Duke' Mama Boy Chapter 9

 “People are also… … .”

Juan closed the book and closed his eyes tightly, pressing his eyelids with his hands to relieve fatigue.

“… … It doesn’t change suddenly.”

Then she lay down on the book and sighed a little.

“I used to have a bad head. Yeah, but suddenly it's a book. Nonsense, then.”

It was a hair that was never used. When the family collapsed and became poor, there was nothing to read or do, even though it was urgent to make a living.

It has been over 60 years since I lived without thinking like that.

“Yeah, what. You can just maintain the status quo, without a job. And if Dad and Grandpa live together for a long time, the family will be safe. Then there will be no ruin of the empire. Yes, that’s it.”

Besides, I don't know the future very well, so I had no intention of changing something, fixing something, and becoming the best.

I was aware of some of the major events, but in fact, except for the biggest event, the collapse of the empire and family, I could leave it out of the discussion.

Because if this didn't happen, the events related to it wouldn't happen either.

“There is only one goal. The safety of the family and empire. You just have to take care of that. Tommy, who was the biggest problem anyway, is here.”

More than anything else, it was reassuring to know that Tommy, who had put his sword in the Empire and the family, is here now.

He's still Tommy who's afraid of wielding a sword, but it's still better than nothing.

“Well, even if you can’t protect all the others, you just have to protect one well.”

It's just that you don't listen to your mother.

Even so, she can't break everything her mother said, but she can save the country and her family by distinguishing between what is acceptable and what is not.

Joo-an felt that fact deeply, and a miserable future would never happen even if he only paid attention to this.

Juan got up and left the room with such hope.

* * *

Juan moved to the knights' dance hall to cool off and meet Tomina.

There is a gloomy flag

There was a small girl sitting there, who didn't get along with the boys at all.

She said with a smile as she approached Juan and stroked her girl's head.

“Serrata, were you here today?”

"ah? Do, Master... … .”

It was a surprise that Juan approached and spoke to her, but as she gently stroked her hair, Serrata floundered as if she was not sure what to do.

There was one of her maids by her side for Serrata, who had not yet found her health, but when Juan stood beside her, she quietly took a step back.

“Are you all right?”

"yes… … . It's improved a lot. It’s all thanks to you and Angela.”

“If you think like that, you should get well soon. got it?"

"Yes Yes… … .”

Serrata blushed her face and nodded her head in reply in a low voice.

When I first met her, she was Serrata, who couldn't open her eyes properly, move her body, and didn't stay awake for long.

However, she received intensive treatment, ate well, rested well and slept well, and now, after about a month, she has recovered much of her health.

She said of course that she found it a little difficult to stand and walk without someone's help yet.

But she no longer had to lie in bed, and she slept no more than awake.

Satisfied with Serrata's healthy appearance, Juan smiled and nodded her head. Then she took Serrata and her maid to a chair on one side of her gym.

Juan, who sat comfortably with Serrata, smiled at the dwarf boy who looked far from the knight in the distance.

“Tommy is rolling hard today.”

“I think Knight Peter is treating his brother too harshly… … .”

“Ummm… … . Obviously, training for knights is difficult. Besides, uncle Peter is also a member of the Imperial Guard, so it’s even worse.”

Although training a general knight is quite difficult, the Imperial Guard was famous for training with the idea of ​​making non-human weapons.

Basically, it was impossible to join unless you were a rank 5 knight.

Even for them, the training of the Imperial Guard was hard.

They certainly seemed to want to be completed as a weapon called 'the sword that protects the imperial family', rather than training them as humans and knights.

And it was Peter who was in the group called the Imperial Sword and Weapon.

Although he left the Imperial Guard to escort Angela, who had now married as a duke, his skills were still there.

And the training that Peter gave Tommy seemed a bit difficult for a child who had just started learning with a sword.

However, because of the imperial law, it is forbidden to give sharpened swords to underage children, and it is also forbidden to train them close to abuse, so it was fortunate that they were keeping that line well.

“Ummm… … . I have to say it's too bad."

“Please, please do that. Yeah? young master… … .”

"Yes… … . Let me talk to you.”

But, frankly, he was a bit skeptical as to whether Peter would grant his request.

Peter, who didn't like it, seemed to be obsessed with teaching Tommy recently.

At first, he only taught me how to do very basic exercises in a very short time, but recently, the time has been increasing as if teaching a sword in earnest.

These days, it seems that the time spent with Peter is longer than the personal time of Tommy, who claims to be Juan's servant and follows him.

Juan let out a small sigh as he saw him still running with a heavy sandbag on his ankle and wielding a wooden sword.

“… … Will the swordsmanship of the past come out?”

"yes?"

“Oh, nothing.”

Serrata tilted her head at Juan's murmuring, but Juan struggled to smile and frowned.

In fact, Tommy's swordsmanship in the days of swordsmanship was not the sword of the Western Continent.

Although his origin was the Xenopole Empire of this land, the Western Continent, the swordsmanship Tommy used was the swordsmanship of the Eastern Continent.

He couldn't help it, because Tommy's teacher was a swordsman in the Eastern Continent.

If the sword of the western continent is a sword of the strength that trains the body to the extreme, strengthens the external part, and presses the opponent with the power of the body and the sword, the sword of the eastern continent places more importance on the internal part than the external part, and is fast. It was a swordsmanship of speed that emphasized and sharpness.

It is actually difficult to evaluate which of the two swordsmanship is superior, but each swordsmanship had distinct advantages and disadvantages.

Swordsmanship in the Western Continent was able to rise to a certain level depending on the effort regardless of talent or not.

It was difficult to get to the top level, but it could be said that it was a more universal swordsmanship.

The problem is that it is literally very difficult to get to the higher stages, rank 7 and rank 8.

However, there were many knights and swordsmen below him, so it could be seen that there were more knights and swordsmen with adequate skills in the Western Continent.

Conversely, the Eastern Continent analyzes its inner side in depth and puts it into action… … In a way, it could be said that it was a swordsmanship exercised through research and talent.

Because of that, if you didn't have the talent, you couldn't even hold the sword in the first place, and even if you did, you had no choice but to be a nerd.

In addition, the number of low-level swordsmen was so small that less than half of those in the Western Continent were able to achieve great success only after attaining inner enlightenment.

No, the number of knights in the western continent and the number of samurai ranks in the Eastern Continent compared to the ranks of the western continent was a big difference enough to make you doubt your eyes.

But they had the ability to make this number meaningless.

Even if the number of samurai with a low level of skill was smaller than that of the Western Continent, it was rather the opposite when it reached a high level.

Rather, the first part of holding the sword and building the inner side was difficult and slow, but the samurai who rose to a higher level were more than doubled in the Western Continent.

So, the Eastern Continent was dominant for high-ranking people, but the Western Continent dominated the number of knights below the middle level.

If the rank 7 knights in the Western Continent were less than 30, it meant that the Eastern Continent was over 60, and instead, the number of levels below it was ten times greater in the Western Continent than in the Eastern Continent.

If the high-ranked knights and warriors were simply fighting, the Western Continent could be pushed out of the way.

But in the end, like the saying that war is a number game, it also meant that the Western Continent, which had an overwhelming number of knights, would never lose in war.

Prior to that, there was hardly any war between the Western Continents and the Eastern Continents, so in fact, it could be said that it was all meaningless.

‘Yes, there is no war. It’s just that we’re filthy checks each other out.’

In the past and in the future, such battles have occurred between the West and the East, but there was no actual war.

They were just fighting for power under the water, wielding invisible swords at each other.

“Well, if it’s Tommy’s talent, we’ll be able to achieve great results with our swordsmanship.”

"really?"

“Ah, yes. When you see Uncle Peter take Tommy so seriously, it doesn't mean he's not talented."

“Hehehe.”

Perhaps because she praised her brother, Serrata smiled cutely.

Serrata, now thirteen, was even smaller and dwarf than his peers because he couldn't eat well and was bedridden from severe malnutrition and illness.

He now looked younger than his age, although he had gained some weight and was healthy.

Still, his frizzy white hair returned to life, and like Tommy, his red eyes shone like jewels.

“You look really happy these days. Because of Knight Peter, I always had a hard time coming into the room, but I always smiled.”

“The frustrating thing about Uncle Peter is that we don’t have to resemble him… … . On the days I was trained, I didn’t listen when I said that I wasn’t allowed to work as my servant.”

In fact, after training like that, even though he wouldn't have the strength to lift a finger, Tommy always came to work as Juan's servant after washing up after training.

His body aches from muscle pain, but he doesn't show it, and when he sees him performing his servant's work, he has an extroverted side to the point that it's really frustrating.

“Still, you seem really happy because you did what you wanted to do.”

“It’s something I want to do… … . Serrata, is there anything you want to do?”

“I am going to be healthy. What I want to do is to become healthy so that I don’t have to worry about my brother.”

“Yeah, will that happen soon?”

Prior to the end of this year, Zhuan had no doubts as he had heard from his high priest that Sera Ta could walk on her own and could do everyday tasks.

Serrata asked Juan like that.

“So what do you want to do?”

"me?"

"yes."

Juan thought carefully about Serrata's words, picked it up and smiled.

“Yeah, just to keep our house well. Something like a guard dog?”

“Foot, ahaha. Then, can you bark and bark?”

“Mew~ Meong~”

“Ahahaha.”

When Juan made a dog noise, maybe it was fun again, Serrata grabbed her stomach and laughed.

Not only Serrata but also her maid standing by her burst out a small laugh at her, but then she hurriedly covered her mouth with her hand and coughed, pretending to be calm.

‘I want to be a real guard dog.’

She had committed a crime that ruined her family, her family, and even the empire, so she wanted to become a guard dog like that and protect the house.

And literally, Juan has only one goal right now.

protecting the house and the family.

I was just living my life with that goal in mind.