Reincarnated as a Genius Prodigy of a Prestigious Family - Chapter 16

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Reincarnated as a Legendary Talent Genius of a Noble Family Episode 16

5. This is What Talent Is (3)

‘Are you abandoning the spear, Dane?’

This heartbreaking feeling as a devotee of the spear who always proclaimed that spears were superior to swords.

Duke Termion suddenly came to mind.

That damned brother of mine must have filled his head with nonsense. Otherwise, there’s no way he’d swing a sword after training so well with the spear.

Count Sogress was about to approach with his aching heart when—

“Huh.”

His sword-wielding posture looked incredibly familiar.

What was this?

How could a fellow who had never swung a sword before do this?

Even the aura he was emanating was no less than that of someone who had trained with the sword to some degree.

Swoosh! Whoosh!

No, considering it was a child’s body, it was even more than that. It was incomprehensible.

When on earth had he learned this?

Around age five? Or from books?

He couldn’t know for sure, but one thing seemed certain.

‘He has talent… in swordsmanship too.’

It was an absurd situation, but it certainly seemed that way.

Otherwise, there was no way to explain those sharp movements, footwork, and the swordsmanship forms he was displaying in his own way.

Did this make any sense?

He had never seen him hold a sword before, and he had never received instruction from anyone, had he?

And yet… such fundamentals and skill level?

Unless he was training in his dreams, this was impossible.

Or perhaps—

Even this was ‘talent.’

“Hehe.”

Count Sogress burst into hearty laughter.

He was curious about how he had come to learn the sword.

But before that, he needed to confirm one thing.

“This castle will be far too small for that child.”

The desire to keep his son in the castle for a long, long time, which he had held just moments ago, was gradually fading away.

With that level of talent, he couldn’t hold him back.

No, whether it was spear arts, assassination, magic, or summoning arts, showing talent in even one of these meant it made no sense to keep him confined to the castle.

He had simply been trying to ignore it until now.

But now that he was showing talent in swordsmanship as well, it seemed difficult to ignore any longer.

‘Did Duke Termion teach him?’

That made even less sense.

No matter how informal their relationship with Duke Termion was, he wouldn’t have taught him swordsmanship without saying a word.

“Duke. Have you arrived?”

In the midst of this, Herman approached and greeted him.

“Yes. Did you come out early?”

“The Young Master asked to come out an hour early, so we did.”

“An hour…”

“Shall I call the Young Master?”

“No, that’s fine. I should watch until he finishes.”

Count Sogress seemed lost in thought as he watched Dane’s swordsmanship.

After a while like this.

“Father, you’re here?”

As soon as Dane spotted Count Sogress during his training, he put down his sword and ran over. He seemed to glance at the Dragon Tale his father had brought, but only briefly.

“When did you learn the sword?”

“…”

“As expected… it’s talent.”

A nod as if he had expected as much.

Dane seemed about to answer something but closed his mouth again.

Count Sogress asked with a determined expression.

“Dane, aren’t you curious about the world?”

It was a sudden question from his father.

“Spear and magic, assassination, summoning… and now even swordsmanship. If I were someone else, I wouldn’t have believed that there was a child who showed talent in all of these things.”

Count Sogress continued speaking.

“Naturally, the world isn’t just this Count’s Castle. It’s full of things you don’t know, Dane. In Father’s opinion… this Count’s Castle seems far too small to contain your talent.”

Count Sogress was very serious.

With such outstanding talent, staying only in this Count’s Castle would be a tremendous loss for this child.

He realized that he could no longer hold him back out of parental greed.

That’s why he asked.

Whether he wasn’t curious about the world.

“I’m curious.”

And Dane’s answer was ‘yes.’

Very much so, at that.

How the world operated.

How far he could rise in the world with his talent.

Most of all, thoughts of what the battlefield and the world outside the Count’s Castle were like floated through Dane’s mind.

Count Sogress smiled at those words.

It was regrettable, but what could he do?

When his son wanted that.

“Good. Then from now on, we’ll need to prepare for you to go out into the world.”

Count Sogress held out the Dragon Tale.

“I brought this today intending to have you try holding it, Dane.”

“This is…”

“That’s right. It’s the Dragon Tale you grabbed when you were one year old and showed a reaction to.”

And he held out the Dragon Tale.

“Would you like to try holding it?”

Dane accepted the Dragon Tale without hesitation.

At that moment—

Hum hum hum!

The Dragon Tale reacted as if it had been waiting.

It was a much stronger reaction than on his first birthday.

Count Sogress stared blankly at the sight before bursting into laughter.

“Hahaha…”

Spear arts.

Assassination.

Magic.

Summoning.

And even swordsmanship.

At this point, he seemed like a genius of talent, and seeing the Dragon Tale’s reaction made him greedy.

The desire to make the talent for spear arts shine brightest among all those talents.

“I intend to properly teach you at least spear arts before sending you out, so prepare yourself.”

At those words foretelling harsh training, Dane nodded as if he had been waiting for this.

“I’m ready for anything.”

Count Sogress smiled warmly.

“Someday this spear will become yours, Dane. Until then, develop skills worthy of this spear.”

Dane gave an unexpected response to those words.

“I’ll develop skills worthy of Father’s teachings rather than Dragon Tale.”

As expected.

He’s my son.

The fact that I’ll have to send him away in a few years began to feel regrettable once again.

After being ‘caught’ with the sword by Father, I returned to my room and fell deep into thought for a while.

The battlefield.

That place was a frozen world.

Even when the front lines moved, my life didn’t change. Pitching barracks, cleaning weapons, eating tasteless food, heading into combat.

There were two ways to escape.

Discharge or death.

But I had nowhere to return to even after discharge, so I continued to stay there.

“Even then, I was curious about the world outside.”

But the fact that I’d have to return to the battlefield someday made me hesitate.

Having been born and raised on the battlefield, I couldn’t imagine living outside of it either.

I used to wonder while watching soldiers who rejoiced upon receiving discharge orders.

What would it feel like to return ‘home’?

Then when I met death and opened my eyes in a world completely different from what I knew… ironically, I became curious about the outside world.

How my talents, which I never dared to display outside the battlefield, would be used, how the world would accept me, what I could do in the world.

“Whether it’s the Academy or anywhere else…”

If my promise with Leila to definitely go to the capital was just vague before, now it had become somewhat more concrete.

Until now, I only thought about wanting to stay in this warmth for a long, long time, but Father’s question changed my thinking.

“Talent, huh.”

Honestly, letting this talent go to waste would be absurd.

So I resolved once again.

“Let’s go out. Anywhere.”

But with thorough preparation.

That’s when it happened.

“You’ve really made up your mind, haven’t you, son.”

Without me noticing when she entered, Mother was standing in the room.

“Mother?”

I bolted upright from the bed.

“Don’t misunderstand. I didn’t enter without knocking. You were so lost in thought that you couldn’t hear my knock.”

“Ah…”

Mother slowly approached and sat beside me.

Then she asked with a slightly wistful expression.

“Our son, you’re curious about what’s outside the Count’s Castle?”

Only then did I realize my mistake.

All my sisters had left the Count’s Castle.

They occasionally returned, but only briefly.

And once they married later, the Count’s Castle would become a place they’d visit only once in a while.

In such a situation, I was the only one left, yet even I had spoken about being curious about the world.

It felt like I had momentarily forgotten the preciousness of family that I hadn’t felt in my previous life.

“I’m sorry, Mother.”

“Sorry? Why, Dane.”

Mother gently stroked my head.

“Mom knows. How amazing and outstanding your talent is, Dane. Even if our son doesn’t want it, the world will probably want it.”

“But Mother, I’d be happy staying here for a long, long time too.”

Mother burst into laughter as if finding that adorable.

Mother’s green eyes were looking at me. The green eyes that my sisters didn’t inherit, but I did.

“If you’re born into the Sogress family, you must go out into the world. Of course, Mom would love for our son to stay here with Mom for a long, long time too… but I don’t think the world will leave it at that.”

Mother’s hand moved from my head to my hand.

“So go out into the world and do what you want to do, Dane.”

What I want to do.

Those words made my eyes light up.

“…I want to see the world. And…”

I gave the best answer I could.

“I’ll come back often and tell Mother about the world I’ve seen.”

Mother smiled more brightly than ever before.

“Thank you, Dane. Our son has such deep thoughts.”

The touch that pulled me into an embrace.

Buried in that warm embrace, I was spending a dreamlike moment.

But that was only brief.

“Then like your father, I should also prepare to send our son out into the world.”

Just like Father…

“I was originally planning to teach you tracking arts step by step, but I’ll have to start with methods of setting and avoiding traps as well.”

Mother added as if remembering something.

“Assassination requires quite various skills. Understanding the traps that exist in the world is important, and there are skills for tracking and conversely avoiding tracking, and skills for disposing of bodies too. Ah! That’s right. You’ll need to learn about human anatomy too. Depending on the thrust, you can silently assassinate an enemy with just a wound as small as a needle hole.”

I felt my mind going dizzy.

It was even menacing.

And why are there so many things, Mother?

“And um, there are also essential dagger techniques. Wait, since our son has talent in swordsmanship, will you learn dagger techniques well too? Anyway… Mom will teach you lots and lots, okay?”

Following Father, another round of harsh training was foretold.

Even overflowing talent is a problem.

This… should I not tell my sisters?

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