Day four of visiting Miarak.
On the third day of training, I was in a mock fight with Mr. Leona.
It was me and Leona fighting for the best we could yesterday, but the mock fight from yesterday was different than it was yesterday.
"Keep your eyes open! Usato!"
"Ha!"
What we are doing is training to encourage avoidance and attack as a series of moves.
Avoid Mr. Leona's sword with minimal movement. [M]
Instead, the attack to be launched stops without hitting Mr. Leona and repeats it over and over again.
Is it easy to understand when it comes to avoiding being tapped directly into your body to shift to the next attack instead of being conscious of evading as I always do?
"- Ah."
But this is surprisingly difficult, and the moment I think about my next attack, a wooden knife swung sideways plunders my temples.
Avoid the continued slashing up in a way that deflects half a step to the side, whilst pounding your tongue.
There is no need to avoid it greatly. It's not just the sword movement, it captures all of Mr. Leona's movements in sight and avoids them with minimal behavior by anticipating the next action.
I remember when I was fighting Mr. Alk, who was manipulated by Nair.
At that time, though I was playing his offense with a discerning hand and armor in order not to hurt him, this time it would be a way of fighting what could be considered a development of it.
"... and I don't even know what to say!"
In this training, I have two constraints.
One is that you shouldn't play Mr. Leona's sword with your fist, and the other is that you shouldn't come out of a circle about a metre radius beneath your feet.
The first is not so tight, but in the second confined space, avoiding Mr. Leona's attack was harder than I imagined.
In fact, until I got used to it, I was beaten with a wooden sword and cured with healing magic when I made countless takobums.
"There...!"
After several times avoiding Mr. Leona's sword and stepping in lightly, I jump into her nostrils with minimal movement, causing her to inch her fist into her abdomen.
After a few seconds of silence, we unraveled each other and lowered our swords and fists and weakened.
"Nice work."
"... no, not at all"
Mr. Leona has a troubled look on my words. [M]
"Even if they regret it there. As far as I'm concerned, I'm still stunned by your physical ability. [M] As you may have noticed, I've been trying to confuse you with faints from time to time... the one who says you..."
"Yes?"
"I was terrified that it would be handled after all the feints."
Fe, what was Feint, this guy?
Hey, I didn't even notice.
I thought you were moving to be unconscious, but I don't think you were responding unconsciously.
"Your” eyes ”are really awesome. From my point of view, I'm supposed to be imposing a rather unscrupulous training on you... but when it comes to dodging, you're already wearing enough"
"Ha, that's that, isn't it? Thanks to my master."
Well, if you get that sparta trained in bright blue, you'll get better at avoiding it.
I recall, before we set off on our journey of handing over the writ - the days of special training in hell where Rose made me punch him extensively and wear evasion...
What could you have done with that unscrupulous training? Or I was drooling a lot of stupidity, but after traveling, I was able to realize how much Rose's training was helping me.
... Hey, I've been beaten up.
"Usato, are you okay? Did he hurt you? Hey, should I take you to the infirmary?"
"... Huh? Oh, it's perfectly fine. I was just remembering my training days with my master."
"Oh well.... How spectacular were your days of training with your master... No, it's that woman who releases so much pressure. Must have been something far beyond my imagination..."
Mr. Leona looking at my face and pulling.
Somehow, it makes me sad that I'm used to this reaction.
"Is the grasp of training something like good? For what the foundation was, I remember fast."
"What will you do next?"
"Same as just now. Make your body remember today's movements. Only then will your movements be faster and wasted."
Training to avoid waste, huh?
On second thought, if you spend less on dodging, you won't waste any magic or health. In that respect, this could be an effective training.
"Before we do that, let's just take a little break"
"Oh, am I okay?"
I still have about an hour by noon, and I have total physical spare time.
Besides, in the afternoon, Mr. Alc will be watching the training too, and I'd like to do what I can right now...
But Mr. Leona shakes his neck to the side.
"Since yesterday, you've been training all morning and all night, haven't you? No matter how much healing magic and extraordinary strength you have, it's forbidden to impose. If you're too uptight, you won't be able to do anything."
I nod at Leona's words, whispering in a small way at the end.
She also has a point.
Maybe you're in a bit of a hurry...
I pull out my shoulder and turn to Mr. Leona.
"So is it okay if I take a look at the city?"
"I don't mind, but why? There are no people in the city right now..."
"Hey Burlin... I thought I'd go for a walk with the Blue Grizzly"
"Blue Grizzlies and..."
You reminded me of Brulin, who is currently devouring his inebriation at Miarak's stables, with such a look on her face as a mixture of confusion and curiosity.
Perhaps she, the knight of Miarak, is showing an interest in a self-depraved bear who has forgotten the wild called Burlin because she knows what demons Blue Grizzlies are.
"Usato"
"Yes?"
When I thought about it, Leona called out to me, looking back at me like she had decided to.
"Would you mind if I accompanied you? If you don't like it, I can give you some directions..."
"I don't mind at all. Instead, you don't have to worry about getting lost, you can rest assured."
Besides, we can learn about a city called Miarak even though there are no people.
I nodded at Mr. Leona's offer. I moved with her to the stables with Burlin.
Inside the stables, a rounded burlin sleeps like a mare, and when he realizes I'm nearby, he turns his sleeping eyes to this side and makes a huge stretch.
"Hey, Bruleen. Let's go for a walk. Wake up."
"Guhu......"
"Dude..."
It would devour too much inebriation......
I have to get this out of here, even if it's intentional.
Shaking the blue giant and forcing her to wake up, Burlin let me squeeze her eyes and jumped on my back as she turned behind me shaking.
"Wow!? You got heavy!?"
When I was thinking about letting Burlin, who was gaining more weight than before, on a diet, etc., Burlin, who had completely deposited her entire weight with me, slapped me on the shoulder with a pepper and forefoot while making a big stretch.
I don't know, if you want to take yourself out, are you telling me to take you out?
"Gu......"
"... I can't help it, at all. When you wake up, I'll put you down, okay?...... Yikes!"
He carries a sleepy, snorted burlin and leaves the stables.
Mr. Leona, who waited outside the stables, looked at me and Brulin and made a small scream.
"Hicha!? U, Usat...... why are you, bluegri...... carrying bluerin!?"
"No, because he still seemed asleep"
"Sounds like it's an answer, it's not an answer!? Is it not heavy?!?"
"I'm used to it, so it's okay. Now, let's go."
"Oh, oh...?"
He alternates between Brulin and me and walks out of the castle with Mr. Leona, who is a hundred faces.
As always, there was no figure of man in the streets of Miarak, idle.
"It's quiet."
"Oh."
You finally calmed me down, Mr. Leona nodded magically when she saw the city of Miarak.
"It was busy here with a lot of people... but now, its shadow has become so idle that I can't even see it. As someone who lives here, I wanted to show you the true streets of Miarak."
"If you could, you wanted to see... And I wanted to try some fish dishes called Miarak's specialty."
"Huh..."
Mr. Leona smiles at my words.
For a short time, I walk through the city of Miarak, listening to Mr. Leona's guidance.
When I came here, I couldn't afford to see the city after Mr. Caron attacked me, but I guess this is also a rich place where people were busy.
The benefits of Miarak's abundant aquatic resources would be immeasurable.
"Grrrrrrrr"
"Looks like Burlin wanted some Miarak fish too"
I'm on my back, Burlin, and I sleep fine, but I roar unfortunately.
Mr. Leona leaked a funny smile at me laughing at him like that.
"Huh, I'm sorry. Funny thing is, it just seemed natural that you were carrying a burlin."
"Nature...... well, that's right. He was running with a burlin on his back, both in the kingdom of Ringle and in Lukvis."
"Oh, really? Isn't this your first day..."
At first, Rose told me to get used to running on people's backs was the hang-up.
It seems that neither Burlin nor I can resist being carried by me, and I don't think so badly of myself, because I'm wrapped up in a moffy of my entire back.
"I thought I'd been a knight quite a bit, too, but you've never seen a human put through as much demons and hearts as you do. I don't suppose you even have a contract for the use of magic?"
"Either the user demon is Nair's, isn't it? It's like Nair forced me to sign a contract."
"It's her. Master Farga told me it was a mix of vampires and necromancers... but I've never heard of a human demon signing a contract from himself?"
Did Master Farga also know about Nair's race?
But if Mr. Leona told me again, I think I've been on a really strange journey. I am almost forced to sign a contract from Nair without entering into a user demon contract with Burlin, who is supposed to be a demon.
No, you're not normal for real...
"You've surprised me many times since I first met you. When I first met him, I thought he was a kid, but when I opened the lid, what a streak of things out of common sense..."
It's normal for me, but I guess it's a surprise streak for Mr. Leona and Master Norn.
Sometimes I say that common sense itself is different from the rest of the world, and sometimes my life in the other world has been a little deviant than others.
"The most surprising of them all was that they defeated the same Divine Dragon as Master Farga"
"Are you talking about evil dragons?"
"Oh, it even hid its existence until the day I met you... I heard more about the evil dragon from Master Farga, and I knew it was really horrible."
Every time I think of Evil Dragon, I don't think I want to fight again.
He was so evil by then, a monster that made him feel malicious.
"I'm sure I won't be able to fight if I stand in front of that evil dragon"
Thoughts only cease for a moment in the words of Mr. Leona, who so murmured.
Mr. Leona won't be able to fight in front of the Dragon?
What does that mean? Whether you look at her strength or not, you should have the strength to stop enough, even if you don't have a decision hit against Evil Dragon.
I speak to Leona, who has a sinking face, laughing. [M]
"Well, if you can fight Mr. Caron, Mr. Leona..."
"It's not about being able to fight or not being able to fight. Not as strong as you think. [M] Whoever wants me, admires me... no matter how much I'm expected, I'm weak so that I can crumble and scatter like ice..."
To be honest, I somehow knew Mr. Leona was having troubles.
But I still want to say it. It's heavy, it's heavy... Mr. Leona...
That's not what I should be talking about. It's a story to be made to the maid or Norn.
"I can fight because there's only one thing I can do about it. The title of brave man has also been chosen by me in disintegration because the best knight named Karon has gone wild..."
"Norn will not choose you to be a brave man for such crude reasons."
"Oh, I know.... I know."
I'll put it into words to tell myself, Mr. Leona.
I can't turn to her walking next door. [M] Because I didn't know what words to say to this guy.
"... do you mind if I take a short stop?"
"Huh? I don't mind, but where?"
After a brief silence, I nod to Mr. Leona, who has asked me that.
The other way she went was the gate we dived into when we came to this city. Mr. Leona dives the gate silently and walks outside the city.
With Brulin on my back, I followed her, and beyond that was the bond that Norn was making and the bright white silver world.
"... you're still frozen"
Water surfaces around frozen Miarak cities.
A long-haired man with naked upper body, Mr. Caron, who is reflecting the sun's light to create a fantastic sight but who remains upright and immobile at its center, was emitting a different presence.
Mr. Caron, who roars so small that Burlin on my back is alert but still stops at a distance, doesn't show how he moves.
"Burlin, do you want to come down?"
"Guhu......"
Lower the roaring burlin on your back and see Mr. Caron standing on the ice again.
"What is he doing now?"
"Sleeping. Perhaps you're right to say it's stopped, to be exact."
He hasn't left his eyes slightly motionless with meditation.
It was a serene look that didn't make you feel the ferocity of meeting him a few days ago.
"He spends time outside of battle, yeah, doing it to contain his powers. In addition, in that state he maintains a space in which the power of ice would be fully exerted by pouring his own magic into the surrounding ice"
Did you have such a secret about the ice not melting...
I assumed on my own that one day it would melt, but this means Miarak can't even move the ship unless we take him down.
"What if they notice now?"
"You'll attack me. He strikes only those who enter his own ice realm. That is no exception here in Miarak. Had it not been for Lord Norn's bond, this place would have been devastated by now."
……
If Master Norn falls, will Mr. Caron attack here soon?
But is the only reason you're attacking this place is because people are here? Quite a bad way to put it, but he should be able to leave Miarak and ramble around, but he's trying so hard not to leave here for Miarak.
It's as if something to attract him to is in Miarak -,
"No..."
Let's not take a bad look.
Either way, it's been decided that we have to stop Mr. Caron for the people of Miarak and Nair.
As I stopped thinking and watched Mr. Caron standing silently, my neighbor, Mr. Leona, uttered words as she murmured.
"Karon is a knight of my time."
"Huh? Did you?"
"Oh, we often look at each other."
I knew you knew him because he was the same knight, but was it synchronized?
Maybe we had some friends.
"He was the best knight who ever did good for men and tried to be strong for the people."
"Wow, you were a person"
"You have a strange personality. He was also a good young man, familiar to everyone. While I say things that don't seem... he was the ideal knight everyone thought he was"
I wonder if it has a personality close to Kazuki. If so, he seems to have a pleasant personality.
Leona, who spoke of Mr. Caron, smiles troubled from her bitter expression.
"And it was a winner in life, wasn't it? I'm already married because of my contemporaneous habits."
"Uh, sync... you're about 20, right?"
Wouldn't it be unusual if you were 20?
I don't know what the standards are in this world, but it doesn't change what's young.
"So, Mr. Caron's wife...?"
"She has evacuated safely to the neighbouring country. But Karon, my husband, wouldn't feel safe in that condition..."
... do you know him?
From the tone of it, I can take it that way... shouldn't I ask because I'm sorry that I'm offended to hear bad things?
Mr. Caron's wife, I'm sure, will wish him well.
Now there's no shadow to run off and see, but I can tell from Mr. Leona's story that he's not a bad person.
"Then you have to help Karon and his wife."
"... is..."
"? What's wrong?"
"No, I'm sorry. Somehow, I just thought your straightforward words were very preferable to me."
Mr. Leona smiles powerless.
I didn't even know how much emotion was caged in that word.
But in view of one end of the misery Ms. Leona showed and the fact that there are people waiting for Mr. Caron to return, her mission as a brave man to save Miarak and her current situation, which must help Mr. Caron, must be painful.
"Time to go back"
"... Yes"
I nod at Mr. Leona's words when he sees the sun rising directly above him, walking along the original path with Burlin.
……
Before returning, shift your gaze only once to where Mr. Caron is.
The figure of Mr. Caron, who is alone on the vast ice, did not feel as rough as when he was fighting me, nor did he feel any shards.
"Gwer."
"Hmm? Oh, let's go"
Brulin urges me to head forward toward the castle.
Can I stop Mr. Caron?
When I saw Mr. Caron and had vague doubts, I followed Leona's back, looking somewhere lonely, with a slight expression.