I'm not Trash

Everyone's attention was focused on the four of us. The festive ambiance suddenly turned down. I didn't expect that the reason why they visited was to renege on the engagement. Heck, I didn't even know I was engaged to someone.

"Forgive the rudeness of my daughter, she has been harboring these thoughts for a while."

"It's okay, may I ask the little miss why does she want to cancel the engagement?"

My dad asked her on want reason does something so crucial that depended on the relationship of both dukedoms was to be dropped suddenly and a year before the marriage.

"I've been hearing a lot of rumors from my soon to be wedded husband his incapability to even protect himself. Why do I have to marry someone like that?"

Well, She certainly does a have point. The former owner of this body is useless but I don't deserve to be humiliated like this.

"I want to cancel this engagement right here, right now."

My blood boiled suddenly seeing that her father didn't even oppose this girl's decision. It would certainly be in his best interest for her daughter to find someone that would match her prestige. Not someone like me that would tarnish her reputation but I will prove to her that she will regret this.

"Hey! I won't argue with you in dropping the engagement but how would I prove myself to you that I'm not some useless fool."

"You want to prove something? Everybody knows you're useless. In fact, almost all of the kingdom knows this common information. The son of the northern duke is trash! Why do you want to prove that you aren't garbage?"

"Shut up! Who would want to marry you?"

"You! What did you say to me?!"

Everybody looked at us intensely. The words exchanged were so vicious that nobody ate what was on their tables anymore. Everyone kept their mouth shut just wanting to end this night and get it over with. Clearly, the atmosphere was making everyone uncomfortable.

"Okay. I will give you a chance to prove your worth something. Next month is the admission of Valor Academy in the Central Continent. If you can get in, I will acknowledge you that you have the skills and right to marry me."

"I don't need to marry you! I just need to prove to you that I'm not worthless and you will regret it later on."

"Fine. This matter ends here."

With a flip of her dress, she walked out of the hall. Her father apologized but the look in his eyes was of joy. My father saw that as well and sighed. It was a proposal of the past dukes, their grandfathers but he did not expect this little miss was going to cancel it.

"Leo, what is your plan now? I know for the past few days you've been training hard and I'm glad you're making up for the past years that you didn't train. Valor Academy isn't a joke. It's one of the hardest schools in the central continent to get admitted. I don't want to see you stressing yourself on a mountain of an obstacle."

"Father, believe me. I can get inside that school."

I was already thinking of the training I was going to do. If it means doing everything necessary then I would not hesitate. Canceling an engagement would bring shame to a household especially to a house like ours.

At the bed, I couldn't sleep well. As I thought of how I would do this. With the system, I should be able to do this with the help of it but this system doesn't help that much. What should I do? I've been training hard on the sword and body. Researching the mana by my self and discovering it uses but it takes too much time and I don't know when I will be able to improve. I kept thinking over and over again until I fell asleep.

Morning came, I walked outside to the training grounds. There I saw Sir Willy again instructing and training the soldiers.

"Greetings, Young Lord."

Sir Will wasn't his usual self today as I noticed that there was warmth in his eyes when he looked at me. This guy truly cared for me as he was also there last night watching that humiliation.

"Young Lord, let us continue where we last stopped. The basics are also important so we mustn't rush things."

This guy read my mind. I am clearly thinking of ways in improving faster but I know the basics are important. We did what we did the other day and I attacked him then after told me what I was lacking. I only learned sword fighting a few days ago and it was dumb to rush things that shouldn't be. I stopped thinking of training my mana body as I was not improving in that aspect. I told my self to focus on the sword as to have a fighting chance in getting inside that academy.

"Again, Young Lord."

Sir Willy was very patient towards me. He was giving me a lot of time and attention today.

A week passed since that incident and Sir Willy told me that to couple the skills I have when using a sword clearly I should have something to go with it. I did not know what it was at first but he told me that I was moving awkwardly when attacking. There were too many openings when I attacked due to my posture and on my steps.

"Young Lord, I will teach you a movement technique to couple with your fighting style. There are a lot of techniques and this is one of many. It is called the Swallow Swift Steps. I will show you what it is and then I will teach you."

Sir Willy did a basic stance with his sword held in hand. He readied himself by making his legs bend with the left foot forward with the right one on the back. He then flashed forward by 4 meters, seemingly disappearing from where he stood.

"Young Lord, tell me how steps did I make to reach that distance?"

Clearly, I didn't see what he did with his feet but I guessed, "You jumped?"

He laughed after hearing that.

Ding.

[You have obtained skill: Swallow Swift Steps Lvl. 0 Exp: 0%]