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Chapter 280
Having Talent Means Being Special
Zed Swallow.
A man of notorious infamy who hears the nickname "Rake Libertine" far more often than his actual name.
The dishonor of knighthood doesn't exist even a speck in him, a collaborative creation of women burned by his charm and women who coveted to possess him out of admiration.
But ever since becoming a knight, Zed always maintained a regular routine.
Waking before the morning sun rises.
W еb̌n̆ о v̌ е́ l̃ Е̄ n û m̌ а̊
Making the bed, washing his face, then checking his appearance in the mirror.
"Good, damn handsome today too."
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After fully charging his self-esteem, he immediately launches into dawn exercise.
"It's definitely winter......"
What greets him the moment he opens the door is the cold dawn wind.
It freezes the skin, making him want to crawl back under the covers something fierce.
Е̂ǹũ ḿä
Contrary to that feeling, his body moves first, exiting the castle and starting to run.
His jogging route is the entire Hestia Village castle wall.
After circling around and returning, he goes to the training ground to begin full-fledged exercise.
Normally, that's how it would go.
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"Keck."
An unintentional eyesore has emerged for Zed.
Ѐṅu m̀ a
Because after he jogs, a small-statured boy is always waiting at the door.
The boy stands there holding a towel to wipe Zed's sweat-drenched face.
It was obvious he was waiting for Zed.
"Good work."
"Don't you get bored? Doing this for 2 weeks straight?"
The boy answered Zed's question with boldness.
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"Waking up early is easy enough. I can do it all day."
The boy's name was Rudelek.
But to Zed, he was a boy memorable as a leech that clings persistently.
He was that annoying, but the towel was needed, so he took it and wiped his face.
"Your name's Rudelek, right? Remembering the name of a bastard who follows me around isn't pleasant."
"Yes."
W̄ё b̃ n̊ о v̌ë l̈ Ě_ṅ_um̌ а
"I said it before, but if you want to become a knight, you'd be better off sucking up to the training captain instead of me. At least that bastard can tell you how to become a knight."
"I know Captain Hose is a good person too, just like Uncle said."
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"Good that you know. Go ask him to train you."
"I want to learn under Uncle."
This conversation was already repeating for the seventh day.
He just wished the kid would give up already.
Еn ŭmа
"You know what my nicknames are, right?"
"Guy Who Got Knighthood Through Poker, Damn Libertine Under Heaven, Five-Second Man."
"What's Five-Second Man?"
"The villagers say Uncle finishes everything in 5 seconds."
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"Except for that last slander you mentioned, it's all true. I'm nowhere near a respectable knight."
"I don't think so. I know what kind of person Uncle is."
Ӗnum̆_а̄
"What do you mean?"
"Uncle deliberately goes down outside the castle before dawn every morning to patrol the village outer wall, right? You even check for problematic spots."
"Unfortunately, it's just exercise. The only reason I pretend to inspect is because there's a scary eonni here, and I do it to somehow survive her."
"I said people who don't do it don't do it no matter what. But Uncle does it, right?"
"If you want to win someone's favor, at least call me hyung. It's not like we're fighting......"
Zed sighed.
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He'd been ignoring the kid continuously, but now convinced the boy wouldn't back down easily, he decided to face him properly.
"Alright, then let's hear it. What do you want to learn from me?"
"How to fight."
"Like I said, the training captain would do that well."
"I heard. Uncle used to be a mercenary, right? I want to do a mercenary's fight."
"What's a mercenary's fight?"
W е̃b n̊о v̈е.l̇ En̂ŭ m а
"A winning fight."
"If you want a winning fight, you've got the wrong address."
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Zed knew what abilities Rudelek possessed.
"You've got talent for magic while staying with your younger sisters, don't you?"
"That's true, but."
"Then learn to fight as a mage. Did you see Regent Ferda? He's only been at it for a year, yet he awakened 4th Circle and now reached 5th Circle. How's that possible? Because he's an Owner of Red Circle like you. If you work like a dog under someone like that, by the time you're an adult you'll be around a 6th Circle mage. How about that?"
Е̂ǹu ma. і̇ d̊
"You'd be incredibly strong. I heard 6th Circle mages cause disasters."
"Right. Knights or mercenaries would be mere babies in comparison. Still want to waste time on swordsmanship?"
"Yes."
Even knowing the outcome, he still wants to do it.
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It was an answer Zed couldn't understand.
"Why do you want it that badly?"
Е n̂uḿа̇_.і̊d
At Zed's question, Rudelek answered.
"I...... want to get revenge."
"Whose?"
"The demons who killed Sir William, who tried to save us."
Zed then recalled what he'd been overlooking.
This kid was one of the children William burned his last flame to save.
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'William......'
The man closest to being a knight yet furthest away.
A respectable person, yet a contradictory figure who shouldn't be respected.
Recalling his face, the futility of life tormented his mind.
Escaping the distracting thoughts, he returned to the conversation.
"William's dead. Why do you think he died? Because ultimately he was just a knight."
Wĕb̌ñ о́ v e̊l̇ Е̇ n u m а̄
"........."
"If you want to gain strength to get stronger, learning magic is better at least. That'll help your revenge."
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"I don't want to. I heard people with Red Circle go crazy the higher they rise."
"Who said that?"
"Regent Ferda."
Zed shut his mouth.
W̃ ӗb̆ ň ӧ v̌ е̄l È n_um̊a
If it were someone else, he'd have said that bastard's an idiot, but the target was someone he couldn't dare touch.
"Is there no option to just live for yourself? Even if you talk like that, William was a stranger to you anyway. Risking your life for a stranger is a stupid thing to do."
"Sir William saved us just because we were young and innocent."
"So you're doing a stupid thing too?"
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"It's not stupid. He threw away his own honor to save us, so isn't returning the favor what the living should do?"
Zed's heart was complicated.
Ѐ n̊ūm а̄
He'd already expected the boy would say something like that.
Until hearing it directly, he thought it was just childish sentimentality welling up in a young heart.
But facing him now, it wasn't some mere emotion boiling up from hot blood.
"I want to fight those demons. That's why I want to learn from Uncle. I heard Uncle killed the most demons."
In those eyes, Zed saw something.
That's why Zed couldn't back down easily.
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"So you want to become a knight?"
"Yes."
"Then quit right now. Just living ordinarily is best."
Zed said firmly.
When his words, usually spoken as if annoyed, carried weight, Rudelek looked like he'd been struck.
"Why?"
Ẇе.bn̄ovе̃l Ӗ n ûmа
"Because there's something you have to carry."
"What's that?"
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"What else but your younger sisters?"
"What do my sisters have to do with it?"
"If your sisters were just ordinary girls, marrying them off or whatever wouldn't matter, but your sisters are different, right?"
Special children whose minds were connected as one by Linne.
Ĕǹu̇m ä
Infinite utility value, yet simultaneously such huge risk they were nearly disposed of.
Rescued by Ferda's hands, but that evaluation hadn't been erased.
"What if, by some chance, the Regent tries to use your sisters? What will you do?"
Rudelek's expression greatly flustered at those words.
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"Are you telling me to doubt the Regent?"
"Yeah."
E nu m̈ а .і̇ d
Rudelek was smart.
That's why he answered as if seeing through Zed's intended action.
"That's a question to trap me. You're trying to find a flaw so I can't become a knight, right?"
"Wrong. I clearly said I want your answer. Not just lip service."
Zed made a serious expression and spoke again.
"I said I'm not a proper knight. Guy Who Got Knighthood Through Poker? That's not just a rumor, it's real. To me, knighthood is just a title won through poker. That's why I understand your situation too well. That's why I'm asking you this."
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Zed spread four fingers.
"You have four younger sisters to protect right now."
Rudelek's words stopped, and four names flashed through his mind.
No blood connection, but they were tight-knit from enduring hard times together.
"But what if you become a knight and later find out the Regent has ill intentions toward your sisters? What then?"
"The Regent isn't that kind of person........."
W̌ е̇ b̀n ov̂ еl̂ .Е ñ ùmà
"Don't spout foolishness. How do you think that human called Regent created this much peace? Do you know how many dirty deeds he did to build this much trust?"
"........."
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"That man lives for the Red Dragon, Lady Valdrova. The blood and sweat on his body exist only for that purpose. If your sisters become harmful to Valdrova, what do you think he'll do?"
"Then...... are you saying the best thing for us is to do nothing?"
"That's for William. Living ordinarily without talent and ending that way."
Even silver-tongued Rudelek finally had his words blocked.
Е̊ n ǔm̌ а
Rudelek wasn't naive enough to keep insisting Ferda wouldn't do that.
If that moment really came, could he accept his sisters' deaths?
That question tormented young Rudelek.
'Sorry for saying this.'
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Zed apologized to Rudelek in his heart, and simultaneously to William.
He knew the boy was full of drive, but he didn't want him to gain power.
W̆ e̊ b̂ n̊.оv̊ ѐl E ńŭ m̂ ӑ
William wanted those kids to live, and to honor that will, not harboring useless feelings was the best path.
Not showing talent, living long and thin.
He thought that was the best choice for each other.
Because he already knew well how dangerous it is for special people to have talent.
"Ugh......"
Then Rudelek's face twisted pale.
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Soon he lowered his head, sweating cold.
Zed, not expecting such a sensitive reaction, was flustered too.
"Sorry. Did I say too much? I just......"
"Th-that's not it!"
Rudelek cut off Zed's words and shouted.
Shortly after, Zed felt a presence behind him.
Ěn ů m̆ а̄ . і̌ d
Small-statured girls rarely seen in the castle.
Rudelek's four sisters came out.
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"Aah......"
A chilling cry with the sound fading.
They all had identically terrified expressions, barely stepping forward to come to Rudelek.
Like they hadn't escaped a terrible nightmare.
W̌ĕ b̌ ñо̆v́ ѐ l̃ Е̌ ǹ ū m а
Rudelek ran to them and embraced them.
"It's okay. I'm here. Don't be scared."
"......What the hell happened?"
Zed properly felt the gravity of the situation.
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Rudelek answered in a trembling voice.
"......It's that woman."
Е́ñ u m.а
"That woman?"
"The woman who made us like this......! That woman...... came here!"
Linne.
The root of evil who created Dopplers and turned countless people into vessels.
"That woman is talking to us...... She's saying she's here......"
"Where's that woman?"
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When he asked Rudelek, Rudelek couldn't answer.
Whether from fear, or from concentrating.
Probably the latter.
Rudelek calmly concentrated and cast his gaze somewhere.
Zed took that gaze direction as coordinates and started running.
While running, he pulled out the spare dagger he'd kept in his shoe.
Ẁ е b̌ n_о v̈е̇ l̄ Е̌n̂ ů mâ
The opponent is a Dark Elf skilled in magic.
Trash wicked enough to use men, women, and children for her research.
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So he must absolutely not give her any opening to use magic.
Moving like the wind, vaulting over the castle wall, Zed caught sight of a dark-skinned figure.
That bitch.
Zed gripped the dagger in reverse.
Еṅu m̊ a .і́ d́
He pre-visualizes the entire process.
Manifest red eyes to block magic use.
Slit the throat.
Then stab the heart for confirmation kill.
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The time for all that is 3 seconds at most.
But when he actually stood before her, he neither flashed his eyes nor swung his sword.
Е ǹ_ům̌ а̃
"......What's your intention?"
The Dark Elf, Linne, raised her hand.
Not an act of simply showing her hand to indicate no resistance.
She clearly showed she had no attack intent by revealing she'd put mana suppression cuffs on herself.
A mage unable to use magic is no different from a normal person.
Then the Dark Elf's words were a sight.
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"I came alone into enemy territory, but I'm not a woman low enough to talk with small fries."
"Is that so?"
Yet her high nose remains unchanged.
He pressed the dagger to her throat as if he could really kill her.
Linne spoke without a trace of fear.
"If you're going to kill me, kill me right here. But then you'll lose information you couldn't find even rolling in a pig shit field."
Еǹ ũm а̇ . ї d
"You expect me to believe that bullshit?"
"If that weren't true, would I walk in here on my own two feet?"
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Linne raised her hand, and the sound of chains jingling was heard.
Zed, who can read mana flow, knows well.
What she's wearing is undoubtedly mana suppression cuffs.
"Guide me to your Regent. I brought very good information."
Ě ṅ um̃а̊ .i ď
