─ Maybe I was the stupidest.
"Nate, it's time to get ready." You want to go home soon, don't you? "
"Shit! I was almost at Jeanne's!!"
In a room in the dormitory, I panicked at the voice that had been hung on the way to immersion in the work.
Looking at the clock, it was fifteen minutes to work. While I'm working, it's fine if I want to spread it out in the room, but it's a hassle to take time to clean it up. Moreover, since the column says, "Make it cleaner than when you used the room," you should definitely not miss leaving it in a mess.
When I first started hurrying to drop all my luggage into the backpack, I noticed the back of the column. Even though she said yesterday that she had little help, she was quick to lock the windows and sweep today.
As soon as I thought about it, I remembered my own legs.
I was found injured during the daytime today. For the injured person, he kept filling his backpack with tools in an unnoticed manner, wondering if the knight was also kind.
After cleaning up, I was able to leave the dorm a little earlier than the time when the column did the check-in procedure.
─I hated being annoyed, and I didn't believe the knights with the guards.
"How far is your house?"
"I don't care!" Besides, just give me my backpack! "
I stretch my hand to the brain muscle that followed me to the school gate, not to the dormitory.
As soon as I finished packing, I was robbed of my backpack again. I told you to give it back, but you still haven't returned it.
Some things are important, and Jeanne told me that he knows my special abilities, and maybe he's not going to steal my backpack like this.
Jack was angry, but this guy, Brain Knight, was enough. If you're confiscated like this, your uncle will kill you today. Yesterday, I was beaten in a good way, and if I came today, I would definitely be in a bad mood.
My leg hurts, so I can't jump into the knight's hand, and I can't kick. I can only yell at the foot of the Brain Knight, and I desperately stretch my hand. Even so, if the backpack was carried by one arm at the shoulder position, it would not reach me.
After I said I'd give it to you right away, the backpack was finally unloaded. As I immediately put the rope on my shoulder, the brain muscle that turned in front of me crouched with one knee on its back.
“I'll walk you home. Those painful feet will slow you down."
That's what she said, and she doubted her ears.
Oh, my God! That said, no matter how many times I say it, the column won't stand up with its back pointed, and I'm confused and troubled because it's true that my legs hurt. If your uncle were here today, you'd be killed for being late. Besides, I left home more than an hour earlier this morning, but I arrived at school about 30 minutes earlier than usual. Then it'll definitely take some time to get home.
─I hated the column because it was the most persistent and annoying of teachers.
"You probably want to go home early." It's good to carry the backpack on your back, but it's better not to force it on your legs too much. "
My uncle didn't want me to be beaten, and I was ashamed to borrow the knight's back, so I shook my head.
But after all, I didn't like the pain of being beaten, so I clung to the brain muscle knight's shoulder with my hands. When I found out that I was on board, I said, "Well, I'll get up," and my brain muscles stood up lightly.
Every time I'm caught in an empty classroom, Luc and I are carried lightly. If negative, my gaze will rise, and I wonder if this is the height of an adult's gaze. My dad made me feel bad, but that was the last time I was in debt to my uncle.
I was embarrassed and disgusted like a─kid, but... I just wanted to cry.
"... a good boy."
"Are you trying to say 'hypocrite'? If that's what you want to say, it doesn't matter, but... this is a matter of course, not of" good "."
I'll never say thank you. The words I said while thinking about it were also corrected as usual.
I tried to squeeze my neck and put my strength into the arm I spun around, but it didn't scare me at all. I think that this kind of hardware seems to be the same as the guards at that time.
I just look down on adults and laws and hard words. Just wearing a great-looking uniform makes me think it's better than us. I don't think I hate all the knights, unlike the guards, but I hate him for the time being.
I don't think it's right to tell you everything while telling you the direction to the house. He's on good terms with Jeanne, and if I tell him where he is, he'll find out. So Jeanne and the others thought it stupid to come home, and if your uncle found out, he would definitely be killed. He won't be able to protect Jeanne forever.
Then, when I thought about deception in the neighborhood like I found out which house.
"If you want me to help you, I'll do my best."
I couldn't say a word.
Not only the legs, but also the belly mole was seen, so maybe that's why I found out. He knows I'm being beaten up by my uncle.
I stopped breathing and my heart stopped moving once. I didn't know how to blink myself, and my strong arm kept tightening on my shoulders... for a moment, I thought I'd really help you here.
I only expected for a moment that the guard didn't believe me. Still, the next thing you know is your furious uncle's face and fists.
I ate and tied up so much that the sound leaked out, and I trembled to my chin. The brain muscle turned around to see the sound of his teeth, so he turned away and buried his face on his back. The narrow voice I tried to say back in order to mislead them became thinner than I thought.
"...... as a knight...... or because I work at school now......"
"Both. As a knight and as an instructor, I will help you."
Please help me.
"You can trust Jeanne and the others more."
... a voice came out from the front of my throat.
Without hesitation, my legs wrapped in a bandage hurt extra. Squeeze your shoulders into your hands and cling to your adult back. Neither the words of Column nor Jeanne are now desperately out of reach to withstand the things that drift up my throat. I rubbed my eyes against the mighty regimental clothes and let out a little heat.
Almost there. Almost there. If you put up with it a little longer and complete your invention, you'll be free to go without asking for help.
You can sell your invention to a merchant that Jeanne introduces you to, and save a lot of money and give it back to your uncle all at once. Just a little more patience.
─... I was actually trying to deceive you somewhere in the neighborhood, like the house was out of sight.
"Until my leg heals, I'll send it to you in the future." If you want to talk about something, just let me know anytime. If you don't have a school day, you can come to the Knights' Practice Range. ”
"...... I wonder if a common people like me can enter the castle......"
"If I didn't have to run errands, I would." But if you're asking for help, that's fine. At least if you name me from the castle gate, you'll get the right level of requirements. "
"Even a kid like me will definitely be paid at the gate..."
"Neither children nor adults are involved. The knight rushes to the people who need help."
It was boring... and the story went on.
All the sermons and whispers on the column were long and hard, and I was annoyed, but this time I listened to them properly. Instead, he kept his mouth shut.
When I said it, it was the words I had decided not to say next time, because the sharp voice seemed to come off.... if Jeanne's invention doesn't sell well, it doesn't make much money, and she can't make a living like this with her uncle, then I thought I'd rely on her about once.
─Someday, really. I hope you can come and help me someday.
Well then, Nate, don't be late tomorrow, but don't just push yourself.
In the end, it was dropped off in the column right next to the back of the house.
I nodded back to the column that whispered annoyingly until the end and drove it away. I couldn't even turn my back on him until I couldn't see him, so I stayed awesome for a while instead of going into the house.
I can't see, and I feel relieved, and at the same time, I feel lonely and scared. That back was safer and more relaxed than the school.
When I finally put my backpack back on and turned to the front of the house, my bandaged legs didn't hurt any more than they did yesterday. Open the door and say "I'm home" to a room where my dad and mom are gone, as usual.
Okari
Dragged in, beaten up.
I was drawn back to reality before my uncle's fury.
Somewhere in─my heart... I was expecting it.