218 – This doesn’t taste good…
Four matches followed.
There were many who wanted to analyze Maiev’s victory in depth, but in the end, it was not realized. This is because the victories of other representatives of the Faculty of Magic quickly followed.
“How did this happen?”
“Once, once…. “You haven’t lost once yet, right?”
As the game progressed, interest in the magic department doubled. At first, it was a question of ‘how good can the magic department do?’, But now the thought was ‘maybe we will win again?’
And now it was Becky’s turn.
“Ah, um….”
Standing in the middle of the stadium, Becky tried to focus on the opponent in front of him. Even though the audience was very noisy, I was still able to achieve this level of concentration.
But in the first place, the audience’s reaction was left aside.
‘Hmm?’
The girl looked closely at the person in front of her.
I don’t know his name, but I heard that he is a famous swordsman. Even when I actually saw it, I could quite feel that energy. Just look at the threateningly curved sword and its majestic size.
“Will the Faculty of Magic win again?”
“This representative seems a bit weak.”
“… “Other representatives did the same.”
The voices of the audience clearly reach my ears. Yes, what they said was true. Because the delegates, except Becky, had already won and returned.
So he couldn’t lose either.
Boom!
The flare explodes, signaling the start of the match. And almost at the same time, the other person’s curved sword flew towards Becky like a crescent moon.
The not-too-distant past.
The sword that Flan saw when he first faced Ivan. It is a sword of a higher level than that. In other words, Becky before didn’t even dare to look at this sword, let alone face it.
However.
‘I’ve changed a lot too.’
In the past, if you were in a situation like this, you would be attacked. Should be avoided I was busy thinking about these things.
‘Now I can see everything, one by one.’
It doesn’t mean that the other person is weak. Of course, I don’t mean to be insignificant, and I didn’t want to disparage the efforts he made.
However.
A word that Becky can confidently say at this moment.
“… “You didn’t work as hard as I did.”
The training that Flan did was not strange even if it was called ‘hell’. Compared to that, it wasn’t strange to say that the current situation was heaven.
Isn’t Becky standing like this now because she survived hell? For someone who came back from hell alive, the trials of heaven were too light.
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Oh my!
The ice spreads out like silk. By cleverly creating an ice road along the horizontal sword path, the sword was guided to naturally miss Becky.
And the subsequent counterattack.
Puck—!
It’s neat.
Immediately after the opponent swung all his swords, Becky summoned a blunt object made of ice and struck him.
Craudangtangtang─!
The opponent who is hit in the back of the head flies far away.
“… !”
Becky’s eyes widened when she actually attacked. He expected a counterattack, but he never thought it would be this powerful.
“Me too…. “You won?”
Becky’s mumbling could not continue for long. It was because of the cheers that erupted from the audience.
“Again…. The Faculty of Magic won again!”
“I finally won!”
Becky walked out of the stadium with a confused expression on her face.
Cheers were always given only to those who shine, but now that he thought he was one of those people, he kept feeling strange.
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Waiting room.
When I returned to the waiting room, the other representatives had similar expressions to me. There was a mixture of feelings of relief as if I was glad to win and wonder at my own strength.
The silence was embarrassing, so Becky spoke first.
“By any chance, did you all feel what I felt?”
“What did you feel?”
“Just…” . Think it’s a lot easier than you think? And one more thing. “Do you realize once again that we worked really hard?”
Everyone nodded quietly. Because what I felt was not much different from Becky.
The next moment, everyone’s eyes turned to Flan. Although I believed in the plan from the beginning, I had no idea what would happen specifically, but the experience was amazing.
“….”
Plan was leisurely reading the newspaper. He was sipping the coffee Maiev had given him with one hand.
Trixie quietly wiped her forehead with her glove. Becky, who was staring at this, said quietly.
“That’s not a handkerchief, it’s a glove.”
“I know.”
“… ?”
Becky no longer pointed out Trixie. This isn’t the first time the blue girl has done something incomprehensible.
Trixie continued.
“I thought it would be nice to win, but that’s not necessarily true. From now on, we have to deal with real capital knights, right?”
“I guess so.”
Everyone looked out the window outside the waiting room. A castle-like residence where the capital’s knights reside comes into view.
“Lewis, who were you dealing with?”
“I can’t remember the name. He came from a very famous family, but he was a bastard. “I guess he inherited the same blood, but he was really good at swinging a sword.”
“In the end, you won.”
“That’s right.”
Becky, Trixie, and Maiev all faced tough opponents. If we were to say that this was the reason why we were able to defeat such opponents so casually, then of course….
Plan. There was nothing else.
Becky shrugged his shoulders.
“I think I realized once again how hard we trained. You really almost died in the Chinese world….”
“Is it okay if I tell you now? Training where I held my breath and raised my mana…. “I fainted a few times.”
“It’s brave to be alive without suffocating…” .”
Although he said it as if he was complaining, what was contained inside was admiration for Flan. Thanks to that, they were able to reach this level, and it was clear that they were achieving results.
“Now I really have no choice but to believe it.”
The owner of that muttering voice was Maiev. The faces of the delegates all turned towards him.
“Thanks to Plan, we have definitely become stronger than before, and we will become even stronger in the future. “Isn’t that right?”
“Uh….”
“I don’t know what the limit will be, but we will continue to become stronger. “I think becoming a water engineer is something I can do now.”
I can’t believe it’s worth dealing with a water engineer.
If I had heard this before, I would have looked around in surprise, but this time, all the delegates just looked at each other.
How do I say something like this? It’s not a worry like that. It’s just a question of whether you think the same way as me.
It was around that time when we were looking at each other.
Boom!
The waiting room door opened with a loud noise.
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“… After!”
The one who burst through the waiting room door was none other than Violet. She caught her breath and checked the faces of the delegates.
Violet suddenly saw an image in the mirror hanging in the waiting room. Her shoulders were shaking with excitement and the corners of her mouth kept curling up.
She was happy like a child.
“… Professor Violet?”
“Professor?”
The representatives recognized themselves. Violet then took a deep breath and entered the waiting room.
“Please take these first.”
Violet turned her body halfway. Then she sees people filing in through the still open waiting room door.
Everyone who came in had empty hands. There were obvious riches in her hands, and the beautifully wrapped basket smelled of delicious ingredients.
Plan asked quietly.
“… What.”
“They say they came to cheer, but I think it could actually be seen as sponsorship.”
“Sponsorship?”
“Yes. “The Faculty of Magic also receives that kind of thing now?”
Violet continued her words excitedly.
“Now, people’s interest in the Faculty of Magic doesn’t just stop at cheering. “I even started using various material things to express my sincerity!”
Flann slightly narrowed her eyebrows.
“It’s not necessary at all.”
“The Magic Tower hasn’t been completed yet, and researching the ancient rune language requires a lot of funds, right? So this much is okay. No, I need it!”
Violet recklessly started piling up things in the waiting room.
“This is a nutritional supplement that is said to be good for the body…. There are also some potions. I think you can use the rest comfortably…. Ah, above all.”
Violet lifts a basket.
“We haven’t been able to provide good meals…. Fortunately, it’s in here. “You need to eat well.”
“Wow!”
“It smells so good.”
Trixie didn’t react much because she was carrying her own salad, but Louis and Becky immediately ran to the basket and started enjoying the delicious food.
“….”
But Maiev’s expression was not good.
Maiev’s expertise was not limited to coffee. Since the Faculty of Magic’s diet was actually poor, Maiev had prepared sandwiches for today’s meal.
Maiev quietly hid her own basket in her corner. Even to herself, the sandwiches in the basket she received as a gift looked tastier.
But that was then.
“Are you going to eat it all by yourself?”
“Oh.”
Her long hand reaches out and takes a sandwich from her basket. The owner of her hand was Flan, and Maiev looked at her Flan in surprise.
“Oh, that’s not very tasty…” .”
“It’s worth eating.”
“Yes?”
Maiev’s eyes widened at Flan’s words.
“There is no poison in the sandwich.”
“Oh, hey….”
Maiev did not know how to respond because she did not expect this situation and it was her first time reacting like this. She stutters for a moment and then opens her mouth again.
“Why don’t you eat that…?” . Town.”
But Maiev’s words did not continue.
This is because Flann telekinetically brought a sandwich to her mouth. Maiev asked with her eyes as she chewed the sandwich that was stuffed into her mouth.
“Eat well. “Because you’ll be busy.”
“….”
Maiev nodded her head quietly.
Unlike before, my cheeks were quite red.