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Bam!
There was a sound like hammers clashing in the air.
The shockwave was so loud that it shook the tent.
“Tch.”
Katalin's heel was caught in the enemy knight's elbow.
'Yes. He really is a real knight.'
He aimed to block his vision the moment he took off his helmet, but the Sword Expert's reflexes were almost superhuman.
The moment Katalin realized that the surprise attack had failed, he turned around without hesitation.
'Then I can't win.'
Only a stronger knight could win a head-on fight with a knight, and the enemy knight was rumored to have fought dozens of paladins.
For her, there was no hope of winning even if she died and woke up again.
Katalin pushed Jin away and ran into the tent.
I was planning to pack just one emergency bag and hide among the crowds of tents.
Even in the imperial family, there are only 200 high-level personnel, so it is impossible for them to wander around a place like this for a thousand years.
'If we hide for a few days, it will all be quiet.'
At that moment, Katalin felt her vision becoming strangely distorted.
I clearly threw myself into the tent, but the bag inside didn't come close.
Moreover, now I felt like my body was floating, and I could even see the sky.
'Ah. I'm done.'
bang!
Katalin was grabbed by the scruff of the neck by Tentia and thrown to the ground.
“I’m Tentia. My sister’s junior!”
While she was reeling from shock, a voice she never expected to hear was heard.
'Tentia? Huh, huh?'
A junior who came to the capital at a young age as the second son of a knight, a junior who helped him blend in with noble society because he felt bad for him always being alone, a junior who played with the underground water slime, a junior who trained with the sword together with him when they wanted to become knights.
It was a voice that had been with me during the most brilliant times of my life.
“Really?”
Katalin was so surprised that he stuttered, and then reflexively exclaimed, 'I won't get my throat cut,' and felt a mixture of joy and shame.
Now, it seemed a bit odd to call her a cool senior.
Tentia took off her helmet.
His face had become more manly than at the Academy, and his eyes had become deeper and more determined.
'It really is you.'
This time, Katalin didn't even throw a roundhouse kick.
Tentia delivered a verbal roundhouse kick.
“So, Sister. What were you doing here?”
In the shade next to the tent, the knight, the thug, and the student council president faced each other amicably.
The knight was smiling comfortably, the bully was fidgeting, and the student council president was hiding his fidgeting with a relaxed smile.
Katalin hesitated.
“Ah… … that’s it.”
She also knew that she was embarrassed to show her current appearance in front of her cherished junior.
“Aren’t you going to answer?”
“I’m sorry. This is too embarrassing to tell you, sir.”
Katalin kept bowing his head.
But Tentia was a knight who considered simplicity a virtue, and was completely absorbed in the joy of being reunited with her 'sister' rather than the leader of an evil cadet gang.
“Why is it so awkward between us, sir? Just call me Tentia.”
I still treated her like my dorm roommate.
“That can’t be… … right”
Katalin saw his own pitiful appearance reflected in Tentia's brilliant platinum armor.
Now, Tentia was no longer a country girl who had just come to Tokyo and was trembling at the enormity of the capital and the slime of the underground sewers.
Since he had been appointed, he was actually higher in rank than her, who was from a fallen noble family.
“Ah. Call me!”
But Tentia didn't bother to ask about the memories.
“Okay, Tentia.”
Katalin was impressed by the knight's mercy.
“And what? Are you ashamed to tell the knight? You shouldn’t have done such a thing!”
If she was mistaken, it was that Tentia's mercy was bestowed only after the other person had become worthy of it.
“Why do you keep making me so tired? You know she’s doing important work, right? Just do as I say. She’s not just a student council president anymore. She’s the leader of a paramilitary organization recognized by His Highness the Grand Duke of Valen. It’s already a turbulent time. Today is no different. If it weren’t for me, my sister would’ve died.”
Katalin was hit by verbal arrows until she turned into a hedgehog and trembled.
“No! If you treated me like a dog, you should let me go. Jin, you’re going too far. Even if I caused a bit of trouble, why are you calling the knight?”
“You took advantage of me? What do you mean?”
Tentia lived close to Valencianus's work, and at that point, she realized that there was something she didn't know about.
“Jin. Explain.”
The student council president's smile became distorted.
* * *
“In this situation, we can’t let the Academy kids cause any more trouble. That’s why the student council is keeping a close eye on them, but there are kids who don’t pay attention.”
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“What if you don’t notice?”
“They either get eroded by using strange black magic, or they commit thuggery against the citizens, or they steal amulets, symbols, or grimoires made by the eroders, or things like that.”
There was a question in Tentia's voice.
“Then why don’t you just catch them all and beat them up or hand them over to the church? I know that’s what your original position was.”
Jin nodded.
“That’s right. That’s what we usually do. But because of the circumstances, it ends up provoking even the kids. Their homes and families are in shambles, and the student council doesn’t help the students, but instead just keeps arresting and beating them up.”
Jin was confident.
“You can’t cut people’s hearts with a knife, right? People’s perspectives on us have changed. That’s why we outsourced the work of enforcing discipline. We confiscated things, beat people, dragged them away, and had the gang do all that.”
To be exact, I was confident until then.
“Outsourcing? … … Ah.”
Katalin raised his hand in a wry manner.
Jin continued, sighing deeply.
“But the kids who got the outsourcing kept going astray. They hid the confiscated erosion tools and sold them, and when I told them to confiscate them, they looted them. So they started fighting each other. At that time, the student council even got involved directly. The problem was that there was one gang that was too strong.”
Even if we join forces with other groups, we can defeat them, and if the student council steps in, the damage will likely be too great.
If they suffer a great deal of damage, they will not be able to do the work that Valencian has entrusted to them, and other gangs that the student council has been suppressing will also run wild.
“So that’s why I ended up calling you, sir.”
Jin finished his long explanation.
Tentia let out a deep sigh.
Living simply and proudly was indeed a difficult task.
“I now understand why His Majesty Valen cherishes you.”
bang!
Tentia grabbed Jin's head and slammed it into his hand.
Jin screamed and rolled on the floor, and Katalin raised both hands.
“Tentia, wait a minute!”
“Sister, let’s get one too.”
bang!
While Jin and Katalin were both rolling around on the floor, Tentia opened the tent wide and took out all the magical tools imbued with the aura of erosion and black magic, crushing them.
“Sister. Are you really determined to be burned at the stake?”
“… … .”
Katalin said nothing and just watched.
“Sister!”
“What is happening now?”
But Catalin's gang arrived late.
“Everyone, get on your knees and bow down!”
bang!
Even the most notorious gangster was just a docile lamb in front of a knight.
"jin!"
“Yes, yes!”
“It seems like it’s been resolved. I’ll go catch the eroder again. Be more careful with management when outsourcing in the future.”
"All right."
“Ah. Sister, come with the kids. Even if you’re Sister, you can’t just let it go. If you’re a sword user, your erosion resistance is pretty high, right?”
Katalin, who was running away stealthily, broke out in a cold sweat.
* * *
Tentia wandered around the tent village, following her intuition and the magical tools made by Sereraji.
Tentia, wearing special armor, and Katalin, wearing leather armor, create a contrasting composition.
Tentia stopped in front of a tall tent in the corner of the tent village, and Katalin nodded.
“It’s been a while since I’ve seen your skills, unnie.”
“Okay. I’m ready.”
The next moment, Tentia jumped into the tent.
“His Majesty Valencianus’ knight, Tentiara!”
“Gyaaaah!”
The family woke up screaming and panicking.
Their faces showed the bewilderment that would be expected of people who had been attacked by a knight while engaged in a heated conversation.
“Sir! Why are you doing this?”
“What's going on?”
On the surface, they seemed like ordinary people.
“Tentia. Did you find the right one?”
Katalin was about to put back the song he had once pulled out with an embarrassed expression.
However, Tentia didn't hesitate for a moment and struck down the sword of the treasured sword.
wickedness!
The arm of the man who was my father was cut off.
The cross-section was filled with black mold and green mycelia.
“Profit! I got caught, hit me!”
The thing that had been my mother screamed, and believers of the erosion cult came rushing out from the tents.
“Gweeeeek!”
“Catch him! Catch him!”
“They are the ones trying to take away our forests!”
There appeared to be at least a few dozen of them.
Tentia lowered her mask and looked back at Katalin and the cadet thugs.
“Sister. Can you handle this much?”
Katalin nodded, and Tentia blew off the head of what had been her mother in one breath.
Crunch!
The head hit the floor and a melee began.
“Why did you crawl into our world and cause chaos!”
“The knight is watching us!”
“That big guy’s leg joints look weak. Let’s hit him together!”
Cadet thugs swung their crowbars and war hammers, breaking the heads of the invaders.
“Gweeek!”
“Kill him! Kill him!”
Black deer antlers grew from the bodies of the eroders like tree branches and pierced the bodies of the cadet thugs.
“Run away!”
“fu*k!”
“Let’s just live first!”
Among the cadet thugs, there were many who abandoned Katalin and ran away.
“Those things!”
Katalin swung his sword and swore.
The sight of those she trusted mixing in with the fugitives was quite a shock to her, who had once dreamed of becoming a knight.
Tentia frowned under her helmet, pulled a dagger from her waistband, and threw it at their backs.
Wedge!
The daggers thrown by the knights boasted powers rivaling those of magic bullets, and they fell to the ground with their chests pierced.
She muttered as she watched the cadet thugs fighting and gritted their teeth against the incoming invaders.
“Even in the face of the strong, there are not many who are strong or have been killed in battle. If those who have not been killed in battle pretend to be warriors and take the blood, sweat, and tears of their subjects, that is an injustice that goes against chivalry.”
A red mana blade flickered from her sword.
“It looks like it’s been chosen enough to be chosen now.”
“Te, Tentia.”
Katalin realized once again that Tentia was a platinum knight.
Tentia was someone who had climbed to heights she had never reached and seen sights she had never seen.
“Sister. Those who turn their backs on the battlefield can never walk the path of chivalry. And if you don’t turn your back on the battlefield-.”
A red haze rippled over Tentia's shoulders.
The eroders hesitated at the massive prayer.
“No matter how much you’ve fallen into filth, you’ll at least be given a chance to repent and start over.”
Tsukaaaaak!
Tentia swung her sword wildly, and dozens of eroders rolled across the floor.
The bloody mana blades easily sliced through the encroachers' branch-like horns and fungal carapace.
“That’s a real article.”
"oh my god."
“Tentia.”
Katalin opened his mouth wide.
The scene she had once dreamed of was unfolding in the hands of her beloved younger brother.
It took less than two minutes for all 64 occupants to become corpses.
“This way!”
“Bring the cart and the cloth!”
“Bring some seminarians too!”
Student council members came running with carts and cloths, and the cadet gangsters, at a loss, helped collect the bodies of the perpetrators.
Katalin still stood there blankly, with a shocked expression on her face.
Tentia's sword strike, that Mana Blade, was vivid before my eyes.
Tentia lifted her visor and showed her face, smiling like they did when they played at the Academy.
“You don’t want to give up, do you?”
“… … .”
“300 years ago, the Eastern Black Iron became a Sword Expert at the age of 43, and a Sword Master at the age of 80. The previous Black Iron Knight Vice-Captain also became a Sword Expert when he was over 30.”
“I already-”.
Tentia shook her head.
“All knights are murderers. Whether a knight becomes a hero or a thug depends on his attitude toward the world. Carry the shadow and go toward the light. Enjoy your talents and do penance. Me and my sister.”
Katalin looked up at Tentia, shivering involuntarily.
“Can I do it?”
“If you want to be a knight, be like a knight. Try to think like a knight, try to fight like a knight, try to act like a knight. If you do that, you will eventually become one.”
Tentia disappeared towards the castle walls.
Katalin watched her back until she disappeared completely.
* * *
“Did you meet someone you know? Your expression is strange.”
Tentia smiled happily and answered Valencianus' question.
“Yes, Your Majesty. I met a close friend from the Academy.”
“It must have been nice to meet you. How have you been?”
“It will be like that in the future.”
“Hmm.”
“Why are you doing that?”
Valencian said in a tired voice.
“No. I think we might need some swordsmen who are willing to go through fire and water. I don’t think Kyung-i knows anyone. If you do, please introduce me to someone.”
Tentia felt her eyes turning yellow.
“That will never happen!”
I couldn't stand to see that scoundrel corrupt my sister, who was on the verge of rehab.