CH 118

[The Hated Hero Trains]

After deciding to participate in the martial arts tournament, I decided to review my training methods.

Jarvis’s worries,

Incidents happening behind the scenes at the academy,

What should I do to increase my chance to solve them? When I’d asked myself so, the first thing that had come to my mind was training.

Therefore, I decided to ask a combat specialist to train me.

The person readily agreed.

Today Tayte would be late because the student council would be having a meeting, so I planned to ask them to teach me a lot later.

After classes.

I received permission to use the indoor training facility and challenged myself to train in hand-to-hand combat without using a sword.

And the instructor was…

“Anytime you’re ready, Young Master Barrett-meow!”

“Here I go, Priim!”

…one of my three maids—Priim.

“Haaa!”

I charged at Priim full of fighting spirits.

However, she easily dodged all of my attacks. And…

“Meow!”

A sharp fist stopped a few centimeters away from my nose.

“Uo?!”

I ended up falling on my rear.

It was my complete defeat.

“I knew it, you’re really strong, Priim.”

“But if you had wielded the Holy Sword, I would have been defeated in no time—meow.”

“Well, the purpose of this training is to see how strong I am without using the Holy Sword… considering that, I’m still very lacking.”

“Meow! B-but beastfolks have higher physical ability than humans, so—”

“I know what you’re trying to say… but still, I want to surpass my limit, and become even stronger.”

In addition to mastering the Holy Sword, I must become stronger physically and mentally.

“Alright! Let’s go another round!”

“Yes-meow!”

“—But before that… Priim.”

“Is something wrong-meow?”

“Could you get changed?”

“Meow? Get changed?”

“Yeah.”

I asked Priim to change into a training outfit. Priim was initially confused and tilted her head, but since it was my request, she obeyed.

The only reason I requested her to get changed was… her maid outfit was distracting.

I mean, Priim had the best figure among my three maids.

And just like the other two, she had altered her own maid outfit, but she’d made it expose a lot of skin so that it was easy to move around in. I repeated. It exposed a lot of skin.

When she made quick and big movements in the outfit… um… certain parts of her became visible, while others jiggled. They were very distracting.

She herself didn’t mind, or should I say, couldn’t care less, or more accurately… was ignorant of it, perhaps?

It resulted in Rebecca—who had a rather slender figure, in contrast—staring at Priim’s chest with a frightening look on her face at times. As for Marina, she didn’t seem to care very much, but she would shake her head and mutter “Dreadful…” when she saw it while they were doing their maid duties together.

I had no interest in any women other than Tayte, but still, it was poisonous to my eyes. And if Priim remained ignorant of this sort of stuff, it might cause a big problem down the line.

Perhaps in the original storyline, Barrett, being the lustful man that he was, took advantage of Priim’s ignorance to do… stuff…

“?! S-stop it! Get a grip, Barrett Albers!”

I started doing push-ups to shake off my evil thoughts.

…I wondered if I should meditate under a waterfall somewhere.