15 – Dalian – 2
“Wait, wait. You want to attack? What’s this all of a sudden?”
“Literally?”
Alessia looked at the wooden sword in her hand and Serena standing proudly, taken aback by Serena’s sudden words.
Confusion was evident on his face. It must have been said as a joke, but the person who actually said it didn’t look like it was a joke, so it seemed more embarrassing.
“I mean, to the Commander of the Knights Elizabeth? To attack?”
“Yes.”
“That just means sparring, right? It’s not a duel, is it?”
“That too.”
“……why?”
“Do you need a reason?”
“I need it! That’s great! My head can’t keep up with this situation right now?”
In Alessia’s way of speaking, even the last bit of ill-will that barely remained was buried in embarrassment and disappeared. However, it was not intended to have such an effect.
The reason why I suddenly told Serena to fight against Alessia was nothing special. I need to lay the minimum foundation for joining the Royal Knights later.
It was a little forced, but I must have had a reason to do sparring, I was planning to voluntarily leave after fighting here and losing a few more times after that.
FYI, this is not my suggestion, it’s Serena’s. I was just looking for a suitable excuse, but out of the blue, this suggestion came up.
Even though she said there was no need to do that, Serena was unmoved as if there was something else she was aiming for. They say this one is the cleanest, but that’s okay.
By the way, what Charlotte insisted on was an order to expel the Royal Knights.
It doesn’t matter if it’s voluntarily leaving, but voluntarily leaving Serena on her own, and being kicked out with an expulsion order was because Serena was following her own orders.
The purpose of saying that was obvious.
Of course, Serena’s expression rotted when she heard that. If I hadn’t stopped it, we would have used that as an excuse to fight each other.
“I don’t care if my head can’t keep up. It just needs to follow my body.”
“You’re being sarcastic on purpose, right? All I need is a reason and an explanation?”
“It’s an order given as the 1st Knight Commander, so you can push it.”
“Then, as the 1st Commander of the Royal Knights, I will give you an order. Alessia, you have to fight with me.”
“It’s crazy, really. I’ll refuse. You know that we have the right to refuse even if it’s an order from the 1st Knight Commander, right?”
“That would be the right to refuse when there is a good reason. I’d really like to hear what the good reason is.”
“You’re trying to beat me up with an excuse that I just said I’ve been fighting a little bit. It’s obvious that I’m going to have a good time, but this is a legitimate reason.”
Oh, that makes sense too.
It seemed that Alessia was thinking that Serena had kept in her heart the fact that she had used some harsh words in the middle of a confrontation and was trying to get revenge by making an excuse for sparring.
Actually, Serena would have put aside everything that Alessia had done at the moment I hugged her from behind.
“Attack me…? Oh, was that what you meant? What did that mean?”
“yes?”
“Alessia, whatever you said to me, it’s already in the past.”
“No, you’re the one who was killing me just a while ago? Why are you doing this all of a sudden?”
My first impression is that she gets angry when she sees her subordinates bumping their heads and stretches out, so I thought she would be a tight-fisted and inflexible woman.
Or is it because of what Serena did?
Well, it was embarrassing for the other side to say that I had come and knocked out the other knights by hitting them on the head.
It’s me, it’s not once or twice that I’ve seen the kids around me do that, so I got used to it.
There is also a child who rips off a person’s limbs and offers them as a sacrifice.
“I don’t think it will end with words anymore, so Serena, go to the training ground and urge them with a wooden sword. Then they will come on their own.”
Seeing Serena nod, she loosened her arms.
Serena seemed to be disappointed that my warmth was gone, so she leaned back and rubbed her back against my chest several times before blowing mana all over her body.
Alessia flinched slightly when she saw the mana rising from Serena’s body.
Shortly after hearing the sound of kicking the ground, Serena was picking up a wooden sword in front of a wooden sword holder in the corner of the training ground.
It was a speed that I couldn’t get used to no matter how many times I tried. Lastly, when I asked about the body strengthening efficiency, I was told how much it could accelerate, 1/256 of a second.
When fighting Christine, you can’t use body reinforcement through mana, so Charlotte, who responds to that and defends and attacks at the same time, is also a ridiculous monster.
Well, in the first place, they asked me to kill them because they had such skills.
“Hurry up, Alessia.”
Serena swung her wooden sword around with one arm and called out to Alessia. A sigh was heard from the side.
It’s a confrontation that was a little forced, but if you see the sword a few times, you’ll change your mind. Surprisingly, it’s worth doing.
When Serena didn’t look at her and attacked her, only Charlotte could respond. The rest just fought to the point where I was able to figure out my skills and get one step ahead.
The two of them already had a history of doing things without going back and forth.
The area where they fought then is still under a ban on entry. The ground supporting the ground itself was shattered, and the concentration of mana was so thick that even monsters died within minutes.
It was questionable whether that much of the contaminated area could be healed naturally.
The ostensible reason is that the pagans attempted to resurrect a demon at the site, and the ritual almost succeeded, so the site itself was melted down.
It’s generally an atmosphere where half believe and the other half don’t believe, but there’s no way to investigate the place, so all you have to do is have suspicions.
People melt as soon as they enter, and even the highest-end mana meter can’t stand the mana concentration and is destroyed, so how can you investigate?
When Serena touched a strewn knight near her feet, the knight’s body flew away.
The body flew backwards for a while and rolled across the training ground with a thud. Seeing that, Alessia gave a shout.
“Oh really! You can do it! If you do! It’s true that it’s loaded with emotions!”
Alessia probably took that as an unspoken threat, but Serena was just near her feet, so she got in the way, so she got rid of it.
To Serena, those people are just stones rolling on the side of the road.
Alessia, who was even threatened with silence, walked to the training ground trudging as if she realized that there was no way to escape.
what can i do I have to blame myself for unluckily approaching Serena first at this timing.
“What about the rules?”
“Cannot use skills or magic, only body strengthening using mana, no area restrictions, defeat condition is when you declare surrender or become unable to fight, or when you lose your weapon. Isn’t this enough?”
“Well… I guess so. I don’t really like it yet. You really don’t have any feelings, right?”
“Yes.”
“…you have to be able to believe it.”
Alessia grabbed the wooden sword with both hands and aimed it at the front. Serena stood with her legs shoulder-width apart, the tip of her wooden sword still held in one hand pointing toward the floor.
At first glance, it could have seemed rude, but since Alessia didn’t say anything special, I thought it was normal.
“Serena, hit me a few times in moderation.”
Serena’s head turned this way at my unexpected words.
He didn’t say, Lord, what do you mean by keeping the minimum line, but it was enough to surprise Alessia.
“What, what?! What’s there?”
Alessia followed Serena and hurriedly looked at my seat.
When he couldn’t see anything there, he looked around at the place where Serena’s gaze was directed and at Serena with a puzzled expression.
How did Serena break the magic that worked even for the royal knights?
Serena urged my answer with her eyes. It was a look that could pierce even an iron plate.
“Instead, remember all the places you hit.”
After hearing my words, Serena’s eyes regained their composure. The eyes returned to Alessia. Alessia had an expression of what the hell just happened.
That word meant nothing. It means that I will allow Serena to injure me in the same place on my body that was attacked.
If Serena’s arm was attacked, the same part of my arm, if Serena’s leg was attacked, the same part of my leg.
Anyway, since wounds heal in an instant, there are no traces left, but Serena secretly had a desire to hurt my body.
It’s just that I let go of that desire from time to time in the name of this. I hope you don’t do anything more right on purpose.
