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The reason the instructors who taught Elsie left after not being able to endure it for long was because of Elsie’s overwhelming physical ability.

Something that goes beyond even the word talent for swordsmanship.

Swordsmanship is a set of postures optimized for swinging a sword.

People who have been using swords for a long time research and establish thoughts on how to survive and kill enemies when fighting opponents with various types of weapons, pass them on to future generations, and the future generations develop them repeatedly over a long period of time. system.

Of course, the swordsmanship varies depending on the person who first created the sword and the type of sword held. Even if you learn several swordsmanship, it is not easy to fuse two swordsmanship created by completely different people.

This is because the basic stance taken and the way the staff is cut and stabbed are all different.

If you swing the sword with all your might, it is not easy to stop in the middle, and it takes time to move the blade and establish a posture, so you have to be careful when moving from swordsmanship to swordsmanship, and it requires some technique.

But for Elsie, that’s not a problem.

Even if you don’t swing your sword with all your might, you have the power to break the blade of your opponent’s sword.

And because you didn’t swing it with all your might, you can stop the sword’s path when you want. It’s also easy to change to a different posture afterwards.

Among the swordsmanship postures in my head, there is none that Elsie cannot assume. As a Delkish person, her innate physical ability makes all of them possible.

As these two situations overlapped, Elsie’s swordsmanship became a haphazard mixture of various swordsmanships without any system.

Even if the sword flew in a way that was disadvantageous to Elsie’s current posture, Elsie had the ability to change her current posture into a good posture to defend herself against the sword before it cut her.

Elsie had the ability to first stop in the air with her own strength before the sword she struck hit the enemy’s sword, and then retracted the sword and adjusted her posture so that it did not overlap the position of the enemy’s sword and moved again.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t have sword energy or aurors. If you strengthen your legs and run like a shot, rushing into the opponent’s arms, there is no way to stop it.

If you defend, you will be pushed back with the sword, and even if you dodge, the sword’s trajectory will change and it will fly in that direction. The worst opponent is that you will not know what to do when you are facing him.

And the scariest thing is that Else is not up to the average of the people of Del Quiche.

If you imagine that people who are stronger and stronger than Elsie are swinging swords and even flying sword energy, it is understandable why the sword master teachers were so discouraged that they gave up teaching Elsie.

Clearly, there is a reason why the barbarians, who are stronger than ordinary knights, cannot cross the territory of Delki City.

“Ha, ha, ha… … !”

However, while sparring with such an opponent, Adele was smiling as if she was having fun.

Sweat was dripping down my forehead and my white face was turning red. Sweat was also dripping from the clothes I was wearing and sticking to my skin.

If a man had seen this scene, he would have blushed and looked away.

Elsie, who was dealing with Adele, was rolling her eyes here and there with a troubled expression.

Elsie was so skilled that she couldn’t even change her clothes in front of me. It wasn’t strange for her to make that kind of expression towards Adele, whom she was meeting for the third time.

… … It wasn’t the expression he made in front of me, though.

Elsie’s eyes, which were rolling back and forth, met mine.

In fact, my appearance would be almost similar to Adele. Although I learned swordsmanship, I did not have the desire to become a knight like Adele, so I did not study it seriously. If I could draw my sword at a critical moment and block the enemy’s attack once, that was enough. peel.

No, actually, there hasn’t even been a need for that in the last 10 years.

Just watching Elsie’s teachers lament as they left was enough to see how excellent Elsie’s swordsmanship skills were.

Although she certainly won’t be as good as her older brother, Havidel Kish, there are probably very few people in the royal capital who would stand a chance of winning in a direct spar with Elsie.

But actually, this was my first time seeing Elsie move like this.

Because I’ve never directly crossed swords before.

“Haaa!”

Without getting tired, Adele rushed towards Elsie. Raising her sword above her head, she ran a few steps towards Elsie and struck down the sword with all her might.

widely!

The two wooden swords clashed with force and made a loud sound. It was a slightly wet sound. Because it was a simple wooden sword made without even a guard to protect the hands, Adele’s sweat, flowing like rain, was running down the wooden sword and soaking it.

Percussion!

The wooden sword clashed with the wooden sword, and a wet sound was heard again. A few drops of sweat splashed onto Elsie’s top.

Over and over again. Adele was sweating like that, but she ran towards Elsie as if she was having a lot of fun at this moment.

After several rounds of fighting, Adele retreated.

“Ha, ha.”

The light reflected off the sweaty nape of my neck and made it shine.

It’s a bit strange to say this after seeing a friend I just made, but honestly, her appearance seemed enough to excite men. Isn’t she a heroine with beautiful features?

Perhaps because he was wearing a loose-fitting top and holding a wooden sword, he had a strangely oriental atmosphere, and perhaps that was why the atmosphere was strange.

“Phew.”

I caught my breath.

I felt bad about the clothes sticking to my body. Although I was in the basic swordsmanship stance, some time passed without me moving. To be honest, the only thing holding me up right now was my pride.

… … No, it wasn’t just pride. To put it a little more, there was also jealousy that was difficult to understand.

Unlike Adele, who was still full of energy, my legs were shaking.

The exterior of the wooden sword was smooth. That’s why the wooden sword felt very slippery in my hands, which were soaked with sweat. When I pointed the sword down, sweat would come down from my sleeves and drip down onto the sword.

But if I stop here, Adele will enjoy swordplay alone with Elsie for a long time to come.

I hated it.

I thought I knew a lot about Elsie so far.

Just last night, we talked for a while. What was your favorite food, what movie did you like, what cartoon did you like?

In a language that only we two know in this world.

… … When I think about it again, it was a conversation I led.

No matter how much we share stories about what happened in our world in a language that only we know, there are still many things Elsie does not know about what she experienced and thought about in this world.

Even when Elsie was anxious and practicing swordsmanship alone, all I did was smile and say, ‘There’s no need for that.’

I didn’t even think about finding out how great Elsie’s swordsmanship was or why she needed to practice it. I just assumed that it would be natural.

“Haaa!”

Adele once again rushed towards Elsie.

Tap, tap!

The swords clashed, and sweat splashed from Adele’s body.

While moving her body that vigorously, Adele spoke earlier.

Elsie’s swordsmanship is truly the ultimate swordsmanship in the purest sense.

“… … .”

I looked at the two people clashing swords.

Elsie, who had been rolling her eyes here and there as if she was embarrassed by Adele’s outfit, looked straight at Adele when Adele swung her sword. Although Elsie boasted of overwhelming swordsmanship skills, there was something in common between the two while the swords met each other. It looked the same.

Am I overthinking things too much?

“Ha.”

Adele stepped back again and caught her breath.

Elsie’s eyes wandered around again and met mine.

And then, as if he was in trouble, he avoided his eyes again.

“… … .”

I gritted my teeth.

And after taking a deep breath,

“Ha!”

He rushed straight towards Elsie.

I didn’t think about what I was going to do. Maybe if I rushed in like this right now, I might lose my strength and not be able to participate in the swordsmanship training later.

However, I did not want to see just the two of them enter the world of two people.

However, unfortunately—

Crooked.

My foot slipped on the floor for a moment.

The floor was very slippery due to the sweat from me and Adele.

Even so, my physical strength and swordsmanship skills were overwhelmingly inferior among the three, and my legs, already tired from moving a lot, were unable to regain their collapsed balance.

“Kya!”

While the joy of determination suddenly turns into ugly screams,

chin.

My body, which had been falling backwards, stopped in midair.

And then something on my back lifted me up.

“… … .”

Elsie’s face is filled with attention.

And Elsie’s body temperature feels close to her.

“You seem to be very tired, Grand Duchess.”

Elsie said while looking straight at me.

In a sense, my final attack was exactly as he intended.