033 – Swords That Don’t Fit (2)
Irene has been afraid of swords since childhood.
It was sharp and pointed, and a cutlery made to take a life was an irresistible object.
Her father didn’t force her to use a sword.
It was because Irene knew she was too weak and good to wield a sword.
Instead, she dreamed of becoming a diplomat.
I hoped it could be resolved in a soft conversation before the terrifying blade hurts my father and my brother.
But Irene did not know the world yet.
There was something in the world that could not be resolved through dialogue.
Its existence took away everything from Irene, like a swarm of locusts gnawing at every grain.
The bloody greatsword of the red blood demon was merciless.
The wall that was built to defend against the evil dragon’s attack was brutally destroyed, and the Welf family’s Changcheon Knights were all slaughtered.
The vassals who told Irene to hide were crushed to death by the rubble of the building, and the people living under the protection of the Welf family turned into unknown bloodstains.
And… the blood demon blew off his father’s neck and cut his brother’s waist.
Everything collapsed in an instant by the bloody greatsword.
The headmaster died, the heirs were lost, and there was no ability to lead or protect the fief, so the Welf family’s fief was shared like a slice of pizza by the surrounding lords.
There were only three of Irene left after the Blood Ghost incident.
The black dragon that my mother and brother used, and lastly, the Welf family’s great swordsmanship, ‘Dragon Slicing’.
So Irene picked up the bayonet.
Irene crushed the fear of the cutlery with anger and turned her good-natured nature into ashes as a firewood for vengeance.
And Irene prevented her revenge and anger from coming out.
When expressed, revenge and anger are consumed.
Irene would endure this vengeance and anger until the day of revenge, rot inside and turn it into a terrible poison.
* * *
Irene’s fangs rushed to bite Charlotte’s side.
The young viper did not know how to control its life.
Charlotte struck back with a great sword filled with terrifying death.
Zeng-!
The power of the great sword was no joke.
If it wasn’t for Charlotte’s sword, it would have been broken if it wasn’t for the sword made of mithril, which is said to be the three major steels along with black iron.
Charlotte rode the blade of the great sword and advanced forward.
There is a clear difference in reach between a greatsword and a regular longsword.
He needed to go as far as his sword could reach.
Fitting geek-!
The sound of metal and metal scraping sharply crossed the dance floor.
Although the blade of Charlotte’s forged blade in the morning became dull, it continued to advance without regard to it.
In the end, the guard of the great sword and the guard of the long sword collided.
Charlotte and Irene looked at each other from a distance between their noses.
“Are you going to kill your life? This is called Dalian.”
“I’m sorry, but I don’t know how to live or kill.”
fast-
The soil was dug deep and the soil reached up to the ankles.
“So you have no choice but to lose to me.”
Charlotte momentarily applied force and pushed the sword upwards.
He slammed his elbow down towards Irene’s nose.
Irene escaped with her amazing reflexes.
But Charlotte had even calculated that.
Charlotte walked over Irene’s ankle with her right foot.
However, Irene firmly fixed her feet with the Empire’s common Auror operation technique, ‘Take root’.
Hung-!
As Irene’s counterattack continued, Charlotte swung her sword upward.
It was still terrifying to live, but it wasn’t as powerful as before, so I could easily throw it away.
The reason was simple.
No matter how much Irene trains her body with Auror Technique, she cannot train her strength enough to wield that ignorant greatsword like a stick.
So, how did Irene wield that great sword?
It was possible because he strengthened his entire body with Auror.
For that reason, Irene was always using one auror ring, and when performing swordsmanship, she used one of the remaining auror rings to apply an auror to the part she needed.
But now, there were no Auror rings left because ‘rooting down’ was used to prevent Charlotte’s ankle attack.
As Charlotte opened Irene’s body, Charlotte struck Irene with her shoulder.
“Uh-huh!”
Irene gasped for a moment and stepped back.
But the sword could not be stopped.
Because Charlotte’s sword flew again.
This time, he used the Auror Ring to block Charlotte’s sword.
This time, the power was properly applied and Charlotte’s sword bounced upwards.
“You are taking a risk you don’t have to lose. Instructor Tigris must have spoken to you before?”
“…are you concerned about Dalian?”
Irene swung her sword at Charlotte.
The sword of Irene’s greatsword, who lost her reason, was simple, and Charlotte did not dare to strike back the greatsword.
Charlotte used all of the Auror rings to charge in an oblique line.
The greatsword barely passed Charlotte.
Charlotte aimed at Pommello Irene’s side.
Irene couldn’t avoid it, so she forcibly drew the great sword and blocked it with her sword face.
However, since I was using both Auror rings in the same way, the power was not applied properly.
The body’s balance was broken again.
Charlotte walked her ankle again.
Irene turned back somersault because it was clear that if she stopped by rooting, she would be hit with the same pattern again.
It was a handshake.
“The dodge movement is too great.”
Charlotte took the sword back in the same way that Tigris subdued him that day and entered Irene’s arms.
‘Oops!’
Irene regretted her choice, but it was already too late.
Charlotte grabbed Irene and slammed it down to the floor.
Zeng-!
The barrier was activated from Irene’s brooch and absorbed the shock, but that didn’t mean it wasn’t painful.
“Uh-huh!”
Charlotte’s sword was touching Irene’s neck, and her left hand tightly bound the sword.
It was a complete Charlotte victory.
Charlotte got up.
Irene was lying down with her eyes closed.
It looked like he was holding back tears as he was biting his lips.
Charlotte was very familiar with this scene.
A few months ago, Tigris beat him in the same way, looking down at him from the same position and angle.
Charlotte pursed her lips.
There was clearly something to be said.
The great sword doesn’t fit Irene’s light body at all.
So pick up a sword that fits your body.
Charlotte wanted to win this match and point it out as a senior.
But it didn’t come off easily.
It was because Charlotte of that day could be seen in Irene’s crying face.
Like a ship with a broken sail drifting in the open sea, the horse lost its way.
Charlotte looked at Tigris reflexively.
Tigris was silently looking at Charlotte with a characteristic unknown expression.
The students were also watching their match from a distance, staring blankly at Charlotte and Irene.
It was very similar to that day.
“···shit.”
Charlotte bit her lips.
I remembered something I didn’t want to remember, and my heart ached.
And the thing I hated the most was looking for what to do with Tigris, who was watching me.
Charlotte took out a handkerchief and handed it to Irene, who was wiping away tears.
Like the Tigris of that day.
“Irene. It was a good fight.”
That day, he understood why Tigris gave him the handkerchief.
At that time, I thought that Tigris was making a gesture of reconciliation aristocratically, but that was not the case.
This was so that others wouldn’t find out that Charlotte had shed tears of defeat.
It was because he wanted Charlotte to show the appearance of a wonderful knight who can stand up proudly even if he loses.
But Irene got up, grinding her teeth like Charlotte that day.
Irene did not accept Charlotte’s handkerchief.
“It’s done. Don’t feel sorry for yourself.”
Irene’s eyes were red and bloodshot.
Irene quickly wiped away the tears that kept flowing.
Charlotte was engulfed in a sense of defeat and the words of anger passed through her ears.
– Get out, you bastard!
– You’re trying to teach me that you’re going to be a teacher? Do you think you’ve already become a swordsmanship instructor?!
Charlotte grabbed the handkerchief in her hand.
“Irene.”
Irene ignored Charlotte’s words and tried to pass by.
Charlotte reflexively grabbed Irene’s wrist.
“Irene.”
“Why? Am I saying you shouldn’t use a bayonet? But I gave up on the great sword…”
“That’s not it.”
The hand holding Irene’s wrist trembled slightly.
“It’s not….”
A tremor that started in his hands spread to his lips and his shoulders.
Irene was slightly perplexed by the trembling.
“Irene···. Don’t show your tears to others.”
Tears welled up in Charlotte without realizing it.
Charlotte didn’t even know why she was crying.
I just shed tears.
“Because you… you are a great person. Because he shouldn’t show tears just because he lost to me once.”
Although he was speaking to Irene, it was no different than speaking to Charlotte herself.
“Because you shouldn’t be like that…”
Irene is a noble of a fallen family.
She never said anything, but everyone knew how Irene was wielding her sword.
Irene re-established a broken family and trained her sword to take revenge on the red blood demon who destroyed the family.
So, Irene is a person who shouldn’t get along with tears.
As an aristocrat, she had to play dignifiedness and arrogance.
Although he is a noble noble with no feudal titles or titles, he is a knight carrying the task of ending his revenge and returning everything at some point.
She had to hide her deep sorrow with the confidence that she was detached from defeat and could win again at any time.
“I’ll cover you. hurry.”
Irene couldn’t tell if Charlotte was crying.
However, Charlotte’s tears cooled Irene’s burning desire for revenge and anger.
Their brains began to spin, and they noticed that the other students were all staring at them.
Irene received the handkerchief that Charlotte gave her.
Irene silently wiped her tears with a handkerchief.
Charlotte also brushed away the dust on Irene’s body and hair.
His eyes were red and bloodshot, but they were not the eyes of a loser crushed by a sense of defeat.
“…I lost today, but next time I will win. senior.”
Irene was looking at Charlotte with the eyes of a challenger.
As if Charlotte that day looked at Tigris, it was wonderful and dignified.
“okay. I will accept any challenge.”
* * *
After class that day, Tigris cleaned up.
A hand helped Tigris pick up the blackboard and move it to the warehouse.
It was Charlotte.
“Why are you doing things by yourself that you should be asking students to do?”
Tigris looked at Charlotte silently for a moment, then opened his mouth.
“It is against the rules for students to run private errands.”
“Is this a private errand? Why don’t you just pick up the blackboard?”
“Originally, it would have to be done by the instructor’s assistant. But I haven’t been able to find it yet.”
Charlotte sighed and said.
“Nothing else, where should I put this?”
“You can put it in the warehouse under the podium.”
Charlotte and Tigris went down the podium with the large blackboard.
I opened the door under the podium and put the blackboard in.
“Ugh, the musty smell. I hate that kind of dusty smell.”
Charlotte wiped her hands and glanced at Tigris.
Tigris was looking at Charlotte with his characteristic unfeeling eyes.
“If you have something to say, do it.”
“What… what is it? What do you think I have to say?”
“Do you have anything to say?”
Charlotte pursed her lips.
“I have more questions than anything to say.”
Charlotte glanced outside.
There was nobody outside.
“I mean Irene. Maybe that great sword… not. What am I talking about?”
Charlotte wanted to know more about Irene.
However, for some reason, I cut her words off because I thought I was going too deeply into Irene’s life.
“Are you curious about the story behind Irene’s Greatsword?”
“Do you know?”
Tigris nodded.
Tigris closed the warehouse door and opened his mouth.
“The sword she uses is called ‘Black Dragon’. It is one of two swords handed down to the heirs of the Welf family from generation to generation.”
“Wait a minute, that’s…”
“The sacred ‘Dragon Blood Sword’ used by the head of the Welf family was broken and disappeared, and only one thing left to Irene, the Black Dragon. Besides, the Welf family’s non-essential swordsmanship, ‘Dragon Cleave’ is the only remaining state.”
Charlotte’s heart sank at the story that was too heavy for her than she had thought.
“Did you tell someone with such a past to make you put a great sword at me? How can I tell Irene to put the greatsword down!”
“There seems to be a misunderstanding. I never once told Irene to put the greatsword down.”
“You obviously said to me, ‘I’ll believe you.’ What is that?”
“You responded well to my trust. Because you beat Irene and Irene faces her problems once again. You did a good job.”
Irene was ignoring her problems with anger and revenge.
He thought that he had to rip the blood demon to death with the Belf-ryu’s great swordsmanship.
But the choice is not right.
In the end, she died while fighting the blood demon with a great sword.
Irene periodically needed to face her problem.
Charlotte frowned and folded her arms.
“what the. You’re really good at misleading people. If I had said that properly, I wouldn’t have said anything presumptuous to Irene.”
“Still, Irene has to put down her sword. Because Irene doesn’t match the great sword at all.”
“How can I tell Irene to put the sword? The only remaining legacy of the Welf family and swordsmanship. It’s not a matter of good or bad…”
Tigris said as he went outside.
“That is my duty. Instructors have to guide students on the right path.”
“what the. If you say that, you’ll think it’s cool. How are you going to let the sword go?”
Tigris knew the way.
“All you have to do is find the missing dragon blood sword and bring back the Welf family’s swordsmanship, the dragon sword.”
“…is that possible?”
Tigris said quietly.
“It is possible.”
Charlotte was at a loss for words.
Are you talking about how to recover the treasured sword of a broken family and the swordsmanship of a family that has been used in battle?
However, Charlotte felt relief from Tigris’ plain tone.
Because Tigris would really bring Irene back to her family’s treasured sword and swordsmanship.