I Became the Male Lead who was Clinging onto the Female Leads - I Became the Male Lead who was Clinging onto the Female Leads chapter 17

17 – Time flows like water (2)

Another room in the girls’ dormitory.

Unlike Tina’s pure white room, this room, dyed in light pink, was Yerina von Bliss’s room.

She had a more formal personality compared to the other three heroines, such as using honorifics with everyone whenever possible, but that only came from home training to maintain the dignity of a nobleman in public.

If it’s a place where she doesn’t see others, like her own room, she will decorate her room in a girlish way according to her own taste.

With a huge teddy bear taking up one corner of the bed, I had nothing more to say.

The moment someone discovers this room, the high-class image you’ve worked hard on for a long time will be destroyed.

Thanks to her usual dignified behavior, she had no real close friends, and no students wanted to enter her room.

“Ugh…… It’s hard to die…….”

She was still sitting at her desk in her dainty pale pink nightgown, exploring her magic.

She was on the verge of breaking her head trying to study a field that was not easy even with her talent. She didn’t give up and continued her studies with gritted teeth.

Smart smart

Huh?

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What broke the flow was a knock heard in the middle of the night.

‘There is no one to knock on the door at this hour…… ?’

Yerin I swallowed her saliva and went to the front door. She was wary of entering a room full of her own taste. There was wariness in her eyes.

“Who are you in the middle of the night…… ?”

“It’s a baby!”

“…… Grandfather?”

The moment she heard that friendly voice, the wariness in her eyes disappeared in an instant.

It was Madrei, his great-great-grandfather.

From Yerin’s point of view, Madrei was a grandfather who had cared for her dearly since she was a baby, and a respectable wizard who had protected her family as an elder.

‘It’s nice to see you here… ….’

What are you here for?

Yerina opened the door. I saw Madrei with her hands behind her back.

He was visiting with a gift to see Yerina’s face after a long time, after finishing Tina’s private tutoring.

“Grandpa…… What did you come for?”

“What happened? I came to see her granddaughter’s face. I am sorry to hear you say that.”

Madrei made a sad face.

“Oh no, sorry! Stop being embarrassed. Please come inside.”

“Heh heh, thank you. Huh?”

Madrei’s gaze turned to Yerina’s pink nightgown.

“Your pajamas are so cute, aren’t they?”

“…… It’s embarrassing, so please don’t mention it.”

Suddenly, her face became hotter. I took Madrei inside.

“The pajamas are cute, but the room is also cute. How does that bear look bigger than me?”

“Please don’t mention it… ….”

“Heh heh, yes yes.”

After making fun of his granddaughter for the first time in a while, Madrey sat down.

Yeri I went to her kitchen and was busily preparing things.

Looking at the messy desk, she seems to be in the middle of studying, but she didn’t bother that her grandfather came and was eager to serve her customers.

There was nothing special about her appearance.

‘It’s been a while since I’ve seen her, but it seems like she’s gotten prettier.’

She said nothing about the pretty face she had seen since childhood.

She grew up receiving lots of affection from everyone in her family for her lovely appearance, but as she grew up, her beauty blossomed to the point where it was incomparable to her childhood.

‘If I get married later, I’ll have to put a fireball between my son-in-law’s forehead.’

If I don’t do that, I don’t think I’ll ever find peace in my heart.

A man who would seduce her pretty granddaughter and marry her would not be considered the same human being.

He’s just a heinous villain to be burned to death. The desire to live bloomed in a man who didn’t even exist.

“Grandpa, what’s wrong with your expression…… ?”

“Huh? Oh, I’m sorry. It reminds me of the villain I dropped from the cliff a hundred years ago, so I stopped without realizing it.”

When Ye Rina asked her worriedly, Madrey changed her face in an instant. To her granddaughter, he always had to be a benevolent grandfather.

“Don’t think like that, have a cup of tea.”

“Yes, thank you.”

Yerina sat down in front of Madrei.

Single

As he waited for a sip of tea, Yerina opened her mouth.

“Did you come after Tina tutoring?”

“I managed to understand. Tina has little time left after tutoring, so I brought a present to her granddaughter’s face.”

“Ah, you mean the box you brought next to you?”

“As expected, my granddaughter has an excellent eye.”

Yerina laughed awkwardly at her forced praise.

But the moment Madrei opened the box, her face turned into shock.

“That, that…… !”

“Did you find out?”

“It’s alcohol! It is also very precious…… !”

“Keep your voice down. Let the other students stop by.”

Yerina covered my mouth.

“She brought her granddaughter’s favorite drink, reminding her of Yerina, who would be struggling at the royal school. It is a 50-year-old marlene with more than ten gold coins in a bottle.”

“Marlan 50 Year Old…… !”

Yerina’s eyes shook wildly.

Her terms were not even though she had never consumed alcohol more than five times in her lifetime. Born as the daughter of the duke of Berwoods, she occasionally tasted the liquor that Madrei had secretly brought and poured, and she had recognized its sweet taste.

‘Even if you take just one sip…… The accumulated fatigue all at once…….’

The sound of her saliva running down Yerina’s throat echoed loudly. Her body was craving that drink.

“Ha, but I can’t. It’s against the school rules for a student at the Royal School to drink alcohol…….”

“Wouldn’t it be better if I didn’t get caught?”

“To say that it is okay not to be caught is demeaning… ….”

“Eh… ….”

Madrey made her sullen face.

“This old lady is 180 years old…… I don’t have a granddaughter to pour me a drink…….”

“That…… That…… !”

“I was wasting my life…… Life…….”

Madrey slammed the ground.

To think that an elder who had kept his family strong had such a sad face because of him. This was something that shouldn’t have gone beyond dignity.

“I’ll bring you a bottle opener!”

Yerina rushed to her kitchen. Madrei smiled heartily at the sight.

She’s on her way to get a bottle opener that can be opened with magic.

How embarrassing.

Her baby granddaughter was so pretty and innocent.

‘As expected, the son-in-law of the distant future must be killed.’

Even if she’s still alive until then, I won’t have any regrets.

Madrey, a nod to her great life goals, tipped her glass with Yerina.

And when the bottle is half empty.

“Grandpa…… Yerina is…… Magic is difficult…….”

‘I bought you a drink to see this.’

This is paradise, this is paradise.

Looking at her granddaughter, who became cuter than anyone else in the world if she only drank, Madrey smiled warmly.

‘These days, other grandpas have been training while cutting their bones when they’re old, hoping to win the first place.’

That was all stupid.

Just seeing her granddaughter with her borderline beauty tremble, this is heaven and paradise, but she goes up to the sky and becomes a god, so she goes through that hardship in the last years of her life.

Tsk tsk

Madrey had a great time with her granddaughter, feeling sympathy for her pitiful close friends.

Tomorrow is the weekend, so school is off, so her granddaughter should be okay with drinking a little too much.

“Grandpa…….”

“Yes, it’s Lina.”

“Learning magic…… How do you break through a wall? … ?”

“Just bring a hammer.”

“…… Grandpa, are you kidding me?”

Yerina puffed out both cheeks.

Madray was just heaven now.

*

When the night had passed and the eastern sky was bright.

The greatest swordsmanship family on the continent, Duchess of Luberta, has arrived.

“Haa…… Ha… ….”

She came running without a sigh of sleep, and her whole body was wet with sweat.

The silver hair that stuck to her face obscured her vision. She tossed her hair and entered her house.

“Princess, why are you here…… !”

“God, sweat all over my body, I’ll prepare a bath first… ….”

“It’s okay, it’s okay.”

The servants who saw Silin approached in amazement, but she bit them off and proceeded without hesitation. She did not come back to be treated like that.

She came to see her father and mentor, Drain von Bennett, to seek help with the sword’s growth rate being too slow compared to the past.

The reason why she gave up her comfortable carriage and ran (when she reached her stage, it was faster to run than to ride her carriage) was to go back after meeting her father for a short time called the weekend.

There was also an expectation that using mana to run for a long time would also be part of the training, and that it would break through the blockage. In the end, the biggest problem was time.

“Is your father in?”

“He is drinking tea in the garden.”

“Thank you.”

“Nothing at all, Princess…….”

Leaving behind the servant who bowed her head, Silin headed for the garden.

If it was another aristocratic family, it would be polite to wash one’s body and move forward in a neat appearance, but my father was a man who valued practicality more than such private etiquette.

So he became the continent’s best swordsmanship hero, and he must spread the reputation of the continent’s best sword to the whole world.

‘My father is determined, but… ….’

I’ll give you the answer though.

It seemed like he would faint at any moment as he ran nonstop, but it was more important to find an answer to the blocked swordsmanship.

Silin opened the door to the garden and she went inside.

Suddenly, the season had arrived in autumn, and red flowers were blooming profusely throughout the garden.

In the center was a white table set against red flowers. Two people were there.

It was Drain von Bennett, a silver-haired duke with a relaxed face, and a lady-in-waiting who poured tea beside him.

Drain was a man of silver color, which was in contrast to the red color of the shoes blooming around him, but thanks to his handsome face, the picture he saw was like a masterpiece.

Looking like he was in his early 20s, it wasn’t strange.

His age has already passed fifty, but his sword level is as high as the sky, and his aging is progressing very slowly.

“Hmm?”

Drain, who was holding a teacup, frowned as if he saw Sylin approaching me.

“What are you doing here?”

It’s almost awkward to speak with age from his youthful appearance.

Silin, who arrived in front of him before he knew it, bowed deeply to her.

“I risked rudeness to come to my father to ask for help.”

“There is no such thing as disrespect. Maid-in-waiting, go inside. I have something to talk about with my princess.”

The lady-in-waiting bowed her back and avoided her seat.

“So, what help can you ask me?”

Silin stood still and opened his mouth.

“A few weeks ago…… My skills have largely stagnated. It’s not like it doesn’t increase at all, but the realization doesn’t come as easily as before and the sword feels further away than before…….”

“Hmm.”

Let Drain drool for a moment.

“Did you say enlightenment is not easy to feel?”

“Yes… ….”

“…… In the first place, enlightenment doesn’t come easily, so how do you think that? It is a realization that can only come after having to look at the sword for as short as a few months or as long as decades. I have a feeling that you came to me with trivial concerns.”

“That is absolutely not the case!”

Silen, taken aback, raised her voice.

“I’m so frustrated that I can’t explain the exact cause, but…… She entered the Royal School, and her little epiphany often came to her. Thanks to that, my skills have also improved. But a few weeks ago, this feeling completely disappeared. It’s so frustrating…….”

“…… I see.”

It was not uncommon for my daughter to say such a thing.

Drain slowly chewed Sylin’s words and was silent for a moment before opening her mouth.

“It’s not that I don’t understand your frustration.”

“… ….”

“If you were in that state, it would have been perfect for learning the sword.”

“…… That’s right.”

“But unless I know where the condition came from, I can’t help much. I am not the sword god.”

“Yes…… That’s right.”

Silin, with a devastated face, bit her lip.

Drain clicked her tongue and opened her mouth.

“Still, I can give you an answer about the good times.”

“I will listen.”

“It is a chance, so to speak.”

“…… Giyeon…… You mean?”

“Yes. There are many types of giyeon, but the sudden heightened level of talent is also included in the category of giyeon. It is right to see that great opportunities came and went that you wouldn’t even notice.”

“Then is there no way for me to recapture that opportunity…?” … ?”

Silin speaks with trembling lips. Seeing his daughter’s pitiful appearance, Drain also shook her head in pity.

“It must be difficult.”

“… ….”

“Think that the days of luck that have come without you knowing are over. In the first place, your talent is not that low. It’s on the same level as me, so I’d say it’s high. If I keep working hard without resting, you will become the No. 1 Sword in the next generation. There is no doubt about it.”

“…… Thank you for your teaching.”

Is he doing something wrong?

Isn’t the training method wrong?

Silin came to Drain with such thoughts, but it was impossible to get her back to the same state as in the past.

“…… Let’s go back.”

Her body was exhausted after a long run, and her mind was tired. Silin leaned over her and turned her around and trudged back.

When she saw that rain-soaked sheep, even Drain felt pity for her.

But there was nothing she could do.

‘For a swordsman, enlightenment is a great thing in itself.’

A human who comes to enlightenment at any time.

If there was such a swordsman at the same age as Silin, she wanted to go to her first and take her as her disciple.

After she has grown up with all her heart, when she surpasses herself, she receives her enlightenment from under him and raises the level of her sword.

“There’s no way such a swordsman exists.”

Drain smiled and erased the nonexistent swordsman from her mind.

She couldn’t be there no matter how much she thought about it.

Even he, the greatest swordsman of the modern era, was a world where he was treated as a talent that would only come out once in a hundred years.