Chapter 3 – I’m Sorry
Judith returned to training as a new knight.
The bandage that had been loosened was put back on.
It was because she could not cover all of the Stigma with her uniform alone.
“Judith? What book is this?”
“I’m just going to read it once whenever I have time, come here.”
“Let’s see… <The War of Karnak>, <The Origin of Theology>, <The History of Veritas Empire that Begins with Theology>… Are they all theology books?”
“Violet, stop talking nonsense, I’m going to start class.”
Violet, who had been ignoring Judith’s call, sighed deeply.
She glanced at the books Judith had borrowed several times before approaching.
“Can you take all of that? Isn’t that a lot”
“There must be.”
“What’s with your answer?” pg 2
Even she thought it was an insincere answer. Judith turned away.
“From today on, Violet, I will give you a customized class. Come to think of it, I made the class plan too easily.”
“No… Think about it again, Judith. Even if you made it easy, it won’t bother me.”
If Judith was thorough, Violet would grumble about it.
Violet dissuaded her with a worried face.
Of course, it was nonsense. It’s already too late.
“As long as you teach, you have to be thorough.”
“Can’t we just not do it now? I think I was too hasty.”
“There is no rush to learning.”
“Once I decided to learn from you, I was impatient.”
Violet slowly backed away, but Judith was not one to let go.
Calipa, Raymond, and Louis watched the scene. The three took a seat on the stone steps of the empty lot.
“I don’t know why she’s trying so hard for useless things. It’ll be hard to get away from Judith anyway.”
Raymond talked to himself, looking at the two quarreling.
Beside him, Louis laid his handkerchief on Calipa’s seat.
The Count’s eldest son, Louis, was worried about having Lady Calipa sit on a dirt floor like this.
“Sit down, my lady.”
“Thank you. However, I think it’s time for you to drop the title.”
“I’m trying. But I’m just used to addressing you this way.”
Louis confirmed that Calipa was seated and then sat down.
“We will live and watch the world for a long time. Seeing all those sights because I live.”1
Raymon took the almonds from her pocket and chewed them. last pg of ch 18
***
Violet tried to escape from the training, and Judith followed her like a shadow.
Although both are stubborn, Judith deserved to be called iron stubborn among them.
The scuffle had already come to an end.
“Louis, who’s going to give up in the end? I’m 20,000 gold on Violet training.”
“I can bet about 100,000 gold on that one.”
“If Judith finds out you made a bet, she’ll have it doubled.”
“Eek.”
At Calipa’s point, Rayburn trembled as if in fear.
Violet, Calipa, Judith, Louis, Raymond.
The five have lived without prior contact at all. Their relationship began when they were assigned to a five-man platoon during their training camp.
Louis and Calipa are nobles.
In comparison, Violet, Judith, and Raymond were commoners.
Since the son of a count and the duchess barely met with the common people, no one expected the platoon to run properly.
But, you have to open the lid to know how to cook.
Calipa and Louis were well-educated people from good families.
Although there was a difference in status, he was basically a person who knew how to be considerate of others, and he had a strong will to fit into the platoon.
Although Raymond had a tough personality, he was a man of basic character.2
Not to mention Violet. She had the talent to be loved by others like a hamster.
If there’s a problem, she’s the only one.
“Can you believe that scene? The hard-working Judith is chasing after Violet to train?”
“I can’t believe it when I see it… but it’s interesting.”
During the training camp, it was Judith who hated Violet the most.
Judith, who appeared with the splendid title of Aether Master, stood out among the trainees.
The four looked at Judith from different perspectives, and their gazes merged into one within a week.
It was the gaze of a troublemaker.
“I should’ve picked another team…”
“Do you mean that?”
Louis laughed. pg 6
The first day at the dorm.
Judith went out with the platoon support fee at will and had a fight with the platoon next door.
The result was a jackpot of jackpots.
Violet, who ran as if the world had collapsed and insisted on not doing this, changed as a person after she tasted gambling.
After that, everything was a breeze.
Sometimes Violet came to her senses that she really shouldn’t be like this, but that was very rare.
Judith, who grew close to Violet, was not an ordinary person, saying that it would be good for all of us if the platoon application fee increased, even after coming all the way here and insisting on taking a step.
Of course, ending a gamble was a bittersweet end.
Judith and the four of them placed their final stake and rolled the dice their opponent brought.
The result was a magnificent defeat.
Judith ran wildly, saying that it would be okay to submit to the result, and in the end, after making a fuss, the instructor caught her and dragged her away.
“It would have been great if I had only chosen another hole at that time…”3
Raymond murmured, drunk on the vain glory of the past.
Naturally, the platoon support funds were confiscated.
If it hadn’t been for the emergency fund that Raymond had stolen, all five of them would have been starving.
Now that he thought about it, it’s a mystery how he even thought of gambling with a four-week training application fee.
Gambling blinds people.
“Still, I liked it. It was sad to lose, but… it was fun.”
Calipa laughed softly.
It was the first gamble in her life that Calipa, who had grown up as a noble lady, had a chance to do at the training camp.
Perhaps that’s why Calipa couldn’t forget. On the last day of her training, she noticed how delicious the honey muffins were when they ate together.
“The muffins were really good.”
“That muffin, I stole it from the restaurant.”
“….. You did?”
“It tastes better when stolen, my lady.”
As if she found out for the first time, she had an amazed look behind the black veil.
Calipa’s blue eyes blinked nonstop.
Raymond giggled and started weeping about his past performances.
It was mainly about how badly they behaved and how they sneaked out food. pg 11
Louis let the conversation pass. He was staring at Judith.
‘…… She wasn’t that kind of person.’
Louis was born as the eldest son of the count.
He was raised as an imperial nobleman for 21 years, and followed his father’s teachings thoroughly.
‘If you want to deal with people, look at them properly.’
From an early age, Louie met a variety of people regardless of status.
Thanks to this, he grew up as a young man who knew what people wanted.
As such Louis understood, Judith was not such a person.
Teaching someone… she wasn’t the kind of person who would spend her time for free on a demanding job.
‘At first….’
Judith was even dry in her self-introduction.
It was like that from the first day of the training camp.
It was different from the timid Violet and Rayman who tested him. She just gave her name and it was over.
Judith was all the same.
It was none of her business whether a thunderbolt fell at the training center or a typhoon hit during the training schedule.
To be honest, she wasn’t interested in anything other than money.
So these days, Louis was confused.
‘…Have I misunderstood Judith?’
At the end of Louis’ gaze was Judith.
Judith was in a confrontation with Violet.
Violet with a wooden sword and Judith with nothing.
Violet had an overwhelming advantage, but her wooden sword could not reach Judith.
She even suppressed her with her bare hands, not enough to point out that her hand continued to be empty.
‘Strange…’
Not so long ago, she wasn’t like that.
Judith was a person who went out of the palace on holidays and sold the names of imperial knights.
She calmly said that she robbed a pickpocketer and returned the stolen money. There were times when she came in with blood on her gray uniform.
‘How can a person change like that?’
His gaze on Judith shifted to the theological books she borrowed.
It was then that a stone brushed on the books.
“Hey, I didn’t know there were people here. Sorry?”
“……Seniors.”
Louis got up almost at the same time as Rayburn.
It was a vacant lot a little far from the Knights building, so it was a rare place.
“Who’s your senior? Do you think this is an academy?”
“Excuse me, Sir Frederick.”
The reddish-brown eyes were harsh.
Frederick was a red knight with a difference of five or six years from them. He was a force to be reckoned with by any rookie knight.
“I almost kicked you because you were all gathered together.”
Louis’ eyebrows furrowed slightly.
Louis was always uncomfortable with the unique hierarchical culture of the Knights Templar. Rules are everywhere, but the Knights were especially harsh.
It’s an opportunity to ignore your status and spit out informal speech. Since he experienced this when he was a freshman, there was a special feeling that you too should suffer.
“It’s polite not to at least do that to a lady.”
“Courtesy be damned. Are you calling her a noble lady these days, even if she was kicked out of the duke’s family?”
At those words, Calipa jumped up from her seat.
“Hey, why are you doing this? Let’s go over there with me. Don’t do this here.”
Raymond smiled warmly and intervened.
Sneaking in between Frederick and Calipa, he waved his hand back and forth.
His smile was his specialty.4
“It’s Impenor, the Duke of Impenor.”
“What is this bastard, why is he pretending to be friendly?”
Frederick pushed Raymond away.
Raymond took a step back, exhaling dust.
Raymon was still smiling, but his forehead had veins popping out.
“As you live your life, you can pretend to be close. Why are you pushing me?”5
“If you live, you can hit it, where are you rolling your eyes?”
Frederick gestured as if to poke Raymond’s eyes out.
“Let’s go the way we were going.”
At that time, a calm voice came out from behind Louis’s back, who was trying to dissuade him.
It was Judith
Violet walked behind her back and chased her.
Judith raised her amber-colored eyes languidly, without a single flinch.
“What?” pg 21
“As I lived my life, I had the experience of exploding someone’s dick with aether, so if you don’t want that to happen, go your way.”
Louis almost fell off the stone steps at all times.
While he was startled by his harsh words, Frerick’s face flushed red.
“Judith.”
Calipa said, calling out to her.
Judith sighed and corrected the expression to be more dark.
“I’m still inexperienced at separating the pillar and the bell. Could you please turn it off?”
Judith said with strength in the last sentence.
‘… As expected, it’s weird!’
Louis really thought so.
His face turned red at the absurd expression.
It is an expression enough to make everyone who was listening feel ashamed. It was natural for Fredrick to grit his teeth with anger.
It was when he raised his hand toward Judith.
“Frederick.”
A voice he had never heard of was not enough to stop him, so he blocked his hand.
It was his senior knight, Peon Grand.
“I was wondering where you went.”
“Sir Peon!”
Frerick’s face twitched.
Peon said without giving a glance to Judith.
“Let’s go get some onions.”
“Damn, what’s with this situation…!”
Peon didn’t blink an eye at Frederick’s burst of anger.
“Ah……”
But after a while, Frederick stopped getting angry. A mean smile spread across his lips. Like someone who realized what Peon wanted to say.
“That’s right.”
Frederick sighed and lowered his hand.
“Hey, I’ll see you kids later.”
Frederick glanced at Judith and Raymond.
“It’ll be fun.”
It didn’t take long to figure out what that meant.
The next day, Frederick and Peon threw a sack in front of them.
It was the morning training session for the Red Knights.
Wherever the instructor went, Frederick and Peon came along.
“Today’s training is gonna be fun.”
Louis had a bad feeling.
Violet and Raymon, both looking down at the sack, had similar expressions on their faces.
On the other hand, Judith was not very impressed. She had the same expression on her face as when she was involved in something that didn’t make any money.
“The guys who are so proud of themselves are going to be Imperial knights, and it won’t be much fun to train, right?”
Frerick said in a very pleasant tone.
“If you want to climb up the hill, we’ll have to give you some good training methods. This one’s called ‘taking someone’s tears with onions.”
Saying so, Frederick took the onion out of the sack.
Until then, Judith was still the same. Indifferently, she thought the training name was like a dog’s game
‘Do you see now?’6
Most of the newcomers, including Louis, were puzzled.
“From now on, I will divide the attack and defense into pairs.The one who received the onion is the defense.”
Frerick pulled the onion out of the bag and threw it.
Judith took the onion flying her way. She was told to take the defense.
Peon’s fingers picked each person one by one.
Judith’s partner was Louis.
“The defender puts an onion on the top of his foot. Never drop it, and the attacker attacks his partner for 3 minutes.”
“What kind of training is this?”
“This is training in case you get your ankles tied by a magic beast’s power.. Even if you can’t move, your upper body needs to be able to move quickly to survive.”
Peon spoke quickly, as if he had prepared an answer.
Louis was forced to face Judith.
And up to this point, Louis and all the new knights were unaware of the worst part of this training.
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TL notes ( ´ ▿ ` )
Manhwa chapter 14
“세상 오래 살고 볼 일이지. 내가 살다 보니 저런 광경을 다 봐.” 레이먼도 허파에 바람이 들긴 했 지만, 기본적인 인성이 있는 남자 였다. (“tough” isn’t the exact word but no translators are helping with this one </3) By “hole” I’m guessing he’s referring to the type of gamble game they chose. 배알 없는 웃음은 그의 특기였다. “살다 보면 친한 척 좀 할 수 있 지, 왜 밀고 그러십니까?”
Chapter 3 – I’m Sorry
Judith returned to training as a new knight.
The bandage that had been loosened was put back on.
It was because she could not cover all of the Stigma with her uniform alone.
“Judith? What book is this?”
“I’m just going to read it once whenever I have time, come here.”
“Let’s see… <The War of Karnak>, <The Origin of Theology>, <The History of Veritas Empire that Begins with Theology>… Are they all theology books?”
“Violet, stop talking nonsense, I’m going to start class.”
Violet, who had been ignoring Judith’s call, sighed deeply.
She glanced at the books Judith had borrowed several times before approaching.
“Can you take all of that? Isn’t that a lot”
“There must be.”
“What’s with your answer?” pg 2
Even she thought it was an insincere answer. Judith turned away.
“From today on, Violet, I will give you a customized class. Come to think of it, I made the class plan too easily.”
“No… Think about it again, Judith. Even if you made it easy, it won’t bother me.”
If Judith was thorough, Violet would grumble about it.
Violet dissuaded her with a worried face.
Of course, it was nonsense. It’s already too late.
“As long as you teach, you have to be thorough.”
“Can’t we just not do it now? I think I was too hasty.”
“There is no rush to learning.”
“Once I decided to learn from you, I was impatient.”
Violet slowly backed away, but Judith was not one to let go.
Calipa, Raymond, and Louis watched the scene. The three took a seat on the stone steps of the empty lot.
“I don’t know why she’s trying so hard for useless things. It’ll be hard to get away from Judith anyway.”
Raymond talked to himself, looking at the two quarreling.
Beside him, Louis laid his handkerchief on Calipa’s seat.
The Count’s eldest son, Louis, was worried about having Lady Calipa sit on a dirt floor like this.
“Sit down, my lady.”
“Thank you. However, I think it’s time for you to drop the title.”
“I’m trying. But I’m just used to addressing you this way.”
Louis confirmed that Calipa was seated and then sat down.
“We will live and watch the world for a long time. Seeing all those sights because I live.”1
Raymon took the almonds from her pocket and chewed them. last pg of ch 18
***
Violet tried to escape from the training, and Judith followed her like a shadow.
Although both are stubborn, Judith deserved to be called iron stubborn among them.
The scuffle had already come to an end.
“Louis, who’s going to give up in the end? I’m 20,000 gold on Violet training.”
“I can bet about 100,000 gold on that one.”
“If Judith finds out you made a bet, she’ll have it doubled.”
“Eek.”
At Calipa’s point, Rayburn trembled as if in fear.
Violet, Calipa, Judith, Louis, Raymond.
The five have lived without prior contact at all. Their relationship began when they were assigned to a five-man platoon during their training camp.
Louis and Calipa are nobles.
In comparison, Violet, Judith, and Raymond were commoners.
Since the son of a count and the duchess barely met with the common people, no one expected the platoon to run properly.
But, you have to open the lid to know how to cook.
Calipa and Louis were well-educated people from good families.
Although there was a difference in status, he was basically a person who knew how to be considerate of others, and he had a strong will to fit into the platoon.
Although Raymond had a tough personality, he was a man of basic character.2
Not to mention Violet. She had the talent to be loved by others like a hamster.
If there’s a problem, she’s the only one.
“Can you believe that scene? The hard-working Judith is chasing after Violet to train?”
“I can’t believe it when I see it… but it’s interesting.”
During the training camp, it was Judith who hated Violet the most.
Judith, who appeared with the splendid title of Aether Master, stood out among the trainees.
The four looked at Judith from different perspectives, and their gazes merged into one within a week.
It was the gaze of a troublemaker.
“I should’ve picked another team…”
“Do you mean that?”
Louis laughed. pg 6
The first day at the dorm.
Judith went out with the platoon support fee at will and had a fight with the platoon next door.
The result was a jackpot of jackpots.
Violet, who ran as if the world had collapsed and insisted on not doing this, changed as a person after she tasted gambling.
After that, everything was a breeze.
Sometimes Violet came to her senses that she really shouldn’t be like this, but that was very rare.
Judith, who grew close to Violet, was not an ordinary person, saying that it would be good for all of us if the platoon application fee increased, even after coming all the way here and insisting on taking a step.
Of course, ending a gamble was a bittersweet end.
Judith and the four of them placed their final stake and rolled the dice their opponent brought.
The result was a magnificent defeat.
Judith ran wildly, saying that it would be okay to submit to the result, and in the end, after making a fuss, the instructor caught her and dragged her away.
“It would have been great if I had only chosen another hole at that time…”3
Raymond murmured, drunk on the vain glory of the past.
Naturally, the platoon support funds were confiscated.
If it hadn’t been for the emergency fund that Raymond had stolen, all five of them would have been starving.
Now that he thought about it, it’s a mystery how he even thought of gambling with a four-week training application fee.
Gambling blinds people.
“Still, I liked it. It was sad to lose, but… it was fun.”
Calipa laughed softly.
It was the first gamble in her life that Calipa, who had grown up as a noble lady, had a chance to do at the training camp.
Perhaps that’s why Calipa couldn’t forget. On the last day of her training, she noticed how delicious the honey muffins were when they ate together.
“The muffins were really good.”
“That muffin, I stole it from the restaurant.”
“….. You did?”
“It tastes better when stolen, my lady.”
As if she found out for the first time, she had an amazed look behind the black veil.
Calipa’s blue eyes blinked nonstop.
Raymond giggled and started weeping about his past performances.
It was mainly about how badly they behaved and how they sneaked out food. pg 11
Louis let the conversation pass. He was staring at Judith.
‘…… She wasn’t that kind of person.’
Louis was born as the eldest son of the count.
He was raised as an imperial nobleman for 21 years, and followed his father’s teachings thoroughly.
‘If you want to deal with people, look at them properly.’
From an early age, Louie met a variety of people regardless of status.
Thanks to this, he grew up as a young man who knew what people wanted.
As such Louis understood, Judith was not such a person.
Teaching someone… she wasn’t the kind of person who would spend her time for free on a demanding job.
‘At first….’
Judith was even dry in her self-introduction.
It was like that from the first day of the training camp.
It was different from the timid Violet and Rayman who tested him. She just gave her name and it was over.
Judith was all the same.
It was none of her business whether a thunderbolt fell at the training center or a typhoon hit during the training schedule.
To be honest, she wasn’t interested in anything other than money.
So these days, Louis was confused.
‘…Have I misunderstood Judith?’
At the end of Louis’ gaze was Judith.
Judith was in a confrontation with Violet.
Violet with a wooden sword and Judith with nothing.
Violet had an overwhelming advantage, but her wooden sword could not reach Judith.
She even suppressed her with her bare hands, not enough to point out that her hand continued to be empty.
‘Strange…’
Not so long ago, she wasn’t like that.
Judith was a person who went out of the palace on holidays and sold the names of imperial knights.
She calmly said that she robbed a pickpocketer and returned the stolen money. There were times when she came in with blood on her gray uniform.
‘How can a person change like that?’
His gaze on Judith shifted to the theological books she borrowed.
It was then that a stone brushed on the books.
“Hey, I didn’t know there were people here. Sorry?”
“……Seniors.”
Louis got up almost at the same time as Rayburn.
It was a vacant lot a little far from the Knights building, so it was a rare place.
“Who’s your senior? Do you think this is an academy?”
“Excuse me, Sir Frederick.”
The reddish-brown eyes were harsh.
Frederick was a red knight with a difference of five or six years from them. He was a force to be reckoned with by any rookie knight.
“I almost kicked you because you were all gathered together.”
Louis’ eyebrows furrowed slightly.
Louis was always uncomfortable with the unique hierarchical culture of the Knights Templar. Rules are everywhere, but the Knights were especially harsh.
It’s an opportunity to ignore your status and spit out informal speech. Since he experienced this when he was a freshman, there was a special feeling that you too should suffer.
“It’s polite not to at least do that to a lady.”
“Courtesy be damned. Are you calling her a noble lady these days, even if she was kicked out of the duke’s family?”
At those words, Calipa jumped up from her seat.
“Hey, why are you doing this? Let’s go over there with me. Don’t do this here.”
Raymond smiled warmly and intervened.
Sneaking in between Frederick and Calipa, he waved his hand back and forth.
His smile was his specialty.4
“It’s Impenor, the Duke of Impenor.”
“What is this bastard, why is he pretending to be friendly?”
Frederick pushed Raymond away.
Raymond took a step back, exhaling dust.
Raymon was still smiling, but his forehead had veins popping out.
“As you live your life, you can pretend to be close. Why are you pushing me?”5
“If you live, you can hit it, where are you rolling your eyes?”
Frederick gestured as if to poke Raymond’s eyes out.
“Let’s go the way we were going.”
At that time, a calm voice came out from behind Louis’s back, who was trying to dissuade him.
It was Judith
Violet walked behind her back and chased her.
Judith raised her amber-colored eyes languidly, without a single flinch.
“What?” pg 21
“As I lived my life, I had the experience of exploding someone’s dick with aether, so if you don’t want that to happen, go your way.”
Louis almost fell off the stone steps at all times.
While he was startled by his harsh words, Frerick’s face flushed red.
“Judith.”
Calipa said, calling out to her.
Judith sighed and corrected the expression to be more dark.
“I’m still inexperienced at separating the pillar and the bell. Could you please turn it off?”
Judith said with strength in the last sentence.
‘… As expected, it’s weird!’
Louis really thought so.
His face turned red at the absurd expression.
It is an expression enough to make everyone who was listening feel ashamed. It was natural for Fredrick to grit his teeth with anger.
It was when he raised his hand toward Judith.
“Frederick.”
A voice he had never heard of was not enough to stop him, so he blocked his hand.
It was his senior knight, Peon Grand.
“I was wondering where you went.”
“Sir Peon!”
Frerick’s face twitched.
Peon said without giving a glance to Judith.
“Let’s go get some onions.”
“Damn, what’s with this situation…!”
Peon didn’t blink an eye at Frederick’s burst of anger.
“Ah……”
But after a while, Frederick stopped getting angry. A mean smile spread across his lips. Like someone who realized what Peon wanted to say.
“That’s right.”
Frederick sighed and lowered his hand.
“Hey, I’ll see you kids later.”
Frederick glanced at Judith and Raymond.
“It’ll be fun.”
It didn’t take long to figure out what that meant.
The next day, Frederick and Peon threw a sack in front of them.
It was the morning training session for the Red Knights.
Wherever the instructor went, Frederick and Peon came along.
“Today’s training is gonna be fun.”
Louis had a bad feeling.
Violet and Raymon, both looking down at the sack, had similar expressions on their faces.
On the other hand, Judith was not very impressed. She had the same expression on her face as when she was involved in something that didn’t make any money.
“The guys who are so proud of themselves are going to be Imperial knights, and it won’t be much fun to train, right?”
Frerick said in a very pleasant tone.
“If you want to climb up the hill, we’ll have to give you some good training methods. This one’s called ‘taking someone’s tears with onions.”
Saying so, Frederick took the onion out of the sack.
Until then, Judith was still the same. Indifferently, she thought the training name was like a dog’s game
‘Do you see now?’6
Most of the newcomers, including Louis, were puzzled.
“From now on, I will divide the attack and defense into pairs.The one who received the onion is the defense.”
Frerick pulled the onion out of the bag and threw it.
Judith took the onion flying her way. She was told to take the defense.
Peon’s fingers picked each person one by one.
Judith’s partner was Louis.
“The defender puts an onion on the top of his foot. Never drop it, and the attacker attacks his partner for 3 minutes.”
“What kind of training is this?”
“This is training in case you get your ankles tied by a magic beast’s power.. Even if you can’t move, your upper body needs to be able to move quickly to survive.”
Peon spoke quickly, as if he had prepared an answer.
Louis was forced to face Judith.
And up to this point, Louis and all the new knights were unaware of the worst part of this training.
——————————
TL notes ( ´ ▿ ` )
Manhwa chapter 14
“세상 오래 살고 볼 일이지. 내가 살다 보니 저런 광경을 다 봐.” 레이먼도 허파에 바람이 들긴 했 지만, 기본적인 인성이 있는 남자 였다. (“tough” isn’t the exact word but no translators are helping with this one </3) By “hole” I’m guessing he’s referring to the type of gamble game they chose. 배알 없는 웃음은 그의 특기였다. “살다 보면 친한 척 좀 할 수 있 지, 왜 밀고 그러십니까?”