Chapter 7

Paul nodded and scratched his chin, "Edward.. I've heard that name before..."

In front of him, Edward shook his head negatively "It's a rather common name, you must confuse me with someone else..."

"Mmm, it's true whatever… For now take this sword and follow me. You too Rudy!" As he spoke, Paul threw a wooden sword at Edward.

Edward retrieved the sword and followed him accompanied by a shy Rudeus. As the two walked, Edward turned to the young boy with a childish smile on his face in keeping with his childlike appearance.

"Hey, you heard it before, but call me Ed, let's be friends okay?"

Rudeus puts on a surprised face before forcing a strained smile "O-Of course, my name is Rudeus but you can call me Rudy I guess.."

For Edward, it was clear that Rudeus still suffered from his social phobia, however he still believed that the two would eventually get along well.

'If we put aside the fact that this guy is completely sexually deranged, he's quite likeable… Well, it's hard to forget this more than disturbing trait…In fact more than disturbing, this guy is completely crazy even for the people of this world…'

While Edward and Rudeus were both deep in thought, Paul turned around with a smile. Regardless, I'm going to repeat a few moves so watch."

Paul raised his sword and quickly sliced ​​through the air in front of him several times, his quick display almost looking like a dance to the two children's eyes.

As Paul finished the series of moves, he turned and smirked.

"Okay, do you understand? That's the basics of the Sword God Style, go Rudy try first, don't forget the most important thing is to always… always… uh follow your sword with your eyes?"

'You are the teacher, why are you asking?!' Edward shook his head at the behavior of his so-called teacher.

After a few seconds of hesitation, Rudeus slowly stepped forward and sliced ​​through the air in front of him before losing his balance caused by the weight of his sword.

Edward sighed, Rudeus' demonstration was more than bad, close to zero but it was also an expected demonstration from a 3 year old, however the most catastrophic was Paul who seemed to expect Rudeus to instantly understand his explanations hazardous.

"R-Rudy tries to Swoosh with your sword and when you turn always stay… always stay Swash!"

Edward looked up at the sky, the lessons with Paul are going to be long...

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When the lesson was over, Edward lay on the floor gasping for air.

'It was really complicated, even with my pseudo sword training I am already exhausted…'

Paul wasn't a very good instructor but surprisingly Edward had managed to more or less understand the blond's explanations.

Edward sat down hard before glancing at Rudeus, he had somehow managed to avoid the end of class and was now sitting on a tree stump staring at Roxy in the distance with a face… A face filled with perversion .

'This guy is irredeemable too…'

"Oh, you're done, come eat Lilia cooked the meal for us, you can come too Ed." Zenith came with a nice smile on his face seeing the two boys after their training.

However Edward shook his head negatively, "sorry but I already have something planned for lunch."

Zenith nodded but before she could speak, Edward got up and ran to the gate waving "See you tomorrow thank you all~"

Zenith shook his head, laughing, "What a strange child, one moment he was lying on the ground exhausted, the next moment he was running smoothly…"

"I agree, yesterday he passed out after using magic and now he can use the spell naturally and even during a fight... there are a lot of weird kids out there right now." Lilia, who had appeared next to Zenith at one point spoke up as she watched Edward run, however Zenith didn't notice the quick look she sent Rudeus talking about strange child and just nodded at Lilia.

"Fine, let's eat Rudy!"

For his part, Edward continued to run towards the edge of the village, the day before, Sylvano had given him an appointment around noon for another hunting lesson.

'It's funny, when I reincarnated in this body I thought that the long days of school would only be a vague memory, but not even three years later here I am, desperately looking for knowledge and lessons...'

Edward couldn't hold back a deep smile at the thought and quickly that smile turned into a chuckle.

For him who had always lived by considering studies as a burden, to find himself in a situation like this seemed unimaginable.

"So Ed, what makes you laugh so hard that you didn't even notice me?" Sylvano surprised him by putting his hand on his head and ruffling his hair with a laugh.

Edward jerked his hand away from his head and looked at Sylvano in annoyance.

"Stop treating me like a kid old man!"

Sylvano responds with a deep laugh before taking a big step to the left revealing a figure the same size as Edward with his face buried deep under a hood that hid behind Sylvano's back.

Brutally updated, the figure quivered slightly before heading behind Sylvano's leg.

At this sight, Edward frowned and turned to Sylvano "Don't tell me you kidnapped a child, I'll have to call Paul to cut you up before you commit a bigger crime old man, I knew that you were strange but the…"

A vein appeared on Sylvano's forehead but before he could answer, a small voice spoke.

"N-Don't say that! Don't speak badly of my dad!"

Sylvano sighed and put his hand on the child's head, carefully removing his hood. "Don't worry Sylphy, he's only joking you know."

Suddenly Edward's face froze slightly, the green hair previously hidden by the child's hood fluttering in the wind. Edward's brain raced and he quickly took in the situation.

'That girl is Rudeus' childhood friend sylphy...' The revelation that he already had a connection with many of the main characters gave Edward a severe headache.

Sylvano let out a small laugh "So you're blown away by my daughter, do you want to marry her now?"