“Then, Heavenly Demon. What can I do?”

Back in the woods. I asked Baek Mokryeon exactly what the training was about.

But she was just thinking about something with her arms crossed.

“Heavenly Demon?”

“..Boy, try swinging your sword for now. That would be the most accurate.”

“Yes? Aren’t you learning the moves or demonstrating them first? Whether you’re going to get an altar or something….”

Something was strange. If you are going to reach the level of martial arts, isn’t it about gaining enlightenment through imagery, or getting stronger at once by getting a leap or secret level?

“Noisy. A swordsman speaks with a sword. Since when did you become a person who speaks with your mouth?”

“I understand.”

I wondered and asked the question again, but instead, she put her hand between her brows and gestured more angrily.

─Sereung.

Silver steel pulled out of the scabbard with a clicking sound. The holy sword has returned to Kainel. The only weapons I had left were common, common-grade items.

‘I wonder if it’s enough to slash the shadows.’

A technique that cuts light and shade. Takes the posture of Drake Ryu Type 1 that deals damage to connected entities. Kicked the ground hard Breathe in again, blood flow throughout the body—

“Stop. Boy.”

“..Yes? Why?”

Why did you suddenly hang up? Maybe it took too much power. The Heavenly Demon began to approach me one step at a time with a displeased face.

“..The boy has too many idle thoughts.”

“Me..?”

“That’s right, originally that snoring guy’s swordsmanship wasn’t so thoughtful.”

I felt like I was criticizing Master Drake, but I listened. Do you have a lot of thoughts? It was the first time I had heard of it. It sounds like you need a preliminary action or something like that….

“You’re doing it again. Boy.”

“…”

There were so many things I gained from this through my thoughts, but it was a habit I developed because I couldn’t trust anyone except the saintess in real life. It is a negative habit.

“The level needed to get out of this forest is the sword of the heart. You should be able to cut down the power of the demon king with only the will in your heart. Boy.”

“Wouldn’t it be better to swing the sword and cut it like the demon king?”

“Wrong. Huh, I don’t know where to begin.”

As if it was wrong to see me, the Heavenly Horse turned its back and sat down on a rock in the distance. Then he took out one of her swords and threw it between him and her.

“It is not a physical story, but a story of mindset. Boy.”

Steel that strikes the ground vertically with a loud sound.

“…”

“The boy thinks too much about the sword. It’s a different advantage than others, but he doesn’t help you get out of this place.”

“Is that so.. Is it..”

In hindsight, it was. I had too many thoughts, so I didn’t consider the crown prince route when it comes to our saintess. For her sake, she would do anything.

As soon as Chartines found out that she was a second-generation saintess, she couldn’t keep her composure. She shook her head. Her helmet rattled.

“Have you ever lost money because you have too many thoughts? Boy.”

“..If you look closely, there are many.”

“Yes, it is not even funny. hehehe! A prosecutor who suffers in this day and age. The Murim lord will be very happy when he sees it.”

As if the conversation had finally come to an end, the Heavenly Demon grinned and started approaching the sword. A black coating fluttered.

“There is something the boy is currently running away from in his heart.”

“..What do you mean by that?”

“He is what is commonly called Shimma. A boy who seems to have no idea of the master of cultivation of magic has such a thing in it from the beginning, so for now, training will begin with this.”

Grabbing the handle of the sword, the Heavenly Demon pressed the iron sword to the ground once more. Kugung. I heard the sound of the ground shaking.

“.. She has seen and learned many things since she came to this world.”

“Does the Heavenly Demon learn anything new?”

“Because this place is a chaotic jumble of groups of people from all over the world, as if they were slanted with thread and needle.”

That’s right. It wasn’t long after Emperor Locke united the four countries into the Grancia Empire.

“Yes.”

That’s right, because the place Nex wanted to hold her wedding was once called the Land of Water. The emperor is also from the land country, so he has an earth attribute.

“Among them, I heard some strange things from Drake.”

“..No way.”

I guessed something about that, so I looked at the steel sword again. The Heavenly Demon was just observing me intently.

‘Where have you seen this?’

A sword that is more than half buried in the ground. It’s a picture I’ve seen many times in other games. Although it is a physically ignorant form.

“‘I took out the sword stuck in the rock and became king’ is a fable that is not even funny. Isn’t something as simple as that determining a person’s quality from the start?”

“…”

Indeed, this was the case with Kenel. It wasn’t that he was kind or righteous because he was chosen as the warrior of light, he was a good man from the beginning.

“..That’s right. Heavenly Demon.”

He was chosen as a warrior, but his position was not good because of the cult of warriors. If you look at the setting book, it says that he was despised even in the village where he lived.

“Do you understand now? Boy? What does the original woman want to say?”

“After all, aren’t you saying that the user who uses the sword is important?”

From the beginning, the holy sword does not determine the hero. Does that mean I definitely understood.

“Yes, it is a fable, a fable, and a fable. The boy needs the mindset to get through this story.”

“.. Pulling out this sword will be my task. Heavenly Demon.”

“Khehehehe! He’s also Dennis’s apprentice, the man chosen by the damn god of intellect. I miss you.”

It’s not that you draw a sword to become a hero, it’s that you draw a sword because you’re already a hero. I walked towards the sword. Silver steel greeted me.

‘..Wrong. It doesn’t even move.’

I eagerly grabbed the hilt of the sword and pulled it, but the sword, deeply embedded in the ground, did not move. It’s generally not just buried.

“Khehehehe…! Why? Or, is something not going your way? Boy?”

“..Yes, please give me some advice.”

The knife was inserted with the will to ‘not be pulled out’. There is no way to do it by general means. Whimpering with all my strength, I asked the Heavenly Demon for help.

“It’s simple. Find Simma in your heart. Boy.”

“So what exactly is that..!”

“Even if the original woman tells it, the boy can’t overcome it. Unless you wake it up yourself.”

I started wrestling with the sword with no promise. Since it was martial arts, I thought I was learning martial arts or internal skills, but it felt like a doll-picking machine.

***

That time. At the academy’s swordsmanship training ground, three people gathered.

“Hello, Mardol.”

“…”

“Mardol, I’m sorry that Kai didn’t notice.. But please accept my greetings..”

They were the blonde-haired warrior Kainel, the mad wizard Ariel, and the glass knight. As soon as they met, they sighed and started talking.

“..So Mardol, did you find Licht?”

“No, not at all.”

“Professor Dennis is also looking for it.. But there is no progress..”

Situation report regarding the black knight who is not here. They were talking about a person named Richt who saved them by becoming the current demon king.

“You bastard, Richt. Just come back alive.”

Kynell ruffled his hair, spitting out a nutmeg letter uncharacteristically. Even so, the trio here were worried about the man.

“Mr. Pugu is not really dead.. No..”

“Ariel. Talk too much.”

“Oh, sorry, Mardol.”

Ariel expressed his concern with a tear-stained expression, but Fine stopped it. She was a character who must come back alive.

‘I can’t believe I’ll become a card like my mother this time too….’

Just imagining it was terrifying. The trauma she had from her past reappeared, making it difficult for her to breathe. Cold sweat ran through the glass helmet, her ears and tail drooping.

“Ugh..”

“Mardol, are you okay?!”

“It’s okay.. Ah.”

When I put my hand on her chest armor and took a few deep breaths to calm her down, the negative thoughts finally subsided. The warrior couple looked at Fine in such a state of pity.

“Mardol, shouldn’t you take a break?”

“It’s okay. So…Kinel…”

“Huh? What’s the matter?”

“Who is the person that Richt likes..?”

“Ah.”

Her blonde haired warrior tilted her head at the question that came so suddenly. As he became the Demon King, that was the only thing he asked the glass knight for.

“..They said he was a beautiful person with gray hair. Mardol.”

“Is that the end?”

“Also, she said that she was a nameless saint, and that she would be chosen as a saint in the future…”

“..There is too little information. Cainell.”

“I don’t know the details either. He said he had to protect him because he was a tough guy with bad luck. It seems that the cult of heroes was aiming for it….”

“Haa.. After all, you don’t know.”

Fine sighed. She confessed that she already knew that she was of the imperial family, and he was the man who even provoked her to make the magic hat work so that her mother would not be harmed.

‘A nameless saint? No matter how much you search, such a person will not come out. Richt…’

I had already asked two out of ten, and tried to keep the will he left by using all the power I had.

But what came back were unexpected words.

“A nameless saintess, there is no such person in our . Princess.”

“He is a person who does not even know the future. Sorry. Miss Pine.”

I was searching through the Imperial Guard, Gold, and all of my personal connections. She was said to be a saint from the future, so she tried talking to Beatrice, but she only repeated that she didn’t know.

“There was no such person at least when I was looking. Cainell.”

“What? Mardol, I thought you could find it… What should I do, Licht?”

In the glass helmet, Fine looked grim. If she had gray hair, it was also a feature she possessed. She had white hair visible from within her armor.

“..Licht. I’m worried.”

But wasn’t it said that she was a saint with wolf ears and a wolf tail? I don’t know what she looks like except for her gray hair. I needed some more information.

‘If I was that kind of person from the start, there’s no way you would say that to me….’

The front and back do not match. Because he couldn’t tell me to look at him and protect himself. There is no such thing as being chosen as a saint later on.

If so, the sage who sees the future would have tipped him off.

“..It is said that she is a 3rd generation saintess. Eventually.”

In the first place, her close sister was a vampire, Saint Sartine’s. The position chosen by the god of light does not come to anyone.

“…”

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Does Lichtra know about her man’s sacrifice? That person. She listened to Kainel’s explanation that she had never contacted anyone or sent a letter in the first place.

“Mr. Tugu, then… you became stronger because of him from the beginning. I did not know..”

Fine once again confirmed that it was her terrible unrequited love. Her hand involuntarily tightened and her fist clenched.

‘At least after Licht disappeared, she should have come to us.’

She hated being asked to find and protect someone who didn’t even stand by her side when she was in danger. She was the kind of person she couldn’t understand.

“..I don’t understand. Bad.”

Wolf ears and tail rose slightly in annoyance in her glass armor, but no one noticed.