- Miranda perspective

A few adventurer parties visited my working guild some time after the self-proclaimed brave con man overflowed the alley, when people could no longer react so much to the existence of the brave man.

"I hear there's a training center or something near this guild. Where is it?

There are four of us at the party in total. It was a young party, all looking the same in my early twenties. Three women per man. Only in an environment that can be described as a flower in both hands are the surrounding adventurers turning their gaze to the yakuza. The man who has now questioned me, supposedly a leader, had a tall, guttural physique. By the way, he is wearing a flashy armor that is roughly invisible to combat, and he is wearing a sword on his hips with this decoration flashly embellished again. I ask questions about my stay and get a little cocky about my attitude as if it were only natural to answer them in silence.

"Is this a training center? Would you like to be admitted?

"Is that why! Why do you need me to go to that place now? People from the training center here have a reputation for being smart. I was just trying to get him into my party if anyone could use it."

I don't know what you're capable of - I'm glad I almost said that, and I smile a little drawn. Smile at the guy you don't like, and that's the receptionist's pride.

"Uh. The training center is not the place where you are allowed to pull out or anything. Besides, not only is the training center a guild, but the Kingdom of Bordeaux is also half funded. If you do something bad, you could get caught, right?

"Does it matter! I am the brave man of the Levre Empire. Unlike the elephant self-proclaimed brave, I am the real brave one. No one can punish the brave man. If you put your hands on me, you'll turn the Levre Empire against the enemy."

The brave man of the Rebble Empire - I've heard of him. It is a well-known fact that many self-proclaimed brave men have emerged in this critical situation, which is likely to bring about the resurrection of the Demon King, but apart from that, it seems that there are a few who the nations have officially recognized as brave. All we have now is one in Rhumiel, one in Barrios and Bercis, and one in the Levre Empire. Unfortunately, there is no one in this kingdom of Bordeaux who has been certified a brave man. Anyway, if what this man says is true, it means that one of the only four brave men has visited this guild.

"If you're from another country, can't you have even more problems? Depending on what you're doing, it could be a dispute between nations, right?

"You loud bitch with the details. As you were told to shut up, you just have to tell me where the training center is."

"That's right. I'll tell you because I don't seem to know it, but people whose country has certified them as brave are given some freedom of movement. This is an arrangement jointly established by each country to make it easier for the brave to operate. It's not a question of how the guild's staff feels."

That's what the two women around said, sighted from above, just like the man. I'm laughing at this one all the time just saying what about the guy. annoying...... I meet adventurers everyday who say things from above when I'm doing this job, but I've never been so annoyed. What makes them and this party decidedly different is the obvious part of me looking down on this one. Because of their stature, their words and deeds, maybe all four of them must be aristocrats or their equivalent. I can see in circles that noble born men don't even try to hide the attitude they said it was natural to use lower human beings with their jaws.

If Camille or Lapis were here, he might have blown out looking at my pimply moving facial expressions. That's how I feel about my smile. They're annoying, but I can't say no at my discretion, even if the state permits. Cut it off from work and tell me where the training center is. Let's just get these four out of sight.

"... then you have no problem. If you have a national clearance, I'll tell you where the training center is."

"You just have to be honest from the start. Don't make me take any extra time."

The pimple - and the mouth catches. What the hell!? I can't even talk without upsetting people!?

"... excuse me. Then I'll bring you a map..."

"Hurry up. You're an unusable civilian."

Pique, pique, pique! Oh, oh! If you don't massage carefully today and then go to sleep, the next day is going to be a big deal. I have fully mobilized my self-control, politely and quickly, and finished teaching this party where the training center is. After they left the guild, the adventurers around them looked sorry for me accidentally sitting on the spot, but they even lost room to care about that gaze and fix it. Oh, I'm tired.

§ § §

- Karin point of view

Ever since I started living in Lapis' house jointly, my sword arm has become stronger than it was before. Thanks to Lapis for that and all of this. When I'm in town, she puts an archery on us both, no matter how tired I am. I fully understood how precious that was, even if others didn't tell me.

Unlike other training centers in this city, the growth rate of students appears to be abnormal. There will be a lot of difference between the number of instructors and the size of the facility, but only on top of the numbers, there shouldn't be a big difference here. I think Lapis is the only reason the students here are getting stronger to say so.

Lapis is a deep-window courtier if you look only at the exterior, and it suits you to have even a teacup more gracefully than holding a sword. But she's strong enough that those adventurers are no match for a bunch of them. That's already overwhelming strength, and maybe if she's serious about it, she should be able to destroy this city as easily as possible. Her lectures like that have a reputation and are now so popular that she can make an appointment up to six months away. Naturally, because unlike other lectures, it is promised that if we complete her lectures, we will be stronger than ever before. It's famous for its tough stuff, but now it's even accepted by everyone for granted.

She's such a free girl, and she puts on an archery almost every day, so me and Ciel got up in the limelight. Thanks also to our adorable master who was recently promoted to the Silver Rank.

I'm such a Lapis, but now I'm rarely away from this city. Some kind of joint training session with guild staff? He's got to join in to say something like that, and he's going all the way to Wang Capital, so he's planning on not coming back for a while. In the meantime, I can't just lack voluntary training, so I was interrupting the training center to get in touch with the other trainees. By the way, Ciel is at an extraordinary party, so she's away, just like Lapis.

"No, Karin is strong after all!

"Because I'm trying! Besides, the master is good."

Every time I come here, Robert, an adventurer man who works with me, said that while wiping sweat with his hand. He is a veteran adventurer that will be just over thirty years this year, and it seems that it has been about two years since he became a Silver Rank. It features silver hair close to a short pruned white, someone who looks strong because of the large scar on his face, but has a serious and gentle personality. People who go to training centers are basically not around long, so it's unusual for people like Mr. Robert to be there for nearly six months. He was a slightly different man, famous for his repeated lectures over and over again.

"When is that master, Mr. Lapis, coming back?

"I'll stay three days over there and then I'll be back, so I guess it's about a week away, considering the distance traveled?

"Because she's away, the number of participants in the lecture is visibly diminishing. I need you to come home soon."

"He didn't like to go, either. I need to brush my sword arms so I don't get disappointed when I get back. Do you want another bottle for that?

"Ha. You're motivated. Naturally, we're going out."

We lay down our swords with a smile on our faces, lowering ourselves so that we can fly each other at all times. This makes ten pairs today. I push the score with seven wins and three losses, but the actual battle can't help but care about the score because sometimes the powerful are defeated by amateurs with a little caution. I just have to face them seriously, one at a time, to raise my arms.

Breathe and assemble the way you fight within yourself. Even I used to wave my sword without thinking about it, now I was able to instantly simulate a few patterns of how my opponent would move in my head and how he would fight back if he attacked me.

"Okay......"

In anticipation of how Mr. Robert would dodge after the first blow, a noise broke out near the training center quarters, as if to frustrate our nostrils at the exact moment we tried to fly away now. In the form of frustrated nostrils, we all lower our swords and relieve tension.

"... I wonder what?

"You care. Is it a fight? Let's go have a look."

Fighting is not uncommon because the training center brings together bloodthirsty guys as well as guilds. About waking up once a week. But the atmosphere was a little different this time around. It seems to surround some of the smaller numbers of trainees and condemn them.

"What the hell are you thinking! You're crazy to hit me all of a sudden!

"You look great! What the hell are you doing?

"Somebody get a guard! Crazy bastards!

"Say something!

Several trainees, who drained blood from their mouths and swelled their faces, are being cared for by other trainees. Inside the circle they surrounded was an adventurous foursome figure. There are three dark-haired men like leaders and outgoing women who said wizards, monks and warriors. They even have a thin laugh on their faces in the wind that blows the anger around them.

"What happened?

"Huh? Oh, Karin. What, when I thought they were visiting, I suddenly beat up the guy who handled it. They were in a hurry to seize him."

Asking a face-to-face trainee, he seemed to have witnessed the situation at that time and told me the details. The quartet now surrounded seems, to my surprise, to be a brave man approved by the Rebble Empire. The brave man has a reputation in other countries, like the city's training centers - scouting instructors who are said to have overwhelming powers among them. I don't even have to think about it. Lapis is the only one there. But she's gone to King's Capital and she's away. The brave man, who ended up empty-handed, yelled a nearby trainee at the mood for eight hits. Naturally, the trainee, who had nothing to do with it, argued in retrospect. Naturally. If someone I don't know obsessed with, I would have handled it the same way. Even in the event of fights at the training center, it probably fits in with arguments alone, so I rarely see blood. Because, unlike ordinary people, trainees are all adventurers, soldiers, and people who specialize in fighting what I said was a knight, so we know that if we use our power in darkness, it will be an exchange of lives.

That being said, that brave man suddenly punched his arguing opponent. And even with someone who tried to stop it. No matter how unintended you are, you can't defeat a trained trainee with one fist without considerable strength. Whatever your personality, only your strength seems real. The trainees who felt it were never trying to get their hands on it, even when they verbally condemned it. We understand that we are not opponents. Do you know that, the brave man has a nasty grin with Niyaniya as he provokes.

"If you come because you say it's the best training station on the continent that keeps producing elite, what is this? Aren't they all cluttered rather than elite?"

"Nah!?

"Who's the miscellaneous fish!

"It would be evidence of miscellaneous fish not even being able to point their swords at them because this is all they say? If the students are doing this, it's no big deal with the rumored instructors."

Zawari - and the air changed. The people here are all the people who met Lapis and rapidly gained strength. She's famous for imposing tough training, but everyone is sincerely grateful to her. Besides, she's the hero who saved the city. Of course not many were saved their lives by her healing magic, defeating Rich, the enemy's general. To say insulting her was more unforgivable than to be insulted.

Trainers reaching for weapons at the same time. In response to that, the Brave Party also moves into a state of battle. You're going to see blood like this - everyone thought I was popping out in front of them then.

"What woman?

Suddenly he shows up to me, and the brave only turn a cold eye. I was about to get barometric pressure for a second, but I put some effort into my stomach to get back at it.

"We must not hear that our instructors are weak. Correct."

"No. I don't take orders from anyone. If you really want me to apologize, you have to prove it with your strength."

An attitude that obviously looked down on others. Looks like you're absolutely certain I won't get on with the provocation, including the surroundings. I might have pulled back awesome here before. But not me now. I've been able to change since I met Lapis. Even though I had just escaped the difficulties, I became actively in a harsh environment, and both alcohol and gambling washed my feet beautifully and refreshingly. Lapis, a benefactor and dear friend who changed my consciousness sweetly. He who insults her like that won't forgive her, even if the other person is a brave man.

"I'll do it."

"Oh, hey Karin..."

"... are you serious?

Surrounding me with slallies and swords out. But what surprised me the most was the brave man himself who had provoked me. Look unexpectedly at me pointing the sword, pulling out the sword in the same way.

"You've got a lot of nerve, woman. But you can't afford a difference in strength just because of your guts?

Say that after you beat me.

You felt a genuine killing spirit released from my body, and the trainees around me move away a little bit. Looks like the brave surroundings tried to stay on the spot, but when the brave waved to get rid of the dog, they reluctantly left. A circle of beautiful people can be created around brave men confronting me. If you stay away from me like this, there won't be any damage to your surroundings.

"I'll give you the lead. Call me anytime."

"Yes...... Then don't hesitate!"

Against the brave man who is totally licking this one, I attacked him with all my might from the beginning. My step of circulating far less magic into my body than a wizard and strengthening my whole body muscles stuffed my distance from the brave in an instant. It's the use of magic that Lapis taught me.

"Ha!

"What!? - Come on!?

The sword I have wielded is swung down vigorously over the brave man's head, caught off guard and clashed on the right shoulder of the delayed evasion brave man, scattering a spark in his white armor. But it just hit the shoulder of the armor and it looks like there's no damage. The brave man tries to distance himself as he puts his face, but I pull myself into my left foot, which I was putting on the ground the moment I swung through my sword, jumping sideways to chase the brave man.

"I won't let you get away with it!

"Shh!

The brave man took it with his sword despite his unfavourable posture, even though he tried to knock in a series of strikes in the air. A sword thrust out all the time with a counterattack slits my ear thin and flies a few hairs. Being aware of the danger and fleshing, I struck out the brave man's torso with magic wrapped around his palm bottom.

"Gu Hu!"

That should have worked. Lapis, a perverted move called direct armor. Unsure technique of reason that a strong armor prevents swords and fists, but not even their impact. I'm just using it sensibly, but it looks like I've been able to poke the void of the brave man who's defending the armor.

Brave man to be blown away a few meters. Stay on track here and stay alert. Because Lapis has been telling me to sour my mouth from day to day not to put my sword away until I know it's definitely dead even if my opponent stops moving.

"Ha ha!

I leap towards the brave again to decide the battle. There is no one to block between me and the brave. If you wave the sword that lays on your side, the brave man who remains disfigured should be attacked without the skill to exchange and be able to destroy his arm. A brave man who tongued at me looming in front of me rushes to take it with his sword, but my stepping in is faster. I got it -! The next moment I thought, I was blown away by a strong shock behind my back.

I couldn't figure out why I rolled over the ground, my consciousness nearly flew for a second, but I managed to stop with a severe pain in my back. Yes, what the hell happened...?

"You're dirty! You're not one-on-one!

"Shooting magic from your back, is that what brave men do!

"Shame on you, shame on you!

"Shut up you mutts!! I don't remember saying one-on-one or anything! I'm sure the woman was just alarmed!

The trainees are frightened by the sword screen of the brave. Shoot me in the back? Apparently, I was blown away by eating magical unintentions. It was an attack from a completely unexpected direction, so I couldn't even recognize it. The back pain is severe. From where my hair is chillin ', it looks like flame magic. If you hadn't spilled magic all over your body, you might have been mortally wounded. What the hell are you thinking if we're not even killing each other...!

"Gu......"

"Well, did you stand? Big deal."

Sounds great. A coward, unintentionally helped by his companions, says something from above with his gaze for some reason. I don't want to lose to such a coward when he dies! If the strengths I had worked so hard to demonstrate, the battle would undoubtedly have ended with my win......! If your body is healthy, you want to curse him enough to be able to speak up, but now you just breathe and you have severe pain running all over your body. I'm going to stand up and stare at the brave man with a sword instead of a cane that I didn't let go of so hard, but my eyes don't focus well.

Such a brave man waved down his sword relentlessly at me. The body cultivated by training reacted on its own to the sound of cutting the wind and shook up the sword reflexively, but the sword is easily bounced off. Shortly after, my clavicle made an unpleasant noise and was crushed. The power to hold the sword is lost and the body is about to fall naturally. It was the brave attack that forced me to stand like that.

"Ah... Gu... Huh!

"It's a big deal to scream. But how about this!

Now my arm, next my leg bones smashed. I'm sorry! I can't believe I can't do anything! But I won't scream at you. I will never expose him to the things that make him happy! You got upset with my attitude like that, the brave man still strikes a safe spot with one sword after another.

"Gu... Ugh!

"She's a bitch! Why don't you just surrender!

"Ku... fuck you... shithead..."

"You!"

The sword wielded out by a fiercely brave man brings the greatest shock to his body ever. Finally, my consciousness fell into darkness with the feeling of my body floating in the universe.