Chapter 520: Dance of the heroes
The space in what is said to be the castle’s backyard is perhaps 20 meters square. It was enough space for two swordsmen to have a practice match, but when two swordsmen with as much mobility and offensive power as Neia were to fight each other, the size was a bit unsettling. If they were to overdo it or blow up, they would probably run into the walls of the castle or fall into the river below the cliffs. But despite my selfish worries, Neia stood in the middle of the crowd, lightly swinging a sword with a drawn blade for practice. In contrast, Beatrice-sama, although slightly larger, is holding a common large sword.
“You don’t use a glaive like Evander’s?”
“Even if I have enough arm strength, I can’t use it if I don’t weigh enough”
“I see”
Neia nodded, seemingly uninterested. Beatrice Tresia seems to be a warrior who engages in extreme power fights using a bracelet that increases her strength……an ancestral item called the 「Strength Ring」. When she says this, it sounds like it’s an ordinary item, but I haven’t heard of many items that permanently increase one strength just by wearing them. There are many cases where magic can be used temporarily, but if items that can be constantly strengthened become available, the landscape of the battlefield will likely change dramatically.
“Beatrice, was it? ……I will give you three chances”
Neia said out of the corner of her eye and held up her sword.
“……What?”
Beatrice looks doubtful.
“You think you can afford it? You want me to strike three times?”
“No way. Being hit by such a big thing will damage my armor”
Neia gently holds down her hat, then suddenly disappears. Then, before Beatrice has swung the large sword any amount, she holds the sword to her throat.
“Three times, it is your right to die. Once with this”
“K……Kidding!”
The large sword is swung. The sword flash, wielded with speed as if it were wielded by an ogre, still did not reach Neia. Already at that moment, the sword flash escapes in a direction and in time that is completely misplaced. Despite being equipped with armor that was by no means light, made by me, she was still showing an overwhelming difference in speed.
“……Looks like 100-man commander Becker”
I muttered to myself and Brian Luo, who was listening nearby with a natural perm, looked interested.
“Are there warriors in the outside world who can move like that?”
“There are. ……Or rather, even faster than Neia in that unarmoured state”
“That’s right. I mean, isn’t that Beatrice person’s reflexes a bit slow?”
“……She won’t fall behind against monster”
Brian Luo looked a little confused at Tetes’s point. For the time being, Miss Beatrice is also quite fast on a general level. However, even from Tetes’ point of view, I can see that she is at a level where she can see a gap. Of course, I won’t be able to compete with her at all, but the more I look at her from a distance, the more I’ve become discerning. The time difference between confirming Neia’s appearance and attacking her was at the level of a typical Ace Knight. She probably has impressive attack power, but there’s no way she can match Neia.
“Wait a minute!”
“Is there no other way but to charge into this gap? You can’t even use one of your sonic shots”
“I don’t want any of that!”
“If Evander hears this, he’ll cry. ……Yes, twice”
Neia dodges the attack and she hits Beatrice in the head with the flat of her sword as they pass each other.
“N, No, the blade isn’t sharp right now! There’s no way I’ll die from something like that!”
“……Beatrice, that’s absurd”
Brian is in a cold sweat. Neia sighs.
“You have full suit armor, don’t you?”
She says a few words and then flings herself at Beatrice with godlike speed.
“Damn you……you little bitch!”
Beatrice was about to raise her sword again when she swung it with a boom. It looked like one action, but……when you see that her stance is back to before she swung it, she must have swung it at least twice. And Miss Beatrice was blown spectacularly into the air. I can manage to see her upper body armor fluttering in the air.
“Damn……you’re reckless!”
Brian dashed out and threw a chain at Beatrice, who parabolised on a course that seemed to fall down the canyon. It twists like a living creature with the movement of his hand, wraps itself brilliantly around Beatrice’s legs and then falls straight into his arms, pulled like a puppet. Only the large sword fell into the trough.
“Well done”
“Oooh”
Me and Tetes are impressed.
“Three times……I’m a little annoyed by what she said to me”
It was Neia who held her hat down until the end and completely destroyed Miss Beatrice with one hand. In order, or how can I say it…….
“Amazing! After all, Neia-san’s sword is artistic!”
Richard Grans-kun, the new flash knight, was so impressed that he ran up to Neia.
“I thought I would be the next to try my hand at it, but this will only embarrass me in front of the king”
Herman-san, who is very nervous, says and is taking his hat off. Rainer and the silver dragons dodged the glances, as if they weren’t that interesting and Brian gently laid Beatrice down on the grass……and she bounced up with surprising vigor.
“Do, Don’t be silly! Because of that…….”
“Come on, Beatrice. You are far weaker than she is. You know that”
“I just let my guard down!”
“If you’ve been caught off guard three times in such a short space of time, you’re not fit to be a hero”
“Ugh……”
Beatrice looks frustrated with tears in her eyes. And King Jedha, who saw the battle, clapped his hands with a thin smile on his face.
“No, brilliant. That is indeed Neia. It’s a pity that your power, your truly regrettable……flash knight has already moved on to the next generation. No, Richard, I’m not saying you’re lacking”
“…………”
It was only that he did not intend to use Neia again.
“I wonder who is stronger, Rainer……Rainer is stronger than the dragon, right?”
“Ha. I’m not saying everything, but if it’s one-on-one”
And Princess Stana, who seems innocent enough. If I think about it, she’s in a pretty important place, so I paid attention to what she said and did, thinking that maybe she had an agenda, just like King Jedha, but I don’t feel any evil intentions or intentions at all. If this is a fake against us, she’s quite a good actor. ……Hmm.
“Then who is stronger, that person named Andy or you?”
And I’m freaked out because she’s talking about that with the same intensity.
“Now then. It’s not like we were competing in strength or anything”
Rainer smirks. Hey, hey, wait a minute.
“I didn’t conquer a dragon by sheer brute force. If it came to a fistfight, Rainer would be the stronger man, no need to compare”
I quickly raise the white flag.
“Is that so? Then how did you get a dragon?”
The princess looks at me curiously.
“It’s a long story, but that’s essentially what a dragon rider is”
I try my best to blurt it out. ……She really doesn’t think anything of it, does she? The question itself is quite natural, but it’s really creepy. She’s a beautiful elf princess. I was not attracted to her at all. I only felt a sense of strangeness.