episode_0115

The rules were confirmed, and Philia accepted the match.

Liza tied Philia’s hands and feet, covered her eyes and ears, and told her that there was at least a 0.001% chance of winning by spinning 120 times in place, but I declined because the first four rules were enough.

In the first place, the first rule alone was enough to guarantee my victory, and the other rules were just a piece of cake for a more complete victory.

“Philia, do you remember the rules? With the weapon I gave you, you must attack using only the blade. You only get one chance, and if you fail to defeat me, Filia-san will be defeated.”

“Yes. I understood it well. So, what’s my weapon?”

Philia’s side was full of motivation. Did he see my confident attitude and decide that I had something on my mind?

“I will never look at you. Because we have to approach the game seriously.”

She said that she does her best even when dealing with ordinary people and glared at me with burning eyes.

“Now. This is the weapon Mr. Filia will use to win.”

I handed the weapon to Philia. Then Philia’s face was filled with embarrassment. Liza, who was watching, did the same.

“Mr. Zeke! Well, that… !”

“Attack with this?”

“Yes.”

I nodded to Liza and Philia who were confused.

“Are you sane? It’s a real sword!”

What I gave to Philia was a real sword, a real sword with a properly sharpened edge.

After handing over the weapon, I returned to my seat and stood.

“Remember. You only get one chance. I have to attack only with the blade part, and if I don’t fall, Mr. Filia will lose.”

Come on, Philia.

Take a look at me sometime.

*

“……”

As I expected, Philia stood still. No matter how serious you are about winning, is there any way you can cut down a civilian with a real sword?

If I drag on like this and raise an objection that the delay is too long and get an abstention or impose a time limit, my victory is confirmed.

‘Perfect.’

It’s the handicap you chose. Pay for your arrogance.

“Liza.”

Philia finally opened her mouth. Now that I’m abstaining –

“Please call Shuri.”

“Wait a minute, are you serious?”

huh?

“Hey, who is Shuri?”

“Healing Gift Owner.”

“…Huh? Yes?”

Wait, what?

“Shuri can heal even if your stomach is split open or your leg is cut off.”

“Are you really serious about bell? Really?”

“You have to approach the game seriously. Liza. Come on.”

Wait, you really cut me? Are you sane?

“…I understand. Hang in there. I’ll be back soon.”

No, why are you so convinced?

“Philia, the match is right, but… . This is just a friendly concept, so there’s no need to be too serious… .”

“I treat both training and sparring as if it were real combat.”

No shit, there is a degree to doing it as if it were a real fight.

“I brought you!”

Why are you coming so fast again?

In an instant, Liza brought a knight named Shuri. Shuri seemed embarrassed as if she couldn’t understand the situation.

“I’ll ask first. Are you going to surrender?”

“…Are you asking?”

Should we call it Philia’s last mercy? She advised me to surrender.

but,

“No. I have no intention of surrendering.”

Why would I surrender now?

Kang–!

“…Huh?”

I won.

*

Philia’s sword was pointed directly at my leg. I think they probably tried to cut off the leg and make it fall, but unfortunately it was blocked by the ‘shield’.

‘Ha fuck, my 1,000 points were a waste.’

I thought it might end up like this, but I never thought it would really attack.

“I won.”

At my calm words, the three who had frozen finally opened their mouths.

“Uh, how..? How did you stop it? I didn’t move a single finger…?”

Liza, who was watching with her eyes wide open, reacted in disbelief.

“Awesome… .”

Shuri, who was dragged by Liza, also had wide eyes.

“……One more time.”

“Yes?”

“Can I cut you one more time, no, 10 more times?”

Philia asked me with a desperate look in her eyes, different from when she proposed a match.

“No. Absolutely not.”

But it’s not even a possibility.

The shield costs a whopping 1,000 points to use once. A thousand points may not seem like a lot, but it is the money you earn by increasing the A-class heroine’s strategy progress by 10%.

Ten times that shield…? Nonsense. I wouldn’t know if Philia’s strategy progress was 100% with this, but otherwise, it would be a serious deficit.

“How did you do it? Teach me.”

“No. I can’t teach you.”

“I will do you 10 favors, no, 100 favors. I’ll listen to anything, so teach me.”

“No matter how many times I ask you to do something, I can’t teach you.”

“Then I will give you all my assets. I have quite a lot of money saved up. I will also give you your entire pension.”

“No, it’s not that it’s lacking… . It’s not something that can be taught in the first place. It’s kind of like a gift.”

“Ah… .”

Philia, who was clinging to me with a very desperate expression, soon turned into despair. I wish you would just leave your pants on.

“Anyway, I won the game, right? I blocked Filia’s attack, and I’m standing still like this.”

Philia got away from me and nodded slowly.

“I’ll admit it. I lost.”

[Philia’s strategy progress has increased. (0 -> 6%) Acquire 600 strategy points]

[Philia’s favor level has increased. (0 -> 2) Acquire 150 strategy points]

As Philia accepted the result, the progress of the strategy and the level of favorability increased.

The total points earned is 750.

‘Fuck, it’s a deficit.’

Think of it as an investment. It’s about 250 points. Why not buy strategy information?

‘Now there’s no reason to collect points.’

Even thinking about it again makes me angry. What a shit system. You took the save point like that and wasted 50,000 points on someone like Ariel.

I shook my head vigorously. It’s already past. Thinking about it only makes me stressed.

Be positive. Be positive.

Fuck, this is such a fucking waste. Fuck, fuck.

“Hey, Mr. Zeke?”

“Shiba – Huh. It’s late. Oh, did you call me?”

Was it natural? Ah, looking at Liza’s expression, it didn’t seem natural.

“That defensive technique… . You said it was a gift, right?”

“It’s similar to a gift.”

“What else is similar? Even if it were a gift, a significant amount of arc would be needed to block the captain’s attack, but Zeke could not feel the arc at all… . How on earth… .”

Liza, although not as much as Filia, seemed to be very interested in my shield in many ways.

‘I blocked the express engineer’s attack so easily. ‘I can’t help but be interested.’

But I can’t tell you about the shield. Of course, the same applies to other skills and items.

“Confidential.”

“It’s confidential again… . Then there is nothing we can do.”

Liza nodded as if she was tired of it, perhaps because she often said it was confidential.

“Now. Now let’s settle the bill. Since I won, I will ask Filia a favor as promised.”

Philia, who was muttering absentmindedly to herself as if she was analyzing my shield, came to her senses at my call.

“I… . Would you like me to save your seat?”

“No, I don’t mind if Liza hears it. No, rather, I need to know, so please stay.”

“Ah, yes… .”

Liza and Shuri, who were trying to get out of the way, stopped at my permission.

“For personal reasons, I must defeat the Legion Queen. However, it is not possible on your own, so you need the help of the knights stationed there.”

“That’s not something I can decide on my own… .”

“Of course. It’s enough for Mr. Philia to just tell me that he decided to help me.”

Unlike the military, which must efficiently dispatch large numbers of troops to the battlefield, the order of knights is not as strict as it is because they are a small elite group. To be more precise, the knights have no superiors.

Special, superior, intermediate, inferior. This rank that distinguishes knights simply indicates the knight’s level of military power, and is not a rank in particular. This means that just because he is a high-ranking knight does not mean he is the superior of a low-ranking knight.

So how do you establish a chain of command? This is decided by the knights themselves.

What if a low-ranking knight has weak military power but has excellent command skills? And what if other knights are convinced of that?

Even high-ranking knights will follow the orders of lower-ranking knights.

What if you follow orders but give orders that you don’t understand? Then the knights refuse. And they will try to select a new commander.

Therefore, even if Philia wants to help me, it is meaningless if the other knights are not convinced.

Although Filia is the captain in the first place, the actual commander is Liza, and considering that even Liza cannot push ahead without discussing it with her staff, it is ultimately up to me to persuade the knights.

‘But the difference between saying something and not saying it is significant.’

Nevertheless, Philia is a special knight and a captain. Since many knights have genuine respect for her, her remarks have considerable influence.

The reaction of ‘What are you?’ can change to ‘What is this person?’ thanks to Philia’s words.

That’s enough for me. If you get the starting point right, the rest can be proven with the results.

*

*

What kind of situation is this?

Liza called urgently, so I thought there was an emergency patient in the middle of the night, but when I arrived, Captain Philia and Mr. Zeke (the most handsome man in the universe) were competing.

I heard from Liza what kind of competition the two were fighting, but honestly, I didn’t understand it.

It’s a battle to withstand one attack from Captain Filia.

It is a daunting task even for a fairly advanced engineer, but for an ordinary person like Mr. Zeke, it is no different from having to endure a natural disaster with his bare body.

‘And you chose Jingeom… !’

I seemed to know what Mr. Zeke was aiming for. Even if he was a Filia captain, a knight wouldn’t be able to cut down an ordinary person, so I guess they were trying to get him to abstain by giving him a real sword.

But Mr. Zeke overlooked one important fact.

‘Our captain never pays attention… !’

Once you spar, there is no such thing as hand-to-hand, no matter how big the gap with your opponent is. Even if the opponent is an ordinary person with no power, if the opponent decides to win, Captain Filia will do his best to fight him.

In fact, since I was called here, Captain Filia is probably thinking of cutting off at least one of my legs.

If it’s my gift, I can attach at least one leg in no time. But the problem is pain. The pain of amputation is more terrible than you can imagine, and it can be traumatic for ordinary people who are not accustomed to pain.

‘Abstain, please abstain…’ !’

I don’t want to see Mr. Zeke’s handsome face distorted in pain. Plus, what if this becomes an opportunity to become afraid of knights? We may never be able to see that national treasure face.

Fortunately, Mr. Zeke also seems to have realized that Captain Filia is seriously trying to attack him.

You will abstain now, right?

No matter how competitive you are, it’s still normal.

There’s no way there’s a gangster who would give up a leg… .

“No. I have no intention of surrendering.”

Why is it there!? What on earth are you doing!?

To be honest, when I saw Zeke’s face, I thought he must have had an easy life. Even though the face isn’t everything, that’s what people say when they look awkwardly handsome. Zeke is right about everything. Even if you just sit still, people will give you money.

‘But why are you doing this? Why are you more relaxed than that?’

He was accepting Captain Filia’s criticism without any problem, as if having a leg cut off was not a problem.

What kind of life have you lived to be able to show such an attitude?

This is not the time to think like this. Now that the two have decided to compete, my job is to treat Zeke as quickly as possible after the conclusion.

With that in mind, I opened my eyes and concentrated,

Kang–!

“…Huh?”

Captain Filia’s sword stopped Zeke’s ankle nearby.

What did I miss? Clearly, Captain Filia attacked at a speed that was difficult to track even with my own eyes. If you don’t let Zeke even react, you can cut him more cleanly(?), and it’s easier to treat him that way.

But the sword was blocked. No, I don’t even know if it was blocked in the first place. A sharp metallic sound was heard, and Captain Filia froze.

“Uh, how..?”

Liza, who was next to him, also seemed to have no understanding of what was happening.

“I won.”

While everyone was shocked, only Mr. Zeke declared victory with a faint smile, as if he had expected this to happen.

“Awesome… .”

At that sight, my heart pounded as if it would explode.