I Became the Villain of a Romance Fantasy

Chapter 47

47 – Way home (4)

Early moning.

In the Edelweiss family gymnasium, as always, the sound of swords clashing could be heard.

As the duke’s sword, their training is indispensable.

Although they did not receive public attention because they were pushed by Edelweiss’ magic troops, they sharpened their swords for their masters because they were knights.

The soil on the gymnasium was frozen hard, perhaps because of the cold climate of the Merohim. But even so, when those running on it now step on the ground, clear footprints are engraved on the frozen ground.

Currently, there were only two people holding swords on the vast gymnasium of Edelweiss.

Damian and Gilead.

The sparring between Krause’s Sogaju and the promising newcomer of the White Rang Knights was already a widely known story within the Knights. It was also well known that it was always Gilead’s defeat. Even so, as much as this Dalian, all the knights gathered and watched.

Since it was Damian who was returning to Sarham soon, Gilead’s eyes had a more intense fighting spirit than ever before.

“Haap!!”

With a fierce shout, a fierce swordsman with the wind of winter surges towards Damian.

The aura that can be said to be the symbol of a knight is not attached to the sword, but even if there is no aura, the sword does not lose its spirit. Their skills, honed through hard training, made their knives even sharper. It cuts through the black air that it wields with brute strength beyond human limits, creating a fierce sword wind.

It was as if Gilead’s sword, swung with the momentum to cut everything in the world in two, seemed to have forgotten that it was sparring.

However, those who were watching around him did not stop him even though they knew the fact. Rather, they just looked at Gilead with the eyes that they already knew the outcome.

Gilead has attacked ten times in total.

And during those 10 attacks, Damian never raised his sword to block it.

Everyone avoided the sword as if it was passing by, leaving a close distance from the sword.

Gilead’s swordsmanship was at its peak more than ever, but the difference between the two was too clear for Damian to reach with that alone.

just as expected. The sword, swung with great force, cut through the air again without cutting anything.

As usual, Damian managed to avoid Gilead’s sword effortlessly with light footwork.

However, if there was a difference from before, unlike in the past, where I had gradually increased the distance from Gilead’s sword attack, this time, I had penetrated into Gilead’s arms at once.

Gilead hurriedly tried to correct his stance at the sight of Damian suddenly striking right in front of his nose, but it was already too late to block the attack.

phut!

“Ouch!”

With the sound of bursting air, Gilead collapses.

one stroke

With that unity, the Dalian ended.

Gilead, who had been precisely hit in the pit of the stomach, was struggling to breathe as he lay on the floor of the gymnasium, probably having trouble breathing. Wilhelm, who was watching this, came out to the gymnasium where only Damian was standing and declared his victory, and at the same time cheers erupted from the surroundings.

“As expected, it’s Krauss. Even though he’s a rookie at his age, to beat a knight.”

“But if I used an aura, would the results have changed a little? Isn’t Gilead one of the best in the Knights for his magical power?”

“Are your eyes decorative? Even in the sparring just before, he couldn’t even touch the hem of Gongja’s clothes. But even if he used an aura, could the result change?

There were also those who were sorry for Gilead’s defeat, but they also praised Damian and congratulated him on his victory. It was because his skills were too strong to regret Gilead’s defeat. Since they were knights gathered under the name of Edelweiss and at the same time warriors who worshiped strength, they did not deny Damian’s skills.

Damian grabbed Gilead’s hand, who was lying on the cold floor, and lifted him up. He was breathing hard with a red face, and he couldn’t seem to speak, but he barely opened his mouth and spoke in a trembling voice.

“I… Damn it… I lost again…”

“Is that such a split affair?”

“That… means… no. Now that it’s like this, we’ll have to wait for the next time Gongja-nim will come back.”

Damian didn’t bother to answer Gilead’s words as if he was regretful. He just looked down at Gilead, who grumbled with a meaningful expression on his face. As Gilead walked out of the gymnasium, Damian also tried to leave, but someone caught him.

“Sir Wilhelm.”

Damian already knew what Wilhelm, who was looking at him with a wistful smile, would say. He looked away, pointing at one of the people watching the arena before Wilhelm opened.

Turning his gaze towards it, Wilhelm’s face began to change color.

Because it wasn’t just the Knights who were watching the Dalian in the gymnasium. Elena and her maid. Hailey was also watching Damian and Gilead fight.

Seeing Hailey staring at him with a distorted face, Wilhelm seemed to be worried for a moment, then as if he had made up his mind, he picked up the sword Gilead had left behind from the ground.

“Are you sure you want to? Hayley will scold you.”

“Confucius, I can’t leave the North. Even more so, I don’t know when Confucius, who is already very old and frail, will come back here. How can I miss this opportunity?”

I could see the muscles thick enough to protrude from the top of his clothes to be considered senile, but Damian didn’t object.

Wilhelm said with his eyes shining at Damian, who still hadn’t let go of his sword.

“And aren’t you curious too, Gongja-nim?”

At Wilhelm’s words, Damian’s atmosphere, which had been quiet until now, changed.

He also had the same face as Wilhelm.

A sparring with Wilhelm that did not end properly. I still couldn’t fully recall the memory of that day, but it was a separate area to be curious about the match against him.

Unlike the previous battles when proper control was impossible, now I have succeeded in taming those senses completely.

If so, what position are you currently in? There was no opponent better than Wilhelm to test it.

But he never raised a sword.

Haley, who had been standing behind Wilhelm for a while, called out to Wilhelm in a cold tone, probably feeling a strange current flowing through this place.

“Grandpa?”

“Hey, Hailey! This is a big deal!! And the last one was all a misunderstanding!”

“What a misunderstanding, what a misunderstanding! Grandpa Ken also said that he had never seen Gongja-nim so exhausted. I don’t know how you’re doing this to take responsibility!”

Gee, bitch…

Haley’s words made Damian feel like a dagger was lodged in his chest.

At that time, it seemed that my physical condition was not normal, but was it that bad? Of course, even before the sparring began, the body was in danger, as if it would collapse at any moment. I guess it wasn’t enough to hear that.

It seems that Damien’s overwhelming victory just now had a bad influence on Haley.

How badly had Grandpa rolled it, that kind of person would pick up and fall down like that. In that way.

Wilhelm, who had just said that it didn’t matter if he did it just a while ago, but he seemed reluctant to come out when he heard Haley’s bitter words. He glanced at Damian for help, but Hailey wasn’t the only one here.

“No.”

A clear and pure voice echoes quietly in the gymnasium.

When the voice reached her ears, Haley, who had been bracing Wilhelm, also stopped talking, and Wilhelm, who saw the owner of the voice, bowed to her.

Elena, who climbed onto the stage, came to Damian’s side, held his hand, and opened her mouth again.

“This is the end of Dalian. Damian. Let’s go now.”

So, Damian was led down from the gymnasium by Elena’s hand. Everyone there watched the scene with dumbfounded expressions as Damian disappeared without being able to refute anything.

Wilhelm licked his lips with a sad expression on his face, but as a knight of Edelweiss, he couldn’t disobey her orders, so he couldn’t pursue her. Rather, it was only because of Hailey’s action that he had just been beaten hard on the back.

Demian, who left the gymnasium as if being dragged out by Elena, asked her after confirming that they had a certain distance.

“Helena. There’s still a lot of time left before departure.”

“I know.”

“But why did you do that?”

Elena paused for a moment at Damian’s question.

In fact, it was Damian’s ability. After that day, she was able to recognize at a glance how much she had grown. He wouldn’t have been hurt if he hadn’t bothered to stop the sparring earlier. Rather, he might have beaten Wilhelm in Dalian.

But is it because of what happened before?

Suddenly, the image of Damian falling in front of his eyes kept being stepped on and he acted like this.

“…What if I collapse again like last time?”

So Elena had no choice but to borrow what Haley said.

Damian smiled wryly at Elena’s answer, which meant that he would surely lose, but he soon corrected his expression and smiled lightly.

“Yes. That’s right. I have to go home soon, but if I go back in a mess, my father will scold me.”

At Damian’s words in a gloomy voice, she hurriedly turned her head away, wondering if he had been hurt by her words, but she could tell from his smiling face that it was a joke.

Damian stood beside Elena and matched her stride. Elena also started walking, keeping pace with Damian.

While walking down the street, Damian asked Elena when he saw the winter castle shining white reflecting sunlight.

“Aren’t you sorry?”

“What?”

“Leaving Merohim.”

For her, it would be like leaving her beloved home. As much as Damian wanted to go back to Sarham while living in Merohim, he was willing to do so if Elena wanted to stay here for even a little longer.

However, Elena smiled and answered Damian’s question.

“Aren’t you asking too late?”

“Yes?…Ah.”

At Elena’s words, Damian remembered why he had come to Merohim. It was simply because of Joachim’s whim that she had come to Merohim now, not because she wanted to.