I Became an Academy Baldo User

Labyrinth and Puppet (4)

“Whew… .”

Taking a deep breath, I took the lead, ignoring the skill window full of dog sounds except for one sentence.

It was a car that could not be satisfied with only a lukewarm match with Nana, but it was a really satisfying match after a long time.

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Moreover, there could be no more satisfying result than this, since the end of the confrontation was finished with the swordsman’s skill, which has always been the object of envy.

‘I was a little bit like a foot potter.’

If you’ve seen the skill I unfolded a while ago, no one can deny what I’m saying.

In the mood for victory, grabbing my bitter stomach, I looked at the wall where the loser of this confrontation was smashed.

With his back bent in a strange direction, he was thrown into the wall and squirmed like a worm to get out of the wall.

“Can I help you?”

“No, I think it will be out soon.”

Not sure if that was a lie, but the guy, who had been struggling for a while, came out of the wall along with a lot of rubble.

The body of the guy who came out of the wreckage was ripped in half and was shaking as if he would fall over if he took a light breath.

“I don’t think I can fight anymore in this state. Congratulations. You won.”

He declared my victory with a calm tone that didn’t seem to have his stomach ripped apart.

I said coldly to the guy, who was just annoyed by seeing him casually thinking about defeat.

“… … If you lose, why don’t you pretend to disassemble like a loser?”

“yes? Kakat! Were you concerned about that? You are the one who won this battle. You just have to calmly brag about your victory!”

“Tt… .”

It would have been nice to show him a little ugly at the end, but he didn’t want to lose his determination until the very end.

Kung, it was when I was biting my tongue because I didn’t like his determined look. Suddenly, one knee that was supporting his body fell to the floor.

“It looks like they are calling me from over there.”

The other knee also fell to the floor, and the hand that was holding the katana lost its strength, and the glowing eyes gradually lost their light.

“It’s been a long time since we had a really fun match. Next time, let’s do it naked… .”

I shouted at my body that had fallen to the floor as if to catch a guy who was slowly losing his mind.

“name!! If you win, I’ll tell you my name!!”

“name? Ah, it was… .”

The smirking guy pondered for a moment, then said in a low voice like an old man who was dying.

“Ganryu. now this is my name Then see you next time, that… What did you say? Oh yes… .”

See you next time, Baldojae.

At the end of those words, his body lost its strength and fell to the ground without a pulse.

And I couldn’t help but be astonished to hear the last words of Ganryu, Ganryu.

The name Ganryu spoke of is a nickname for a swordsman who is known to anyone with any interest in katana.

Sasaki Kojiro Ganryu, a genius swordsman famous for his duel with Musashi on Ganryujima and the swallow slayer.

‘Isn’t it me?’

It could have been that he was pretending like that, but Ganryu didn’t seem to know the skill window that I and the possessors knew.

If that was the case, then it was not the possessor, but it was not unusual if a person from history was reincarnated here in the yard where a strange thing had already occurred where a person entered into a novel.

‘No, no matter what, it’s probably not me.’

One thing was overlooked, but a real Sasaki Kojiro wouldn’t laugh in a way that reduced intelligence like ‘Kakakat’.

“Whew… .”

It’s not me, so it’s a character based on a real person in history… .

In this novel, there is not much information about katana, but Hinomoto, a country that mainly uses katana, only appears as a setting.

‘If there was a hint that it would come out, the comment box would have been very disgusting… .’

Even though nothing has come out yet, it is still good to see him swearing that he was trying to glorify Japanese militarism.

Even if you go to the library and search for information related to Hinomoto, you will not find the right information.

“I’m a little tired… .”

Not a few hours, but only a few minutes, but I was tired as if days had passed.

I leaned against the wall to get some rest before someone came, so I sat on the ground and tried to rest for a while.

But before I could even sit on the floor, there was a cracking sound and something like a gap in the air appeared, and Marina’s cold magic was spewing out from the gap.

“… It comes very quickly.”

Just like in the novel, Marina, who appears after everything is over, came out with sarcasm without realizing it.

Eventually, the gap turned into a large hole, and Marina came out along with what could be called fragments of space.

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Marina landed gracefully on the floor and covered her body with pure white mana.

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Marina, who was vigilant and looked around, found me and ran straight to me.

“Student Ian!! Are you okay?! Where are the intruders? ?!”

Instead of answering, I pointed to Ganryu’s body that had fallen to the floor, more precisely the body he was wearing.

Seeing her body ripped to pieces, Marina nodded and synchronized her magic with the labyrinth.

And after a while, Marina breathed a sigh of relief and looked at me again.

“It seems that there are no other intruders. You did a really good job. It’s really nice to see him doing so well.”

“No, nothing happened… !! Whoops!!”

A thick vomit of blood flowed from my mouth as I was about to say it was nothing.

When he was hit in the stomach by Ganryu earlier, the impact must have reached his intestines.

“Hey, student Ian!!”

Seeing me spewing blood, Marina hurried to my side and began to cast healing magic on her intestines.

I said to Marina, feeling the wounded intestines gradually healing.

“… It’s nothing compared to the poison made by Hori, so you don’t have to worry about it.”

“Ho, Hori? poison? I don’t know what you’re talking about, but be still!”

After a while, Marina healed the intestines and immediately healed all the small wounds on my body.

“Then the wounds are healed, so if it’s okay with you, can I hear what happened?”

“… … It doesn’t matter, are you here now?”

“Yes, here. When Jessica student came to visit me, all the students in the labyrinth were reverse-summoned and protected, so there is no need to worry.”

Jessica… I thought he wouldn’t come, so I gave up on the exam and went to find the dean.

“… But why didn’t I do that?”

“It’s not that I didn’t. I couldn’t.”

In other words, it must mean that a wizard higher in rank than the Archmage Marina interfered with the reverse summons.

“It is clear that there is something unusual behind this.

“… … It would be.”

As I recalled the sword of Ganryu that was aimed at me a while ago, I had no choice but to agree.

The mysterious existence that did not appear in the original work possesses not only a swordsman who is more than a swordsman like Ganryu, but also an archmage who is superior to Marina.

And the scariest thing was that he had no intention of hiding it at all.

‘Even if you show your strength openly like this, you are confident that you won’t be caught… Or maybe it means it doesn’t matter if you get caught.’

Considering the seriousness of the situation, I told Marina everything that had happened, except for the part related to the possessor.

“Dean. Did something like this happen last year?”

“No, this didn’t happen last year. At least this is the first time an intruder has come into the academy since I took over.”

“I see… .”

“From my point of view, this incident seems to have been aimed at student Ian. But the strange thing is, why did you aim at Student Ian? Student Ian, do you have any guesses?”

“Not at all. I don’t even know who’s been after me in the first place.”

From the fact that he knew my nickname, it was clear that it was a group created by the possessor, but he could not find out more information.

“We should start by getting to know them first.”

With that said, the place I looked at was the body Ganryu was wearing.

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Me and Marina got up from their seats and approached Ganryu’s body together.

“… The inside is reminiscent of a puppet.”

After taking off the armor, what came out was a mechanical body reminiscent of sci-fi or steampunk that didn’t fit in at all with fantasy.

Its arms and legs looked like articulated dolls, and it was a doll that felt uncomfortable just looking at it.

I broke it and the abdomen was quite broken, but the rest were relatively intact, so there seemed to be no difficulty in investigating it.

“I’m not very good at mage engineering, but if you examine the parts, you’ll probably get a clue. This will be entrusted to the Royal Mage Technology Institute for investigation later.”

“Yeah, but there’s something I’ve always been interested in. Can I do a little research here?”

“It doesn’t matter… Please do it only as long as you do not damage this doll.”

“Let’s try our best.”

The sound of his heart that continued to concern him even after the battle was over.

To find out the truth, I looked around my chest and found that I could feel a pulsation in the center.

“Dean. Do you know how to use clairvoyance magic? If you know, could you take a look here?”

“… … .”

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Marina, who was staring at her chest to see if there was a spell that prevented clairvoyance, she chanted a spell and shut her mouth.

“Why? What’s wrong?”

“no… … . There was a fairly complicated enchantment at stake, but I solved it. but… .”

“But what?”

“… … … Inside the human heart. It also has a heart that is still beating. and… .”

“and… ?”

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Marina shut her mouth as if she didn’t want to say the next thing, but when she saw the doll lying on the floor, she said it with a determined expression.

“On the head, just as it is on the chest… The brain is still functioning… .”

Brain still functioning?

As soon as he heard those words, he thought of a situation he had seen frequently in various media, and his expression hardened.

“To say that the brain is still functioning… .”

“… … Yes. It’s just as you imagined it now. This doll, no, this person is still alive.”