"... Mm"

I got the morning sun on my face and the drift protection woke me up to be awake.

It is the fourth day that we have come to this world. I finally felt decent asleep. Some of it will be because of my tiredness at work.... Nevertheless, I still feel like Minette has appeared in my dreams. It's so easy, it's not going to be forgotten.

I wonder what's going on in Japan by now. Isn't it time for the police to file a search request? Nevertheless, I don't have a clue as to the means to return -

"... Oh, yeah?

So I thought.

I've come to an unusual world. I have to go home.

That's what I thought it was like to be pushed around, but it's a mediocre routine waiting for me when I get home. Boring repetitive days. I can't even study. Karate can't have a goal. I can't even think of what I want to do in the future.

Sure, he would be bothering his father with his sudden absence. The mother is already gone because the drift care has died in a car accident when she was a child. I don't even have many friends. I didn't have an opponent to play "Anche" with and I kept playing solo. Yeah, I ended up frustrating Clear enough. Sometimes I did it with colorful flowers.

... colorful flower faces come to mind. Is she worried?

The fact that we couldn't go to the summer festival together somehow made me feel teethless.

"... what the hell"

I washed my face and decided to get ready for work.

lunch break. Trying to have lunch on the appropriate bench in the courtyard,

"Oh, Lugo, there you are - for dinner!

Mia ran over as she shook her hand.

"Huh? No, I'm good... yesterday anyway, is Mia good? Don't mess with your friends."

"Hey, Lugo, you're my friend."

"-"

Unconsciously, drift protection got stuck in words.

"Huh? What? What? Mm-hmm.

Unexpectedly peeking into the driftshield who turned away, Mia laughs at me.

"Fuhihihihi. Did you seem a little in love with me? But you shouldn't. I had a bell..."

A familiar voice is thrown at it so as to block it there.

"Hey."

When the drifting guard and Mia were all aligned and raised their faces, there was a punch perm boy - Edvin - who was royal. Instead of yesterday's hostile round-eyed eyes, he's staring at the drifting shield with some emotionless eye.

"It's Edvin again... what the heck"

"Lord Mia is so sweet."

"... eh,"

Mia was stuck in words, too, to see if she felt Edvin's not just an atmosphere.

"- Transferred student. Heard that? You defeated Draughtrow."

"Huh?"

I look at Mia's drift protection face as if she were surprised.

Our shield asked quietly with her face down.

"... where did you tell that story?

"I'm an old rock wave guy. I'm interested. You can't remember and use the Divine Chant Oracle, can you? That's right, even though you were with Bell, how did you take him down?

…………

Stream protection chews bread silently.

No, Dr. Locke. Say it yourself, "Make it discreet," why did you fall apart? I knew it was crazy. That guy.

With that in mind, I finished my bread.

"Is Meshi done?

…… Oh. "

I had no idea why you were asking me that.

Edvin, who heard the reply, turns around and walks out to the right. I walked about five meters and turned around again for drift protection.

Uh-huh. Edvin pulls the dagger out of his nostalgia and turns his cutting-edge to shelter. Like sticking it out. Look at that act,

"- Edvin, you...!

For the first time as far as drift protection was concerned, Mia made a pressing voice.

The other students on the street are obsessed.

……

I don't know what that means. So Edvin declared.

"Ariu Milugo. This Edvin Gaul - I sign you up for a duel"

The ambient stiffness grew even bigger. Those who pass by are stopping their feet and even starting to make a crowd.

"Ke, duel?

Exactly. Liquid shielding has become a pocan.

"Hey, hey, Edvin! I'm serious, you!

"Do I look like a joke?

Edvin calmly answered Mia's voice, which also went up. Slightly unfamiliar face, but I can't feel any sign of a joke.

"If you don't take it, that's fine. If you want to take it, put up your sword just like I do."

"... sign me up for a duel, I want to know why"

"I'm interested in your power to defeat Drauthor.... To tell the truth, you just didn't care yesterday. But I went to talk to the old man at Rockwave to find out about you... actually listened to me and changed the reason"

There was a serious light in the man's eyes.

"I didn't even use the Divine Chant" Oracle "to do Drawthrow. Did you just? You're kidding, you're like a fairy tale hero. When I was a kid, I admired" Fist. "How cuckold would it be to be the strongest in the world with only fists? But the reality is, I have to rely on the Divine Chant" Oracle "for desperately difficult studies. The Oracle of the Divine Chant won't reach the Penta people for a lifetime."

Speaking to monologue, Edvin looks up into the sky and immediately returns his gaze to the drift shelter.

"So if you really are strong without using the Divine Chant" Oracle "... look at that power"

"Edvin... don't you dare..."

I took control of Mia, who tried to eat her, by hand.

"What, hey, Lugo?

"- Okay. That duel, take it."

The ambient stiffness grew.

"Li, Lugo! Are you serious?

If that's the reason why 'I don't care that Lifeguard is with Belgrette' and so on, I didn't mean to take it.

But now, the reason Edvin told me was that he felt something like Belgrette's 'pride'.

Most importantly, if I looked into Edvin's serious eyes, I felt I had to take it. No, I wanted to take it. Originally, I don't hate 'fights' with guys with these eyes.

"Yes, no. Edvin or something. It's just silly, but you can't use the Divine Chant" Oracle "for as much as you want... that idiot, the user they call" Mad Dog "or something, right?

"I'm fine. Thankful, Mia."

"- Thank you, Ariu Milugo. If you take it, sword... knife is fine, put it up. Just like me. So the duel is done."

"No... I don't have a sword or a knife"

"... doesn't even have a protective blade? Eggs...... then, a fist is fine"

Copy that.

Rising off the bench, Gu......, the drift guard protrudes his right fist toward Edvin.

"That's a duel. Lord Mia, get away from me. We're gonna get involved."

Edvin returned the dagger to his nostalgia and lowered his hands sloppily as he relaxed. Is this the way this man stands? Stream protection increases alertness.

"I'm upset with Edvin's cunt..."

With a worried face, Mia turned her gaze toward her shield.

"Lugo, I'll take the caterpillar. That idiot, I'm gonna bump you out and make you irreversible."

"Ha. Well, if I lose, please."

"Let it be!" Thumbs up, Mia leaves.

Surrounded by hedges surrounded by driftshields and Edvin. It's probably become conspicuous, but I can't help it anymore.

Liquid protection did not take a hip-dropping stance, and almost no-guard began to take the left and right steps. Originally, a single blow away using footwork is the main reason for not having a bigger body.

"So, can we start?

Don't be alarmed, the shield asks.

"- No."

Edvin answers with a vicious grin peeking into his muffled canine teeth.

"It's already started!

In a moment, Edvin produced a fireball in the palm of his hand that was as good as basketball and threw it at him with all his might.

Fast. This is inevitable. The drift shield instantly decided so.

The flames broke out. To everyone who was on the spot, there is relentless soil smoke blowing.

"Wow!

"Oh, hey! Edvin's guy, all of a sudden he shot 'Scatterbomb'!

"I chanted ahead of time! That's 'Mad Dog', coward!

"Keh, I can't see anything with smoke!

Voices similar to screams were curling up from the gallery.

"Edvin! You, I was already done chanting before I started...... Huh!

Mia stares at Edvin, holding hands in front of his face to prevent dirt and dust.

"Ha... you mean cowardly? I'm not talking about Choroy."

Edvin stares at where the shield should have been. I don't see that because of the smoke that I can get into. I heard a gallery away from the wind.

"Ho ho ho, what do you mean?

"Look, the more powerful divine chant Oracle, the longer it takes to chant, right? Edvin's Scatterbomb is his trump card. If it's true, that class of divine chanting, Oracle, should take twenty seconds to chant. Yet he shot at the same time as the duel began."

"Ah. I left you to finish the chant before it started, so you could always get it out"

"It's more or less suspicious to signal the start of a duel... and he's a foul face of the chanter Mage. Unbelievable!

- It's always sweet. 'Mad Dog' laughed with his nose, saying that Bergrette would likely say something similar if he were on this occasion.

What am I going to say? For example, are you guys going to put a grudge demon in front of you and say, "Wait till you're done chanting"? Don't make me laugh. This is the fight.

"- Oh, you know what?"

From beyond the earthen smoke, I heard the voice.

A little wind blows and my vision clears up, as that was the signal.

"Nice... I don't think it's coming. It was a good pre-emptive strike."

There, there's no scratch - there's even an invincible laugh, a driftshield figure.

"... Hot. No, well, I'm surprised."

Shake your left wrist praprapra and say it like it's nothing.

That was the only way the boy who got the scatterbomb felt.

"... surprised, huh...? It's not weird that a direct hit blew up one or two of your arms...?

Unexpectedly Edvin groans.

"You were going to blow it up. Oh, my God."

Please… and the flowing guard rings his wrist.

"Well, I thought, 'This is dangerous, and inevitable,' so I just didn't feel like preventing it from the front. That's why I struck it off. Here's the cancer."

The drift shield shows the action of knocking the left arm down to the side.

Right next to such a boy, there was a ground that was stripped and decided. Are you saying that you've truly outdone your back hand with only your bare hands, which you won't even allow to play if it's a half-defense technique?

Mia also has eyes open and hardened with a look like she doesn't know what happened.

"Well... why can't you be a Shilomon that you can prevent!

The flames swirl around the screamed Edvin, and a number of fireballs appear in the air. Unlike the Scatter Bomb earlier, this time a fairly small fireball about stone.

But the number was slightly over thirty.

"Wow, wow!"

In response to Edvin's arm waving motion, dozens of fireballs arrive simultaneously for drift protection. It is no longer the shower of shots, "Oh, my God." One fireball after another landing sparks smoke and gallery screams again.

Everyone on this occasion would have thought it was "over".

But Edvin saw.

Faster than the fireball reaches beneath the shield, and his figure 'disappears'.

――――

Cancel? That can't be happening.

If it looked like it disappeared, that means it traveled at an unsightly rate.

Edvin admits honestly and makes his gaze run without alarm.

At the corner of his vision, he captured a black shadow. Angle it, roughly ninety degrees. It wasn't the time that had shrunk, but from Edvin's point of view, directly to the right, the opponent was moving in an instant.

The earth where the drift protection ran through - the lawn of the courtyard, which had been tidied, was worn with holes like plowed. It's like a heavily armed military horse ran away. Edvin is wary of what kind of leg force he has.

"- Ugh."

Flow protection exhales briefly.

Dozens of fireballs in a row. It also equates to pouring rain grains, such as avoiding all such things. No matter how much, anything will be impossible. That's why I ran through it. Instead of avoiding one attack at a time, he left the offensive range itself. In that moment.

That's what Edvin understood. Either way, it's not a human trick.

"Hurrah!

Throw the fireball produced in your hand. Liquid shield shaken its head only in motion.

Immediately afterwards, kick the earth and the opponent approaches Edvin.

(You're kidding.)

Throw two fireballs produced. The drift shield packs more distance while avoiding it lightly. No, not even a single shot. But there's no more time to chant big moves.

(Me too...)

The flaming boy ate his teeth with a face that was about to cry out. Flush protection looms in front of you.

(Me too...)

I wanted to be strong.

I didn't rely on the Divine Chant "Oracle" or anything else, I just wanted to fight with my fists. I've been dreaming about it since I was a kid.

Look at Geisserius in "The Secretary of Dragon's Destruction". A fairy tale. I was born a man, anyone would dream of it once...?

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!

Edvin did not produce more fireballs - he squeezed his right hand and let the fist wrap a flame around it.

"Fight me! Temee, look at this!

'Mad Dog' wields his right fist wrapped in flames to intercept his shield with all his might.

But the flaming fist that swung out cut the sky and his vision spun vertically.

- The gallery is boiling.

……

Edvin didn't know why he was cheering. Then now I didn't even know why I was looking at the sky.

On the back is the feel of the earth. It is a clean blue sky with no clouds that extends into sight.

"Shh, wow... what's that now!

"I've never seen humans spin vertically with their fists. Oi!

"Yes, no. Oracle, the fortified god chant, right? Whatever..."

... Oh... you mean that.

Finally, Edvin understands that he was defeated.

"Uh-oh! Lugo, that's awesome. Yeah!

Mia ran over under the stream protection and jumped with Piong Piong.

"... was it Edvin? Can you stand?"

That's what I'm saying. There's not one scratch on the winner's face looking down at Edvin.

……

The body doesn't move. I don't even remember how they knocked me down. I've never seen anything like this before.

"... I can't stand it. Bakemon..."

I wonder why.

He said he was knocked down without a hand or a leg, but he felt terribly neat.