Again.”
The sword fell from Louis’ hand.
His fine, blond hair was drenched in sweat.
However, Peon’s orders did not change.
“Again.”
“That’s enough.”
Louis shook his head. He wept and blocked Peon’s path.
“Please stop, Sir Peon. You’ve crossed the line.”
“I don’t think so.”
Peon answered sarcastically and picked up the onion.
It was the third day of training.
Today, Peon added to his misery again.
“If you don’t have anything else to say, do it again.”
Peon kicked Judith to the point where he thought he might spill her guts.
The only thing that didn’t change was their faces, both Peon and Judith were the same, but Louis couldn’t stand it any longer.
“I’d rather be beaten. I’m the one who dropped the onion, dammit, why should Judith be hit and not me?”
“Then there is no point.”
“Do you have any personal grudge?”
“Wouldn’t it be strange if I didn’t have one?”
Peon looked at him reproachfully.
“I heard everything from Frederick. You all lack respect for your seniors, so we’re doing this to teach you.”
“Are you serious?”
“You don’t think so?”
Judith’s grip on her sword was inadvertently tightened.
Louis replied, holding back his anger.
“Well, I’m not going to take part in any more training. You can take any disciplinary action you want.”
“Whatever you say.”
“Then how long are you going to take it out on her? I won’t let you do whatever you want!”
Louie said bitterly.
Judith, who was rubbing the place where she was hit, was momentarily startled. She couldn’t remember seeing Louis so angry. He responded sharply, as if he were a different person.
After Louis was assigned to the training camp platoon before returning, the knights were divided.
They were more like close acquaintances than friends.
Perhaps that’s why she felt strange and sorry.
When she thought about what she did when Louis died, it’s even more…
‘Ugh, I didn’t want to deal with the same stuff, so I was just going to get hit.’
From this point on, she can’t do that even for Louis.
Judith sighed and muttered.
“Then I’ll do it one last time.”
“What?”
“I’ll do it one more time.”
Judith snatched the onion from Peon.
Her amber eyes shone like gold with firm determination.
“Just don’t drop it off the top of your foot, will you? Don’t say one word.”
“Judith.”
Judith picked up Louis’ sword and handed it over to him.
Louis took the onion and sword in a careless manner.
His eyes were full of anxiety but he nodded. It meant to continue.
“Please take a look here.”
Unlike her, who was full of confidence, Louis was still nervous.
Judith had already been kicked more than five times because of him.
He failed 5 times. Will it be different if he fails 6 times?
The Red Knights have been in an uproar these past few days.
There were a lot of new knights who trained with potatoes on their feet when there were no onions.
Needless to say, the atmosphere of the Knights was stiff due to Peon’s coercive training.
So was Louis.
Louis saw that Judith got strung along because of him. He felt guilty for causing harm to others, so he had to train through the night without sleeping.
Next to Judith, who was teaching Violet,
“It’s all right. You just have to do what you always do.”
“……”
“Trust me.”
Louie nodded with dismay, as Judith spoke so confidently.
Louis put an onion on his foot and held the sword tightly.
‘Do as I always do? How?’
Before such a question could arise, her longsword came silently.
‘Huh?’
Louis had a different feeling than before.
As usual, he threw Judith’s longsword inward. However, the blade of the sword that touched his did not shake at all.
It was the same with the second and third hit.
Judith’s sword circled around once. The sword swung diagonally and aimed at his left shoulder.
‘Ah…’
A simple fake.
His body shook in alternately left and right.1
Louis shuddered as he pushed the longsword away.
‘She memorized all my habits…!’
Judith was reading Louis’ every move. She grasped his habits, calculated that there would be no recoil, and stabbed her sword and entered.
There was no need for Louis to strain his lower body.
Hee could see her concentrating eyes over the sharp blade of the sword.
Believe it or not, Judith didn’t give Louis anything to make him nervous.
Her vertically slashing sword quickly aimed at his chest..
The sword, which would normally have disappeared leaving only its afterimage, brushed against Peon’s blonde hair.2
The moment when Louis, who was so nervous, took a deep breath.
Kang!
The sound of the blades hitting each other was very clean. It looked neat if you’re watching carefully.
Short friction and fine tremors.
Her longsword moved like a bow across violin strings.
Louis felt his heart tremble.
He heard many things like how she was the youngest aether master and a genius, but it was also the first time for Louis to actually face Judith’s sword properly.
He didn’t know her talent was this good.
Her longsword, which was controlling her opponent’s movements as she wanted, brushed Louis’s foot exactly three minutes later.
Crack!
The onion was cut exactly in half.
“Are you happy, sir?”
The people who were watching burst out in cheers without realizing it.
Louis didn’t even think to wipe the drops of sweat running down his cheeks.
He couldn’t believe what had just happened.
He seems to have been holding a sword instead of a ghost.3
“Stop taking out your frustrations on your juniors, sir. It only tarnishes your reputation further.”
Judith threw her sword away. Peon hardened like a man who had been stabbed.
“……”
A very clear, overwhelming difference in skills.
An aether master is not a human being. These are like powerful elephants.
Therefore, it did not matter if they were suppressed or abandoned. Because there is no other way to tame it.
But it was a mistake.
The elephant he was dealing with was, in fact, an elephant with the same intelligence as a human. It can trample the trainer at any time…
Peon’s pupils shook.
“Let’s go, Louis, it’s a waste of energy on such a pathetic person.”
This time, Judith grabbed and dragged Louis.
And Peon, who had come to his senses later, stretched out his hand and grabbed Judith’s shoulder.
“Wait!”
Judith easily shook off her arm, but Peon’s hand grabbed her hair this time.
“Where do you think you’re going?!”
“Ugh….”
“What are you doing!”
It happened in the blink of an eye. Peon kicked Louis, who was approaching.
“Ugh…!”
A few days of old anger erupted like that.
Louis, who was hit by his knee, rushed to Peon.
“Aren’t you going to let this go?!”
Even Judith, who had been caught by her hair, burst out in anger.
The situation soon became chaotic.
Violet, who came to stop her, fell down after being caught up by Peon. Then Rayman stretched out his arms in astonishment.
“Now, wait… Argh!”
Violet tried to separate the two even when she fell, but Peon ended up hitting her too.
The moment he saw it, Judith’s face turned completely cold.
Did he hit her?
Did he hit Louis and Violet?
“Did you just hit my friend? You bastard?!”
They were friends who did not dare raise their voices even once because they were thankful and sorry.
“Do you want to die?!”
Bang!
There was a crack on the floor of the training ground.
Judith’s fist loaded with aether was laid on the floor. Her knuckles ached from how hard she hit them.
The aether formed on her fingertips was powerful enough to break all of Peon’s front teeth.
Frederick, who didn’t expect it to turn violent, got closer and was kicked in the jaw by Judith’s foot.
The weight difference was clear, but it was none of her business.
Judith rolled on the floor in the midst of a brawl that was more like a horrific battle, and kicked Peon to her heart’s content.
Violet stopped them from coming back with a bigger retaliation, and Raymond blocked them.
In the meantime, Louis, Peon, and Judith fought, and the training ground became a mess in the blink of an eye.
“Cough…”
Peon’s fist struck Judith and strangled her violently. Judith was suffocating.
Louis trembled as he tried to remove Peon’s wrist.
“Are you out of your mind? Let go of her!”
The moment Louis loosened his wrist, the angry Judith went into a coughing fit.
Peon groaned at an unexpected blow.
Judith was also in a bad shape.
This was bad.
Fortunately, Judith did not have a sword in her hand. She really was on the verge of killing Peon.
That’s when she decided that even if she didn’t have her sword, she would separate his bones from his flesh and chop them into boneless pieces with her bare fists.
“That’s enough!”
A voice echoed through the chaos.
Peon’s kicks, and Judith’s fists trying to crush his nose, also stopped.
At the entrance to the training ground, Giryu and Deschamps stood with angry faces.
“What is going on here!”
Giryu burst into a rage.
Deschamps looked up at the ceiling without realizing it, covering his face with his palm.
Judith’s eyebrows furrowed.
‘….. I’m dead.’
She felt like a man kicked out in his underwear in the middle of winter.
A new knight assaulted a senior during training.
It was ironic.
“Let go of me first.”
“You let go.”
“You both let go!!”
Giryu burst into flames.
Almost at the same time, the two laid down their collars nervously.
“Follow me.”
The next course of action was not much beyond their expectations.
The three were called to the commander’s office side by side.
However, Judith knew her fate the moment she saw Deschamps’ deep gaze.
…..She screwed up.
Judith knew why her life was hard. It is because she tried living with both money and pride.
Most people in the world live by giving up on one of the two.
But Judith couldn’t do that at all. She didn’t want to give up either.
She still didn’t.
‘If I had asked for the cost of treatment, I would have asked.’4
Perhaps this mindset made her life more difficult.
She had known it for quite some time. She just realized it all over again.
Judith was trying to protect her pride because she had no money, and to keep her pride, she had to have money. It was an endless loop.
This is what is happening in the training hall today.
To tell the truth, her days in the Black Knight order were worse than this.
She was eating at the canteen when a senior knight spit on her juice, so she pierced his nostrils with a fork.
The fork containing aether had excellent penetration power.
The news that Judith made six nostrils to a senior knight quickly spread.
‘The cost of treatment was very high.’
At the last minute, after that incident, the person who started the quarrel disappeared.
It’s just that the same thing happened again today.
Proof that they show violent skills by being irritable, and that they bleed when they touch her.
People who live according to their temper are told that they will get hurt, but in fact, that is not the case.
No one wants to be bitten by a mad dog. Even if you live like this, someone will acquiesce to you and avoid you.
‘Yeah, it’s just the same as usual, it’s just repeating.’
Judith followed Giryu’s footsteps calmly.
Giryu’s expression while bringing three people to his office was scary.
But Judith didn’t care much. Because she thought it wasn’t a big deal.
TL notes:
Manhwa chapter 17
축이 흔들린 몸을 왼쪽과 오른쪽, 번갈아 가며 베러 들어온다. So Peon was originally blonde? shocker tbh 귀신이 대신 검을 쥐고 있었던 것 같다. ‘그까짓 치료비를 물어줬으면 물 어줬지.’
Again.”
The sword fell from Louis’ hand.
His fine, blond hair was drenched in sweat.
However, Peon’s orders did not change.
“Again.”
“That’s enough.”
Louis shook his head. He wept and blocked Peon’s path.
“Please stop, Sir Peon. You’ve crossed the line.”
“I don’t think so.”
Peon answered sarcastically and picked up the onion.
It was the third day of training.
Today, Peon added to his misery again.
“If you don’t have anything else to say, do it again.”
Peon kicked Judith to the point where he thought he might spill her guts.
The only thing that didn’t change was their faces, both Peon and Judith were the same, but Louis couldn’t stand it any longer.
“I’d rather be beaten. I’m the one who dropped the onion, dammit, why should Judith be hit and not me?”
“Then there is no point.”
“Do you have any personal grudge?”
“Wouldn’t it be strange if I didn’t have one?”
Peon looked at him reproachfully.
“I heard everything from Frederick. You all lack respect for your seniors, so we’re doing this to teach you.”
“Are you serious?”
“You don’t think so?”
Judith’s grip on her sword was inadvertently tightened.
Louis replied, holding back his anger.
“Well, I’m not going to take part in any more training. You can take any disciplinary action you want.”
“Whatever you say.”
“Then how long are you going to take it out on her? I won’t let you do whatever you want!”
Louie said bitterly.
Judith, who was rubbing the place where she was hit, was momentarily startled. She couldn’t remember seeing Louis so angry. He responded sharply, as if he were a different person.
After Louis was assigned to the training camp platoon before returning, the knights were divided.
They were more like close acquaintances than friends.
Perhaps that’s why she felt strange and sorry.
When she thought about what she did when Louis died, it’s even more…
‘Ugh, I didn’t want to deal with the same stuff, so I was just going to get hit.’
From this point on, she can’t do that even for Louis.
Judith sighed and muttered.
“Then I’ll do it one last time.”
“What?”
“I’ll do it one more time.”
Judith snatched the onion from Peon.
Her amber eyes shone like gold with firm determination.
“Just don’t drop it off the top of your foot, will you? Don’t say one word.”
“Judith.”
Judith picked up Louis’ sword and handed it over to him.
Louis took the onion and sword in a careless manner.
His eyes were full of anxiety but he nodded. It meant to continue.
“Please take a look here.”
Unlike her, who was full of confidence, Louis was still nervous.
Judith had already been kicked more than five times because of him.
He failed 5 times. Will it be different if he fails 6 times?
The Red Knights have been in an uproar these past few days.
There were a lot of new knights who trained with potatoes on their feet when there were no onions.
Needless to say, the atmosphere of the Knights was stiff due to Peon’s coercive training.
So was Louis.
Louis saw that Judith got strung along because of him. He felt guilty for causing harm to others, so he had to train through the night without sleeping.
Next to Judith, who was teaching Violet,
“It’s all right. You just have to do what you always do.”
“……”
“Trust me.”
Louie nodded with dismay, as Judith spoke so confidently.
Louis put an onion on his foot and held the sword tightly.
‘Do as I always do? How?’
Before such a question could arise, her longsword came silently.
‘Huh?’
Louis had a different feeling than before.
As usual, he threw Judith’s longsword inward. However, the blade of the sword that touched his did not shake at all.
It was the same with the second and third hit.
Judith’s sword circled around once. The sword swung diagonally and aimed at his left shoulder.
‘Ah…’
A simple fake.
His body shook in alternately left and right.1
Louis shuddered as he pushed the longsword away.
‘She memorized all my habits…!’
Judith was reading Louis’ every move. She grasped his habits, calculated that there would be no recoil, and stabbed her sword and entered.
There was no need for Louis to strain his lower body.
Hee could see her concentrating eyes over the sharp blade of the sword.
Believe it or not, Judith didn’t give Louis anything to make him nervous.
Her vertically slashing sword quickly aimed at his chest..
The sword, which would normally have disappeared leaving only its afterimage, brushed against Peon’s blonde hair.2
The moment when Louis, who was so nervous, took a deep breath.
Kang!
The sound of the blades hitting each other was very clean. It looked neat if you’re watching carefully.
Short friction and fine tremors.
Her longsword moved like a bow across violin strings.
Louis felt his heart tremble.
He heard many things like how she was the youngest aether master and a genius, but it was also the first time for Louis to actually face Judith’s sword properly.
He didn’t know her talent was this good.
Her longsword, which was controlling her opponent’s movements as she wanted, brushed Louis’s foot exactly three minutes later.
Crack!
The onion was cut exactly in half.
“Are you happy, sir?”
The people who were watching burst out in cheers without realizing it.
Louis didn’t even think to wipe the drops of sweat running down his cheeks.
He couldn’t believe what had just happened.
He seems to have been holding a sword instead of a ghost.3
“Stop taking out your frustrations on your juniors, sir. It only tarnishes your reputation further.”
Judith threw her sword away. Peon hardened like a man who had been stabbed.
“……”
A very clear, overwhelming difference in skills.
An aether master is not a human being. These are like powerful elephants.
Therefore, it did not matter if they were suppressed or abandoned. Because there is no other way to tame it.
But it was a mistake.
The elephant he was dealing with was, in fact, an elephant with the same intelligence as a human. It can trample the trainer at any time…
Peon’s pupils shook.
“Let’s go, Louis, it’s a waste of energy on such a pathetic person.”
This time, Judith grabbed and dragged Louis.
And Peon, who had come to his senses later, stretched out his hand and grabbed Judith’s shoulder.
“Wait!”
Judith easily shook off her arm, but Peon’s hand grabbed her hair this time.
“Where do you think you’re going?!”
“Ugh….”
“What are you doing!”
It happened in the blink of an eye. Peon kicked Louis, who was approaching.
“Ugh…!”
A few days of old anger erupted like that.
Louis, who was hit by his knee, rushed to Peon.
“Aren’t you going to let this go?!”
Even Judith, who had been caught by her hair, burst out in anger.
The situation soon became chaotic.
Violet, who came to stop her, fell down after being caught up by Peon. Then Rayman stretched out his arms in astonishment.
“Now, wait… Argh!”
Violet tried to separate the two even when she fell, but Peon ended up hitting her too.
The moment he saw it, Judith’s face turned completely cold.
Did he hit her?
Did he hit Louis and Violet?
“Did you just hit my friend? You bastard?!”
They were friends who did not dare raise their voices even once because they were thankful and sorry.
“Do you want to die?!”
Bang!
There was a crack on the floor of the training ground.
Judith’s fist loaded with aether was laid on the floor. Her knuckles ached from how hard she hit them.
The aether formed on her fingertips was powerful enough to break all of Peon’s front teeth.
Frederick, who didn’t expect it to turn violent, got closer and was kicked in the jaw by Judith’s foot.
The weight difference was clear, but it was none of her business.
Judith rolled on the floor in the midst of a brawl that was more like a horrific battle, and kicked Peon to her heart’s content.
Violet stopped them from coming back with a bigger retaliation, and Raymond blocked them.
In the meantime, Louis, Peon, and Judith fought, and the training ground became a mess in the blink of an eye.
“Cough…”
Peon’s fist struck Judith and strangled her violently. Judith was suffocating.
Louis trembled as he tried to remove Peon’s wrist.
“Are you out of your mind? Let go of her!”
The moment Louis loosened his wrist, the angry Judith went into a coughing fit.
Peon groaned at an unexpected blow.
Judith was also in a bad shape.
This was bad.
Fortunately, Judith did not have a sword in her hand. She really was on the verge of killing Peon.
That’s when she decided that even if she didn’t have her sword, she would separate his bones from his flesh and chop them into boneless pieces with her bare fists.
“That’s enough!”
A voice echoed through the chaos.
Peon’s kicks, and Judith’s fists trying to crush his nose, also stopped.
At the entrance to the training ground, Giryu and Deschamps stood with angry faces.
“What is going on here!”
Giryu burst into a rage.
Deschamps looked up at the ceiling without realizing it, covering his face with his palm.
Judith’s eyebrows furrowed.
‘….. I’m dead.’
She felt like a man kicked out in his underwear in the middle of winter.
A new knight assaulted a senior during training.
It was ironic.
“Let go of me first.”
“You let go.”
“You both let go!!”
Giryu burst into flames.
Almost at the same time, the two laid down their collars nervously.
“Follow me.”
The next course of action was not much beyond their expectations.
The three were called to the commander’s office side by side.
However, Judith knew her fate the moment she saw Deschamps’ deep gaze.
…..She screwed up.
Judith knew why her life was hard. It is because she tried living with both money and pride.
Most people in the world live by giving up on one of the two.
But Judith couldn’t do that at all. She didn’t want to give up either.
She still didn’t.
‘If I had asked for the cost of treatment, I would have asked.’4
Perhaps this mindset made her life more difficult.
She had known it for quite some time. She just realized it all over again.
Judith was trying to protect her pride because she had no money, and to keep her pride, she had to have money. It was an endless loop.
This is what is happening in the training hall today.
To tell the truth, her days in the Black Knight order were worse than this.
She was eating at the canteen when a senior knight spit on her juice, so she pierced his nostrils with a fork.
The fork containing aether had excellent penetration power.
The news that Judith made six nostrils to a senior knight quickly spread.
‘The cost of treatment was very high.’
At the last minute, after that incident, the person who started the quarrel disappeared.
It’s just that the same thing happened again today.
Proof that they show violent skills by being irritable, and that they bleed when they touch her.
People who live according to their temper are told that they will get hurt, but in fact, that is not the case.
No one wants to be bitten by a mad dog. Even if you live like this, someone will acquiesce to you and avoid you.
‘Yeah, it’s just the same as usual, it’s just repeating.’
Judith followed Giryu’s footsteps calmly.
Giryu’s expression while bringing three people to his office was scary.
But Judith didn’t care much. Because she thought it wasn’t a big deal.
TL notes:
Manhwa chapter 17
축이 흔들린 몸을 왼쪽과 오른쪽, 번갈아 가며 베러 들어온다. So Peon was originally blonde? shocker tbh 귀신이 대신 검을 쥐고 있었던 것 같다. ‘그까짓 치료비를 물어줬으면 물 어줬지.’