CH 4

“You stupid robbers!! The hawker and woman you missed are here!! As a bonus, there are even nobles so you can even receive a ransom if you capture them alive!!”

“You crazy bastard!! shut up!! Please just shut up!!”

Boris cried out in a louder voice than I did, with his face flushed red.

Hori also rushed at me from behind to cover my mouth, but I blocked her hand.

“Okay! You scream like that!! That way they can come here quickly!”

Hearing those words, Boris, realizing his own fault for shouting too loud and hurriedly cover his mouth, as if it was the end of the world for him.

“Dude, what are you thinking? ?! Do you intend to die together like this?!”

“die? who?”

“What do you mean by who? I'm talking about you!! Do you think I'm talking about someone else? Now it looks like we are defiantly going to die!!”

“Hahaha, It's really funny!! What are you just afraid of the robbers?”

“Hey, what do you mean by that, don't you understand that they’re not just robbers, they’re former mercenaries.”

“If they were really talented people, would they have been robbing? They’re the sloppy bastards with no one to help, so that's why they’re robbing.”

Truly skilled mercenaries never stop working. It seems that they are just doing the basics, seeing that they are not caught until the rumors spread, but that did not pose a threat to me.

“It's not my territory, So there is nothing for me to do, but there's no reason to just pass by like this.”

Right now, I was starving for using my Baldo because I couldn’t use it except for the time I was taking a break with Silence for a few days.

And besides, looking at this crescent moon, I remembered my first fight against a human, and because of that, I am now even more hungry for a fight.

“It’ll be over with just a few cuts, so you guys should hide in moderation. And It would be better if we shout together.”

“It’ll be over with just a few cuts, what the hell are you talking about now!!”

“There!!”

As Boris was clutching his head, Hori, who was listening quietly next to him, said.

“Hey, are you also an academy student like me?”

“Yes? Oh, by the way, I haven’t introduced myself yet. I'm Baronet Ian Bartow. Like you, I am a freshman entering this year.”

Upon revealing my identity, Hori and Boris flinched, then bent 90 degrees and said,

“I-I, Really appreciate your help very much! Junior Baron!!”

“Lord, baronet...!! Excuse me for not recognizing the nobleman!”

“Oh, yes. I'm a nobleman, I'm only a baronet, So I don't really care. 

Hey, that reminds me! 

You Robbers!! There is also a fragile baronet who you can also use to get a hefty ransom!!”

“Junior Baron!! please! please be quiet…!! 

What the hell are you going to do If they really come?!”

“You will see when they came so first I’m telling them to come here.”

“No, do you have any plans or countermeasures?! Our enemies are far more numerous than us!”

“A plan or countermeasure...”

Why I, who had learned the world's strongest swordsmanship, even came up with countermeasures against the mercenaries.

It’s like saying to a tiger that a Chihuahua is coming to this place soon, so take action right away.

[TL NOTE: Chihuahua is a Mexican breed of toy dog. It is named for the Mexican state of Chihuahua and is among the smallest of all dog breeds.]

‘Could it be these guys thinking that I don't know how to use Battōjutsu?’

This… I’ve been shouting for Baldo a while ago, but maybe they don’t think a young person like me could use such powerful swordsmanship.

Or maybe If they thought what I said was a bluff, I can understand why they stopped me up until now.

‘No, maybe these people don’t even know the existence of Battōjutsu!!’

They may have lived without a sword and may not know what Battōjutsu is.

Alas, poor, poor people… If they had known the existence of Battōjutsu, they wouldn't have had to run away from a robber in the first place.

Holding back the feeling that I was about to burst into tears, I said to them.

“Ugh… !! Hey, don’t worry. Because I am one of the few people who can use the strongest swordsmanship in the world.”

“Yes, yes?! No, what the hell do you mean by that?”

“What do you mean… uh?”

As before, I felt a presence beyond the bush, and instead of speaking, I took a stance toward the bush.

Seeing this, the two people trembled in fear when they realized that the dream they had hoped not to happen had become a reality.

“Now it’s over!! Everyone will die!!”

“Dad!! Mom!! I’m going to die now!!”

“It’s noisy... If you were going to scream like this, You wouldn’t have yelled like that earlier.”

In the midst of such frivolous remarks, the first enemy worth celebrating after damaging the bushes came out of the bushes.

“Grrrrrreung!!”

“A dog?”

It was a dog with dark black fur that I would not have recognized if hadn't been for the campfire.

“Silence!! Today’s dinner is dog meat!!”

No, do horses eat meat?

With that thought in mind, I lightly drew my sword at the dog that ran towards me.

–Shuishh....

[TL NOTE: The Orignal word was Surereung  which Is something like the cutting sound of katana.]

The katana's sword, shining grimly in the light of the gloomy crescent moon, becomes even more terrifying with red blood on it.

The dog that had been barking as hard as it could, was neatly cut in two from head to tail, and blood and intestines were scattered on the ground.

The cut section of the body was as clean as butter cut with a knife. Even I think it looks good.

“What, did these guys even have hunting dogs? You guys escaped well.”

“Uh… ?”

The two looked at the dog’s corpse on the floor in disbelief, then raised their heads again and looked at me.

“Uhh!!, what the hell did you do?”

“Ahh… This is Battōjutsu.”

It’s the world’s strongest swordsmanship.

*****

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What the hell just happened?

I looked at the corpse of a dog that had fallen on the floor and asked myself a question, but no answer came.

‘Is it a black ornament and magic?’

[TL NOTE: From black ornament means some kind of illegal or dangerous ornament. You know the fancy stuff. ]

Even if I could only use beginner magic, If he had used magic right in front of me, I would have felt the flow of mana. However, the flow of mana was not felt. whatever it was, at least it wasn't magic.

‘Then, with that sword… ?’

It’s absurd, but at an unseen speed, he drew his sword, cut that dog, and put it back into its scabbard?

With that thought in mind, I looked at the sword and saw something like blood stains on the scabbard.

Come to think of it, I think he was holding a similar posture toward me when I first saw him.

Realizing that, looking at the dog again, I flinched at the thought that it might have been me lying on the floor.

“Uhh!!, what the hell did you do?”

Ian replied happily to those words that came out without thinking.

“Ahh… This is Battōjutsu.”

“Battōjutsu what?”

Is that the name of the sword art just shown?

When I looked at Mr. Boris with the meaning that you don’t know what kind of skill it is, Mr. Boris looked at me with an expression that was indescribable.

“Does that mean Baldo?”

“Oh, do you know Baldo or Battōjutsu?”

“Yes…. Obviously, he must have pulled his sword out of  the scabbard very quickly and cuts the enemy.”

“Yes, the technique of using the frictional force generated when the sword is drawn to cut the enemy at once is the Battō――!”

Ian suddenly turned away from speaking and grabbed something the next moment and said.

“What, did these guys even have hunting dogs? You guys escaped well.”

In his hand, he had not one but two arrows.

Seeing the arrow, Ms. Boris and I were terrified.

“I didn’t have anything like that at first… .”

Did they come here to kill us with the intention that we would make an accusation against the lord?

Of course, I thought that I would surely do that if I survived, so it may be the right decision.

“Is there a separate base? It’s fun, like a game. First, catch the mobs and then the boss.”

Ian mumbled something I couldn’t understand and looked over the bush from which the arrow had come out with a smile on his face.

Warying that arrows would come out again, MR. Boris and I lowered our bodies without getting up.

However, there was no such thing as something flying or someone running from beyond the darkness where the light of the bonfire could not reach.

It was quiet.

Only the sound of bonfires burning and the cries of insects filled the forest.

But that's for a while.

– Beep!!

Ian suddenly threw himself into the darkness as he heard a nervous flute-like sound from beyond the darkness.

“Lord, baronet?!!”

“It’s like a signal to run away!! They’ll catch Us and kill us!! God, help us!!”

With that said, I threw my body into the darkness, and within a minute, I heard someone’s wretched flurry.

“…… .”

I, who had been watching the scene still, thought this was an opportunity and got up immediately.

And saw Father's research material stolen by them during the day along with Mr. Boris's carriage.

I have to move now, at least to retrieve the last information my father left behind!!

Thinking so, I jumped as hard as I could into the darkness where there was blood.

“Hey, Ms. Hori?! It's Dangerous!!”

I heard Mr. Boris’s voice behind me, but I did not stop and continued running.

It wasn’t too difficult to find Ian in the darkness where it was impossible to distinguish one inch from the other.

Because of the corpses of the robbers lying on the floor like garbage and the occasional wretched flurry pointed out where Ian was.

“ha… ! ha… !! Lord, baronet!!”

I ran as hard as I could and finally found Ian.

Ian was approaching the man who appeared to be the last survivor of the raiding robbers.

“be, don’t cut…!!”

Before I could finish my words, I heard an unpleasant sound like tearing dumped paper in my ears.

The robber, who had been cut in two from the top of his head to the groin, fell to the ground.

“ah… .”

Seeing the robber’s corpse on the floor in vain, I lost my pulse and fell to the ground.

As I bowed my head, thinking that everything was over, Ian tapped my shoulder and said.

“Hey, we need to interrogate him, so let’s go quickly.”

“Yes, yes interrogation.., an interrogation?”

In saying that, Ian held three men who had lost their minds in his hands.

“Hey, these people… .”

“for capture them! I didn’t use Blado on them, but I hit them with the back of a sword and captured them in advance.”

“The Blado… .”

Battōjutsu… I thought to myself as I pondered the name.

What is the alternative?