The Reincarnated Assassin is a Genius Swordsman

s… b-because you stole my power!

‘But you said that’s not much compared to what you have.’

……

‘Wrath?’

Wrath crawled back into the bracelet, remaining silent—as if he were sleeping.

‘Anyway.’

Suppressing his laughter, Raon stood in front of Glenn.

“Greeting my lord!”

Raon grasped Yua’s trembling hand next to him and lowered his head.

“G-Greeting my lord!”

Dorian greeted him one step later, but Glenn didn’t mind it and waved his hand to order them to stand.

“Report everything that happened after you left.”

“It will be a rather long story.
Is that alright?”

“It’s fine.
I need to listen to what you’ve done for the past year and decide on your graduation.”

“I see.
Then I’ll first talk about Cameloon, which we visited first.
We went there…”

Raon stepped up and explained everything that happened so far.
Of course, he skipped the part about his theft and the meeting with Sloth, and modified a few incidents accordingly.

“…And finally, I had a spar against Commander Milland before returning to the house.”

“How did the spar against the commander end?”

“I lost.”

“I know you lost.
You are one hundred years too early to defeat him.
Did the commander use astral energy?”

“Yes, he used it in the end.”

“Hmm!”

“Huh…”

Rimmer licked his lips in satisfaction and Roenn exclaimed in admiration.

“……”

Glenn was just staring at him with usual indifferent eyes.
He said that he would judge them, but he didn’t seem interested in them at all.

“Is she the girl that Eden was targeting?”

“Uhh.”

Glenn’s gaze was directed at Yua for the first time.
Yua’s hand was trembling violently from that pressure.

“Yes.
Considering the fact that they targeted her twice in order to make her wear the Siren’s mask, they seem to be rather obsessed with her.”

“Siren, huh…?”

Glenn lowered the overwhelming pressure that he automatically emanated.

“What is your name?”

“Ah…”

Since it became easier to speak, Yua slowly opened her mouth while tightly gripping Raon’s hand.

“Y-Yua! I mean, my name is Yua!”

“Hmm.”

Yua unconsciously replied in a loud voice.
Glenn turned his head towards Roenn after hearing her.

“She does indeed have it.”

Roenn nodded with trembling eyes.

“Her voice is imbued with spiritual power.
I’m guessing her upper energy center was accidentally opened…”

“No, she was born with it.
It’s an extremely rare talent.
I can understand why Eden was targeting her.”

Glenn erased his pressure completely, to that of a normal person, and met Yua’s eyes.
His red eyes seemed to have checked everything about Yua as they shone brightly.

“What are you planning to do with her?”

“I’m thinking about having her live in the annex building with us, and…”

Raon closed his eyes, then opened them as he continued.

“I’m going to teach her swordsmanship, since she wants to get stronger.”

“Don’t teach her the sword.”

Glenn adamantly shook his head.

“The path she needs to follow isn’t the sword, but sound.”

He gestured with his chin, and Roenn stepped up from his right side.

“Learn how to use sound from Roenn in the future.”

“W-Wait! But Sir Roenn is…”

Roenn was certainly a good person, but he must’ve been an assassin working behind Glenn.
He didn’t want to teach Yua assassin techniques.

“Roenn has some expertise in sound.
What you are worrying about won’t happen, so rest assured.”

Glenn shook his head, as if he had already read his thoughts.

“Sound…”

Roenn was a warrior that was capable of completely concealing his sound at a point-blank distance.
Since he knew how to erase sound, he apparently also knew how to make sound.

“I hope we get along in the future.”

Roenn smiled gently at Yua and Raon, trying to relieve their worries.

“Ah, yes!”

Yua quickly nodded, feeling more comfortable with Roenn’s gentle expression than Glenn’s.

“And I’ll ask one last question.
Why were you so late?”

“It’s not anything special.”

Raon looked at the flustered Dorian and Yua next to him, then continued.

“We went to visit a city to refill the supplies, including fruit.”

They visited a city before coming back, since Yua wanted to buy some ingredients in order to treat Sylvia with some tasty food, and Dorian wanted to refill his belly with fruit and some other objects.

“F-Fruit?”

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“Supply refills?”

Rimmer and Roenn became dumbfounded upon hearing the ridiculous reason.

“So, you were late because you were buying fruit.
What a pathetic reason, just like your teacher.”

Glenn looked at Rimmer and frowned.
His cold eyes were scolding Rimmer for teaching him like that.

“My lord! I can’t accept that! I’m fine with you insulting my student, but I won’t stay still after you insult me!”

Rimmer violently shook his head, asking him to cancel what he just said.

“…You are insane.”

…He is still insane.

Glenn and Wrath appeared to have the same thought, as they spoke out the exact same word.

“So that’s what happened with them.
Did you also waste your time buying fruit?”

“I emptied my mind during that time.”

“Emptied your mind?”

“Yes.”

Raon slowly closed his eyes.

“After the spar against Commander Milland, no, after the Ten Thousand Flames Cultivation’s rank increased, the mental image was drawn in my head.
I could imagine different futures that would allow me to get stronger, such as swordsmanship, footwork, and cultivation techniques.”

“So, what did you do?”

Glenn’s eyes sparkled for the first time upon hearing that.
He slowly raised himself from the throne in excitement.

“I just stood by and watched the mental images as they flowed.”

“Why? Didn ’t you feel the desire, the belief that you could get stronger once you grasped them?”

“Yes, I did.
However, they were too big for me to try right now.
If I carelessly tried to dig into them, I felt like I would’ve been buried under them, unable to advance further.”

“Was that why you just watched them?”

“Yes.
I figured they would be helpful one day, and enjoyed the last part of our trainee lives with them.”

Raon nodded nonchalantly.

‘That was the correct answer.’

After the spar, he kept imagining himself growing powerful in the future, so much so that he couldn’t think about anything else at all.

The images were impressive enough that he felt like he could quickly become a master and take his revenge against Derus once he grasped on those images, but that wasn’t the normal way to grow.

That was why he let them go.

He released the image of his stronger self in the future like a floating cloud or a flowing wind, and it made him feel more comfortable and increased his martial achievements.

“I see.”

Glenn leaned his back against his chair.
He looked both satisfied with the answer and not at the same time.

“You will have more and more thoughts like that as you get stronger.
They will be about your physical training, aura cultivation, fist technique, swordsmanship, footwork, sparring, and mental image.”

He looked into space with his red eyes, so similar to Raon’s.

“The more you see, and the further you aim, the more likely you will miss what ’s most important to you.
In that sense, the decision you made was correct.”

“Pardon?”

“Looking far ahead will make you fall over a jagged stone, and looking too closely will make you move in the wrong direction.
You shall look to the middle and advance step-by-step, starting from what you can do in the present.”

“Ah, yes.”

Since he never imagined Glenn would tell him he was correct, he got goosebumps at that moment.

“Ohh?”

“Hmm!”

Rimmer and Roenn also dropped their jaws at his unexpected answer.

“However, both you and that girl have currently been exposed to Eden.
Even though you were disguising yourselves, you should’ve been more careful.”

“How did you know that we were disguised?”

Raon tilted his head.
He was right that they had disguised themselves, but he couldn’t understand how Glenn realized that fact.

“…Since you aren’t an idiot, I figured you would obviously disguise yourself.”

After a short moment of silence, Glenn spoke in a slightly higher voice.

“I see.”

Raon nodded, accepting his word as it was.

“I thought you were late from doing something stupid, but if you were finding your path, then I can understand it.
I acknowledge your graduation, Raon Zieghart.”

“Thank you.”

“E-Erm!”

Glenn shook his hand, gesturing them to leave, and Raon bowed before he started to do just that.
It was at that moment that Dorian raised his hand.

“About me… Ugh!”

He wanted to say that he didn’t even take a test, nor was he asked anything, but his head went empty upon meeting Glenn’s eyes.

Rustle.

Dorian followed his habit of putting his hand in his belly pocket to take out a cracker he bought on the way.

“D-Do you want a cracker?”

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“I guess even the head of house is just a grandfather.”

Rimmer grinned while eating the cracker Dorian had left behind.

“You listened to your grandson’s story for over an hour, despite already knowing everything that happened, just because you wanted him to tell you about it personally.
I don’t think I could ever love someone that much.”

“Silence.”

“And you even made a mistake this time.
Raon almost realized you were getting reports from the Heavenly Blade and Shadow Agents… Argh! I-I’m sorry!”

Upon noticing the crimson light in Glenn’s eyes, Rimmer stopped laughing and stepped back.
He wouldn’t dare defy him so soon, not after being beaten up the day before.

“Sir Raon’s presence has decreased even further.
Even an expert would have difficulty realizing that Sir Raon is skilled in martial arts.”

Roenn exclaimed in amazement.

“He has always been skilled in hiding his presence.
I can’t even perfectly grasp Raon’s current level, myself.
He has surpassed the advanced Expert level for sure, but…”

Rimmer agreed, while eating the cracker.

“You just heard it from him, that he had images coming up in his head.
He is already facing that wall.”

“Th-The wall means…”

“Are you talking about Master rank?”

Roenn’s eyes widened, and Rimmer dropped the cracker bag.

“He is already at the highest rank of Expert, and he is on the fastest path to reaching Master rank.”

Upon reaching the advanced or highest rank of Expert, the future would appear in one’s head like a panorama.

If he grew too focused on the mental image that he couldn’t currently reach, he would be unable to become Master forever.
If he completely ignored it, the road to Master rank would become longer.

The best solution was to let it flow away like water, and Raon had realized that during his free time without anyone’s help.
He was truly an outstanding guy.

It seemed Raon’s true strength wasn’t his quickly growing power, but his sturdy mentality and composure.

“The children that have been called the Twelve Stars of the Continent reached Master rank in their mid-twenties.
However, Raon is one step further than even myself at his age.
I think…”

Glenn’s red eyes sparkled with anticipation.

“The youngest Master of the continent will soon be born.”

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