Chapter 15 – Duel

After her shoulder her, she and Marianne sat in her waiting room and exchanged doran doran stories.

Of course, all Marianne told me was what I knew, but she couldn’t pretend to know, so instead, she chimed in with her.

“Oh, you also read the autobiography of Knight Daimus?”
“Yes, he is a person from 400 years ago, but I think he is more advanced than anyone else in his approach to nothingness and his attitude towards training.”
“What do you know? These days, guys think that simply doing strength training and increasing mana will make them stronger.”

She nodded her head, although it was kind of funny to say that she was a kid these days, since she herself was 19.

If this world was an unreleased game, the system window would be ringing as a notification that the favor rate is rising.

“But you, why do you treat me with respect when I told you to call me noona?”
“Uh? Ah..How can I say anything carelessly when I am new to the princess?”

At my words, Marianne began to exert her strength within three hundred, probably trying to appeal to her dislike her.

Normally, a beautiful girl like that should look cute, but since she was Marianne, she felt like a lioness roaring, so I started to get chills.

“I’m just a person, huh? Since you liked me, if you told me to do it, sister, there will be no second time. Perfect for you too! Say yes! Sister! And act like a man!”

Mr. Eowoo, I almost passed out at the 33-year-old Sang-cheol who taught me what to do when I was working hard in real life.

Marianne’s easy-goingness is also the biggest reason I got used to Xiao-Mei’s way of speaking.

Xiaomei is cute, brother! To be honest, Marianne would be a good fit for a mercenary leader or a crime syndicate leader.

‘If I were really comfortable talking about it, that’s what he would have said.’

I heard that in the previous episode and immediately talked about it, and then I heard it.

From Marianne’s point of view, it’s probably because she likes it more carefully.

“Then… Sister Marianne?”
“Yeah, good job! Feel free to call me in private places from now on!”

At the same time as Marianne said that, she began stroking my hair.

Her hair was tousled after being touched hard for about 20 minutes by her crowd, but she chose not to mind.

‘If I can make friends with Marianne beforehand, I can even cut her hair into half her.’

She, of course, learned everything she learned from the previous episode, but she is still the one who is nominated for the strongest among the main characters.

If she thinks that she is her own person, her sense of distance her is infinitely narrowed, and she listens well to any request, so it can be said that she is the best her.

“By the way, how do you plan to defeat Zion?”

Suddenly Marianne said that and started looking me up and down.

“Mana… I hit it a little, but should I do it to make it 2nd circle? Her body is strong for a wizard, but she must have been training lately.”

She hadn’t even taken out anything yet, but Marianne accurately analyzed my strength as if she had seen my training process.

Well, in a way, it’s normal.

Marianne is already close to perfection when it comes to her swordsmanship her, and she is in a position to teach the kingdom’s seasoned warriors as well.

It’s easy to know where her her academy her can teach her, just by recalling her description her in the original novel, which says that all she can teach her is knowledge such as lordship and administration, astronomy and astrology.

“What, did you hide a great artifact? Or did you really make a contract with the devil as rumored?”
“What do you mean by contracting with the devil?”
“Peel?”
“No.. What are you talking about, older sister?”

Only then will you smile with satisfaction again.

In the previous episode, I didn’t get used to it because I used honorifics while calling Master.

“Because it is known that you fight against Rexton’s knights without fear, rumors are spreading that you made a contract with the devil and planned to immerse Rexton.”

No what the fuck is this?

“If I made a pact with the devil, would I fight a public duel for being crazy? It’s quieter and easier to deal with secretly.”
“That’s why I came to see you. Did he really go crazy and sign a contract with the devil, or is his liver his an idiot who jumped out of his boat?

What’s the difference between a jerk and a madman?

“Did you get your hands on any of the devil’s treasures?”
“Do you think the teachers will kill me right away if I wield it openly?”
“Yo. This?”
“No… I guess? Sister?”

The treasures of the demon king are artifacts that are said to have been used by the demon king before he was sealed.

It is said that using each treasure will corrupt or even lead to death, no matter how great a hero is he.

For reference, in the original work, because the corps commanders and officers came out one by one, even in this world, most of the demon king’s treasures have already been retrieved and held by the demon king’s army.

Thanks to this, in fact, if you don’t know the boss battle, it’s close to dying.

The main character also had to deal with it by sacrificing his comrades in every battle.

“Why would I have such a treasure? In the first place, if you have even one such dangerous item, you will be arrested as a heretic by the Northern Church, but even if you have it, you cannot use it.”
“No, then how the hell are you going to win?”
“Didn’t my sister also say that she thought I would win?”
“It’s different to listen to the plan with less weight! I’m curious!”

Marianne, with her frustrated face, grabbed both of her shoulders and swayed her back and forth, urging her to answer.

It’s not that the feeling is incomprehensible. Academy duels are different from the kind of safe duels we think of.

First of all, all skills and equipment including artifacts are allowed by default, and of course weapons like Jingeom are allowed. It cannot be stopped unless it surrenders or is incapacitated, and there is no foul play other than attacking opponents who have surrendered or outside the field. Sudden attack? Necromancy? Poison? All are permitted unless prohibited in advance.

It’s a rule that you’ll see in any back alley underground arena just by hearing the explanation, but these are the general official rules. Is it a practice-oriented battle to create talented people who can defeat the Demon King’s army, which is the academy’s founding ideology?

Honestly, there’s no reason to duel unless you’re insane. Especially if there is such a difference in skills. Knowing that, Marianne would be curious too.

Beep – beep –

The preparation lamp made of magic stones that hung in the waiting room began to sound. It is a notification that a duel will begin soon.

“What? I was going to tell you, but the time is up! I can’t help it, sister.”
“It’s okay, I’m not asking because it’s petty.”

Marianne grunted from her seat, probably knowing that she had no intention of telling my wits.

“… Are you really not going to tell me?”
“Sister, you are ugly.”

After sending Marianne away, who was soggy until the last door closed, she took out the things she had prepared from her bag her.

She didn’t have a weapon, but in gloves, she didn’t really pack any armor, so her body was very light.

“So it feels like we’re going to sparring lightly rather than dueling.”

When I was all dressed up and trying to get into my posture, the door opened and the lead team senior who brought me came inside.

“Are you ready? Now it’s your turn to come up!”
“Ah, I see.”
“Is that all about clothes? Are you okay?”

A senior in the leadership team, who was walking along the corridor in my light clothes, asked anxiously.

“Do not worry. I just want to win.”

After answering with a smile, I opened the door and went up to the stage.

***

“I must be really stupid…”

Violet, who was sitting in a special seat in the arena, very close to the stage, reproached herself as she grabbed his head of her.

“It would be much better for grades to do assignments and prepare for lessons at this time, but I came to see what was good, standing in line from the morning!”

Violet blamed herself so much but did not get up from her seat her. After all, he thought watching the game would help him even more.

Violet, who has suffered from Artin’s worries and déjà vu headaches for the past few days, finally admits that she has a problem. Even when he was examined in the ward, he just dismissed it as a simple headache, and he tested himself to see if he was cursed, but there was no sign of the curse.

Maybe if I met Artin again, I would know the identity of this unknown deja vu, so I tried to visit the private training room where I was training, but I had to return to my room because of the unknown reluctance that I felt every time I approached the training room.

“What the hell was that strange feeling? Didn’t it seem like a barrier? A bit more primal…”

Feeling close to living, someone came and sat down next to Violet who was muttering that.

“Oh, I finally came to watch the game. Sister Violet?”

It was a strange voice he heard for the first time, and what he felt in that voice was the sense of deja vu he felt from Artin before, and at the same time, it was also a reluctance close to living that chased him away.

When Violet hurriedly turned her head, there was a woman in white and black glittering with her long, loose bun hair.

“…Ah, the name must be in class B..”
“Didn’t I remember yet? Be a little sad It’s Xiao Mei.”

Only then did Violet remember who the woman was. Lin Xiaomei. The successor of God of War and the escort of Zorba Pelkas. She and she were the children Artin and I had been going to together lately.

What Violet, smart and observant, couldn’t immediately come up with was that Shao-Mei now was too unfamiliar to Violet, who was only seeing Shao-Mei, who used to go out with Artin or Pelkas. Rather than looking like a bear, she looked more like a fox.

Even though it was her first time her meeting her in person, Xiao Mei, who treated Violet as if she were familiar with her, explained herself with a smile on her face her, but Violet felt chilly from that smile.

“You remember, isn’t this the first time we’ve met personally?”

Seeing Violet’s attitude of her, wondering if she had met her before, Xiao Mei turned her gaze toward the arena with a rather satisfied look on her face of her.

“It’s the first time, but it’s not the first time. Do you know if I say this?”

It’s the first time, but it’s not the first time, Violet couldn’t understand it at all.

“That… Did we even exchange letters? Why do you keep pretending to be so friendly? You don’t even look very happy.”
“Are you not happy? I’m saying this because you don’t know how happy I am for Violet unnie. Is she the person you like next to the young master or Artin’s older brother?”
“You? Me? While showing such hostility?”

When Violet began to ask in annoyance whether she had come to filter out the argument, Xiao Mei shook her head and continued her words.

“It can’t be helped, can it? Since Violet-sister kept trying to get closer to Artin’s brother, she had a hard time suppressing the hyena that was aiming for her man.”

Violet heard what she was talking about—and realized that she felt something beyond her annoyance with Xiao Mei, who herself called Art Thinn her man her. It was unpleasant.

“I don’t know what the hell you’re talking about, but why don’t you just explain things that only you know?”
“Um… Well, good. I came here because I have business.”

When Xiao Mei said that and met her eyes in her, Violet suddenly realized what a sense of incongruity she had felt in this woman.

“I won’t yield to anyone this time, not even to that brain-muscled princess, the arrogant puny bitch, or Violet-sister.”

This woman is ‘out of line’. Her body her is a young child who has just finished puberty, but inside her she is entangled with her many experiences and memories of her, so she would not doubt it even if a seasoned witch transformed into a child.

“What is your identity.”

The moment Xiao Mei was about to answer, the students around her started cheering loudly.

[From now on, the duel between Artin Ludwig and Rexton Wise begins.]

At the same time as the calm guidance voice, the parties to this duel came up to the arena. Violet also lost her gaze at Artin’s appearance.

When Violet, who regained her senses, moved her gaze from Artin to the seat her next to her, Xiao-Mei, who had been beside her just before, had disappeared.

***

“This crazy dog.”

As I climbed onto the stadium, I couldn’t help but be stunned by the sight of Zion walking from the other side.

Specifically, the pendant on her chest was the problem.

“It’s over the line, you bastard.”

Rexton must have finally gone mad.

I couldn’t help but think as I saw Shion’s laugh emitting an eerie life that could be felt even in the audience.

Because of that pendant Rexton prepared, one of them can see her blood her.