77 – Competition 2
“Kana is also auronite.”
At Aren’s words, the image of Cana appeared in Tia’s mind.
‘Britannia!’
It was so quiet that I forgot.
‘By the way, Kana said it was a night to come?’
I never thought that there would be another Knight in the same class, so a fresh shock passed through my body.
Tia, who was lost for a moment, came to her senses and slapped Aren on the back.
Whoops!
“Why do you say that now!”
“Ah! Why are you hitting me!?”
As the two were arguing, Tail said to Ron.
“Are you going to change the strategy?”
“… No, the scouting team will go as it is.”
The problem is then
Winning or losing depends on how the other Auror Knight moves.
If Kana’s movements were not detected, on the contrary, Class C’s flag could be taken away.
‘Whoa… It’s dirty, so I’ll have to come back soon and become a night.’
Annoyed at his weakness, Ron turned to Aren and asked.
“Do you have any other information?”
“Hmm, are you asking about Einhart?”
Einhard Britannia.
He was a man known only to be of the royal family of Britannia.
And that was also the case with Aren.
“I don’t know anything but strong.”
“… I get it.”
It seemed trivial information, but Ron didn’t think so.
I hate to admit it, but he is the one who asserts that Aren Deepus is strong.
‘He must be someone who can do something.’
Ron was seriously thinking about the operation for a while when he heard Aren’s voice.
“Tale.”
“why?”
“Can we win with Carol and Aaron 2 to 1?”
“…!?”
“what?”
Ron and Anna’s eyes naturally turned to Aren.
If the word is ah, da, uh, if it is different, the meaning is different.
If you ask, ‘Can you win 2-1?’, I’m at least convinced.
But Aren asked, ‘Can you win 2 to 1?’
It also meant that Aren thought so.
Tayle replied while Ron and Anna looked at Aren in amazement.
“Well, how about you?”
“Am I not confident?”
“Hmm… I don’t know because I’ve never fought before.”
“Huh, really.”
At that time, Tia, who had been quietly listening to Aren and Teil’s conversation, spoke with a sense of exasperation.
“Aren, are you saying that now?”
“uh?”
The displeasure in Tia’s voice made Aren’s eyes turn to her.
Tia glared at Aren and said.
“I know you think highly of Tails. But am I feeling a little down?”
It was as if he was even ignoring himself.
“Don’t be conceited. You’ve never seen Carol and Aaron’s strength. Isn’t that just a rough estimate by looking at the coast?”
“that’s right.”
“You speak confidently? Are your abilities that great?”
When Tia spoke seriously with a hard expression, Aren also spoke seriously.
“You’re right. I’m sure I said it carelessly.”
“……”
“But what I said was based on the premise of this confrontation.”
“Competition?”
“It’s a mana coat.”
Aren pointed to his mana stone and said.
“If this mana stone is broken, you will be eliminated in this match, right? I said this on the premise.”
“… Even though.”
“Well, when the match starts, you’ll know what I mean.”
Aren laughed for a moment and said.
“So don’t get mad? Why are you guys fighting over your pride all day long during class?”
“Oh, no… I’m not…”
When Aren’s will was finally conveyed, Tia was suddenly ashamed and avoided his gaze.
‘Ah-oh! It’s because I rushed for no reason!’
I was so embarrassed that I couldn’t see Aren’s face.
Aren smiled once again at Tia’s appearance and turned his gaze to Ron.
“I have an offer.”
“…?”
***
“Carl, it’s ready.”
“huh.”
At Luke’s words, who had gathered the crew, Carol nodded and thought.
‘Tail is the strongest?’
Tail Boild.
It was clearly a strong opponent.
I had never fought in person, but I knew that much.
But to be honest, I never thought of myself as an opponent.
‘If Aren would say so…’
I wanted to check it out.
My heart, which had been disturbed by the aftereffects of the exchange war recently, became more disturbed by Aren’s remarks.
Until now, I had almost no opponents among my peers, but now I only see strong people around me.
‘Aren, Tia, Aaron, and Tail…’
don’t knock it all down
The time when Carol had made such a promise.
Beep!
A signal came from the reconnaissance team that started first.
“Let’s go at the signal.”
As soon as Carol finished speaking, he jumped forward and the students, including Luke, followed him and started running quickly.
‘We are right.’
The formation of the confrontation is simple.
There is a mountain between the camps of Class A and Class C.
The victory or defeat of this confrontation will be determined by how they pass through the path of this mountain and capture each other’s flag.
“Karl! Too fast!”
“Oh sorry!”
I was so excited that I hadn’t thought of the speed of the other students.
It was because Aaron’s group, who went to the other side, was concerned.
‘Whoever finds it first fights Tail.’
Before Carol and Aaron parted ways, this was the method they chose when they couldn’t decide who would fight Tail.
For Carol and Aaron, winning or losing the confrontation had long since been put on the back burner.
‘Let’s calm down, find a patrol team…’
The moment Carol thought so, an object flew towards him, passing quickly between the trees.
Hui Yiing Kang!
‘already!?’
When Carol saw the arrow flying through the trees, she reflexively cut it.
“Luke, watch your surroundings.”
“I know. Damn, what’s so fast?”
It hadn’t been long since the battle had just begun, but the C-class patrol team had already invaded the A-class formation.
“Carl, what about our class patrol team?”
“Well… there’s no way that person will be defeated already.”
It’s strange no matter how you think about it.
The patrols on the other side must have been moving in groups, but how did they get past the foot of the mountain so quickly without being noticed?
The moment Carol thought so, a figure on a tree in the distance caught her eye.
‘… alone?’
Class C’s patrol group, Lucy, climbed a branch and looked at Carol’s group.
“Was it Lucy?”
Clearly one of the tournament winners.
After seeing her, Carol was able to figure out how she had come this far.
“He climbed a tree by himself.”
If she was alone, she would have been able to get to this place quickly without being noticed by Class A’s patrol team.
Just looking at the movement on the tree now, it was not at the level that ordinary students could follow.
Luke also noticed Lucy and nodded.
“But why are you here alone?”
“I know?”
“Isn’t it a trap?”
Other personnel started talking at Luke’s question.
However, no matter how much I thought about it, this was a situation that could not be called a trap.
“This is Class A’s formation. If you didn’t show up, you wouldn’t know, but even if you were caught and made a trap by yourself, we have a much better advantage.”
The crew members nodded at Carol’s words.
I’m definitely more curious about what I can do alone.
As an archer, she could fight guerrilla warfare alone, but there was Carol, an aura knight, on her side.
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No matter how fast Lucy moved, she couldn’t escape from Carol.
Lucy’s arrow was shot again when the members felt that question.
phut! phut! Fain!
Rapid fire fired in succession.
Surprisingly, the arrows passed through the trees like a curve and flew straight to Carol.
Kang! Kang! Kang!
‘Is it the right way?’
Even in Carol’s eyes, one of Lucy’s archery skills seemed close to divine.
Just when Carol was about to stir up a fighting spirit against Lucy’s skill, she suddenly turned her back and started running away.
“what?”
“Escape? Shall we catch Car!?”
Seeing Lucy suddenly run away, Carol was troubled.
No matter how I looked at it, the idea that this was a trap never got out of my head…
‘… So what?’
After worrying for a while, Carol believed in her own skills and quickly started tracking down Lucy.
“Catch it! I’ll go first, so follow my trail!”
“okay!”
Dig!
As soon as he finished speaking, Carol’s model flew like an arrow.
“It’s pretty fast, but you can’t escape that much!”
At the same time as Carol shouted, Lucy briefly turned around and fired an arrow in a strange direction.
phut!
And mysteriously, the arrow rapidly bent and flew straight to Carol.
Kang!
“ha ha ha.”
As if glad to see her, Carol slashed the arrow and sped up even more.
Even though there was a considerable distance, Carol’s new model approached Lucy in an instant.
‘Almost everything…!’
The moment you reach Lucy’s close proximity.
Kwa Kwa Kwa Kwa Kwa
“What!?”
A golden Aura Fist attacked Carol.
Kwaaang!
“Tail?!”
Carol reflexively shouted while avoiding the aura.
A golden aura that I have never seen before.
My intuition was calling out that there was a tail nearby.
Carol let out an exclamation of joy inwardly and ran to the direction where the aura flew at a faster speed than before.
and not long after
“found!”
Tails was standing in a small clearing.
Upon discovering him, Carol immediately swung her sword.
Abelhart’s Shadow Slash
Suaaa
The distance from Tail was about 10 meters.
But it didn’t matter.
The aura that grew like a shadow cut through all the obstacles between him and Tail.
‘With this, Tail’s opponent is me!’
The moment Carol thought so.
Valentine’s Ignis Cross
Hwaaa
A cross made of flame flew towards Tail from the other side of Carol.
“what!?”
The movement path of the cross of flame overlapped with Carol’s aura.
Kwaaang!!
Carol, who had been staring blankly at the heat wave rising from the collision of the two auras, turned her gaze to see someone approaching her.
Pussssss
Aaron was walking.
Carol and Aaron checked each other’s faces and shouted with crumpled expressions.
“I’m first!”
“I’m first!”
***
“Aren, success.”
“Thank you Lucy, you worked hard.”
Class C’s group, who had defeated Class A’s reconnaissance team, had gathered in a place not far from the place where the heat wave was rising.
“… You really started.”
Ron murmured as he watched the three-colored auras continuously collide at the point where the heat wave rose.
It’s like I just can’t understand it.
Seeing Ron like that, Aren said with a sense of pride.
“I told you! Those guys don’t back down and fight!”
“…why do you think so?”
If I were in Carol’s position, I would entrust the tail to Aaron and gather the members to aim for Class C’s flag.
Now that you know the location and movement route of one of the opponent’s Aura Knights, you will have a higher chance of winning if you pass the tail.
However, both Carol and Aaron did not step back and started dealing with Tail.
‘What kind of operation is this?’
It was something Ron couldn’t understand.
Looking at Ron like that, Aren explained.
“There’s one thing I don’t know from watching Aura Nights.”
“What is it?”
“Aurora Night is going through puberty again at the age of 17. He’ll probably be about 2 years younger. He gets excited over trivial things, hurts his pride, wants to go wild, right?”
When Aren looked at the 17-year-old Aura Knight and asked, Tia lowered her head and muttered.
“… no it’s not.”
As the sudden events from earlier passed through my head, my face turned red.
As if he liked Tia’s reaction, Aren started talking even more.
“Look! You don’t deny it with words, you affirm it with actions? Ha, sometimes even when I see it, it’s so absurd. Can’t you just think about the people around you? How much damage I’ve suffered because of them, and how ordinary students like us are harmed by their fights. Don’t you know? This is what shrimp backs are like in whale fights? Anyway, kids who are into puberty these days…”
“shut up!”
Whoops!
“Oops!”
When Aren was conceited, Tia smashed again.
Tia, who had Aren shut up, turned her gaze to Ron.
“Are you going now?”
“That’s how it should be. It goes fast.”
At Ron’s signal, the C class students started running towards the A class formation.
There is only one Aurunite left in Class A’s formation right now.
‘Kana…’
As Tia ran, she fiddled with the handle of her sword, Charles.
What Aren said is not entirely wrong.
I wanted to fight.
I wanted to sharpen my skills and show my strength.
And now, his opponent was getting closer and closer.
A faint smile appeared on Tia’s face, and Aren, seeing her expression, began to chuckle again.
“It’s starting again. Huh? You guys, you mean, this is class time.”
“shut up!”
Whoops!