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Kylegalli House Rules played by Knight Commander, Rick, Hanson, and Victor.

As the game has become more physically demanding, I thought that being a knight commander would have an advantage.

The game showed a completely different aspect.

“Keep the leader in check! Attack all at once! Aim for the wrist as much as possible!”

“Card! Be careful not to crumple the card!!”

“Haha! Hanson, Victor! You’re trying to keep me in check with just the two of you! You looked at me funny!!”

“Yes? Two, two? No way, Rick… … !?”

Ding!

“It’s good to have checks, but let’s take some cards too.”

“That stocky guy… … !!”

Whatever it is, it’s actually everyone’s first time doing it.

Although Hanson deceived the knight commander or the knight commander caught Victor by putting extreme pressure on him.

Basically, the game was centered around intense physical fighting. We fooled each other a few times so we didn’t get caught easily.

But what I cared about wasn’t who was winning.

‘Maybe it’s because the floor is dirt, but the starting point keeps getting dug up. If the game gets a bit long, it might get in the way.’

‘I was sliding from the beginning and ended up removing the bell that was embedded in it. Should I find a way to secure it more securely? ‘Is just a penalty enough?’

‘Only the right hand is allowed, but it’s getting more intense little by little. Just this part… … I can’t help it. That was my intention from the beginning.’

Finding loopholes in the rules or supplementing areas that are still lacking.

It is so far removed from the existing Kyle Gali that it is no exaggeration to say that it is actually a new game that has just been created. There were bound to be shortcomings.

He carefully observes the knights’ games and finds those aspects.

While I was thinking about a few points of improvement.

“Do you, master?”

“Huh? Sally?”

“Do, Master… … … Who do you think will win… … ?”

Sally, who was maintaining the hardening spell with a much more relaxed complexion, asked if it was worth putting the bell on the floor.

Who do you think will win?

Looking at the current situation, Victor is in last place, and the other three have similar cards. And basically, the three knights are intensively keeping the knight commander in check.

Well, if I were to make a prediction as I am quite a board game expert.

“First of all, what about you, Sally?”

“Ha, Hanson. Well, the knight commander is working hard too, but he has to keep him in check… … … .”

“I am the knight commander.”

“Uh, yes?”

“Watch it first.”

In my experience.

Because there will be a change soon.

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“Heo Eok… … Huh… … … .”

The knight commander took a deep breath and took a deep breath.

How many times have I already run?

Standing still and running with all my might, and fighting with three knights using only my right hand, drained my stamina more than I thought.

But that doesn’t mean it’s difficult to move. On the contrary, it was quite enjoyable to move around like this.

And it wasn’t just the knight commander who was out of breath.

“Huh… … omg… … … .”

“My, my card… … … .”

“Phew… … … .”

Hanson, who seems to have moved around a lot after the knight commander, Rick, who was mainly trying to make ends meet between fights, and Victor, who has never won a card, also show signs of growing tired.

As a knight commander, my pride did not allow me to fall first, no matter how much attention I received.

“Rick, should I draw a card?”

“Wook… … … I know, I know.”

Perhaps because he was concentrating on Kyle Galli, stocky Rick, who had become somewhat quiet, pulled out a card with a twinkle in his eye.

Next, Hanson chose, Victor, who was in tears, chose, and the knight commander chose.

Everyone flinches every time a card is drawn. In particular, Victor’s eyes were the most desperate as he would run out of cards after a few more turns.

How many more times did this continue?

“… … … … … .”

“… … … … .”

“… … … … … … .”

“… … … Oh my.”

I didn’t pay attention at first, but now I can’t help but notice.

Since four people participated, five shapes were matched with just a few cards. Therefore, everyone ran with all their might even when there were only a few cards at stake. Because each small step like that was important.

but.

The number of cards the knight commander had already drawn exceeded seven.

There are 7 cards for each of the four people, so 28 cards. And there are a total of 56 cards in Kyle Gali.

In other words, half of all cards were dealt in this one hand.

“… … … … … .”

The training hall is filled with only the sound of breathing. The sound of someone swallowing was almost louder.

Although I was nervous, the cards I used to draw with ease now felt heavy.

The knight commander focused all his attention on Rick, Hanson, and Victor’s cards, not even thinking about wiping away the sweat.

Victor already has no cards to draw. Even when his turn comes, he just passes by.

Therefore, Victor’s card is fixed.

‘Circle four, circle four, circle four.’

Just in case, the moment one of Rick and Hanson’s cards appears as a circle, it moves.

I thought about it several times and remembered the plan I had in mind again.

It’s been a long time since my posture was ready to run. The upper body was in an upright position because the card had to be drawn, but the lower body was in an easy position for running. And it wasn’t much different for others either.

Chop rock.

After Rick, Hanson drew a card. This left Hanson with only one card left.

There are now more than 30 cards at stake.

The card Hanson drew was:

“… … … Also, one circle… … !”

These words were inadvertently uttered not by the four players, but by Kyle’s exclusive maid and apprentice wizard who was outside the game.

Actually, that’s a foul. Even if the other three didn’t, Hanson didn’t know his cards. This made psychological warfare impossible.

But none of the players complained about it.

Everyone was sprinting towards the bell anyway.

Tadadat!!

“Please… … … !!”

Victor was the best when it came to earnestness. Because he was the only player without a card.

If you lose this time, you will definitely be eliminated. As Victor, he had to ring the bell at all costs.

His legs, already exhausted, move feverishly.

“Inhale!”

After Victor, who was running at his best, Hanson and Rick were in order, and last place was the knight commander. In fact, he was deliberately slowing down a little.

He had more cards than Victor, who had no cards at all, or Hanson, who only had one card left, but at least four or five. Considering that Rick, who was in first place, still had quite a bit of time to spare, he had to do his best.

The knight commander had his own agenda. It’s a gamble that you don’t know if it will succeed, but you must take it if you want to win first place.

His eyes lit up as he looked at Victor, Rick, and Hanson.

“Rick! Take charge of the leader!!”

It was Hanson who shouted that. There is still one card left, so even if he loses, he is not eliminated, but the card that remains ambiguous actually confuses Hanson’s mind.

Should I conserve my stamina by running less? If you give it your all and get too tired and can’t even press it, it’s over in the next round. What should Victor do?

Despite all the thoughts running through Hanson’s mind, there was only one choice. Keeping the knight commander in check.

Although he is now the leader of the knights who has been overtaken by Rick, he has the explosive power to achieve victory at any time. In fact, if he and Victor hadn’t stopped the leader, Rick would never have won first place.

Hanson thought it was time to get it back. Rick, who is in first place and has plenty of cards, blocks the leader, and in the meantime, either gives it to Victor or presses it himself.

And stocky Rick listened to old man Hanson’s words.

“… … … haha! If I win that one, I’m definitely first place… … !!”

“Re-profit-profit!!!”

“Why are you stopping the leader! If I win this time, I have over 40 cards!!”

Instead of turning towards the knight commander, he was aiming even more intently at the bell.

At first, the three knights may have been of the same mind. Since my fear of the Knight Commander was greater than my concentration on the game, I deliberately tried to take time by keeping the Knight Commander in check in order to get scolded as late as possible.

But now the story is different. All they have on their mind is victory.

The existing Kyle Galli would not have even thought of such a thing, but Kyle Galli, which was reborn exclusively for knights, boosted the knights’ competitive spirit like crazy.

They collide body to body, sweat, and compete with each other’s strength and skills, all while looking at each other’s opinions and engaging in psychological warfare.

It even makes me wonder if this was really that frustrating game.

Moreover, knights have high pride. Take pride in your body, skills, and aura.

Losing to an opponent in a game that uses all of that was beyond humiliating and almost drove me crazy.

At this moment, the alliance between shorty, old man, and alopecia areata has been broken. All that remains is a competition with no one to trust.

And that’s it.

This was also what the knight commander was aiming for.

Quack! bang!!

“Get out of the way, get out of the way!!”

“Rain, Victor! Negotiate for a moment──”

“I take it well!”

“Rick!! Even if I lose, I won’t give you a card… … !!”

Victor, Hanson, and Rick shuffle their hands in front of the bell.

They overlap each other’s right hands, block the opponent with their shoulders, and block their path with kicks.

A physical fight that uses the entire body except the left hand holding the card.

Nevertheless, since they were knights, it was clearly a high-level attack and defense, but it was not the first time. It was because everyone was tired.

‘now!’

The knight commander confirmed this and immediately accelerated.

The reason I ran late on purpose was because it seemed like the alliance between those three would be broken.

If I had missed, I would have lost my card without even getting close to the bell, but the knight commander’s gamble paid off.

The pleasure of knowing that the plan was successful came flooding back in an instant, and the knight commander riding on him kicked the ground, determined to use all his remaining strength.

Only then did Rick and Hanson turn their attention to the running knight commander.

“Ma, block it!!!”

Hanson shouted urgently, but he himself did not move. This was because even at this very moment, he had to stop Victor, who was rushing at him just because he saw the bell.

In the end, it was Rick who made the move. It would be better if Hanson or Victor pressed the button, but if the knight commander pressed the button, he would have to hand over first place.

After Victor and Hanson are eliminated, you will never be able to beat the general manager one-on-one.

Rick, who made that decision, cried and rushed at the knight commander.

“Captain, get some rest!!”

“No problem, Rick!”

But why is he pudgy Rick? No matter how knightly he is, differences in natural height cannot be avoided.

Even if the opponent is an ordinary person, the knight commander is a knight of a higher level than Rick. It was not for nothing that Rick had chosen the tactic of looking for an opening instead of fighting head-on.

The aura that had been saved from the knight commander’s body bloomed, and in an instant, he gathered his right hand and grabbed Rick in return.

“Wow!?”

Huh!

Just like that, Rick flies into the sky.

The knight commander’s strength, strengthened by Aura, blew Rick away. Rick also used his aura to resist, and even if he was blown away, he would have landed quickly and rushed at me, but by then it would have been too late.

What we need now is just that little moment.

In fact, the knight commander who outed Rick turned to Hanson and Victor.

Old Hanson clenched his teeth.

“Now that it’s like this… … … !!!”

At that moment, Hanson’s right hand moves differently than before.

The knight commander knew very well what that meant. Hanson’s specialty is the movement when performing a piggyback throw.

However, that would have been forbidden by Kyle. The knight commander had a quick intuition.

‘You will exclude me even if you get a penalty?’

If you knock down the knight commander like this, Hanson will get a penalty. But if you buy that much time, Victor will ring the bell.

Hanson will also receive a penalty to some extent, so he will not be eliminated from Kyle Galli. At least we can have one last chance in the next round.

On the good side, it is a loophole in the rules, and on the bad side, it is ultimately a foul.

Something you can try because Kyle Gali’s house rules aren’t perfect yet.

of course.

However, this did not mean that the knight commander would be treated calmly.

widely!

“Uh, uh… … !?”

“You’re trying to carry me over with just your right hand. That’s arrogance, Hanson!!”

He lightly slaps away Hanson’s hand, which is aiming for his wrist to throw him off.

In the first place, the knight commander was the one who experienced and saw Hanson’s piggybacking the most during training.

Trying to do a piggyback ride with just your right hand when using your whole body wasn’t enough was just a gamble worse than what the knight commander had done.

It was only a simple strike, but Hanson’s already exhausted body was still reeling.

After buying some time, I set my sights on the final target, the bell.

“Aaaah!!!!”

And there, Victor, who was consistent from beginning to end, is struggling.

Hanson’s hand, which was blocking him, was aimed at the general manager, but Hanson and the general manager’s bodies and legs were physically blocking the path.

Victor’s hand seems almost unable to touch the bell.

The knight commander struck his right hand.

Two hands overlap each other, one of them pressing the bell.

Ding───!

Immediately after the bell rang, signaling the end of the most desperate game.

“Ah, ah… … … … .”

“… … … Won, everything.”

It was the hand of the knight commander who rang the bell.

In the end, what was needed at the end was each other’s pure physicality.

The two hands clashed together, and the stronger hand of the knight commander defeated Victor. That was it.

The knight commander, who confirmed this, laughed and fell down.

Slurp.

“Heo Eok… … Huh… … … … .”

I won, I won.

In the game with the most cards at stake, I won.

The knight commander grinned at the boiling sense of accomplishment and pleasure. Although he collapsed on the training ground covered in sweat, his expression was extremely bright.

While he was staring blankly at the blue sky, someone came up to him and looked down.

“Knight Commander, how was it?”

“Boyeon, master… … … Phew… … … .”

“Originally, the only one eliminated was Victor, so we would have to do more, but since everyone is down.”

The pudgy Rick who flew away, the old man Hanson who resisted until the end, and the alopecia areata Victor who lost his last chance were lying on the training ground like a knight commander.

It seemed difficult to continue the game as everyone was breathing heavily.

“Then… … ?”

“The person with the most cards now is first place. And that… … Of course he is the knight commander.”

“… … ha ha ha. Hahahahaha!!!!”

Victory, and first place.

The knight commander burst into laughter at the extremely pleasant declaration and opened his mouth.

“Master, you really created a great board game.”

“Well. From the middle, it felt more like training or exercise than a board game.”

“Maybe so. But in the end, isn’t Kyle Galli the source?”

After winning the game, something comes to mind.

The knight commander looked at Kyle with renewed respect.

“You don’t need any additional tools.”

“Huh?”

“Can’t you do this with just the bells, cards, and table that Kyle Gali originally prepared? So this is also Kyle Galli.”

“Well, that’s what house rules are.”

“That’s what’s great.”

Only then did I realize it. The knight commander said that all his worries about Kyle were useless.

There is no need to be talented in swords and magic like the first, nor in swordsmanship and auror like the second.

Viscount Byron’s third master was fully developing a talent that only he could do.

“Master, I have a favor to ask you.”

“What is it?”

“During training or during breaks… … Can everyone do this Kyle Gali?”

“Hey, why are you asking me that?”

“Yes?”

“Board games are played when players want to play. Just because you’re the producer doesn’t give you the right to stop it. Just try to persuade the wizard who will cast the hardening spell.”

“… … … Yes!!”

“And can you sing it to me every time I do it? I think I can fix it if I see more. Personally, I found it quite interesting that Hanson deliberately tried to overshadow it in the middle. Since it wasn’t an elimination anyway, they decided to do something about just one person. Rather than just banning it, it would be okay to leave it as part of psychological warfare and increase the severity of the penalty to prevent overuse, or to ban it altogether. Additionally, the fact that Victor was completely blocked with his body seems a bit problematic, but if you try to block this with rules, the physical fight itself will be put on hold, so there is no reason to create a house rule. Even if you block it as much as possible, the card gets crumpled little by little. In this case, it’s not a good idea to make the card out of a material other than paper or even apply a hardening spell to the card… … It might be a little difficult. However, because of this, if you make a separate card, the feature of being able to change the rules at any time in the existing Kyle Gali disappears. So do you have to change all cards to special cards? No, if that happens, there will be a budget problem when distributing it to the territory residents───”

“… … … … … .”