The Academy’s Savage Swordsman

20. the secret of motivation

When people think of academy, they usually think of youth, love, hard work and passion. The Dyros Academy implemented in the game was also like that.

Players can do whatever they want. You could be a knight, a wizard, a soldier, an artist or a civil servant.

In the process, it was possible to seduce the royal family, make friends with a beggar from a back alley, or buy slaves from a slave dealer to set up a slave harem.

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Naturally, I imagined that it would be something similar in real life. I thought that the academy would be full of dreams, hopes and love.

It wasn’t a knight’s department.

“next!”

Beep-!

When the instructor blew his whistle, the cadets, who were holding their breath, immediately raised their wooden swords and began to aim them at the other. It is a training wooden sword made much heavier than a real sword by inserting heavy metal into it.

Of course, if you hit it right, it will break somewhere, and if you handle it well, it can kill a person. Even so, the cadets aim and swing their wooden swords at the other person without hesitation.

There is no hesitation. This is because it is training to avoid hesitation in actual combat.

Bahah-!

“aaagh-!”

“… … Are you okay?”

In fact, a wooden sword, not a bladed sword, eased the guilt of wielding it. The cadet who was hit by the wooden sword screamed in pain, but it didn’t cut off or die, and once he doesn’t die, the academy uses all kinds of resources to treat the injury.

As I glanced at the place where the clergy cadets were gathered, one of the cadets who was reading the scriptures cautiously approached and checked the condition of the cadet rolling on the floor.

“Are you okay? where… … .”

The priest cadet memorized a prayer against the red, swollen wound. As a cadet, it was absurdly slow compared to bishop-level priests who had already been on the battlefield for years, but the injuries slowly began to heal little by little.

After the prayer and treatment, the priest went back to his place with a smile on his face, leaving behind the words, “Don’t worry and train.” Seeing that, I thought that priests might be psychos.

‘Look at people and ask for hurt… … .’

Looking at the cadet who was healed of his injuries, he shrugged his shoulders as if he was going to continue.

“… … Please take good care of me.”

“Please.”

The next moment, the cadet with the sword stuck in the pit of the stomach tumbled on the floor and passed out. After taking the completely fainted guy and donating it as a human experiment in front of the priests, he came back and waited for the next turn.

After the instructor called the whistle again, the cadets who had been swinging their swords lightly bowed to each other and then moved one space to the side to prepare for sparring with other cadets.

The one who approached me was a strong guy with blond hair. A commoner who acted as if he hadn’t mastered his aura yet.

“Oh, hello. Please… .”

“Uh, yes.”

Facing him right in front of me, I could tell that his eyelashes were longer than I thought. If the guy isn’t even a girl, why is his face so thin?

After chewing and tearing at the handsome guy needlessly, I realized that I didn’t even know his name.

“Hey, what’s your name?”

“Yeah, me?”

“I am Kyle Meyer.”

“Arthur, it’s Arthur.”

“Yes, Arthur.”

Holding the sword, I looked at Arthur and grinned.

“You—why are you hiding it?”

“… … !?”

After hearing my words, Arthur looked at me with a shocked expression, as if wondering how he knew. I just smiled and looked at him.

After a while, he swung his wooden sword at the same time as the instructor’s whistle sounded.

Watching Arthur struggle to block my sword, I continued to swing my sword.

Let’s see where and how long you can hide it?

* * *

Arthur was shocked to see Kyle standing in front of him. Because he saw through his secrets.

‘how… … How did know?’

He did not tell anyone the secret he was hiding. Even the principal of the academy wouldn’t notice the secret.

The first motive you saw today finds out his secret? It was something that was not easy to comprehend. How the hell is that even possible?

‘No way—this guy.’

Arthur remembered what he had heard from the man who sent him here before coming to the academy.

—Those who want your body will target you.

He was told that organizations that wanted his body would come after him, and that he had to be strong before being targeted by them.

So, is Kyle a member of the secret organization the man was talking about? Are you an agent targeting yourself?

‘… … Are you revealing it like this now?’

That was something strange even to Arthur himself. If you were targeting yourself, why did you need to tell me in advance?

On the contrary, isn’t it normal to let yourself off guard and let go of your guard?

When Arthur felt something strange and was thinking about something, Kyle opened his mouth looking at Arthur.

“Hey.”

“Uh huh?”

“Aren’t you paying attention?”

Kyle frowned in displeasure and swung his sword at Arthur, who was standing there blankly. It was a slow sword with a clear trajectory, so it was clear that the intention was to awaken Arthur’s spirit.

Arthur, who came to his senses while blocking the sword, realized that he was in sparring. He could also see that if Kyle had swung the sword whether he moved or not, he would have been badly hurt by now.

‘Am I really trying to let go of my guard like this?’

After being a little disappointed in himself for not being able to let go of his doubts until the end, Arthur looked at Kyle as it was.

“sorry. I’ll do it right.”

“yes. If you look away, you will get hurt.”

“… … Whoa.”

Hearing Kyle’s warning, Arthur took a deep breath and felt his heart beat. The aura created in the heart spreads widely throughout the body, invigorating the whole body.

A dragon’s heart was embedded in Arthur’s body. That’s Arthur’s secret. The dragon’s heart generates a significant amount of aura every second, every hour, and every breath.

“—I go.”

The dragon’s heart heats up, and it shoots Arthur’s body forward.

Even if an aura user ignorantly pours aura, the efficiency is insignificant.

In other words, if you can pour it out relentlessly without worrying about efficiency—this means that an Auror user can exert more power than an Auror user.

“Yaaa!”

Arthur walked towards Kyle, passing a considerable amount of aura. It seems that he handles the sword well, but if he has strengthened himself with this amount of aura—

“Hey.”

However, Kyle casually followed the aura-enhanced himself and blocked the sword he wielded.

Kyle, who had blocked the wooden sword, took the wooden sword Arthur was holding and frowned.

“It is forbidden to come during sparring.”

“ah… … .”

Arthur, who belatedly recalled the rules of sparring, looked at Kyle restlessly. Arthur didn’t know what to say at a time like this.

Seeing that, Kyle looked at Arthur as if asking what he was doing and opened his mouth.

“Aren’t you going to apologize?”

“M-I’m sorry.”

“Oh, yes. Be careful next time.”

Seeing Kyle smiling neatly at an apology, Arthur let out a sigh of relief. He said that he wasn’t a bad guy who was aiming for his own life.

‘By the way.’

Arthur belatedly looked down at his hands. A body that had been strengthened by cramming an inefficient Aura, a speed that even an Aura Expert could not easily follow.

‘… … How did you steal it?’

There was no time to think about it for long. Kyle flung the wooden sword away as if the remaining time was wasted, and the moment the wooden sword was handed over—— it was because he swung the sword as if to avenge his previous actions.

Unable to react, Arthur, who had been hit with a wooden sword right in the jawline, glared at Kyle feeling distraught.

‘Ah, you bastard… .’

* * *

“hahahaha! Are you sorry?”

“Are you laughing? I broke my ribs”

How to become friends after a fight with a man. Having made friends with the cadets through sparring, I burst into a big laugh and headed for the large bath.

A bathing facility that exists inside the academy. This facility will be opened first to those who have completed the exercise. In fact, there were no cadets other than the engineering department who went to bed first and took a bath as soon as the academy class was over.

On the way to the large bath in a group with the knights and cadets, noticing that Arthur was hesitant in the distance, I quickly approached Arthur and put his shoulder strap on.

“Arthur! What are you doing?”

“Uh huh?”

“Aren’t you going?”

As I dragged the hesitant Arthur to the large bath, Arthur flinched, but couldn’t overcome my strength. A guy with thin arms everywhere.

Arriving at the large communal bath, I burst into laughter as I watched Arthur glancing at the women’s bath.

“What, you- you want to enter the women’s bath?”

“Oh no!?”

“Then why are you glancing at me? If I go in, will I be expelled?”

“… … Hey, I’ll wash up later.”

“Uh huh, what are you doing here? If you walk around smelling like sweat, you’ll curse the entire engineering department.”

When Arthur, who was reluctant to go into the bathroom for some reason, was forced into the dressing room, Arthur turned his head away as if he had seen something he shouldn’t have seen.

Wondering why this bastard was doing this, I quickly threw off my school uniform and waited for Arthur to take off his clothes.

“… … Arthur, you can’t—”

“Ser, what can you do?”

“Are you ashamed to show off your body? after… I can’t help it. It’s true that other people’s bodies are inferior compared to my own.”

I said that while posing in front of the mirror. Arthur, who was watching my pose showing off his muscles, put on a tired expression and then slowly took off his clothes and threw them away.

I thought he was thin from the outside, but Arthur’s body was thinner than I thought. It’s to the point where I wonder how such monstrous power comes out of this body.

Chin- I grabbed Arthur’s shoulder and opened my mouth with a trembling hand.

“Arthur… !”

“Uh huh? what!?”

“—What is this slender body? All that remains is bones and skin… !”

“… Don’t startle me!”

After a little teasing, Arthur flicked his arm and walked into the bathtub. After Arthur followed me into the large public bath, I smiled with satisfaction as I looked at the vast facility, as expected of an academy.

Before entering the bath, when I moved my body to the shower to wash myself, Arthur, clinging to me next to me, asked carefully.

“Me, Kyle?”

“Why?”

“That… Why don’t you wash it together and do that?”

“… … what?”

Hearing Arthur’s words, I looked at him as if it were absurd. Arthur’s face was slightly reddened for some reason, and lightning flashed through my mind as I looked at it.

Flashbacks of his reluctance to enter the bathroom and his shyness for some reason flashed back, and he began to understand why Arthur acted strangely.

‘You bastard… … .’

you were gay

I took one step away from Arthur. I tried to ignore Arthur, who was tilting his head as if asking why he was walking away, and I washed my body without showing my back to him as much as possible.

The misunderstanding was resolved when Arthur, who saw him keeping away from him even after the bath was over, felt strange and started talking to him.