I Became a Gladiator in the World of Gender Reversal

56 – After Action-2

“It can’t be helped.”

Daisy’s cold words forced me to keep my mouth shut.

“When you come out of the Colosseum, you must be accompanied by at least five gladiators. Or, you must be accompanied by an escort that I will attach to you.”

I had nothing to say. No matter what, the accident was a fact that could not be hidden.

“It must be inconvenient.”

However, for the time being, I was planning to focus on sword fighting. It wasn’t unbearable.

“Also, someone outside the Colosseum might come to see Evan.”

“Yes?”

“I will make sure that safety management is in place… It may be very inconvenient, but I hope you understand.”

I didn’t think the case would grow this far.

It was fortunate that I had time to kiss Jerry. Considering the status of the people I meet these days, I thought it wouldn’t be strange if the Colosseum disappeared.

“Excuse me.”

“…Are you here again?”

It’s Iris. Her appearance was as beautiful as a princess’s, but no matter how she was, she was not someone I wanted to see so often.

“The imperial family is also keeping an eye on this case. A small criminal organization or something tried to injure a man, and it almost succeeded.”

“It wasn’t that much…”

“The fact that a man has come to the point where he has to personally raise his sword and kill a woman is a serious security threat.”

“…I see.”

When I think of the men I saw in Selam, other people might have thought that way too.

Men in their 30s and 40s had physiques no different from those of teenage girls, so there was no way they could resist properly by swinging a sword.

“Still, I think you’re looking at it too much. To be honest, aren’t you seeing more of my face than Mr. Logan?”

She was annoyed and it was like a joke she made once, but her expression was dark.

“I will take care of my relationship with Logan myself. Evan-sama, please only care about your own safety.”

The atmosphere was chilly. I thought the situation would get weird if I talked about it further, so I hurriedly changed the topic.

“Okay. I’ll be more careful next time.”

“Actually, living inside the Colosseum itself is dangerous.”

“These are my friends.”

“Most s*x crimes happen through acquaintances, friends, and family members. Without strict surveillance and safety measures, accidents can happen at any time.”

“…Yes, you would.”

And that would not be very pleasant to the people around me.

Just as the woman who came from Selam to pick me up, tied herself by one arm to her carriage.

“That’s not easy. Treating the person next to me as a criminal. I don’t know if the princess hasn’t been victimized, but…”

Her expression darkened even more. Was it a mistake this time too?

“I don’t know.”

“…”

As an outsider to this world, I did not know what Logan and her relationship would feel like.

He thought he wouldn’t stop the princess from talking to her, but considering Logan’s personality, it wasn’t something he could be sure of.

“I will continue to keep an eye on it. Please be careful.”

With that last word, Iris opened the door and left. Daisy shook her head in embarrassment.

“Please understand. The princess will be in trouble too.”

“The victim said it was okay…”

“There was an uproar in Selam too. They were going to find out who was in charge and punish them severely.”

“After…”

Still, I couldn’t understand.

“Don’t worry too much, focus on the sword fighting. The next fight isn’t too far away, is it?”

Hearing Daisy’s words gave him a little relief.

“Are you finished?”

When I left Daisy’s office, Jerry was waiting outside.

She had a pretty deep wound, but both she and I quickly got better. No matter how you think about it, the healing power of this world was overtechnology.

“I was worried, but she’s all right? A tall-looking woman came out with a frown on her face…”

“It’s just a little annoying.”

During the time we were lying in the hospital bed together, Jerry and I talked a lot.

At first, it was a conversation about trivial matters or recent events, but at some point, the conversation changed to a conversation about sword fighting.

“Do you think the next sword fight will go well?”

“Well, to some extent I am confident.”

It was helpful. Of course, compared to Dana’s swordsmanship, Jerry’s swordsmanship was quite lacking.

However, her information was not unhelpful.

Since Dana, who possessed overwhelming swordsmanship, unreservedly gave me trivial and personal information that she could not tell me,

Some people have a habit of looking at the other person’s legs before making a big attack, or someone strikes them with a shield at the right timing to attack with a sword.

If it was sword fighting, Dana might have done it a little better, a lot. However, it was Jerry who fought to the point of getting tired of people of this skill level.

Jerry generously shared with me the habits she knew, to the point where I wondered if it was okay to receive this kind of valuable information for free.

“At the training ground, Florence and Dana are also waiting. Let’s go quickly!”

Seeing her smile as she twirled her new sword, she seemed to feel a little better.

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“I met Logan… When?”

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Iris, unable to forget his words, was slowly repeating them.

What he said was not wrong. She said she would take care of it, but that was a lie to get out of the situation.

Even though he lived in the same house as her, Logan never met her.

Actually, Iris didn’t want to meet either. Without sweet words or compliments, ‘so when is that Evan going to jail?’ Because I was shooting the same words like a parrot.

There were countless people on the street. Her white horse walked down the avenue at a comfortable pace, without disturbing the thoughts of her master.

“I was thinking that there might be a person like that someday…”

When she was very young, she used to hate men. In fact, she hated all the nobles at the time.

Citizens were starving to death, but the men thought they were only trying to take care of their own desires.

Only after I got older and grew up, I could understand why. It wasn’t until she awakened to lust that she realized how much women longed for men.

Men were the ones who made nobles even nobler.

No matter how hard the commoners tried, they could not be chosen by men, and even if they did, they were only in the status of handmaids, which made nobles even more noble.

Apart from that, men were very sweet beings.

Countless people look up with envy at the mere fact that a woman was chosen by a man.

If it was her status as the princess, she went a little further and was looked upon with contempt just for not being loved.

So, I desperately clung to it. As a member of the imperial family, she had to meet a man of noble status that could be understood by her imperial family.

However, when she had just become an adult, her successor had not yet been established. Men wanted to meet with someone who had more power and support for her than she did.

Even if he was a man, he had a charm that he couldn’t easily give up being the emperor’s husband.

“Logan…”

And, it was Logan who accepted her, saying that it was okay for her to be like that. A lot of people worried that the age difference was too much, but Iris heard those words with one ear and let them out the other.

She thought it was love. His finger pointing and gaze were thrilling like crazy.

I thought that she had recognized her. Now that he believed in her, she must work harder, she thought.

Worked like crazy. Keeping a distance from personal luxury, she has never sold her eyes on other men.

I believed that I had a goal in life. No matter how much she gave, she thought, it was fine as long as she could win his heart.

But, for now.

“Whoa…”

Even after leaving Daisy’s office, Iris was hanging around her.

And then, she listened. A woman named Jerry and Evan have a very ordinary and everyday conversation.

They weren’t even lovers.

A woman named Jerry was quite brave, but there were quite a few female knights (her maidens) who boasted that she would catch a dragon if she wanted to make a man laugh.

It wasn’t such a dirty conversation, nor was it a conversation about truly loving each other. It was just a small, simple conversation that you would see at a bar.

Ordinary and everyday words that make you feel that you are respecting and caring for each other.

Maybe she wished for that too. She might have expected Logan to treat her that way someday if she would devote herself to him and rise to her higher ranks.

However, it was too far. It was far away.

The seat of the emperor was not that far away. In terms of time, there would be 30 to 40 years left until the current emperor died, but there was little to be done.

After ascending to the throne like that, will Logan smile at him too? So that her efforts are not in vain…

“Ha.”

Iris recalled her memories of her father.

She hadn’t even met her a few times, but each time he was holding another woman.

Her dark delusions seduced her. Iris shook her head, and she had to brush those thoughts away.