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The gift from a disciple
There was still one month to go before the Martial Arts Festival Selection Tournament.
At the Lapis Lazuli Royal Magic Academy, various students were spending their time training for the competition, and lectures were changing from in-class lectures to practical lectures.
This was because they all wanted to participate in the martial arts festival.
In addition, the academy wanted to show off the excellence of its students, so they began to put in more effort.
In the midst of all this, Julis Anderberg, the sorcerer of deadly sins who was neither a mage nor a swordsman————, was also secretly training to improve his strength for his own goal.
“Th’re, th’re! has’t thee w’rn out already, o mine own disciple?”
“Ugh

! Acedia!”
In a forest far from the royal capital, where there was not even a shadow of a person or a sign of a monster.
A fierce battle was taking place there.
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“I am still not done yet.————Blood Lance.”
“What the? Master, that’s too much

!”
One of them was Musée, whose irises were dyed red.
Blackish-red spears appear in the sky above and are fired at the boy who is making protests all at once.
Its number was————about 2000. The power of the spears was tremendous, and each time one was fired, it reaped the trees around.
Cecilia akhirnya sampai di depan makhluk buas itu.
Perbedaan ukurannya begitu besar sehingga ia harus mendongak untuk melihat wajah binatang itu, dan Cecilia yang ramping akan terinjak-injak dalam sekejap.
"GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!"
"Aku ngerti...... aku ngerti kok, Julis ......"
Cecilia memeluk kaki depan yang besar dan kokoh itu.
"Itu pedih, kan? Itu menyiksa, kan? Aku yakin Julis berusaha ngelindungin seseorang terus menjadi kaya gini....... Beneran deh, Julis itu baik banget. Biarpun dia sangat menderita sendiri."
Makhluk buas itu mengarahkan kaki depannya yang lain ke Cecilia, mencoba menarik Cecilia yang memeluknya menjauh.
────lalu.
"Eh!?"
"I, ini......"
Kaki depan itu berhenti tepat pada waktunya.
Cecilia tidak terluka, dan kaki depan itu berhenti tanpa tanda perlawanan.
Namun penderitaan itu muncul dalam bentuk teriakan.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRR!!!"
Tetapi.
"Aku belum bisa balas budi sama Julis buat segalanya...... Julis selalu ngelindungi aku, tapi aku terus banyak ngerepotin Julis.────Cuma ini yang bisa aku lakuin buat Julis sekarang."
Cecilia menguatkan lengannya yang memeluk kaki depan itu.
Ia ingin kehangatannya dirasakan, ia ingin perasaannya tersampaikan.
Cecilia tersenyum lembut pada makhluk buas itu, mengatakan kepadanya bahwa tidak apa-apa sekarang, bahwa dia tidak perlu berusaha terlalu keras.
"Aku bakal ada di sisi Julis...... sepanjang waktu, sepanjang masa. Julis ngga cocok sama penampilan kaya gitu, tahu? Kalo kamu balik lagi ke Julis yang biasanya, yang konyol, yang bisa diandalin, sama yang lembut.────Aku bakal seneng banget."
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And the other one was Julis.
Using his sorcery of acedia, he repelled all of the spears————, but his expression was one of impatience.
“Thy s’rc’ry is bas’d on thy mental strength————, th’ref’re, if ‘t be true I keepeth on chipping away at thy mental strength, nay matt’r how pow’rful thy acedia may beest, thee shall not beest able to repel t eventually, shall thee?”
“You know me very well, my master

!”
Julis repelled the unstoppable spear with a look of anguish.
However, as MusĂ©e said, Julis’ sorcery did not use mana in the body, but instead uses mana in the atmosphere.
What was needed for this was the mental strength to transmute mana into sorcery.
The sorcery of the deadly sins was powerful in its own right.
Its weakness was that it could only be exercised as long as Julis’ mental strength lasted.
And Julis had been exercising a lot of sorceries before facing these spears.
Therefore, the first to reach the limit was————
“Superbia

!”
It was Julis.
In the rain of spears, Julis could not stand it any longer and shifted the coordinates of a distant tree branch with Superbia to avoid MusĂ©e’s attack.
“Thee couldst has’t shift’d to anoth’r spot, but thee doth to such a high spot because thou art so arrogant to wanteth to behold down on thy opponent?”
“Of

 of course

 dumb-ass

!”
Musée looks up at Julis and Julis looks down at her, breathing hard.
The spears that were raining down on him had disappeared, and the sound of the impact they had just made had vanished as if it had been a lie. The place where Julis was before and the surrounding area was a miserable mess, with trees reaped and the ground dented and gouged out.
“H’re, I bethink this is timeth f’r a breaketh. I am a dram tired too.”
“Just a little after all that

 I see.”
Julis was disappointed to see Musée, who did not look tired while saying such remarks, and drooped his shoulders.
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Julis did not use Superbia to drop by Musée, but landed on the ground on his own feet.
“Thee still can not reacheth me

 Thou art not fine enow to calleth yourself a disciple of mineth.”
“Shut up! I want you at least to praise me for fighting so hard against a brave.”
“Is yond enow f’r thee? aft’r all, I am just an eld’r did retire lady sitting in the principal office of an academy

”
“Hey, what the hell are you immortal talking about? Look at yourself in the mirror and explain about senescence.”
The braves of the kingdom.
One hundred years ago, when the country was on the verge of a great invasion by the demons, those who defeated the demons————were called Braves and were praised by the country and its people.
One of them, who saved the country from such a great crisis despite having the blood of demons was————MusĂ©e Albert.
She was a vampire, and her power was comparable to that of the vampires, the superior demons. Above all, her immortality was not vulnerable to sunlight, which was a weakness of vampires, and she had stood up on the battlefield and buried her enemies many times.
Today, those who were called heroes were the Sage and Musée.
Di depan kami, ada sederetan piring kayu yang kosong.
“Anjiiir, akuh udah makan banyak... akuh gak bisa nambah lagi ....”
Firia mengatakan itu sambil menepuk-nepuk perutnya. Jumlah yang dia makan sangat sedikit, hanya sekitar sepersepuluh dari porsiku.
“Gua pikir elu tipe yang ngabis-ngabisin, tapi enggak nyangka elu cuma makan dikit, ya.”
Karena dia bilang 'enak, enak' jadi kupikir makanannya sesuai dengan seleranya, tapi sepertinya perutnya tidak sebesar itu.
“Akuh pingin nambah lagi, tapi tangki bensinku udah penuh nih. Akuh iri bat ama elu bisa makan banyak gitu, Yuri-san.”
“Penampilanlu keliat ringan banget. Gimana kalo menambah berat badan dikit lebih banyak?”
Aku mengamati tubuh Firia sekali lagi.
Meskipun dia mengatakan bahwa perutnya kenyang karena makan, tidak ada perubahan sama sekali pada tubuhnya yang ramping.
Ketika aku menatap Firia seperti itu, dia menyilangkan tangannya seolah-olah menyembunyikan dadanya yang sederhana.
“Ah, Yuri-san mikirin kalo akuh menyedihkan....”
“Jangan sembarang nuduh lah cuk!”
“Apa, salah ya tod?. Alhamdulillah.”
Sambil tertawa ringan seolah bercelu, Firia berdiri sambil mengatakan 'Oi sho'.
“Makasih badhogannya. Rasanya mantul, manjiw tenan.
 Kalo gitu, akuh pikir akum mesti cepet-cepet cabut deh.”
“Sek sek, mengko disek cuk.”
Gua manggil Firia yang berdiri dan berniat meninggalkan rumah gua.
Dia mencondongkan lehernya seolah bertanya, ‘Ada apa?’.
Sama Firia yang kaya gitu, gua ceritain perasaan jujur gua sama dia.
“Gua juga pengin cabut dari hutan ini. Apa gapapa kalo gua cabut bareng lu sampai luar hutan?”
Gua gak pernah ngerasa kesepian sejak gua tinggal sendirian di dalam hutan ini.
Gua juga gak merasa ngga puas sama mata pencaharian gua di sini, karena ada fakta kalo gua bisa dapet beberapa magical beast buat makanan gua ndiri.
Tapi, aku ketemu ama dia.
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And only Musée, who had not aged, still retained her power.
Therefore, she was now the strongest in the kingdom.
If anything, she’d surpass even the S-class adventurers and the captain of the royal knight order.
“What is this, although I has’t been accompanying thee because thee wanteth to doth special training, yet

 thee doth complaineth a lot, doth thee not?”
“I’m not, I greatly appreciate your company, My Master.”
“Keh keh keh! t is fine, I am just joking! thee and I art on good terms

. and I’ll taketh t easy on thee.”
Musée smiled pleasantly. Her irises have changed to their usual black color, and there was nothing unpleasant in them.
“Well, I didn’t expect it was going to be this hard

, but it reminds me of the old days.”
“What, thee didst not hath used to this extent of hard?”
“I did though, but I feel like it had been a long time since I was being cornered like this

.”
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Julis lied on the ground and suddenly remembered the old days.
Back then when he couldn’t use his sorceries yet,————he was not facing MusĂ©e’s magic like he was this time, but the pain he felt was the same as back then.
Julis’ mouth naturally

 broke into a smile as it seemed irresistibly nostalgic.
“Speaking of which, Master.”
“What is’t?”
“Here, please accept this small present from me.”
Julis slowly got up and took a small bracelet from his chest.
It was a bracelet made of a rare plant————that Julis had purchased at that stall.
“

This is?”
At the training ground where the members of the knight order practiced hard.
As an instructor, I was teaching swords to all the Knights.
"Then, the next step is to swing the sword a thousand times. You won't improve just by swinging blindly. You need to imagine the opponent's movement."
""A, thousand times?""
"Kaizer-san. Are you sure you not making a mistake one digit?"
"Oh, right."
"Hoo~..."
"When I and Elsa were in the village, we used to swing 10,000 times a day, but, you guys won't be done until the day changes, will you?
""You misinterpret the word mistake on one digit, are you?""
The standard of my and Elsa's training was probably too high, and most of them couldn't follow even the light menu.
"Come on, you'd better hurry up or it's going to get dark."
I clapped my hands and urged them.
The knights began to swing their swords while screaming.
As the warming up, they were running ten times around the training ground with their armor on, few of them could swing their swords properly.
"Is Knight Commander Elsa doing this training from an early age..."
"I thought she was a genuine genius swordsman.....that's why she's so strong.. we didn't even reach half effort she did."
"Either Kaizer-dono or Knight Commander Elsa is outrageous..."
I saw the helpless knights and mumbled.
"Umm. Looks like our normal isn't everyone's normal.''
"I was surprised when I came to the royal capital, because the training of the Knights, which was known to be tough, was felt only in lukewarm water. The training I had done with chichiue was, to most people, out of the norm."
Elsa murmured next to me.
"I didn't mean to be particularly strict...."
"I think so, too"
The knights couldn't endure the training and exhausted. Then one by one, they fell like a broken doll.
But, one person among them――.
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“Well, I’d like to thank you for helping me with my training this time.————And also, I’ve never given anything to Master before, have I? She’s been so kind to me, and we haven’t seen each other in a long time

. Well, you don’t have to take it if you don’t want it, okay?”
Julis tried to retract the bracelet.
But————
“Ho, lad, doth not thee dareth pulleth yond backeth.”
Musée immediately snatched the bracelet from Julis.
Julis looked doubtful at her reaction, but was quickly convinced.
“I seeth

 This is a presenteth from thee, huh

 fufu!’
MusĂ©e was smiling happily,————not in the same old tone as before, but like a pretty little girl, befitting of her appearance.
(Well, if she’s happy, that’s good then

.)
Julis looked up to the sky.
As for MusĂ©e————
(Fufufu

 I has’t hath taken presents from many people in mine own life, howev’r

 I nev’r bethought I wouldst beest so joyous to taketh a gift from a disciple

.)
She held the bracelet like she really, truly cherished it.
The first gift from her disciple, ————the happiest she had ever felt in the three hundred years she had lived. Such a feeling dominated inside MusĂ©e.
(I wanted to devise new sorcery to show her,

 but, well, maybe some other time.)
On the other hand, Julis looked at Musée, who was looking at the bracelet happily as he thought so.