Day of battle with Mr. Caron.
We were preparing for battle in front of the castle gate in Miarak.
When it comes to preparation, it's not a big deal, it's about making sure you're fit and how the cageman is doing, which is the point of this defense.
"Steady, I can't believe you have something like this..."
"I heard Master Norn arranged this, but I'm surprised we're going to make so much in this short period of time"
I admire the shoes I wear.
The shoes you are wearing now are not always the ones you wear, but the ones with anti-slip on the back of your feet.
These are the shoes that Norn has prepared for us fighting on the ice.
When did you check the size of our feet, they are the right size for each leg?
"You can fight Mr. Caron in a stable scaffold."
I had the anxiety to fight on the ice, but with these shoes I would be fine.
... The scaffolding problem has been solved, but we still have another problem.
"Mr. Leona, you're not here yet..."
Only Mr. Leona still hasn't revealed herself.
I hear he said he was coming a little late... but I don't care if he did something to Leona yesterday because I said something forceful.
"Nah, I've been looking so hard before I fought. Not even you."
Nair over my shoulder said that to me when I darkened my expression.
"No, if Mr. Leona hadn't come..."
"I don't have that. You can't be more scared of Leona trying to fight until you throw your life away. I don't know why I'm late."
Sure, Mr. Leona wouldn't throw it out.
... Whatever choice she chooses, she comes here.
"You cared too much about her..."
... before the battle with Mr. Caron, I may be feeling a little weak, too.
Here's one, let's change the subject to distract the tension.
"Speaking of which, I thought about my cageman yesterday."
"... thoughts? Is that... a way to only inflict pain, without causing injury?"
"That's funny. Can I fight with you now?"
"Just kidding! So stop rattling your cage hands in my ear!"
No, this is the joke.
Nair, who shook her body with a blurb, apologizes with all her might, so lower her right arm, which she brought to her ear.
I don't have to be so frightened... I wonder if my true face was shitty... Let's just get back to it.
"I thought of a name. of this cage hand."
"... heh"
I don't like Nair's reaction a bit, but it would be okay.
After all, I thought I needed a name or something when it became my personal weapon. You can't call me by the name of a silver cageman forever, and I've thought about a proper name.
For me only.
A cage hand to fit in your right hand.
The combination of these two elements determined the name of the cage hand in me.
It's...
"It's a heel gauntlet...!"
"Wow, yeah."
……
Is there a word so heartfelt?
Before I fought Mr. Caron, but I feel like I've taken the most damage today.
"It's more like a cage hand in itself, don't you need a name?"
"Gu."
They say the best things, they get stuck in words.
You were listening to us saying that you were doing nothing against Nair, and Amako approached you with Burlin.
Amako, you know how straightforward this name is.
"I honestly don't think Heel Gauntlet will"
I was shocked by Amako's words, and he laughed bitterly when I saw Mr. Alk at least. The reaction reminded me that the name of the cage hand was subtle, and I dropped my shoulder.
But while I was depressed, I raised my face to the shadow that appeared at Miarak's castle gate.
It was Mr. Leona wearing the same armor as the first time we met. Do you have your head helmet off or do you notice her straight eyes staring at me all at you?
……
Leona, walking over here with a serious look at what she thought when she looked at me, bowed her head in momentum as she stood before me.
I was distracted by her sudden actions. [M]
"Uh, uh, Mr. Leona?"
"I've been thinking about it ever since. Prepare yourself and your words."
With her face up, she stares at it and spins her words as she takes out a vial containing spring water from a hemp bag attached to her armor.
"You didn't take up this water because you respected my readiness"
She has no fine dust for evil thoughts. I am firmly prepared to have one.
Ignore her readiness like that, and don't take the water away, that's the idea.
... Though this was like my self-satisfaction.
"It's easy to use this...... but it's harder than anything to fight over the fear of losing and fighting.... with a weak heart, I can't. I'm sure it breaks in the middle of the road. So..."
Mr. Leona's gaze is directed in the order of Mr. Alc, Amako, Burlin and Nair, and finally he returns to me.
"With me, I want you to fight with me. I thought it was cowardly of me to say that I was hiding it from you guys and putting up a plan for abandonment. Still, I want to fight to protect this place"
Mr. Leona bowed his head deeper earlier.
I don't have to think about it, and I don't have to check with my buddies.
"Let's fight. Everyone, including you."
"Usato...!"
"I told you that, didn't I? Rely on me."
If you reach out, we'll reach out whenever you want.
Mr. Leona decided to fight with us, not alone.
All we have to do is join forces to fight Mr. Caron and win.
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In addition to Mr. Leona, when we were ready, we stepped out of the castle gate and out of the ice-covered Miarak.
Outside the city covered by Norn's junction, there is a figure of Mr. Caron meditating and weakening his eyes as if he were dead. Perhaps he will wake up soon if he feels any strangeness around him and enter a state of battle.
... The operational decision was made when Master Norn created a different junction.
We push Mr. Karon to strike where the city is defenceless, and in the meantime, we create a bond where Mr. Norn covers us with Mr. Karon.
So far, the first phase of the operation.
First, the first challenge is to succeed so far.
"Well, and"
Remember the bracelet fitted in your right arm and let the cage hand unfold.
Along with the light sound of Cashan, the elbow to tip is wrapped in silver. Having checked the condition of my right arm, I ask you to cast a curse of resistance on the nair above my shoulder.
"Nair, give me the cold air resistance."
"Yeah, all right."
From above my shoulders, my entire body is granted resistance to cold air.
Now we can deactivate the cold air released from Mr. Caron's axe.
"Usato, you know, but be careful not to attack me. Unlike you, it's not sturdy."
"I know. I won't let you attack me. [M] At least until you let go of that axe that's giving you cold air."
I will be the one actively fighting Mr. Caron.
It's pretty dangerous to take his offense straight from the front, but I wasn't playing this past week.
Training to eliminate waste in movement.
Simple enough, that made a huge difference in my movements... should be.
- Looks like you're ready.
"……! This voice..."
Falga-like voice echoing in my head.
If you look around, it sounds like you're facing someone other than me.
- I'm watching you fight. Outside the city, my power does not extend, but I can deliver my voice.
- Karon is strong. From the point of view of a species called man, its power would run out of nonstandard words. But that doesn't mean you're inferior.
Words of Master Farga that echo heavily in his heart.
But all this time his voice was felt by something very reliable.
- Join forces, that's the strength a man has.
- If only that could be done, even the dragon could be defeated.
"Yes...!"
Respond forcefully to the voice that resonates in your head.
It is the ink of the dragon that created the weapon of the brave. There's no reason you can't work so hard when you say so!
- Norn temporarily breaks the line.
Ripples float and shake in the junction that separated Miarak's city from the outside world in front of it.
You perceived that, Mr. Caron, who had never moved before, raised his face vigorously and pointed his sharp eyes at us.
"Usato"
Mr. Leona calls me by my name and turns to you.
"Let me tell you something now. Whatever the outcome, it doesn't change my gratitude to you. I'm here now, I'm here saved by your words."
"... don't tell me it's not such an edge for any result"
"Huff, you sure do. I was still feeling a little weak."
She smiled softly, wearing the helmet she was holding beside her.
I also look forward and focus my consciousness on Mr. Caron. The shaky junction disappears as particles from the top.
……
A city without people, Miarak.
Mr. Caron, a dragon man who threatens the city.
Dear Falga, Divine Dragon watching over people from deep underground.
And the disaster left by the evil dragon.
Think of it, the journey so far involved evil dragons.
From the time of the battle in the village inhabited by Nair, the battle between the brave and the evil dragon that caused the curse of Samarial to be created. And this time under the influence of the Evil Dragon, Mr. Caron has been forced to awaken and rampage the dragon-like factor of the Divine Dragon Falga.
"We have to settle..."
Discontinue the cause with Evil Dragon.
And save both Mr. Caron and Miarak.
"but ahhh!"
At the same time as the junction disappears, Mr. Caron, who shook up the axe, flies out at us with a roar.
The first to react to his movements, I grip my fist hard and kick the ice ground just like him.
The first phase of the operation, creating a place for him and us to fight...!
And for that, what I'm gonna do...
"I'll hold you in!"
To me running through the ice ground, Mr. Caron, waving the axe, unleashes the big ice column he showed me the first time he fought.
At first, the only attack I had to avoid. That's still the same, but I'm not fighting alone right now.
The ice column that was about to strike me directly was defused by a fan-shaped flame flying from the rear, which turned into water vapor and vanished.
"I'm the magic of ice!"
If Mr. Alc deals with the magic of fire, he can offset the magic of ice.
I was sure of that, and I glance at Mr. Caron, who approached ten steps away. He's already trying to shake the axe down, but I squeezed my right fist against it.
The power of Mr. Karon, who is awakening as a dragon, is above mine. If you take it directly from the front, you'll crush my cage hands no matter how hard they are.
"Huh!"
"Right here!"
On the verge of stopping my leg, I firmly cut off the axe that was swung down, fisting and playing diagonally on the side of that blade. He slaps his left fist into Mr. Caron's torso, with his right arm wide open to impact from the side, causing him to lean backwards.
Having succeeded in giving the first shot, I squeeze my left fist without distracting myself from him and take the stand to show my right fist to my opponent.
"Ugh...! Ugh!!"
This way, Mr. Karon, who roars angrily, strikes me again, but I play the axe back with my caged hand unchanged, fighting back with my left fist.
But you learned with an earlier attack, you stomp at me with a critical, axeless arm, and you hit me.
"I can see that, too!"
I slam my left fist into Mr. Caron's defenseless jaw in the form of a fist plunder on his left cheek.
As soon as his body lags, he attaches a caged hand to his defenseless abdomen.
"Healing Magic Rupture Palm...!"
An unpowerful shock of magic emanates from his right palm, and it is now time to blow Mr. Caron's body away.
Looking without alarm at him, who could not take the reception and rolled over the ice ground, a new circular transparent junction created by Lord Norn is created at a radius of 100 meters centered around me and where he is.
"Phew...... Create a place for us and you to fight. In the meantime, the first phase of the operation is clear."
Now Mr. Caron no longer has to worry about getting away with it.
Besides, it proved that I could fight Mr. Caron.
This past week of training hasn't been wasted -,
"I was scared! What a way to fight! You!"
"Wow!?"
Nair, who had never been silent, made a scene in his ear.
Speak to her, without losing sight of Mr. Caron.
"No, you didn't hit it, did you?"
"I'm too scared for my fists to bare the opposite space I'm in!"
Sure, when I avoided the earlier attack, my fist bared through the left side of my face, but it's the right shoulder with Nair. He thought about her well and avoided it, but didn't like it.
... Hopefully, I should have pulled the axe away from Mr. Caron in the earlier offense, but I couldn't get through that. Preceding his movements, even though he fought back, the power is stronger on him. If you show greed, you risk an irrevocable blow.
Mr. Alc and Mr. Leona arrive from behind as he guards Mr. Caron, who slowly stood up by holding his head.
"Lord Usato, are you okay?"
"Yes, I manage to fight"
This is the real deal.
On my own, I will be prolonging my earlier offense, but if Mr. Alc and Mr. Leona cover me, the situation leans this way.
"Usat, as predicted, there's a hell of a lot of cold air coming out of his axe. Maybe Leona and Arc can't get close."
"That's it..."
"Get close without magic and you won't be able to move properly."
Though I wasn't aware of it in the spell of resistance, it looks like more cold air is emanating from the axe than I had assumed.
As things stand, I'm the only one who can get close to Mr. Caron.
"Mr. Alc, Mr. Leona. After all, it looks like we're going to have to pull the axe away from Mr. Caron just like we did."
"Sounds like it."
"This much cold at this distance. You can't prevent it with my armor at the earliest."
... It's time for Mr. Caron to move out.
I take a step forward, step out in front of the two of them and fist, and I throw my voice at them behind me.
"Mr. Alc is the magical correspondence between cold air and ice, and Mr. Leona is to limit Mr. Caron's movements. I'll pull away his axe."
"Got it!"
"I'll take care of it. Don't be impotent, either."
Two voices that respond to my words.
When I heard the voice firmly, I kicked the ice ground forward to launch an attack on Mr. Caron.