Ep 5
--A normal day at Count Elias's estate
Aurelia Vale
Father! You are learning swordsmanship today, Our new knight commander is teaching you
Aurelia Vale
please be in your best behaviour
Elias Vale
Why did nobody tell me!?
Elias Vale
I'm supposed to be the count here!?
I, Elias Vale—A noble, reborn idiot, and current human-shaped disgrace—was going to WIN at something today.
And that something is Swordsmanship!
Aurelia had been humiliating me in every subject all week. I needed one, just one win. So I dragged my overly dramatic limbs to the training grounds, puffed my chest out, and declared:
Elias Vale
Today, I become a man!
Aurelia Vale
You cried at the sight of a pop quiz yesterday
Aurelia Vale
*casually sipping juice while lounging at the sidelines*
Elias Vale
That was a deeply unfair test on plant classification.
Aurelia Vale
It was two questions father..Two questions
Elias Vale
AND BOTH WERE ABOUT LEAVES!
Elias Vale
I may not be smart, or... capable, or mentally intact,but I will swing a sword.
Aurelia Vale
You sobbed because you forgot how to tie your cravat.
Your super sexy and UWU author✨✨
Creator Note : A Cravat is a necktie
Elias Vale
It was so many folds, Aurelia! A necktie shouldn’t be origami!
Elias Vale
Also stop attacking me! I need some confidence to train
Just then a man entered the training grounds
he was Tall, Red-haired, stoic—but with kind eyes that said “I have witnessed seventeen wars and now I’m babysitting this man-child out of pity.”
He looked at Elias like one might regard a very lost goat that wandered into a palace.
Rowan Throne
Your Count Elias Vale?
Elias Vale
Yeah, Possibly concussed
Your super sexy and UWU author✨✨
Creator Note : Concussed means some dude who had a traumatic brain injury or something
Rowan Throne
The rumors said… memory loss?
Aurelia Vale
More like memory loss plus natural incompetence!
Elias Vale
Why are you after me again!
Aurelia Vale
I was stating facts!
Rowan Throne
Um then we’ll go slowly.
Rowan handed a wooden sword to me
I gripped it like a popsicle. Wrong end. Naturally.
He silently flipped it around for me. No judgment. Just… resigned patience.
Rowan Throne
Let’s start with your stance.
I stood like a knock-kneed deer mid-sneeze.
He gently nudged my legs into the right position.
Elias Vale
Wow,I feel like I might survive two seconds now.
Rowan Throne
Maybe even three
I flailed like a man fighting a swarm of bees and internal panic.
Rowan deflected my strikes with the ease of a man shooing away mildly annoying gusts of wind.
At one point I spun, tripped over my own foot, and faceplanted into the dirt.
Rowan crouched beside me, offering his hand with calm patience.
Elias Vale
*looks at him with dirt on his cheek*
Elias Vale
I think I injured my soul.
Rowan Throne
Just a bruise. We’ll patch it.
Rowan Throne
*wipes the dirt*
Is this how it feels to be supported?
Aurelia Vale
Father, the dummy is outperforming you.
After an hour, I sat on the bench, chugging water and existential despair.
Rowan Throne
*hands a towel*
Rowan Throne
You did better than expected
Elias Vale
Expected what? Full collapse?
I Laughed. He smirked. My stomach fluttered.
Oh no. I’m crushing on the knight.
As he walked away, Aurelia plopped beside me.
Aurelia Vale
Father, please don't fall in love with him
Elias Vale
he's a commander
Aurelia Vale
i don't want a second father.
Elias Vale
*wipes his tears*
Elias Vale
My daughter can't accept my wishes
Aurelia Vale
Crocodile tears are ugly father
Aurelia Vale
Congratulations
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