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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: JayM
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The instructor knew Yeon Mi-rae’s skills well.
In fact, the instructor himself thought that if he didn’t use aura, he might actually lose to her.
‘Yeon Mi-rae’s swordsmanship is that outstanding.’
She was a genius who had filled the absence of aura within her with pure technique.
To humiliate such a person, he first had to show that he had overwhelming power, so….
“Hoo…. Well then….”
As soon as the sparring match began, he drew up his aura.
Yeon Mi-rae, who saw that, just stood still in her spot.
“You can’t catch up to my speed, so you’re going to wait there?”
“……”
Yeon Mi-rae did not answer the instructor’s words.
She just held her sword with both hands and observed the instructor.
“Then I’ll go first.”
The instructor said that and charged towards Yeon Mi-rae.
It was the movement of an instructor who had strengthened his physical abilities with aura, so the students watching couldn’t see it clearly.
However….
Hwa-ak!
“!”
Yeon Mi-rae reacted.
She pulled her foot back and dodged the instructor’s attack by a hair’s breadth.
And so, the instructor’s first attack didn’t reach Yeon Mi-rae, but that was just the beginning.
The instructor swung the wooden sword in his hand at Yeon Mi-rae, and each time, the latter dodged the instructor’s attack with minimal movement.
‘…What is this?’
At that moment, the instructor realized that something was strange.
It was as if Yeon Mi-rae….
‘…Is she reading my movements perfectly?’
Yeon Mi-rae dodged all of the instructor’s attacks as if she knew how he would move next.
…This wasn’t something the instructor had intended, nor was it a coincidence.
Yeon Mi-rae was intentionally dodging the attacks by letting them brush past her.
‘How arrogant.’
To dodge an attack with such a paper-thin margin meant that she was that confident.
And so, the instructor decided to do something else.
The instructor’s purpose wasn’t just to beat Yeon Mi-rae, but to humiliate her.
Since she was dodging so confidently, then if the instructor made a slight change as a surprise attack, his sword could land a hit.
‘I’ll use this to hook her uniform with the wooden sword while pretending it’s a mistake.’
If he swung the wooden sword in that state, Yeon Mi-rae’s uniform would be pulled along by the wooden sword and be torn.
It would be humiliating enough if her clothes were torn in front of many people.
Thinking that, the instructor naturally lowered his body and moved his center of gravity a little more forward than before.
And then he swung his sword.
Hwa-ak!
‘What….?’
But the instructor’s sword only cut through empty air.
‘She read… this too?’
Yeon Mi-rae had seen the instructor move his center of gravity forward, read that he would make a different attack than before, and had dodged his sword by making a large movement herself.
Moreover, since the instructor’s center of gravity was moved forward, he had swung the sword too deeply.
It was a situation where it was difficult for him to regain his posture.
Yeon Mi-rae didn’t miss this chance and swung her wooden sword.
Tak!
The instructor who saw that used his aura-strengthened physical abilities to forcibly retrieve his sword and blocked Yeon Mi-rae’s sword.
If he allowed her a clean hit here….
‘The sword itself is a wooden sword, but since sparring is done while assuming that the wooden sword is a real sword, it would mean that I had been defeated.’
In other words, this would result in a student winning a sparring match against an instructor.
He had to prevent that at all costs.
The problem now wasn’t that he couldn’t humiliate Yeon Mi-rae.
The possibility of an instructor being defeated by a high school student was more important.
It might be different on a normal day, but right now, outsiders were watching the sparring match.
“Huup…!”
Thinking that, the instructor wrapped his wooden sword in aura.
Sword Aura.
A technique that aura users who used swords learned after strengthening their bodies or releasing aura outside their bodies. It increased cutting power by wrapping the sword in aura, and at the same time, it allowed them to attack monsters that had no physical form.
And it was also the reason why Yeon Mi-rae was called a half-wit.
‘…Because an aura user can’t properly cut down a monster without Sword Aura.’
It might be different for weak monsters like goblins, but swords without Sword Aura couldn’t cut down other monsters.
It might be possible if the sword was a really good one, but there was no reason to give such a sword to someone who couldn’t use aura.
“……”
Yeon Mi-rae’s expression didn’t change as she looked at the instructor who had used Sword Aura.
But the other people watching were different.
To think he would use aura against a mere student.
And against a student who didn’t use, or couldn’t use, aura.
That was what the people around who were watching the instructor thought.
The instructor, who was facing the unacceptable event of a defeat in a sparring match against a student, hadn’t thought that far.
Whether he knew that his evaluation was dropping in real time or not, the instructor drew up even more aura.
He had invested additional aura not only in his Sword Aura, but also in strengthening his physical abilities.
Swaek…!
And because of that, the instructor’s speed also momentarily doubled.
Right after that….
KWAANG!
A loud noise of something colliding was heard.
“What….?”
“She blocked it…? And with one hand…?”
The instructor had raised his sword high with both hands and tried to strike Yeon Mi-rae down, but the latter had blocked that sword.
Moreover, this wasn’t something that could be explained by just Yeon Mi-rae’s outstanding technique.
A loud noise that was hard to believe was the sound of wooden swords used for sparring or practice clashing…
And the fact that when the aura-wrapped wooden sword and another wooden sword clashed, neither of them broke or was cut…
What this meant was that….
“A clash between auras of the same level.”
Someone muttered that.
It meant that the instructor’s aura and a mere high school student’s aura were of a similar level.
Those who didn’t know much about Yeon Mi-rae were surprised because of that.
And those who knew Yeon Mi-rae well….
“…Yeon Mi-rae… has aura…?”
“Since when…?”
They were shocked by the fact that Yeon Mi-rae had used aura at all.
“What….?”
“Instructor, not only did you use Sword Aura first, but you just swung your sword with the intent to kill me, didn’t you?”
Yeon Mi-rae said that to the instructor.
The instructor looked at her eyes and thought…
‘Ah… I’m in big trouble.’
Everyone in the school had treated this weak-looking girl carelessly.
They had tried to pluck a flower that looked so weak…
Without knowing that it had poison.
Without predicting what consequences trying to pluck that flower would bring.
“So, this is self-defense.”
‘It doesn’t really matter if you report it as an overreaction.’
She said that and swung the sword that had blocked the instructor’s sword widely.
Along with that, the instructor’s sword was pushed back.
“Ugh?!”
The instructor endured the repulsive force and tried to regain his posture, but Yeon Mi-rae passing by him and cutting his arm was faster.
Chwaak!
The instructor’s arm was smoothly cut off, yet Yeon Mi-rae’s expression didn’t change.
“Gyaaaaaah?!”
“I cut it cleanly, so if you go to the hospital quickly, you’ll be able to reattach it.”
She said that as she retrieved the energy wrapped around her sword… Her internal energy.
Sword Energy.
A technique similar to, yet different from, Sword Aura, which condensed energy along the blade of the sword.
And the people who saw that couldn’t hide their amazement.
“Just now… She cut off his arm with a wooden sword, right? And so smoothly at that.”
“Yes… At least, it’s definitely not a simple Sword Aura.”
No matter how good your Sword Aura was, its ability was still limited by the sword’s quality.
If you tried to cut a person with a wooden sword, you could cut them, but cutting them smoothly was impossible.
…Having thought that far, the other people came up with a possibility.
What if that wasn’t Sword Aura, but was its higher-level technique, Aura Blade, instead?
“Using an Aura Blade at that age…?”
Aura Blade.
A technique that those who used aura aimed for.
A technique known to cut through anything, to the point that the only way to counter an Aura Blade user was to bring another Aura Blade user.
There were quite a few people in Korea who could use Aura Blade, but such people were mostly quite old… and were either the head of a guild or held a similarly high position.
Yeon Mi-rae’s sword energy wasn’t on a level comparable to an Aura Blade, but to people who didn’t know about martial arts, her sword energy looked endlessly similar to an Aura Blade.
Perhaps because the Heaven-Defying Divine Art she had learned was a peerless martial art created to produce the maximum destructive power with a small amount of internal energy, the attack power of the sword energy she drew out was on a level comparable to an Aura Blade.
In any case, Yeon Mi-rae intended to use their misunderstanding to the fullest, so she didn’t explain the details or correct them.
“A new star has appeared.”
Whatever the truth was, to other people, Yeon Mi-rae was a strong person who used an Aura Blade at an age where she wasn’t even an adult yet.
It was hard to predict how many organizations would move to recruit her.
Right away, the people from the Association and the guilds were contacting their superiors to recruit Yeon Mi-rae into either the Association or their own guilds.
Yeon Mi-rae, who had confirmed that the outsiders were admiring her like that, began to move for her purpose.
“Principal.”
“Ah… Ah, yes…! What is it, Mi-rae?”
Before anyone knew it, Yeon Mi-rae had come down from the sparring grounds, approached the principal, who was leading the guests from outside, and was talking to him.
The principal was a bit flustered by her suddenly talking to him, but he answered her as friendly as possible.
Because he also knew that the entire school had ostracized her.
“Sir, I’m planning to drop out.”
“What…? What…?!”
To him, Yeon Mi-rae’s words were like a bolt from the blue.
“It wasn’t that I didn’t attend my classes properly, nor was it that my grades were low, but this school, which is only full of students who ostracize me… and teachers who merely stand by and watch the bullying… I don’t want to attend it anymore.”
As if she didn’t want to be here anymore.
As if just being here was painful.
As if she were purely a victim.
Yeon Mi-rae, with such a look in her eyes, said that in front of the principal.
At those words, everyone’s gaze turned to the principal.
As if to ask what on earth this was all about.
And….
Wheee-ing….
The cameras of the people from the broadcasting station had filmed the entire scene from a moment ago.
Yeon Mi-rae, who confirmed that, left the place as if she had no more lingering attachments there.
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The youngest Aura Blade user, Yeon Mi-rae.
The school she had attended, as someone who had entered the ranks of Korea’s strongest at an age where she wasn’t even an adult yet, quickly went to ruin, and coercive investigations such as tax audits began on the various guilds where the students who had ostracized her and their parents were from.
Solely because the government wanted to look good to her.
Because she was someone who had used an Aura Blade at an age where she wasn’t even an adult yet, when she grew up later, her existence itself would be as good as a strategic weapon.
Yeon Mi-rae, who had confirmed that, nodded her head as if that was enough.
“‘Sword Blossom’ Yeon Mi-rae… That’s a good title.”
“……”
The same title as before her regression was attached to Yeon Mi-rae.
But its meaning would be quite a bit different from before her regression.
More importantly….
“…How long are you going to stick to me?”
“You know the reward I received from the Awakener System when I learned the Heaven-Defying Divine Art, right? My growth rate increases when I’m near you, Mr. Geon-woo.”
‘So please let me hold you tightly like this, at least while I’m doing qi circulation, to help this disciple’s growth.’
Yeon Mi-rae, who was doing qi circulation while holding me in her arms in my room, said that.
“…Haaa….”
As they say, you can’t spit on a smiling face… I couldn’t push her away when she had such a happy expression, so I just entrusted my body to her.
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T/N – See! Harem candidate no. 2 confirmed! The image of the 8-year-old MC being hugged by a high school teenager like a teddy bear while they’re sitting cross legged is so funny to me though. Well, it still looks cute and innocent now since the MC doesn’t have any lewd thoughts on her. Please keep it that way, author.
Also, I’m glad that the revenge wasn’t over the top. Expose the scandal, and let the public tear them apart. And no face-slapping like I feared. The faceless young master remained faceless until the end. I approve!
If you find any mistakes, feel free to point them out in the comments.
That was actually clever and not terribly tacky. She used a misunderstanding to her advantage knowingly. I hope she stays this smart and proactive throughout the story.
Ok… I am thinking of taking my earlier statements (not properly since it starts from here) she has started to view Romance here not the f**kin’ Roman it’s romance