episode_0126

When something unusual is repeated, people often mistake it for everyday life.

To give an example, there is a situation that Amelia and I are in right now.

To call it ‘daily life’, it is a life that is very far from the ordinary world I experienced in my past life in many ways.

Simply being in a medieval fantasy world where magic exists was far from everyday life, and in addition to being a nobleman, I was also someone’s bodyguard.

The only thing similar to martial arts I’ve learned in my past life is Taekwondo, so it doesn’t make sense for me to be in charge of protecting someone with a sword.

In addition, the fact that he was teaching someone how to use the sword while being extremely popular, saying he was ‘belonging to a family with the best swordsmanship in the world’ was something that could be considered ‘unusual’ enough.

Even the Taekwondo gym I went to was not a place that seriously taught Taekwondo, but rather a place that my working parents sent me to because they thought it would be better for me to be alone after school.

Well, okay. Anyway, regardless of whether my swordsmanship skills are good enough or not, the fact that I am strong is true, so let’s just say that and move on.

In a way, these can be called ‘daily routines’. Anyway, they have become routines.

But the real ‘non-daily life’ was something else.

So, for example—

“Lady Adele, have you finally lost your mind? How can a nobleman fight barbarically with his bare hands?”

“What do you mean, Lady Diane? Before you are a noble, you are a person, and before you are a person, you are an animal, right? When you fight to protect your honor, doesn’t it make no difference whether you have a hand or a sword?”

“Logic is a mess! What kind of animal, other than a human, fights to protect honor in the first place!?”

“I understand that’s what it means to be a wolf. Isn’t that right, Lady Elsie?”

No, I don’t know either.

To begin with, I’m not the type of person who watches documentaries or anything like that in great detail.

… … No, well, if you ask me, it wasn’t strange that I thought I knew it well. If I were to get into the methodological point of view, the way I was among wolves was similar to how a zoologist I read about on the Internet used to go among wolves with his bare body and pretend to be a wolf. It wasn’t much different.

Besides, we don’t do that much these days, but when Gray, Snow, and I were kids, we would really get entangled in each other and play by hitting and biting each other.

Until relatively recently, I would often bite my nose.

But that’s also possible because of my special ability rather than because I grew up to be a real wolf girl. Otherwise… … I am wolf food… … It wouldn’t have worked. Before that, my father would have slaughtered all of them and made wolf skins.

“… … There are times when you fight to get the position of leader.”

Therefore, my answer was neutral. Anyway, I answered what I heard and how I felt.

“Did you hear that? Diane Young-ae.”

“What kind of logic is that!? How can determining the leader of a beast and a noble’s fight to protect his honor be the same!? Hehe!? Now, wait, don’t come! Don’t come! If you come really close, I’ll swing my sword!◦# ◦

“What do you mean? Lady Diane? Are you saying that a noble person, the eldest daughter of one of the country’s leading nobles, is holding a sword against a common nobleman who has nothing behind her? The opponent is not even armed.”

“Is that important now!? Normally, when dealing with bandits, you don’t look at things like the opponent’s armament!”

“I’m not a thief? I’m a noble who is sparring with Diane fairly!”

“What you’re doing is nothing short of a thief—yay!”

However, it seems that it was difficult in many ways to hit Adele, who was not even me, with a wooden sword.

It might have been different if it had been the Diane I read about in the novel. Or the Diane of the original. Because Diane didn’t become that close to Adele there.

Although it’s completely different now.

At first, I probably followed Adele with the intention of driving a wedge between us, but as we met several times, we became too close.

The reason Diane can’t ‘strongly’ tell Adele that she is a high-ranking noble is probably because she secretly doesn’t want to fall out of this group.

Diane started to back away and eventually hit her back against the wall.

And while I looked back in embarrassment—

“Gap!”

Adele shouted and ran straight at Diane, grabbing her by the collar of her dress.

He then put his right foot forward and stepped on the outside of Diane’s right leg, knocking her down.

“Aaaah!?”

Of course, Diane, who had less strength than Adele and had never learned fighting skills other than swordsmanship, had no choice but to fall sideways.

Tuk.

Of course, Adele is not the type of person who would truly hurt Diane. If she had been the original Diane, the story might have been different, but the current Diane was not like that.

Because he was one of Adele’s few true friends.

“… … .”

Diane, who must have been extremely surprised, looked up at Adele while she was being held by Adele’s collar. Because she had been training hard a little while ago, her hair was wet with sweat and stuck to her face, her heated skin was a little red, and she was breathing heavily. .

The same was true for Adele, but even so, Adele ‘on top’ was much more relaxed.

“Heh.”

Adele smiled and let go of Diane’s collar that she was holding.

Tuk.

And Diane fell to the floor.

“Ayat.”

And only after the back of his head hit the floor did he make a sound as if he had finally remembered it.

“I won this sparring.”

Adele put both hands on her hips and lifted her chin as if she felt relieved.

Of all Adele’s movements I’ve seen recently, this was the most confident.

It seems like a lot of things had accumulated while drinking tea earlier.

“… … Ik!”

Diane realized a moment too late that she was being made fun of and immediately stood up.

“What is that? We were obviously sparring with swords at first! Throwing away your sword in the middle doesn’t mean you want to continue sparring, it means you’re giving up on sparring!”

Although the voice and stomping behavior made it look like a child was throwing a tantrum, the content of what he was saying was actually quite straightforward.

Who in the world would see the act of throwing away a sword during a swordsmanship sparring and think, ‘I will continue sparring’?

“But I won, right?”

On the other hand, Adele was so confident that anyone would think she won fair and square, but in reality, it was as if she won by using an expedient method as soon as she was at a disadvantage.

In fact, it wasn’t a one-sided disadvantage. Adele was ahead in physical strength and strength. The fact that Diane complained every time she borrowed Adele’s clothes was proof that Diane was thinner than Adele – but at the same time, it seemed like Diane’s chest was bigger for some reason. —At the same time, it was proof that Adele’s body was well trained.

So, if she continued training, Adele would win one day, but right now, Diane’s swordsmanship skills were superior as she had been trained well for a long time.

So, Adele probably wanted to win by going to such lengths.

“Adele, no matter what—”

So, I tried to tell Adele that I was a little harsh this time, but—

“I can’t admit it!”

Before I could say anything, Diane screamed.

“I can’t admit it, I can’t admit it, I can’t admit it!”

uh… …

No, I wasn’t going to acknowledge it if you stayed quiet.

Diane, who was stomping her feet and yelling with tears in her eyes, immediately turned her head towards me.

Even though he knew he was no match for Diane or Ina, his momentum was so great that he was startled and took a step back.

What is it? Are you trying to cancel the training?

I’m just going to tell you that I was planning on saying that before—

“Lady Elsie! I want to respond to that too! How can I win? I can’t live by losing to Lady Adele like this!”

He said that with an expression that looked like he was about to burst into tears, which made me feel a little weak.

“Diane.”

But Diane suddenly stopped at the sound of the voice.

Then, I moved my neck as if I was going to make a squeak and looked in the direction from where I heard the voice.

“Hi.”

There was Amelia, looking this way with her eyes open.

Amelia was the weakest among the four of us in terms of physical strength, and was always the first to finish training before sitting down and waiting, but when she made up her mind and aimed at her opponent, her declining physical strength was nothing.

Because the position of grand duchess has power in itself.

“No matter what, don’t ask too much from Elsie. This position was started in the first place to repay what we owe to Adele.”

… … Uh, yes.

Well, I forgot, but it was true.

Now it has almost become a social gathering.

“Yes, yes… … .”

Diane was devastated. Naturally, Adele also looked a little cautious.

“… … I’m sorry, but I don’t think it’s a good idea to take that kind of training.”

To make the situation a little better, I opened my mouth.

It was a bit burdensome to have all three people’s eyes on me at the same time.

“I can tell you about swordsmanship because I know at least the basics of each swordsmanship, but when it comes to using force… … I don’t have any tricks. If I say, ‘Just pick it up and throw it,’ would you two be able to do it?”

“… … .”

Diane and Adele shook their heads with slightly dazed expressions.

yes?

That’s it.