"That's settled."
Shortly after Clifford answered, his brother muttered in an unchallenged voice. The watery eyes capture me straight. When he accidentally looked back at the black fan as a jetty, his brother added words as if to make a push.
"No one against whom you fight will be wounded, and your knight of escorts will win unharmed. - The latter is what you want. So you don't mind? Octavia."
The told content slowly penetrates into my head.
I don't mind......? Ya, I don't mind!
Because I don't even want Clifford to get hurt, I'm supposed to be on my side to give you even more of the difficulty my brother gave you...!
I mean!
"Is it good for you, brother? Weren't you trying to stop Holden?
Yes! When I arrived at the workout, my brother was reprimanding Nathan and scolding him. Yet it's turning around, trying to get Clifford and Nathan to fight.
I don't feel like this judgment.
But my brother snorted.
"Oh. Getting started. But not only Nathan, but on your orders Clifford Alderton also took the sword. So you'd be glad to let them fight? - Nathan!"
In the middle of the conversation, my brother calls on Nathan on stage.
"Do you swear that if Alderton wins on the terms I put out, you won't imitate like this again?
"Ha! This Nathan Holden, I will never ask for proof again!
Nathan answered instantly, holding the sword in his hand and posturing upright immobilized.
When I heard the answer, my brother turned to me.
"I thought you should prove Alderton's ability to defeat Obedience."
Indeed, I was the first to order Clifford to fight and win in the first place!
But I just said it was only one-on-one with Nathan...! I didn't know it would be almost everyone, including Clifford vs. Nathan......
"I thought my brother would disagree, even if I did."
"Surprise?
I'm surprised.
Don't get in the flow, I think it's the kind of thing that stops you resolutely even at times like this.
What kind of change of heart is that?
"Then what I don't disagree with is, shouldn't you be welcome, too?
"... Yep"
The match is already a matter of decision.
Then we need to pull something out that could still help Clifford!
"Nevertheless, it is too unfavourable for Clifford as it is. Forgive me enough to set the environment up."
My brother is silent. Interpret it as not, and just keep talking.
"Give the knight of my escort the right to choose a weapon"
I turned my gaze to Clifford, and I asked.
"- Clifford. Say what weapon you want."
Dark blue eyes open a bit. Then, his mouth drew an arc. The answer is spun.
"Then give me a training spear."
Clifford drowned his head at me on the spot.
The air on stage shakes. What we occupy is discomfort and anger. More than when I said to Clifford, "Fight Nathan and let both sides win unharmed."
It was me who was poked at the intention, too.
If I had to compete under difficult conditions, at least about a weapon, I thought of it as a suggestion.
... Gun? And for training?
Oh, but when I danced in dance practice before, you said the most tame thing was a spear.
He said it would also help in the event of a brawl...... a choice in that sense?
The designation for training is definitely because he says so!
All right. Don't fully adopt Clifford's opinion!
Represent Clifford's choice from me to my brother.
"Brother. Give Clifford a training spear."
"For training... a spear with crushed tips"
"Yes."
I nodded with momentum.
After looking at me for a moment,
"Give Alderton what he wants."
And my brother, with his arms around him, gives pale instructions. A training spear was immediately brought onto the stage. Nathan handed it to Clifford himself. Instead, Clifford's sword is returned to Nathan.
The training spears provided were eartips… the blade that should have been on the tip had been crushed.
No longer a long metal stick than a spear?
"Is this a good idea? Okdawia, Alderton"
Asked by his brother, he glances up at Clifford on stage aggressively.
"- If I may, on defeat terms for both sides, 'let go of the weapon' and add"
He holds the spear in his hands and Clifford opens his mouth.
"No problem. I'll make sure... Octavia."
In response to Clifford's remarks, my brother set his sights on me alone.
"Only Alderton can change weapons."
Has been annoying.
Clifford's a training spear, but he's got Nathan in the lead, and he's got a long sword for action, right?
Looking onstage, Nathan looked unhappy with it. I'd like to measure Clifford's prowess, but if they're training spears, they think they should follow suit.
Clifford is...
The gaze fitted well.
Clifford nods really, faintly.
There were no words, but I knew what they meant.
Probably means it's okay.
…………
I tried to say something in response, and I stopped.
I snorted back to Clifford, too.
Then I return the answer to my brother.
"I'm ready. Let's get started, brother."
- The knight of the escort, who was to let go of his sword, looks stunned. In the meantime, Clifford's training spears are moving without stopping.
Clifford's battle is unrealistic. Non-stop action movies, if you like. Plus, he does it as if he breathes an action where there can be no protagonist.
It was as if it were integrated with a spear.
With swords and spears, spears have a longer reach. Leveraging it, Clifford had set his aim on his opponent's sword, without letting him near it.
With exceptional control, aim and play the opponent's weapon.
In a few seconds of the start signal, the three of them were removing their swords.
To teach those three a lesson, those who remain are unafraid against Clifford. But the knights of the escort, who had eight on stage, including Nathan, were down to three in less than a few minutes.
Of course, nobody's hurt.
It's just - there was a knight whose sword was broken in two.
Even amateurs, I know.
The people who are fighting right away, probably the best.
Nathan and the others are fighting a good fight. I'm never weak. But Clifford goes over it.
Finally, Clifford and Nathan are the only ones standing on stage with weapons.
Both of them, silent. Even during the match, there is no conversation of any kind.
That's me and my brother, too.
I'm just staring onstage so I can eat in.
- Nathan's way of fighting has changed a little. He took a position where the spear couldn't reach him and seemed to be running around, the other way around. Instead, you're pushing your body to the crushed tip of a spear?
Yikes! Now!
If Clifford hadn't pulled the spear, he'd be penetrating the torso!
Suicide wish? Nathan!
Such an attack lasted several times.
Exactly. I can read Nathan's thoughts, too.
Are you taking this backwards to say it's intact?
If Nathan even bears one of the wounds, Clifford's loss automatically.
Without Clifford's skill in manipulating spears, Nathan would be so profound. But the truth is, I have the skill. Weird story, understanding the difference in strength - trusting Clifford's ability, Nathan is fighting the way he takes himself hostage.
And Nathan - the only one who succeeded in jumping into Clifford's pocket.
He must have approached him in an impossible position. Nathan was on one knee. But there's no obstacle to waving the sword. Nathan's sword quickly slashes Clifford from the bottom.
But there was no sign of Clifford there.
I also saw it in "Between the Skies," unique to "Obey," movement. Nathan's sword just slashed the universe.
Leaping Clifford put the spear on that sword...
"No, I'm in."
Nathan laughed with a neat face.
The spear stops perfectly.
Because Nathan let go of his sword.
The sound of the sword falling echoed.
Nathan, with one knee on his back, looked up at Clifford standing on stage.
"Complete defeat. The story of defeating 'Obedience' can also be snorted out. unwanted suspicion. Apologize."
Slowly, Nathan gets up. I asked Clifford how he had settled down.
"But if this is strength, why did you lose your hand in the practical exam?
"Until I've wasted my efforts."
Without disturbing one breath, Clifford responds.
... Waste of effort? In my head? Mark flew.
"- What do you mean?
"I didn't think I'd be left to the knight of the escort. Several people told me that the people in the Count Alderton family would never be chosen. He said the game was only formal and that the knight of His Highness Octavia's escort had already been provisioned. Will anyone seriously challenge a game with a defined outcome from the start?
How many people? No, it's not strange that some people in the Count Alderton family are likely to say...
But a knight other than Clifford who was insistent?
On the paperwork given to me by Matilda, the lady chief, the knight who is entrenched is this man! Or not?
"Then why didn't you dismiss the candidate?
"I was welcomed as an adopted son by the Earl of Alderton family. At my father-in-law's request."
I wasn't motivated because it was a race to do it, and you mean I can't go against the intention of Count Alderton, who became my stepfather...
But the mystery is, you were insistent on the knight of my escort, right? Not a word of Father...
Oh, here's someone I think I can ask!
"Do you know my brother, who was an insider in the knight of my escort?
Same royalty, and first prince's brother!
My brother sighed.
"... I know. I suggested it to your father."
Oh, my God!
"It's about Hugh."
Too much first ear.
When he glanced at Hugh, who had refrained, Hugh gently thanked him.
"Did you go out of your way to get Hugh Roberts?
"Though I believe you are human enough to entrust the knight of your escort?
As an escort knight, it's impeccable. Exactly. I made a lover and moved... there wasn't either, was there?
If me and Hugh had the same relationship as the original, maybe we were win-wins with each other.
Hmmm...... Hugh is the knight of my escort...... Oh, I can't imagine.
"Isn't Hugh willing, too?
"... he had acknowledged"
What, is that not going to be an obstacle for my brother and Master Sil, in a surveillance sense?... Paranoia, I guess.
But it didn't come to me as a formal story.
You just found out! Now!
"Because it was only a short while ago that Father was rejected. You have to choose from among the candidates. But the insider story seems to have spread."
Father, Nice! If my father hadn't rejected me, I wouldn't have been able to choose Clifford in which!
"Okay. That's too much. But now you understand why Clifford hasn't shown strength in past games? Besides, 'Win unharmed and unharmed by anyone fighting'. Clifford won after fulfilling the conditions. Now, will you let Clifford go?
My brother shook his head to the side.
"You can't. The suspicion that your escort's knight worked on Sil's carriage is not clear. Proven here is the possibility of defeating 'Obedience' with strength"
Grunt. Can't we just collapse, huh?
Then let's just ask Clifford!
Close the passing black fan.
"Clifford. This is how my brother says it. I wonder if you worked on Sil's carriage."
Though I'm sure it feels almost 100 percent unlimited that I didn't!
"- No. I don't"
There you go!
"Bye."
My brother strangled me with a strong tone.
"Alderton. Why didn't you just say so? You just had to state the facts."
I wondered, too. Without my permission, I wouldn't talk, and even if I let you through, it's a situation where I'm under suspicion.
"Clifford. I'd like to ask, too. Is there a reason you kept your silence?
"- Where there is a danger of crooks, where I stated the facts, I was deciding if it made any sense."
I mean, what do you mean?
I want you to tell me the truth.
"The day before the semiball, I resigned from His Royal Highness and went to my room, and I witnessed a shadow in the vicinity of the Barks carriage."
After the day's escort assignment...... night.
That, but.
"You mean Clifford didn't think the person was suspicious?
"Yes, Your Highness"
"Why?"
"Like me, wear the Knight of the Guard uniform - the sword has a golden thread decorative room"
Golden, decorative, that means.
"My brother, someone from the Knight of the Guard?
"Ha"
Clifford concisely affirmed.
Normally, staying close to Shill's carriage at night is not seen as a problem in itself when it comes to the knight of the escort. Regardless of the time frame, the knight of the escort is in a position to travel within the royal castle at his personal discretion.
That's what Clifford said.
This time, I'm just suspected because there was a rampage of Mr. Sill's carriage.
Of course, normally, it's nothing strange that my brother's escort knight is near Sil's carriage at night. Nature. Maybe my brother ordered it, or maybe that's his look around the carriage.
But the day before the carriage rampage, I approached the carriage for the night, if there was a knight of my brother's escort -?
The person is very suspicious.
"Even my brother ordered someone from the knight of the escort to see how Sil's carriage was at night?
"- I didn't"
With a bitter face, my brother answered.
"Now, please don't ignore Clifford's stated facts"
In a situation where Mr. Sill's carriage might have a mingled figure right there, he said, "No, because there's a killer over there!" Or so I can't even say Clifford to the detour.
My brother's question flies to Clifford.
"Was it far-sighted? Did you see his face?
"No."
"So how do you know you're my escort knight? You mean you only identified the decoration room without looking at your face?
- It's because of my habits.
My brother frowns.
"When I look at people, I check their weapons. When you witness the shadow, you must first use your weapon."
And the sword that Clifford confirmed had a decorative chamber that his brother gave only to the knight of his own escort.
Hugh refraining. And Nathan on stage and the knights of the other escorts.
In the original, there was no case of a knight of his brother's escort trying to hurt Lord Sil this way.
But I don't even think Clifford would lie.
"- Brother. The only charge against Clifford was testimony, right? How will this Clifford testimony be handled? Can you leave your brother alone with the new, suspicious?
If it's the original Celius - if it's my brother, I'd say I can't.