Man is infinite, and his ambition is to slay the dragon

The ability of causal interference, which is highly valued throughout the world, is her special ability, an ability that is completely useless in combat.

"Next, please swear an oath to my spirit suit, Sieg."

"Swear an oath?" Sieg frowned. "Do you want to...sign a contract?"

"Correct."

"What is the content of the contract?"

"I will teach you swordsmanship in the way you like and are used to, as you wish. And after these three months, if you want, our master-disciple relationship can continue, and I am happy to continue teaching you." Edwards explained, "But in exchange, I hope you can take good care of your body and your life in the future."

"Eh?"

Some unexpected contents of the contract made Sieg slightly stunned.

Cherish your life? He has always cherished his life, and has always tried his best to survive.

"I... don't quite understand what you mean. If you want me to not fight hard... then I——"

"Of course I don't mean to stop you from fighting. I just want you to take better care of your body. For example, in our previous test, it was just a test, but you risked your life to prove to me - life can't be squandered so easily, you shouldn't risk your life so easily."

If facing a truly powerful enemy, risking one's life is completely understandable, but Sieg risked his life so rashly. Even if he did it to prove his will and ability, it was really too rash and reckless.

"Since I am your teacher, I should teach you something in addition to swordsmanship. So I hope you can swear to my spirit suit that from now on, you will only fight with your life or even your death when it is truly necessary."

"And I will do my best to teach you swordsmanship so that you don't have to fight desperately every time, and make you stronger."

Edwards stared at Zieger and said the above words earnestly.

Stared at by her silver-gray eyes, Zigg fell into silence for a while, and then nodded with some difficulty: "I understand... Miss Edwards, I can accept this kind of contract."

"Then please put your hand on the hilt."

"it is good."

Sieg placed his hand on the hilt of the [Ceremony of the Covenant], and then Edwards placed his hand on Sieg's and whispered, "—Swear to the [Ceremony of the Covenant]."

"Uh.....——Swear an oath to the [Ceremony of the Covenant]."

"Buzz!"

As the two swore an oath, a burst of white light suddenly emanated from the white sword blade, and then two spots of light directly sank into the hearts of the two men.

Sieg immediately touched his chest, and Edwards explained: "This is the effect of my spiritual outfit, and also my only sword-cutting skill - [Rule of Graces]."

"Those who swear an oath before my spirit garment will have the oath wedge driven into their hearts. If one party breaks the oath, the oath wedge will immediately tear the heart apart and take their life."

"Of course, I think this won't work on you. After all, if only your heart is shattered and your head is fine, you should be able to regenerate, right?" Edwards said as he put away his spiritual suit. "So, I just hope you can remember that life is very heavy and you should cherish your life even more."

Touching his chest, Sieg was silent for a moment and then nodded slightly.

Edwards also stood up with a smile: "Well, as the first task for a student who is not lovable to me, go and clean the lawn outside and the bathroom of the villa."

"...Huh? Cleaning?"

"Of course. Didn't I tell you? The grass is covered with your blood and your limbs. If we don't clean it up, how can we train tomorrow? As for the bathroom, who do you think washed you clean with blood all over you, changed your clothes and brought you back to the bedroom? The bathroom is still covered in red."

Edwards poked Zigg on the forehead and said, "Get rid of it as soon as possible. I still need to take a shower later."

"...Okay, I get it, Miss Edelweiss."

"Should I change my name and say I'm a teacher?"

Covering his forehead that had been poked again, Zigg smiled and nodded: "Okay... [Teacher]."

71. Akatsuki College, Gathering

On the sixth day after Edwards and Sigurd met, Sigurd officially became Edwards' student.

Edwards' time as Sieg's teacher will no longer be limited to the next three months, and the content of his teaching will no longer be limited to simple swordsmanship. In exchange, Sieg must cherish his life and body more, and only risk his life when he really needs to.

In terms of exchange, this is not a big problem.

Three weeks later, it was already late May.

"19997...19998...19999..."

In the open space of Karuizawa Villa.

Holding the silver sword he had condensed in both hands, Sieg kept repeating the most basic one-word slash, sweat splashing as his arms and body swung.

"—20000!"

The last blow came with a slightly heavier momentum than the previous one. Sieg exhaled forcefully and put down the silver sword in his hand.

At this time, Edwards, who had been watching from the side, handed him the towel in his hand and said, "You've worked hard, Ziggy. Wipe your sweat off. It seems you've gotten used to swinging the sword 20,000 times in the morning exercise."

"It's only 20,000 times after all." Sieg wiped the sweat from his forehead.

This has become Sieg's habit. When he was living on the Kreinsheed, Sieg would do morning exercises every day according to the plan of the Dragon Slayer System. After he officially started learning swordsmanship with Edwards, Edwards also prepared a new morning exercise plan for him.

However, because the training volume in the first version was too little, Zigg took the initiative to add a 0 after each training volume, which increased his training volume a lot. Edwards, who found out about this later, was scared and scolded severely.

The current morning exercise content has been modified by Edwards based on Zigg's actual situation.

For example, swinging the sword twenty thousand times, sprinting around the villa fifty times at the highest speed, twenty sets of exercises to improve the functions of various parts of the body... Although it is much less than the version that Sieg took the initiative to do, the current training volume can still keep Sieg busy for most of the morning.

If Sieg hadn't gotten up before the sun rose every day, he would have had lunch in the afternoon.

By the way, because we had to get up early, breakfast was also prepared by Sieg.

"But I didn't hold on to the last one."

While Zieg was wiping his sweat, Edwards also gave his evaluation of today's morning exercise: "I have already said that my swordsmanship is quite special and must be maintained in a fixed state for a long time. You were able to maintain it well until the 15000th time, but after that, your strength became unstable and your mind was still not focused enough."

"Yes......"

Although it was just a simple morning exercise, Adorable Wise, as the world's strongest swordsman, could always find something that needed correction and improvement in Sieg's morning exercise. And it was precisely because of such a teacher with excellent vision that Sieg realized for the first time that the number of his own problems was a bit exaggerated.

I'm so tired, so alone

But after all, he has been groping around on his own all this time, so it would be strange if there were no problems.

At least, the existence of problems proves that he still has room to become stronger.

After the morning exercise, they would generally start preparing lunch. Edelweiss thought that Sieg had been training all morning, so she could prepare lunch by herself, but Sieg would still help as much as possible, such as using the sword skills he had just learned to prepare various ingredients.

But today—

"Clap clap clap..."

There was a burst of applause from not far away.

Moon Shadow Membrane Fang stood up from his chair, "I am really surprised, Sieg-san. I didn't expect you to do this level of exercise every day. It is indeed as Ouma-kun said, you are a peer of his kind."

"To be honest, when Eddie said that he wanted to formally accept you as his apprentice, I couldn't even hold the pen to sign. Now I understand a little better."

"Thank you."

Without showing too much concern for his nominal [Chairman], Sieg just nodded coldly: "So, as the Prime Minister of this country, you are here today simply to inspect the situation here?"

This morning, about three hours ago, Sieg, who was doing morning exercises, suddenly saw Yueying Moya coming in a car. After greeting him and Edwards, he sat not far away and watched Sieg's training, or chatted with Edwards about some topics that Sieg could not understand.

“That’s partly why.”

Yueying Moya smiled and said, "The other part of the reason is related to Akatsuki Academy. Mr. Sieg, you probably haven't met all the students of Akatsuki Academy yet, right?"

Sieg nodded slightly, "I've only seen Kurogane Ouma and another one called Kazematsu Rinna. I remember she was a girl with a maid and riding a lion."

"Oh? So you've already met that kid Rinna?"

"Is she related to you?"

"Rinna is the child of a friend of mine. She should be studying at Lianzhen College. Haha, it seems that she couldn't wait to come and meet you after knowing that there were new students enrolling." Yueying Moya said while stroking the beard that almost surrounded his entire face. "What do you think of her? She is a very lively child, right?"

"It doesn't matter if she's lively or not - by the way, from what you said, do you want to introduce me to other students of Akatsuki Academy?"

"Yes."

Yueying Moya said sternly, "Although Akatsuki Academy has already recruited students who are qualified to participate in the Seven Star Swordsmanship Festival, we have never met each other. I plan to take action to let you get to know each other, and by the way, make some preparations for Akatsuki Academy's official debut."

"So for the next three days, I hope to take up some of your training time. Eddie has agreed."

"teacher?"

Zieger glanced at Edwards subconsciously, and the latter smiled and said, "Training also requires a combination of work and rest. Take a good rest in the next three days. Besides, you have damaged a lot of the training equipment, and it will take time to replace them."

"......I see."

Since his own teacher had said so, Zieg couldn't think of any objection: "So should I go with you, Prime Minister?"

"Well, let's go after lunch. The meeting place is over in Otama."

(Okutama? I think it should be...)

Sieg remembered what he heard when he returned to Pojun Academy a few days ago, and the expression on his face changed slightly.

72. Students of Akatsuki College

The Seven Star Swordsmanship Festival begins in mid-August, while the first half of the semester for the seven knight academies ends in late July.

This half month gap is nothing special for ordinary students, it is just the beginning of summer vacation, but for the contestants participating in the Seven Stars Sword Festival, this half month is the last chance to hone themselves.

Therefore, in order to seize the last time for improvement, the seven colleges have their own training grounds.

For example, the training ground of Pojun Academy is located in the mountains of Okutama.

A few days ago on the weekend, when returning to Pojun Academy, Sieg heard Stella and the others mention that there was a problem at Pojun Academy's training ground in Otama, and they were going to let the student union take some students to investigate and clean the training ground.

It seemed that both Stella and Ikki Kurogane were invited, but only Stella accepted.

(Didn’t expect that I would arrive here before her?)

After lunch, Sieg left Karuizawa in the special car prepared by Yueying Moya and came to his mountain villa in Okutama - he had many villas under his name. After all, he was the current Prime Minister. Many people would prepare all kinds of things for him in order to curry favor with him, so much so that when he came to his senses, he was a little surprised at how many properties he had under his name.

After getting out of the car and following Yueying Moya into the villa—

"Ok?"

"..."

In the large living room of the villa, Sieg had just stepped into the room when he saw Kurogane Ouma sitting on the sofa. Compared to not long ago, he had not changed much, still dressed in the same kimono.

Zig came up to him and asked, "You're here early?"

"After all, I don't have much to do before the Seven Star Sword Martial Festival begins." Kurogane Ouma's answer was still cold. "But you, I heard that you officially became Biyi's disciple? Have you become stronger?"

"It's hard to say. I have corrected a lot of problems, big and small, but when my opponent is my teacher, I am always suppressed unilaterally during practical training. It's hard to say whether I have become stronger or not."

If it weren't for Yueying Moya's arrangement, Sieg would have already started afternoon training with Edwards.

But it was called training, but in fact, Edwards was unilaterally using swordsmanship to ravage Sieg. By constantly attacking Sieg, he made Sieg's body remember various sword moves, and even understood Edwards' swordsmanship little by little. Of course, Sieg could resist, but his resistance could not be said to be completely ineffective, it could only be said to be completely useless.

Even without using magic, Edwards could easily defeat Sieg without using Dragon Flash with just his swordsmanship.

"There is a training ground here. I can be your sparring partner later." Kurogane Ouma said, "Let me see what you have learned from Biyi."

"It's possible..."

Sieg looked at Yueying Mofang, who just smiled kindly: "Just make your own decisions. Although I am the chairman, I have no power to order you around before the official operation begins. But before that, let's get the business done first."

"squeak----"

Just as Yueying Moya was speaking, the sound of wheels rubbing against the ground was heard outside the villa, and one could even vaguely hear the sound of something trampling on the ground.

Soon, accompanied by the sound of a door opening and footsteps, a group of figures appeared in the living room and entered Zigg's field of vision.

"Oh! Isn't this the Beast King of Divine Flame? I didn't expect you to be here already!"

The person leading the group was Rinna Kazematsu who was riding on a black lion. Just like more than a month ago, the maid named Charlotte was following beside her and nodded slightly to Sieg.

"Tsk, why does the new guy look so stupid?"

Following closely behind Rinna Kazematsu was a girl of about the same height as her... right? She sounded like a girl, but the strange thing was that it was late May and the weather was hot enough to need air conditioning, but she was still wearing cold-proof clothing, a thick hat, scarf, and cotton coat that only exposed her eyes, which had serious dark circles around them.

"Oh haha~~~ Don't say that. Our new comrade is a strong man who is on par with Wang Ma-kun. He was even accepted as a disciple by Biyi. He is definitely a reliable fighting force worthy of trust!"

The last person to come in was a suspicious person wrapped in a circus clown uniform. His voice was unclear whether he was a man or a woman, and it seemed more neutral. His loose clothes also made it difficult to judge his physique.

Looking at the people who walked into the living room, Sieg was silent for a while, then turned to look at Yueying Mofang: "Except for me and Kurogane Ouma, the students of Akatsuki Academy...are they them?"