Chapter 2

In this world, the 16 year-olds hold a coming-of-age ceremony regardless of whether they will graduate from the academy or not.

Especially in the aristocratic society, one usually choses the career path before becoming sixteen, but originally I also planned to enter society then.

“Do not worry, Father. I will figure it out. Speaking of which, I think Franz should change it before the coming-of-age ceremony.”

Franz also should change his career path to a scholar before he will come of age.

My mother stepped up and helped me after my father continued to worry for a long time.

“Honey, can you not do what the kids want? Above all, I can not send Franz back to such a place anymore. I don not want to send him there!”

Franz was tightly hugged in the arms of his mother, who was shedding tears.

“Then we have to send Kayla to Kratier Academy. Would that be all right?”

But mother shook her head again.

“I do not want to send Kayla to that school either. Kayla can join my family’s knights instead. I do not want to send my children to such a senseless and dangerous place.”

“But one of us must have a diploma from the Krathier Academy to continue our house.”

“Your nieces and nephews can go! They have also inherited the blood of house Vesta, so they meet the conditions.”

My father’s face was colored in displeased because of mother’s sudden proposal.

“That is no solution.”

It is because my father, who is currently the Marquis of Vesta and the head of the house, had a bad relationship with his brothers.

Turning around, father sighed deeply and threw his burnt cigarette onto the carpet floor. Immediately the servant ran and swept the ashes and cigarettes off the carpet.

I had to make a decision as my parents could not decide on who to send to the Kratier Academy.

“I am going to the Kratier Academy. Please let me go.”

“Kyla, no!”

My mother shouted at my resolution.

“I can do it. Mother, father, instead of Franz, give me the [Shuette] he has.”

“[Shuette]” is the sword of the Vesta house, which had been a house of knights for generations. If I get to have it, it means that I would become the head of the Vesta house.

“Did you not decide to have… [Sitzero]?”

Shield of Spirits [Sitzero]. [Sitzero] was one of the two treasures of the Vesta family, along with the sword [Shuette].

Franz should not have Schuette anymore, now that he has decided to change his future. What Franz should have is …

“You can give [Sitzero] to Franz, right? The owner of Sitsuro doesn’t have to carry a sword.”

I smiled leisurely at my father.

Actually, I did not really want to become a knight either. Neither was the place of the house of Vesta nor the place of the house of Bogeom [Shuette].*

My goal is for Franz to have [Sitzero] for the sake of our family. In order to change the future, Franz had to own a shield.

“One of my children does not do as I want them to.”

Eventually, father, the Marquis of Vesta, sighed. Franz’s condition would make it difficult for you to refuse my offer, father

I must slowly take away Franz’s role from now on. Starting with his role as the heir of our house, to his place at the Kratier Academy along with our family’s heirloom [Shuette].

It is for Franz’s sake, but it is also for the sake of our family.

In order to avoid the tragedy that will take place in the distant future, my younger brother Franz should not be seen by others in the future.

Until the day where he will possess the Shield of Spirits [Sitzero].

The second day of Franz’s sudden return home.

Father, Franz and I. The three of us gathered in the basement of our Vesta’s family’s mansion. [Sitzero], which was placed on the altar, was in the shape of a plain shield.

The sword [Shuette], that I will have in the future, was still sealed in Franz’s body. Now we will take out the sealed [Shuette].

“I’m following your will because you asked me to hurry, but I don’t know if this is the right thing to do.“

Though he was unsure, father placed Franz on the edge of a magic circle, which was painted on the floor.

“Give me your hand, where [Shuette] is sealed in.”

At his father’s command, Franz stretched his left hand and uncovered his soft skin before father. On the inside of Franz’s wrist was a small tattoo of a sword, only as big as a fingernail.

That’s the heirloom of the Vesta house, sealed inside Franz’s body, [Shuette]. The sword was now to be sealed into my own body.

Father took out a dagger and slightly cut Franz’s wrists, in which [Shuette] was sealed in. Franz frowned slightly as his blood started to flow.

“He, who is protected by the Spirit King, returns the Spirit’s Sword [Shuette] back to the Earth. Unseal the blood pledge.”

When Franz recited the seal-release spell of which father had him informed in advance, a long sword rose from the inside his wrist.

I looked at the sword, that floated in the air, for a long time. It’s a plain-looking sword that has not a sigle ornament in it.

It is a magical sword that anyone with the blood of the Vesta family can accept and seal inside them with a pledge.

Whenever you want, you can take out the sword and use it.

From great-grandfather to grandfather, to father and so on. All of the heads from the Vesta family had been using [Shuette] to boost their abilities.

My father took the floating [Shuette] and now it was my turn to step into the middle of the magic circle.

“Come on, Kayla. Give me your hand to seal in the Spirit Sword [Shuette].”

I stretch out my arm to my father, with the inside of my wrist on the top. Father cut the inside of my wrist with the dagger to draw out blood from it. The spilled blood was spread on [Shuette], and it began to glow blue.

“Read the seal pledge as told.”

I was a little nervous.

I kneeled down on the Magic Circle and reached out my hands to read the seal pledge.

“He who is protected by the Spirit King, receives your strength with the promise of blood. Until the day the blood of Vesta disappears, this promise will continue and as a pledge, I swear eternal loyalty to the Spirit King.”

Due to the phrase “loyalty to the King of Spirits,” the vows were always held in secret only in the basement of the Vesta family’s mansion.

This was because the pledge of loyalty was enough for the royal family to intervene if the knew.

‘It’s a spell I don’t want to put in my mouth twice.’

After the reading, [Shuette] began to be sucked into the inside of my wrist.

My right hand was as hot as a fire, with a blinding light shining all over the place.

[Shuette] dissapeared into my body at the moment when I felt close to fainting because of the extreme pain.

I could see a small cross-shaped sword tattoo appear on the inside of my wrist. I put my lips to the small cross on the inside of my wrist and called for the magical sword.*

“[Shuette].”

Then the long plain sword, that had been seen before, rose from the palm of my hand and settled properly there.

Now [Shuette] is properly sealed inside my body.

I grabbed [Shuette] and shook it lightly. It was a hand gesture I often used to loosen my body when I was kendo.

It is also different from a cheat item that sticks to your hand.

But…

When I skillfully turned the sword with one hand, the eyes of my father and Franz, who saw me, were wide open.

‘Oh, it’s the first time I have ever held a sword in my life.

“When did you learn swordsmanship? If I had known this would happen, I should have tought you with the sword.”

At my father’s reaction, I coughed in vain and sealed [Shuette] again in the inside of my wrist.

“This is the first time I have ever held a sword. I guess I must be talented.”

In my previous life, I was an amateur kendo player. When I was a junior high school student, I went out as a former president and won, but my family here doesn’t know about my past life.

“Now, it’s Franz’s turn!”

I led Franz to the center of the Magic Circle, evoking the atmosphere.

The most important fact about today’s pledges was that Franz, who does not own [Shuette] anymore, will own [Sitzero].

You should have owned [Sitzero], not [Shuette]. You could have reached the level of an Master, but no one saw your qualities.]

“Aster” was definitely what the original novel said. The ‘Aster’ must have had a clue about Franz’ potential. *

If Franz had had [Sitzero], he would have certainly become a [Master].

As with [Shuette], he was protected by the Spirit King, but it was different with Shuette.

[Shuette] was a sword that could cut anything, but could not attack the Spirit King.

But [Sitzero] was a shield of absolute immortality, that even the producer, the Spirit King, could not attack.

So if Franz becomes the true Master of [Sitzero], no one could hurt him anymore.

Franz stretched out his left hand again. On his wrist, the wound, which he sustained when he pulled out [Shuette] earlier, was still bleeding.

‘With this, the original is going to go off big.’

Looking at Franz and [Sitzero], my heart began to throb greatly.

Father squeezed the spare blood out of Franz’s wrist and sprinkled it on [Sitzero].

Then [Sitzero], like [Shuette], started to shine blue and floated into the air.

Franz sat on his knees in the middle of the Magic Circle, reading the pledge as I did.

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