Chapter 87 - 87. Everyone's Son-in-Law

On the way back after meeting the saintess, Bernice.

She was stroking the jewel on Sierra's sword head, retracing the conversation she had just had with her.

The conversation may have ended better than I thought, but...

'Has Cadet Zeto killed... A demon recently?'

...The saintess' information power exceeded my expectations.

You never thought you would connect 'Crektar' and me.

Bernice must have just asked a question as if to point it out, but since she had the 'authority', she had no choice but to recite the truth.

She intended to take this opportunity to make friends with her moderately and ask for her help when she needed it, but Bernice tried to recruit me into her knights.

'...Fence.'

Certainly, considering her future activities, it wouldn't be so bad even if there was such a thing.

However, there were things I was reluctant to do.

Rather than a matter of conversation or excuses... What the saintess did to me.

As soon as Bernice met me, she poured her divine power out of nowhere.

She seems to have made her sense right away.

The ominous energy that I feel.

Well, it wasn't something that would disappear like purification, so there was no other damage, but it seems that her divine power was blocked by the 'coat' I was wearing before.

Because the 'veil of night' had divine magic resistance attached.

Originally, 'Barsium', who should be regarded as the owner of the coat, was a vampire, so the resistance itself was high.

She said, 'I didn't have that in mind because it was an option I didn't think was very useful...'

Fortunately, Bernice doesn't seem to have approached anything in detail.

At least not yet.

Even the yodo (妖刀) can be revealed when the time comes.

Bernice is not that inflexible.

When I recall the delusion that Deidros had made at the time of making the urethra, I think that the saintess could sympathize with it and understand it.

But the tears of the dead... I have no words to say.

'I killed the lich and put the thing I got into my heart.' And she couldn't calmly move on.

Aside from the inevitability of being close to Bernice, though, belonging to her knights' order seemed comfortable in many ways.

While thinking about it, she suddenly hears 'Sierra' buzzing and vibrating.

Soon after, Sierra, who slipped out of her urethra, opens her mouth.

[My, disciple... Can you stop fiddling around...]

Sierra, who said that in her shy voice, twisted her body as if she didn't know what to do.

It seems that it was very annoying that I had to touch the sword around my waist without realizing it while thinking about it.

"Which part do you think it's connected to...?"

Tapping her jewelry on the head of her knife, she said.

'I'm sure the doorknob didn't mind.'

Immediately, Sierra's body trembled.

[Sigh... That, stop... Stop...]

...Judging from her reaction, it seems to be a very sensitive area.

"...All right."

I took her hand away from 'Sierra' and held up her palm.

Then Sierra pulled herself together and glared at me.

Apparently, when Sierra is inside her urethra, she seems to have a stronger sensory connection than when she is outside.

Anyway, for the time being, it seemed difficult to walk around her academy with her.

"Master, even if it's frustrating, would you like it just a little bit? I don't want to be found out by her holy woman right now."

[ ...So, you mean later is okay? ]

Sierra put her hands on my shoulders, her pouty face, and glanced at me.

"As long as it goes the way I think."

I answered her and walked down her path toward her Colosseum.

Will Bernice's 'power' work on Sierra, who has become a dead man?

***

The climax of the second day of the open class was, without a doubt, a confrontation between the emerging divinity 'Eisel Ludwig' and the continent's 4 element family 'Yuri Clementine'.

It started with Yuri's name being called.

She summoned Eisel with a confident expression.

Then, the two showed their overwhelming skills and plunged the Colosseum into a crucible of enthusiasm.

The result was Eisel's victory.

Glass was strong enough, if strong enough.

Unfortunately, however, it was not yet the ability to overcome the huge wall of 'regressor'.

Even so, the couple's showdown had already far exceeded the expectations of a first-year cadet, so even Yuri's defeat did not damage the reputation of the Four Elements family.

Above all, even Yuri's father, Geras Clementine, was quite satisfied with her daughter's skills.

Of course, he would have scolded me normally, but it was because he was in such a good mood.

It was an unexpected luck for him to know a cadet named Zeto while he was deepening his concerns about the first prince.

The event of the second day ends like that, and now outsiders have time to observe the life of the cadets in the academy for several days.

So, Xerath came to Yuri's dormitory.

Yuri's room was not much different from her room at her parents' home.

There was nothing untidy, and it was a tidy room where it was hard to see a speck of dust.

Across her, she could see her own pretty daughter, Yuri, sitting on her bed with her goofy expression on her face.

There was a book at the head of her bed where she was sitting.

'You still like fairy tales.'

Her daughter's innocence from her childhood puts a hearty smile on Xerath's lips.

"You don't seem to be in a good mood."

Xerath approached Yuri and asked.

"...I can't feel good when I lose."

Yuri turned her head away.

She was barely quelling her rising rage. It wasn't until she took her tantrum at her father, whom she hadn't seen in a while.

Haha, that's how she is my daughter. Yeah, if there's a wall, burn it and jump over it. Because that's Clementine."

Xerath laughed out loud.

It was because she felt that she had raised her daughter well.

"...For some reason, my father doesn't say anything bitter."

Yuri said while resting her chin.

"As you said, you're strong, Miss Eisel. 'Ludwig' who uses lightning magic... I've never heard of it before."

"I've never asked about the family. I just thought that there must be a family like that somewhere on the continent... Anyway, he's a strange kid. He doesn't suddenly get hurt somewhere..."

Soon, Yuri begins to recite about Eisel.

Looking at her like that, Xerath smiled at her and stroked her hair.

Yuri's friend may not have been Jeto only.

It was good to have a friendly competition with her friend.

Just looking at myself right now, when I was young, I grew up bickering with Maxim Caligus every single day.

"...And when did Zeto and I become so close?"

It was when Yuri spat out those words and touched her own red hair.

At her words, Xerath expressed his doubts.

"...Are Miss Aisel close with Jeto-kun too?"

"Does it seem like that?"

"Hmm..."

Then Xerath drools and runs through her own beard.

And he thought

Maybe, to Yuri, Eisel might not be her friend, but her 'sweet enemy'.

Jeto, whom I looked at briefly, was quite popular with her female students.

It was not unreasonable for him to feel that way.

"Haha, my daughter must be giving her a little headache."

Yuri's head tilted at Xerath's sudden words.

Soon, Yuri crosses her arms and glances at Xeras as if asking what else she is talking about.

"Yuri, my lovely daughter. If this father had to say one word... It would be love. If you miss the time, it's pretty exhausting."

"Love...? Father, what are you talking about...!"

Only then does Yuri realize what her own father is talking about.

"Jetto is... Well, just a friend."

Yuri, who was pushing Xeras away, stuttered her.

"I see. Then you wouldn't mind if Miss Eisel and Jeto whispered their love in front of you?"

"That, that's... There's no way Eisel and Zeto would be like that..."

Even as Yuri said that, she remembered Eisel's eyes looking at Jeto.

It was such a deep, yet something soggy... Strange look.

Yuri couldn't continue her words.

Xerath put her head down on her glass, smiled at her, and then left her room and said a soft word.

"A son-in-law like Zeto, this father always agrees."

Lars, who was leaving the room, had no doubts that if she did this, Yuri would take care of it and she would do it well.

Yuri, who was left in her room, was still in shock.

'Son-in-law...'

Anyway, maybe it went too far.

"Jetto was just a friend... I couldn't even hold his hand, but what kind of marriage is marriage..."

Yuri, who had muttered something like that in a low voice, said, 'Ah.' Make a sound.

'Have you already held hands...?'

Yuri immediately approaches the drawer next to the bed and she takes something of her own from the drawer.

Yuri, who was closing the drawer, held an ice cube in her hand.

It was a souvenir that Lucia handed out to everyone when she went to the North.

She then sits on her bed and infuses her ice cubes with her mana.

After that, Yuri smiled at her as she recalled that memory, her memory, for a long time.

***

Meanwhile, she heard the same thing in the hand of a girl with pink pigtails who was in the same dormitory as Yuri.

It was Caen.

At night, she naturally went to the ice cubes with her hands.

That's how she said, 'I won't have a nosebleed today.' This was when she tried to blow mana into her hand while making a vow.

ㅡDr.

Suddenly, the sound of a window opening came from the dark room.

'What...? A freak? Rumors circulate that the thief joined the academy...'

You picked the wrong opponent.

Kaen was a disciple of the Sword Saint.

ㅡSureung.

She immediately pulled out a sword lying next to her bed and thrust it at her unknown assailant.

However.

ㅡ Ting.

With a clear sound, Kaen's sword was thrown away by the assailant's fingers.

"...Your skills are rusty."

Her assailant's voice was very familiar to her as well.

Then, Kaen shouted in an embarrassed voice.

"Grandfather?!"

"Ttsk, who would be threatened when he thrusts his sword so weakly?"

The identity of the assailant was none other than Kaen's teacher and swordsman, Chris.

Chris, who clicked his tongue once, calmly looked around his granddaughter's room.

Maybe it's because she's been wandering with him since childhood.

There were no other items in the room, so it was shabby.

"No, how can I leave the door intact and go through the window..."

Kaen didn't say that, staring at Chris, but immediately understood why he did it.

First of all, the relationship between her and Chris was in a state of hiding.

"Hmmmm... Grandpa, why did you come here at this late hour?"

Kaen spoke to him as she cleared her throat and returned her sword to her place.

Then Chris, who was looking around her room, answers.

"I met Jeto this morning."

"Have you met Cadet Jetto?"

"Yes. While examining his swordsmanship, I was curious about something, so we had a conversation. Only then did I understand why you lost."

He didn't bother mentioning that he was trying to make Jeto a disciple.

"...If we fight again, we can win."

Kaen said that because she thought Chris was scolding her.

However, Chris' reply was different from what she expected.

"There's no need to do that. It seems like it's good to hide that you're my student from now on, especially from Zeto."

"...Yes?"

"...There's something like that."

Chris brushed aside Kaen's question.

In response, Kaen narrowed her eyes and tilted her head.

Chris was such an eccentric character that Kaen couldn't fully understand his actions or words.

As Chris examines Kaen, an ice shard in her hand catches her eye.

Chris then asks, holding her hand.

"What is this?"

"This, this... It's just ice. Ice to eat. Ehehe... Should I eat it whenever I'm thirsty!"

At Chris' question, Kaen hurriedly puts her ice cube in her mouth and scratches her cheek.

'I swallowed Zeto...'

Kaen put her ice cube in her mouth and she wanted to cry but she couldn't help but laugh like an idiot.

She just hoped the ice wouldn't melt.

Chris, who looked intently at Kaen as he put the ice from her hand in her mouth, wondered if she hadn't taught her manners too much.

Meanwhile, a ring on Kaen's finger caught her eye as she was scratching her cheek.

"Hmm? It's the first ring I've ever seen."

Chris asked Kaen.

Soon Kaen glances at the ring.

"Ah, this is the ring I got from Cadet Zeto. Isn't it nice...?!"

Kaen showed off her fingers at Chris.

In fact, the clothes Kaen was wearing now were also the clothes Jeto had bought for her before.

Contrary to Jeto's idea that she thought it was a horse outfit she wore once, she wore this outfit often.

"You got a ring?"

Chris' eyes widen.

"Eh, that's... Somehow..."

Kaen had her ice cubes with her, so she said in a somewhat slurred tone.

I couldn't say that I got it by killing a blood mage like Zeto.

This was a secret between Jeto and Kaen.

When Chris heard this, he was greatly surprised.

'You mean they were already exchanging rings...?!'

Even Chris, who didn't know much about love between a man and a woman, knew that giving and receiving her ring meant a lot to her.

Soon, the corners of her mouth rose so much that her teeth were visible.

She then puts her chin and her hand on Kaen's shoulder.

"Okay, Kaen! Keep going!"

"...Jeongjin?"

Kaen had to express her embarrassment once again at Chris' words, which were difficult to understand, but Chris didn't even care.

After worrying about how to connect Kaen and Jeto, it was Chris who eventually came to Kaen, but contrary to his worries, it seems that she already took care of her pupil and did a good job with her.

She didn't think she was in vain.

Soon after leaving her room with her question-marked Kaen on her face, Chris puts her foot on her window and throws a word at her.

"...I want to see you as soon as possible. Grandchildren... No, great-grandchildren. I've already been handed the ring, so that's all that's left."

Even if he passed it over, he passed it over for a long time.

"Zu, great-granddaughter?!"

Leaving behind Kaen's questionable cry that immediately followed, Chris escapes through her window.

'Kaen is still young, so she's shy.'

Chris, who flew lightly in the air, thought so.

"Ugh..."

Kaen, who had to suffer from Chris' unexpected visit, spit out her ice cubes.

There was no melting of ice.

She had been told that she would not melt, but she was worried that she would be terribly sorry if she disappeared because of this.

Thinking so, she rolled her eyes and murmured.

"Great-grandchildren, I can't believe..."

Kaen wondered if maybe her grandfather, Chris, was mistaken for her, but the fact that she said that also meant that Jetto liked him.

'Jetto and... Me...'

When Kaen recalls the process of acquiring the 'great-grandchild' Chris mentioned, heat rises on Kaen's face.

Soon she shuts her mouth with her thumb.

...Anyway, washing the ice cubes came first.