Chapter 16
Translator: True Detective
Chapter 16. The Northern Grand Duke's Curiosity
“So.”
The time when Grand Duke Gayrad and Kalix talk again.
The Grand Duke asked Kalix.
“Since fighting Valadi. No, I should ask this first. Who won between the two.”
“The Young Lady won.”
“…This crazy. Did he match her Rank?”
“If not, it would be impossible for the Young Lady to win. Your Highness. Put differently, if it weren't for the difference in Rank….”
“Huh. Hahaha. Good heavens. Even just a few weeks ago, I heard that the Young Lady stayed in the castle and never went out in the Blaze Ducal Territory.”
Grand Duke Gayrad frowned and spoke.
“So. Doesn't that practically mean she properly grabbed a sword from the moment she came to the North. Dame Kalix.”
“Right.”
“But as soon as she grabbed a sword, she faced Nagagor, and saved my daughter.”
“Right?”
“Next time, she faced Iron Hammer Donota and left a scratch.”
“Right??”
“Now, on top of everything, the Seven Wolves, called the Wolves of the North, lost to the Young Lady and are all striving to teach her?”
“Right???”
“This crazy! What kind of bullshit is this!”
Grand Duke Gayrad immediately erupted in a roar of anger.
It should be something that makes sense.
It's only been a few weeks since she properly grabbed a sword.
Isn't the series of actions that occurred in that time absurd.
Looking at her track record, they are actions that only a swordsman who has handled a sword for decades would do.
“Huh. Hahaha. Dame Kalix. Enough, just bring Lady Blaze.”
“Yes? Right now all the Seven Wolves are clinging to her and making a fuss to teach her though? Even just me right now….”
“Enough, bring her.”
Grand Duke Gayrad frowned and spoke.
“Because I will check directly.”
And a little later.
Grand Duke Gayrad's office.
Grand Duke Gayrad let out a roar of anger again without realizing it.
“Why are you Seven Wolves coming all at once making a fuss!!!”
Grand Duke Gayrad ended up sighing heavily.
***
[This crazy. You beat me? Ha! Hahaha! Good heavens! You're overflowing with talent!]
[Try learning this too? Oh? You acquired this so quickly!]
[No, Young Lady! Good heavens! Just what is this talent!]
Elise, who suffered under the tyranny-like tyranny of the Seven Wolves for about 2 weeks, was secretly swinging her sword alone in the training ground.
‘I think it would be fine to tie the swords of the Seven Wolves into one and make it into a swordsmanship.’
Seven Wolves….
Seeing a fragment of the massive talent Elise possessed, they rushed in with their eyes lit up.
Even Elise was startled for a moment by that madness.
Although she quickly learned swordsmanship from their teachings and rather flustered the Seven Wolves soon after.
‘It's fine. It's very fine.’
Elise learned a lot watching the swords of the Seven Wolves.
In the past, during the days of Han Su-ah who made a name for herself as the Number One Under the Heavens of the era and the Plum Blossom Fairy in her previous life.
Although she mastered various sword arts, she couldn't come up with the idea of utilizing internal energy this freely.
Exactly this world is, how should I say….
It feels like the genre of swordsmanship is different.
Although in reality, the novel genre did transition from Murim to Romance Fantasy.
‘It's fun.’
The moment Elise swings her sword harboring the emotion that it is fun to the fullest.
“Young Lady!”
Kalix found Elise.
Along with her, the other Seven Wolves also found Elise.
***
“Groan…. Young Lady. I apologize in advance. Didn't the Seven Wolves bother you?”
“No. It was of great help.”
“If so, that's a relief, but…. Hoo. Anyway, I am sorry. I should have managed the Seven Wolves well.”
“It is fine. Your Highness. I will say it again, but it was really of great help.”
“That's a relief.”
While Grand Duke Gayrad nodded, the other Seven Wolves spoke.
“No! Your Highness! How could you see us only as a mass of nuisance! We are strictly for the talented Young Lady of the Blaze Ducal House! A decision to save the nation…!”
“Valadi! What decision to save the nation! The fact that you were the most negative. Do you think I couldn't hear!”
“No! What do you mean? This Wolf of the North, Valadi. Strictly for the future of the Latensio Empire…!”
“Your lip service has increased! Valadi Marchev!”
“Gasp! How could you even call my surname! This Valadi Marchev, is surprised!”
While Valadi, who likes checking facts, appealed his unfairness to Grand Duke Gayrad on one side, the other Seven Wolves approached Elise before she knew it.
“Young Lady. Young Lady. How are the things we taught you going well?”
“Ah. Dame Kalix. Yes. I acquired them well. Thanks to you, I learned a lot.”
“Wow! The Young Lady is truly a genius. A genius. To think you would master that in 2 weeks!”
“It is an overpraise.”
While the other Seven Wolves also laid out praises to Elise respectively, Grand Duke Gayrad approached.
“…Young Lady.”
“Yes. Your Highness.”
“You mastered the signature techniques of the Seven Wolves?”
“That is correct.”
“Huh. Hahaha. Young Lady. Regarding Duke Blaze, did he truly not know that the Young Lady was overflowing with talent?”
Elise hesitated for a moment.
What to do.
Originally, Elise's talent is strictly due to Han Su-ah's seasoned experience, but.
Naturally, it's a given that the Blaze Ducal House wouldn't know this talent, but.
‘Ah.’
At that moment, Elise thought.
Looking back, wasn't it also the Blaze Ducal House that didn't exactly know what Elise's Heaven's Mandate Great Yin Severed Meridians was.
Mm….
Come to think of it, it might be the Blaze Ducal House's fault.
“He did not know.”
“To think he is a person with eyes like knotholes like this…. Even though anyone can see it's an unprecedented talent.”
Phew—.
Grand Duke Gayrad, who sighed, spoke to Elise.
“Young Lady. That…. If it is not rude, how about we also lightly compete for a move.”
“…With Your Highness the Grand Duke?”
“Right.”
Grand Duke Gayrad looked at the Seven Wolves around him and spoke.
“These people. They are not ones to make such a fuss over ordinary matters. But I am curious about the Young Lady's skill that excited these Seven Wolves.”
Grand Duke Gayrad shrugged his shoulders slightly and spoke.
“I will match the Rank equally, Young Lady. How is it?”
A fight with the Northern Grand Duke, Gayrad Deltarch….
Elise recalled the words the Seven Wolves said.
So clearly Gayrad is….
‘They said he is at the end of the 6th Rank. That if he just had a clue, he might advance to the 7th Rank.’
If so, it will be a good match.
Elise immediately nodded.
“May I ask for a move.”
“Of course. I will also match my Rank equal to the Young Lady's.”
Grand Duke Gayrad spoke with an intrigued expression.
“Really. Hmm. I am also curious. Just what level is the Young Lady's skill….”
Elise smiled quietly and answered his words.
“You will have no time to be disappointed.”
“What? Hahaha! Young Lady, I am looking forward to it even more.”
***
“Brother.”
“What.”
“Brother Hardger. Hasn't something been strange since a little while ago?”
“…Tsk. Ravia, does it look like that to you too?”
Ravia and Yuric whisper to each other behind Hardger.
This moment when even the wastrel Yuric is seriously talking with his younger sister.
Hardger called Elise with his two hands gathered neatly.
“Young Lady! Do your best!”
Elise, seeing that appearance, gave a subtle nod and looked at Grand Duke Gayrad again.
Meanwhile, Grand Duke Gayrad, seeing the behavior of his child, put his hand to his forehead without realizing it.
“Oh my. My head. For the most proper son to suddenly have his soul sold to a woman….”
Elise, who heard those words, tilted her head.
‘…Elise's appearance is no joke, though.’
Objectively, Elise's appearance is not ordinary.
If I had to say, should I call it a sickly beautiful girl.
But recently, as vitality circulated in Elise's face, her appearance is in full bloom.
So Hardger's reaction was also understandable.
‘…I am terminally ill, so what is this.’
However, Elise ignored such a reaction from Hardger.
Not only has she not forgotten her identity as a man in her first life, but along with that, she is currently terminally ill.
Once the starting point of the original work arrives, it's like wearing a necklace with a bomb attached to her neck.
In the midst of that, she has no time to care about the courtship of others.
Elise lightly ignored Hardger's reaction and looked at Grand Duke Gayrad.
“Your Highness. Let's have a good match.”
“I am also looking forward to it. Lady Elise.”
Along with those words, Grand Duke Gayrad's blade was drawn out.
His weapon was exactly a giant greatsword.
It was a greatsword suitable for the swordsmanship passed down in the Northern Grand Ducal House, the Deltarch Grand Ducal House.
Clack—.
Grand Duke Gayrad looked at the light of the sword body.
It is sharp. Along with that, the appearance revealing the milky-white sword body is vivid.
If it is to this extent, it seemed they could compete in a good match.
‘Good.’
Grand Duke Gayrad looked at the sword body and then soon aimed his gaze at Elise.
Personally, Grand Duke Gayrad was also quite curious.
Elise Blaze.
Not long after properly holding a sword, as if facing Nagagor, one of the Seven Wild Monsters among the Northern barbarians, wasn't enough.
She also inflicted a wound against another Seven Wild Monster, Iron Hammer Donota.
Moreover, now she fascinated the Seven Wolves with her sword, huh.
He was curious about her sword skill that enchanted the strongest warriors along with the most powerful enemies of the North.
Indeed, what kind of appearance will she showcase.
The moment Grand Duke Gayrad anticipated, Elise recalled the swordsmanship she created through the Seven Wolves.
‘The name…. That would be good. Since it's the Seven Wolves of the North. Snow White Wolf Fang Sword.’
White wolves in the snow.
Because the teeth they reveal are sharp beyond compare.
Elise smiled recalling the seven moves derived from the signature techniques they taught her.
As Elise smiled, Grand Duke Gayrad also smiled softly.
“You seem to be enjoying it. Young Lady.”
“That is correct. Your Highness. Because this Elise Blaze. Has always been anticipating the moment to move holding a sword.”
“With a sickly body. Did you practice secretly perhaps. If not, did you even imagine holding a sword alone in your room. It must have been hard to do so in the Ducal House.”
As a spoonful of Grand Duke Gayrad's misunderstanding was added, Elise pondered for a moment.
How should I react to this.
No matter how much I think about it, the Grand Duke seems to think I possess an immense talent given by the heavens.
In reality, it is merely a fragment of the massive experience Han Su-ah of the previous life possessed.
While Elise pondered for a moment, Grand Duke Gayrad replied to the silence as if he thought that silence was also an answer.
“As expected…. It must be hard to speak. Duke Denar Blaze. Look at this terrible person. To not recognize the talent his daughter possesses like this and lock her in a room.”
“…Uh. Mm.”
Elise pondered again.
It's strange.
If it goes like this, it feels like Elise's father, Duke Denar, becomes trash somehow.
‘No. Because Elise was very sick, Duke Denar Blaze rather provided everything good for the body.’
To recover the body damaged from the Yin energy running wild crazily from the Heaven's Mandate Great Yin Severed Meridians, the efficacy of the spiritual medicines was all exerted.
So there is no efficacy remaining in the body, but still, the reason Elise was alive until now is thanks to Duke Denar Blaze.
However….
Duke Blaze recognized the short life Elise possessed, but could not recognize the talent of the physical body Elise possessed.
To think it is the best physical body to learn martial arts in exchange for a short life.
If it weren't for the possessed Han Su-ah, it would probably have continued to be useless.
While Elise was pondering how to answer, Grand Duke Gayrad spoke.
“You do not need to speak. When I go to the capital later, I will properly scold Duke Blaze.”
Oh my.
It seems it's already too late.
Grand Duke Gayrad was already seeing Duke Denar Blaze as a person with eyes worse than knotholes.
‘…Will it be okay?’
Elise was about to add a few words immediately but stopped.
Listening to Grand Duke Gayrad grumbling….
“Duke Blaze! I must give a punishment for making this child overflowing with talent wither in a room! Just you wait until we meet in the capital!”
Uh. Mm.
Looking closely, it wasn't even grumbling.
Elise softly added a word of apology to the father of this life.
‘I'm sorry.’
If Duke Denar Blaze knew these circumstances, he would have openly expressed his unfairness.
But it couldn't be helped.
Leaving behind Duke Denar Blaze who will feel unfairly treated in the future, the duel between the two began.
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