39 – Tournaments (3)

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“I’ve been curious about it for a long time… is Mr. Berry mixed-race?”

As I was about to leave the alchemy room after receiving the elixir from Anna, she asked me that.

… Was this the reason why you kept glancing at my face from a while ago?

“I don’t think it’s mixed blood… Maybe odd-eye is a trait that only appears on mixed blood?”

When I asked as she touched my lower eyelids, Anna clapped with her eyes and mouth wide open.

Something must be… It’s like that, that’s a cat pretending to be cute from foreign animations.

Of course, in her case, it must have been an unintentional act, but it rather highlighted her innocence.

“No, no! This can happen if you are of mixed blood, but if you are not of mixed blood, in most cases, people with special talents will manifest themselves! That’s why I wondered if Mr. Berry was born with a talent for swordsmanship… .”

“okay?”

“Yes…! Odd-eyed, not half-blood… I’ve never seen one before!”

Unlike usual, Anna answered very courageously.

I turned my head to see my face reflected in the giant flask. Even the trace changer couldn’t change my eyes.

Contrary to Anna’s expectations, my left eye, which was acquired and not congenital, became an odd eye.

As my consciousness focused on my left eye, half of my field of vision suddenly disappeared, recalling memories I had forgotten.

-From the looks of others, it should be fine since it has a prosthetic eye that moves naturally.

The fact that I sacrificed my left eye to get Lily’s Elixir.

Why have I forgotten this important fact until now? Why did the vision suddenly disappear?

Without even time to answer my question, Anna awakened my spirit, which had been staring blankly at the flask.

“Berry-san…?”

“Oh, huh?”

“Are you okay? Are you tired…?”

“Oh, no no! Look at it! See you next time!”

Anna hurried away, and began to rummage through the flasks in her drawer. Apparently, he was looking for a good elixir for fatigue.

However, I wasn’t particularly tired, so I hurriedly said goodbye to Anna and left the alchemy room.

I also got this elixir for free, but seeing Anna trying to give me a pill for fatigue made me feel like a bully taking advantage of a child for some reason.

… But why was I bruised?

I didn’t have time to tilt my head and worry, as soon as I left the alchemy room, I saw the maid from before bowing again to my left.

“Go carefully, Mr. Berry.”

“Uh… yes.”

My errands were over, and I had no time to waste time here, so I hurriedly moved toward the training ground.

For the upcoming tournament, Lily’s opinion was that we should continue to work together until the day before.

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As soon as I got off the circular carriage, I heard Lily’s voice faintly on the wind. A bit angular… A voice full of annoyance.

Then I heard the conversation partner make excuses in a hesitant, crawling voice.

I couldn’t hear the words that followed the voice that gradually became smaller, but this alone was enough to easily guess that something had happened.

“So why are you curious about that? More than that, were we worth asking about that?”

“Oh no, I’m just curious…”

As the carriage slowly moved away with the sound of the horses’ hooves again, Lily, who had been obscured by the carriage, came into view.

And Selina, who is wiggling her fingers beside her, and Ian, who is restless not knowing how to mediate.

“What the hell is this?”

A completely unexpected problem was happening right in front of my training ground, so I hurriedly moved my leg toward Lily.

Voices that I hear more clearly as I get closer to them.

“Curiosity? Are you curious about the personal life of the imperial family? No, don’t you know that it’s rude enough to have an equal relationship, not the imperial family?”

“I’m sorry! I was just wondering what kind of person Her Highness’ rumored fiance would be! I’m sorry…!”

Selina bent down and apologized to Lily. in a very loud voice.

As a result, the attention of the students from the Faculty of Swords began to focus on Lily.

Ian also started to show the appearance of wandering around Selina and Lily alternately as the situation went badly.

I’m not trying to rectify the situation somehow.

“…Your indecisive personality is really consistent, Ian.”

They say that people die if they change easily, but it was clear that this guy’s lifespan would be damn long. Wouldn’t it be at least about the Galapagos tortoise?

“What’s going on? In front of someone else’s training ground.”

“Ah, Berry!”

All eyes were on me as I stepped through the thorny vines that no one dared to step into.

The eyes are like a housewife watching a morning drama.

There’s nothing more fucked up than when people’s attention is drawn to you even though you haven’t done anything wrong. it’s my experience

Unless you know if you are receiving an award for doing something good, this situation is different from him, so it would be the right decision to divert your attention to someone else entirely.

“Come to think of it, Ian, I’ll give you the dorm room for the head of the fencing department… Didn’t I say I would take the head training center? Are you greedy for the training ground now?”

“Uh, uh? No, that’s not it…”

“This is too much… I had no choice but to hand it over because you begged me to live with your maid somehow.”

“Ah, no, when did I do that…! I hope you suggested it first…!”

“…Is that really Ian?”

“…?”

Selina suddenly intervened between me and Ian, opened an ax eye, and glanced at Ian.

I couldn’t help but look at her with a questioning expression on my face.

Originally, my plan was to laugh at Ian, who didn’t know what to do, saying it was a joke, and then just finish the story properly and let him go.

In a word, it meant that I never expected Selina to show jealousy here.

The reason is, of course, that even though Ian was the main character with numerous heroines, there were very few scenes in which Selina showed jealousy.

If there’s one scene that comes to mind… Was it when Ian’s maid was discovered secretly kissing him every night?

As I touched my chin, I heard Selina’s voice sinking like a swamp, and Ian’s voice getting smaller as if hesitating and crawling in.

“Ian, didn’t you say anything the other day when the maid told me that she was taking care of lodging and meals on the servants’ floor? You were right next to me too.”

“The atmosphere was a bit… so bad…”

“So what he said is true? He lives with that maid. Right?”

“That’s what Selina, uh…no matter what, she’s been a maid who’s taken care of me since I was little, but now she’s kicking me out too, right? Since there are enough rooms in the senior dormitory…that’s why I accepted…”

“It’s time to sleep…!”

Selina didn’t want to say anything for a moment, but she moved her eyes and glanced at us, then spoke again.

“Now, aren’t we going to sleep together?”

“No way! I swear! How could I ask Cindy to sleep with me!”

Ian began to protest, saying that he was not an ungrateful beast.

‘Cindy’s a bitch who’ll take off her clothes first if you tell her you want to sleep with her, you idiot.’

Perhaps in Ian’s mind, he had become a vicious aristocrat who wanted to use his power as a weapon to covet Cindy’s body.

An ungrateful nobleman who forcibly covets an older maid who has taken care of him since he was a child.

In reality, Lee Ahn was not a vicious aristocrat, but a nobleman himself, but the main character of the original web novel is inversely proportional to his appearance.

“Ah, okay! Okay! Let’s go to the training ground, and we can talk there, Ian.”

Selina, who listened to Ian’s plea, must also have felt that most of the people’s attention was focused on them,

I took Ian’s arm, who was talking hard, and hid himself among the crowd.

It seems that interest has quickly lost as the interesting spectacle disappeared soon after.

The crowds that had flocked to see the new wave began to disappear without a trace along with the sound of many rattling footsteps.

I waited until the crowd around me completely disappeared, and then I asked Lily while blowing magic power into the training ground door.

“May I ask what the hell happened before I came?”

Lily looked worried for a moment at my question, but then sighed and nodded.

“Yeah, it’s not like I can’t say this much… You deserve to hear it too.”

I joined later, but I was one of the people who suffered unnecessary damage, so it seemed that it was okay.

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“Yes? Did you mean to inquire about Her Highness’s past?”

“uh.”

Listening to the context, it was Selina who was showing enough spectacle to think that Lily hadn’t managed to use magic until now.

The fact that Lily had a fatal disease was spread all over the continent, starting with how she was cured.

Does the emperor’s shadow really exist, and if so, does Lily know what it is?

What is the reason why Ian from the Faculty of Swordsmanship and the boy who was co-chief were quite together, and even decided to be partners in tournaments?

Come to think of it, I don’t think I’ve ever heard what kind of person my fiancé is, I’ve only been digging rumors… etc.

Even during class, I sometimes asked questions, so I ignored it because I was busy. .

“If it had been a man rather than a woman, I might have really killed him.”

“Ahaha…”

Tsk. Lily clicked her tongue and licked her lips in regret.

He smiled awkwardly at her as she casually talked about the scenario of the end of the world.

It was because it was really strange that the heroine, who would normally be eliminated in the beginning, showed blatant hostility towards the main heroine.

‘By the way, why were Ian and Selina on my side of the training ground? In the original, obviously… It was written that the two of them continued training while sweating profusely until the sun went down.’

Did my presence have any other effect on their behavior?

As I tilted my head in doubt, Lily caught my eye as she sighed heavily as she pondered the situation just before with her arms crossed.

Well, if you think about it, there are only two irregulars here. If so, that might be enough… creeping horns.

After that incident, how much did you promise not to be vigilant?

It can’t be helped that I couldn’t deal with it because I lacked my thoughts, but it was reasonable to eliminate the problems caused by carelessness as much as possible.

Selina is one of the characters I had little influence on. We never even had a conversation.

Still, it shows a different aspect from the original?

Because of the irregulars called us, it shows different movements from the original work only in front of us.

That hypothesis also didn’t make sense, so I went to Ian’s training ground the next day and uttered a sentence containing certain words in front of Ian and Selina.

It was because I thought about the potential of the romance novel genre, and moreover, if it was something possessed.

Because I doubted the possibility that the possessed person wasn’t just me. To be precise, isn’t Selina also a possessor… With some kind of vague anxiety.

“Now Ian, here are the vitamins you asked for.”

vitamin.

If I were to speak of modern culture that was so blatant, if Selina was the possessor, there was a high chance that I would notice that I was looking at her.

That’s why Koreans don’t feel too uncomfortable with words that are too familiar. Even so, in this medieval setting, a word that is not even in the dictionary yet.

Even if you notice that it is an era without vitamins, if you are a Korean who is familiar with this word… If only you would have accepted the vitamins I said as if you understood them, even for one second.

I was confident that I would not miss that momentary change in expression.

… But.

“”vitamin?””

Ian and Selina speak in poor Korean pronunciation of ‘vitamin’ at the same time without a single error.

Fortunately or unfortunately, I could see that she wasn’t a possessor like me.