Volume 2 Chapter 3 (1/2)
My cousin, Miyeong, disliked me
Was it because I had continued to stay in her home? Was it because her dad didn’t like me? Was it because it seemed as if her mother paid more attention to me⎯⎯⎯than she did to her? Was it because her parents had started to fight? You canone of these Or perhaps, everything above was the reason behind her hatred Who knows I wonder what her reason was? If there’s one thing that I’h I can think of over thirty different reasons for why Miyeong would hate en of a reason for why she should like me Around the ti, who hated me, and had started to attend the same school as her, the man as the homeroom teacher of her class was not a bad person However, if ive birth to wicked results, then this world would be rave that truth, which anyone could learn just by looking at my aunt, into my mind once more thanks to that ned to the sa who shared the same blood as me All thanks to that man’s kindness
Miyeong bullied me
Of course, that isn’t the proper expression Let’s add an adverb ‘She easily bullied et rid of the detere it to a passive verb ‘It was made so that she could easily bully me’ I can probably continue to do this a hundred times and each tis that man had done and the results which were inflicted onto me Interstellar, the distance was as vast as the distance between two stars However, if I were in a different class, or at the very least, if our seats were placed apart, but because of that man’s sympathy
I was ostracized by my classmates
Of course, that isn’t the proper expression Because Miyeong had bullied n matter that had squeezed into the class’ social circles which had already been established Because I eak Because I no longer had parents Because I had cried after being hit by Miyeong as a girl Because I was a book-s unable to even fight Etc Etc However, if Miyeong didn’t harass ’s, if I were in a completely different class Aah, because of that man’s consideration
Joo Chan for me
Of course, that isn’t the proper expression
If it wasn’t
Several days had passed
I was able to have a war area If I had experienced a proper school life, then this would have been the golden opportunity to shed tears as I experienced why food, clothing, and shelter were the fundaroup, I didn’t feel any particular eive and take away’ situation a countless number of times before
“I somehow feel as if I’m at a loss”
Within Zia’s private chaainst the floor for the thirty-sixth time in an attempt to do a backflip,her sword, cleared her throat
“Haven’t you been experiencing a loss throughout your entire life, Yujin?”
Ignored Another backflip, thirty-seventh headbutt
Gia cleared her throat lightly
“Of course, you’re h your entire life despite only knowing you for 2 weeks now That is a poor thought, Yujin Si, brilliance displays itself even in childhood If I were to say it in our world’s terms, then it’d be ‘a person who can predict ill happen at twelve before one o’clock has passed is a wise man’”
Ignored Another backflip, thirty-eighth headbutt
Gia cleared her throat some more
“Of course, you’d most likely want to say that brilliance displays itself even in one’s adolescence Moreover, you will probably want to point out the fact that theso me to not call you brilliant, you willthose lines However, Yujin, that is once again, a poor thought I······”
This tinore her, Zia closed her mouth on her own Zia Batsand put away the sword she wasand tried to read my countenance
“Are you still upset about your clothes?”
At last, I shook nal her that I didn’t particularly feel that way My face hurt so I was planning to take a break anyway
“That’s not it It’s just that I felt as if I’ve been dragged around tooa conscious effort to lower the number of rebuttals I’d make”
“You’ve started to train me, huh······”
“You’re rab you by the handle and swing you”
Zia swung her sword and smacked me with the flat side of her blade
The anger and repulsion felt fro hit by this fellow, I couldn’t help but shout
“What are you doing!? My face already hurts like crazy!”
“Y-Y-You, what are you saying!? Suddenly! Calmly! Without any prelude!”
“Why are you getting upset!? You’re the one who hitwhat I said!? I definitely explained it to you in the basement already!”
“Were you unable to say it a bit more smoothly!? F-For you to say that you’ll tame me! How dare you say that!”
“How do I have to say it in order for it to be smoother!?”
“Figuring that out is the trial which has been imposed upon you!”
“I judged that the best thing to do is to fired an already failed bad joke out in this ti!”
“Uuuuu······”
Zia closed her mouth in frustration I picked up the headband, that had fallen off after being hit by Zia, and put it back on rumbled
“Even though you’re crossdressing······”
Just as Zia had gru To be exact, I earing a maid uniform There shouldn’t be a particular need to explain this The uniform o sizes smaller than what I would usually wear so it stuck toa color of white that was extensive, it tightened around s so much that it made them appear slim, but as expected, there shouldn’t be a need to explain this
No, as I thought, I should explain
“If you had givenso like this”
“Are those the clothes that Sii gave you?”
“Yup Her spare s Since my sweatsuit became dirty, I had no other choice but to wear this”
“There shouldn’t have been a reason for you to wear even the stockings”
“It’s better than wearing shoes without socks The weather is cold as well”
“But because you’re wearing those stockings, I end up feeling skeptical about the size of s”
“Who cares? Also, it can’t be helped since you’re a knight Why do fes like their own physique and role, and hang their necks about things like size?”
“Although I’irl”
“If you want to knohether you’re a girl or not, then you can just place your hand on your chest, right?”
Zia smacked me with the flat side of her blade
The anger and repulsion felt by the reality that I had just been hit⎯⎯⎯I shouted as soon as I was struck by this girl
“What’s been wrong with you since earlier!?”
“I should be the one asking what your issue has been since earlier! For you to sexually harass me, I can’t believe it Yujin, a man like you! How can you say that I would have no other choice but to accept the fact that I’ht chest with one hand, put ue!?”
“I didn’t say that much, you know!?”
“If you had tsukkomi’d like that from the start, then I wouldn’t have had to needlessly use violence twice······”
“I fell for your scheme!?”
“It’s twelve years too soon for you to try and tame me”
“So if you did want to be tamed by me, then you want to be tamed by the me who’s turned into a 30-year-old man?”
“It’s an idioive up this current situation where I’irl who’s in her mid-teens”
“Really, this is a hopeless knight······”
“Although I felt it around the time when I went on BTOOL with Ahyeon, very handsome posters are existences that one would alant to consume However, I actually wanted to consume the illustrators more”
(TL note: BTOOL is a basically a site that was )
“Are you satisfied now? Let’s stop here”
“Mm Sorry That last one was honestly irrational”
Zia sat down and went back toto add the term ‘honestly’, then that would mean that the overall conversation just now could be considered as irrational, but I didn’t do so and instead went back to practicing my backflips
Zia spoke
“It’d be a good idea if you placed your weight towards your tailbone”
“If you’re going to give me a piece of advice, then couldn’t you have done it sooner?”
“Also, your outfit If you wear such tight-fitting clothes and even have on boots that reach up to your knees, then, of course, it would interfere with your backflips”
“I know that as well, but I have no other clothes”
“Then you can take it off and do it”
“I’ll really take it off”
“Yujin, you really don’t see irl, huh······”
What are you talking about? I see you slightly as a girl Honestly, it’d be htness were to disappear, but, well, this current situation is convenient enough forconversation partner as well, so I’ll forgive her with that
“Well, I, Zia Batsand, have a body that was born as the Silver Lion Earl’s sword The Zia Batsand as a feo”
······Although she occasionally says things that are annoying enough to be surprising
It’s in of that line
In any case, I listened to the advice of Zia Batsand, who claimed to be the Silver Lion Earl’s sword since birth, and did a backflip while putting weight towards my tailbone
After failing five times, I spoke
“Are you sure this trick is right? Why does it feel like it’s become more difficult······?”
“Yujin Surely you aren’t doubting me, are you? Yujin, are you unable to believe I⎯⎯⎯the sword of Her Excellency the Earl and your sword?”
“I’o to Korea if I’ to transport new BL books here”
“Leaning your weight towards your tailbone was a lie Try swinging the heels of both your feet like a pair of axes while you lower your waist and head”
“You really······”
A really annoying sword······
“But don’t worry Regardless of whether you pass or not, she most likely plans to send you back once”
“What’s your reasoning behind that thought?”
“Since the end of the ”
End of the month, is it?
“Does it reset monthly? The⎯⎯⎯nail arts of the Earl, that is”
The lis
“That’s right”
“If it gets reset, then perhaps, the summon cancel as well?”
“It can’t be done Since the proof of the su would have disappeared”
In other words, there’s a need for her to cancel the summon and send me back before that time comes Since she has a catalyst that’s related to me, she can just summon me back after the use limit has been reset
Although I understood theme
“For the reset to be a er than I had expected Isn’t it incredibly wasteful for her to use her su me because she’s too lazy to call for me?”
If I were to count starting from the time when I was in the basement, then she had squandered almost all of her uses within 5 to 6 days For someone with such an i way too much
Skill to plan ahead
“Ah⎯⎯⎯was that the case”
To my words that I had unintentionally muttered out loud, Zia nodded with a solemn face
“That’s⎯⎯⎯right”
Zia said
“Her Excellency the Earl”
The Earl
The Earl with a mentality that has broken down
Since the act of planning ahead was so that only the people who could love themselves, people who had hope for the future, could do⎯⎯⎯
“It may be a surprise, but Her Excellency has a luxurious personality”
It wasn’t bombastic-like but just a luxurious personality
“No, it isn’t particularly a surprise”
You can tell just by looking at the clothes she wears, right?
“Even when she was still the esteehter, on the very day she received her allowance, she would immediately spend it all on food, so the previous lord, His Excellency the Earl had a lot of worries”
“She suddenly seems humane”
“Thanks to that, my stomach became full It was the worst”
“Doesn’t that ? Moreover, for you to even say that it was the worst, do you have any conscience?”
A huive a rebuttal was here in front of me
“Moreover, Her Excellency got sick of things quickly and also has a small appetite”
“That’s⎯⎯⎯I figured that was the case”
“Well, there was also a fault in the fact that the previous Earl was a bit lustful”
“And the previous Earl’s wife?”
“She was a lesbian”
It was a household that was nonsensical enough to make me believe that the Silver Lion Earl, as like that, could be born there
“Because she was a lesbian, whenever the previous Earl would bring home a lover, they would place that person between the two of theether The relationshi+p between husband and as incredibly harmonious”
“Stop In any case, what’s the point?”
“In any case, that’s why the previous Earl had set up these and those sorts of pensions for Her Excellency the Silver Lion Earl It was a relief Since the Earl’s salary⎯⎯⎯isn’t even reh to handle the maintenance of the castle, let alone the Silver Lion Earl’s own extravagance”
“So the lord of this City of Confineot paid a salary, huh?”
“It goes without saying that there’s also tax”
Zia Batsand folded her arms and declared
“Her Excellency the Earl does not put her hands on the things that are not hers”
Is that⎯⎯⎯so?
A rather coh sohteous, despite that, even if the Silver Lion Earl’s mentality has broken down, or perhaps because it has broken down, she doesn’t cross her own⎯⎯⎯
“Only slightly”
It turns out that she did actually cross it
“My head is starting to hurt”
“Why’s that, Yujin?”
“I wonder”
Was it because the Silver Lion Earl was hastily appearing more and more humane to me in this place, suddenly, without context, and while she wasn’t even here?
No, well
Everyone is human
In the end, even so
“If I suh those pensions were able to al habits, they weren’t able to ease it It was like that afterAhyeon and even after they had separated Her Excellency would often spend all of her allowance and use up all of her summons before half a month could even pass There’s a chance that because she had those pensions, Her Excellency was unable to place her attention towards being conservative and pre her decisions even more”
“Is there a need to summarize it, the story, that is”
I feel like I’ve already heard it enough
It was at the ht that
“At the end of a certain month, Her Excellency was kidnapped and put in a state of restraint by the 7th branch of the Mage Tower, but as expected, if you look back at it, then you could possibly say that the reason for her kidnapping was because of the pensions that the previous Earl had set up”
This topic had suddenly come up
Kidnapping
Confinement that was aimed for the Earl while she was in a defenseless state
⎯⎯⎯Pension and restraint
(TL note: These tords are spelled the sa the )
“Before the li ability could be reset at the start of the next month, and before the day Her Excellency could receive her pensions, the 7th branch of the Mage Tower took all possible ard, since I already told you what happened next while ere in the basement, I’ll omit it”
Hostage
In order to prevent her fro any catalysts, they stripped and imprisoned her
Restricted and bound
“If you ask what the , Her Excellency finally felt the need to have a type of deposit because of that incident Though it’s probably ement”
10 rings
2 bracelets
The catalysts of monsters, demon lords, and Gods of other worlds
“Even if her prodigal habits are still the same, she’ll save at least one, but if possible, two of her summons in preparation for any unexpected situations”
The twelve nuclear bombs that the Earl, whose mind had been shattered, had inlaid into her body
“If that’s the case, then, as I expected, does that mean the tattoos on the back of her hands count as that proof of su as well?”
“That’s right”
Zia spread both of her hands and showed the back of them to me
“10 nails as proof The 2 backsides of her hands as proof”
12 verifications of summons per month
“In any case, similar to the monster of the Six Petal City and the creatures that are in the torture chamber, if adisappears, er be canceled”
Returning back to the beginning, the sword of the Silver Lion Earl spoke
“It’s possible to use a different et back, but that process in itself is incredibly cumbersome Therefore, the most efficient method is to cancel the summon at the end of the month and then summon them back on the first day of the next month”
After s her lips
“Though it’s called efficient, it was only ever applied to Ahyeon”
And shtly
“I never expected⎯⎯⎯that the day we used this ain would ever come”
Zia lowered her head
“Thanks, Yujin”
“I said it before back in the basement, but there’s no particular reason for you to be thanking me”
I responded as so and averted aze
“At any rate, if that’s the case, then does thatbackflips like this?”
“That’s what I think”
“I would have been quite happy if you had told me this a little sooner”
To be exact, before I had headbutted the floor this much Zia, who had raised her head, cleared her throat
“Well, that’s just ht so it isn’t 100 You should be fully aware of Her Excellency’s fickleness There’s no har that”
That would be the case if you removed from the list of demerits the fact that I lost brain cells every tihter after hearing the inside story and her assumption
Zia spoke
“By the way, Yujin It’s about that Sii who gave you those clothes”
“Yeah?”
“You’re already aware of the fact that she’s treated badly aht?”
That’s⎯⎯⎯obvious
I are of that the moment I first met her
“If you’re aware, then why aren’t you doing soht?”
“That’s a silly question, Yujin Or was your world⎯⎯⎯Korea, a paradise where all h social status said so about it? There should be a mountain of cases where the opposite of that has occurred”
A wise answer Although I felt a bit weird since this felloas the one to say that wise answer
“Yujin I knohat you’re thinking If I had a grasp of the situation, then I should have at least tried to do so in order to fix it However, I’ht and as someone who protects Her Excellency the Earl”
“So you’re saying that it isn’t your job?”
“That’s correct It’s not my job, nor is it within my jurisdiction Further about that type of bullying, then only the opposite effect would occur In order to overthrow that sort of bullying in the truest sense, the recipient of the bullying has to stand up while shaking it off on their own”
As I thought, a wise answer
“Why have you been only saying logical sounding things since earlier?”
“What are you saying, Yujin? I’ical”
“Yeah, but, why have you been only saying logical sounding things since earlier?”
“Because of the topic Bringing out bad jokes when the topic is group bullying is so that only demonic bastards would do This Zia Batsand, has not fallen into that sort of devildom yet”
Wise answers throughout
It’s the first ti while since I’ve felt this much frustration······
“Why did you bring that up when you’re just going to be cold-heartedly drawing a line saying that it isn’t your problem?”
“I’ to warn you It just see has increased recently so I was grateful”
Hmm
“You know each other?”
“It’s a vague relationshi+p Well, let’s just say that we’d sit in the library together and read a”
Truly a vague relationshi+p As much as Sii hadabout how she had learned Korean, this was so that I had already expected Zia puffed her chest out and added so more
“You can say that we’re comrades, so to speak”
“If you say it like that, then it sounds like you two know each other really well”
“Like I said, not that well There’s also a gap in our statuses Thethe other supports”
“I should have started to feel a sense of incoive wise answers”
“Except, that fellow consistently insisted NL couplings The concept of BL, how should I say it? It seems she couldn’t comprehend it that well She was a felloould ask, ‘If a irls left?’ with a serious expression on her face What a foolish person, that’s supposed to be a good thing”
(TL note: NL = Normal Love)
“Let’s stop, I’ve already understood it as ‘I have no intention of helping Sii, but it felt nice seeing the bright expression of Sii as once a fellow otaku’”
“All right In any case, it’d be great if Sii could use this momentum to resolve herself in order to overcome her situation, but that’s probably a problem that needs to be waited out Even I required some time before I could oes”
These words⎯⎯⎯were a bit of a surprise
“You were bullied too?”
“Aren’t I being bullied by Her Excellency the Earl every day? And I’ve been getting harassed by you as well lately”
It wasn’t actually a surprise
“In the first place, you enjoy it so that doesn’t count What have I done to harass you? Moreover, just what sort of resolution did you even make?”
“Yujin If you give such a sincere rebuttal toto be the one to feel embarrassed”
Noharassed