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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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I had been feeling a lot of dissatisfaction recently.
It wasn’t directed at anyone else, but purely at myself.
I had been trying not to show it to others, but as I felt the current thrill, I realized I had been angrier at myself than I thought.
A dulled sherpa.
The sharp senses I had honed in the Demon Realm Forest had disappeared.
The fact that Sen had been able to climb on top of me in the early morning was a blatant indication of how dull I had become.
Even in the early days of my academy life, although my body had become younger, my senses themselves had remained alive.
If there was a boundary between student and sherpa, I could naturally cross it.
But not anymore.
Just as a magical beast would growl warnings at opponents, I too had used the pressure I had cultivated as a sherpa to subdue others many times.
‘Now I’ve just become a student.’
I needed to return.
I couldn’t become a toothless beast.
I needed to regain my original senses.
Even as I thought this, I knew it wasn’t something I could acquire through simple training, which only made me feel more frustrated.
“Good, good. Keep coming. Don’t stop!”
I found myself getting excited as I faced the pirates charging at me from all directions.
It felt like my original senses were slowly awakening.
I pushed my body to the limit to compensate for the dulling of my senses.
Thanks to this, it was clear that my physical body had become stronger than before my regression.
Yet, I finally felt something filling the void that had remained empty until now.
“That, that crazy bastard.”
“Is he really a student?”
“Shit! Don’t, don’t falter!”
The pirates were all talking tough, but their legs weren’t moving, and their eyes were filled with fear.
This wouldn’t do.
I couldn’t stop here like this.
I felt the strength that had started to build up in my body gradually fading.
I couldn’t let go of what I had been longing for all this time.
Just as a thirsty person would eventually dig their own well, I too didn’t wait for the pirates to come but charged forward, swinging my sword.
“Huh, huuk!”
The pirate at the front stumbled backward, got pushed by his comrades, and eventually fell.
Clicking my tongue, I stabbed my sword into his shoulder before moving on to the next.
“I’ll handle him!”
Finally, Jesant stepped up.
I had heard he was called Golden-toothed Jesant because of the gold tooth that shone when he usually smiled brightly, but now he was facing me with a tense expression, his mouth tightly shut, that famous gold tooth nowhere to be seen.
In one hand he held a cutlass, and in the other, his pistol.
Bang!
I deflected the cutlass he swung down.
I could have just let it slide, but I wanted to expand my senses through this kind of strength-versus-strength battle.
“You blocked this?”
Conversely, Jesant’s fighting spirit seemed to waver.
I couldn’t let him even think about running away.
So I pushed him even harder.
To make him unable to think of anything but blocking my sword.
“Kuuuk!”
Jesant couldn’t keep up with my continuous attacks.
He tried firing his pistol a few times with his left hand, but it remained easy to dodge just by watching the direction of the muzzle.
“He, he’s dodging from that distance?”
“He’s insane.”
“What are you all doing! Don’t just stand there watching, come help!”
At Jesant’s irritated shout, the pirates rushed in as if their ship had sprung a leak.
This was the situation I had been wanting.
While continuing to push Jesant, I also dealt with the surrounding pirates.
‘Good, keep going. Keep it up like this.’
Although it was far from enough, I was starting to get a feel for it.
Once I started to grasp it, old memories came flooding back in an instant.
Unfortunately, that also meant the end of this situation.
“You… just what are you?”
Jesant, now backed away with just a sword in his hand, asked with trembling lips that he tried hard to steady.
The corpses of pirates strewn around seemed to be calling out to him, the last one standing.
“Is this all? How disappointing.”
I had felt my senses as a sherpa returning somewhat, but that in turn had the effect of extinguishing the opponent’s fighting spirit.
It was a natural result, considering I had awakened my senses by igniting Jesant’s emotions.
“Are you really a student? You?”
“Zavalanco said the same thing.”
The pirate officer who had sold cigarettes laced with drugs and kidnapped May.
Sen had almost been caught by him too.
“…Zavalanco? Senior was caught by you?”
They seemed to know each other.
He tore at his hair with a bewildered expression.
As a result, his ponytail came undone and his hair became disheveled.
“I heard that has-been was caught and executed… You’re saying you caught him?”
I could almost hear the gears turning in his head.
Elgrid was the city where Aios Academy was located and Elgrid was also where Zavalanco had been operating.
As if something was gradually dawning on him, Jesant began to back away step by step.
“Shiiiit!”
Jesant turned on his heel and ran.
How was it that these so-called pirate officers all ended up the same way?
“Zavalanco was caught while trying to run away from me too.”
It was really funny.
I picked up the pistol he had dropped on the ground and aimed it at the back of the huge man.
“This is how you used it, right?”
As I pulled the trigger, I felt the mana in my body rapidly draining.
Just firing this once would deplete all of my mana.
“Kuk!”
But the effect was certain.
Although I had aimed for his back, the mana bullet lodged into his thigh, causing Jesant to collapse.
Looking at the pistol, I couldn’t help but express my disappointment.
“It consumes too much mana. Still, it might be more useful than I thought.”
To survive in the Demon Realm Forest, it was important to get used to new things.
Acquiring another weapon like this was one of my achievements.
I approached Jesant, who was crawling on the ground, and raised my sword.
“Being a pirate means you could die at any time, right? I’m sure you left a will on your ship.”
“W-Wait…!”
For one of the ten officers led by the Pirate Lord, it was a rather disappointing last word.
“Wait”?
In a way, wasn’t it too predictable of a last word?
Jesant’s severed head rolled and touched the corpses of the other pirates.
They had good comradeship, staying together even in death.
“Being a pirate, I’m sure you’ll cross the river you need to cross after death just fine.”
Clicking my tongue in disappointment, I stretched and headed towards the pile of money the pirates had stacked in the tavern.
Elise had provided the funds, Bertia had placed the bet, and I was collecting it.
Wasn’t it perfect?
I had been worried because the money I got from robbing Zavalanco last time had run out, but with this, I could live comfortably for decades.
“After all, a person needs to have a full pocket. Right?”
As I spoke towards the window, people hidden in the shadows emerged.
Not just there, but from the building rooftops, back alleys, bushes, and so on.
I hope you enjoyed watching me fight.
They were members of Lavender, the intelligence unit led by Elise.
They approached me and bowed as respectfully as possible, saying.
“We, we’ll clean this up.”
“Alright, please do.”
Seeing that they seemed a bit scared, I spoke to them with the best smile I could muster, then collected the money.
In the 6th floor of the hotel where Pales Academy was staying, there was an unprecedented commotion.
May Plov, who had knocked down Hendrick, held up a money bag that had been in his room.
The prep class students who knew what it was couldn’t help but be flustered.
They had thought the money was paid to beat Anton Signir to a pulp, but the money hadn’t been paid and he was trying to pocket it himself?
“Wasn’t the money paid to stomp on Anton?”
“Hendrick! Are you trying to embezzle the money alone?”
“That trash commoner bastard!”
The prep class students rushed towards May in anger, trying to reclaim their money, but…
“Ugh, you sweaty things. Get lost!”
May laughed and tossed the money bag to the end of the corridor.
The prep class students rushed towards it like ants swarming to a fallen candy, but…
Unfortunately, a heavy foot landed on the bag.
Their gazes naturally moved from the money bag up the leg, gradually rising higher.
There stood Anton Signir, his hands in his pockets, glaring at the prep class students with an expression that looked ready to explode with anger.
“So, you little shits. You collected money to have me stomped on, is that it?”
They were screwed.
The prep class students immediately tried to deny it or run away, but Anton’s fists were already swinging.
Indiscriminate violence was about to begin.
If it weren’t for the black-haired girl who stepped in front of the prep class students and blocked the punch.
“You, you are…”
Anton, who had fallen in love with Rin at first sight, felt his anger dissipate instantly and looked at her with a bewildered expression.
Even so, he felt his heart flutter slightly at the fact that their hands had touched.
Slap!
Rin’s palm struck Anton’s cheek.
“Ugh!”
It was a powerful impact, literally making a sound that reverberated through the hall.
It was strong enough to momentarily knock him out, causing Anton’s body to sway.
“How much did you bully these kids for them to collect money and ask someone to beat you up?”
“Ah, no. That’s…”
Anton tried to make some excuse while holding both his cheeks, but Rin’s palm flew to the opposite side again.
With another slapping sound, Anton collapsed.
It hurt so much that tears were about to form in his eyes.
“This is punishment for trying to do bad things to me. Only because you hit Daniel.”
“That, that wasn’t what I was trying to…”
Anton tried to make an excuse, but Rin didn’t bother to listen.
She turned her body and spoke to the prep class students who were staring at her blankly.
“Collecting money to have someone beat up a kid? You’re all the same, you lot.”
They couldn’t say anything.
Rin sighed and said to them.
“I’ll return the money to each of you according to how much you put in, so line up in front.”
“Aish, I wanted to see these pig bastards bury their noses in money.”
May clicked her tongue, standing beside Rin with her arms crossed.
Even so, there was an amused smile on her face.
Daniel had asked them to handle this situation, so it didn’t really matter what method they used.
“Bring Hendrick. Tell him to bring the list of how much each person contributed.”
“Tch, I should have brought some of the others.”
May grumbled as she headed towards the room.
She grabbed Hendrick by the collar and sat him down next to Rin.
It was to prevent students from lying and taking more money than they had contributed, but the boy was kneeling, sweating profusely and glancing nervously at the students.
“But why am I doing this? You come and help.”
“W-Why should I…”
Anton tried to refuse with a bewildered expression, but seeing Rin’s raised palm again, he shut his mouth and came over to help.
A scene unfolded in the hotel corridor where Hendrick, who had tried to secretly pocket the money, read out the amounts from the ledger, and Anton took the money out of the bag and returned it.
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[Daniel is just such a chad dude hes a lady killer and a gigachad fighter]
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