Chapter 5.2

“I don’t think I’m a possible master of [Shuette].”

The wrinkles in the face of butler Alto deepened. There was a crackling sound in my mouth.

“Why do you think so?”

“…you’ll find out when you see it for yourself.”

To be honest, when I first owned [Shuette], I was a little excited, too. I was wondering if I might be able to become the master of [Shuette].

For [Shuette], it has been a long time since a Master appeared as well. And in my previous life I had already some experience thanks to kendo. So I was confident that the talent of my past life would have continued into my present life.

But, uh…

“Now shall we see Kayla’s skills? Did you practice a lot?”

My father’s hopeful gaze gave made me sigh. I was practicing every day, but there were many problems.

“Kayla, you are doing it wrong again. Your left shoulder is an opening.”

Ta-ak! My swordsmanship tescher struck me lightly on my left shoulder.

“Spread your feet apart more! Why do you keep narrowing your steps?!”

My teacher stabbed me with a practice swoard in the stomach at that moment.

“Gap!”

“Attack, Kayla!”

“Hmm…”

Unlike when he saw Franz, his father’s face turned into a very anxious expression. The swordsmanship teacher was also embarrassed.

“That’s strange. It’s your first time learning swordsmanship. What the hell is that strange habit?”

“The wrist movement is also strange.”

“It feels like I’m constantly wandering about something there. It’s a movement where I lost my place to go.”

Neither my sword teacher nor my father criticized my posture.

What I’m holding in my right hand is a slender practice rapier. But my body was in the kendo position that I learned in my previous life.

Habits were scary. My face burned hot.

And so is the law of the sword. It’s strange.”

“It’s like how to hold a sword. It’s weird.”

“Why do you keep holding the sword with both hands. Is the practice sword heavy?”

The sound of the knights whispering came along with the wind. Why do humans sound as clear as the sound of self-criticism?

“Honestly, I don’t think you have any talent for swords.”

“How could you become a knight… .”

This is the first time I have been insulted with a sword.

***

After finishing my swordsmanship practice, I went into the bathroom and couldn’t get out of the bathtub for a while.

I said, “I’ll be a knight, I’ll be the heir to our family” and “I’ll be the acting lord,” but I’ll only be humiliated at the Kratier Academy.

My father suggested other alternatives and even told me that it was not a knightly path.

“Now, that Frantz now has ‘Sitzero’, even the cadets will not be able to touch him. He is quite used to be a swordsman, so I think it would be better for Franz to receive the knight’s standing as originally scheduled. You should think about it.”

“That would be a waste of all our efforts!”

Franz, who couldn’t become the master of [Sitzro], was still like a child who had been put on the shore. I still had to hide Franz, so I couldn’t send him to the Kratier Academy.

“Oh, my God!”

I tore at my my wet hair helplessly.

“First of all, You’d better build up your stamina”, was what the butler Alto said earlier as he left the training ground.

He patted my drooping shoulders: “You know what to do, but your body does not what you want it to do, does it?”

It was true. Kayla Vesta’s body never moved how I wanted it to.

If I had known this, I would have worked out hard as soon as I realized the insidious facts. Why did I waste three years?

One must start any sport at the age of five or six years for it to turn out good…

“Yes, let’s work hard without any regrets!”

From that day on, I decided to devote myself to basic physical training. The dance teacher, who was fired for flexibility, was also called again.

Jogging, horseback riding, and rock climbing up a rocky mountain every morning. If not, I’ll burn the window wall in my room. I felt a little rushed.