Reincarnated as a Genius Prodigy of a Prestigious Family - Chapter 292

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Reincarnated as a Legendary Talent Genius of a Noble Family Episode 292

187. A Light Contact Accident

The students outside the training area and Professor Esteranza were equally surprised.

In terms of shock level, their amazement couldn’t compare to Benatio’s.

“My goodness.”

“Did you see that? With just one sword strike…”

“Even Team 4, who had the highest expectations, barely managed to defeat it!”

“Dane Sogress… so the rumors were true.”

Exclamations erupted from all directions, and Professor Esteranza’s face looked like a collapsing tower.

‘He subdued the doll so simply?’

The doll is strong.

Thanks to its initial settings, even decent knights couldn’t subdue it instantly.

Yet he brought down such a doll so easily?

At this rate, the doll doesn’t even have time to learn.

Clank.

And the newly emerging doll met the same fate.

Slash, crack!

Two more dolls fell, and the additional two dolls met the same destiny.

A total of six sword strikes.

And six dolls had fallen.

“What in the world…”

The dolls are fast. So they counterattack and defend.

After all, to block attacks from Swordsmanship Department students, the initial settings had to be that way.

But as if mocking this, Dane sent all the dolls down in single strikes, and naturally didn’t look tired either.

The plan is a mess.

Dane isn’t struggling at all, and the mysterious freshman expected to become a burden has no chance to step forward.

On top of that, there are the reverent gazes of the Swordsmanship Department students.

“I knew he’d do that.”

Only Leila alone shrugged her shoulders with a face that wasn’t particularly surprised.

“You knew he’d do that?”

When a nearby classmate asked, Leila pointed at Dane as if it were obvious.

“He’s always like that.”

“What do you mean?”

“Just understand it that way.”

Meanwhile, when Dane brought down the eighth doll.

‘He’s much stronger than I thought.’

Benatio, who was practically seeing Dane’s swordsmanship for the first time, unconsciously gulped down dry saliva.

The Imperial Intelligence Agency.

An organization that gathers children without connections, filters out only the greatest talents, then raises them as skilled individuals loyal to the Imperial Palace.

Benatio had seen countless talents, including himself.

However, a talent like Dane was a first.

A fellow who’s 14 years old, no, approaching 15, has skills at this level?

It’s absurd.

By Intelligence Agency standards…

He would already be more than capable of performing dozens of missions.

‘Surely His Majesty the Emperor isn’t planning to put him in the Intelligence Agency.’

The Intelligence Agency performs all kinds of missions for the Imperial Palace.

Actually, missions like the one he’s currently assigned are very soft cases.

In reality, from assassinating key figures to infiltration, they see all kinds of dirty scenes during information gathering processes.

Therefore, one must be disposable at any time.

There’s no way someone of Dane Sogress’s status would be used in the Intelligence Agency.

‘Anyway, he’s impressive.’

In a pure swordsmanship match, could I win?

Well.

Rather than whether I could win, the important question would be ‘how many exchanges’ we could have.

“…”

In this situation, Professor Esteranza, who couldn’t handle it, ended the test.

“Stop.”

Afterward, Dane and Benatio came out of the training area.

Professor Esteranza barely managed to speak.

“The test is concluded.”

The mana supply to the Doll’s Domain was cut off, and Professor Esteranza hastily declared the end of class.

“This concludes today’s session. We’ll gather here again next week at the same time.”

He turned around pretending to be nonchalant, but trembling that no one could see occurred around his shoulders.

He was clearly flustered and angry.

Of course, regardless of that, Dane who came out of the training area gathered his things under the gazes of the Swordsmanship Department students.

“Dane, let’s go eat.”

“Yeah.”

And as he casually conversed with Leila, Benatio, who had missed his timing, fidgeted nearby.

The first person to sense something strange was Leila.

“Does that guy have something to say? He seems like he has something to say to you. Maybe he wants to become friends with you?”

“Then he’d speak up.”

“I guess so. Let’s go eat. They say there’s new tart at the student cafeteria.”

“Really?”

Dane brightened up and followed Leila out, and Benatio ended up being left behind after fidgeting and missing his chance to speak.

“Damn it.”

He missed the timing.

It was a golden opportunity to get closer.

Why did he do that?

At the very least, he could have just said hello.

Was it because he had just witnessed that overwhelming martial prowess?

“They said student cafeteria.”

There are still many opportunities.

But that doesn’t mean he’s leisurely enough to postpone opportunities that come his way.

It was when Benatio was taking his steps.

“Hey, freshman.”

Three shadows fell across Benatio’s face.

When he raised his head slightly, three people with quite menacing expressions were standing there.

Looking at the badges on their chests, they were three Swordsmanship Department seniors who had just attended class together.

“You’re a mid-term transfer student, right?”

Benatio answered for now.

“Yes, that’s correct.”

“Always end your responses with ‘Senior.’ Got it?”

“…Excuse me?”

“Is it because you’re a transfer student and didn’t receive freshman orientation? We’ll understand and let it slide just this once. Listen carefully. All freshmen in the Swordsmanship Department must respect their seniors without exception and maintain a polite, respectful attitude. Understood?”

Benatio was momentarily dazed.

What kind of obstacle is this all of a sudden?

But Benatio is a professional.

“Yes, I understand. Senior.”

“Good. You catch on quickly. So, your name is Benatio Grün? I’m not sure how you got in, but as a Swordsmanship Department freshman…”

“But I’m actually quite busy.”

He cut off the conversation immediately and started walking.

“Well then, I’ll be going.”

He didn’t forget to nod his head politely either.

Ah.

He almost forgot one thing.

“Senior.”

He was told to always add that word at the end of his sentences.

And so Benatio passed by the dumbfounded seniors and disappeared—

“That damn bastard, I wasn’t finished talking!”

The three Swordsmanship Department seniors who had been ignored by a freshman stood there stunned before exploding in anger.

Thanks to this, the other Swordsmanship Department freshmen who witnessed the entire scene thought:

An amazing fellow had appeared.

Though Benatio hadn’t intended it.

The tart was delicious as expected. They said it had figs in it, and whoever made it, the harmony of crispness and freshness was quite good.

Thanks to that, I devoured four of them in an instant from where I sat and left the student cafeteria.

“Dane, I have a liberal arts lecture, so I’ll go first.”

“Yeah. See you later.”

And after parting with Leila, I conspicuously looked back.

The fellow who pretended not to, but whose eyes met mine for a brief moment.

Benatio.

More precisely—

“He probably wasn’t originally an Academy student.”

That fellow who followed me all the way here from the Eastern Territory.

I thought he’d been quiet for a while, but here he appears again.

What could his intention be?

He seems to think he hasn’t been caught, but my senses are beyond what he imagines.

Thanks to that, I had to feel that fellow sitting right behind me the entire time in the student cafeteria.

Well, it’s not to the level of being annoying.

He’s just following me around.

Though I am a bit curious about his intention.

Anyway, if he went as far as transferring mid-semester to the Academy to follow me, there must be some important reason.

“I wonder if he’d talk if I grabbed him and beat it out of him.”

What could it be?

Where did this fellow come from?

A secret organization?

Or the heretical Trillion Church that I destroyed?

“Hmm.”

His skills look good though.

Well, I’ll find out later.

If he intended to harm me, he would have done it already.

“Dane, what are you thinking about so deeply?”

“Ah.”

Just then, Ernest’s voice came from beside me.

I stopped paying attention to what was behind me and answered.

“Just thinking. Are you done with your lecture?”

“Yeah. I had a major lecture today. I just need to attend the Archery Department lecture later and I’m done.”

“Are you going to do it properly?”

“Of course. Your big sister even made me a bow, so I should do it seriously.”

I chuckled watching Ernest pretend to draw a bowstring.

“But on my way here, I saw you looking back. Is something there?”

“Do you feel anything?”

“No. Not at all.”

“Then it’s fine.”

“What?”

Ernest tilted his head as if he didn’t understand.

It seems I’m definitely the only one who detected it.

At that level…

About the same as the former assassin with the codename Tuva who has now turned to my side?

No, maybe even better than that.

“Oh right, Dane. That graffiti from Karnas I mentioned before… I mean the map. Are you still looking into it?”

“I did bring some Arcana books from Professor Cross’s study for now.”

“Really? You said that each time you get a concentrate, you can read more words, right? So I was thinking…”

To work off my full stomach, I headed toward Bonia Forest while talking with Ernest.

“So you want to investigate it further?”

“Yeah. I analyzed it a bit more, and it really seems like there’s something to it. There’s no reason for Karnas to deliberately, deliberately make this kind of graffiti, right?”

Certainly, Karnas’s ‘map’ is intriguing.

In fact, didn’t I even take linguistics lectures last semester to decode it?

“Alright. Let’s look into it soon. I need some time to decode it too.”

“I’m so excited. It might really be an amazing discovery!”

Actually, I’ve already made ‘amazing discoveries’ several times.

If I revealed even one piece of the Arcana information I’ve discovered, it would cause an uproar.

Anyway, we arrived at Bonia Forest like that.

Though we’ve left various things here, the still empty training ground welcomes us.

“Dane, how about we properly build a training ground here? Like we talked about before.”

“Sounds good. When do you want to do it?”

“Hmm, after we finish the early semester stuff? Everyone seems busy right now.”

“Let’s do that.”

Good. Training ground decoration has been added to the schedule too.

We roughly found our spots.

“Dane, what kind of training are you doing?”

“Magic for me.”

“Then I should do reflex training with Chiron.”

Ernest said that while curling his thumb and index finger into a circle and bringing them to his mouth—

Whistle!

Chiron came running after hearing the sound.

“Puhihihing.”

What’s with this guy?

Why is he coming when I didn’t even call him?

“When I call like this, he understands it means let’s play and comes over.”

“Puheheheng!”

This guy’s in a good mood.

Well, whatever. They’re friends after all.

He’s a fellow with an amazingly good head on his shoulders.

“Take it easy.”

I reminded Chiron, then drew up my mana and looked for a suitable target.

What kind of training should I do today?

“Secret magic review would be good.”

It’s still just theory, but rearrangement based on theory is definitely something I can practice.

Somehow it feels like I’ve only been reviewing lately, but originally review is the most important thing in the world.

Hum hum hum.

After concentrating on rearrangement for about an hour like that.

Taking a brief rest, I turned my head toward Ernest and Chiron.

“Oh yeah! This time I’ll dodge!”

“Puhihihing!”

“Ugh!”

They’re playing well.

Still, that fellow Chiron charges at a moderate speed, as if he has no intention of hurting him.

He looks like he’s enjoying himself too.

But-

“Huh, Chiron?”

In the following charge, just when it seemed like Chiron would graze past Ernest, he didn’t stop and instantly accelerated.

In that moment, I realized what that fellow’s intention was.

So I reached out my hand toward the direction Chiron was charging and cast a magic spell-

Thwack!

“Ugh!”

A single scream was heard along with the sound of something falling.

“Wh, what?”

Amid Ernest’s surprised voice, I approached that spot.

As expected.

Just as I had sensed, that fellow called Benatio was lying there knocked down by Chiron.

While unconscious.

“Puhihing.”

And there was even Chiron beside him, pushing his head forward as if asking for praise.

“Look at this guy.

So he’s been watching while holding his breath for a whole hour.

Of course, I had sensed the feeling from before.

I just didn’t know he’d stay put for a whole hour.

“Dane? Wh, what’s going on?”

I briefly explained to Ernest who came running.

“Just a minor collision accident.”

Benatio Grün.

As far as I know, the Grün Family fell to ruin and disappeared early on.

For a child of such a family to suddenly transfer in mid-term.

I searched through the fellow’s belongings.

And I found one decent item.

“Chiron.”

“Puhihing?”

“Take this guy over there and dump him somewhere appropriate.”

“Puhing?!”

Ernest also asked in surprise.

“Dump him?”

“Yeah. That seems like the best method.”

Ernest stared at me blankly with a face that said he didn’t understand.

Right, that’s understandable.

He wouldn’t know that this fellow received orders from someone he couldn’t even imagine.

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