Episode 106 Duel (1)
“Please let go of the cow…”
She said in a small voice, dyeing even her ears red.
Realizing his actions again, Ray hurriedly let go of his hand.
“Oh sorry. A little surprised…”
“…”
She took two steps back like a small animal.
Ray looked at her carefully.
Once he, who had already left the realm of the human senses, decided to collect information with his whole body, he was able to find out quite a lot.
The school uniform is the sword academy’s school uniform. It is a black dagger that is mainly used by looking at the side where the calluses are mainly caught on the hand.
In addition, the smell of ethanol completely absorbed in her clothes can be said to be that she touches something similar to disinfectant in her daily life.
said Ray.
“What is that scent? It’s a scent I’ve never smelled before… Is it like perfume?”
When I asked indirectly, she calmed herself down for a moment before answering with a smile.
“iced coffee. It’s probably the smell of the potion I made.”
“…The potion you made? That’s great.”
“It’s not that great when you actually make it.”
Ray was quite surprised by her words.
It is said that the potion was created by a renowned alchemist in the past.
Other alchemists tried to make potions using it, but all failed.
It is said that only the recipe he devised can create the perfect potion. That’s why the current potions were all made the same way.
Of course, the potion she made was also an unfinished potion like other alchemists made, but it was absurd when you consider that she had achieved it at her age.
The combination of herbs and the combination of the herbs and the troll’s blood. In addition, they had to come up with a suitable temperature for the potion and a way to suppress the side effects.
It was a part that showed that she had excellent knowledge.
“Huh… Seeing how you make potions, you seem to be interested in medicine?”
Ray took a peek at her inner thoughts.
If she was interested in medicine, it would be a bit unreasonable to transfer her from the swordsmanship academy to the medical academy, but it was possible as long as she participated in the lectures.
Wouldn’t that be a mutually beneficial situation?
She nodded.
“I am very interested. So, I’m looking forward to the free medical lecture that will start soon. If it’s there, even I, a swordsmanship academy, can take classes, right?”
She covered her mouth and smiled. Anyone who saw her was beautiful and worthy of praise.
Clearly, Ray had decided to give free lectures for the first month to get people together.
It was a publicity effect for students who were interested in it, and it was an opportunity to let them know what medicine is specifically about.
Ray smiled at her, who still didn’t recognize him.
‘I thought I was famous too, but there are still people who don’t know me.’
I thought I had established myself to some extent, but I guess it wasn’t yet for some students. If not, is it because the academy is different?
If it was the magic academy, he would be there, and since he would attend lectures twice a week, he wouldn’t have known it, but if it was another academy, it would be far away.
Ray became interested in her.
Why did he go to the swordsmanship academy when he was interested in medicine and had enough knowledge to make his own potions?
To get to know him, I needed to get to know her a little better.
Ray looked at her and smiled.
“Come to think of it, I didn’t even know his name until now. what is your name?”
“I heard it… My name is Griaia. Feel free to call me Gria.”
“Yes, Gria. My name is Ray.”
“Ray… that’s a very nice name.”
Gria praised Ray’s name and smiled.
Ray looked at it and thought about it without knowing it.
Iriel should not have become a saint, but Gria should have become a saint.
What was God doing! Leave a child like Gria alone!
Well, it can be said that he has no eyes to see because he chose himself as a saint who did not fit well with him.
At that moment, a man’s voice rang from the side.
“Yes, what are you doing to Graia, you bastard?”
Ray’s gaze naturally moved there.
Then, there were five young men with swords slung around their waists. The atmosphere was that of the SS.
In addition, sword and thorn embroidery embroidered on their shoulders and chest.
They are students of the swordsmanship academy.
Ray was sure as he looked at them.
‘As expected, my name doesn’t seem to be well known in other academies.’
If you knew yourself, you couldn’t use these words.
It was a remark that would have been mangled by the same students before he even stepped forward at the Magic Academy.
Ray shrugged his shoulders at the dispute he hadn’t seen in a long time.
“What business is business? It just means to be friendly.”
The young man in the middle twitched his eyebrows as if his attitude was annoying.
“Griaia-sama is not in a position to be friends with a four-legged bastard.”
“Minos!”
Gria cut him off at his words that went too far, but the young man called Minos seemed unwilling to stop.
Of course, Ray also has no intention of stopping.
“Is your name Minos? It’s a name you play with, right? This isn’t even a Minotaur. ha ha ha.”
At that, Minos’s impression was crumpled.
It was a sharp insult unheard of in the formal academy.
Four young men lined up around them opened their mouths in turn.
“Seeing that you haven’t seen his face, is he a local noble? Minos-sama, a low-class aristocrat with no roots!”
“Can’t you get down on your knees right now and apologize!”
They don’t know Ray’s face. Also, I don’t know the identity.
It was natural. After the christening, Ray had never officially appeared. Even when there is a ball or something like that.
Authoritative central aristocrats of the Holy Kingdom would know Ray’s face to some extent.
Ray looked at the four young men and tilted his head.
“What are these again? Are there kobolds next to the minotaur?”
“Pu-huh.”
Gria, who was trying to stop him, burst into laughter without knowing it.
The faces of the four young men, including Minos, turned red.
A guy who looked like a mere parasitic brother dared to humiliate in front of the one they admired.
Minos took off his glove and threw it in Ray’s face.
Of course, it wasn’t Ray who would greet me without hesitation.
He easily snatched the mana-tinged glove with his hand and looked at him curiously.
It’s like looking at a person who deliberately dropped an object with a puzzled expression.
Minos said with a grim expression.
“I will repay the insult I received from you with a duel between knights.”
He pressed Ray with an intimidating force.
He single-handedly overpowered the rebellious forces that drove Selonia, captured the Necromancer and the Bone Dragon, and Minos challenged him to a duel, a war hero respected by the Holy Kingdom.
“Mi Minos!”
“Don’t stop, Miss Greia. This is a duel that has nothing to do with the rules of the academy.”
Whatever they said, Ray didn’t care.
However, it had a lot to do with him challenging himself to a duel.
Rey looked down at the gloves and grinned, baring them at Minos.
“Are you sure you want to?”
“Yes. If it is the duty of a noble of high renown, it must be the duty of admonishing the rotten state of mind of people like you.”
“Heh heh. okay. Take it easy.”
“ray! Why are you like that! Stop it before I tell the professor!”
“…even if I tell you, you probably won’t come to stop me. did you forget? Even the professor cannot intervene when it comes to ‘dueling’, which is a school rule at the swordsmanship academy.”
He speaks well in front of the professor.
They still thought of Ray as a student. Even at first glance, the appearance of a boy who has just passed away can only be thought of as a student.
Ray, who was always wearing a thin robe and couldn’t even see his school uniform, was a student at a glance.
Students began to gather one by one in the commotion in the garden.
“what? Another duel?”
“I guess so?”
In the garden itself, the number of those from the Swordsmanship Academy or the Holy Magic Academy was greater.
In the case of magic academy students, they tend to focus on their studies or classes, so they don’t think about leaving the dormitory or classroom.
Besides, the students of the academy will not be in a hurry with the assignment for the ‘Cancel technic’ that he gave himself in the middle of the day.
Of course, even if you come to the garden, you don’t think of coming all the way to the central garden, which is far away.
That’s why there were still few students who recognized Ray.
Minos drew his sword from his waistband.
The bastard sword was pulled out, showing off the sword body splendidly.
“What are you doing! Get ready!”
What do you mean by prepare?
You mean get ready to get beaten up?
At his words, Ray smiled and looked around.
Then, immediately in his field of vision, a tree came into view.
Ray walked over to it and snapped a branch.
He held it in his hand like a sword and gazed at Minos with a carefree attitude.
“…”
It would not be only Minos who was at a loss for words.
Everyone onlookers stuck out their tongues at Ray’s appearance.
“Oh my God… are you going to do it with a branch?”
“You have good guts against Minos. ha ha ha.”
“Are you really not going to die?”
Thinking he had been insulted once more, Minos gritted his teeth.
I was insulted twice in front of Greia.
The duel was irrelevant to him now. I just wanted to smash that relaxed parasitic brother’s face as soon as possible.
“Your arrogance killed you!”
Minos’ bastard sword attacked Ray.
It’s not a joke to live with a sword, whether it’s really intended to kill.
Looking at the sword full of blood, Ray playfully moved a tree branch.
The branch drew a gentle curve and stopped in the path where Minos’ power was concentrated.
Then, like a lie, Minos’ heavy sword was blocked.
Kwaaang-!
The sound was unusual because it was made by metal and tree branches colliding.
The mouths of the onlookers hung open.
Of course, even Minos was so surprised that his heart jumped out of his neck.
Where in the world is there someone who can block a sword with a branch!
But he was not taken aback by it and attacked again.
It’s because I’ve experienced in real life that being embarrassed at such a time would be harmful.
‘Don’t give me time to prepare! See the end in an instant!’
His sword, which did not give time to attack and rushed at breakneck speed, was truly terrifying.
However, Ray easily slashed all of his swords with a tree branch.
Caang-Kang-
Just like that, Minos’s mouth went up as Ray just cut off the sword that came to the top with a tree branch.
‘Caught!’
He began to channel mana into his chest and into the sides of his hands.
The sword moves to the bottom and the posture is further lowered. As the sword moved behind the waist, it became a posture specialized for upward strikes.
It wasn’t Gria who didn’t know what that posture meant.
“My imperial swordsmanship!”
Swordsmanship taught when training high-ranking soldiers in the Lessian Empire.
It was the imperial sword.
Optimized for suffocating an enemy in an instant, this swordsmanship was difficult to receive, even from a swordsman one level higher than himself.
Through a special relationship with the Empire, he barely succeeded in learning. How much money did you spend to get this sword?
Of course, his parents would have paid for it.
Ray thought as he looked at Minos’ unusual posture.
‘Did he use the power of hitting and coming up from below? Surely, if that happens, he will use the whole body’s muscles, so there must be destructive power.’
Minos’ bastard sword cut through the wind and slammed into the defenseless chest of Ray.
Wedge-!
Ray doesn’t know how to activate his body with mana.
It is not something that can be done in theory, but something that needs to be learned through the senses.
Therefore, it was only natural that if he allowed his body without being able to block it, he would be hit even a little bit.
However, the nickname Undead slayer was not acquired through scabbing.
Ray, who seemed defenseless, had a tree branch blocking his way before he knew it.
