The Academy's Barbarian-Chapter 106
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1.
A girl smiling brightly in front of you.
Faced with turquoise hair blowing in the wind and bright yellow eyes resembling ginkgo leaves.
Dillia opened her eyes wide..
“laurea?”
“yes that's right. it's me.”
After answering, Laurea approached Dillia. Meanwhile, she asked Dillia back as if she still didn't understand..
“you, here, why……?”
“Did I tell you? i will see you again.”
“that's not asking.”
When Dillia frowned.
Laurea's answer came back.
“I'm curious.”
“what?”
“I've never actually seen a monster in my life..”
Laurea has received all kinds of attention and special care since she was a candidate for sainthood..
It was strictly forbidden to leave the monastery, and even if it did, the strict guard of the Order of the Holy Knights followed..
So, in the first place, there was no encounter with monsters or demons. On the other hand, Dillia frowned at her answer..
“……full, make a sound.”
From the perspective of a person from the Principality of Arpen, who has to fight monsters for the rest of her life, Laurea's answer is a statement that could only be made by plants in a greenhouse..
So when I looked at you with a noble gaze.
I heard Stella's voice from afar..
“Now, pay attention everyone!”
Professor Stella, who was on the podium, looked around. After exchanging some glances of hers with Laurea as well, she went straight to her words..
“Today's practice is going to be a two-person hunt, and each group will dissect the prey they brought and analyze their weaknesses..”
The hunting grounds are in the northern woods.
This is where the Abyssal Cultist Assault happened. But I didn't have to worry about the same thing happening again..
After the raid was known.
It is thanks to the greatly strengthened patrols outside Arsene Academy in the Ruben Empire and Kingdom Alliance..
Five times the existing troops were put in to repeat the patrol, and a high-ranking knight corps composed of high-ranking knights was deployed at each street corner..
In other words, unlike before, the northern forest has become a very safe place. That's why Stella resumed practice from last week..
“By the way, Cadet Laurea will be the first to hunt monsters, so I will specially assign the strongest hunter here as a team member..”
“Wow, really? who is it?”
“I'm right behind you.”
As soon as the words are over.
Dillia frowned at once..
There is only one person behind Laurea and herself. It was because it was Ulan..
“But, Ulan, with me…….”
“I'm sorry but not like that this time.”
Then Stella said firmly.
“You were in the same group as Ulan all along, right? So this time, try pairing up with another student..”
“…….”
Dillia made a disapproving face..
I just couldn't resist.
It was also true that I had never been in a group with a student other than Ulan. Leaving behind the gruff-faced Dillia, the group was formed in an instant..
“Now, let's go to the designated area!”
Stella's lively cry as a signal.
The monster hunt has begun.
2.
After stepping into the northern forest.
Laurea walked diligently through the forest..
all over!
Maybe because it had rained the day before, it was around the time when I was stepping on the damp soil. She glanced at the back of Ulan walking ahead of her..
‘You are surprisingly caring.’
From the moment of departure until now.
Ulan swung his ax and cut down all the overgrown bushes and branches. Perhaps he was considerate of himself who followed..
I feel strange.
Laurea recalled personal purpose.
‘The reason why I was in the same group as Ulan.’
In fact, this was Laurea's intention. It was to obtain additional information related to the abyss through Ulan..
‘'Cause I've walked a fair distance…….’
Shall I ask a question now??
When I was about to kiss my lips with that thought.
Suddenly, Ulan spoke first..
“laurea.”
“……yes?”
“You can speak comfortably now.”
“huh? what do you mean by that?”
Her eyes widened at the sudden remark..
A puzzled look, as if he didn't know what he was talking about. Ulan continued with a blunt tone..
“It is said that it is not necessary to use respectful words..”
“Ooh, I'm comfortable with this?”
After thinking for a while, Laurea smiled..
If someone who doesn't know her sees her, her smile is so innocent that they'll believe it's real..
But it wasn't Ulan.
He knew that expression was a mask, so he spat out the words without hesitation..
“I know your true face.”
“what are you saying all of a sudden…….”
“I know that you're terribly bothered by honorifics, and I know what your original personality is..”
A quiet word.
Ulan answered quietly..
“So be normal in front of me.”
Because there are no eyes here.
After he finished answering, Laurea closed her slightly parted lips again. At the same time, he quickly removed the smile from his lips..
some time after that.
She looked at Ulan with dry eyes..
“…….”
There was nothing else to say..
I just keep looking at Ulan.
It must have felt a bit burdensome, but Ulan did not avoid her gaze..
When the silent snowball fight continued.
“Hmm.”
Laurea was the first to speak..
With her hands behind her back, she turned around and took a light step. Then she murmured in a slow voice as she hovered around Ulan..
“I thought of you from the first time I saw you…….”
The moment I was speechless.
Laurea's eyes twinkled like stars..
like you found something interesting.
“you are really a strange person.”
A completely different tone of voice.
It wasn't just that the honorifics were changed to half words. The timbre and tone of voice are much calmer than before..
This is Laurea's real face.
Seeing this, Ulan grinned..
“Also this one is much better.”
This is how he remembers Laurea..
Meanwhile, Laurea asked with her question still on her face..
“More than that, I saw you for the first time yesterday, how do you know me so well? Have you ever investigated my background??”
questions in a row.
But Ulan did not answer.
But I didn't intentionally close my mouth..
The moment I met her true self, it was just that I couldn't hear the question because the memories of my past life suddenly came to mind..
“well, okay.”
When Ulan didn't respond, Laurea decided he was reluctant to give a reason..
So I shrugged.
like you don't care.
“If you don't want to talk, quit. It's okay if I find out later.”
There is nothing urgent.
You can ask again later, or you can ask the intelligence department of the Holy Kingdom to investigate..
After that, the moment I tried to move again.
tall!
Suddenly, Ulan's steps stopped..
Looking at the reaction, it seems that I found something. Noticing this, Laurea immediately started talking..
“what's the matter?”
Did a monster appear?
Just when he had that thought, Ulan grabbed the axe. Then, without looking away, she whispered.
“wait here a minute.”
“what? but…….”
“Okay. It only takes a moment.”
After finishing the blunt answer.
Ulan walked alone.
Some kind of tension. Laurea swallowed dryly. But even for a moment, she let out a dazed exclamation at the scene unfolding before her eyes..
“Yes?”
It's because of Ulan's eccentricity..
Arriving in front of the bush, he quickly clung to the tree and headed for the top. Then he quickly swung the ax he had drawn earlier..
thud! cooung!
Loud noise that came along with it.
It sounded like stones falling to the ground. After a while, Ulan came down to the ground and picked up a large fruit..
“…….”
I thought that some kind of dangerous monster had appeared and went to fight..
Around the time when Laurea looked depressed.
Ulan approached and handed over the fruit..
“It is a gift. i will give it to you.”
“……what is this?”
“It is a fruit that is good for a hangover, as I said before..”
After answering briefly.
Ulan added a detailed explanation.
“You can take it the next day, or you can take it while drinking alcohol. Hangovers as well as heartburn symptoms will be alleviated.”
After that, when all the fruits were handed over.
Laurea stared at him with her mouth shut..
Eyes filled with strange doubts. Ulan, on the other hand, did not notice this, and she immediately turned her body around..
“then don't go back.”
To resume the original purpose of hunting monsters.
However, Ulan had to stop after a while..
“laurea?”
It was because Laurea didn't follow him and was still standing alone..
why are you doing that all of a sudden?
Just as she was making an expression of incomprehension, she suddenly raised her head. She then opened her mouth, closing her distance with her strides..
“I want to ask you something.”
“what?”
“It's something I've always been curious about, yesterday and today, how did you find out??”
“you know what…….”
“That I have a hangover.”
Laurea stared at Ulan..
I'm curious, as if I can't stand it.
Ulan, who was asked this question, replied with an expression that did not matter..
“I know by looking into your eyes.”
“eye?”
“yes, the eyes say it all.”
immediately after answering.
Ulan stared into her eyes..
The distinction is surprisingly simple..
On days without a hangover, the pupils were clearer, and on days with a hangover, it was all blurry..
Then Laurea pulled out a hand mirror from her bosom and started a snowball fight with herself in the mirror..
“To me it looks the same as usual?”
“Isn't that because there's not a single day without drinking, and there's no change??”
“…….”
I heard it and it makes sense.
Laurea nodded without retorting..
Then, as if a new question suddenly came to my mind, I looked back at Ulan and spoke to him..
“More than that, you are very special too.”
“what are you talking about?”
“is that right? If someone who is usually the next generation of saints says they drink every day, most people will ask why..”
why do you drink so much.
The same was true of Ian, Laurea's escort. Shortly after he found out, he asked why he was drinking every night..
“Aren't you curious? why i drink.”
“I'm not particularly curious.”
“huh? why?”
“Because I already know the reason.”
At those words, Laurea laughed..
there's no way you know.
The reason she drinks is special.
That is, there is no way for a third party to know this unless she reveals the reason first..
‘Maybe it's just what I said.’
Laurea thought so.
Until I heard Ulan's answer.
“Is it because of the voice of the stars??”
“……?!”
Ulan's answer came back calmly.
The moment she heard this, Laurea was startled as if she had seen a ghost..
Feelings of surprise, bewilderment, and astonishment.
Faced with this, he recalled the story he had heard from the saintess in his past life..
‘star god).’
A god worshiped by the followers of the holy kingdom, and an aggregate of numerous divinities that support the world..
Among them, the saintess, who is called the agent of God, is a very special being who serves him in the closest place to the Holy Spirit..
Maybe that's why?
Saints who serve the Holy Spirit receive tremendous divine protection and display several abilities..
The 'voices from the stars' that Ulan just talked about was one of them..
‘They said that when the night comes and the stars rise, the gods talk to each other.’
If you simply hear it like this, you can say that it is a very mysterious and sacred ability..
As a saint who serves God, it was a great honor to hear the voice of God..
‘I've actually been helped.’
The Holy Spirit hints at the ominous future that is approaching through the saint or gives advice..
Thanks to that, the warrior party has survived the crisis several times..
‘but…….’
There are fatal flaws.
That when night comes, they continue to talk to you all the time, and that there is no way to stop this divine interference..
Even when she tries to sleep, she talks nonstop, so I don't even dare to guess how great the saintess's suffering is..
‘So I said I was drinking.’
To fall asleep even by borrowing drunkenness.
And, incidentally, this was also the reason why the character of the saints was inevitably dirty..
From the moment I was chosen as the next saint until I step down as a saint, I have to listen to God's voice every night until I get tired of it..
Meanwhile around that time.
Laurea was still surprised..
It was natural. This is the truth that no one knows except for a few close friends..
‘By the way…….’
how do you know?
Laurea bit her lip, feeling her doubts welling up like mad..
Then he glared at Ulan and asked.
“……what the hell are you?”
“You won't believe me even if I tell you.”
Ulan evaded the answer..
Exactly the same as heard in the restaurant.
But this time, I had no intention of stepping down lightly..
“no, believe me.”
After shaking my head.
Laurea put on a serious expression..
“First, I'll tell you my secret. In fact, I have a special ability. It is the power to see through the essence of the other person and distinguish between lies and truth..”
A story about projections.
In her past life, a secret she could barely hear after half a year had passed, slipped out of her lips..
“And from the moment we first met until now, you've never lied to me. This is why I can trust you.”
“…….”
“so tell me.”
what is your identity.
Laurea looked at Ulan with sincere eyes. But she still didn't get an answer from her, so she spoke again..
“If it's because you don't believe me, I swear by the Holy Ghost…….”
“no, you don't have to swear.”
then.
Ulan shook his head..
“I can believe you.”
A faint smile bloomed on his lips..
a confident smile.
Laurea was momentarily taken aback by the strong trust in the answer. He didn't expect to receive such strong trust from the person he met for the first time yesterday..
“If you don't trust the comrades who fought against the abyss together for ten years in the first place, there's no one you can trust in the world.”
“Poetry, abyss? colleague?”
what is this all of a sudden?
Laurea had a puzzled face..
The reason for the embarrassment was not only because of the sudden remark. It was because what Ulan had just spouted turned out to be true..
At that moment.
Ulan's face became serious..
“If you are curious about my identity, please answer me.”
he was determined.
two reasons.
First of all, it is because Laurea simply possesses projection eyes..
If she can tell the difference between truth and lies, she'll be able to easily accept Ulan's secret..
‘and the second reason is…….’
Currently, Ulan needs an ally..
If the gap in the abyss opens again, and another lord emerges, then it will be difficult to deal with only the power of the uhlan..
So, after giving his secret to an old colleague, he thought of getting cooperation. And Ulan chose Laurea as the target..
After throwing away all hesitation.
Ulan's low voice continued with his eyes burning like flames..
“I am from Ulaanbaatar. He is a great warrior born in the grasslands and roaming the battlefield, and a warrior who has faced the abyss with you for decades..”
“……what?”
Laurea blankly asked.
Ulan said he had been with her for decades, as before. And this time, Ulan's words turned out to be true..
“Now wait! wait a minute.”
very absurd story.
Projection, on the other hand, accepted this as truth..
For the first time in my life, I felt as if my understanding had been exhausted. So, after I stopped talking to Ulan, I tried to organize the information..
“My, what the hell do you mean I've been with you for decades? We obviously met for the first time yesterday, and…….”
The moment I spit out gibberish.
Ulan grabbed Laurea by the shoulder..
Facing his confused eyes, he whispered someone's name..
“Irea.”
the moment you hear that name.
Laurea's accident has stopped.
Because the name Irea was the 'real name' of Laurea, which she used in the past before she became a candidate for sainthood..
“all, how do you name it…….”
A secret that only you and your master remember.
Laurea's voice trembled uncontrollably as Ulan's real name, unknown even to Ian, came out..
Ulan, on the other hand, was still calm..
He looked into Laurea's wildly fluctuating eyes and whispered again..
A secret that only he knows.
“I'm from 30 years in the future.”
An absurd answer just by hearing it.
But Laurea couldn't laugh at all..
the reason was simple.
There was no lie in Ulan's answer through the projection eye..
Faced with a confession that is only true.
Her hair was dyed white..
26page. secret
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