Chapter 110 – It will hurt a little, Abel.
Chapter 108
…Why did things turn out this way?
I was standing in the gym. I remember coming to a place like this with Levius the other day…
“…Why are you with Elfriede now?”
“What did you say, Abel?”
“Oh, no.”
Elfriede had already changed into clothes that were comfortable for training. It’s a shame. She was very pretty.
Seeing Elfriede warming her body, I asked nervously.
“…Which weapon will you use?”
“I will use an iron sword for sparring.”
“…Yes.”
You really want to do Dalian. I glanced at Celine. She was looking at Elfriede with disapproving eyes.
“Celine, it’s okay. Don’t worry, just watch.”
“…Yes.”
I’m sure Elfriede will take care of it in moderation. Honestly, no matter how strong I get, I don’t think I’ll be able to beat her one-on-one with her 7 years of experience as her champion.
I don’t know if it’s dealing with monsters… I’ve never properly learned swordsmanship. Dealing with people is a bit more difficult.
…Is that why I suffer only from knight-type monsters? Because you don’t know swordsmanship properly?
“Hmm.”
“Abel, take it.”
Elfriede handed me an iron sword for sparring. It was made of iron for a sense of real combat, but it was an unsharpened sword so as not to get hurt during sparring.
“Do you want to do this?”
“Why, is it inconvenient because it is not the shape of the greatsword I usually use?”
“I’m not used to it.”
“It’s okay. After all, I am not a rapier either.”
But…
“By the way, Elfriede, isn’t Dalian suddenly too out of the blue?”
“Are you asking about that now?”
“Somehow…”
Elfriede stood opposite me and said.
“I just want to see her junior warrior’s grown skills.”
“…Really?”
But why are you smiling so meaningfully from earlier…?
Elfriede was still grinning as she held her sword in her stance.
She’s pretty because she smiles… Yes, she’s pretty… But something is scary. I must say the atmosphere is strange.
“…Please be gentle.”
“The hero who caught an Agareth-class monster is acting outrageous.”
“Because that was all done by the saintess…”
Elfriede took her stance. I don’t know much about her swordsmanship, but just by looking at her posture, I could get the impression that her basics are solid.
“Get ready, Abel. I will start right away.”
“…Yes.”
As expected, Elfriede has excellent basics. I don’t think it’s okay to deal with her like Levius. I also slightly bent her waist and lowered her sword obliquely.
“…That’s an interesting pose.”
Elfriede made a short assessment of my position and kicked her to the ground. You come in first?
But Elfriede was very fast. To the point where she could treat Levius as someone else. She says this is the condition she’s not blessed with?
Chaeeng!
Elfriede’s sword plunged down on me, and I slashed it with her diagonal line.
If I hadn’t improved my skills while dealing with a lot of high-risk monsters recently, I don’t think I would have reacted. To that extent, Elfriede was agile.
Wheek!
“What!?”
“The reaction speed is also good. If it had been Levius, he would have been slapped in the jaw.”
…How did you just solve it? Elfriede and I were clearly facing swords, but Elfriede quickly broke away from the contest of strength and swung her sword at her chin.
Did I do something wrong?
But I quickly realized that I was wrong. As I attacked, and as Elfride attacked, the same situation came up several times, and each time, Elfride voluntarily escaped from her tight contest and seized the opportunity to attack.
“…What did you do?”
“Abel, you are a warrior, but not a swordsman.”
“Yes?”
“It means that you don’t seem to know about swordsmanship. Am I wrong?”
…I don’t know.
Did I catch something like that? If you hold a sword like this where I was, you will be arrested for possession of a weapon.
“…That’s right.”
“If you can subdue those powerful monsters without learning swordsmanship… If you learn it properly, it will shine even more.”
“Yes?”
“Can I make a suggestion?”
Chaeeng!
I asked while barely defending myself against Elfriede’s sharp sword attack.
“A suggestion?”
“I will teach you swordsmanship.”
“?”
Really?
“Yes, for example…”
Chaeeng, Elfriede pushed my sword away and stepped back slightly behind her. Then she lowered her waist and lowered her sword.
In an instant, her sword shone. And the sword shot like a ray of light was swinging in front of me before I could react.
“From the basics to these skills.”
“…Eh.”
The iron sword glistened in the sunlight. Under the clear sunlight, the blonde hair of the woman who wielded the sword shone as brilliantly as the sun.
She approached me in the blink of an eye. The woman wielding the sword… Was smiling for some reason.
I couldn’t react right now……Wait, why are you laughing so hard!?
“It will hurt a little, Abel.”
“Eh.”
Paak!!!
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“…Mi-sorry, Abel. Are you okay?”
“…It hurts.”
“Please be patient with me, warrior.”
Celine was sitting casually on the floor with me, touching her shoulder. She wasn’t doing skinship, she was healing her bruises caused by Elfride’s beating with her divine power.
“I’m really sorry. I didn’t mean to hit you that hard…”
Apparently, Elfriede had failed to control her power. She honestly thought that when the iron swords struck, her real shoulder blades would shatter, and she was surprised.
It hurts so much…
“…Are you really going to teach me swordsmanship?”
“Oh, that, yes. Abel, I am willing to teach you as much as you like.”
“Um.”
“Oh, wait a minute. The maid has come.”
While Elfride and her maid came to visit and moved her seat, I asked Celine.
“Celine, what do you think?”
“…If the hero learns swordsmanship properly, it will surely help improve his skills. That’s what everyone wants, including me, so I have no intention of opposing it.”
“Isn’t it?”
“It would have been nice if I could have taught you, but I can’t handle it as well as Hero Elfriede.”
Come to think of it, Celine said she knew how to handle a sword to some extent.
“Celine, you know the technique Elfriede used just now. Did you see it?”
“Yes.”
“Isn’t that a great skill? I don’t know much about swordsmanship, but I got that feeling.”
“I see. I knew Hero Elfriede had excellent skills, but I didn’t expect him to be like that.”
As Celine commented, she added a word.
“That’s why I was able to fight to that extent even with the lack of blessings.”
“…Not enough?”
“It wasn’t that Saint Cynthia was the problem, it was that she was lacking compared to Saint Estelle. Estelle’s blessing is a bit… Different, isn’t it?”
“I know how it feels.”
From noble mtl dot com.
After receiving Celine’s blessing, I definitely realized it.
…That Estelle’s blessings are really cheat keys.
By the way, didn’t Elfriede subdue the Barbatos class without a cheat key? Assuming that Celine and Saint Cynthia’s blessings are at the same level…I barely managed to get a Leviathan class.
It’s understandable that I couldn’t even use my hands in Dalian a while ago.
“What would happen if Elfriede received Estelle’s blessing?”
“…Well. I wonder if Saint Estelle would give a blessing to Hero Elfriede, but if that happens…”
“What if that happens?”
Celine cautiously expressed her opinion.
“Wouldn’t it be able to subdue even an Agareth-class knight-type monster?”
“…Well.”
That’s about it. Also I’m still far away
Well, it was absurd for her to catch up with Elfriede, who served as her hero for 7 years, in a few months. The fact that I have been showing more outstanding performance lately was possible because of the cheat key called Estelle’s Blessing.
“Then I think I have a reason to learn swordsmanship.”
“It would be nice to learn. By the way, warrior.”
“Yes?”
“If the hero wants to learn swordsmanship from the hero Elfride, she will have to stay in this mansion or go with the hero Elfride. What do you plan on doing with that?”
…Is that so?
As Celine said, if you want to learn her swordsmanship from Elfride, you need to stick with her, so she had to be in the same place.
“When Elfride returns, she will ask.”
“No, we have Alicia.”
“Ah.”
That’s right.
Even if we stayed at the mansion, we couldn’t make Alicia and Estelle stay at the inn forever, and even if we did go together, we, who were taking Alicia with us, couldn’t be with Elfriede.
“Should I give up swordsmanship…”
“Or should I and the saintess take turns taking care of Alicia?”
“…I’m so sorry to you two for that.”
“Would Saint Estelle understand the reason that the warrior learns swordsmanship? No matter how well Saint Estelle trains her, what she cannot teach the hero is her swordsmanship.”
Um… That’s right. Right now, I’m not actually using swordsmanship, I’m just swinging the sword. Of course, as I gained experience, I came up with application methods, but I certainly wouldn’t call it ‘swordsmanship’.
There is a reason why I want to gain an advantage in speed when dealing with monsters right now. If you fight from the front with technique, there is a high possibility that you will be pushed back.
“…I’ll have to talk to Elfriede separately and then decide.”
“Sure. Oh, sure.”
“Yes?”
“Can’t you have an affair?”
“…I wonder if that will ever happen.”
What can a child of a noble family like Elfriede do to a commoner like me? Of course, Elfriede isn’t authoritarian like Levius, but still, how important is status in this era.
“Why do you think there is none? I am worried.”
“What are you looking at and worrying about? Elfriede is the son of a great aristocrat called the Duke of Bathory, and I’m a villager from a large village called Daisy Village. Even a friend wouldn’t know, there’s no way that would be the case. Both Elfriede and I know the good.”
“…When you say that, it makes me more anxious.”
“Yes??”
Why? It was a bit ridiculous. I asked Celine.
“Have I been lacking in affection lately?”
“…There’s a little bit of that. But that’s not the reason.”
“That’s why I didn’t trust Celine.”
I gently held Celine’s hand. Seeing that, Celine narrowed her eyes and said,
“…Hero, aren’t you planning on doing it here?”
“What? We just held hands.”
“…That’s right, you know that the hero is good too… Huh!?”
As he kissed her, Celine blushed. She said, laughing at her cute reaction.
“Because I’m not a romantic delusional person who doesn’t care about the huge barriers of status. It won’t happen.”
“…If I were a noble, would you have thought that way?”
“…Celine might be a little different. Estelle too.”
“What is that?”
Heh heh.
“Abel, sorry to keep you waiting.”
At that time, Elfriede returned. Where did she go with the maid?
“Are you done with your work?”
“I heard a guest came for a while. She told the lady-in-waiting to take care of the reception.”
“…Yes?”
Elfriede, you should go.
“But Abel, that hand…”
“Yes?…Ah.”
Sorry, I quickly pulled out the hand that was holding Celine’s. It was like she was performing an act of love in someone else’s gym. Celine didn’t say much, as if she understood that.
Instead, someone else said something different.
“…I guess I’ll have to do it one more time.”
“…Yes?”
“Raise your sword again, Abel. It’s a rematch.”
Why the hell!?
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I returned to my room and fell face down on the bed. My whole body aches.
There were no bruises because Elfriede controlled her strength after she was injured once, but she couldn’t help but feel the pain in the area where she was hit.
“Oops…”
“You worked hard, hero.”
Celine follows her room and she approaches the bed. And she sat quietly next to me and gently touched my hair. As I dug my white fingers through her hair, I felt something good.
“Do you have any pain anywhere?”
“It’s not like that… My body hurts a little bit.”
“It would be better if I rested for a while.”
So I’m going to sleep well…
“Celine goes to her room and rests too.”
“For me, this is my room?”
“…Yes?”
f*ck, what?
As I looked at her with her surprised eyes, Celine grinned.
“I secretly told the maid that it was moved. Look, my luggage is over there.”
…Really.
“No, can I? No matter what, a man and a woman share a room in someone else’s mansion…”
“We are in a relationship, who can say what?”
“…Well.”
“And how about a little something. I already…”
Celine lowered her head slightly. And she whispered in a low, sweet voice in my ear as I lay there.
“…It belongs to Abel&”
“……I really want to rest today.”
“Take a break~& Who said what?”
Even as Celine said that, she had a charming smile on her face. Such a charming and alluring smile that I can’t refuse.
…Oh, really.
“…I’ll wash up and come back.”
“Yes~&”