My On*Hole Academy [EN]: Chapter 309

EP.309 Loner (3)

“I think I’m a little pathetic.”

Yuuna carefully brought up Quintia’s story.

“Ah, I’m not saying anything to you, Sanghyuk.”

“I know.”

I slurped the udon and thought about it.

The reason Yuuna is taking Quintia’s side….

“You were a Quintia fan, right? Yuuna.”

“Yeah.”

Yuuna didn’t seem emotionally angry at Quintia’s actions, but rather felt a little sorry for her.

『Landscape Painting Slash』 is Yuuna’s main skill, modeled after Quintia….

“When Quintia entered as a freshman, I fell in love with the swordsmanship she used. I remember working hard to follow her because I wanted to be like that too.”

“Did a sophomore learn from a freshman?”

“Ah, I didn’t go and ask her to teach me! Just by sight, just….”

I saw it too.

Quintia’s swordsmanship is beautiful. It’s amazing how a person can show such movements.

Did she inherit her mother’s swordsmanship intact?

If she had a good personality, she would have been loved by many people.

If you look closely, Quintia eats alone.

She’s alone during class, and during the inter-school competition….

“Yuuna, you were on Quintia’s side then, right?”

“Ah. During the inter-school competition? Yeah! I was the queen then.”

“Quintia protected you… Did she say anything to you then too?”

“…….”

Yuuna scratched her head, looking embarrassed.

“She just told me not to come out of the Queen’s room because I wasn’t helpful….”

“She said that? To a senior.”

“……Ah…… Well… It’s true, so I wasn’t angry… I was just watching with the feeling that it’s okay because it’s Quintia!….”

“……Your fan spirit is quite big, isn’t it?”

“Ehem… Well, there’s no swordsman who hates Quintia. Probably.”

Thinking about it now,

I remember that Kibele and the Imperial Army bowed their heads and asked us to let them rest at our inn in the Infinite Gapjil Village because Quintia coldly snapped that she didn’t care about their situation.

Until now, problematic behaviors have been piling up,

And finally, the true colors began to show….

Is that the feeling?

Yuuna, who likes to take care of people….

She seemed to be looking at Quintia with a generous heart like a mother.

“Be a little lenient with her. Not that you did anything. It seems like someone needs to soften things up a bit.”

“Why?”

Why should I soften things up?

“But…….”

Yuuna sighed.

“She lost both her parents when she was about 5 years old… I at least have a mom, but she….”

“Sympathizing with her like that might be worse.”

“I, is that so…?”

“I gave her a mission, and I said I would accept her as a colleague if she completed it. I said exactly that, and I didn’t interfere. The rest is up to Quintia.”

“…….”

I smiled slightly, looking at the deflated Yuuna.

“Okay.”

“Huh?”

“I’ll judge a little more leniently.”

“Ah… Thank you. Keep it a secret that I said this.”

“If they ask, I’ll say an anonymous fan who likes Quintia’s swordsmanship said it.”

“Um, um! There’s no sin in swordsmanship!”

Quintia’s story came to an end,

Hena, who had been hesitating and stammering, tugged at my sleeve.

Kkuk. Kkuk.

“Huh? What’s wrong, Hena? Do you have something to say?”

“Anime…….”

“Yeah?”

“A new, fun anime came out…….”

…….

It seems the academy is peaceful.

Her otaku [a person with obsessive interests, particularly in anime and manga] talk after a long time.

“Shall we watch it together after class?”

“U, um. Yuuna too…?”

Yuuna was startled and waved her hands.

“I, I’m okay….”

“Ehehe, just the two of you with Sanghyuk….”

“……Is it fun…?”

“The one we watched before was fun.”

“Yeah. This time too, it’s by the same writer and director… It’s a story about a protagonist who gets a time-stopping watch and what happens in his academy life….”

……It’s like the introduction to a hentai [a subgenre of anime or manga featuring explicit sexual content]?

“Ah! I know what that is.”

Unexpectedly, Yuuna reacts.

“A pink toy watch, that, a porn that guys like!”

“How do you know that?!”

“Did you think girls wouldn’t know? Hehehe!”

When I think of stopping time, I’ve reached the point where I think of a pretty blonde goddess laughing playfully, “Kuk, kuk, kuk.”

Wait, stopping time?

“Ah. I have to go to the workshop.”

Is this the time to be leisurely eating lunch?

I remembered a place I had to go.

Wait for me! Ssandde-similar!

* * *

“Mom. Where are you going?”

The mother that Quintia remembers from her childhood was a kind and warm person.

“Mom is going to work with Dad.”

“Can’t you not go? Can’t you just stay with me?”

Leaving Quintia, who was being stubborn, the Sword Saint Yustia seemed embarrassed but didn’t lose her smile.

“Mom wants to too….”

Even though she was young and didn’t know anything, she was vaguely aware.

That the people of the world desperately wanted her mother.

That there were people who came to the front of the house and broke the peace of the family. Quintia hated them very much.

Even before she knew the feeling of hatred.

“The Sword Saint must fulfill her responsibility for the talent she has!”

“Quickly clean up the territory!”

Quintia thought that the people who were protesting as if they would die if she didn’t save them changed her mother’s answer.

“I’ll come back after work.”

“Mom, when are you coming back? Huh?”

“Hmm… After Quintia swings her sword ten thousand times?”

The father, who was watching from behind, laughs in disbelief.

“What are you trying to make a 5-year-old do? 10,000 times is child abuse. You.”

“Ehem! Well, the future Sword Saint should do that much!? Our daughter can do it, right?”

“Yeah, I can do it. Come back. Come back when I swing it 10,000 times.”

Her mother did not return.

Yustia went missing after a battle with the Queen during the conquest of the universe’s territory, and her father was found dead.

Did Quintia grieve at that time?

She didn’t grieve.

Because everything happened so quickly that she couldn’t even understand such a thing. There was no time to grieve.

Her father left behind a huge amount of money that Quintia couldn’t even use up in preparation for when she was left alone, and he was ready to hand her over to her relatives.

People talked about the Sword Saint’s sacrifice every day, and people she saw for the first time came to Quintia and said,

“Your mother was a truly great person.”

…She had to listen to them say that and wipe away their tears.

“You have to grow up strong without your mother. Because you are the daughter of that hero, Yustia.”

‘What are you talking about? Mom can’t come back.’

She said she would come back if I swung it 10,000 times.

It’s not easy for a baby who hasn’t even gotten blisters on her hands to swing a wooden sword 10,000 times.

The weight of the wooden sword was only around 800g, but even an untrained adult would start to feel pain in their arm after swinging it a hundred times.

“Quintia! What are you doing?”

“I want to learn swordsmanship.”

Quintia groaned and grabbed the wooden sword.

And she started swinging it.

It wasn’t the feeling of training swordsmanship, but because she said that if she swung it, her mother would come back.

Until 10,000 times became 20,000 times, 20,000 times became 50,000 times, and 50,000 times became 100,000 times.

Of course, Yustia did not return.

When Quintia entered elementary academy, she began to show off her skills that no one could surpass in swordsmanship, and an article was published.

Quintia, who had now developed literacy skills, also saw the article.

『Quintia, daughter of the Sword Saint. She swings her sword to avenge her dead mother』

I vaguely remember an interview I had when I was young.

The reporters, swarming into the house, thrust microphones at young Quintia, each eager to record why the child was wielding a sword and to capture her innocent intentions.

“Um, Mom…….”

The only word Quintia could manage was “Mom.”

But the next day, the articles proclaimed:

『I’ve never thought about being sad. All I think about is avenging my mother’s death.』

『Like Yustia, who saves people.』

『The Sword Saint’s daughter surpasses her peers with overwhelming talent.』

『Korea’s hope, its future.』

Which reporter initially fabricated this nonexistent novel?

It’s pointless to trace the source.

This became Quintia’s persona, as defined by the nation and public sentiment.

The daughter who carries on the legacy of Yustia, who tragically lost her life trying to protect the country.

It was as if they wouldn’t tolerate that daughter remaining a socially maladjusted piece of trash, longing for her mother,

remembered as a failure to Korean society.

People strongly framed Quintia as a sword genius girl avenging her mother’s death.

That made her worth skyrocket, and her pretty face, resembling her mother, increased in value even more.

A teenage girl steadfastly building her strength to avenge her mother’s death.

What a heart-stirring concept for the public?

“Mom…. Come back…….”

By the age of 13, Quintia had swung her sword 9 million times.

She never once forgot to count.

The supergravity waves that had taken away her mother’s response were the object of her hatred, and Quintia always handled them with overwhelming skill.

The YouTube videos she watched alone were Quintia’s friends.

『We are always exposed to danger. Look at the carefree people. Even though monsters are pouring out into the city where we live, we still see it as money. I don’t think it’s a sign of despair.』

“…….”

Mom was strong.

Quintia was now old enough to know that.

Even such a mother could not cope and had to collapse because of the monsters in the gravity waves.

Quintia was handling it as if it were her duty.

‘Because I am a girl who must avenge her mother and cultivate the blade of revenge.’

Wait?

‘Huh?’

Was that so?

Quintia didn’t question the sword.

‘I see.’

I’ve been living to avenge my mom and dad.

Quintia readily accepted the concept. She was tired of pretending when it wasn’t true anymore. So, she decided to become that.

The sword she swung every day, shouting for her mother to return, became a sword to avenge her mother, and all the monsters fell at Quintia’s feet.

As if it were natural.

As if it were a task the world had given her.

‘Everyone has a role.’

Could a kid who only thinks about eating *tteokbokki* [spicy rice cakes] during lunchtime avenge Yustia’s grudge?

No one else can do it. I have to do it.

Don’t interfere, move aside.

I said move aside…….

‘Isolde was, still, a hard-working kid.’

Quintia deeply regretted her words…….

Looking back, she realized why Sanghyuk had told her to apologize….

Her heart ached.

She didn’t mean to say that much.

…….

A sincere apology. Can I do it……?

It’s not something that can be done by running over there; a sincere apology requires more courage than she thought.

Mental preparation. Mental preparation.

Quintia watches Isolde, looking for an opportunity….

“……Quintia is glaring at you.”

Isolde almost dropped her cup of *tteokbokki* upon hearing Sarika’s words.

‘Why are you doing this to me…….’

Isolde also felt sorry for slapping her.

But she still thought Quintia was the one who was wrong, so the awkward atmosphere continued.

In the midst of all this, Quintia was glaring at her as if she would devour her, so she didn’t know what to do.

“Don’t worry. If Quintia takes out her sword, I’ll fight with you.”

“Don’t say scary things, Sarika!!”

“Why? What happened?”

Serena peeks out her head.

“Yeah, Serena…. You know. Just now…….”

After hearing the whole story, Serena blinked her eyes wide.

“Quintia said that?”

“Yeah. I got emotional and…….”

This story is also conveyed to the sister community that shares brother information.

[Stella]

Those girls are so free, fighting over something like that

[Serena]

Stella is talking like Hillaria….

[Stella]

I can just go in alone like me lol [laughing out loud]

The queen of single play, Stella, smiled and said, “Hmph.”

[Serena]

Aren’t you making a squad? Stella

[Stella]

I don’t raise things like that, because I’m my brother’s cute younger sister

[Serena]

I don’t think being a cute younger sister has anything to do with it…….

Stella and Serena were watching the situation from a distance.

It’s a matter between the parties involved. It’s a difficult situation to intervene.

But everyone realized that Quintia was about to talk to Isolde.

“I’m sorry.”

“…….”

Quintia approached and spoke honestly.

Isolde sits at her desk and stares at Quintia.

“……What for?”

She knew why she came to apologize, but the inertia of their bickering remained, so Isolde answered curtly, even though she wasn’t angry.

“For saying that I didn’t know you well and that you weren’t helpful.”

“……Hoo.”

Isolde got up and faced Quintia.

“I’m sorry too. For hitting you….”

“It’s okay. It didn’t hurt.”

She thought that it wasn’t a matter of whether it hurt or not….

Anyway, Isolde accepted Quintia’s apology.

“You’re stronger than me now, but I’m also developing my abilities with Sanghyuk *sunbae* [senior]……. Someday, I’ll be helpful to you.”

“You’ve already been helpful. Because you accepted my apology.”

“Huh?”

“I’m going to go to Sanghyuk *sunbae* and tell him that you accepted my apology…….”

“What are you talking about?”

Sol-i, who ran out at that time, didn’t know the situation well and tilted her head.

Her expression changes after hearing her friend whispering next to her…….

“……Sanghyuk *sunbae* said he would accept you if you apologized?”

“Yeah. You accepted my apology, right? Don’t change your mind later.”

Isolde’s desire to undo everything soared, but she suppressed it.

Her eyes were burning with animosity.

“……Did you use my answer? Were you just pretending to be sorry just now?”

“Ah, no……. I wasn’t pretending to be sorry.”

Quintia stuttered in embarrassment, realizing she had made a mistake.

At the same time, her eyes went to the clock that was turning to lunchtime.

“I have to go to Sanghyuk *sunbae*….”

“Are you really playing with people? Are you only thinking about yourself?”

“T, the time limit is until lunchtime. The apology was sincere….”

“You want me to believe that?”

Isolde, who was about to raise her hand again, barely held back.

“Okay. I won’t change my mind. Go to Sanghyuk *sunbae* and do what you want.”

“Isolde……. I’m really sorry….”

“That’s enough! Don’t talk to me again.”

…….

Quintia quietly lowered her head.

“Sorry. Let’s talk again when I get back.”

Isolde turned her head.

At that moment, Quintia saw everyone’s cold gazes.

It was a look that rebuked her for being there.

Quintia runs out of the classroom as if fleeing.

‘Anyway, I have to tell Sanghyuk *sunbae* the results…….’