Chapter 184 – Meeting My Older Sister Again (04)

The other swordsmen speed up and start running away from me.

The horse was advancing at a trot to maintain its stamina, but when it met me, it started to run away with all its might, so I had to speed up to catch up again.

However, because of the famous swordsman attacking from the front, rather than speeding up, I had to slow down to fight him.

‘Tch… Are you just trying to waste time?’

Although the inside was clearly visible, there was no time to detour, and more than anything, the opponent was charging straight ahead, so if you tried to turn and collided, you would be dealt a one-sided blow.

I had no choice but to slow down by extending the blade made with [Shadow Enchantment] To the entire sole and sinking it into the ground.

Sigh!

As the floor was cleared cleanly and I lowered my body and slowed down, the swordsman of the famous family who was charging at me stopped talking and raised the sword of the famous family that he had drawn.

Chin.

“The vanguard of the Marian guerrilla force. This is Joel.”

“Aren.”

“Is this a name given by the [Shadow Family]?”

“No, it’s me.”

At those words, the man who introduced himself as Joel looked at me closely.

“I’m sorry, but I can’t deceive you. It’s because I saw the boy who came with Lady Marian back then.”

I remember it too.

This prosecutor was one of the prosecutors who snooped around and watched Marian and I walking around.

“The real Aren was taught by a young lady and she learned the swordsmanship of a famous family. She taught him to thoroughly remember it in his body, so her gait and the posture in which she holds the sword are different.”

“Huh…”

As I grabbed the sword of the famous family handed over by Sir Andre, he also took a fighting stance, holding his sword of the famous family with both hands.

“They seem to have learned well in terms of knowledge, but those who have actually trained since childhood are different.”

“It’s not wrong.”

Because I completely changed my body.

‘A strong man’

Because he was currently opposing me, his stats were not visible.

I didn’t feel like he was trying to kill me, but at least I felt like he was trying to take my time or injure me so I couldn’t follow him.

‘The Dnevarin family may punish you for disobeying the orders of the head of the family, so did you purposely prevent others from fighting me and take action yourself?’

In some ways, I thought he was an exemplary executive, but in reality, from the perspective of the person currently being interrupted, it was quite annoying.

I moved the [Shadow Ninjutsu] That I had used on my legs to my arms.

‘Originally, the swordsmanship of a famous family learned with Aren’s body was learned by forcibly changing the swordsmanship used with a tall body to suit a short body.’

In other words, the swordsmanship learned by modifying the Yamae was cast with an elongated body, so it was bound to be insufficient in the eyes of swordsmen from famous families.

So there is only one thing I believe in.

Kaaaaang!

When we lightly exchanged swords for the first time, Joel seemed surprised by my strength, which was stronger than expected, but he calmly swung his sword and began to block my sword.

Although the current ability level is close to 500, swordsmen of famous families, especially elite swordsmen of famous families who are close to being named in their own way, have physical abilities exceeding at least 600.

To them, my abilities were relatively low, and more than anything, I was very behind in sword skills.

After we exchanged swords about three times, I was stumbling and Joel calmly retrieved his sword and tried to lunge, and I almost lost sight of Sir Andre’s sword, which was out of his grasp.

‘I may be a little tired, but I only touched my sword three times…’

As expected, I thought he was a swordsman from a famous family.

I think it’s only natural since he would be in the top 5 in the Dnevarin family in terms of ranking.

‘Where are you planning to stab?’

Due to this person’s personality, it will be difficult to deal with it if he stabs the person sent by Sir Andre with the sword to death.

I wouldn’t worry about killing him if he died alone, but I would try to subdue him because he might accuse Marian or the other swordsmen, and above all, considering the difference in swordsmanship skills between him and me, it was clear that I would try to subdue him without necessarily killing him or inflicting fatal injuries.

So, I gave up my body defense and stretched out my left hand to block the sword flying towards my thigh.

“…!”

A strange look appears in Joel’s eyes.

He seems surprised that he guessed where he was going to attack, but he had to block his sword with his hand so it pierced his palm and stabbed him in the thigh, incapacitating him.

I thought I thought so…

Pooh wow!

In fact, his sword pierced the palm that I had covered with [Shadow Granting Art] In one go and pierced half of the sword body.

“Ouch…”

“It’s over. If you take action right now, you won’t die. We’ll finish the job and come back, so take first aid and wait until then.”

“Don’t you know that you give flesh and take bones?”

To fight this guy, he was able to use the abilities of [Shadow Ninjutsu] And [Golem Maker]… If he used the Hoshin weapon that Melissa gave him, he was confident that he would fight this guy and win.

However, because Joel was wary of me and expected that if he took his time, he would be caught here, so he deliberately confronted me head-on and showed a loophole.

[Shadow Pocket].

If I cut his body incorrectly, I could cut off his arms or legs, so I expected to stab him in exactly one place and incapacitate him. As expected, he attempted to incapacitate me by stabbing me in the thigh as soon as I was pushed.

And then I used the [Shadow Pouch] To swallow his sword, and from his angle his, I thought I would have been pierced through the palm of my hand and even into his thigh.

I just opened the [Shadow Pocket] And accepted the sword inside.

Up to this point, you could say that you are just deceiving the other person.

“Hmm?”

Before Joel, who felt suspicious, could retrieve his ‘Sword of the Master’, I closed my palm further, swallowed the sword, and twisted my palm.

Wow!

“…?!”

Joel was started by the feeling of something breaking and retrieved his sword, but more than half of his sword he was shattered from the middle to the blade, turning it into half a sword.

“How did this happen…”

‘The shadow pocket contains a wooden sword’

A wooden sword can barely fit in my [Shadow Pocket] And there is very little room left.

In other words, if I open the [Shadow Pocket] And put another object inside, it will be stored right next to my ‘wooden sword’, and if I turn my palm and move it in that state, it will collide with the wooden sword inside.

Although the sword of the famous family was strong, it was not indestructible, and I was able to destroy exactly the part I wanted without swinging the wooden sword incorrectly and crushing people.

Clink!

I slightly opened the palm he had thrust in to show him the [Shadow Pocket] That would not be visible to his eyes, and dropped the broken blade inside it.

Joel, surprised that his sword was broken, before moving, swung the sword of the Highborne that Sir Andre had given him, holding it with his right hand.

Kaaaaang!

I blocked my blow with the famous sword, which was shorter than usual and cut in half, but unlike before, I was giving my best, and Joel, who was shaken by the shock of the broken sword, was not my opponent.

Rather, because he was so used to his own sword, the sword of a famous family, he was not used to a sword that was shorter than usual.

“Pfft!”

In the end, when Joel became impatient and launched a strong attack to turn the situation around, I took advantage of the opportunity and attempted to ‘disarm’ him.

‘This makes no difference! He even succeeded against Sir Andre! So…!’

By distributing the [Shadow Granting Art] To my limbs and attaching them to my body, I can move as I think.

Holding Sir Andre’s sword with both hands, he follows his cut-in-half sword to the bottom, stopping the sword near the guard and applying rotational force.

Wow!

Then Joel, who was embarrassed, tightened his hands and tried not to let go of his sword.

However, his posture was shaken by my pulling force, and I immediately gave up on disarming and lowered my sword.

‘Literally… The easy choice of death!’

Only then did Joel think, oh no, he should have just given him the sword and taken out his sidearm, or he should have stepped back and looked at the situation, but it was already too late.

The handle of the sword I swung down barely grazed his chin and I was able to avoid it, but before he could run away, the blade I swung touched Joel’s thigh his.

Wow!

Since he was a famous swordsman who did not wear thick armor and fought mainly by evading and counterattacking, even a slight cut to his thigh would cause blood to ooze out.

But it was not a fatal wound.

“This method of disarming was taught to only one person by the head of the family…!”

Huh? Did you?

Certainly, other than me, I have never seen anyone use disarming so actively.

Breaking the opponent’s weapon or attacking his hand to disarm him. I’ve never seen a technique like me where you tie weapons together and seize them, except when Sir Andre used it to seize my wooden sword.

But there was no time to worry about that.

“If you take first aid, you won’t die.”

Returning the same sound I heard earlier, I focused [Shadow Ninjutsu] On my legs again and ran.

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‘Catch up… Gotcha!’

As I started to catch up almost to the tail, the fleeing swordsmen of the famous family were running too hard until their horses foamed at the mouth and were constantly blowing their whistles to warn someone somewhere.

But before they could properly join Marian, I had to catch up with them first.

‘Once we stop them from joining, Marian won’t be able to make any moves!’

In other words, you can buy time.

So I lowered my posture and raised the sword of the famous family to tie their feet.

Sigh!

In order to accurately cut down only the horses as they passed by, the posture was extremely low, and the horses whose ankles were cut off or grazed by the blade screamed and the formation collapsed.

While avoiding the horses’ hooves that constantly tried to trample on me, I swerved, hurting the horses and blocking their path.

Sigh!!

The tips of my feet were protected by the [Shadow Granting Art], But my shoes were not protected, so my shoes were already tattered from excessive movement, so I was barefoot.

In such a situation, [Shadow Granting Art] Could not protect the entire sole of the foot, so the heel was peeled and harpooned, but it was a price worth changing just by preventing pronation.

“Stop! This is the order of the head of the family, Sir Andre! Return to the family!”

Some swordsmen fell off their horses as their words suddenly got mixed up, but physically they were the strongest of the royal faction, so they just shook off the dust and got up.

‘As expected, it’s strong. They are elite prosecutors’

If they attack as a group, even I cannot guarantee a victory without a wooden sword.

However, if they ran away like they didn’t notice before, they had no choice but to turn back if they were holding Sir Andre’s sword in front of them and blocking them.

In fact, it seemed like they had been caught before Sir Andre ordered them to stay still, so they quickly ran away, not because they were outright ignoring Sir Andre’s orders, but because they were trying to make an excuse that they ‘didn’t hear’.

Others may not know, but these ‘swordsmen of the famous family’ could not at least openly ignore the orders given by the person holding the famous sword that Sir Andre had.

“Now go back and only a few people remain to search for Marian…”

It was that time.

The faces of the prosecutors who had earlier been blowing their whistles and desperately waiting for someone to come turned bright red, and the prosecutors who had been paying close attention to what I was saying all relaxed their expressions and looked relieved.

Before I turned around, a voice that approached me asked.

“At best, you can’t give orders with just the matriarch’s sword.”

Excited. Excited. Excited.

It’s familiar, but at the same time, it’s not a voice full of affection for me that I’ve heard before, but a voice that’s really… So cold that it gives me goosebumps.

The prosecutors who stopped after hearing my words got back on their horses and tried to move.

At least, she is one of the few people who can get priority over receiving the sword from Sir André and ordering him to return.

He may not have been able to sleep or rest properly, and he may have been on the battlefield just a moment ago, but his face has scars and sunken eyes.

Her long hair was messy, as if she had not maintained it properly, and she looked at me and Sir Andre’s sword I was holding with cold eyes.

“If there was an order to be given, the matriarch should have come in person. How would I know whether you stole the sword and impersonated the matriarch’s orders or not?”

Taking on Sword Master Sir Andre and seizing the sword? Is that possible?

But her words she had weight.

“Marian.”

“Do you know me?”

I tried calling her like I called her before.

“Sister.”

Hoping that my ‘voice’ will reach you.

“I don’t have a younger brother.”

But she calmly ignored her words and drew her own sword.

“Because all my younger brothers are dead.”