Surprising Even Breathing

21 – training ground

While classes ended early, I was walking around the academy and looking around the campus.

I went into the rest room dedicated to Demesis, which is said to have been prepared for me, and found convenience facilities such as restaurants and club rooms.

Students passing by were frightened when they saw me, but I was in a good mood.

Certainly fewer people have fainted in front of me since I got the tattoo.

I thought this was fine and enjoyed the scenery of the academy.

After the tour, I sat on a bench by the side of the road and stared blankly at the shrubs while thinking about what to do.

Usually in books about academy life, you spend your free time playing with friends or doing personal training.

It was normal to go to the training ground after the first class.

Since it seems like it would take a lot of effort, sincerity, and time to become friends with the kids in the academy special class, I decided to start with training.

Personally, I don’t think I really need any more training because I’ve been wrestling with Dragon Heart’s magic for 10 years and learning magic control, but that wasn’t the point.

I didn’t know if I would make friends at the training ground.

Isn’t it that a relationship was formed while training together with the original purpose of training?

Having gone crazy, I went to the training ground.

After looking at the map, I ran into Broa on the way to the training ground.

“Did you come to the training ground too?”

“Yes, yes?”

Finally, this is the way to the training ground.

I asked if she also came to the training ground.

“Then together… … .”

I was delighted to say that we should exercise together, but I saw her frozen face.

Come to think of it, exercising with me would be really scary.

It wasn’t long before she left a good impression in the classroom and her likeability rose, but there was no need to burden her.

It’s not too late to find a magic control item and slowly reduce the aura of intimidating others, and then approach it in a friendly way.

Having never made a friend in my life, I was wary of anyone who might become a friend.

“Oh, no. Let’s see what we can do.”

Even if she came to the training ground like me, she didn’t bother to go with me.

You shouldn’t put such a burden on her.

I first turned and walked to the training ground.

If I pretend I didn’t care and pretend I didn’t see it, others usually feel comfortable.

*

Broa, who had been frozen for a long time without being able to answer Demesis’ words, came to his senses belatedly.

‘No, why are you angry?’

The face of Demesis hidden under the hood.

He was very angry.

Did he make such a big mistake?

I shook my arms for a moment and trembled.

She didn’t know that Demesis’ expression was always in an angry state.

I took a deep breath, holding my breath for a moment, for fear of suffocating.

‘Then together… … .’

He was about to say something to her but hung up.

what was it you were trying to say to me?

‘Have you come to the training ground too? If so… … .’

I repeated what he had said.

Given the context, it was easy to infer the afterword that Demesis swallowed.

‘Let’s train together.’

Such words were expected.

‘Why are you training with me?’

Broa was momentarily confused.

If you train with him in an angry state, it means he needs someone to vent his anger on.

Coincidentally, Broah had a memory of being attacked at the entrance exam and was unable to fight back, and he also harbored resentment inside, so wasn’t he trying to punish her this time?

The training he hoped for would probably be in the form of sparring.

His true intention is to call her to the training ground and beat her up as revenge for the sparring he did at the entrance exam.

“Hee!”

Broa, who quickly guessed what Demesis was trying to say and how he felt, straightened his back.

Demesis must be blamed quickly.

Otherwise, her neck might twist.

The image of the Great Grizzly Bear that she had seen in class with its head turned was lingering in her mind.

*

Imperial Academy Training Grounds.

It is divided into several areas.

Private training room, multi-purpose field, training ground, magic laboratory, etc.

There are customized facilities for students.

I first looked for a comprehensive playground.

I wanted to see how other students train.

Dada da da da da da da da da da da chiik.

Students running barefoot on the playground with their shirts off.

The rest of the people lifting the exercise equipment from the side.

They were sweating in different ways.

“Huh!”

“Ugh!”

Some of the students who found me collapsed clutching their hearts.

I didn’t even look that way and asked one of the students nearby.

“hey. What’s the point of running on the field like that?”

“yes??? Yes, yes?”

Embarrassed, I asked the stuttering man again.

“Looking at it, it seems to go round and round along the round track, but what kind of training is that?”

When the dragonians were training, they didn’t run around like that.

Dragons with dragon blood from birth were already trained in skills and tactics, such as swordsmanship and rituals, because their bodies were perfect.

“Che, are you talking about physical training? Originally, it is to develop endurance and quickness while running like that.”

“okay? Anyway, is that some kind of training?”

“yes yes!”

The student who was asked a question answered with difficulty while kneeling and bowing his head.

Is this humane training?

I don’t know what it means, but anyway, since it’s called training to develop endurance or agility, I tried it once.

round and round.

I ran two laps along the track.

“Ahh!”

“Quaaagh!”

The students who were circling the playground, unaware of my presence, suddenly fell forward and fainted as the terrifying dragon wearing a gray cape and hood caught up with them from behind.

Other students who found me running on the playground also fell to their knees.

“I don’t know why you are doing this.”

I went back to the student who was answering earlier and asked.

I ran two laps along the track, but I don’t know what’s different, it just scares people around.

“Sin, sorry! Wrong! Help me!”

When I asked in a sullen manner, he was stunned and fell on his face and prayed.

Did you give me the wrong information?

It can’t be.

There was no way a human being so afraid of me would lie to me.

It’s a training that has meaning to humans, but it doesn’t seem to apply to me.

Having judged and understood that, I averted my gaze.

Large exercise equipment that students with rugged bodies were lifting while showing off their strength.

“hey. Then why do you keep listening to this?”

I found another student and asked, not the one who was insane from crying and praying.

“yes? Well, that’s strength training, lifting heavy equipment to build muscle and build strength!”

“To build strength by lifting heavy equipment? What is a heavy instrument, and how is it strong?”

“This, this is 200 kg. Even if you use magic, it is difficult to lift, and if you lift it repeatedly, you will gain strength!”

“… … .”

I looked at the balloon that the student described as heavy.

A thick iron bar with black rebar hanging from both sides.

He followed the posture of the other students and lifted the bar.

Shuuk.

I lifted the exercise equipment like they did, but I don’t feel any weight.

planning planning planning planning.

It’s a repetitive exercise, so I tried lifting and lowering the bar like they did.

‘Why are you doing this?’

Wouldn’t it be better to practice beating opponents with this bar?

I couldn’t figure out what effect simply lifting it would have.

“hey.”

When I looked at him with an expression of incomprehension, the answering student’s face became contemplative.

*

“What kind of training is this? If you want to practice bongjutsu, isn’t it right to strike down the opponent with this?”

The student who had just answered that it was a strength exercise opened his mouth when he swung the iron bar with rebars hanging on both sides and pretended to take it down.

“That, that, that, originally, even lifting is uh, difficult.”

“Is it difficult? Why is this difficult?”

I lifted the exercise equipment the students were holding all at once with telekinesis.

It wasn’t too difficult even though I lifted everything that could be seen, including rebars attached to iron bars, rebars hanging from lines, and rebars lifted using the principle of the lever, as well as exercise equipment.

At that moment, all the exercise equipment in the playground were lifted up by my telekinesis, and screams rang out from everywhere.

“Ughhhhh!”

“Sah, save me!”

“Oh no, Lord, kill me! We were wrong!”

It must have looked like I was threatening with exercise equipment.

All the students who were lifting the balloons and showing off their thick muscles were on their knees and praying with their hands together.

I had no intention of attacking anyone.

I didn’t know why this was training, so I just copied their actions, but the atmosphere on the playground was in a mess.

All personnel are trembling.

It seemed like there was no training at all.

So do I, and so do the students who exercise here.

I moved to another place.

I didn’t do anything, but everyone fainted as if they had been struck by lightning.

Battlefield.

It seemed that there would be no one to fight with me anyway, so I just passed by.

An opponent worthy of competing with me would have to be at the level of Duke Heylon, whom I saw last time in the imperial palace.

Otherwise, it wouldn’t even bother me.

private training room.

The other students peered into the training ground through the small square window on the door, wondering how to train.

“Huh!”

“Turn it off!”

When I peeped inside through the small window, the students who met my eyes immediately collapsed, and the students who did not see me looked back in horror and passed out.

I wasn’t quite sure what I was doing.

Should I wake up a fainting opponent and ask him?

There was also a risk of shock such as a heart attack if I hadn’t recklessly woke up a fainting opponent.

I’m sorry, but I went beyond the personal training room.

This is the Magic Lab.

Students wearing wizard robes brought common magic stones, artifacts, and spellbooks and were experimenting with various things.

It looks pretty interesting, but I don’t know much about magic theory.

If you want to mingle with them and use magic, you’ll have to learn magic first.

Right now, he didn’t feel the need and justification to learn magic.

After all, there was nothing to train in the magic lab.

So what?

I scratched my head in embarrassment.

I didn’t see anything in this facility that I could train for.

I had to find the training for myself.