Expressing her deep condolences to those innocent, she headed to the training ground dedicated to the leader.
“Barton. Have you ever coached boy trainees?” “Yes. Yes, but….”
Barton wiggled his tail. I somehow figured out what to say. “I didn’t come here for training.”
Kaiers also spit out disgruntled as if he knew what she meant. But Leverticia did not back down either.
“The best way to overcome your fear of existence is to train your body and mind.”
“So you want to train me?”
“Don’t worry too much. I’m not going to make it that hard.”
“But why do I have to? You seem to have become close, can’t you just help Rebertisha-sama train?”
Barton rubbed the nape of his neck with an annoyed face.
“I’ve never done anything like a map before. Besides, if you’re an adult, you don’t know, a child is likely to break it somewhere.”
“ha. I was called out this morning and I matched up with the manager. Later in the evening, you have to match the ranks of the knights separately, and
even unplanned shoveling! I’m going to die hard!” “That… Come here, Barton.”
Leverticia spoke to my lieutenant in a mournful voice.
It’s definitely an additional schedule to the extreme schedule like these days. Besides, it’s unpaid.
It will be difficult for anyone.
She lightly patted Barton’s shoulder as he approached, and whispered softly in his ear.
“What if it’s black?”
If you do, you will be promoted to a higher rank than me.
*
The basic training of knights is three or four hours, and even the child soldiers are two hours, but Kaius’s training time was not that long.
Leverticia and Barton are busy with their schedules, and I feel sorry for the servants who will be wandering around the Imperial Palace looking for the Duke.
It was decidedly due to a physical problem.
“Heh heh, heh. stop. peacock. Today, W, let’s go this far.”
‘… I didn’t know that the stamina in question would be Barton’s.’
Leverticia, who sat nearby and watched their training, gave her a slightly startled expression.
Being able to exhaust Barton in about an hour was an amazing ability.
It wasn’t that Barton’s stamina was weak. He was the only one of the White Silver Knights, and he had excellent physical strength and skills to be able to proceed with the mission in conjunction with Leverticia.
Leverticia walked up to Barton and flipped the towel. “Good job, Barton. Is it very difficult?”
“… I think I’m going to die.”
“Such. I think today’s training will be fine.”
With Leverticia’s permission, Barton got up from his seat with joy inside. But the joy was short-lived.
“Now go out and fill the pit you just opened.”
… this devil.
Barton doesn’t understand why people call her a battlefield demon. She was a demon enough that she didn’t even have to go to the battlefield.
After Barton grumbled and left the training ground, Leverticia checked Kaiers’ condition.
He was panting a bit, but he seemed to be in good shape. “What do you think? Is it worth it?”
“Huh, huh, is it worth it? Ugh, I think I’m going to vomit.” “You were running just fine, huh?”
The first training was conducted in the form of a ‘catch game’. It was a teaching method created for the purpose of nurturing the stamina of the newly arrived trainees, but it was too easy training for Kaius, who was already an athlete, to escape.
Kaius, who quickly caught his breath, grumbled. “It’s really hard to hear a single story.”
“right? I felt the same way a few days ago. It’s good that you understand this.”
Leverticia grinned.
“Sheesh. Say it sooner rather than later. Surely there is nothing more to do than this?”
“of course. Where can I start talking? Well, so when I was ten… “ rumbling—
The moment Leverticia opened her mouth, a sound came out of Kaius’s stomach.
At the same time, his face turned red.
I used up my stamina like that, so I was just starving.
Leverticia cleared her throat heavily, trying to hold back the laughter that was about to come out.
“… Shall we even talk while eating something?”
*
Most of the knights were busy with joint training, so the restaurant was very quiet.
The maids of the restaurant recognized Leverticia and brought her five times as much food as the other knights.
At the table full of food in an instant, Kaius muttered as if in bewilderment.
“What, what? This ignorantly large meal.” “You must not curse in front of food.”
Leverticia quietly began to eat. Kaiers followed Leverticia to raise the fork, but only gnawed.
“what’s the matter? Aren’t you hungry?” “this… Can I really eat it?”
“Of course.”
“But what if it contains poison?” “What?”
Contrary to his absurd remarks, Kaius’s expression looked very serious.
“That’s right. I didn’t mind eating outside food. Someone could put poison.
Or you could put something terrible in it and make it vomit or make your stomach hurt….”
“Who is it?”
“… Duke Everett.”
tt Leverticia clicked inwardly. He seemed to understand why he was trembling with anxiety all the time.
I don’t know what Duke Everett did or how, but it seems that he instilled excessive fear and anxiety into the young man.
Leverticia was trying to figure out what to do, so she grabbed the food in front of him and put it in her mouth.
“If you don’t want to eat, don’t eat. I will eat it all.”
Having said that, he continued eating as if nothing had happened.
As Leverticia continued to eat ignorantly, Kaiers gulped down his saliva.
Eventually he carefully poked the food into his mouth with a fork and swallowed it.
“….”
“Is it delicious?” “It tastes awful.”
“He is a picky eater.”
Kaiers frowned. It really didn’t taste good.
With his palate, who was always fussing about the duke’s high-end meals, the diet he had prepared for the knights’ nutrition could not have been delicious.
But oddly enough, it didn’t taste good, but somehow it kept going. continued to eat.
After eating for a while, he put down the fork. “I’m full.”
“You really eat as much as the chicks.”
“How do you eat so much? Where are you all going?” “Well. Am I an adult?”
Leverticia smiled as she emptied the meat stew for the seventh time already. After eating, Leverticia started talking in earnest.
“Where should we start talking?”
She shrugged her chin slightly and muttered.
Both eyes with soft spring light blinked slowly as if staring at a distant place.
“I lost my parents as early as you when I was young.”
She told Kaius about her past in a jiffy. In a dry, calm voice, as if talking to someone else.
There was no exaggeration or reduction of an inch.
“My uncle made us owe us a debt and forced us to pay it back. They said otherwise, they would take the family and make us slaves.”
As he listened to her story, Kaius’s expression changed at first as a little startled, then engulfed in anger, and finally turned into shock.
“What kind of crazy people are you!”
Kaiers said as he got up, pounding the tea table in anger. It sounded like a crazy story to his young ears.
Leverticia felt a better mood at his violent reaction. The corners of her lips rose slightly.
‘It’s been a while since I responded like this… Not bad.’
It was she who was defrauded, but when it became known, people laughably blamed them for being the victims.
At first, it seems that I was even more hurt by those gazes, but as I struggled to survive, I gradually became dull and forgotten.
But now, seeing Kaius so innocently siding with them and getting angry, it made me sad.
“Don’t be too angry, just calm down. Then everything I ate will come back.”
“How do you calm down in this situation? Are you not angry?” “Of course I am. That’s why I called you all the way here.” Leverticia tilted her upper body slightly.
“What the hell did Duke Everett do to you?” “That, that….”
“know. It’s hard to even put it in your mouth. But now you are in a very dangerous situation like me in the past.”
Leverticia could feel the aura of Duke Everett toward Kaius the moment she saw him.
That was the cunning and secretive energy of a snake.
He was hovering around Kaius, contemplating devouring him in one bite.
Until now, Squadron Duke Valtail was firmly on the battlefield, and Kaius had no need to step outside as the next Duke, so he must have been patient.
Now that the little boy had inherited the duke’s stomach, the Duke of Everett seemed ready to devour Baltail completely.
It was Leverticia who appeared out of the blue that broke his plan.
“There is no guarantee that the last time will not happen again. Without me, how do you think things would have worked out?”
Kaiers did not answer her question for a while. But he soon opened his mouth with a sigh as if resigning.
“I’ve always wanted to be recognized by my father.” “Father, I’m Duke Valtale?”
Kaiers nodded.
“When I was young… So, when I was younger than now, when I was younger. Since I was so young that I can’t even remember, my father was a great hero.”
This time, Leverticia nodded.
Unbeknownst to her, the former Duke of Valtail was a sure hero to be admired among the people.
Even if it wasn’t, it was said that his ability was one of the best in the history of the Duke Valtail family that he was born with excellent abilities.
“At first, I respected such a father. I wanted to be like that too. Until then.” “Until then?”
“… At some point, my father didn’t come home.”
A minute of resentment and anger mixed in Kaius’s voice.
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