stray cat (1)
As you know, games are usually played from the protagonist’s point of view, so there isn’t much that I can do as a person who has already fallen and retired.
The good news, though, is that we’ve already done it several times from the protagonist’s point of view. First of all, if you think about the time and the academy schedule carefully, you can roughly guess what events are going on.
So, you don’t have to feel frustrated because you don’t know what’s going on at the Academy or what’s going on. This is a comforting fact.
In fact, since it was only told from Taily’s point of view, it made me wonder if there were quite a few parts I didn’t know about.
For example, how the Ministry of Magic curriculum works.
The main character, Tailly, is a member of the combat club, befitting his title of ‘failed swordsman’. Therefore, it is impossible to know what kind of life students belonging to the Ministry of Magic live.
Also, the same goes for things that happen outside of Tailley’s activity radius.
New buildings and statues being built under the patronage of ‘The Golden Daughter Lortel’, and a small royal bodyguard stationed at the entrance to the teaching building to guard ‘Princess Fenia of Charity’.
Something like that… Although it was away from the main stage, the sight of the world moving clearly seemed rather refreshing.
In fact, while playing Sylvania’s Failed Swordsman, there were quite a few incidents that I was curious about after the fact that were not directly revealed.
If I were to pick them one by one, there would be too many, but if I had to pick just one… Yes, it was the Yenica Failover after all.
As the final boss of Act 1, her story of falling into the clutches of Robesper, a high-ranking dark spirit, is not given much importance.
That sounds good, it’s the final boss of Act 1, but the real Boss of Act 1 is actually the right-hand man of Glaskan, the highest-ranking dark spirit she summons.
However, high-ranking dark spirits descend through the darkness or pessimistic thoughts in the spiritist’s mind.
Well, no matter how big or small, there is darkness in everyone’s heart, so it might not be something to consider so strange… Isn’t Yenica Palover a person who is completely far from such darkness?
I know. Her brightness is natural, and her liveliness is innate.
What on earth made Yenica Palover fall into the clutches of a high-ranking dark spirit?
… Of course, I don’t have time to worry about that.
Anyway, Tailley will take care of defeating Glaskan’s right-hand man who has taken over the student center.
*
“It was so hard… ..?”
About ten days have passed since the start of school.
“I’m not going to die like this, really… ?”
While sitting on a wooden bench in the professor’s building at sunset and taking a break, the wise man’s time suddenly came up without warning.
My daily routine since school started is as follows.
Before the sun rises, wake up first and wash your body in the stream. Clean every corner in case there is a smell.
Walking from the northern forest to Gyosu-dong, wearing everyday clothes that are washed every day.
By the time I arrive, I’m covered in sweat, so I secretly wash my face one more time in the bathroom of the professor’s wing of Glokt Hall. Then, I change into the school uniform I brought with me, and hide my everyday clothes among the grass in the rose garden in Gyosu-dong to take with me after school.
Head straight to the classroom where the class takes place. From here, you will begin to meet children from all kinds of noble families and excellent students, so you must be careful to behave well.
Of course, my evaluation within the academy is at the lowest level, so I have to deal with all kinds of gossip that comes into my ears every time I show my face.
These days, when I don’t hear such gossip, I feel like something is missing. I have become quite accustomed to being treated as invisible in various classes.
If you focus on class like that, it’s lunch time.
Since I can’t use the jaw-droppingly expensive and luxurious Ofilis Building cafeteria or the student center cafeteria, I eat boxed lunches. The lunch boxes are wild meals brought from camp.
These days, beef jerky made by pickling with rock salt is being put to good use. After drying the salted meat for about three days on a simple drying rack I had made to dry laundry, it turned out to be a decent jerky.
It’s portable and suppresses hunger well, so there’s no other convenience food like this. As a bonus, my cooking skills were also sweetened.
Well, after satisfying my hunger and finishing the afternoon lecture as an invisible man again, it will be after school.
I take my street clothes, which I had hidden among the rose garden bushes, and set off again towards the northern forest. If you leave when the sun sets, you will arrive when it gets dark.
I decided to canter as much as possible on my way home to improve my physical strength, but after the practical class where I would directly use my magical power began, I lost so much energy that I decided to just walk slowly.
After returning home to camp, the first thing to do is wash your sweaty casual clothes. You have to dry it in advance so you can wear it again tomorrow.
Also, check here and there about school uniforms, which must always be kept neat and classy. It is inspected to see if there are any dirty or torn parts, and if such parts are found, they are repaired using thread taken from other fabrics.
After a quick clothing inspection, it’s time to do the day’s work. What to do at this time varies from time to time.
If there are any herbs or herbs that have been collected, they are collected, and the condition of the trimmed wood is also checked.
When they run out of meat stored in dug holes, they go hunting with bows. In fact, it was more convenient to hunt with a harpoon or an improvised spear, but if I was thinking about the future, I had to improve my bow skills, so I forced myself to hunt with a bow.
Well, if I felt like my hunting performance that day was too poor, I would hunt in a different way. Because once you eat, you have to live.
After the sun has completely set, light a bonfire to secure a light source. It was time to do homework.
We check each day’s practical tasks on a workbench improvised using a wide stone slab. Fields where handwriting was important, such as magical history or elemental science, were my strengths. Fortunately, my head still seemed to be spinning.
It’s been quite a while since I picked up a pen, but there was a time when I was a student taking the exam. The blood of hard-core test takers who passed the college entrance exam during a turbulent time still remains.
Long live the private education craze in Korea… !
The writing is memorized by writing on a stone tablet using a small ash-covered poker, and the books are borrowed from the student library in the teaching building. There is no way to afford to use quills, ink, or personal books.
And when the moon rises in the sky, I practice magic alone.
First of all, the goal is to reach level 10 in elemental basic magic. The Ministry of Magic’s second-year curriculum already assumes intermediate level magic, but there is no answer as I am lost in basic magic.
Still, it would be good to train my magic in a practical way, so I used a wind blade to trim the trees and used fire-type magic to control the embers of the bonfire.
Then, I slowly fall asleep. But it’s not time to sleep yet. There was still a lot of work left before bed.
We check whether there are any defects in the simple shelter made of wood, replenish firewood to ensure that the campfire lasts all night, and review the number of beef jerky to be eaten for lunch tomorrow. If the drinking water container was empty, drinking water had to be scooped up.
Then, remember the timetable for tomorrow and organize your thoughts on how to spend the day. Then, fill the shelter with bonfire smoke to keep out insects as much as possible, ventilate it, and go to bed. Then, you can still sleep for about 4 hours.
Well, the good news is that I am not prone to oversleeping no matter how tired I am. Thanks to this, I adapted quickly even when I was in the military.
I roughly maintained this lifestyle for ten days.
My whole body was already screaming from muscle pain.
Sitting on a wooden bench looking at the red sky, the current situation is also a small deviation. When we get back to camp, there is a lot of work to do.
“Should I move the camp to a closer location?” ”
After thinking about that, I shook my head again. There was nothing good about having to live in the living area of other students for no reason. In addition, such long distances are also helpful for physical strength training… Let’s not be weak-hearted.
“Uh, no.”
I barely got my creaking body up and headed out on the road again. Anyway, what can I do if I’m possessed with a body like this?
I have to accept this level of suffering.
The sunny day will definitely come.
*
Still, there is something fortunate.
That thought occurred to me as I crossed the northern forest.
First of all, after maintaining this lifestyle for about 10 days… . I became somewhat confident about sustainability.
It’s really fucking hard and tiring, but you can somehow keep it going. Because life as a second-year student at the Ministry of Magic was more peaceful and calm than I imagined.
Everywhere I go, they look at me with disdain and whisper, and that’s what they’re doing now. What can I do? It’s not something I did, but there’s a lot of unfavorable stacks that Ed Rothtaylor built in the first place.
Still, it will be much better than the situation of first-year students. It must be a place of wild, reckless adventures where accidents happen every chance you get.
At the beginning of the first semester, maybe… Ziggs, the spear of vegetation, blows up the experiment building, or ‘Lazy Lucy’ electrocutes the dean’s cat with lightning magic… All kinds of events will already be happening.
The first practical class where students from the Combat Department, Magic Department, and Alchemy Department gathered together to deal with monsters was also held. It’s almost time for the protagonist Tailly and the main characters to meet each other.
However, taking a step back from the stage, surprisingly, a calm and regular daily life continues. okay… If you think about it from this perspective, it’s not that bad.
If you continue to repeat your difficult and difficult lifestyle, there comes a point where you get used to it.
All I have to do is take a step away from the main characters and maintain my life. Then I got my diploma, and when the crisis at school arrived, I said bye-bye.
Well, that doesn’t mean the school will fail, and since it’s an ordeal that will be resolved on its own, there’s no reason for me to go through the trouble to solve it.
When I think about it that way, I think I got the first step right. Yes, there is no reason to be frustrated.
However, the variable is still the Yenica Failrover.
– ‘hi!’
– ‘What are you eating?! ‘Is it dried meat?’
– ‘good morning!’
– ‘What are you taking next class? ‘Elementology?’
– ‘Do you want to eat together at the student cafeteria?’
Over the past 10 days, Yenika’s lively appearance and greetings whenever she encounters her while walking around the faculty building has not changed.
Of course, her two best friends appear, grab her arms, and then disappear unnaturally, repeating the same thing over and over again.
“Hmm… ”
This is unplanned. There is no reason for her to be this interested in me. It seemed like there was definitely a mistake or some aspect I wasn’t aware of.
“… Well, I guess it’ll be okay.”
In the forest at sunset, beyond the tree branches, I could see a camp that was now as comfortable as my home. It was a long way home.
As I say over and over again, I am a foreign being in this world where things go as they should.
If it becomes a variable that can upset the flow of the world as it goes along, the advantage of knowing the future will be thrown away.
Therefore, it is right to maintain a certain appropriate distance from important people in this world. what… If you try to force yourself to become close, you may have to go through an awkward and difficult process, but it is easy to keep your distance.
can do!
I don’t know why, but the wise man time that was pounding my heart has faded to some extent. And then, a feeling of hope that I could do well again took its place.
it will work out somehow!
Maintaining an appropriate distance is something you’ve tried countless times in your social life. It’s okay, you can do it!
With a heart full of hope, I entered the camp to live hard today.
“Zzz- Zzz-.”
That was when I found the girl sleeping inside my makeshift shelter, curled up in my arms.
The brim of the witch’s hat around her neck was so wide that it almost covered the girl’s face, and the sound of her breathing as if she was annoyed by everything in the world made her identity known as soon as she heard it.
I sat down on the rock chair and stroked my face with one hand.
“Whoa… ..”
It was a sigh that came from deep within my heart.
“Why is he… . Are you sleeping here???”
Even though it was my first time meeting, I couldn’t not know.
This girl is the one who plays an active role from the beginning to the end of the ‘Sylvania’s Failed Swordsman’ scenario… In terms of proportion, she has a presence that rivals that of the four major heroines.
It is difficult to judge based on appearance alone. This girl, who appears to be extremely lazy, is an overwhelming person of interest even among persons of interest.
Why on earth is he sleeping here like this?
“… ”
I raised my head for a moment and looked at my camp.
Forest north of Aken Island. A deep place where no one visits. But it’s not that deep for this genius girl who can do her magic walking with such speed that it’s almost like she’s breathing.
In the first place, this girl’s behavioral radius was the same as that of stray cats.
Thanks to its small body and ability to walk like a bouncy mana, it can go anywhere, whether it’s the top of the clock tower, the roof of Glokt Building, or any place with a good neck and good sunlight, making it a good place to take a nap.
So where is this place?
There are no people, it is far from the class building, and thankfully, there is a shelter with a roof in a nice place where there is a cool breeze and the pleasant sound of the stream.
There is no other place like this where you can take a nap after skipping class.
“… … . “It was a blessing in disguise!”
Oh my… !
Only then did I shout it out, and it was a meaningless monologue.
I could only sit quietly for a while, covering my eyes with one hand, while listening to ‘Lazy Lucy’ quietly breathing as if whispering, talking in her sleep.
