151 – Confrontation (3)
“… What did you say?”
“It’s okay to ask again, but that won’t change my answer. “I said it was okay to attack him with the intention of killing him.”
Even after hearing the answer, Elaine tilted her head as if she didn’t understand and asked me again and again.
It wasn’t that I didn’t understand Elaine’s question. Whether a king or a beggar, life is something that everyone has only one life, so it is a precious thing that cannot be exchanged for anything.
Who in the world wouldn’t tilt their head when they say that it doesn’t matter if they throw away their lives because they barely survived?
“I mean this from the bottom of my heart… ?”
“Uh.”
“Why…. “Aren’t you afraid of dying?”
“It’s scary…. However, I would rather die than fight while someone watches over me. And you like that too, right?”
The purpose of this fight is to find a companion suitable for the Sword Saint, or in other words, to find Elaine’s future husband.
It’s not just a fight, it’s about finding a partner to spend the rest of your life with, and it shouldn’t be someone you have to watch over for fear of accidentally killing them.
You must find an opponent who can hit you with all your might. Even if there were deaths in the process, it was inevitable.
“If I die in this fight, it’s just because I was weak, so there’s no need to blame yourself. So just do whatever you want.”
“… ….”
Elaine stared at me in silence for a while, then suddenly smiled horribly.
When Elaine’s face showed a true expression that came not from external shock but from Elaine’s emotions, it felt as if the mask she had been wearing had been broken.
That smile contained not only joy but also murderous intent, but even though it harbored murderous intent, no feelings of hostility came to me.
Even though he wanted to kill the other person, he did not feel the slightest feeling of hatred, so I felt a kind of purity in his killing intent.
“I’ve been holding back….”
“What?”
“…… “I fight with all my heart.”
It was when Elaine was about eight years old that she realized that her human nature was too soft and weak.
When her opponent died from a light blow while sparring with a knight of her family, Elaine realized that she was different from others.
It is no exaggeration to say that the Sword Saint clan, who have longed for the blood of the strong for generations and have received special education since childhood, are different from ordinary people.
Although she liked fighting, she did not like killing, so she fought by limiting herself so that her opponent would not die.
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“It was good when she was fighting with her father…” .”
Each time she fought her father, the Sword Saint, several times a month, she broke away from her constraints and became free.
Her father, who was like a strong wall that would not fall even when she attacked with all her might, was the only one who gave Elaine freedom.
Of course, Elaine was free when dealing with enemies that needed to be killed, such as her bandits or demon beasts, but that freedom did not last long.
She is not a robo or a possessed person, and since most of the threats that should exist in this world have already been dealt with by the possessed people, it is no exaggeration to say that there is no opponent who can stand against her for more than a minute.
“… “It wasn’t a serious fight, but it was fun fighting you.”
As Elaine raised her sword hand high, the swords that had flown away liquefied and began to flock around her sword.
“It’s not just about being strong… Her fighting style was so different from mine that it made my heart pound. This feeling… “Is this the love that Lane spoke of?”
“No!! “That’s not love!!”
“Jessica…. “We are having a serious conversation, so let’s stay still for a moment.”
Elaine continued, ignoring Jessica, who continued to yell at her that it was not love.
“I think it’s okay to have a child if it’s yours. No, I want to give birth. Therefore… “I will do my best to do just that.”
As if those words were not false, Elaine’s anger boiled to a level that was incomparable to before, and a haze appeared around her body.
“Jessica!! Run away!! Hurry!!”
Jessica and the prosecutors, who realized the situation at my rare surprised appearance, started running all at once.
The sword spirit also realized the seriousness of the situation and took as many swords as possible from the ground and got as far away from us as possible.
‘That black…’ ‘I won’t be able to break it easily.’
Elaine’s sword, which had melted, had suddenly turned into a huge sword that was more than twice Elaine’s height. The sword was wide and the hilt was long like a spear.
The size itself was not that different from the great sword shown earlier, but the power felt from it was incomparable to what it was a moment ago.
“Ah… “I didn’t want to show it in a place like this.”
“Is there any other place you wanted to show me?”
“Yes…. “I wanted to show it in a quieter place where I could run wild.”
“It means you want to show it in a private place.”
“…… Maybe so. “Then I’ll go.”
When Elaine, who was holding the spear with both hands, tried to swing the sword, the survival instinct within me made me bend down faster than I thought.
At the same time as she hid her body down, Elaine’s sword swung forward and destroyed everything in front of it.
Kugung!! When I turned around at the sound of the ground collapsing coming from behind me, I saw that the mountain I could see over the horizon was collapsing.
The power and range were far superior to any sword strike I had ever seen.
Is this the true heart of the next Sword Saint?
I burst into a cold sweat at the overwhelming power that would tear my body to pieces with just a touch, while I smiled at the thought that I could defeat it.
“You’re smiling…” . Are you happy too?”
“Okay, but it’s a bit dangerous to wield something like that here, so let’s move places for a moment.”
As I said that, I quickly burrowed into Elaine’s arms and launched a true strike upward.
Whether it was because they approached too quickly, or because she couldn’t fire repeatedly with that much power, Elaine was unable to counter the attack and instead blocked the attack with her spear.
“Oh….”
Jinta’s power sent Elaine flying high into the sky, and then I jumped towards Elaine, who was soaring high.
If you do this, there will be no harm to Jessica or the other swordsmen unless you intentionally attack the ground.
“Now we’re left alone?”
“Yes, I’m happy.”
As she said that and swung Elaine’s sword spear, the clouds in the sword spear’s firing line were torn apart as if hit by a storm.
If I get hit by that attack, my body will be torn to pieces like that cloud.
The attack was monotonous, perhaps because the weapon was so large, but its power and range were so wide that it was difficult to get close to it.
Furthermore, at first glance it seemed like he was just firing at random, but that attack was clearly draining my stamina and slowly pushing me forward.
Because the sky was open, there were many places to avoid, but the range of the attack was so wide that avoiding it required more stamina and fighting spirit than I thought.
‘You shouldn’t expect that side to run out of stamina first….’
Elaine is not stupid.
If you went with the strategy of reducing physical strength among the many strategies, it would have been a decision made after considering both yourself and your physical strength and judging that there was a chance of winning.
Furthermore, I had exhausted a lot of my stamina while dodging Elaine’s attacks earlier.
That attack eats up a huge amount of fighting spirit and stamina, but considering my remaining stamina, I’m sure I’ll be the one to run out of stamina first.
‘Let’s hide for now…’ .’
This was a sky without any obstacles, but that didn’t mean there wasn’t a place to hide.
I raised my head to a higher place and hid myself in the thick clouds.
As I was hiding in the clouds in this dark time, I couldn’t find me with my eyes, and in addition, the noise I made as I moved was drowned out by the strong wind, so the only way to find me was to read the speculation.
However, no matter how excellent the detection ability was, it was difficult to find my exact location if I lowered the speculation as much as possible.
As proof, Elaine’s attack was still coming, but it only stopped at a narrow distance and did not reach me.
‘I need to induce Elaine’s attack like this and take away some of her energy…’ .’
While I was going back and forth between the clouds with that thought in mind, Elaine’s attack suddenly stopped, so I peeked my head out of the cloud and saw that Elaine was focusing her fighting skills on her sword spear.
‘Are you planning to blow up this entire area with that thing?’
At first, I thought so, but the fighting spirit that was focused on the sword spear was focused on the tip of the spear and was concentrated in one place, so it was not an attempt to spread the attack widely, but rather to focus it on just one person.
‘… ‘You’re waiting for me.’
It is normal for a person with even a little bit of thought to avoid such an attack, but Elaine trusts me and waits.
Even though I knew that belief was joyful and foolish, I got out of the cloud and rushed towards Elaine.
“… “I believed you would come.”
The tip of Elaine’s spear was pointed at me, and my true sword flashed light for a moment and then returned to its sheath.
No matter how much of a sword attack you have, you cannot offset such an attack with a single attack.
I repeated the process of issuing and delivering a true blow, building up friction again and again, and continued to accumulate friction for a single strike.
And after a while, the moment the tip of Elaine’s spear was about to touch me, the tip of Elaine’s spear collided with Jinta, who was shining as if throwing out all the friction he had accumulated….
The sky split with a torrent of vicious fighting that made the hairs on my entire body stand up, even though half of it was mine.