The Swordmaster Wants To Live Peacefully [EN]: Chapter 78

Swordmaster Wants to Live in Peace – Episode 78

Grand Lotus (3)

“Anyone want to present?”

“Me! Me!”

“I want to do it!”

“Everyone’s so motivated!”

A view from the back of the classroom.

Eager students were raising their hands, wanting to present.

The reason was that their parents were watching from behind.

Today was parent observation day at Yeonam Private Elementary School.

Yoo Seong-woo, in a suit, glanced at Knox, who was looking back with his arms crossed.

He didn’t really want to come.

Yoo Ji-woo had an unavoidable meeting, and Knox had begged him to come with a pleading look, so he had no choice but to come.

Perhaps because of the atmosphere, no parents approached him.

Knox kept looking back and smiling.

‘Are you that happy?’

When Yoo Seong-woo asked with his eyes, Knox answered with another smile.

‘Parent observation day…….’

He dredged up distant, barely remembered memories.

There must have been a time when he was this happy too.

The memory of his parents coming to parent observation day at school and waving at him.

Students whose parents didn’t come were gloomy, and those whose parents did come had smiles on their faces.

He must have been like that too.

He would have waved his hands excitedly, happy that his parents had come.

Recalling those memories vaguely, Yoo Seong-woo sighed deeply and relaxed the tension in his body.

‘……Did Ji-woo like it when I went to her parent observation day?’

He didn’t remember that well.

After his parents died, he was busy working, and he only went to Yoo Ji-woo’s school when he had some free time.

She seemed to have told him not to come, but he stubbornly went.

Her slightly happy expression, even while embarrassed, faintly surfaced in his mind.

It might be a glorified memory.

The class continued, filled with students’ presentations.

The teacher must have prepared a class with many presentations on purpose to show the students’ vibrant energy.

“How about Knox presenting this time?”

“……Yes!”

At the teacher’s words, Knox stood up from her seat.

Then, she excellently answered the question and sat down.

The surrounding students applauded Knox, and the parents also applauded.

Yoo Seong-woo also clapped lightly, observing the atmosphere.

It was a good place.

Knox had adapted well to the school, and there didn’t seem to be any problem children.

‘……Is this the daily life I wanted?’

Perhaps it was.

It’s a bit strange to have a child without getting married.

But if he thought about how this peaceful daily life could collapse at any moment, confronting those guys was inevitable.

He was someone who tried to protect peace, and those guys were people who tried to destroy peace.

For their domination.

‘……I don’t know how an elf who thinks humans are uncivilized could join hands with the Ascension Church, which is mainly composed of humans.’

Did the Ascension Church suppress them with overwhelming power?

Or maybe there were elves mixed in with the Ascension Church.

Or maybe the elves abandoned their pride and decided to cooperate with those guys.

As he was racking his brain like that, the class ended before he knew it.

The students who got up from their seats ran to their parents in the back and hugged them or acted cute.

Knox was similar.

Big eyes running towards him and looking up at Yoo Seong-woo.

Seeing that, Yoo Seong-woo reached out and patted Knox’s head, saying.

“Good job.”

From the start, Yoo Seong-woo wasn’t the type to express his emotions much.

In the eyes of other parents, it probably looked like ‘They must be raising him strictly!’

However, Knox jumped up and down in place, laughing because it was the first time she had received such praise from Yoo Seong-woo.

Yoo Seong-woo also smiled slightly in response, and the surrounding parents were momentarily stunned when they saw that.

He had been standing there with an overwhelmingly imposing aura all along, but he was also someone who could smile like that.

That kind of feeling.

And not long after, Yoo Seong-woo had a three-way interview with Knox and the teacher.

It was today’s schedule: a three-way interview after parent observation day.

Yoo Seong-woo somehow thought of the old days and unconsciously tensed his shoulders.

As Yoo Seong-woo sat facing the teacher with his arms crossed, the teacher flinched.

“Oh, it’s been a while. You might not remember, but I’m Jamie Levelly.”

“Ah, Jamie.”

Yoo Seong-woo finally remembered Knox’s homeroom teacher’s name.

It was a Korean teacher with a foreign appearance whom he had seen when he first took Knox to school.

“I’m Yoo Seong-woo.”

As Yoo Seong-woo held out his hand, Jamie carefully grabbed it and shook it.

After shaking hands, she smiled brightly and said.

Still, it was the second time she was seeing Yoo Seong-woo, so she didn’t seem that nervous.

“Knox has really adapted well to the school. All the friends like her a lot; she’s very popular.”

“Of course, she should…….”

“Pardon?”

“It’s nothing.”

“There doesn’t seem to be any problem with school life. She’s also very mature, so the children rely on her a lot.”

“Is that so?”

As Yoo Seong-woo looked at Knox while saying that, Knox nodded with a triumphant expression.

She looked like a puppy who was showing off that she had become the leader of the pack.

Yoo Seong-woo ruffled Knox’s hair a lot and said.

“That’s a relief.”

“And not only that, but she’s also smart, athletic, cute, and pretty, so the kids are crazy about her. Boys and girls alike follow her very well.”

In addition to that, Jamie praised Knox in various ways.

Knox, who was listening to that, blushed and grabbed Yoo Seong-woo’s sleeve tightly, as if she was a little embarrassed.

It was inevitable that she would end up like this, constantly hearing praise about herself right in front of her.

“Enough. That’s enough now.”

“Oh, I didn’t realize.”

Only after Yoo Seong-woo stopped her did Jamie stop talking.

The three-way interview ended there.

It would have been longer if there had been any problems with her school life, but it ended quickly since other parents were waiting.

Yoo Seong-woo walked out of the faculty room with Knox and said,

“It seems you’re doing well.”

“I have to. You indulged my stubbornness, after all.”

“You’re aware of that.”

‘Originally, this shouldn’t have been happening.’

A dragon mingling with humans and attending school.

‘It’s absurd.’

A power that cannot blend in anywhere will inevitably cause trouble.

Especially the power of a dragon. It’s fortunate that she succeeded in controlling it.

Thinking that, Yoo Seong-woo looked down at Knox.

The small girl walking beside him was staring intently at something.

Following her gaze, he turned his head and saw a child returning home on their father’s shoulders.

‘Is she envious of that?’

‘I have no intention of granting that, though.’

‘Huh? That’s not it.’

Yoo Seong-woo looked at the family a little more closely.

He discovered that Knox’s gaze was fixed on the chicken skewers held in the mother’s hand.

She was simply hungry.

Yoo Seong-woo chuckled to himself and snatched the schoolbag dangling from Knox’s back, saying,

“Let’s go get some chicken skewers on the way home.”

“……Okay!”

* * *

“Open the path, open the path, you bastards.”

Yoo Seong-woo once again sought out the forest with Schuel.

It was to meet the elder of the elves, Beyorgan.

Schuel was not in a good mood because he had been forcibly dragged away from his game by Yoo Seong-woo.

As if sensing that mood, the trees blocking the path quickly moved aside.

Yoo Seong-woo followed behind Schuel, sensing the presence of the entire forest.

The numbers [referring to the number of elves] had decreased significantly compared to the last time he came.

‘Did they withdraw their forces?’

Having been thoroughly defeated here, they probably didn’t even think about touching it for the time being.

Instead, they were causing such a ruckus up above where he wasn’t.

After entering the forest to some extent, Yoo Seong-woo took a short breath and kicked off the ground.

He disappeared from that spot in an instant, reappearing on a high tree branch.

Yoo Seong-woo ambushed an elf who was hiding there.

He tripped him to break his balance, then grabbed his head and jumped down.

Kwaaaang-!! A loud noise echoed through the forest.

He didn’t slam the elf’s head into the ground.

He deliberately made a loud noise to signal that he had captured one of their kind.

“I caught one.”

“Ooh, you caught a fresh elf.”

“Directly from the source.”

The suddenly ambushed elf trembled.

Not only was he suddenly grabbed in the darkness, but he also fell headfirst from that high place.

Because Yoo Seong-woo was holding him, the misfortune of his head hitting the ground did not occur.

If his head had hit the ground as it was, it would have looked like a shattered watermelon.

He crushed the elf’s leg with a crunch. The sound of bones breaking rang out clearly.

“Kuaaaaaaaak-!!”

“Bring Beyorgan.”

“K, a, aaa, my leg, my leg.”

“If you don’t call Beyorgan, I will break both your legs and arms, then do the same to your comrades until they call him.”

There was no need for clumsy conversation.

He just needed to let them know who had the upper hand, who was the strongest in this place, and whose words they had to follow.

He couldn’t help but think that it was a waste of time to have lengthy conversations with them.

“Do you really have to go this far? Humans are truly barbaric…….”

“You help too. Catch them all so they can’t escape.”

“If I catch them, can I go back and play games all night?”

“I’ll even give you cash to spend.”

“The day has finally come for me to get a melee weapon!”

The deal was made.

Schuel spread his arms and summoned the spirits, and dozens of tentacles sprouting from the trees captured all the elves who were hiding.

No matter how fast and agile the elves were, they had no choice but to succumb to the power of nature.

Soon, dozens of elves, dangling from the roots, were dragged in front of Yoo Seong-woo.

Yoo Seong-woo crushed the other leg of the elf he was still stepping on and said,

“Bring your elder, Beyorgan. Right now.”

The torture was effective.

Even after breaking one of their legs and arms, they didn’t speak.

He broke the next one’s leg.

He had broken about six of them like that.

The seventh one summoned Beyorgan by using spirits to save his legs and arms.

“You know what will happen if you try anything funny.”

Yoo Seong-woo summoned Il-saeng [likely a powerful weapon or entity].

It was an expression that it wouldn’t end with just legs and arms.

And not long after.

“You’ve finally come.”

Beyorgan fell from the sky at a rapid speed.

The old elf, his face flushed red, caught his breath and shouted as he looked at Schuel.

“What is the meaning of this! Didn’t we settle our affairs with the duel last time!”

At Beyorgan’s cry, Schuel shrugged as if it was none of his business and pointed at Yoo Seong-woo.

Saying that this was the one he had business with this time.

His eyes turned to Yoo Seong-woo.

Yoo Seong-woo stepped forward with Il-saeng in hand and opened his mouth.

“I was going to show respect because you’re an old man, but you’ve been plotting something interesting, Beyorgan. You foolish old man.”