Chapter 217 – 18. Simon Kingdom – Looking for a Party of Warriors (1)
[Simon Kingdom – Looking for a warrior party]
Finally, the grand event to save the hero’s party member, the hero’s comrades, has begun.
It was really an agency. Events of this scale were rare on the continent. The number of people is also the number of people, but events where all the countries of the continent gather were not common. At most, the occasional special recruitment at the imperial academy of the Dezac Empire, or the summit meeting of the heads of each country were all.
All three were not regular occurrences. Perhaps it was these events that were held once every few years, at worst, once every few decades.
Because of this, not only those who participated in the event and were looking for the honor of becoming the warrior’s companions, but also a lot of spectators flocked to it. Starting from nobles, royalty, mercenaries, wizards, different races, and free people, many people were enthusiastic about this event.
Of course, there were a few who did not.
“It’s annoying.”
Valdez frowned as he returned to the waiting room.
It was just after passing the last qualifying round.
It was because the number of participants was larger than expected, and it was because of the absurdity that the preliminary round was held three times a day. Ten times the number of warriors praying for warriors in Ulstro Kingdom last year. It was quite an ordinal to fight them while controlling their skills.
If he had n’t had the means to limit his physical abilities of his, he might have changed his methods of his. The fact that there are more strong players with better eyesight than at the martial arts competition was also a cause of his stress. Most of the people who doubted that he showed a strong appearance would have been the majority.
“You worked hard… You did.”
Likewise, Ethylene, who finished the preliminary round, said.
Since I’ve never had a conversation in front of others, it was cute that I unknowingly tried to be respectful, but then quickly changed my language to short language. It’s been a long time since she heard her talk to her, so Valdes laughed for some reason.
“Ooh, don’t laugh… La…”
Haha.”
Valdez was delighted to see Ethylene, who was at a loss for what to do with her reddened face.
And those two drew the attention of countless people in the waiting room. It wasn’t because it was noisy. The two were also famous in terms of skills and recognition, and there was one more reason here.
Just being here meant that I had already passed the last qualifying round. There were two more waiting rooms here. How many of them will be joined has not yet been revealed, so virtually all of them can be said to be rivals, but it was amazing because they were so close.
At that time, a young man approached them.
Haha, it’s amazing when the two of you became so close.”
However, Valdes and Ethylene found it strange that the young man treated them kindly.
“… ?”
“Who are you?”
Seeing the expression on both of their faces, he sighed in bewilderment.
“This is too much. Sir Ethylene may not know, but Sir Valdez…”
“… ?”
However, Valdes still couldn’t figure out the opponent’s identity. Looking at you here, you seem to be a contestant, but you weren’t in the same group during the preliminaries. If so, he would have at least a glimpse of his memory of her.
“Heh heh, don’t you remember? I’m Jinjaru Nadmla, the 3rd Prince of Viscount Nadmla who fought in the quarterfinals of the warrior prayer contest.”
“Ah…”
Ginzaru blushed slightly and introduced himself, but Valdez still couldn’t remember. Rather, it was Ethylene that remembered him. Ethylene nodded her head and shook her hand, and Zinzaru put on a curious, happy, angry face.
“I’m sorry. My skills weren’t that impressive…”
“Yes, yes?”
“Sir Valdes!”
Jin Ja-ru eventually burst into anger at his calmly scratched words of his.
“Only a mixed race of demons! Heung! Even though you became Count Bernstein’s apprentice, I also trained in blood and sweat for the past six months! I will definitely break your nose in this tournament! !”
Jinjaru didn’t even listen to the answer, turned his back and left with rough steps.
He, disappeared Ethylene lowered her voice, and bruised Valdez.
“There’s no need to provoke you, is there?”
“You don’t even have to adjust.”
“Um, that’s…”
Seeing him reply with a snort, Ethylene couldn’t bear to say no. At the time of the martial arts competition, if you advanced to the quarterfinals, it meant that your skills were fairly compliant. If it wasn’t for Valdez, he could have gone higher.
However, to her who knew the identity of her Valdes her, the 3 princes of her viscountcy her were just that much. It wasn’t very famous, much less Jinjaru wasn’t included in the delegation. She had only come this far in her personal capacity.
“It’s better to check the plan to bring down Luciano than to bother with a guy like that.”
“…”
Ethylene understood his words of hers, but she couldn’t shake off a strangely uneasy feeling.
But her insecurities were evidently to be of no avail only two days later. No, more precisely, it was realized as a different direction.
-This match is the victory of Sasha, a mercenary girl from the Dezac Empire!!
“No, no way!! I, I just lost to a girl like that…? That’s less than 30 seconds? Damn! Damn red hair!!”
Jinjaru Nadmla was defeated in the finals of the four-day tournament format. Considering there was no such thing as a loser’s respawn, his chance was almost over.
Although the winner was not unconditionally selected as a member of the warrior party, there was at least a possibility if it belonged to the final where the last 9 people appeared. No one paid attention to him who was only defeated in the finals.
“Fucking red hair? Do you want to die!! How dare you inherit my daddy’s hair!”
At the mixed cry of the gin sack, Sasha widened her eyes and gripped her sword tightly.
In that murderous atmosphere, Jinjaru flinched at him, apologized roughly, and ran away in a hurry. It was impossible to do anything just by chasing him anyway, so Sasha sighed and followed the moderator’s words her as she came down from the stadium.
Ethylene, who was watching from her stand her, asked Valdez, who was sitting next to her.
“Sir Valdes.”
“…”
“That woman… Where do you think you’ve seen it?”
“…”
Valdes was silent.
Originally, they came to watch Jinjaru’s game. When Ethylene continued to complain about her insecurities of her, Valdez had no choice but to come here with her. The fact that there was no special schedule today also played a role.
Valdez thought maybe she’d use that as an excuse to date her here. In fact, Ethylene also had some such intentions. So, she worked hard to fill her selfishness with her, such as sneaking skinship with her.
While enjoying a non-date date by buying snacks like that, the moment they saw the stadium, the two froze.
It wasn’t Jinjaru’s fault, it was his opponent Sasha’s fault.
“You look a lot like Lord Valdez, right?”
“That’s right… It looks like…”
Anyone can see that he resembles Valdes. More precisely, he resembled the warrior Pedro.
Maybe that’s why quite a few people were paying attention to her. She not only resembled her appearance, but also her skill with her sword was considerable. Everyone I’ve dealt with so far has been able to finish them within 30 seconds. Without breaking a sweat.
Sasha disappeared from the waiting room, not the waiting room, as if all the matches were over.
Valdez stared in the direction she had disappeared, lost in her thoughts.
‘Obviously in the past…’
The Demon King once spoke of her daughter her.
While returning to the capital of the Kingdom of Ventorino after visiting the Archwitch. She remembered it very clearly because she dealt with the demon king for a few days and impregnated her.
My daughter’s name, Sasha. And her mother her, Anna.
It was a name I hadn’t heard in a very long time. Both were common names in the Empire, but that’s why Valdes remembered them well. Anna’s face was a little blurry, but Sasha’s face her became clearer as if she were brushing her memory.
“The really unexpected things keep happening…”
“Sir Valdez? Why don’t you answer me?”
“…Sir Ethylene? This is…Um, later. I’ll tell you later.”
“However…”
“Because it’s an important fact. If possible, I want to do it in a place where there are no other people and where everyone is gathered.”
“…Yes.”
Ethylene was very sorry for missing the opportunity to know that important fact first, but she decided to just move on for now. It was, in a way, predictable. I don’t know which direction it is, but it must be related by blood.
“Let’s go back at once.”
“Okay.”
As Valdez and Ethylene went back to the hotel, he remembered the woman he had met in a back alley the day before the tournament.
Its appearance of her was obviously the same as that of the paladin Fiora I had heard about in the report.
A woman with short mint-colored hair curled inward. Not only her face her, but her overall features her matched Fiora’s her. Even then, Valdez considered himself lucky. If she were Fiora, she was one of the most likely priests to join the hero’s party.
Moreover, she is Luciano’s adopted daughter, and she was quite close with her. Even if she had little to do with her hero her, she thought that once she became acquainted with her her, it would be of great help in her revenge on Luciano, so she ventured into her back alley to help her.
But from there she felt something strange.
She comes out, but she comes out wearing a nightgown with a high degree of exposure, and there are strange patterns in her eyes of her, and the way she speaks is different from what she investigated. She decided that the paladin couldn’t even beat her three bad guys. Thanks to that, he even wondered if Fiora had twins or if she was just a lot alike.
But I later realized that it wasn’t.
It was because of the change that happened to her during her conversation with her.
Suddenly, the pattern in her eyes her disappeared, her tone of voice her changed, and she reacted strangely, ashamed of her own attire her, as if the person herself had changed.
After that she somehow lent her coat to take her to her quarters her, but she was still not sure what it was.
You might say it’s not a big deal, but it was unexpected even after the obvious investigation. If done wrong, it could become a variable that interferes with her own plans of her. So I want to investigate more deeply about this, but there was a limit because the location was the location.
However, in this state, one more variable was created.
“Sasha. Sasha…”
“Looked strong, didn’t it?”
“Okay.”
A wrinkle appeared between Ethylene’s forehead and hers.
She was also a knight. She also watched and taught Valdes, Serenia and Mercedes several times their swordsmanship. I knew because How strong is Sasha.
“Perhaps the most potent hindrance.”
“Ha.”
It was a moment when Ethylene let out a sigh.
When she came all the way here and even when she stayed at the hotel, she devoted herself to training. She was then convinced as she looked around at the contestants in the qualifiers. She has no opponent of her own here. Most of her contestants were only a fraction of a second to her, much stronger than she was half a year ago.
So she was relieved and caught off guard. But suddenly, a powerful rival appeared.
“… What did you say about both sides of Vilma?”
“It’s pretty eminent, but there was no rearguard like Vilma.”
“Then I can do well.”
She stopped her steps and clenched her fists.
It was an opportunity not to be missed.
The opportunity to travel with my beloved Valdés for several months. And externally, it was an opportunity to make her reputation big. Even though she knew the reality and the future, she still didn’t want to miss this opportunity as a single knight.
“I… I will definitely win.”
“Yes, do your best.”
“Yes!”
However, the very next day, despite that promise.
“Haha.”
“Whoa… Oh, that’s amazing!”
“…Yes?”
“This is the first time someone my age has received a sword like this.”
“…”
“I want to have a little more fun, but I have to go to the warrior party. So… That’s it.”
“?!”
Her swordsmanship her, like a wild beast, raged like a storm.
A ruthless swordsmanship that shocked most of the spectators.
After the mercenary girl’s sword, reminiscent of someone from the past, swept the arena.
“Whoa, good job!”
Standing above it was the red-haired mercenary, Sasha.
