Magic Is Learned For Nothing [EN]: Chapter 71

Magic is Learned for Nothing – Episode 71

Mightiness Explosion 2

Legion was feeling a bit annoyed.

He just wanted to unpack and have a meal.

Quietly.

After all, he had been traveling for nearly fifteen days, and fatigue had accumulated. So, he just wanted to eat and soak in hot water….

Legion sighed, unnoticed.

He didn’t want to be stuck eating with a bunch of women like this.

Beauty and Leila, and the Queens who had returned to their duties.

The Queens, who had been chattering away, suddenly became aware of the situation and left, which was great, but then these two women, Beauty and Leila, stuck to him, damn it.

‘So noisy.’

He was trying to bear it, but his insides were churning.

He would have put up with it if it were anyone else, but these two… they were just too… unattractive. Unbearably so.

Someone once said that it’s much better to live with a woman who has a good heart than a pretty one, and it’s much better to live with a wise woman than a pretty one.

Pretty faces get boring quickly.

Eventually, everyone gets old.

Living with a woman who has good character and personality is the way to ensure the family prospers for three generations.

Yeah, I know.

I know. I know it well.

But I’ve never even dated a woman before. So, if possible, I just want my first love to be a pretty woman. Not these women who cling to me with their unbearably plain faces and chatter with such burdensome eagerness.

Gulp.

Beauty swallowed hard.

She had never seen such a handsome man in her life. There were many handsome men around her, but… all the men she had secretly dated without her father’s knowledge were renowned for their looks in the earldom [a territory ruled by an Earl]….

But she had never seen a man this handsome.

Elegance oozing out? No.

Overflowing with wildness? No. It wasn’t that kind of feeling.

It was like seeing an unknown life form that she had never experienced before. A dangerous feeling. Without realizing it, she wanted to reach out and poke that flawless skin with her finger. In fact, Beauty reached out her hand as if possessed.

But that damn Leila grabbed Beauty’s hand.

Leila shook her head.

‘Don’t disturb his meal.’

Beauty felt humiliated. Her cheeks turned bright red. She didn’t know who was grabbing whose wrist. Leila, who was essentially her maid, was grabbing her wrist? In front of him?

Leila saw Beauty’s face turning red.

She quickly realized how the temperamental Beauty would react. She realized what she had done wrong. When she came here for the coming-of-age ceremony, her father had repeatedly told her.

-His Excellency has three children. The eldest son, Germon, the second son, Natrium, and the youngest, Beauty. They are the next generation to succeed His Excellency. I want you to make connections with them. If you can, it would be even better to become romantically involved with one of the sons.

No noble could survive in the cold northern region by going against Count Persimmon.

For them, this coming-of-age ceremony was not just a simple event.

It was also a golden opportunity to save the family. Except for a few rural nobles who had no desire for power, fierce behind-the-scenes struggles were already unfolding.

In that situation, Leila had offended Beauty.

It was a mistake that should never have been made.

“S, sorry.”

Leila apologized with a stiff face.

She was prepared to endure even if Beauty lost her temper and slapped her.

As expected, Beauty was about to slap her at any moment.

Leila tightly closed her eyes.

“Stop.”

Legion stopped them.

The moment Beauty and Leila heard Legion’s voice, their expressions brightened as if nothing had happened.

Legion crossed his long legs.

He leaned one arm down as if he were languid. He supported his chin with the other wrist like a mollusk. He looked at Beauty and Leila alternately with slightly unfocused eyes.

Beauty and Leila, who received his gaze, couldn’t bear it and lowered their heads. They felt very embarrassed.

“You guys are friends, right?”

Legion asked.

“Huh?”

“Huh? Ah, yeah.”

“Get along well. Don’t fight. I don’t like seeing women fight.”

“Y, yes. We’re close. Really. Right, Leila?”

“That’s right. Although we’ve only known each other for about a day, we’re all friends attending the coming-of-age ceremony. We’ll be seeing each other for the rest of our lives.”

Leila gave an awkward smile.

The two acted as if they were about to kiss. Legion supported his chin and smiled at them.

“Good girls. Both of you.”

Ahhhhh~ He said we were good girls.

Beauty and Leila had blissful expressions as if their souls were about to leave their bodies.

Unlike them, Lonestar, Mart, and Schuken’s expressions were not good. Their faces looked like they were about to explode.

Baron Legion of the Alexander family?

They had never heard of such a name. The people gathered here had at least the status of viscount or higher. They didn’t know why a mere baron was here.

They didn’t like Legion very much! Madly! To the point where they wanted to draw their swords and cut off his head right away.

They also didn’t like the fact that Beauty’s eyes, which they had been aiming for, had completely turned over and were only looking at that Legion guy.

Lonestar, Mart, and Schuken looked at each other.

Their goal was the same: to win Beauty’s heart. Marrying Beauty and elevating the family’s status was much faster and more efficient than going to the battlefield a hundred times and gaining merit.

Therefore, they were pulling out all the stops to impress Beauty, with the massive support of their families.

But they had met a common enemy.

At least in terms of appearance, no one here could compare to Legion.

They exchanged glances.

Let’s stop our fight.

Let’s get rid of this guy first and then continue our fight.

They nodded slightly. A silent negotiation was made.

“Wow, that’s so sickening. ‘Good girls. Both of you,’ he says.”

Mart opened the attack first.

* * *

Dreyzer was also in a bad mood.

He sat with the servants on the first floor. To be exact, he sat with the escort knights.

Honestly, he wanted to sit separately.

He had no desire to sit at the same table and eat with strangers. In the past, he would have chased all the brats at the table away and sat alone to eat.

When he was in a bad mood, he often kicked everyone out of the restaurant and ate alone.

No one would say anything.

Even if things were broken in the restaurant, they didn’t ask him to pay for them.

They didn’t ask those who were beaten and collapsed to pay for the items.

Even if the restaurant owner had eaten the liver of a tiger [idiom for being extremely brave], he couldn’t ask Dreyzer for money. It had been like that until now, and he believed without a doubt that it would be like that in the future.

To have to sit at a narrow table with these damn things and eat together. He felt like his mood had plummeted to hell.

But he couldn’t just get up and leave.

If he did, he didn’t know how the owner, who had a terrible personality, would torment him.

He always said, ‘It’s okay. It’s okay. Mistakes are the mother of success. It can happen.’ But as he turned his back, he didn’t miss out on saying these eerie words.

“Other people also grow by using failure as a stepping stone. People may lack ability. People may be careless. People may make mistakes. But my people shouldn’t.”

Ah… what scary words.

The owner’s pettiness is as high and blue as the sky. There’s no need to provoke him and worry about it for a long time.

So, let’s just eat. I’ll just bear it and keep my mouth shut, Dreyzer thought.

But what these guys were saying was very annoying.

“Who was that guy who just went upstairs?”

“Who?”

“The guy with the pale face who looked like he couldn’t even afford gruel. Tall.”

“I don’t know either.”

“He looked like a gigolo. He looked like he was just going around seducing women.”

“I can read faces a bit. That kind of face is the kind that gets his head chopped off for mistreating women because he trusts his face. I call it a pervert face.”

“Oh, a pervert?”

“Yeah, I’ve seen a lot of those guys. They only come to their senses after getting caught and having their dicks cut off.”

Thud-!

Dreyzer slammed the potatoes and meat he was eating onto the table, making a sound.

There were four escort knights in total.

They were wearing quite expensive armor. But it wasn’t unified armor. They were knights from different regions.

Their affiliations were different.

Nevertheless, they seemed to get along quite well, so they must have seen each other often. Anyway, Dreyzer’s mood wasn’t very good.

“Who are you talking about?”

Dreyzer asked in a low voice.

The escort knights all looked at Dreyzer at the same time. He was a man with an incredibly dirty appearance. That was all.

Just a dirty impression.

The clothes he was wearing were also shabby. He didn’t even have minimal armor. All he had was an amazingly large battle-axe.

Is he a mercenary?

Did only a mercenary come as an escort knight?

You could immediately tell how poor the territory was. The lord must be desperately poor.

That’s why they could freely talk badly about the handsome man who went upstairs. They could crush him as much as they wanted with their power. What are you going to do if you feel bad? Just bow your head and stay put, and you’ll just have to shrink back.

“’Who, are, you, tal, king, a, bout,’ is like speaking informally.”

A knight who resembled a weasel enunciated each word that Dreyzer had said, mocking him.

Dreyzer’s eyebrows twitched.

Look at these bastards.

“I asked. Is the person you mentioned referring to my master?”

“Ah! Damn it, this guy is so cool. Did you hear that? He asked! Is the person you mentioned referring to my master? Hehehe.”

“Pfft. Wow, his lines are amazing. Even 7-year-old kids wouldn’t say it like that.”

“Ah, that’s funny. What is he? Does he think he’s some kind of knight?”

Dreyzer didn’t laugh. He just scanned the four knights without any change in expression.

They didn’t stop laughing.

Dreyzer was even more confused because he had never experienced anything like this before.

So, Dreyzer laughed even louder.

“Pwahahahaha!”

He laughed heartily and happily for the first time in a long time. Ah, I feel like I can finally breathe.

The four stupid guys finally stopped laughing.

And Dreyzer got up from his seat.

Creak-

“Hey, where are you going? Why don’t you keep talking informally? Or go upstairs and tell your employer. I can’t do this anymore. Some really handsome knights are making fun of me. Waaah. And say it like that.”

“Hehehe. Ah, that’s funny. It would be really funny if he whined with that face. Hey, try it once. You have to make your voice like a mosquito. Waaah. Got it?”

Dreyzer walked towards the front door of the tavern.

“Hey, how can you just run away? You have to go with your master. Ah, we’ll pay for your meal. Don’t worry.”

Dreyzer stopped at the front door of the tavern.

He lifted the thick plank used to bar the front door. It was a long and thick plank. And he turned around and looked at the four knights.

“Weasel, Doberman, Snake Eyes, Rat.”

The knights crossed their arms and looked at him. The corners of their lips were still twisted in sneers.

“Look at this bastard. So, what is that now? He’s blocking the door and saying you guys are dead. You can’t escape anywhere. Is that what it is? Wow. He looks so cool. Applause.”

The weasel sneered and clapped.

The other knights also clapped.

The other people on the first floor watched their confrontation with great interest.

“No. You guys can’t die, even if you want to.”

The moment Dreyzer finished speaking-!

Swoosh!

A wooden chair flew at the speed of light and smashed into the weasel’s face.

It was an incredible speed.

People couldn’t even see the wood flying.

Thud-

The weasel’s face was completely shattered. He fell backward without even screaming.

“I closed the door because I was afraid your souls would escape.”