Chapter 292: Webtoon Special Edition – Extra 4 Transfer Student With Experience (4)
8VtYThe Royal Academy was already on its fourth day.lxWRW
tkdnGWEven though the bodies had been swapped, as usual I woke up early and forced this stiff body to move.DughhoE
rkS3pAB“Shia, damn it… I told you to exercise.”4670S
KnfEven having trained a little over these past few days, the physical condition did not improve at all.A6PdfW
gvNZ4H4I never imagined that I would experience again the misery of a teenager with a chronic lack of exercise.IJ2H
H4ufwOf course, I was a special case. Since childhood I followed Sangwoo into the baseball club and ended up walking the path of a professional athlete.RSSYTw
iRxKSAfter becoming Corin Loch, I spent all that time training at the Guardian Academy to prevent the collapse of the world.H1nEhFD
1m8KGFor normal boys and girls, what they were doing now must have been the correct thing.186o
fFJF‘It looks like there’s another guy like me around here.’dYNq4
6h5UJWhoosh!TLjf
CPaBoom!F8L2fD
lWvH3I9A secluded place, away from the walking path.Ep4
jFDDeep in the forest, where people’s eyes barely reached, a familiar sound echoed.BjMxr
7RPThere, a black-haired boy was swinging a wooden sword without rest.tl7Lg2C
4PqBWzD‘Oh… nice abs.’DJ1WhC
DENViAGThe boy’s body was well built. The scars scattered across his skin showed the extreme situations he had overcome.Szk
suEHaving repeated that kind of training and combat from such a young age resembled me quite a lot.jZ27Xf
JWtOzAWell, compared to someone with a mental age of forty, maybe he’s better than me.o4LT3
xVqsHCalcion Helgmund. The young man who became the leader of the North at an early age.EabR
jUN2TThey said Brunhilde had set her sights on him as a warrior.TJ7m0Bk
yW8514yThough having a valkyrie take interest in you, I don’t know if that’s necessarily a good thing.Jl4
yBZSStaring blatantly at someone while they train isn’t good manners.apf62gO
U0sJust as I was about to leave, a strange group approached Calcion.E2E
JcY9“And who’s this? Isn’t he the stinky barbarian duke?”PpSX78
NgtoIYPopcorn.d9e
9Wi3FWhere’s the popcorn?xeEC
sxP8HTp***a7C5
FaLMlCalcion is a warrior.4P2HFmw
ArAXAnThough young, he is the son of a clan with the right to become the leader of the North.RrM4m
RmI4For the northerners, real experience is naturally gained by hunting magical beasts.mMYn5H
A77oh1The North itself is a cruel battlefield. If you are weak, you get hunted; if you hunt, you survive. An extreme land.eE8y
HJX1There, Calcion learned to sleep in short bursts, prepared for wolf packs that could attack at any moment.p1jbsES
v6MaHe learned to fight against enemy tribes and to butcher prey.fq8hDq
ASnDuR‘Too peaceful.’T5IHO7
Fd8kThat was why the abundance of this warm kingdom seemed to make him lazy.sfZyNu
I7WIn order not to dull the beast’s instinct, Calcion continued training.UXSqu
yLXGbhA‘If it was going to be like this, maybe it would have been better to go to the Guardian Academy.’YusSUA
ASA1XQHe knew why Brunhilde, the leader of the shieldmaidens, had chosen the Royal Academy as their place of study.BgGta4
1xT52HThe Sun God, Corin Loch, had ascended to the throne of the gods, marking the return of the mythical era.litta
ABipvThe curses that the gods imposed on humanity, the demonic existences, would gradually disappear, and soon the age of civilization would arrive.JYwZm4I
hOSOWThe North also had to adapt to that flow of time.aZBuc
Z8aSWuvA kingdom where gods exist, where new divine generations are born.PsE
sKXIt was necessary to interact with that kingdom and become an allied group in order to share the grace of the gods.lGyYYxw
uPBOWdlEven among the shieldmaidens there was a rumor that one of them might marry the new Sun God. As the leader of the North, building ties with the kingdom was his duty.8byJr
aKZkv3But—JSCQgkw
TzPv“And who’s this? Isn’t he the stinky barbarian duke?”Pob
ygOLScThe kingdom’s prejudices against the northerners would not be resolved so easily.UDsAz8c
3L7X“What do you want?”PZzTWTv
KyGThe group that appeared were children of influential figures in the kingdom.JpGKUW
0826XwHe remembered them—they were the ones who had caused trouble since the first day of classes.X4ho
yOSxCThey started chattering nonstop, but Calcion decided to ignore them.1v1chh
Orkt“This bastard! Is he ignoring us?”lbNU
6cF“Barbarians who worship snow gods!”CbreR
9488PBut… those words were hard to tolerate.5NIF0ie
YrFmKUV“Ha… do barbarians even have a religion? So what? Unlike our kingdom, where there are real gods, you only have some half-baked old women, right?”bipl364
eXTh“How dare you…?”TBfaug
IHTT0KTo insult the shieldmaidens, whom the northerners venerated as sacred spirits? To dare profane the spiritual pillars that had protected the North for a thousand years?NyxSK
rtPD“Come.”bGWRWwl
awrYKz“What?”EFklZQ
WwkyUd“You insulted the shieldmaidens. As a northerner, I cannot overlook it. If you don’t have a sword, fight with your fists. I’ll use my fists too.”GVWbd0y
UgqMljY“You insolent barbarian…!”JKGGwLM
P6Gf“We’re knights! If it weren’t for social society, we’d be at the Guardian Academy!”cVtITW
XvDnA“Do the kingdom’s knights only know how to fight with their mouths?”a3tFH
mnwfhgIn the end, the group and Calcion came to blows.tPl2tH
vCRJIt was five against one, but they were no match for Calcion, who had survived countless real battles in the North.LLXJhr
mL4y8The result was an overwhelming victory.MgZVl
Ih8Just as he was about to stomp on the guy who was bleeding from the nose—URde9
yxzYmY“That’s enough, right?”Hhfm
5nU5pAt the moment Calcion lowered his foot, something struck his ankle with a sharp tap.rIEY
5YC1eA fleeting technique. Calcion’s foot dug into the ground beside the face of the one who had insulted the shieldmaidens.PVpfy
N15“……Who are you?”P7ChO
Pk9Ekx“The sister of the Sun God.”Rpw
U7oA girl smiling with her lips slightly twisted.CLqIVXq
0M9AfDWAn ordinary girl, from whom no power or mana could be felt, yet who radiated an overwhelming ferocity that was impossible to ignore.qJXQdX
5DYCdBLike a wolf. No—like the alpha of a pack.mK8
rY9sF‘I didn’t even notice her approach.’xv7Q
HLDXGVShe had entered precisely into the gap in his awareness, in an instantaneous interval.dsYZHLo
x5VtWN5Her strength was nothing special. If he had recognized her in time, he wouldn’t have moved an inch. And yet, his leg had been deflected.EolZ
srmC0ko“It looks like a boys’ fight is getting out of hand. I understand that you’re angry, but let’s not make this bigger.”zAa
8j0“No. That man blasphemed the gods. He insulted our gods and our guardians. That is a profanation.”J59C
qcr“It’s the age of youthful impulse. They say men mature by fighting.”3tAMnV
b0g4“A pathetic line of reasoning. In the North, if a man loses a fight, he dies.”eajvL
ymX“This isn’t the North.”dHLasX
1PLx9G7Shia Loch did not take a single step back. Calcion tried to retort, but upon realizing that she was Shia Loch, he had no choice but to retreat.OSSQ
WPMgg“……I don’t like it.”mO8Z
ABFYNeither this situation, nor the fact that the North, in the end, was nothing more than the loser in a competition of systems.b4fcSvA
M79Y3***cFpE4k
QhQC“Wow… you’re really angry.”7ISgY
E2bWell, knowing the position Brunhilde and the shieldmaidens hold for the northerners, it’s understandable.ixlPov
3ewyoFor a devout believer, it was a direct offense against their gods and against their saints.32KlPnk
nId“Th-thank you, Miss Loch.”yIvjxtM
OlKaThe troublemakers stood up while their noses were still bleeding.SEg39YF
2XVBKlaI took out a handkerchief and a sports towel and tossed them to them.lnVjY
LqQV“Wipe the blood. Whew, they really messed up your eye.”XdnoTw
m7Zp1v“Ah, y-yes… thank you.”00Nj
fxbb6Qd“Thank you……”KaM
OVHThe troublemakers wiped their noses with the handkerchief and towel I gave them, looking embarrassed.UXz6Gm
juEmW“Are you ashamed that just one person crushed all of you?”vjBpHR
L3JO0gH“Kgh…!”gldI
jQK“If that guy hadn’t used dirty and cowardly tricks…!”QFLO9Kp
NMWT“You fought bare-handed and now you’re talking about strange arts—what kind of story is that?”St9o
h8q70l“He’s a barbarian, he must’ve used some trick! They’re all cowards!”dNI
bGH“That’s right!”ndmMuc
9yChIAs soon as one of them opened his mouth, the others started nodding. That they had lost because Calcion, savage and evil, had used some kind of trick.FmGz
yxZe25That otherwise, they wouldn’t have lost.QF0cf
4GsK“How pathetic!”UzEBY
sItmr9gWith a single sentence from me, the murmuring stopped cold.Veawr
6z6Y“As men, all of you ganged up on one person and still lost, and you can’t even acknowledge it? Aren’t you ashamed?”MlyUU
dd3hX“W-why are you defending that barbarian? Miss Loch, you’re from the kingdom…”PdvHA
mGbFLyZ“Does it bother you that I’m not on your side?”n5LlwXC
tp1f“Ugh……”CkoqT
ADgI handed one of the troublemakers, the one whose nose was still bleeding, a rolled piece of the handkerchief.d11q
mWrPCG“Cover your nose.”VXzrCw8
4aJ3“Ah… y-yes……”1qv
2eQnvMH“This is what my brother said.”YSeS
bTbeMy brother—meaning me, Corin Loch.Bwd
YbBjkT3When I mentioned Corin Loch, the Sun of the kingdom and the one who occupies the throne of the gods, all eyes focused on me.sGxXjo
Y4xMRwAfter all, to many men I was an object of admiration.E9I4
0aT“My brother fought against the Demon King in the North, and against his army. There, he received help from the northerners.”X6huQWb
eXkWe fought together. We were comrades.po4672l
JJpTIn that fierce battle, there were no distinctions between people of the kingdom and northerners.Nn7
W2B“But half of the barbarians joined the Demon King’s army!”tqg
FVKrVv“If we’re going to say that, there were also traitors in the kingdom, among both the old faith and the new faith. The Pope blew their heads off, remember?”8JmBsd8
72wux“T-that is……”BqQ
xx5lSEN“See? You’re at a loss for words. That’s how people are. Depending on the environment and the land, we’re a little different, but sometimes we’re foolish and sometimes we do stupid things.”NjxxFz
kq8EzEven so, we’re people. All the same.pw4
S0X5bIg“……My grandfather died fighting the barbarians.”AnR6fRc
loaDhP“My great-grandfather too.”i1a
a5cPerhaps it wasn’t hatred or discrimination without reason.cFCGK38
TGKzCThe North and the kingdom have been washing blood with blood for generations.JJt3
uoFoJF“And didn’t the same thing happen on the other side?”N1H
cLP“……Even so, miss, you should have supported us. You’re from the kingdom, and your brother was born here too.”qzy5r
oJTG“Of course, if there were a war, I would support the kingdom. Both my brother and I have more loved ones here.”3YgLN
6nnYaUAs I brushed the dust off those boys, I continued.QbVZfwM
NXUex“But we are students. We are the future of the kingdom. And Calcion is too.”6VP
fRalz“Even if the adults clashed, I believe there can be another path for us.”JPsCl
07y5S“So even if you don’t like the other’s origins, even if there were bad things in the past, at least once try talking. Just like Corin Loch talked with the northerners.”HnW
05dhII hope that first step someday becomes a step toward a better kingdom and a better world.U2eyJK
tjmHBThat beginning will surely come someday.4PGqDSU
Bw17IPQ“I hope you will be that beginning.”VG0O8cE
tN7eI smiled, wishing it from the bottom of my heart.1apq
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dBjEClasses ended, and it was already night. Seeing that Josephine still hadn’t arrived, it seemed she had completely left the south.BVhLLE
6Sxh“Marie or Erin must be rushing over right now.”zjgir
HTMydWThere’s quite a distance from the south to the capital.HOJ30Ap
Gam64Even riding wyverns or Hresvelgr, it would take several more days.D4E
Z8vDBVuShia… she must have gotten used to it a little by now?jZM
rgVI still feel uncomfortable in my sister’s body, in a woman’s body.AkpghW
sB9b93IThinking about it like that, Park Sirin is my senior. Sirin reincarnated into this world inside Park Sihoo’s body.i4xrV4
aWe2UNmFor a college student to suddenly find herself in a man’s body must have been a truly complicated situation.2udq8id
mxmvxJX‘Wait… if you do a TS and go out with someone of that gender, does that count as homosexuality or heterosexuality?’gFtz
qYO7It’s confusing. If, with a man’s body, you go out with a man, physically it’s homosexual, but mentally heterosexual—and the reverse applies too.eaG
HfxWhat a problem.MVS7Ju
sk5OWith those philosophical reflections, I went out for a walk.1A1
ruM7MFRWhen there’s nothing to do, I usually go for a walk, and at times like these I feel like installing the internet or founding a TV station in this world.Vdy0lky
CRNThough I also wonder if it would be a good idea to accelerate the development of civilization so much.reuT
s3hFwRustle!rX8S
mB0Rustle! Rustle!pBCujKf
a2OA strange sound reached my ears. As if someone were scraping the ground. I approached where it came from.HIoW
EzqC“Is someone there—?”9wDyFJI
CKfPBy“Kyaah…!”qys7qj
kjaGytA girl jumped in surprise. She looked like an academy student.It93gs
nqwK“Sorry for scaring you. I heard noises at night and thought it was someone… Sinia Helgmund?”Iic
nBAO7“Ah, Shia Loch?”t6fKFyT
N9hSJIn the morning I met the brother, and at night the sister. What a coincidence.nQ6kb
ta2JOD***1Gz7WMT
T6z“Oh, were you planting flowers?”cSn
cTOolWS“……They’re medicinal herbs, actually.”6ISV4
mqCAEloSinia Helgmund.im31p
NmwMThe younger sister of the Grand Duke of the North, Calcion Helgmund.zgOSRDS
UfJOihWLike him, she had come to study at the Royal Academy to take advantage of this learning opportunity, and it turned out she was a druid.wlY
jLEf“What flower is this?”Oiu
jeOp“Night Vision Flower. In my land, the leaves are crushed and used to treat external wounds.”gxh
40hz7ll“But there are plenty of medicines here too, right?”kEQB6R6
cE997JY“……They might refuse to treat us for being barbarians.”NyPqw0
iWTNAh, of course. From her perspective, suffering such open discrimination, it’s natural to fear that they wouldn’t even treat them when injured.cLc
ZSK“That won’t happen. Since His Holiness the Pope carried out the great religious unification, discrimination is prohibited in principle.”HQez6Yi
8ndIe“…….”z1yz
FRHHoSinia looked at me with distrust.03DYI
aYSqQFacing her doubt-filled expression, I replied with a broad smile.xw3
AMe“Well, it will gradually get better. You two are the first, that’s why you’re not used to it yet.”eWyF11Y
wfmK“Really?”JvwKWrJ
qP9AbZ“Yes. It will be so.”9KGiw
uwimBecause I will make it so.sm3
3dmndT“But anyway… Miss Sinia, you are a good person.”JG5I
lziHWp“Huh?”T9vaN
T8433K“You worry about your brother getting hurt and even prepare medicinal herbs. If it were my sister—well, I’d tell her that saliva heals it.”DiwdpVI
6nk7jY“……We grew up together.”oguxJB
2gCHalsShe didn’t just mean living under the same roof.3UMKa
Pvja5WThe North is a harsh land, and both of them lost their parents in the war.ELqoj
eiPgj4For them, each was the other’s only family.ODvNZ
wfdA“By the way, it’s fascinating. Those secret techniques to make plants grow.”FSQ4X83
fXE59Of course, I had already met druids before.Iyq
yruI fought alongside Yuel, who is now the Sage of the Forest, so I knew their arts well.c5LZ
IpY“I heard that herbs grown with secret techniques have less effect.”PHU
1KCQs“The ones I grow don’t. I… improved them.”VeRkke4
dUt“I see.”Npn
wXRDI“Thanks to that, when there were no medicines to heal my brother and the tribe’s warriors, it was a great help. Thankfully.”UOoQxXl
4PtA2Calcion Helgmund crossed battlefields with a sword to survive in the North and protect his sister.9JN
PdpL7GSinia Helgmund perfected druidic arts to heal her brother and the tribe’s warriors.EcJ9
ioJ5yThey are admirable siblings.abjOR
p0FmAnd also tragic siblings.NUyh8R3
NPAWu“In winter food is scarce too, so for them to grow better… Ah. I’m sorry, Miss Loch. This topic must be boring to you……”L7j3H
X8XnV“Call me Shia. And you’re called Sinia too. Can I call you Sinia?”iq76X1R
o3513“Eh? A-ah… is that okay?”SKvAl
nTHXKMH“If we’re in the same class, we’re friends, right?”dpH
WCQI took Sinia’s hand.Ol9aYG
yFHVIt wasn’t a white, delicate hand like those of the capital’s nobles, but that dirt-stained hand was, without a doubt—UCEbD
g4U3av“It’s a beautiful hand.”Ziwe
HYcV4“Huh? It isn’t. It’s rough… and full of calluses……”iWa0P
h5xWcD“That’s why it’s beautiful. It’s the hand that digs into the cold soil of the North and makes flowers bloom that heal people.”qNAEvX
mXfSJtAs if kissing the hand of a noble lady, I kissed that dirt-stained hand with the utmost respect.ZCR
FnT“What hand could be more beautiful than this?”1be0W
uvXspySinia’s face turned red like a tomato.km0c
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