298. Persuasion (1)
smart.
Oliver knocked on the door.
The door was silent, and Oliver waited a moment before knocking on the door again.
smart.
Silent door again. Oliver waited the same, then knocked on the door again.
that many times.
Finally, Derek, who had been overcome by helplessness, irritation, unhappiness, and self-pity, got up in anger and slammed the door open.
“Ah, that’s it…!”
Derek, who had a disheveled hair and short beard, revealed his face, which was different from his usual neatness.
He looked at Oliver with a slightly startled expression on his face.
As if it was a completely unexpected face… I wondered if there was anyone I was going to meet.
Well, yes or no, Oliver said hello.
“hello? Derek.”
Derek was silent for a moment as he did not understand the situation, then rubbed his eyes and opened his mouth.
“…why the hell did you come here?”
Derek asked, barely rolling his stiff head.
It wasn’t that strange. Because Oliver and Derek seldom met.
“I’m here to tell the professor.”
“…Professor Kevin?”
“Yes, I miss class too many times. As usual, it would be a failing test, but even from now on, he said that if I take the final exam with me, it will be taken into account.”
Kevin thought for a moment with his dark circled eyes, then shook his head.
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Negative emotions were also affecting my head.“······Do not lie.”
“Yes?”
“I told you not to lie.”
“It’s not a lie.”
What Oliver said was true.
When Oliver offered to meet Derek and get him back to class, Kevin offered the benefit.
To convince others, you need at least a bargaining card.
“Why do you think it’s a lie?”
“Because the professor hates us. By the way, sending one’s own staff is not enough, and such benefits? Doesn’t that make sense?”
“You’re strict, but I don’t hate you… I hate it a little, but I don’t lie.”
Oliver recalled Kevin’s usual feelings and corrected his words.
It was true, but it didn’t seem to help.
As evidence of that, Derek lit up a absurd feeling, and with him, a feeling of fear and a feeling of fear at the same time.
the fear of failure.
As the emotion lifted his head slightly, he withdrew like a man on Derek’s fire, breaking his will.
“Anyway, I’m not interested. Just go.”
Derek tries to close the door helplessly.
Oliver involuntarily asked a question to Derek. I’m so curious.
“What are you so afraid of?”
Oliver’s inadvertent words flew sharply and stabbed Derek’s sore spot.
Derek exhaled in anger, not shut, but slammed the door open and pressed his face close to Oliver’s.
It was pretty daunting for his height and build, but it didn’t really work for Oliver.
“What did you say now?”
“I asked what were you so afraid of.”
Regardless of Derek’s anger, Oliver asked the question calmly.
“I’m sorry if I made you feel uncomfortable. But, I really don’t understand.”
“······what?”
“As far as I know, Derek has improved a lot during his class, but I don’t understand why he suddenly became so passive…. I thought it was pretty cool.”
“What are you talking about?”
“Sometimes I see Mr. Derek in the professor’s class, and I think I know a little bit about Professor Kevin’s student evaluation. It was written that Derek-sama’s skill improved steadily.”
This too was true.
Just as Derek didn’t like Kevin, Kevin didn’t like Derek the same way, but he appreciated Kevin’s ability, talent, and willpower.
“I think it’s great, too.”
Oliver said, recalling his battle with Derek.
Those who watched the fight only remembered the overwhelming difference in skill, but Oliver remembered Derek’s improvement in his skills and his will to fight to the end.
Because it’s really great.
However, Derek refused to accept Oliver’s words and tried to understand them crookedly, probably because of the negative emotions he still had.
I wondered why he was doing such a painful thing on his own.
“Do you think I’m in a level where you can judge me……?!”
“·················ogue.”
“You mean you fought on an equal footing with me, and you solved the Mountain Face thing? yes?”
“·······No, I do not think I have the right to judge anyone. Seriously. I’m sorry if that sounds like you.”
“I don’t think that’s the case when we hear the rumors going around these days, right?”
“Rumors?”
“Yeah, the story keeps circulating that you’re not a normal guy. Maybe because Professor Kevin brought it.”
“Is it so great that Professor Kevin brought you here?”
“You don’t know anything? Or are you pretending not to know? Don’t you know how Kevin was recognized as the official wizard of the Tower? You don’t even know who the master is? How did you get hired as an employee?”
Suddenly, Derek poked Oliver’s sensitive area and asked a question.
At present, these are difficult questions for Oliver to answer.
Although I made up a story in my own way, it is best not to talk about it in the first place, because lying is something that has to be repeated once it starts.
As Oliver tried to avoid answering with Kevin’s excuses, Derek stopped talking like a prey hunter.
“You don’t mean to answer. you don’t have to do it Instead, answer this question. You said you improved Felix’s skills, did that have anything to do with it?”
Five······. It was a pretty sharp question.
There was no direct correlation, but Oliver chose only questions that were difficult to answer.
Just by arousing his anger, his head is spinning so tight… It was admirable.
“It’s something I’m not familiar with.”
“I heard you helped Felix a lot.”
“I just did what the professor gave me. I am an employee of the former professor. This is similar to the way I came to see Derek now.”
“Would it help if you were honest?”
Derek, who was just trying to avoid the situation, made the first suggestion. In fact, his emotions ignited with a sense of urgency.
A tiny, but clear, blazing little embers.
Oliver thought it would be better not to put out this embers.
“Well······. So, how about doing this?”
“What?”
“Derek has a question for me, and I want to do my job. How about giving the winner what they want in a fight? If Derek wins, I answer anything, and if I win, Derek comes back to class.”
Anger grew on Derek’s face at the reasonable suggestion, and the fire that was burning in his heart slowly grew. It was a good thing.
“Are you saying that you can easily beat me now?”
“No, I never thought that someone would win unconditionally. It’s just that Derek has a chance to beat me, and I have a chance to beat Derek too… What would you like to do?”
“Wait, I’ll bring the knife.”
***
Paang–!
A loud sound resounded from the elemental school tower magic battle training room.
Oliver narrowed the distance and kicked Derek’s leg.
Derek staggered in pain with a light sound.
“ね・・・・・・・!”
Embarrassment, shock, anger.
A lot of emotions ran through Derek’s face. Fortunately, there were fighting spirits among them. It’s a fighting spirit that you don’t want to lose.
It was a fighting spirit based on negative emotions rather than positive emotions, but Derek, who had spent time helplessly, little by little, was gaining vitality little by little.
“Damn—!!”
Derek overcame the pain in his leg and swung his long sword at Oliver.
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Normally, such a large sword would instinctively retreat backwards in a parabola, but Oliver instead filled the tonfa with magical energy to block it like a shield, and then unleashed the opposite fist.Gang-!
Derek quickly retrieved the long sword that was blocked by the tonfa, preventing Oliver from attacking.
amazing reflexes.
However, Oliver did not lose, and recalling the fight between Sheamus and Duncan, he twirled and fixed the tonfa in one hand and hung it on Derek’s long sword like a hook, and pulled it with a bang.
He intends to steal the sword. However, this seemed to be a mistake.
Doesn’t it have a taste that resists and comes with a blade?
Oliver hurriedly blocked the long sword coming from the opposite tonfa.
Gang-!
Again, the sound of metal hitting each other rang out. At that moment, Derek’s emotions shone brightly.
Seizing an opportunity in the midst of demonstrating extreme concentration.
He peered through Oliver’s unsteady balance of power, then pulled a long sword with all the strength he had on his forearm, snatched one of Oliver’s tonfas, and threw it back.
Tonfa flew into the air and fell to the floor.
Derek, who had been dragged around without even using any magic because he had lost the initiative until now, was finally taking the initiative.
A short but eternal time.
Oliver watched what Derek would do.
Instead of digging right in, Derek took a few steps back and tried to light his long sword.
To use his special skill, fire magic.
“I don’t think it’s a good choice.”
After saying that, Oliver connected the magic chamber to the tonfa that flew behind Derek and pulled it straight out.
The magic thread didn’t just fly away, but returned along the route the magician wanted, thanks to which the magic power was condensed and it collided with the blade of Derek’s longsword, which was about to burst into flames.
Gang–!!
Oliver’s Tonfa and Derek’s longsword collided once again, and the impact caused the casting spell to fail.
Flames and magical powers scattered in the air.
Derek panicked, and Oliver closed the gap again.
Hold the tonfa in both hands like a shield.
👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌
Derek, in the midst of embarrassment, immediately drew his long sword as Oliver narrowed the distance, and Oliver formed a shield with his two tonfas and gently passed it over to further narrow the distance.
Then, while holding a tonfa handle around Derek’s neck, he kicked one of his legs and knocked him down.
Derek collapses when he loses his balance.
He immediately threw away the useless long sword, pulled out a dagger from the back of his waist, and stabbed it at Oliver, but this was also to no avail, as Oliver had just seen his feelings and prepared for it.
Cock!!
As Oliver swung the tonfa upside down like an axe, the dagger shattered helplessly and escaped Derek’s hand, placing another tonfa around Derek’s unarmed neck.
Anyone can see the end of the situation.
Apart from the bet, his pride was hurt and he had to be angry, but Derek did not do it, but rather brilliance.
“…the rumor seems to be true.”
“What do you mean?”
“You… rumors that you are a mercenary or a test subject that the professor picked up when he was a war mage.”
Oliver tilted his head at the sudden remark.
‘yes? no no… Isn’t that wrong? The first time I met the professor was when I was a war wizard, and I was working as a solver.’
It’s not perfect, but it’s a subtly consistent story.
Derek continued.
“Otherwise, it doesn’t make sense to be this strong, right? It doesn’t make any sense to be the master of a jolbu’s house.”
“What else is a jolbu house?”
“The only people who use the subject vacation as a professor’s employee like that are the guys who came in with money.”
“ah······.”
“What are you?”
Derek asked a question, but Oliver only shook his head.
“I’m sorry, but it looks like I won the bet?”
Derek shook his head.
“Hey, do you know how a match is made between wizards without a referee?”
“no?”
“One of them will surrender, or all of them will be incapacitated!”
Derek shouted, exploding the magical power within his body, and spewing flames all over his body, and got up quickly.
Once Oliver is far away with powerful firepower,
ㅡ Duck!!
Oliver managed to get up and swung a tonfa around Derek’s side in response. It was a possible action because it halved Derek’s firepower by spewing magical power through his body.
“Ah, thank you for teaching me.”
Derek crumples like a squid being roasted in pain.
He rekindled his fighting spirit and tried to use the magic again, but Oliver once again smashed the source of the magical energy with the tonfa, smashing the magic in advance, and smashing Derek’s leg with the tonfa.
puck!!
A dull sound was heard. Fortunately it wasn’t broken. It just hurts like it’s broken.
It was not an easy skill, but I learned the know-how while training the Joseph Family and the Fighter Crew.
How to hit it painfully while avoiding major injuries.
Oliver slapped Derek in the back, who was overcome with mobility, slapped him in the shoulder as he flinched and tried to counterattack, and slapped him again in the side that had recovered.
Derek’s body collapsed again like a squid from the pain.
Oliver looked down at Derek, perplexed. I wasn’t the type to surrender, I had to stun him, but I don’t know how to stun him.
If you hit the head, you could have died. In the end, Oliver decided to beat Derek until he surrendered.
Whoops! puck!! Quick! bang! Pop-!!
When he ran out of energy after beating him for a while, Derek asked a question.
“you······. With such a skill set, why were you hiding it?”
“For once, after being stunned, say the words……..”
Oliver saw Derek’s emotional state and stopped the attack. I had no will to fight anymore.
Rather than having his will broken by fear or pain, it was more like a form of understanding.
“Well······. Not really, it’s hidden. I just acted according to my position and role.”
“··············· That training looks familiar, but have you done it a lot?”
“Well······. little bit?”
Oliver answered after thinking. In fact, it was promised to do this evening as well. The fighter crew from Zone X and horses.