Memoirs of the Returnee - Chapter 20



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＃Returner’s Notepad Episode 20

Sword and you (2)

Solliet Arcne leaned against the balcony railing and blinked. She had just seen something interesting, and without realizing it, I took a step back to avoid meeting her eyes.

“Who you choose is also important.”

At that time, someone’s words seemed to be addressed to me.

“… … hmm?”

Soliet looked back at that place.

It was Elise. She approached with a report fluttering in one hand.

“It is more efficient to select a person with the ability to produce good results and write the report so that your analytical skills stand out as much as possible.”

“ah… … . thank you.”

Solliet bowed her head.

Elise asked dryly.

“Are you feeling okay now?”

“… … .”

Soliette did not answer.

Elise asked back.

“It must be boring. “This class is for you.”

“Not really.”

The conversation is cut short. It is not easy to continue one piece at a time.

Because of this, Elise is sometimes suspicious.

In the past, were we really close before?

-and. Gerken, that guy is great. I guess I could just sell that herbal food as is.

—That was improvisation, right?

—He’s a genius. Ah, I’m jealous.

A commotion happening somewhere. Of course, it was the balcony on the Gerken side. 30 out of 35 people were stuck to Gerken. Even Kane and Escher.

“Do you know?”

Soliet asked then. Elise looked back at her.

“You mean Gerken?”

“yes.”

“I know. “I don’t know much about it.”

“So, what about over there?”

Soliette pointed somewhere else. Elise glanced at that place, then frowned.

It was Zion Askal.

“Do you know?”

“… … “I know.”

Elise added with a small smile.

“You’re mentally ill. “I’m a failing student.”

Then Solliet nodded calmly.

“okay. “I just did a sword dance.”

“Sword dance?”

Elise asked back, frowning.

Geommu means ‘the act of performing swordsmanship beautifully, smoothly, and perfectly without stopping or stirring.’

It is a level that can be displayed only when a certain level of swordsmanship is adequately mastered.

“yes. “That person.”

“… … .”

Elise thought for a moment.

Is it humor? Or is this a joke?

Solliette is a very boring person, so it makes sense. No, in the first place, Arcne itself is a famously boring family that is known for being boring.

“… … Hehehe.”

Elise forced a smile. Solliet made an expression asking why she was laughing. Elise’s eyes narrowed.

“What kind of rhythm do you want?”

“It’s a beat. It’s true. It was really a sword dance, but it was ordinary.”

It’s ordinary.

Even the adjective ‘ordinary’ would be a compliment that would leave a lasting impression on Sion Askal’s pathetic life.

“Take a look.”

Solliet said, taking a piece of gum out of her pocket.

“Video recording. “You just have to show your student ID.”

There is a video room on one side of the balcony. If you want to watch a swordsmanship video of a specific senior, you can tag him with his student ID and borrow it.

Elise pouted her lips.

“know. “If you turn it around, your name will remain.”

“Well, let me lend you my student ID.”

Chewy- Soliet said while chewing gum.

Elise’s eyes sank.

“ah. I’m sorry. “I’m quitting smoking.”

“… … it’s okay.”

Elise shook her head and smiled faintly again.

It’s completely understandable. She suffered a serious accident and will still have major scars on her body and mind.

“I’m going to go to the restroom.”

Soliet tapped something on Elise’s chest.

It was a student ID.

“I said I don’t need it.”

Soliette left without answering with her hands in her pockets, and Elise looked down at the balcony.

There was Zion with yellow braided hair.

“Sword dance… … .”

It’s nonsense, but since it’s Solliet’s words, you can’t help but believe it.

Elise looked back at the video recording room in the back.

Again, I saw Soliet’s student ID card in my hand.

“… … Tsk.”

I clicked my tongue and walked towards the video recording room.

There is no particular reason. I’m just curious. Not Sion Askal, but the truth of what Solliet said.

* * *

— 5 minutes left. We’ll be changing in 5 minutes, so please do your best until then.

5 minutes before shift change, personal training room.

I watched the swordsmanship video I had just ‘reenacted’ on the tablet on my desk.

“… … “It’s not good.”

A sigh passed.

Of course, it was a neat and refined movement, but I was not impressed by my father’s swordsmanship. As always, Askar’s swordsmanship was mediocre, and so was his father’s talent.

Even the ‘treasure sword’ I’m holding right now is ambiguous.

The Askal sword is a very long sword with a total length of 1.5m, but it is not enough to take advantage of the range advantage. At only 1.5m, it is only a little longer than an average long sword, but it is definitely shorter than a spear.

Simply put, it is a colorless and odorless sword with no special advantages or disadvantages.

A sword that resembles his father.

Before returning, even I had abandoned this sword technique. During the time in the underworld, I didn’t have much time to spare, so I just held on to various things and swung them around.

To put it bluntly, Askal swordsmanship is just such a trash swordsmanship that it is natural that it will be eliminated and disappear.

If he had been great in the first place, he wouldn’t have been a low-level knight.

“What do you think?”

Nevertheless, I will not give up this sword. They won’t sell it out like they used to.

Askal Ryu.

The expression ‘Ryu’ is also a fancy way of saying swordsmanship, but I will consider this lack and shabby thing as my roots.

A tree without roots cannot grow.

“Let’s just change the herbivorous diet.”

However, I do not plan to accept the family’s herbivorous approach. In order not to repeat my father’s future, and not to become someone like him.

I love my father so much, but I can’t respect him enough.

—30 minutes have passed. We will now shift.

It was now shift time.

I left the training room and went up to the balcony, and the students on the balcony took turns entering the training room.

I stood on the balcony, holding a report and a pen instead of a sword.

There are many people to see.

First of all, Elise. Ten years later, she becomes the lord of the magic tower and the president of the university, but she is also very talented in swordsmanship.

It goes without saying that Kane and Escher initially had careers as knights.

-oh. do. do.

—Just standing there?

-Shh. Look quietly.

But one place in particular was crowded with people.

I went there too.

“… … .”

If it were obvious, it would be natural, Solliet Arcne.

She stood still, clutching her sword.

After a while, he swung his sword. The lines of his magic waved like waves. From that, Solliet developed her sword skills.

It was a simple weaving consisting of 7 to 8 strokes, like weaving a net, but even that was enough to cause wonder.

—Oooooh.

A welcoming gallery. It seems like they are already trying to get a waiting ticket for the video recording room.

However, for some reason, I find myself immersed in deep contemplation.

“… … “It’s definitely different.”

The Soliet of today and the Soliet of the future are very different.

I’m not talking about skill or level of development.

Solliet here is imitating Arcne’s swordsmanship without motivation. As if she were simply carrying out the ‘curriculum’ set out by her family.

I also have a vague understanding of Arcne’s arcane sword skills. I have even encountered it in person.

To explain briefly, Arcne is, broadly speaking, a ‘soft sword’.

The first and basic sword style, Baegum (八劍), the second sword style, Kihwageom (氣火劍), etc… … A total of eleven sword techniques complete Arcne’s arcane sword technique.

For reference, swordsmanship is somewhere between swordsmanship and herbivory. It’s too much like swordsmanship to be herbivorous, and it’s not something that can be completed independently to be considered swordsmanship.

Arcne’s arcane swordsmanship unfolds these sword techniques one after another, ultimately completing them all as one.

That’s why it’s a soft sword.

When eleven sword techniques come together as one, the entire sword technique spreads like fire. At that point, the sword no longer looks like a sword, but actually attacks as a fire demon, but ironically, Soliet’s tendency is the exact opposite.

She is an ‘absolute sword’. There is no particular standard for swordsmanship, and depending on the moment, one’s judgment is replaced by one’s intuition.

This absolute sword is both common and rare.

It is both a seashell and a pearl at the same time.

An incomplete sword is the swordsmanship of a lowly scoundrel, but a completed sword is the gesture of a immortal.

The extreme sword cuts off all ties.

Destroys swordsmanship and cuts the chain of cause and effect.

However, the level of ‘perfecting the absolute sword’ is close to impossible, and there are only a handful of people across the continent who can use it to a reasonable degree.

Soliet completed the extremely difficult sword in the not-too-distant future. She has at least reached the threshold of heaven outside heaven.

I still remember her great appearance back then.

“… … for a moment. memory?”

But, the word ‘memory’ somehow bothers me.

I looked alternately at the sword at my waist and the report in my hand.

I have no intention of spoiling Future Absolute Sword for her.

Rather, I hope that in this life she will not realize the absolute sword.

Because her Absolute Sword is a disaster born from her despair. Because it will push her into her mud and will inevitably make her unhappy.

“It’s an absolute sword… … .”

If that’s the case, somehow I agree. I’m jealous. Greed rises.

By any chance, could a part of that absolute sword be transplanted into Askal swordsmanship?

Can I add a little bit of the soliette from my “memory”?

It is a sword that the Arcne family despises, saying it is a curse in itself, but I am willing to accept that curse.

—Oooooh. Did you just see it?

—Crazy, crazy.

Amid the echoing exclamations, I quietly turned around.

Holding the report in my hand, I leaned against the railing and fell into a little deep thought… … .

* * *

After the swordsmanship class, Elise’s private house.

Luxury apartment “Presium” located in Edsilla.

“Miss, what would you like for a snack?”

“I’m trying to control my weight.”

“Ah, where is the weight to lose?”

“If you don’t do it when it starts to steam, it will be too late.”

Elise answered the maid and looked at the laptop.

[Sion Askal]

A video is playing on the laptop. This is a video of Sion Askal performing a ‘sword dance’—in Solliette’s words—borrowed from the records room under Soliet’s name.

Rewinding what she had already seen once, one more time, one more time, one more time, Elise turned the pen and analyzed it.

“I understand.”

I also seemed to understand to some extent why Solliet was interested.

First of all, sword dance is correct.

If we follow the dictionary definition of ‘the act of performing a certain swordsmanship flawlessly and elegantly’.

However, it is not good swordsmanship. This is a textbook that even low-ranking knights can use to stir things up.

However, Sion learned this sword technique.

It is not just a level of learning.

Perhaps, the ‘end’ has been reached.

“really… … .”

How much effort did it take to master this level of swordsmanship so precisely and smoothly? How much effort was put into this bottomless poison?

It’s beyond pathetic and pitiful.

Elise closed the laptop. Pisik – The corner of his mouth twisted as if he was smiling.

“How can you be so stupid?”

Now I feel like I understand a little bit why I was so energetic.

You put in this much effort.

Just how much effort did it take to master this kind of swordsmanship so perfectly?

“Born was the problem.”

The direction was wrong. Vector settings are incorrect.

Sion Askal has no talent.

If he really had talent, he would have shown flashes of skill at least once while using low-level swordsmanship like this.

However, Sion and Askal are only practicing swordsmanship. Just without thinking.

It seems like the extra time was replaced with effort, but let’s talk about how.

Effort without talent is ‘wrong’.

“Libra’s guardian knight… … “Is this how it can work?”

Elise muttered mockingly and soon erased the existence of Zion from her mind.