I Became a Swordsmanship Instructor in a Romance Novel

Zeke, having entrusted Selena to Rosnante, spoke to the four girls standing before him.

“It seems you’ve all built a solid foundation in swordsmanship. You’ve worked hard.”

Zeke’s calm praise filled the girls’ chests with a sense of accomplishment.

The days they had spent training their bodies and learning how to utilize mana flashed through their minds.

How many times had they wanted to run away from Zeke Clayman’s grueling classes?

The nights they had spent groaning in muscle pain…

Of course, if it weren’t for the reward of a massage afterward, they would have run away long ago.

At first, only Selena received the messages, but Iriel and Yuri, who lived in the same Yohaiden mansion, noticed and joined in.

Soi, sensing the unsettling anticipation in her peers’ hearts after class, also started knocking on Yohaiden’s door every night.

Thus, all four girls ended up receiving Zeke’s massage after swordsmanship class.

Naturally, with four girls sneaking into Zeke’s room every night and letting out strange moans, rumors spread among the Yohaiden family’s staff that Zeke was an extraordinary man who didn’t discriminate based on status, embracing everyone from Yohaiden to Eustia, Gilbert, and even commoners.

‘But, who will Zeke take care of first…? It’ll be me, right?

I can be legitimately hit by Zeke… The massage hurts, but it’s so gentle. But… if he hits me with a wooden sword…?’

‘Gasp, I saw it in a book yesterday. When you train in swordsmanship, you have to stick close and… Kyaa!’

‘Brother and swordsmanship, brother and swordsmanship, brother and swordsmanship, brother and swordsmanship, brother and swordsmanship, brother and swordsmanship, brother and swordsmanship, brother and swordsmanship, brother and swordsmanship, brother and swordsmanship.’

‘Ugh, look at their mushy emotions… They’re crazy… Of course, it’s not like I’m not looking forward to it either!’

Ignoring the girls’ inner thoughts, Zeke opened his eyes languidly and examined their mana flow.

Indeed, they seemed to have graduated from the chick level.

They were now at a level where they wouldn’t die on the streets if thrown into the Dave continent.

‘Hmm, then it’s time to instill swordsmanship into their bodies.’

Typically, engraving a fixed form onto a sword wasn’t a method recognized by some combat-focused swordsmen, but Zeke believed that there was no freedom without a basic form established in the sword.

‘Rather, the more properly you establish the form of the sword, the more flexible it can become.’

A sword honed in actual combat had its own advantages, such as adaptability and intuition, but unless one possessed talent like Yuri’s, it was likely to become a crude sword with bad habits.

Of course, in Soi’s case, she had experienced actual combat first. But that was unavoidable due to the nature of her abilities.

After organizing his thoughts, Zeke opened his mouth.

“Then, there’s nothing left for you to do.”

“Huh…?”

He had said he would teach them their own sword styles starting today, but he was suddenly dismissing them, saying there was nothing left for them to do.

Everyone’s eyes were filled with confusion.

“Just leave everything to me. The important thing is to trust me.”

“L-Leave it to you…?”

“Each of you, surround me in four directions. Selena in front, Iriel on the left, Soi behind, and Yuri on the right.”

At Zeke’s words, the girls each grasped their weapons and surrounded him.

“The training we’ll be doing from today is… Ah, Selena, you’ll be familiar with this.”

“Yes? Me?”

“Yes, the sword dance we performed together at the Eustia banquet. Don’t you remember?”

“…Ah! I remember.”

Selena nodded as if she knew what kind of training Zeke was about to conduct.

Back then, they had practiced the sword dance to perform together at the banquet.

Hadn’t they danced together, their bodies guided by mana?

Recalling that day, Selena’s expression softened with ecstasy.

Meanwhile, Iriel, who had witnessed that scene, downed a shot of vodka and stumbled off the balcony, her expression turning sour.

“Zeke, since you did it with Selena back then, do it with me first today.”

Iriel said in a sharp voice.

However, Zeke shook his head.

“No. Now that you can use your abilities freely, it’s fine to do it with all four of you simultaneously.

All you have to do from now on is trust me and entrust your bodies to me.

If you are consumed by fear or try to forcibly twist your bodies to regain control, you will be countered by me.”

After finishing his words, Zeke drew mana from his body.

Swoosh—

His fingertips glowed blue, and mana threads shot out like spiderwebs, attaching themselves to each of their bodies.

“Then, let the swordsmanship lesson begin.”

Thus, under Zeke’s mana control, the girls’ bodies began to move like puppets.

* * *

“…Monster bastard… Has that bastard not weakened at all…?”

Lillie watched Zeke with a horrified expression.

There, she saw the four girls wielding their swords with ferocious momentum, and Zeke, who was controlling them all with his fingers while simultaneously parrying their attacks.

The swordsmanship they displayed was truly magnificent, but…

— Ah, ahhh! Ins-Instructor! It’s, it’s tearing! No! It’ll become strange if it goes any further!

— Kyaa! Zeke! Ah, it hurts… It hurts… This isn’t the kind of pain I wanted…

— Ugh! Entrusting my whole body to brother, this feeling of being violated to the limit… Hoo, hoo… It’s painful, but I like it…

— Heeng, why am I on all fours…?

The screams of the girls, whose bodies were forcibly manipulated and subjected to advanced swordsmanship, echoed through the air.

Still, thanks to their previous training, they were somehow managing to keep up.

Even though Lillie couldn’t properly use mana at the moment, she could tell what Zeke was doing based on her past life experiences.

The difficulty level was akin to simultaneously and accurately drawing different shapes with each finger, and even using his toes.

He was doing that incredible feat without changing his expression.

“That crazy bastard…”

As she continued to watch, Rosnante called out to her from beside her.

“Lillie Ira. Princess! We, we need to train too.”

When Lillie turned her head towards Rosnante, his averted gaze was irritating.

Lillie glared at Rosnante with disdain.

Her contemptuous gaze made his body tremble.

“Ahem, uh, we should use informal speech within the academy, so I’ll, I’ll do that.”

“Forget it. I’m not here to train anyway. You just do your thing. I’ll just rest. You’ll just waste time training while looking after someone like me.”

Lillie scoffed and lay sprawled on the dirt floor of the training ground.

In the end, the only thing she had to do was deal with the Third Prince.

That was all.

Until that time came, it was enough for her to stay by Zeke’s side, under his protection, and observe the Third Prince’s movements.

“Lillie Ira.”

“Yeah, fuck off.”

“Get up.”

“Yeah, no.”

Rosnante stared intently at Lillie, and Zeke’s words flashed through his mind.

— That girl, if she feels the need or thinks she can do it, she’ll do it no matter what, but otherwise, she becomes extremely lazy. And she’s always had a foul mouth, so don’t get hurt.

— H-How do you know that, Instructor…?

— My hair color is the same as hers, isn’t it?

— Ah, a-are you perhaps hidden relatives! What exactly is your relationship…?

— That’s not important, so let’s move on. If that’s the case…

According to Instructor Zeke, Lillie wouldn’t live long.

Rosnante repeated to himself that he had to become a demon.

“Necklace.”

“…!”

Lillie immediately reacted to the word “necklace,” sitting up abruptly with a fierce frown.

“If you don’t train properly, I won’t give you the necklace.”

“Hey, how can you…! That Zeke bastard… How sneaky!”

“So, are you going to train now?”

“…Fuck.”

“I’ll report every detail of your training progress to the Instructor.”

Rosnante seemed to have made up his mind, speaking to Lillie in a calm tone.

Lillie tried to provoke him by insulting his pride.

“Ha, you. Aren’t you ashamed of hiding behind Zeke Clayman?”

“No, I’m not ashamed. I think this is the right thing to do. So let’s start.”

Lillie bit her lip.

Then, she looked up at the sky and sighed deeply.

‘Ha, yeah, it’s pathetic of me to act like this…’

Rosnante in front of her was different from the Rosnante in the story she had written.

The disgusting man who had tormented her relentlessly and fostered an unbearable love, clinging to her and restricting her.

She knew better than anyone that the man and the boy in front of her were different.

If it had been the previous Rosnante, he would have already exploded in anger and thrown a tantrum when compared to Zeke.

But instead, he was maturely urging her once again.

His personality had also changed.

Considering the situation, wasn’t it her, who had lived longer, acting like a childish brat?

Even she was speaking more freely than before.

There was no reason for her to receive such unfair treatment because of something he didn’t even remember.

Lillie’s emotions quickly calmed down.

“Ah, sorry. I have these tantrums sometimes. Please understand.”

“It’s okay. So, are you going to train now?”

“Well… Yeah, alright. I’ll try, but I’m not confident.”

“Okay, that’s good. I didn’t have to use the other methods. I thought those were pretty sneaky too.”

The other methods Zeke had taught him to use if the Princess didn’t listen were too underhanded.

Rosnante, who didn’t want to be hated by Lillie to that extent, breathed a sigh of relief.

“Then, shall we begin?”

Rosnante brought over various pieces of equipment that Zeke had given him for training, his hands full.

Lillie’s eyes widened in shock as she watched him.

“What the fuck?”