How to Live As a Returnee Munchkin Swordsman

16 – Escort mission (5)

‘This… There’s no need to step forward at all.’

Ray, who was about to take out the dagger in his arms, stopped moving for a moment.

The intermediate monster Keleil is a monster with clear characteristics.

It has excellent mobility and attack power, but has no means of defense.

When they attack once, they have a tendency to attack in groups.

Therefore, except for a few individuals, the most Keleil appear in the direction from which they were first attacked.

‘Did you catch fifteen by yourself…? .’

And the direction where the Ritvel upper unit was first attacked was the left flank led by Kaela.

That is, the first time Paul and Anna were attacked.

It is because the most Keleils appeared on that side.

And that Keleil group was completely slain.

Only one swordsman hero.

By the new instructor, Edgar Mulick-.

As soon as the battle began, he charged at an incredible speed, and in an instant put all the Kellails to death.

The number is fifteen.

It took no more than a minute.

Seeing that scene, the hand holding the dagger naturally lost its strength.

‘Edgar-sama, what the hell are you?’

Edgar Mulick was an extraordinary man.

Although he was born as the second son of the Great Demon family, he had no talent for magic, and his arrogant personality and contempt for others made him disliked by many.

He, who first met as the butler of the Mullique family, was literally unscrupulous.

-I want to go to another department rather than the Magic Faculty.

But one day I was talking about the instructor test with the head of household.

The day he said he would take the swordsmanship instructor exam, saying he had gained a new destiny as a ＜swordsman＞.

Edgar Mulick changed from that day onwards.

He showed the appearance of learning ＜Tristan Swordsmanship＞ in less than an hour, and passed the instructor test of the famous Tristan Swordsmanship Department with a perfect score.

Although it has not been revealed to the public yet, he became the first ‘new instructor assigned an instructor’ in nearly five years.

The feeling was completely different from magic, which was terribly lacking in talent.

-okay. If you are, then so be it.

– He is my dearest friend.

Personality has also changed significantly.

Unlike before, he called Ray’s name directly, and now he joked around a lot to the extent that the expression ‘close’ is true.

Especially in a really unexpected place, he brings up a lot of words that embarrass Ray.

Lay, who always maintains the same attitude and atmosphere when it comes to work, has only recently expanded her emotional range… It was obviously because of Edgar’s changed personality.

‘That’s at least the third fork in the road… Maybe the fourth.’

Edgar’s actual combat that has changed so much.

He showed off his talent to the fullest even here.

Through the ability assumed to be ‘inevitable’, he showed amazing movements, and based on this, he took down the monsters around him step by step.

Even though it is a mid-level monster with weak defense, he killed 15 Keleils on his own within a minute.

This was a result that could never be achieved with ordinary fate and crossroads.

Thanks to this, no one was harmed except for Paul and Anna, and the other side, which faced a small number of Kelleil, also continued the battle leisurely.

‘furthermore… .’

One last thing.

Ray’s gaze moved forward.

“Hap… !!”

Kayla.

The daughter of the Ritbell Company, who recruited Edgar and Ray for an escort mission, and a prospective cadet who has just awakened as a hero and plans to enter the military academy.

She is facing a single Kelleil from the front.

With a rough but courageous move.

He has no magic power, but with great power and skill-.

after the battle started.

It was the exact opposite of the one before, when he was trembling with fear and couldn’t take a single step.

and inside it.

There was advice from Edgar, who calmly urged her.

Raise your sword.

Raise your sword and see your enemy.

He, who showed a different side of himself, has now become a hero who changes others.

Ray looked at him.

‘What is it really? The person you are… .’

Edgar Mulick.

He was the owner she needed to protect and assist, and the man who confuses her the most these days.

* * *

“Huh, huh… .”

“Whoa… .”

Heavy breathing is heard everywhere.

Although there were a lot of monsters on the left flank, and I left most of them alone… On the other side, too, an urgent battle of its own was fought.

Since it was a battle against an intermediate level monster, even if there were a lot of heroes, it was quite difficult.

and.

All the monsters in sight were knocked down.

When I saw that, I thought

‘It seems they all died or ran away.’

All the heroes around me were still holding their weapons without letting go of tension, but I, who specialized in feeling magic and life, knew that this fight was over.

Just in case, I put magic into my feet and felt the waves of the ground, but I couldn’t detect anything more.

As if to prove this, a loud cry came from the center a beat late.

“The battle is over! There are no signs of monsters being detected anymore-!!”

It is said that the new instructors of the Tristan Swordsmanship Department were used as the main escort, but that does not mean that there are no other heroes of destiny.

Among the heroes hired directly under Ritbel, there were heroes such as ＜Wizard＞, ＜Archer＞, and ＜Cleric＞.

The hero most specialized in double magic detection is ＜Archer＞.

It was the archer hero who declared the end of the battle in the center.

It’s really over.

“Ray, are you okay?”

I took care of my people first.

Ray slowly put the dagger he was holding into his arms and looked at me.

“yes. Thanks to Edgar-sama defeating all of Keleil’s group, we’re all right.”

“Keuheum- Did you catch it all by yourself?”

“As long as we can stop the threat of monsters, I don’t think the division of roles is important. Edgar-sama just protected everyone using his abilities. Just look at the number of victims… .”

Ray, who was speechless, shifted his gaze.

As she said, there were almost no casualties at the top.

The heroes who were just raided for the first time.

Paul and Anna.

Only two people had problems with certain body parts, and the rest suffered only minor injuries.

This was partly because I quickly went out and wiped out many Keleils, and the escorts at the upper level calmly formed a party hunting composition.

Anyway, the new instructors of the Tristan Swordsmanship Faculty were cadets who had graduated from military academies.

They were veterans who had a lot of experience in combat and had fought against monsters several times.

Because of this, it was possible to continue cooperative battles without panic even in such an irregular situation.

and.

“hahahaha… .”

Among the corpses of monsters, a girl is quietly breathing.

He was born with the fate of being a ＜prosecutor＞.

A hero who fits the expression ‘born’ so well.

Kayla stood with her sword in her hands with a dazed face.

I slowly approached her and asked.

“Kaela, are you okay?”

“Ah, Mr. Edwin.”

Then, she looked at me with her eyes restored to life.

Seeing him still calling him by a pseudonym, I simply corrected it.

“It’s not Edwin, it’s Edgar.”

“… yes?”

“Edgar Mulick. that’s my real name Somehow I came up with a pseudonym.”

“Mully… nice?”

Kayla is more puzzled by the surname ‘Mullique’ than the name ‘Edgar’.

She tilted her head for a moment, then opened her eyes wide and covered her mouth.

“N-eh?! A mulique marquis?! Are you a nobleman? That’s also the Great Magician family?!”

“It was exactly the reaction I expected. But it’s not that important. It doesn’t change that I’m the new instructor of the swordsmanship department anyway-“

“Oh, no. Even though… .”

Kayla looks at me and Ray with a puzzled look.

Then, as if she realized something, she opened her eyes wide.

“ah! no way… !”

It seemed that he vaguely noticed that Ray was my butler.

Find out too early

I smiled bitterly and changed the topic.

“How about black? Your eyes seemed to have attained enlightenment.”

“Oh right!”

Maybe I forgot an important fact because I heard shocking facts one after another.

Kaela stood up to my words and bowed her head respectfully.

“Thank you, Edgar. It really helped me a lot.”

“well. I just relieved your stuffy feet. Kayla, you already had a sword to defeat monsters.”

The urgent moment from before.

It was no other reason that I gave Kayla heartfelt advice.

It was because she was really talented.

The first time I saw Carla.

When she faced her tempered body with a sword tied behind her back.

I immediately realized

‘I will become a swordsman who will command the continent.’

She was a natural prosecutor.

His bar talent was incomparable to other ordinary swordsmen, and he could tell just by looking at his eyes that he genuinely liked the sword.

In fact, Kaela was also included in the reason why I took part in this unnecessary escort mission.

So, when she was afraid of monsters and couldn’t move her feet, I gave her short and simple advice.

I already knew that even with that alone, Kayla could take a step forward.

“Nevertheless. Thanks to Edgar, I gained enlightenment, so the second fork in the road also blossomed. If I had been alone, I would never have been able to catch Kelleil… .”

Nevertheless, Kayla still greets her with eyes full of deep gratitude.

But when I heard this, I raised my hand in surprise.

“for a moment. The second fork in the road has bloomed?”

“yes? Ah yes. Coincidentally, Necessity was specialized for the attacking side, so I used it without hesitation. After coming to my senses, the fact that Kellail is a monster that is weak in defense immediately came to mind.”

She added several words, but heard nothing else.

The second crossroads of fate have bloomed.

A prospective cadet who hadn’t even entered the military academy yet.

This was a major event that would only appear on the front page of a kingdom newspaper, with achievements only appearing at the top of the faculty entrance.

He had noticed that Kayla was a talented swordsman, but he hadn’t expected that he would have such an enormous talent.

‘… ah.’

And after listening to this…

One thought suddenly pops into my head.

I put it straight into words and asked.

“Kaela. If I were to make a swordsman class, would you consider taking it?”

“… yes?”

One day after being selected as an instructor for the Faculty of Swordsmanship, it was the moment when he had a student he wanted to raise.