Reincarnated as a Genius Prodigy of a Prestigious Family - Chapter 9

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Reincarnated as a Legendary Talent Genius of a Noble Family Episode 9

 

 

 

4. The Talented Genius of the Sogress Count House (1)

 

 

I slowly got up.

And I said to those guys.

“Get out of there right now.”

They frowned at my words and tilted their heads.

“What did you say?”

“I said get out of there. Can’t you see what’s under your feet right now?”

At those words, the tall one among them looked down at his feet and suddenly snickered.

“Ah. Grass? What’s this?”

“They’re flowers. Flowers that the gardener carefully tended to.”

“Flowers or grass. They’re just plants.”

He grinned as if it was ridiculous.

The small one next to him joined in.

“Is this bastard seriously giving us shit for stepping on grass?”

“Exactly. This is ridiculous. Hey. What are you? Are you getting angry at us just for stepping on some grass?”

“That’s right. We’re invited guests. We’re the sons of Count Tiren Family, invited to this castle!”

So they were guests after all.

“We are the children of Count Tiren. I am Digron Tiren, and here is my younger brother, Denar Tiren.”

Count Tiren…

Is this the same Count Tiren I know?

That noble who was defeated by me on the battlefield and taken prisoner.

“Even if you’re from a noble family in the southern countryside, you must have heard of the Tiren Family, which has a great reputation even in the capital.”

I remember Count Tiren being quite pathetic back then.

After finding out I wasn’t of noble birth, he absolutely refused to accept defeat and acted quite disgracefully, saying I used cowardly tricks or stole someone’s swordsmanship.

I wondered where that attitude came from, and it turns out the source was his father.

But I’m not sure about having such a great reputation.

“Our Tiren Family is a historic noble house!”

At least they’re not renowned for swordsmanship.

The tall one looks about 16 years old, and the other one seems similar to my age.

They’re young. But tolerating everything just because they’re young is ridiculous.

Especially if this is another noble family’s property, and they came here as guests.

But they really don’t know how the world works.

The south is quite far from the capital, but is our Sogress Count House really a family to be looked down upon?

“Brother. No matter how I look at it, he seems scared?”

“Well yeah. It’s normal to act like that just hearing the Tiren name. Hey! Since I came as a guest, I’ll generously forgive you this once. So just tell me the way out of this damn garden!”

Instead of answering, I quietly stared at them.

Then the guy called Digron suddenly started approaching me.

“Hey! Can’t you hear me?”

As expected, this guy won’t listen to words.

“Is this bastard ignoring me right now!”

Grab.

I glared at Digron’s face as he grabbed my collar.

“Hey, won’t you bow your head? Are you crazy. How dare a servant-like bastard glare at me! This crazy… Ugh!”

The moment Digron raised his hand, I headbutted his nose.

“Brother, hyeong!”

And I hid my body in the bushes I had spotted earlier.

Mother had told me.

The basics of stealth start with understanding the location.

Even if it doesn’t seem like you’ll need to hide, always carefully observe any place and find spots where you can hide in advance.

That’s the foundation of stealth, and following those words faithfully, I perfectly hid my body between the bushes that formed the maze walls of the garden.

“My nose, my nose! Blood, blood! I’m going to kill this bastard!”

“Brother! The bleeding first…”

Also, swift movement must be added to this.

No matter how perfect a spot you find, if you hide at a speed slow enough for the opponent to notice, it’s meaningless.

“Let go! But where did this bastard go!”

“He, he was just here!”

As a result of these combined teachings, they couldn’t find me at all.

Of course, the fact that this garden is my territory also helps.

“Find him! Right now! I’m going to kill him!”

Does he have anger management issues or something?

He started the trouble first, and now he’s this angry just from getting his nose hit?

If you’re going to hit someone, you should be prepared to get hit back.

That’s the rule of fighting, and furthermore, it’s a principle that applies to war.

However, it seemed like he had lived only by the rules of a world where he always looked down on others, rather than such principles.

“Where did this bastard go!”

I moved only after confirming that they had passed by while I was hidden in the bushes.

“Split up! Go this way!”

“Ah, got it, brother!”

And the moment one of them separated, a brilliant idea flashed in my mind.

The mana flow I had mimicked earlier.

If I can mimic the flow at will, couldn’t I also compress it to have tangible force?

It was a hypothesis, but worth trying.

If possible, even without great power, it would be enough to teach these guys a lesson.

I concentrated mana in my hand from between the bushes where I had newly hidden.

“It works.”

I confirmed that the mana was compressed into one and gradually taking shape.

I can’t believe this actually works.

“What was that sound from here…”

And the moment the younger brother headed toward a completely wrong direction, different from where I was hiding, showing his back.

Ting.

I shot a bullet compressed from mana flow from my hand.

“Ahhh!”

A scream burst out as it exploded on his buttocks.

He fell forward and buried his face in the bushes, ending up in an unsightly position with his buttocks up in the air.

“Mmph, mmmmph!”

He struggled and eventually got out, but his face and clothes were a mess.

He looked around with a confused expression, but how could he find me?

“Bro, brother! Brother! The, there’s something here!”

I wanted to go kick him, but I endured it. Because I would soon have to deal with the guy called his brother.

I quietly compressed mana flow in my hand again and waited for Digron to come.

“Denar, what happened!”

“So, someone just kicked my butt…”

And the moment he appeared, fuming.

“Come out right now! I’m going to kill… Ugh!”

The second mana compression bullet flew and hit Digron’s buttocks.

Ah.

Did I aim wrong?

It seems it hit between his cheeks rather than the buttock itself.

“Grraahhh….”

I deliberately ignored the rising pity I felt.

But that was only momentary.

He shouted with vicious spite, making my pity seem pointless.

“I don’t need any of this! I’m going to kill you!”

And then something unexpected happened.

“Answer my call!”

He was a summoner like Little Sister.

Though he doesn’t seem to be as much of a genius as Little Sister, who summons wyverns at 16….

“Grrrowl.”

That wolf-like summoned beast looks violent enough to be completely out of place in this beautiful garden.

In contrast to its black fur, the creature with white fur on its forehead was baring its sharp teeth.

Had he gone crazy, or had I provoked him too much?

What’s certain is that this summoned beast ‘Gendpu’ is ferocious enough to instantly destroy the well-maintained garden bushes.

“H-hyung!”

“Shut up! This damn… How dare you mock me, Digron Tiren, like this? If this were our family house, I would have killed you on the spot!”

He commanded with a face twisted in rage.

“Gendpu. Find him by scent right now!”

I fingered the short spear strapped to my back.

The thought that just came to mind was Father’s technique.

With that, I was confident I could subdue him in one swift move before Gendpu could find and attack me.

Good.

“You bastard. You can’t hide anymore!”

But the solution came from an unexpected place.

Sniff, sniff.

It was when I was about to draw my short spear and Gendpu, who had found my location, made eye contact with me.

The moment he spotted me among the bushes and our eyes met, he stopped for a moment.

Then he glared at me….

His tail drooped down.

“Whine, whine.”

Then his tail began wagging left and right, and he found me among the bushes.

And he started licking my hand with his tongue.

“Wh-what!”

That seems like the reaction I should be showing.

What’s going on?

I tentatively reached out my hand.

Rather than shrinking back or being wary, Gendpu brought his head closer.

“That’s right, good boy.”

I walked out of the bushes while petting Gendpu’s head.

“Pant, pant.”

Wagging his tail while licking my hand and rubbing against my cheek, he was exactly like a puppy.

“Haha. You like it when I scratch your chin?”

Only then did I recall how the summoned beasts that Little Sister often summoned were particularly friendly toward me.

In those cases, I think it was because they smelled something familiar on me, a kind of blood relationship.

After all, they weren’t summoned with hostility or intent to attack enemies.

But in this case, where there’s no blood relation or anything….

“Y-you, what are you! H-how is Gendpu….”

“Well. I can guess how you usually treated your summoned beast.”

Probably, this happened because his intimacy level was rock bottom.

“That’s impossible! How can a summoned beast betray its master!”

It’s possible.

The intimacy between him and his summoned beast seemed to hit rock bottom.

In contrast, my natural intimacy with summoned beasts is at an incredible level according to Little Sister.

The result of these two factors combined.

“Did you usually hit this guy or something?”

“Whine, whine.”

Probably something like that.

Digron looked like he had lost everything in the world.

I shrugged my shoulders and replied.

“It seems like your summoned beast likes me more than you.”

“That’s impossible….”

But how did that happen?

I mean Gendpu’s action of lowering his tail when our eyes met.

It was like….

Should I say it felt like he instantly lost his fighting spirit?

I should probably ask Little Sister about it to be sure.

“Want to continue?”

I asked the guys.

No answer was going to come back.

“Grrrowl….”

As if reading my emotions, Gendpu turned his head to the other side and growled low.

“Hyung….”

“B-be quiet! I’m going to dismiss the summon right now!”

“Hyuuung….”

“I told you to be quiet… Wh-what is this smell!”

I held my nose at the spreading odor.

“Waaahhh!”

Ah.

Not only stepping in it, but peeing himself too.

I very kindly gave directions.

“By the way, the bathhouse is on Basement Level 1 of the main castle.”

“You bastard… You’ll regret this!”

I’ve never seen anyone who says things like that actually make someone regret it.

I chuckled watching the two of them run away in a hurry, even forgetting to dismiss the summon.

“Whine, whine.”

“Haha, you.”

I felt amazed anew as I petted Gendpu’s head.

To think that I, who haven’t even tried summoning once yet, would suddenly be handling a summoned beast like this.

Though it was a coincidence of various factors overlapping, it was clearly established that I can handle summoned beasts.

“I wonder if Little Sister would be incredibly happy to know?”

But what about this Gendpu?

It will naturally be dismissed over time, but I can’t just wait indefinitely.

This is a garden where people frequently come and go.

“Should I try?”

After much thought, I recalled one method from the theory Little Sister had told me.

“She said it’s important to cut the link with the summoned beast.”

For summoners, dismissing a summoning is just as important as summoning itself.

Cutting the link at the right time and appropriately conserving summoning mana was said to be the quality of a good summoner.

But Gendpu and I aren’t linked.

He’s linked with that guy who ran away earlier with his pants-wetting younger brother.

“What if I take him as mine?”

I looked closely at Gendpu.

Then I discovered something like a very faint thread extending from his head area toward the direction Digron had just fled.

That’s it.

“Traces of the link.”

My magical affinity is so high that I can even see something like this.

Considering how mages and summoners struggle with all sorts of methods to grasp mana flow, I’ve really received a great blessing in terms of talent.

“Good.”

I carefully overlaid my mana onto that faint thread of mana.

Then the straight thread split into two branches, with one end connecting to my side.

“It’s incredibly simple.”

With this, I became connected to Gendpu.

“Kying, kying.”

The creature rubbed against me even more affectionately than before.

He was almost pouncing and licking me, so I could only examine the thread of mana after barely managing to pry Gendpu off.

The thread of mana that had split into two branches now had only one remaining, connected only to me. And I immediately felt mild dizziness.

“Mana keeps draining out.”

Little Sister had said so. The amount of mana consumed by summoning arts is at a considerable level.

Simple summoning isn’t a big problem, but maintaining it is actually the measure that distinguishes a summoner’s skill.

That said, having a large amount of mana alone isn’t enough. Should I say that using it efficiently is important?

I was the same way. I was maintaining a summoned creature without even trying summoning arts once. To use an analogy, it’s like running without even walking first?

“Still, it seems like I can maintain it for quite a while?”

But unfortunately, it seemed I should send him back now. I couldn’t keep such a scary creature in the garden continuously.

“Kyiing…”

I heard that summoned creatures instinctively read their summoner’s mind, and it must be true. Gendpu licked my hand as if telling me not to go.

“Sorry, let’s meet again next time.”

I petted Gendpu’s head while naturally cutting the thread of mana.

Then Gendpu gradually became transparent and soon disappeared. The spot where those eyes full of regret had been seemed to shimmer.

“If I summon Gendpu next time, will I be able to see this guy?”

I’ll have to ask Little Sister later.

Anyway, who would have thought that just having high affinity would allow me, who hasn’t even tried summoning arts once, to do something like this.

Next time, I thought I might try attempting summoning altogether.

Of course, I haven’t even received the essential code yet.

“It’s here, Father!”

“Damn! Why is this place like a maze!”

“That’s what I’m saying! We’re almost there now!”

Then a commotion arose from one side of the garden.

Shortly after, Digron, who hadn’t even wiped his nosebleed properly, appeared with a man who seemed to be Count Tiren.

Hmm.

He seems to have gained more weight than when I captured him as a prisoner.

Peace is indeed good.

I quietly watched Count Tiren approaching.

Then he came before me and tried to make a scary expression.

“I am Mogard Tiren, head of the Tiren Family in the capital and master of Tiren County.”

It was a voice trying to contain as much dignity as possible, but his fat-laden throat wobbled, making it not very dignified.

“Though I tried to endure and overlook it as much as possible as an invited guest today, I couldn’t stand it any longer after hearing that you made my son’s face like that and even forcibly stole his summoned creature, so I came all the way here.”

Count Tiren asked me.

“You brat, reveal your identity.”

I answered.

“I am Dane Sogress, youngest son of Count Aken Sogress, master of the Southern Region and head of the Sogress Count House.”

At my answer, Count Tiren’s face contorted.

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