episode_0100
by fnovelpia
Entering the mansion, Karl saw a fierce duel between two knights.
A common duel that occurs anywhere on the continent.
However, it is not common for two strong people like that to fight for their lives.
In the midst of a fierce battle, the two noticed a knife entering the mansion.
Louis was dumbfounded when he saw the knife crawling back in after he had finally sent it out.
He took a sharp blow from Alex and created a lull by gaining some distance.
With the gap he had finally managed to get some free time, Louis called out to Carl as he always did.
“Hey, little one.”
“……”
But he stood there without answering, with a mysterious expression on his face, as if he felt it was unfair to be called that.
“Did you wake up in the meantime? If you woke up, you should have taken the ladies and evacuated them to a safe place. Why are you here again… .”
“Nice to meet you, Master.”
“?”
Carl had a bright smile that didn’t match his tall, chiseled face. Was I hallucinating? Even if I looked again, he was completely different from his usual rebellious subordinate.
He was not a rough, prickly punk who seemed polite but was actually prickly.
He was a very rebellious person, so he was useful, but he made such an absurd laugh… .
I wondered if I had hit my head somewhere wrong when I fainted.
Carl smiled brightly and pointed at Alex, seemingly unaware of the absurdity that Louis was feeling.
“I’m really glad to meet you, but I have something to do right now.”
“Your job is to get away from there. He’s still a tough opponent.”
“That’s right. It’s still overwhelming. But… .”
Carl, who had been smiling brightly, spoke with a serious expression.
“Someday I will surpass it… ‘I’ have surpassed it.”
“……”
“Can you wait outside? I’m worried about Alana. I think it would be reassuring if the Master was with her.”
“You’re going to fight that monster alone all this time?”
As he said this, he pointed the tip of his sword at Alex.
He is definitely a monster. If Louis calls him a monster, then he is stronger than you can imagine.
However, the man who was actually called a monster just stood there blankly, seemingly not understanding the situation.
“Of course.”
“Huh! Really… .”
The answer came out without a moment’s hesitation, leaving Louis with no choice but to snort in frustration.
I had no idea that my disciple and subordinate would be the type to go to such lengths to talk nonsense. No matter how much I think about it, it’s clear that he was seriously injured.
Why, isn’t there such a story?
They say that if you get a head injury, your personality changes completely.
Louis vowed that after this fight, he would take Aesongi and run to the temple of the sect. Or he would tell Alana.
It seemed like some kind of treatment was needed.
At that moment, the holy sword appeared in Karl’s hand with a “s …
“You…! Why are you suddenly so reckless-”
Without a moment to stop, the knife flew out towards Alex.
I had expected that he would believe in the power of the Holy Sword of Bona Mana and fire pure white sword energy, but even from Louis’ perspective, the sword flew out at an incredibly fast speed, so he was unable to continue speaking.
visor-
Alex was also surprised by the sword that arrived in an instant. He immediately raised his sword and blocked the sword’s attack, but the weight of the attack was different from before.
‘What the heck?!’
The power of the Holy Sword was not even blooming.
Louis couldn’t help but be astonished at how fast it was without even relying on the physical strengthening abilities granted by the Holy Sword.
“This is getting fun! What happened outside?”
“Well, a cheering kiss?”
“It’s surprising that you even tease the beak.”
Alex recalled the princess’s order to fight moderately and then retreat. However, judging by the number of sword strikes exchanged between them, it seemed like it wouldn’t be easy to escape.
Kang-
Kang-
The sound of mana-infused blades clashing with each other echoed throughout the mansion.
Alex unconsciously began to use all his strength under the momentum of the sword.
The princess’s golden rule was clearly to not harm the man in front of her, Karl Mayner. However, even though she put all her effort into it, the dark oath did not activate.
When this man was lying down, my heart would pound just thinking about killing him, but now I feel fine.
Even though I swing my sword with all my might, determined to cut down my opponent, it doesn’t count as breaking my dark oath…
I got goosebumps for a moment.
The royal power has now decided that this situation is not harmful to Karl at all.
That means Alex’s attack, which reveals his power, is not a threat to Carl.
“Tsk!”
To shake off the creepy thoughts, Alex followed the knife with his usual overwhelming speed.
The appearance of disappearing in an instant before one’s eyes. This was Alex’s specialty that had allowed Karl to close the long distance in an instant when he first encountered Alex.
wickedness-
At that moment, the sword suddenly changed direction. Alex stopped as he passed by the place where the blade had changed quietly.
“It’s fast, but it doesn’t work for me.”
“!?”
Alex, startled, instinctively distanced himself. Then he put his hand on his cheek.
There was red blood on his hands.
blood.
Alex’s cheek was slightly cut by the tip of the sword that had changed direction and was standing upright.
If he hadn’t stopped, he would have rushed straight towards the sword, and not just grazed my cheek, but my head would have been blown off.
But if you think about it the other way around, Alex is alive because the sword was stopped.
“… What do you want to do?”
At the same time, it meant that the sword was playing with him.
“If I had swung my sword… No, if I had just extended my sword a little further forward, I could have killed him?”
“Ah~ That can’t be. I just came here to show you an example.”
“……”
Even with Alex himself, it was unpleasant and exciting to see the other person being so relaxed.
How long has it been since I’ve had such a heart-pounding fight?
Swish-
Alex lowered his posture and brought the sword in one hand behind his head, like a bowstring.
And the other hand stretched out towards the sword, as if aiming at a target.
It was Alex’s ultimate skill, which had been dormant for a long time.
“Yeah, it’d be a shame without it.”
After seeing Alex’s posture, Carl readjusted his sword as if he had been waiting for it. It was as if he was used to it.
“I didn’t really want to use this technique.”
Alex muttered quietly to himself. It was a technique he didn’t particularly like, as it reminded him of his days as a Guardian.
Paaat-
Blue mana gathered around his sword.
“Now that the princess has returned, I can use magic, but… I have to hold back.”
Each of the Guardian Knights had a technique they had developed through the magic they had received from the royal family. The technique Alex was trying to use now was no different.
When he used the magic he was given as a Guardian Knight a long time ago, it was an extreme, desperate technique that no one could match, but now that he is free from control, he has no choice but to surround himself with mana and shout it out.
Then Louis’s scream was heard.
“Damn it! Back off, little brat. You’re too much for me!”
At first glance, it seemed like a simple swordsmanship preparation, but Louis, who knew that the results would be different, tried to intervene.
But Carl ended up just smiling faintly at Louis, as if it was nothing.
Alex, who was anxious at the absurdly relaxed appearance, swung the sword he had been pulling forward.
Phew-!
The black energy gathered at one point advanced with the momentum to pierce through everything.
At first glance, it was a simple stab, but it was so fast and so strong that it displayed the skills of Ringcaps, once considered the pinnacle of the Guardian Knights.
“!”
Louis decided it was too late to interfere between the two.
I could only watch my disciple Aesong die like this, or hope for a miracle to happen.
chuck-
Carl quickly raised the holy sword he was holding with both hands above his head and slashed it downwards.
It was much simpler than Alex’s stab, and thus the essence of pure swordsmanship.
A swordsmanship that is neither a sword nor the power of the holy sword.
At the end of that delicate trajectory, Alex’s sword energy split in half.
‘That, that’s…!’
Louis was horrified.
It was surprising that Aesong was able to destroy Alex’s fearsome swordsmanship, but what puzzled him was the horizontal slashing technique that the sword displayed.
Louis’ swordsmanship that he had never taught before.
It was the secret weapon that made him the strongest knight in the empire, and the ultimate sword that only Louis could implement.
I had planned to teach it to Karl someday, but he was still a very lacking child, so I never even showed it to him.
However, what Karl used was the perfect sword of Louis. A reproduction that did not raise even a single doubt.
What on earth is going on… .
Kwaaang-!
The sword energy that split the sword in two scattered and gnawed at the walls of the mansion.
Alex’s swordsmanship blew away not only the walls of the mansion, but also the pillars, but it did not even cause a scratch on the sword he was initially aiming for.
Kugugugu-
The mansion, with its pillars broken, began to collapse.
Alex ran through the shaking, falling debris of the mansion.
First, he had to step down because of the princess’s order, and second, because the Emperor did not respond to his full-powered swordsmanship.
The power of the royal family recognized that even Alex’s dying breath was not a threat that could harm Carl Maynor.
In other words, it meant that even if you fought without the restrictions of being a princess, you wouldn’t be able to win.
Leaving the unacceptable facts behind, Alex left.
He will not forget today’s events.
I never thought that the stimulation of being a princess would come to my life, which had been free, and that a strong person like the owner of the holy sword would appear.
That’s why I was happy to take the steps I was taking. Even though I was leaving now, I was happy to imagine what would happen in the future.
Carl didn’t bother to chase after Alex, who was running away. He didn’t intend to end it here in the first place.
I just wanted to show it to the sleeping Bing-ui-ja.
How strong ‘we’, Carl Maynor can become… .
Since the goal has been achieved, there is no need to push yourself any further.
“Tch, he ran away.”
Louis came closer and said. He seemed to be regretful. After all, he was my rival and enemy whom I had finally met.
“Well, we’ll meet again. The author is persistent.”
“You speak as if you know everything?”
“… You’ll get to know it well.”
I looked at Karl again, who was speaking in an unusual and incomprehensible manner.
“What happened?”
“What are you talking about?”
And then he concluded.
“You don’t seem to be the kid I knew.”
“Hahaha, you’re taking this joke too far.”
From the aura he gave off to his incredible sword skills, many things were different. He seemed like a different person.
But again, it was strangely similar. Just as Louis knew.
“… But it doesn’t mean that he’s a completely different person.”
“I’ll tell you what the Master and the Duke said. You’ll know ‘someday’.”
“?”
The sword grinned.
“You always don’t tell me important things, and you treat me like a child, thinking I’ll find out later?”
“Don’t treat me like a kid!”
“It’s my turn now. I’ll tell you about today’s work later.”
“This kid… .”
Louis grinned and laughed along with her.
It was probably because the disciple didn’t seem to be crazy or acting strangely. If he had, he wouldn’t have been able to replicate Louis’s own amazing swordsmanship.
I was curious as to how he could imitate swordsmanship that had never been shown to him before.
“I need to get out of here first. I’m starting to get worried about Alana too.”
“Why Alana? Come to think of it, Lady Dahlia is with you too. Why are you only worried about Alana? She’s from the same empire? That’s discrimination against foreigners.”
“……”
Naturally, I expected Carl to retort something like, “What the heck are you talking about?”, but I didn’t hear an answer.
Carl just looked lost in thought with a very heavy expression on his face.
There was no sign of the impudent disciple who never gave in even a single word.
Only then did Louis realize that something was up and he stopped joking.
The two moved their bodies in a hurry to escape the collapsing mansion.
“A foreigner? She’d be horrified if she heard that.”
Carl, who was chewing on Louis’ words belatedly, smiled hollowly and muttered to himself, knowing that Louis couldn’t hear him due to the noise of the pouring and crashing mansion.
“She is a pure imperial person.”
Even as he said that, he couldn’t hide his bitterness.
Because the term ‘pure imperial person’ was contradictory and disgusting.
Because it was a word that did not suit the royal family at all.
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