Hard Work Will Never Betray Me - CH 9

i made friends with Lily,  i was screamed at by Alisa and the duke’s servants when they saw her slightly dirty dress, and i  was laughed at by the  father and the duke after the meeting, and was told by Lily, “Bye”! The Duke and the others left after saying  a farewell that was far from the ladylike greeting they had given me at first.

I went back to the mansion and went to the salon as my father told me to, where he sipped his tea and told me with a relieved expression on his face, “The engagement is done.

“The engagement is now official. Lily is officially your bride from  now on “.

“I’m glad. ……”

I patted his chest as he said it with a satisfied look on his face.

“What, you already fell for her ?”

“I’m not going to fall in love with  her  out of the blue, though  she i scute. It’s just that she is the daughter of the Duke. It’s good that  i gotten to know her, but if the engagement goes through, it’ll be like it’s my fault.”

What, you’re just a kid, why do you care about that?

“I can’t help it, I’m curious.”

By the way, in the monologue, I use “I”, but in front of my family, I call myself “I”. There is such a thing as changing your first name depending on the person you’re talking to, isn’t there?

“Anyway, you’re going to get married. You’re lucky you don’t have to worry about your future wife.”

That’s right. I’d be proud  to have such cute bride.

“You should be grateful to me for finding you such a lovely bride.”

he said jokingly, and I laughed and thanked him.

I laughed and thanked him. Well, it was my power that won the girl’s heart.

“That’s my boy.  you are realy  charmer.

“You’re praising  me too much “.

“Ha-ha-ha.”

I knew that father , who joked around so much, was actually a great men . I asked Alisa and the other servants, my mother, and sometimes him , and I also went through the books in his study to find out more. According to him, he is the strongest of the four generals,  also  he is a hero who defeated a demon when he was young. He was the commander of the Kingsguard Knights, one of the three most powerful divisions in the empire. and , he is one of only eight S-ranked warriors in the empire  .

There is no shortage of anecdotes, but they all seem to be true. He sounds like a hero from a story, but it’s strange that this men   my own father. I don’t feel that way at all.

Well, I guess that’s why the highest-ranking nobleman like the Duke of Bernstein would willingly ask for an engagement. The people around me, including the big aristocrats, have decided that it would be beneficial for them to have a relationship with a man named Karlheinz and the Farenheit frontier count family.

I’m going to inherit such a frontier family in the future. I need to be strong so that I won’t be laughed at for being my parents’ seventh son, and so that I can protect a lovely fiancée like Lily with my own strength.

“I’m going to train.”

Now?　It’s getting dark.”

“Don’t worry. I’ll be back before dinner.”

“As the eldest son of a frontier family, it’s all very well for   you to work hard to improve  yourself , but don’t get too carried away and destroy the garden. It’s a big place, but it’s still ancestral land.”

“‘Hmm, well, I’ll be careful.”

“What’s with the fluffy answer ……? Well, good luck with that. One of these days I’m going to give you a lesson.”

“Really?　I’ll look forward to it.”

After saying that, I headed for the backyard. The backyard of my house is huge. From the woods where my secret base is located, to the small orchard of Oka, to the densely forested mountains, all of it is within the grounds of the Farenheit frontier family.

The one I’m going to now is one of the mountains I often go to when I’m doing my training. It’s the mountain behind the house where Alisa told me not to make a hole in the garden.

It’s my own training ground where I’ve been training for the past few years.

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It’s a small mountain about 100 meters above sea level, about a kilometer from the Fahrenheit residence in the direction of the backyard. It’s a small mountain, about 100 meters high, and it’s as unique as you’ll find in the mountains of rural Japan, but it’s a mountain that I’m more attached to than any other.

There is a beast path that leads from the sparsely wooded area at the foot of the mountain to the mountainside. Although I call it a beast, the person who created this path is none other than myself.

I followed the beast path until I came to a point slightly above the mountainside. There, I found an open space about the size of an elementary school gym. What was unique about it was that there were countless holes in the ground, trees, cliffs, rocks, and everywhere .Some of the holes are tens of centimeters in diameter, while others are several meters in length. These holes were the product of my four years of training, and they were proof of my strength.

…… Let’s do one more set today.

. I took a deep breath and calmed my mind. The next moment, I jumped.

With a thud, the ground I was standing on gouged out. I jumped several meters at once, and instead of dropping my feet to the ground, I stepped on a tree branch along the way and jumped again.

I jumped through the trees, gouged the ground, ran up the cliff, jumped over the big rocks, and climbed up the mountain. In less than a few seconds, I was running like a ninja up a steep slope that was clearly not suitable for climbing.

–That’s it!

A few minutes later, I’m back at the starting point. My sweat is just a little blotchy, and my breathing is undisturbed.

. I’ve been doing this for a while now.

I started this training at the beginning of the year before last, when I was allowed to go out freely. At that time, it took me a whole day to go around the mountain until nightfall, so I’ve grown up quite a bit.

By the way, at the age of six, my physical ability is 42. Compared to my magic power of 23298, which is a ridiculous number, it’s a very ordinary and insignificant number. It’s probably not that different from other six-year-olds.

So why was I able to perform such a superhuman movement? It’s not that the six-year-olds of this world are superhuman or anything. This is one of the results of my four years of training.

“……!

I’ll be back.

I shake my fist. More than ten meters away from the cliff, a number of holes, ranging from several tens of centimeters to a meter in size, appeared.

“…… Okay, it’s becoming less difficult to fire a series of [shocks]. The accuracy of the hits is perfect.”

Yes, the magic that allowed me to accelerate explosively, jump and bounce, and punch holes in remote places is my unique skill , Shock. I’ve been learning the tricks of the trade from my mom, and I’ve come to be able to use this particular magic, Shock, in addition to the regular non-attribute magic from the “Magical Compendium”.

The effect of “shock” is quite simple. it generates a physical or magical shock from my body at a desired strength and timing. It does not require a magic circle, runes, or chanting like other magic to activate. All i need to do is just think of it as  i would move  my arms or legs.

Now, I can handle [shock] as naturally as I can move my arms and legs, but when I first started using magic, it was hard. It’s like driving a bicycle with the left and right handlebars reversed. If I was not careful, my power would explode and I would get injured. Since I was still small, my mother was very worried about me, and she would get angry with me many times.

In the end, no matter how many times I told her, she wouldn’t stop practicing, so she started to watch me all the time. Thanks to her, it took me a little over two years to finally master the basics of magic .

Since then, I’ve been coming to this backwoods mountain to practice increasing the accuracy and power of my magic. I have so much magic power that I can’t use it all, so when I don’t have anything to do, I practice all the time. Unlike when I was living on Earth, I can feel that the more effort I put into it, the more it becomes my ability, and I am really enjoying my daily training.

However, I’m starting to get a little bored with the monotony of everyday life. It’s time for a change. I’ve never been allowed to leave the grounds of my house, but now that I’m six years old, I’m going to ask my dad if I can go outside  of

the grounds. I want to expand my world.