Bab 84: BITTER SMILE

Instantly, Rose turned red. She stared at me with an embarrassed expression and then bowed towards our teacher.

"Sorry, teacher Tear, I was a bit excited after the fight."

I put on a bitter smile and apologized too.

Tear looked at us with complicated emotions and sighed. "Ha... I don't know what to say. To be honest, I'm truly surprised by the lever of your battle. I never saw someone using magic and swordsmanship together so smoothly. And prince Claus, your swordsmanship is one of the most incredible things I have seen in my whole life."

Thank you." Both of us thanked Tear.

"... I have a question, though. Claus, how did you manage to find Rose's spells' weakness?"

I tilted my head and feigned a surprised expression.

"Huh? I simply searched for the place that felt wrong and cut it." Yeah, it's a lie. I'm not that kind of monster.

Tear's expression cramped. "Geniuses truly are different."

"... But you are a genius yourself, teacher." My expression twitched.

Tear was speechless. She looked at me coldly and grunted before moving her gaze away.

I shrugged. So sensible.

If you are wondering how I found the spells' weakness, it was pretty simple actually. I just used Akashic Sight and focused it on the spells. I then found the weakest link on the spells' mana and struck it.

Pretty simple, but at the same time difficult. You need incredible mental strength and a very powerful soul to do something like that.

By the way, monsters able to find a spell's weakness just by seeing it truly exist. I met a few of them in some of my lives. One of them, in particular, was especially troublesome. He could find the weakness of any technique after seeing it once.

I wonder if that monster is still alive. He achieved immortality after all.

Whatever, the world is better without that fool around.

After our fight, another two fourth-layer students dueled.

Unfortunately, their fight was far from comparable to ours. Even although they used some showy techniques, almost nobody paid them attention.

Instead, most of the students were focused in Rose and I. I was pretty cool with it, after all, I was accustomed to receiving attention. But Rose was visibly uncomfortable.

Once the fight ended, teacher Tear clapped her hands to get our attention.

"Students, I've already gotten an idea about your abilities. I'm going to prepare the adequate curriculum and tomorrow I'll tell you about the content of this year's classes."

All the students nodded.

"Very well, you are dismissed. Remember to come early tomorrow."

Once the class finished, darcy and I walked towards Rose. Rose was being surrounded by some students and seemed a bit uncomfortable, but when the students saw me, all of them left.

"Rose, do you want to come with us? We can talk about our training experiences while walking." I asked Rose

Rose showed a look of expectation, but in the next second, she remembered something and put on a depressed face. "I'm sorry, I promised senior Katherine to find her once the class ends. It's to talk about my duties as part of the guard committee."

I put on an understanding smile. "Such a shame, I wanted to talk with you a bit more... Okay, see you tomorrow in class then."

Rose put on a brilliant smile. "See you tomorrow." Then, she turned around and departed.

Once she was gone, my face twitched.

"Ouch!"

Darcy, who had been pinching my waist from the moment the class finished, looked at me coldly. "Your highness seems very interested in miss Rose, huh."

I looked at her with an amused smiled. "Jealous?"

"Hmph! Who is jealous?... But thinking about it, that girl is pretty good. I'm sure she will be a good addition to your highness's harem." Darcy licked her lips.

Okay, how am I supposed to reply here?