The night you fought Mr. Leona.

I was still at the training ground and encouraged to train alone.

When it came to training, it wasn't so intense, it was something different, quiet, slow than the way it had been done before.

"Without wasting power, strike"

Your legs are half empty, your sides are tightened, and your fists are conscious to protrude across your body, not just your arms.

He whines to tell himself, slowly and forcefully sticking out his fist.

"Lord Usato, you must first fully grasp your power."

Alc and Leona told me that I had too much power.

Sure, I guess I was swinging by my powers.

Until now, I haven't made that a problem because I've beaten my opponent only with pure physical abilities, but for someone who flirts with this one only with pure technology like Mr. Leona, it's only going to be a good duck.

"... I don't care what you think, it's a positive fist punch."

In the end, it ended up being like a positive-fist thrust to be used in karate, but Mr. Alk said it was in this position that he could make the strongest blow.

"Put your feet on the ground, huh? That's odd to say."

With a twist of your body, with an image that transmits power, you slap it with your fist at the end.

Mr. Alk likened my fist to a hammer so far.

He says it's a big, powerful attack, but it only means blowing it away.

And from now on, what I should aim for is a piercing spear-like blow.

A "sting” attack on the opponent's core, not diffusion.

'Don't just fly. A blow must fall, and that's all you need to do.'

Definitely flies the opponent's consciousness and even his defenses fall apart easily... my current ideal attack is sole.

"Phew..."

But that's hard.

I can't change what I've done in a short period of time without changing it from consciousness.

Of course, I don't think I can do it right from the start.

In the first place, I seem to have the same talent for fighting and swords, and I have to do it in the tunnel as before.

"Everything is challenging..."

No shortcuts to training.

There is no waste in the training piled up.

Built muscles don't betray me.

That is, what I can do now is to keep working out foolishly.

Again, I took a deep breath and tried to get my fist up again, something fell off my shoulder from the sky.

"Hmm? Nair."

"I've been training for a long time."

Looking over his shoulder, Nair was there, transformed into a black owl figure.

Looking sideways at her with her wings folded, I breathed a sigh of relief and delivered my reassembled fist.

"What's going on? You said you'd be caged in the library after dinner..."

"Oh, uh, yeah. I found Usat along the way, so I came to see him. 'Cause I'll be training alone."

"I'm sorry, I missed you alone"

I give it back, pointing my silly mouth a little bit.

"... so what were you doing?"

"What, training?"

"I didn't. I asked him what training he was doing."

That's unusual. I can't believe Nair showed interest in my training.

I wasn't usually interested, but what kind of blow would it be?

"Correct posture... training? I'm back to the basics to get a must-win, a little intensive healing magic masterfist... Feel"

"Wow, what's that subtle name... a little concentration, you, even if you put it modestly, they're going to die. Specifically, there was a wind hole in the place where I hit him. What, that move is a move to kill and resurrect the opponent once?"

"No!!"

Moves that transcend all that!

That's too scary!

"It's a training that combines the control of power, so it's also to get rid of that worry."

"Control of power. Hey. Much better... the order is ruined. From what I can tell, isn't that the first thing you need to remember?"

"... well, when you're as good as me."

"My eyes are so swimming..."

"Gu......"

I was kind of working out to run, not to fight, so I just couldn't get to the idea of controlling my powers.

With an excuse in his heart, he takes a deep breath to delude himself and squeezes his fist down his waist.

Take your left leg just one step forward and take your torso.

"Huh!"

Exhale and stick out your squeezed right arm at your hips.

A fist rolled out of the hips position spins half way and cuts the wind.

……

I pulled my fist back slowly, and I pulled my leg, and I relieved myself of the tension.

Nair nodded deeply as she watched me like that on her shoulder.

"I don't know, but I'm pretty sure it's not up to me."

"I hope so, but I haven't..."

What we're doing now is primarily about posturing. Either way, you have to be able to do this even during combat.

"Huh, how strong does Usat want to be in the end? It's time to weigh yourself down, or you'll be superior to the carbide."

"It's more of a chemical than a chemical..."

Instead, am I already a monster...

Ultimately, or I never thought about that. I knew I wanted to grow enough to be recognized by Rose as a goal, but I knew if I were to engage with my current training...

"I'd like to be able to attack you with gobbling and stuffing to suit the situation."

If you can't break through with force alone, tap in the best blow after seeing out your opponent's attack with your eyes, and if your opponent doesn't make sense alone, twist and tap with force.

In other words, you just have to be able to use it and fight it apart.

Wings on my mouth like Nair pulls.

"That should never go hand in hand..."

"It's not impossible, is it?"

In order to do that, I need to be able to do another training with Mr. Leona well.

If you're that way, it's not hard because you've had several experiences.

"That's probably how much you have to do for a dragon man like Karon."

"Right. But I'm not the only one who thinks I can win."

I'm not being chronic.

No matter how far I go, I'm just a human being with deviated physical abilities. [M] For me, there are more things I can't do.

"I have company I can count on."

"Is that what I'm in?"

"What are you talking about? Quite a further question, that."

"Eh."

And, after I put it into words, I fiercely regretted it.

Because I realized that I had said something quite embarrassing to Nair's opponent.

How could my mouth move with a spinal reflex like this?

……

"... Nea, Nea?"

Nair, leaning slightly over my words, looked straight at me as she stepped down from my shoulder, as a vampire with the light, as a brunette red-eyed girl.

"What's wrong?"

"I knew I had to tell you..."

... what?

What will they say when they change like that? As far as I'm concerned, I have no idea.

Nair didn't even think of me as a buddy, did he? If that's the case, I'd be quite shocked...

"Thanks."

But contrary to my imagination, the words she uttered away to whine were gratitude to me.

I don't know what her words mean, but I make a wild noise. [M]

"Huh?"

"Even though I'm the cause, you shelter me until I take responsibility"

……

Having rebelled her words in my head, I approached her silently and put my hands on her head.

……

"U, Usato...?"

Leaving room for confusion, I poured healing magic into her head with a harsh look.

He was making his cheeks just a little red, Nair's eyes clung up.

"What! I don't have a fever!! You are rude to me sometimes!!"

"...... eh!?"

"Amazing!!"

Nair, who waved away my hand, is outraged by his impotent anger.

Could it be that you were really honestly saying thank you just now...?

"No, I'm surprised you could honestly thank me... maybe I'm not feeling well anywhere..."

"The way I was worried about it, I'm very angry..."

"No, I'm sorry"

Apologizing to her for being so rotten, I put my arms around her to see if she'd put me back in the mood for a few moments, and she turned to me.

But I don't expect the day to come when Nair will thank me.

I'm not being honest with you, so I thought you'd never say that, but does this mean that this kid grew up as he traveled?

"Instead, did they think I was the kind of guy who would abandon you? That's a little out of my mind."

"I'm not. But Usato has an important journey, and Amako has a purpose to help her mother... abandoning me was the best place on that occasion..."

"That's what you're bad at. I'm not going to move on until I cut off my fellow travelers."

I would have absolutely regretted abandoning Nair on that occasion.

Maybe I feel guilty enough to pull it off for the rest of my life.

I don't like that, and I think she's part of the journey.

"Besides, I think Master Farga knew all about it?"

"I knew that, too. Hiding in front of him seemed almost pointless..."

Master Farga let me choose.

I don't know what your intentions are, but the only thing I can say for sure is that you didn't force me to fight until the end.

"If you eat poison, it's even a plate. I have to take responsibility for your Lord more than I have for you."

"What... am I poisonous?"

"I mean, I'll just flip through all the problems and accept you."

With that said, Nair becomes silent as to whether she is stuck in words.

Does that mean something different in the first place?

Ma, I would have passed it on nuancedly, so is it nothing good?

Stretch your back on the spot and pull out your arm. Though I pinched dinner, you're tired of boulders doing the same training from noon onwards.

"Mm-hmm. Is it time to end this? Let's go back to the castle."

"... Yep"

?

For some reason I lean my neck toward Nair, who has a bad tooth cut, and I walk toward the castle.

Then, at some point, Nair, transformed into an owl figure, flew silently onto my shoulder. No, dear. I doubt her just a little, but it's not that much of a concern either, so I go into the castle with Nair.

Walking silently through the castle aisle for a while, I find a maid holding a crate from the front.

"Ah, Master Usato. Besides, Mr. Nair, right? Evening."

"Good evening. What are you doing?"

Exchange greetings and keep an eye on the crate she has.

I feel like I've seen it and it looks like it contains a lot of empty bottles... could this be from the potion?

The maid has a slightly nasty look on my question.

"That's an empty bottle of potion. I'm disposing of what Norn used."

"Is Norn okay?"

Master Norn is the only one who can take on the role of maintaining the ties of Miarak.

My healing magic gave me first aid, but it didn't make it all right.

"That one is a person who is twice as responsible... I will say weak sounds, but I will never throw them out. In fact, the effect of the potion is insignificant. Until Usato arrived, we were really close to the limit."

"Really..."

Yesterday, when I first met Master Norn, he was certainly in terrible condition.

He had no life on his face, he could see the neighborhood under his eyes, and he was so tired that it was strange to be able to stand.

"I can't do anything about it. Lord Norn's will is hard... so all I can do right now is take care of myself."

"... why did you stay here?"

Why didn't this man, like the others, run away?

That's something I can tell the rest of the people in this castle besides the maid.

"I simply couldn't let Norn and Leona go...... right? I was told to run away with everyone, but when I realized it, I stayed here."

"Master Norn and Mr. Leona were going to fight here alone at first..."

There's also Master Farga, so it would be the three of us, to be exact, but it doesn't change anything reckless.

Did Master Farga know we were coming from that point?... It's possible, it's not strange if that one waits in advance.

"You two are too stubborn. Just because you can rely on us who are a little closer to you, but only because you can do it all... to Master Leona, you are doing more than Norn can..."

As much as I'm likely to hear phonetic sounds like pumping, an angry maid. But the anger was also purely a matter of sincere concern to Norn and Leona.

... Mr. Leona is not able to do it, is he?

Maybe it has something to do with Master Farga calling her "Leona the Brave” yesterday. I don't know why Leona, with the title of brave man, spoke of Mr. Caron as "supposed to be a brave man"... as things stand, it's a topic that I, the outsider, can't stick my neck in the breadth... hmmm.

"Oh, yes! I was going to ask you the next time I saw you!"

"Yes? What is it?"

The maid talks to me when she sees me roaring in troubles and remembers something.

Nodding for now, she pulled a piece of paper out of her skirt pocket with a smile on her face.

That's a little brown paper.

The letters are written tightly, and in the middle of it, it's a big letter, big big big and... something... but...

... this is... ugh!?

I can't go wrong, this ”article” struck my mind enormously...

"Um, I'm feeling a little sick, so I'm in my room too...!?"

Amako's predictive magic also grasped the situation at a bright blue speed, and I tried to retreat, but at the same time my body is bound by the spell of restraint activated by Nair over my shoulder.

Suddenly my body stopped moving, and I became stiff without breaking the curse of too much restraint of agitation.

"Let's talk some more. Yikes. Hey, Usato."

"Nea, Nea... You betrayed me...!"

"What? So, what do you want to ask Usato, the maid there?"

If you look over your shoulder, there's one fowl with a fluttering face.

The maid leaning her neck on our exchange, but Nair's voice made her smile back and she showed me the paper that had been carefully folded.

"I found it this morning! This is about Usat, isn't it? A healing wizard who has sworn a future with a brave man! The sketches were completely different, but I'm very interested in them privately!"

The words of a maid who did not make me feel any evil soul guts or anything else pierced my spirit deeply.

What I was shown was an article about a senior and me example.

Shown directly in front of me, I repeatedly bluish or blush my face with so much shock and embarrassment.

"Ha ha..., ha, it's just a rumor. There's no way I can match a brave man."

"... hmm. Really?... let's just say that."

Barely deluded, but still the maid looked at me with her jitty eyes to suspicion, and at the next moment she returned to smile again, politely holding the article in her hand.

Did you deceive me...?

The boulders are seniors, I can't believe they attack me directly from far away...

Plus, there's some subtle rumors about ”I swore the future together” and some weird stuff, and no!

What, you already know all over the continent? I'm too embarrassed to have the urge to roll around on the spot!?

What do seniors in distant places think about this article?

I broke up with the maid after a gentle exchange of words, and I walked down the hallway illuminated by the light of the magic guide with a small sigh.