How to Live As a Returnee Munchkin Swordsman

49 – Special training and special lectures (3)

“From now on, we will do interval training.”

“Interval training… ?”

“The training involves walking for 10 minutes, resting, and then sprinting for another 10 minutes. However, you must sprint with all your might for the 10 minutes you are running.”

“Sir, Instructor. I think that would be too hard… ”

“Start from now on. in action!”

“Ooh, move!”

Mirenne lightly weighed the toe, but there was no change.

I never take the name ‘special training’ lightly.

Special training is training that puts everything in a short period of time to achieve a certain goal.

Therefore, both the teacher and the learner must do their best.

This was especially true if the target was a high-end special coincidence like ＜Piarelli Step＞.

“Instructor Edgar raises his students to be very strong.”

Akina, who was nearby, spoke with a slight admiration.

Certainly, this coercive training method was quite unfamiliar to the heroes of the continent.

“The Piarelli step is a step that requires a solid basic physical strength. Especially in the process of linking up with the Balut sword technique, repeated mastery of herbivore is common, so it is easy to get tired if your stamina is not supported.”

As I nodded and explained, Akina’s eyes lit up again.

“Is that step called Piarelli step?”

“yes? Ah yes.”

“How amazing. Instructor Edgar must be… ”

I had no idea what she was going to say after swallowing it.

As a former cadet who graduated from the Faculty of Magic, it must not have been long since his destiny as a ＜swordsman＞ blossomed, but how did he come up with original martial arts like ＜Piarelli Foot Technique＞ or ＜Balut Sword Technique＞… Perhaps you are curious about those things.

‘It’s rude to ask that openly, so I swallowed my words.’

It was a moment in which Akina’s caring mind and her desire for inquiry as a swordsman were revealed at the same time.

I smiled and cleared her curiosity.

“It was based on an ancient martial arts book.”

“Ancient martial arts books… The books in the Royal Library?”

“yes. My family only had magic books, so I mainly visited the Royal Library.”

“… In a word, did you mean that you studied mainly from textbooks? Like Tristan Sword?”

“Somehow, the answer came back like that again.”

It was an answer prepared in advance for such an occasion.

Besides, it’s not exactly wrong.

＜Piarelli Foot Technique＞ is a foot technique I learned from Knight Felin before returning, but the revised ＜Balut Sword Technique＞ and my main sword technique, ＜Vellum Sword Technique＞, are all martial arts developed by myself.

A new martial art that I completed by adding my knowledge and techniques to the existing martial arts.

If you ask how I can do that, in the end, I can only give back the answer of ‘talent’.

“Anyway, Instructor Edgar seems to have his own view of education, so it’s nice to see him. Instructors these days are all trying to imitate someone, clumsily lining up and doing politics.”

“You mean some noble instructors?”

“There are no commoners. did i tell you before? Those people objected to Instructor Edgar’s assignment as a third-class instructor.”

“I think I heard it.”

“I don’t know why the military academy keeps trying to do politics. In the end, an instructor’s job is to teach students well.”

It’s a pretty harsh criticism, but it’s perfectly true.

Hearing his firm belief in his profession, I felt that Akina was a really good hero.

“It’s been a long time. Anyway, if possible, I would like to help the cadets in their special training.”

“Are you really okay? They’re not even cadets who teach directly… .”

“So I want to teach more.”

Akina pointed at Kayla, who was undergoing strength training from one side.

“Isn’t there a student with light green pigtails over there?”

“You mean Caela?”

“yes. I heard that you are the second-in-command of the swordsmanship department, but I haven’t heard of my lectures, so I’ve never seen it myself.”

Akina is not giving a ‘fencing’ lecture this semester.

In other words, even if you take another swordsman class, you can overlap her class.

Therefore, the first year cadets hoped to take Akina’s ＜Basic swordsmanship and foot sword＞ lecture.

Knowing Kayla’s passion for learning swordsmanship, he seemed to know the reason.

“I probably failed in my course registration. There is no reason for Kaela to avoid you.”

“Whatever the reason, I’m a student I’ve never taught. so… I wanted to see her sword right in front of me at least once.”

“Ah, then the special training is… .”

Akina nodded lightly.

“Yes, I want to teach Cadet Kaela myself. I have other things to do at the symposium to take care of the other cadets… Would it be okay?”

For a moment, he almost shook his head, abandoning his formality.

It’s such an attractive offer that there’s no reason to refuse it.

She is Caela, who has the best talent in the swordsmanship department.

But in addition to learning all of the sword and foot techniques I taught, in addition to receiving Akina’s one-on-one special lessons?

Before the Dalian competition started, I couldn’t even predict what the outcome would be.

* * *

The special training went smoothly.

The cadets, who had thoroughly undergone basic physical training, were taught the ＜Piarelli Foot Technique＞ from the next day, and in addition, Caela began receiving special lessons from Instructor Akina.

Of course, I didn’t have enough time to prepare for the special lecture at the symposium, but I tried to help the cadets somehow by dividing the time I didn’t have.

It must have taken a lot of courage for Lucas to come to me and tell me about his personal life.

Anyway, there wasn’t much time left before the Dalian competition started, but since the cadets were so talented, it seemed like they would be able to achieve good results if they finished training like this.

“… Edgar-sama seems really strange.”

“hmm? suddenly?”

After finishing the training to some extent, while preparing for the lecture.

Suddenly, Ray said that.

“I know that Edgar-sama has changed a lot from before, but I didn’t know that as an instructor, he would give such heartfelt education to his students.”

“Is that such a strange thing?”

“That’s right. because… Edgar-nim took the instructor test by the head of the household.”

“ah.”

My eyes widened at the unexpected story.

forgot for a while

Certainly, his first start as an instructor was because of his father’s orders.

Even if you are a 5th grade discipline instructor, please take the instructor test and go out to work.

At the time, I just accepted it thinking it would be fun, but after becoming an instructor, I realized that I was working harder than anyone else before I knew it.

Interest given by the nature of the job itself.

And watching the cadets learn my swordsmanship, I felt proud for no reason.

It was a different feeling from when he was teaching junior knights right before returning.

Anyway, in my own way, I developed a passion for this job.

“People seem to change a lot depending on their environment. It’s no different than being a hero. It’s like I, who was an idiot when I was a wizard, became a talent in a promising kingdom when I was a swordsman. and-“

– The same goes for the instructor job.

It was my father who first threw me into this work, but in the end, it was my job to find meaning in this work.

That’s why, despite the cadets’ rather sudden request for special training, it seems that he helped them as much as possible without feeling reluctant.

“… … .”

Ray, who had been listening to my story all along, was speechless.

Did you feel something in my words?

It was a face lost in thought for a long time.

To ease her expression, I lightly joked with her.

“You look like you don’t believe me. As expected, Rey, getting your approval is more difficult than getting government approval… ”

“I believe.”

“… uh?”

However, Ray’s firm answer stops me.

She said quietly as she organized the materials needed for the special lecture.

“Edgar-sama asked me to believe the other day, so I believe it too. Edgar’s words, actions, beliefs and values, education, battles… You learn a lot by sight, and sometimes you learn. And while building trust in it, we are working.”

“Uh, um… .”

“Because I am Edgar-sama’s butler.”

I was a little surprised by the sudden serious reply.

I was just joking around as usual, preparing the steps to say “It was a misunderstanding”… .

It seems that Ray’s position, which he accepted, was different.

‘-Do people change depending on their environment?’

It makes me laugh out loud that what I said earlier became a reality.

After living in a different world for 10 years, I returned as a completely different person.

And after returning, they are adapting to the rules of this place, the original world, and finding a new meaning of life.

As if I changed greatly in a sudden environment-

Ray, too, might be changing through the changed me.

I can’t claim to know everything about Ray just yet.

but.

At least our relationship felt like it was getting stronger.

She was my most trusted butler, and I was her trusted master.

“Thank you as always, Ray.”

Suddenly, I wanted to say something like that.

Seriously, there are many things to be thankful for Ray.

“… What do you mean?”

“Uh, huh?”

… I didn’t know there would be a reverse question here.

I was taken aback for a moment and asked like an idiot.

and.

“Put-.”

Ray laughed for the first time in front of me.

After meeting Ray right after his return.

It was really the first time I saw it.

“Did you just laugh?”

Surprised without knowing, I ask.

However, Ray’s expression has become as hard as usual.

… He had already finished managing his facial expression.

“no.”

“Did you laugh? I must have just laughed.”

“It is a misunderstanding.”

Geared up to bring that end out.

It seems that he has no intention of admitting it.

“ray. It seems that you use that word more than I do these days.”

“There is a lot to see and learn. I’m Edgar-sama’s butler.”

“That’s a really comfortable setup.”

… It was an ordinary day in Lab 217.