Academy Slave Instructor

69 – The Next Level

The Next Level

All the academy students receiving private lessons from Rai were eliminated from the martial arts competition.

The biggest achievement was that Zeroa advanced to the 4th round, Abigail and Asran in the 3rd round, and Philia by winning the 1st round loser’s group, but were eliminated in the 2nd round loser’s match.

He didn’t get good grades, but even the instructors who hated Rai, let alone the academy students, didn’t laugh at him.

Zeroa rose to a much higher rank than expected, and Asran said that since Violet was her opponent, she had no choice.

As if Philia wasn’t obsessed with her rank, she tried to put her newly learned swordsmanship into practice, and Abigail didn’t even come out with her weapon.

People don’t know the exact reason, but even from the appearance on the surface, they could tell that they were training for martial arts competitions.

“Since Zeroa was ranked the highest, after all, she was the strongest Zero.”

At Rai’s words, Aslan, Abigail, and even Filia glared at him.

Among them huddled in the audience to watch the martial arts competition, Zeroa sees the three of them with wide eyes with an expression of embarrassment.

“If you master the swordsmanship perfectly, you won’t lose next time.”

“Even with the sword, I didn’t lose.”

“……”

Except for Aslan, who had a head-to-head confrontation with Violet and lost coolly, each of them said a word.

My pride cannot tolerate making excuses that I couldn’t help it because I met the strongest opponent and fell. However, he cannot give up his confidence that he is the strongest among the four.

Asran wants to say something, but he can’t think of the right words, so he silently glares at Lai.

“hahahaha… For me, Instructor Rai helped me… It’s not my skill.”

As Zeroa smiled awkwardly and spoke, the three of them turned their heads and glared at him.

The timid Zeroa couldn’t understand why he was getting angry at him, but for a high ranking person to say such a thing was a deception that only irritated the proud ones.

Usually, when the round of 128 is decided, the expression “Finals” Is used.

From here on out, there is no series of matches, and the winners compete with each other every one or two days.

There is no chance to try again even if you lose.

Even if four people were eliminated, the martial arts competition continued and now the academy students were selected up to the round of 16.

Only three people made it to the round of 16 in the first year.

Violet, Sojeta, Diana.

All three of them were well-known in the academy, so it was a natural result.

Violet and Sojeta are reputed to be once-in-a-thousand-year talents, and Diana has tremendous talent, even if not to those two, to the extent that she is called the hope of the Deshbella family.

In any case, the first two were so famous that they were pushed to the third place, but Diana was also a description that would not be strange if her name was called first if she went somewhere else.

Aria met Violet in the round of 32 and was eliminated.

After Zero Ah fought with her with all her strength, there were no more academy students to drop out of her competitions, and Aria put on her own skills and rose to victory.

She also had a good match with Violet, but unfortunately she couldn’t close the difference in skill and fell in the round of 32.

The person who gets the most attention at the martial arts competition right now is Violet.

She met only the candidates for the championship due to poor match luck, and came up by beating them one after another.

Especially, in the round of 128, they beat the 4th year, who was a strong candidate for the championship, and in the round of 64, another championship candidate was also eliminated.

At this point, it might not have been her, but her opponent, who had a bad luck with Dae Jin.

No matter how talented it is, it is a time when skills are growing rapidly, and as the grade changes, the skills vary greatly, so the academy students who thought it was impossible to win yet focused on Violet.

A silver-haired girl standing on stage with a calm face despite people’s attention stares at her opponent.

My opponent in the round of 16 is Diana Deshbella.

Although she is hidden behind the names of Violet and Sozeta, she also has skills that cannot be ignored.

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“Hello, Violet. Let’s have fun.”

Diana, with a bright smile that contrasts with the expressionless Violet, pulls out her sword.

Unusually, she has four of her weapons.

Three swords and an ax stretched from the waist to the buttocks, and each sword had a different thickness or length.

As if to show off her ability to use any weapon, she has been using a variety of weapons throughout the martial arts competition.

She handles all weapons such as mace, axe, sword, and spear with high level.

“Yeah, okay.”

With a calm voice, Violet pulls out an ordinary longsword and, contrary to the quiet atmosphere, draws out huge energy and confronts Diana.

A match that viewers can admire takes place, and Zeroa, who has been watching blankly, talks to herself.

“That’s great… Is Miss Diana a genius?”

Zeroa praised Diana more than her Violet.

Violet, nicknamed the Sword Fool, only practices swords. I don’t need anything else, and I’m obsessed with swords, so my grades in subjects like tactics are a mess.

Instead, he practiced wielding his sword every day and enjoys wielding it. Even the academy students watching from the sidelines how much they practiced nodded their heads, saying, “Oh, you can have that kind of skill if you do it that way.”

Every academy student knows that tremendous practice is hidden under the guise of a machine that will come out once in a thousand years.

But Diana is different.

She never set foot on her practice range while attending her academy. She never misses a lecture, but whenever there is an extra drill at her instructor’s discretion, she always sneaks out.

He is always surrounded by people and is busy with other things, such as going out to play or helping academy students with their little chores.

Meanwhile, all of her grades are taking top marks.

In every lecture the freshman takes, she competes for first or second place in terms of grades and gets good grades in large-scale exercises such as tactical drills.

She is evaluated not only for her personal strength, but also for her versatility, and for her being the commander who will succeed Edelian.

The problem was that I wasn’t trying…

A genius who doesn’t work hard, Diana is showing her skills on par with Violet.

She puts pressure on Violet while switching swords appropriately, and people’s attention is drawn to the splendor of her attacks by catching weapons thrown in the air.

Philia doesn’t say anything, but she agrees with Zeroa.

She might have died without her even when she was fighting the assassins who attacked Emilia.

Although she exhausted her mana considerably by breaking through a large-scale barrier by herself, she was a great help when dealing with the head of the assassins alone or stirring up formations.

“That’s a genius? It can’t be.”

However, Rai said with a dull expression as if he did not agree with that statement.

Seeing Diana pressuring her Violet, Aslan didn’t know that she would say something like this.

He looks at him with a frown, as if even Abigail didn’t understand, and everyone around him looked at him.

“Then, if that’s not a genius, what is it? It’s amazing even for me, who doesn’t have eyes to see.”

Representing the academy students who were dumbfounded, Rai laughed when Se-Seth asked.

“If you look like that, your skills are all there is to it. I have no intention of refutating. It’s a personal matter.”

Sesset, who doesn’t know why personal history comes out when talking about someone else’s talent, tilts her head and tries to ask her again, but her attendant, Rin, holds her by the shoulder and stops her.

Seeing her silent expression as she shook her head, Sesset pondered for a moment before shutting her mouth.

Unsurprisingly, unmanned people hide many things. It is a secret that should not be told to others, starting with one’s own technology or vision, and each person hides everything that can be hidden, such as unique training methods or personal habits.

Since trivial factors can make a difference in a game, it is not a matter of recklessly saying that Rai is a personal matter because he hides things that could be his weaknesses as much as possible.

“Rather than that, are you guys satisfied with your current skills?”

“You can’t be satisfied.”

“Did the dissatisfied guy fight like that? You told him to think and he pulled out his brain and fought?”

Aslan shuts her mouth to Rai’s bruise.

She was mesmerized by Violet’s spirit and rushed with all her might without thinking about it. She has no regrets, but she couldn’t meet Rai’s demands.

“And what? What do you hate? I hate green peppers too, man.”

“Don’t say that…”

“What should I say?! It’s the first time I’ve seen a guy openly asking the enemy to tell me his weakness. I’ll tell you the truth. Knowledge is already embedded in your head, so take out the knowledge and use it. From now on, you will treat everyone you meet as an enemy. I’m thinking about how to deal with it, okay?”

“… I’ll get it right now.”

Aslan reluctantly answered, she nodded her head slightly.

“And Abigail.”

Abigail, the next target, looks at Rai in silence.

“If you’re going to fight like that, hit me up and don’t even think about fighting someone else.”

“……”

“A guy who doesn’t value his body dies soon. If he dies, he has no chance. He has to survive to the end to get a chance.”

Abigail is moved to tears, perhaps recalling the memory of the day before when she mentioned revenge at the word opportunity.

“But-“

“But- it was a practice sword, isn’t it okay? Did you know that sword struck you and broke your ribs? If it got lodged in your lungs by mistake, you had to force yourself to operate and heal it.”

At Rai’s words, Abigail felt her side.

She doesn’t know, but when she passed out she was treated by Rai, so if her body wasn’t normal, she couldn’t even walk properly yet.

Thinking that she was simply cured by her academy, Abigail shuts her mouth and listens to Rai.

“I’m just practicing my sword for practice. I think it’s okay to get hit, and if you make a useless habit, you’ll be hooked at once. There’s nothing more precious than your body to a warrior.

“Okay.”

Abigail, like Aslan, answers quietly and becomes depressed.

When she saw the Lygaphilia that had sunk her two, she calmly prepared to listen.

“You’re a bit disappointed.”

She made up her mind after seeing the two people in front, but Philia’s heart sank at her disappointment.

She vowed not to be discouraged no matter what she said, but she bit her lip and waited for Lai’s words, shaken from the start.

“I thought you were cool-headed unlike the other guys, but the competitive spirit must have dominated your head? No matter what was involved with him, wasn’t your most confident judgment on the situation? You looked like you fought well, but you were blown away by the provocation. That’s it. Did you not want to lose?”

“……Yes, I didn’t want to lose.”

Philia, who didn’t want to lose to Gilbard even if she lost to everyone else, spoke honestly about her feelings.

Staring at her unwavering eyes, Rai smiles a little and shakes her head.

“Yes, I’ve been like that a lot too, so let’s just stop here. But remember that it’s not good.”

“Okay.”

After her Philia gets scolded, her last hitter, Zeroa, trembles and waits for her own turn.

Maedo When all three people who think they did well in the competition say that it is better to get hit first, they all get criticized, and he is full of worries about how he will get scolded.

When the three of them were scolded, Zeroa, who had been pretending not to know her by fixing her gaze on the stage, secretly gave her gaze to Lai, and her eyes met his.

“Did you feel the joy of winning?”

“…… Yes?”

“You felt it in the 3rd round. It was thrilling as if the five organs were exploding.”

It wasn’t until Rai’s expression, but Zeroa, who clearly felt the pleasure of her victory, nodded her head quietly as she recalled her memory before she passed out.

“Something like that… I guess.”

“Don’t forget that feeling. You should have more confidence.”

“Yes, I understand.”

As she was hit by Lai who laughed and slapped her on the back, she felt that Zero Ah had similar feelings to her then.

I twisted my body at the tingling touch, but Rai didn’t stop and continued to hit him.

“What is it, why is only Zeroa kind? Are you discriminating?”

“It’s not time to get scolded yet. Now you’re learning how to walk, but you can’t be scolded for not being able to walk.”

Sesset playfully asks, Rai laughs as he tells the cruel truth.

She gets a good result in the martial arts competition, but she smiles bitterly at Zeroa, who still has a long way to go.

“Focus on the stage. You guys will be there next year.”

The four people who were gloomy at Rai’s words turn their eyes to the stage.

The three-three next to them smiled softly as they saw the four concentrating on the stage.

No matter what anyone says, these are academy students full of talent, and when you see them concentrating with serious faces, they are cool enough to make you want to bite them.

“Oh, except for Zeroa.”

Zeroa immediately breaks down in tears at Rai’s unspeakable truth.