When Surdak returned to the Knights' Academy dormitory, he saw a group of midshipmen laughing and playing in the snow in the garden downstairs of the dormitory, and a group of students were also fighting on the balcony, as if they wanted to join in, after all, it was the first snow since the beginning of winter, which made the group of young people look a little excited.

Turning his head to avoid a snowball flying out of nowhere, he looked up just in time to see his new neighbors Lena and Nedra standing on the balcony of the dormitory, the morning sun shining on the white faces of the two young girls, their faces full of youthful smiles, as if they were watching the excitement upstairs.

Lina supported the balcony railing with one hand, leaned out most of her body to the balcony, shook her hand at Surdak and shouted in greeting, "Good morning, Knight Surdak." ”

This made Surdak in a trance under the harsh sunlight, and he felt like he was back in school all of a sudden.

It's just that friends in that world don't call themselves 'knights'.

Standing in the snow, Surdak looked at the two young girls on the balcony, he held up the paper bag in his hand, and said politely to the two new neighbors: "Good morning, Miss Lina and Miss Nedla, would you like to have breakfast together, I bought a little white bread and fried fish." ”

Surdak originally just wanted to be polite, after all, he could count the number of meetings he had with these two new neighbors on one hand in the past month, and he thought that these two young girls from the Knight Academy would be more or less reserved, so they should refuse......

"Okay, it just so happens that we have prepared a hot milk oatmeal, please come up and have a drink." Lena smiled and agreed, and the way she smiled was very sunny.

The two girls, who were only thirteen or fourteen years old, were clearly used to life at the academy.

Like the other young students in the Knight Academy, many young people in the city of Highlandsa and the surrounding noble estates and villages would choose to attend the War College after the age of twelve.

Generally speaking, most of the girls who can send their girls to the knight academy are nobles and wealthy families, they want their daughters to have access to excellent peers, and the family conditions of these girls are a little better than that of the boys.

And the boys in the knight academy, some of them come from aristocratic families, and many come from ordinary families.

Since the promulgation of the Grimm Empire's decree on universal recruitment, His Majesty the Emperor has required all male citizens to undergo a four-year military life, so that young people who can survive on the battlefield will have a bright future. In recent years, dimensional wars have broken out continuously, and the death rate of soldiers has continued to rise year by year, and it is precisely in this cruel form that as long as the family can afford the tuition, even if it is a little borrowed, they must find ways to send the boys in the family to the war college, just to have a little means to protect themselves on the battlefield.

The province of Bena is the hometown of the swordsman, and the citizens of the city of Highlanza are more willing to send their children to the swordsman academy, and the knight academy in addition to the high tuition fee, but also to prepare a horse and expensive saddle covers, virtually set a threshold for the commoners, so the young people who can come to the knight academy to go to school, in fact, have a certain economic foundation at home.

Lena and Nedra's family should have a good jump in, and breakfast like milk oatmeal was a bit extravagant, and the average family in the city of Highlandsa couldn't eat it.

And Surdak's breakfast is a bit strange, white bread is a common thing on the morning table, but early in the morning, is it really necessary to eat fried fish? It's not an elf.

When Surdak went upstairs, Lina had already cleaned up their room quickly, and some things that should not be seen were put into the closet, and the knock on the door rang three times regularly, and the one who opened the door was a shy Dinedra, who was wearing a white vest of lambskin, and looked a little restrained, like a little girl, and saw Surdak standing at the door, and did not know how to invite into the room.

Surdak was carrying a paper bag at the door, and stood awkwardly in front of Nedra for a moment, only to realize that Nedra had not invited Surdak in.

"Knight Surdak, please come in!" Lena pulled away her best friend and invited Surdak into her dormitory room.

The room was filled with the scent of flower water, and the dormitory looked neat, with two wooden beds on the left and right sides of the wall, and a wooden table between the wooden beds against the window, on which were some books and a few glass bottles.

Surdak pulled a long strip of white bread and a bag of fried fish from the paper bag and placed them on the table, and Lina invited Surdak to sit in the only chair in the dormitory, while she and Nedra huddled together and sat on the side of the wooden bed opposite.

Lina was a little eccentric, and said to Surdak with a grin: "Knight Surdak, every time I meet you in the morning, you are in a hurry......"

She placed a bowl in front of Surdak, put fried fish and white bread on her plate, prepared a milk oatmeal for herself and Nedra, and the three of them gathered around the table and began to eat breakfast.

Surdak took a piece of fried fish and handed it to Linna, then another piece to Nedra, and said, "These fried fish were given to me by the tavern owner of the Garden Square, and they have a unique elven flavor to taste." I usually go to walk my horses in the morning, and I have a Guboren horse that I keep in the stable of the college. ”

Both Lena and Nedra tasted a little, but apparently the girls didn't like to eat anything too greasy in the morning.

"I heard you're a knight returning from the battlefield of the plane?" Lina asked again.

Surdak nodded and said simply, "Just when I completed my four-year military service, my infantry regiment was completely broken up by the demon army on the battlefield, so I took the opportunity to retire and return to my hometown. ”

Lina continued to ask, "Then what are you usually responsible for in the army?" You must have achieved great military merit in the army, and someone you are an officer of the logistics department, so that you will be awarded the knight of the reserve by a certain earl. ”

She seemed to be very interested in Surdak's identity, and the little girl's mind was clear, and such a hospitable hospitality must have been desired.

Surdak smiled dumbly, it seems that there are already a lot of rumors about himself in the academy, so he can only give himself, "I'm just an ordinary soldier in a combat team, not an official of the logistics department, in addition, military merit, I have experienced more battles, so I will naturally accumulate some military merit, I just have a little better luck than others, and my comrades in the same squad as me were on that battlefield, and none of them came back alive." ”

After hearing this, Linna's face could not hide her disappointment, she pouted and said, "I thought you were an excellent peeling master in the logistics department......"

"Why do you think so?" Surdak asked curiously.

Lina knocked her forehead and said to Surdak: "It's just my guess, we have organized an expedition team in our class, every year the academy has some experience tasks, our team wants to sign up, but there is currently a lack of a member with skinning, if there is no skinner, the prey fur we hunt will not be able to be processed, and no one in the academy wants to learn skinning, it's really a headache!" ”

Surdak drank the oatmeal porridge and ate all the crispy fried fish, and said with a smile to Linna: "Actually, there is no shortage of skinners among the members of the combat team, if it weren't for the high-level magical beasts, maybe I could barely handle it." ”

Linna's fair face showed a touch of excitement, her blue eyes blinked, and she was about to invite Surdak to join their team, but she heard Surdak say again: "It's just that I belong to the advanced training period here in the academy, and there is only half a year of study, and the academy basically does not arrange physical training classes, let alone go out to practice." ”

Hearing Surdak say this, the little girl hesitated a little again, and she said honestly: "No wonder you haven't participated in the physical training class since you came to the academy......"

Nedra seemed a little reserved, and secretly pushed her best friend next to her, and Lina immediately shut up.

Lina was silent for a moment before she said to Nedra, "Looks like we need to find someone in the other grades who can do skinning." ”

Nedra hesitated, she glanced at Surdak shyly, and said to her friend, "Maybe I can ...... too"

"You know how to peel the skin?" Lena didn't know that her best friend could do it, and if Nedra did know how to peel it, they wouldn't be so desperate to find outsiders.

Nedra said to Lina: "Although I am not very good at it yet, I would like to ask the Surdak Knight to teach me, of course, in return, we can tutor the Surdak Knight in cultural classes up to the second grade, etiquette, history, geography, these are what we are best at." ”

Linna's eyes lit up, she clapped her hands vigorously, and said excitedly, "Yes, Nedra, why didn't I think of it!" ”

“…… Linna, this matter depends on the thoughts of the Surdak knight. Nedra nudged her best friend and reminded.

Then the two girls looked at Surdak with some expectation, Surdak didn't expect a simple bowl of oatmeal porridge to change his half-baked peeling technique, but on the other hand, he thought that the course he worked hard to catch up with during the day would be able to systematically review at night, and it would probably be much easier when he went to class in the future.

So Surdak only hesitated slightly, then agreed, and said to Lina: "If I can learn more about this part of the knowledge before I fall asleep at night to prepare for the next exam, of course I can't ask for it." ”

Lena hurriedly said, "That's great, Knight Surdak, then it's decided, then let's start tonight?" ”

After the three of them finalized the matter, Surdak would take out the textbooks needed for the day according to the class schedule in his dormitory, and rushed to the classroom of the school building before the class bell rang, and there were three grade textbooks on his desk, which seemed to be more than Lena and Nedra combined.

In the evening, according to the agreement, after dinner, they will go back to the dormitory to learn from each other, but the practice of peeling must be practiced, first of all, you need a sharp thin skin knife and the best scabbard inlaid with oil stones, the thin skin knife needs to maintain sharpness, which is why every skinner is a very good sharpener.

Originally, Surdak also wanted to explain some common sense to the two girls when skinning in the evening, and then asked Nedra to prepare a skinning knife tomorrow.

Unexpectedly, Nedra and Lina actually took out a delicate silver-handled peeling knife from their waists, Surdak glanced at the exquisite gems on the fishskin scabbard of Lina's dagger, and only said: "If you don't have gems here, you can stick a good whetstone here, and the first lesson of peeling is to teach you how to sharpen knives correctly......"

As he spoke, he pulled out his wood-handled peeling knife, the edge of this peeling knife was only a short section, but the edge was polished very smooth, he skillfully took out the oil stone and prepared it on the blade twice, before he said to Lina and Nedra with wide-eyed serious study: "Many people like to use the peeling knife as a portable dining knife, I want to say, if possible, please separate the two knives as much as possible, because the peeling knife requires a very high sharpness, When the knife is in the wild, it will often stick the food into the campfire to warm it, and the calcination of the flame will make the peeling knife lose its sharpness, so this practice is also the most undesirable......"

Surdak basically said whatever he wanted, he remembered that when he first learned the peeling technique in the 57th Heavy Armored Infantry Regiment, everyone was gathered around a huge demon corpse, and they were all learning and using it, the skin of the evil ghost was far tougher than the skin armor of the demon, and the ordinary skinning knife could not cut the black grinding skin on the demon at all, and then he would have a deep understanding of the steel mouth of the skinning knife itself. Of course, if it's just for cutting potatoes, it's completely unnecessary whether it's sharp enough or not.

In order to make the two girls feel the importance of the sharpness of the skinning knife itself, Surdak pulled out a salamander's claw from his magic belt bag and used the skinning knife to cut a small circle of tough leather from the lizard's claw......

Lina has a cheerful and outgoing personality, but she has no interest in peeling, and she seems lethargic after listening to it for a while, but Nedra is very patient and has been listening intently to Surdak's story, although Surdak is not a good skinner, and the skinning skills he tells are not organized, but he has enough experience in the wild to survive, but he also speaks vividly.

The next night, it was the two girls who gave Surdak a good lesson in aristocratic etiquette, for the etiquette of the nobility, Linna, who was born in an aristocratic family, was far more proficient than Nedra, maybe those were what she had to do every day, and when Lena told this, it was Surdak's turn to have a headache, but Linna and Nedra cooperated with each other, and Nedra needed to simulate nobles of different identities, and then encountered, visited, and even turned her face and threw down her white gloves on the spot to duel, all made a detailed explanation.

Surdak's campus life, because of these two young neighbors, suddenly felt less difficult.