episode_0042

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It’s been five years since I’ve been to this training room again…

It felt so different.

It’s a little different now that I came here on purpose to see Assyria, whereas back then I came here on purpose to see Assyria.

“Are you ready? I’m ready!”

Assyria spoke with the brightest face he had ever seen.

His childish, excited look seemed full of anticipation for the upcoming duel with me.

I grabbed the wooden sword that Assyria threw at me.

Swords aren’t my specialty… why am I here again?

ha….

A sigh escaped me.

Besides, it’s different from five years ago. Assyria has become stronger. Much stronger than it was then…

Of course, it’s not to the point where you can’t win, but it’s more of a nuisance than before.

I think I’ll get upset if we end it too quickly… I think it’s best to hang out for a while and then end it.

That’s because it’s difficult to draw that line.

“Okay, then I’ll go first!”

“Wait, wait!”

“….What’s going on?”

It was not possible to duel without any conditions.

I feel like I should receive something too.

“I have to bet. I’ll bet my wish this time too.”

“…..hmm.”

Assyria’s eyes narrowed.

Why, what! It’s such a bothersome and difficult thing to duel with you!

It was obvious that he would ask to duel again every day starting today, so a safety measure was needed in advance.

“….It’s not okay not to duel.”

“…..Then you’ll be banned for a month.”

“I don’t like it.”

“…..Immigration prohibited.”

“Absolutely hate it.”

“Then so be it,” I said, almost giving up, looking at Assyria’s stern face.

“Haa… Okay. Then a one-week ban. That’s fine. ”

“I don’t like that either….”

“If you don’t like that either, I’ll go back. I won’t duel.”

“…..Okay. Okay! Okay. Then let’s do that.”

“…..And besides that, I need to grant you one more wish.”

Then I’ll have something left over too.

Fortunately, this time Assyria nodded willingly.

“Okay, but you know what I mean?”

“What?”

Assyria said with a confident smile.

“That’s all possible if you win…. If you think of yourself as the me from 5 years ago and rush in, you’ll get a big nose injury.”

I chuckled at the sight of Assyria’s arrogant yet confident look, his eyes shining as if he would never give up.

Well, I wonder if that’s true.

“Don’t ever let me off. I’ll fight back with all my might, too….”

“Okay, I’ll do my best too.”

I held tightly to the wooden sword that Assyria had thrown at me.

I have all my swordsmanship skills activated.

Now, I had no choice but to trust my abilities and entrust my body to the skills.

Because I told you never to look at it.

Let me try to be a little more serious too.

I was curious too.

What will happen if I use my abilities in earnest?

Since Assyria has become stronger, he might be able to hold me off for a few seconds. He is a munchkin in this webtoon world.

“Then let’s go!”

Assyria rushed at me with his sword drawn. At first, I thought he was going to test my liver.

I stopped the sword.

The power of Assyria was great, but my power was greater.

Every time my sword and Assyria’s sword clashed, a cracking sound that a wooden sword could not make was heard.

With each clash of swords, Assyria’s face grew brighter.

The sight of him running towards me with a face that said he was going to die from fun was just like how he was so in love with swords that he didn’t know what to do, so I also gradually got excited.

“Okay, now it’s time to start in earnest. Stop it!”

With those words, Assyria put the blade on his wooden sword.

It’s so lethal that a Sword Master would use his Aura Blade against a civilian…

But Assyria didn’t give a damn about it, having learned from the game the day before that I could block the Auror Blade.

There is only one reason why I can stop that aura with a wooden sword.

Because she was barely able to channel her aura without destroying the wooden sword. But even this was slowly reaching its limit.

If you keep hitting each other like this, the sword will break.

I looked at the silver aura blade of Assyria.

I think I could do that too… why don’t I just put an aura on it?

I tried to imitate the Aura Blade similar to the Assyrian one, thinking that if I poured my overflowing mana into the sword, I would be able to vaguely imitate it.

“….You, you, you! You were a sword master too!”

Assyria shouted in amazement at my counterfeit Auror Blade surrounding the wooden sword.

My sword had a golden aura blade made of it.

Is this possible? I’m surprised too.

As if he knew this would happen, Assyria began to act even crazier than before.

As the Auror Blades clashed, a duel of a different dimension from before began.

Assyria used all his sword skills without mercy as if he wanted to show everything he had, and I blocked them all.

I wasn’t playing around while blocking, because I had already identified all of Assyria’s weaknesses.

Assyrian swordsmanship appears to be perfect, but it has some flaws.

If those kinds of gaps pile up, you’ll end up in serious trouble later. So it’s better to let them know in advance.

I also hope that Assyria will grow further.

“Assyria. Watch carefully from now on.”

“…..What are you talking about?”

I looked at Assyria and smiled.

Just made this. Assyrian swordsmanship destruction method.

This is a sword technique that I created on my own.

Unlike just before when I was busy defending myself, I started swinging my sword haphazardly.

But each and every one of those swords would be a threat to Assyria, because they were created to exploit her weaknesses.

As expected, Assyria began to block my sword in a hurry.

Unlike before, he didn’t seem to have any leeway at all.

Okay, oh, you’re blocking it well? Are you blocking this too? Oh, right. That’s how you should block it. Okay, try blocking this too.

I played with Assyria as if I was playing with it.

Assyria gritted his teeth and charged forward, and it was visibly evident that he grew as he fought, as if no one would think he was the main character of Munchkin.

Well, but this is the end of playing.

I charged my sword with such force that Assyria couldn’t stop it.

The Assyrian sword flew straight ahead. I came straight ahead and the Assyrian sword collided with it.

As expected, the winner was me.

Assyria was so overwhelmed by my power that he dropped his sword and it flew far away.

I said, holding my sword in front of Assyria’s neck.

“I won, right?”

Assyria looked at me blankly.

Those eyes were shaking more violently than ever.

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“Okay, then I’ll go back. Don’t forget the gaps I pointed out earlier and study them. If you just reinforce those parts, you’ll be more perfect. Oh, by the way, did you know that dueling is prohibited for a week? I’ll think about your wish a little more and tell you. See you later, senior.”

As soon as the duel was over, Jodel kindly explained to him what he had lacked in the duel as if he were a teacher, then without any regrets, he turned around and left the training room.

Assyria, who was left alone, blankly stared at the back of the person before collapsing into his seat.

“Ha, hahaha.”

It was the first time. No, not even the first time. It was the second time. It was such a miserable defeat…

Even 5 years ago, and even now… that kid is above me.

I was confident that I would never give up this time…

I awakened as a Sword Master and tried to overcome my weaknesses by remembering the duel from five years ago. But even when we met again five years later, it was the same.

But isn’t it really strange?

If I had lost, I would have been upset and annoyed, but… I felt refreshed instead.

Up until now, whenever I trained, I always felt suffocated and like I had eaten a bunch of sweet potatoes, but this time, it felt like I had just gotten the right prescription from the doctor… It was incredibly refreshing.

This duel had made him one level stronger. That much was certain.

‘Even though I’m a man…’

Strangely enough, you don’t hate it, do you?

Since she was young, many men have been attracted to her because of her pretty face.

Then, there was a time when I was kidnapped by an old man who always gave me snacks whenever he saw me.

Since then, Assyria has been a hater of men.

That was until he lost badly to Jodell five years ago.

He vowed that if he met her again, he would take revenge for her deceiving him, but as time passed and he could not find her, he began to eagerly wait for the day when they would meet again.

Waiting for a man….

It was something that could not have happened in Assyrian thought.

but.

‘Jodel is different….’

It wasn’t the sinister gaze that other men had towards her.

Annoying and listless… but sometimes when he looked at me with cute eyes, my heart would flutter without me knowing it.

Do you have a heart problem?

Just a moment ago, when the final duel ended, Jodell looked at him with a bright smile even though he had a sword to his neck, and his heart pounded as if it was going to burst.

But what was even stranger was that it didn’t feel bad at all.

‘We have to duel again in a week….’

Before then, I need to take care of my heart condition and become stronger before I go.

…..Jodel. I will win no matter what.

Assyria vowed to himself.

There was a bright smile on her lips, as if she was about to die from excitement.