The Illegitimate Who Devours Weapons

Weapon-Eating Illegitimate Son Episode 26

Just as I know what the future holds for the students in other classes, I also know what the future holds for the students in Class 5.

‘Just because they’re called garbage dumps doesn’t mean they’re really garbage.’

These people were not without talent. In the first place, they were not ordinary people who were able to enter the cadet corps.

These were just guys who didn’t receive support, or didn’t have power… … and who repeated countless frustrations before being defeated by the wall of reality too early.

‘They’re no different from me.’

Guys who have nothing to do but try hard, guys who have to try harder than others.

That’s why these guys had no choice but to compromise with reality.

What these guys need now is not a warm word or motivation.

It was a spur to get me moving during that time of vague frustration.

So, this is what I mean.

“I will cut it.”

That’s what Benda said.

I said it with sincerity.

Words spoken with sincerity are bound to have power, and the students felt it too.

‘… … I’m serious.’

The cadets felt as if the air was stinging their lungs.

“You, come up.”

I pointed to the cadet closest to me.

“… …Why should I listen to you?”

The cadet spoke with a rebellious expression.

“Then run away. Don’t run away like you always did.”

“Just because we are direct descendants doesn’t mean you can say such insulting things.”

“It’s a noble thing to say something scary.”

“Ha, haha… …! Yes, good!”

The guy got up onto the stage in one leap.

“Put the pressure down!”

Before he could even declare the start of the fight, the cadet swung his spear in surprise.

It was an attack that could not be considered very fair. It was a blow that could hardly be considered particularly outstanding.

But that sight made me smile instead.

“It’s a little useful.”

I didn’t dodge the blow that was swung with all my might and stepped forward.

“… … !”

The cadets, who had expected to avoid or block it no matter what, were terrified.

Chae-ae-aeng!

As he stepped forward, he struck the spear’s edge with his sword’s edge.

He jumped over the swinging spear and swung his sword straight at the cadet.

“omg!”

The cadet quickly leaned forward to avoid the sword.

“Damn it!”

The cadet took up his proper stance with an indignant expression and began swinging his spear.

A quick series of attacks.

They tried to use the difference in weapon length to prevent access.

I swung my sword at the spear and dove into the cadet’s arms.

Snap!

The guy’s jaw turned as he swung his fist.

“Ugh, ugh… … !”

The cadet’s eyes widened at the attack and he fell to the ground. He tried to stand up again by leaning on the spear, but he continued to fall to the ground as if he was slipping.

It seemed like this was the end for this cadet.

“next.”

I put down my sword and looked down at the stage.

The cadets’ expressions were filled with shock.

* * *

The duel continued.

Even for a country like mine, fighting boys older than me in a series of wheel fights was extremely exhausting.

If I had used magic power, it would have been different, but I was fighting those guys with only my immature body without using even a single bit of magic power.

“Ugh!”

Another cadet has been defeated.

“Hoo, hoo… … next.”

I looked at Choi In-ha, sweeping away my sweaty hair.

“… … Are you sure you want to continue? If you do any further, you’ll get hurt.”

Choi In-ha’s expression was stiff.

The atmosphere among the cadets was quite different from before. Except for a few cadets who were taken to the infirmary, everyone had a tense expression.

“I told you. Next.”

Choi In-ha gritted his teeth.

“Then next is… … .”

bang!

Once again the sound of the gunshot echoed across the training ground.

It was only the first 8 times that the cadets were overwhelmed.

As I passed the 10th time, the cadets started spending more and more time with me.

The only time you can catch your breath is when your next sparring partner comes up.

No matter how thoroughly I trained, my body still had limitations in terms of stamina, and because of that, I would sometimes get hit by attacks.

Phew!

The cadet’s blunt weapon attack landed a clean hit on my jaw.

I staggered for a moment and my knees buckled.

“Hey, did it work?”

Rather, the cadet who had swung the sword looked more surprised.

The guy didn’t miss his chance and rushed towards me as I fell.

Flash!

But at that moment, he suddenly straightened his bent knee and tackled him.

“Oh, oh my!”

After rolling around for a while, I finally got on top of him and put my sword to his neck.

“… … I lost, I lost.”

“Whew, ugh!”

Swaying-

As I stood up from my seat, my vision started spinning.

I used the sword as a cane to support my body, and slowly stood up and said.

“next.”

Creepy-

The moment Choi In-ha saw the eyes hidden by the drooping bangs, he felt a chill down his spine.

It must have been hard for him to stand up after being hit in the chin, but Lee Cheol’s eyes were filled with flames like an active volcano.

‘This is just a cadet unit. This is just training.’

Choi In-ha’s eyes trembled greatly.

“Choi In-ha. Quickly call the next cadet.”

Even though he was completely battered and out of breath, he still said that with a confident demeanor.

Choi In-ha pulled out his sword.

“… … Now it’s the last.”

“okay?”

Even though he was pushed to his limits, Lee Cheol smiled.

“Come up. Choi In-ha.”

* * *

Choi In-ha climbed up onto the training ground with a stern expression and his sword hanging down.

Before the shout to start the duel could be heard, the swords clashed.

Chae-Ang!

The cadets watched the duel with bated breath.

Compared to the beginning of the fight, Lee Cheol’s movements became rougher and his movements became larger.

Although it was originally a versatile swordsmanship, it increasingly relied on trickery and improvisation.

Irregular, then irregular.

Like swinging a sword and then using your hands and feet, or clinging on and trying to drive someone to the ground.

There was only one reason for doing so.

‘Without even the time to launch a proper attack!’

Choi In-ha gritted his teeth.

The training time has already exceeded 1 hour and 20 minutes, and the rest period has not even been 5 minutes in total.

“Why on earth… why do you do that?”

Boom! Bang!

Lee Cheol didn’t even answer the question and rushed in again.

The match was a one-sided affair.

Lee Chul blocked it just in time, and Choi In Ha pushed forward.

However, Choi In-ha’s attacks never produce any significant results, and Lee Cheol succeeds in attacking by taking advantage of a slight opening.

‘Why are you doing such a thing? What do you expect to gain from such a trivial match with no rewards or anything?’

Even though Lee Cheol is an illegitimate child, he swings his sword in a way that belies the dignity and respect of a direct descendant.

As if the training grounds were a thousand-foot cliff.

As if his life was on the line.

“Huh!”

Boohoo! Whoosh!

No matter how you look at it, it was right for him to win.

But the one who actually succeeds in the attack is Lee Cheol.

What is the difference between me and that illegitimate child that led to this?

I couldn’t understand it.

‘No… … Actually, I know.’

The difference between myself and Lee Chul.

Fighting spirit.

Choi In-ha gritted his teeth.

The reason why I felt uncomfortable looking at that illegitimate child.

That was because the bastard had something he had tried hard to forget.

‘Me too… … I did that.’

I thought back to my two years of paid work.

No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t surpass the talented children of prestigious families.

If they had bad personalities and bad conduct, I would have hated them, but they were thoroughly educated from a young age and did not fall behind in personality, talent, or effort.

He changed his way of living because he had to live in this family in the end.

Living a life where you strive to achieve something is not a happy life.

Rather, I thought that doing moderate work and making moderate compromises was another way of life.

I thought that was actually realizing reality and growing up as an adult.

‘I knew it. I knew it was just running away. I just rationalized it as growing up.’

Scream! Bam!

Swords clash with swords.

Choi In-ha looked at Lee Cheol.

Was he that intense?

Did he really want to win that much?

Whether by surprise or irregularity, by deadly or dirty means… … was that the way you wanted to win?

Hwaruk-

Flames flickered from the ashes that had been deliberately left to die out on one side of the chest.

‘I don’t know. I don’t know. But… … .’

Now I know one thing I want to do.

I want to beat that cheeky bastard like crazy!

but.

Boohoo! Boom! Boom!

At that moment, Lee Cheol’s sword flew from the square and broke his finger.

“Ugh!”

Lost.

My whole body resonated with excruciating pain.

I had no choice but to drop my sword and collapse.

And then, as if declaring something, Lee Cheol’s voice was heard.

“I won.”

* * *

I looked at Choi In-ha, whose two fingers on the hand holding the sword were deformed and bent.

Then, with difficulty catching his breath, he spoke toward the bottom of the stage.

“Whew… … Take that guy to the infirmary.”

“It’s not over yet!”

At that moment, an angry shout was heard from behind.

“Ugh!”

Boom! Boom!

I barely managed to block the sword swung by Choi In-ha who suddenly rushed in.

‘Left-handed sword?’

He was holding his right hand, which had broken fingers, hanging down, and holding a sword in his left hand.

The eyes that had clearly been lifeless and dead were now burning brightly.

Choi In-ha, as if he couldn’t tolerate it, even changed the hand holding the sword and rushed at him.

“No, it’s over.”

But a match was a match.

No matter how tired I was, I wasn’t at the point where I could be attacked by someone swinging their sword with their other hand instead of their normal hand.

Bam! Bam!

He took advantage of the gap in the attack, struck the chin, and struck the right abdomen with the flat of his sword.

Choi In-ha stumbled and fell down.

“Just lie there.”

It was an attack that went straight into the jaw. When the attack landed on the jaw, the brain shook and the right abdomen hit the liver.

Beetle-

But Choi In-ha kept trying to get up.

When I finally lost my balance, I stood up, staggering like a drunkard, using my sword as a cane just as I had done before.

“It’s not over yet… … .”

“under.”

I almost burst out laughing without realizing it.

Choi In-ha’s eyes visible through her flowing hair.

It was the light I had been searching for in Class 5.

“Kwaaak!”

Choi In-ha kicked the ground and swung his sword.

I didn’t avoid it.

Choi In-ha, who had already lost his balance, swung his sword at a point one inch away from me and fell.

Choi In-ha squirmed for a moment and then fell to his knees.

‘He fainted.’

Although his legs were wobbly, he tried to keep his balance and looked down at the cadets from the stage.

And he grabbed the sword, which was already bent and had its teeth cut out.

“I lived each second as if it were an hour, and each hour as if it were a year.”

Every moment I took a breath was a continuation of intensity.

There were so many people in this world who were better than me, and so many things I could not do anything about.

“Who doesn’t know that it’s easy to live with moderate compromises? But if you don’t fight for your life every moment, you’ll eventually lose everything and end up rolling around in a field of filth. That’s why I fought every moment I could breathe. With myself and with everything around me.”

I know better than anyone in this world the sorrow of a loser and the miserable words that come at the end.

That’s why I couldn’t give up.

“Have you ever lived like that?”

He aimed his sword at the cadets.

A dirty and bent training sword.

“This is what they call a struggle.”

And in the end, I achieved and will achieve victory with that battered sword.

“You guys are just playing some half-assed game.”

Thud, thud-!

He hurled his sword in front of the standing cadets.

The sword, completely torn apart, fell before them with a dull thud.

“In this monstrous place, you’ll just get eaten in no time.”

* * *

After all the cadets had left, I leaned against the stage and caught my breath.

‘That was a bit too much.’

As soon as the training was over, I summoned my magical powers to recover my body, but because I had worked myself to death, my condition did not return.

After the cadets dispersed with the unconscious Choi In-ha, I sat on the stage for a while.

‘They’re better guys than I thought.’

At first, I was angry.

I almost regretted coming to class 5.

But they weren’t the ones who crossed over to a place from which they couldn’t return.

“You were too much.”

Then a voice was heard.

From afar, instructor Lee Jeong-ho was walking toward me with a stern expression.

“Were you all watching?”

“Yes, no matter how much I thought about it, I was worried so I turned away.”

It’s a good thing I didn’t dry it.

That’s what I thought. I would have continued even if I had stopped it anyway.

“There are four fractures and three children with damaged organs. Those children were not born with blessed bodies like you.”

“If you want to survive in the Sungmoo family, you have to know how to laugh off that kind of hurt.”

Lee Jeong-ho stood still and stared at me intently.

“All of those kids have their own circumstances. In-ha was from the Seungmu Hope Institute, but she worked incredibly hard. Yeong-ha came from a collateral line that was on the verge of collapse… … .”

“Instructor Lee Jeong-ho.”

I cut him off.

“Do I have to explain to someone who is now an instructor something that even the cadets already know?”

“… … .”

Lee Jeong-ho’s eyes trembled.

“It’s good to be a teacher at a young age and have passion, and it’s also good to be attached to the children. People like you are rare in Sungmoo, so you can be considered a valuable resource. You’re a good person.”

but.

If Class 5 was this twisted, Lee Jeong-ho should have taken on the role of a villain to fix it.

“Do your job properly. These kids are cadets of Sungmoo, not cadets from some other mediocre place.”

I’ve already had enough rest.

I slowly got up from my seat and headed to my room.

Lee Jeong-ho held his breath and looked at the back of his youngest son for a while, recalling what had happened not long ago.

‘What that friend Jang Wook said was true.’

-Jeong-ho. If you become a cadet instructor, you will probably run into the youngest master. Be careful of him. I saw the master in him.

Jang Wook of the Blood Tiger Corps. He was briefly in charge of the group training for the naming ceremony for this batch, and he gave this warning to Lee Jeong-ho.

‘Are you telling me to do my job properly… … .’

Lee Jeong-ho looked at his palm with shaking eyes and then suddenly clenched his hand.