"... are you doing it again"

McCard Empire training ground. A wide dome, in its silence, the wind-cutting noise keeps ringing quietly.

No squad will use the training ground this time, nor will the brave... except one.

One young man just keeps waving his sword even as he spreads sweat over his skin.

The figure was just as beautiful as the model, and it also combined rough sharpness, like slashing it with passion.

"You're a training fool to be stunned."

To such a young man, another man, characterised by threads, approaches him with a sighing voice.

At a distance of a few steps later, Ryudo Shinzaki answers, a young man who was gradually training.

"What can I do for you?

"No, sometimes I thought I should take a breath. Yeah. Are you worried about Pearl or Aoi, too?

Worried, but light, says Keido Kanejo, the man with the thread.

In fact, Ryudo was hypnotized incompletely by Prayer Ri, traveling from the Kingdom of Rising Sun to the McCard Empire, before devoting most of his time awake during the day to training.

(I'd like to apprentice that diligence, but I don't know if it's too much.... If a brave man falls overworked, he'll laugh)

Keido Kanejo, the McCard Empire brave man who is quite seriously worried inside, stares at Ryudo, who is listening to the wind all the time to Willow.

Ryudo cares about his advice. Without even showing his bare hands, he says.

"I'll do that when I'm strong"

"Do too much abuzz..."

"So? Is that all you need? If so, I'd like to continue my training."

"No, I'm sorry. Aside from the real deal."

Keido is literally just open to the dialogue of training idiots, like the only one in his head is training.

Ryudo finds that he's not likely to finish the conversation yet, and gives him a slightly dissatisfied air.

Keido went through and told Ryudo the real deal.

"Message from Chancellor Indela Genda or." I'll give it to you when the holy sword is ready. "

"... Holy Sword?

To a word I don't remember hearing, Ryudo tilts his neck.

Keido didn't think, he lost his word for a moment.

".................. is!? You're lying! I told you two weeks ago!

That's what they say, Ryudo makes an effort to remember.

"With that said... it's like I was saying that during training, don't you even feel like it? Apparently he was too focused on training and hadn't heard."

"Are you okay? Fifty years early, huh?

Keido looks at Ryudo with his sincerely worried eyes.

"... I don't know what the Holy Sword is, but, well, I get it. So, when am I supposed to pick it up?

"Now if you can. I've already spoken to Pearl and Aoi. What are you gonna do with your free time anyway?

"I still have training..."

"Are you free? All right, come on."

With or without, Keido drew Dragon Dou between the holy swords.

"What a strange room this is..."

Ryudo looks around the room, says.

All kinds of brilliant weapons, such as swords, swords, spears, bows and canes, were adorned as surrounding Dragon Dou and Keido.

"This place is between the holy swords. It is adorned with the holy sword of the brave men of history."

Keido tells Ryudo with a bitter smile.

When he first came in here, he thought the same thing.

"Is everything here the Holy Sword? There seems to be bows and canes."

Strangely, Ryudo says. Certainly many of the inside decorated in the room do not deserve the name Holy Sword (...).

Even better, it's even decorated with gauntlets, merikensacks, etc.

"I explained that too... well yeah. Again, the name Holy Sword is only a tradition, and it doesn't have to be a sword. If you're a swordsman, if you're a bowman, it feels like a bow, and it fits the owner."

"... into shape, will it?

Ryudo feels uncomfortable with Keido's words.

"Oh, the Holy Sword..."

"Ah, Ryudo! It's late!"

"Mmm."

As Keido tried to explain, Pearl and Aoi, who found the figure of Ryudo, called out.

He seemed to blame me, but his expression showed a slight delight. They were also less likely to talk to Dragon Dou, who would train extensively.

"Dear Ryudo, I've been waiting for you"

"Huh."

In response to Prime Minister Indera's words, Ryudo replies out of his mind. But there's no one here, including her, to blame for it.

If you believe the words of Pearl and Aoi, Ryudo said that when he was in the Kingdom of Rising Sun, he was a courteous and kind young man.

But since that day, his words and actions have become crude, and he has often been disrespectful to the Chancellor and the Emperor as well.

The McCard Empire kept him out of touch with words and deeds for creating some kind of trauma on the day the Royal Castle of the Rising Sun Kingdom burned down.

Above all, words and deeds are crude, but training as a brave man has been so seriously punched in by the imperial side that there was no reason to blame it.

So Chancellor Indella smiles at him and then takes out one box.

"This is your three holy swords."

Inside the slowly opened box were three colorless, transparent gems.

"Beauty!"

"Mmm!"

At the same time that the expression of the two women shines, Ryudo tilts his neck.

"... this is the Holy Sword?

"Soya. If you cast magic on this, it becomes a weapon. Finally, as a brave man, the world will recognize you, but now, yes, do it."

Pearl Hill takes the jewel with us first and sheds the magic.

Then the light overflowed from the jewels, and by the time it had subsided, it had become a wand that emitted a beautiful glow.

One tip has a treasure ball, while the other tip is noticeably thicker.

Zhuhi waved a wand in his own hand,

"Yeah. Sounds good!

And laugh.

In that way,

"Make sure you feel comfortable swinging first..."

and Keido shrugged in a frightened manner.

Afterwards, the sunflower shed the same magic and got a silver bow.

She's trying to set up, hmm! and groaned contentedly.

"... I'll try it too"

Dragon Dou, like the previous two, pours magic into the gem.

"Sort of a sword. That's big......"

In the hands of Ryudo was a huge, boneless sword.

You need to hold it with both hands in your current physical abilities, but it's not uncomfortable to shake. Ryudo was impressed to see if the center of gravity and weight were also tailored to the owner. Probably even easier to use with protection.

"It doesn't seem to be a problem, so tell me your name?

"Mind?"

To Indela's inquiry, Ryudo questions. Is it a brand or something that exists in a newborn weapon?

That's all I thought about, Keido teaches Ryudo.

"There's got to be some jewelry in there somewhere in my hand. It's written there."

Seeing as I was told, there was certainly something engraved on it.

Ryudo reads it out as it is.

"Robust sword, huh?"

"... The Great Bow of Silver Wings"

"It's a magic ball stick."

Was that a stick treatment, and everyone in that place whined inside.

To state just in case, Pearl Hill's protection is a magical specialization.

(That's my normal name...)

Approximately the slightly discouraged Ryudo, Chancellor Indela told the four.

"I apologize for the delay in handing over the Holy Sword. Let me apologize again."

She apologizes, but I can tell you that the McCard Empire is not responsible.

The cause was undoubtedly in the Kingdom of Rising Sun, which concealed the existence of the Holy Sword and the Devil from the brave for the coup.

He said, "It's okay! I will beat the demon king to death with this Demon Ball stick."

Is it a prerequisite for beating...... and once again the inside, other than Pearl Hill, coincides. Again, she is inherently a super magician.

To her like that, Indela smiled as relieved.

"Thank you. I'll sit down. I will continue to support you."

The last word of it, the occasion will be dissolved for a moment.

Sad that his sword's name was unexpectedly ordinary, Ryudo decided to see the holy sword on display in a slack between the holy swords.

Below the decorated holy sword, there is a plate with an inscription.

Every one of them smelled like a cook, and it was common for him a little while back, and I felt a youth-specific pain.

"Hmm? Don't you have the Holy Sword of your predecessors?

Ryudo realized that he could not find the Holy Sword of an earlier generation of brave men, the most famous of his time.

"Well, thank you for breaking in the battle with the Demon King."

"Heh."

When we are in this world, the biography of nature and the brave predecessors is in our ears. All of them called it a death fight, but Ryudo thinks it's not even exaggerated.

And with a lot of interest, I ask Keito next door.

"No, do you have a holy sword, too?

"That's what I have."

"Like what?

"In Rapier. Like I can use it when I'm weak."

"Do you also have the brave men of the Republic?

"Oh, you've seen him before? Did you talk about a duel? Maybe it was the Holy Sword I was using then."

Though a training dungeon, a sword that would defeat the boss with one sword would not be the usual sword first.

"Were they even given to you in that republic..."

"I've never heard of a brave man giving me his sword."

Knowing how badly we treated ourselves, Ryudo began to walk to the door as we shrugged.

"Hmm? Where are you going?

"Training Ground"

In response to Keido's question, Ryudo answers without hesitation.

"I'm tired of hitting it."

"I have to get used to the Holy Sword."

That said, Ryudo starts walking again.

Keito, who tried to drop him off after that, came up with a fu.

"Hey, Ryudo. Simulated battle, huh?

"What? A mock fight? With whom?"

"With me. If you're going to tame the Holy Sword, you're better off in action."

……

It was Ryudo I had been thinking about for a while, but in the end I agreed with him.

"Is that it? What's the situation?

"Ah, Mr. Sky."

Ryudo and Keido hold a holy sword in one of their own hands and face each other in the middle of the training ground.

At Pearl Hill and Aoi, who looked worried beside him, the West Castle Sky appeared, a McCard Empire brave man with A-rank protection "Spatial Magic".

When the sky speaks, Zhuhi seems to have noticed her and answers.

"Actually, say you two do a mock fight... but"

"Simulated warfare, that's not the air..."

"Mmm."

Somehow I feel heavy air and the sky snorts. The sunflower was also small-sized.

Explain how Pearl Hill has been so far.

Soon this mock had created a bet between the two, forcing the losers to act.

And the sky sighed one.

Because there's no difference from an abbreviated duel, such as a mock fight where you bet something.

The two facing each other with those three stares were trying to determine the contents of the bet.

"Why are you betting..."

"You can be more serious that way. The two of us never fought seriously with a shelter called the Holy Sword."

"Ha, okay. If I win," No Contact with Me in Training Grounds. "

"You trained so well...... ok though"

"Hmm, what do you demand when I lose?

Yeah, well, Keito squeaks without looking particularly lost.

I said this with a nibble of laughter.

"So, if I win," Dragon Dou, Pearl Hitch, Aoi, the three of us are forced to date for a day, "Doya?

"Huh?"

"" Yeah!?

Dragon Dou shuddered by Keido's words.

And pearls and sunflowers voicing confusion.

"Is that what you want?

"No? Oh, you get a good day off on your date, huh? And go outside without a weapons store or a demon hunt. Sounds like a date. You're going on a date?

"Didn't I tell you on the premise of winning something?

"Don't do that?

To the dragon doe staring half-eyed, the light and Keido tease away.

"Duh, what do I do... I want you to win, I want you to lose..."

"Mm... support, hard to do"

This one was confused here.

Ryudo hasn't bothered them with all the training here lately. I don't mean to interrupt his hard work training, but it was also true that I was dissatisfied.

Next to the two of them meeting a maiden plank, the sky said lightly with a smile.

"Good for you. I was on a date."

"... does that mean that Ryudo loses?

Pearl Hill asks back, but the answer in the sky remains the same.

"Yes."

"Ryudo is strong, too? Physical abilities aren't even comparable.

Even if the boulder asserts so far, Zhuhi is angry.

In fact, Ryudo's physical abilities, which routinely repeat the destruction and recovery of muscle fibers caused by the 'breakthrough of limits', draw a line from the beginning of the summons.

But the sky affirmed once again.

"Not a single thing in case, Mr. Ryudo doesn't win.... I'll take a good look. You'll be clear in a second (...)."

(That's a lot of confidence...)

Ryudo took a certain distance from Keido and turned to each other.

The sky is supposed to do the signals for the start of the simulated battle in Kanya. It's supposed to be a simulated battle, but it's totally an air of duel, but Ryudo had decided not to care.

(Even in retrospect of his training, I'm up there with both physical ability and skill. Then the question is, holy sword and protection, or)

Ryudo discusses with a view to Keido.

Originally endowed with innate martial arts talents and immersed in training, Ryudo was of the highest spiritual and physical standards.

Boot camp due to "limit breaking" continuous use had succeeded in working out the body and spirit at the same time and efficiently, as it repeatedly destroys muscle fibers and super heals with severe pain.

In fact, his physical abilities have reached nearly double those at the time of summons.

(The Holy Sword... Mine is just a tough sword, so as to be good, his protection, what was it, "Count"?... I have no idea what it's capable of)

Look into Keido's eyes.

Thin threaded eyes don't see the color of nervousness - it's like you're sure you're going to win.

(Alert is a great enemy. Shall we do everything we can from the beginning?)

The sky walked beside the two of us where Ryudo made his policy with his heart. Next to it also comes Pearl Hill and Sunflower.

When I looked at the two faces and nodded, I opened those poor lips.

"Begin!"

("Breaking the Limits" multistage expansion!)

Ryudo's "Breaking the Limits" was recently finally certified as "out of standard". This is because Ryudo's 'breakthrough of limits' possessed a positively non-standard capability not found in the literature.

Overlay of 'Breaking the Limits'.

It is a possibility that Ryudo acquired at the end of his training, and in theory he can temporarily increase his physical abilities without bounds.

The policy put in place by Ryudo in a situation where he did not understand Keido's hand tag was to fully increase his physical abilities so that he could cope with whatever performance Keido's holy sword or protection had.

"'Breaking the limits!' 'Limits -"

On activating the second limit breach, Keido activated the protection.

"─ ─ Count 10 (Ten)" "

"There's a battle,"

"Huh..."

……

Pearl leaks her voice unexpectedly, and Aoi silences all the time saying that her open mouth won't block her.

In it, the sky said with a little pride.

"Keido's protection is exactly 'out of standard'. I told you, didn't I? He said he'd clean it up in a second."

It was exactly what she said.

One second-- no, it could be less. During one blink, Keido's Rapier's sword tip was poked at Dragon Dou's throat.

On the signal of the settlement, Keido lowers the rapier and falls into the sheath.

Dragon Dou, who unlocked "Breaking the Limits," was dressed in recoil fatigue and buttocks.

"Now... what...?

"I couldn't see..."

Pearl and sunflower in a flash.

"Is that the protection of the 'count'..."

"Mm-hmm."

When Ryudo muttered as he looked up at Keido, Keido replied in his usual light tone.

"The ability to move very fast... isn't it? The motion is too unnatural... it's like watching fast feed footage"

"Heh, you see that?"

Dragon Dou roars inside, approaching the impressive Keido.

At first I thought it was the ability to increase speed, but I had to deny it. No matter how fast you move, you can't make your hair shake faster.

"What abilities?

"Brave men, it's necessary to exchange information. Fast forward is close to the right answer."

After cutting out so, Keido explains his abilities.

"My protection 'count' is simply the ability to stretch a second or

"Stretch?"

"Soya. Stretch my next second, which I proclaim 'Count 10 (Ten)', to ten seconds. If I change my mind, I can move ten times faster for the next second after the shield is activated."

"Even I can use spatial magic, I can't interfere with time. There has never been a brave man with time manipulative protection in the past. That's why it's out of standard."

The sky supplements Keido's explanation.

"Even so, there's something like a weakness." Count of Ten has a hundred seconds of cool time. "

"Well... then you're invincible in a duel"

"I guess the rest is the accidental strike of abandonment."

Keido answers Ryudo's grunt.

"It smells like a sermon, but I have some training to do, and it's important to look around more. I can move ten times faster, but it's actually more aggressive."

So Keido turns to Aoi.

"Shortly after the duel, if I'm torn and tied up, and I can't stand a second, I'm gonna lose, and I'm gonna go through a tough demon or something."

"The point is compatibility, you mean?

"Soya. Especially when fighting each other with protection depends on compatibility. Let me tell you something, I kept my protection details to myself. If you ask around the Imperial Knight, you'll see."

Keido offers his hand to Ryudo, who was still sitting around.

"Intelligence warfare is one of strength. The narrow field of view is no good.... Well, I didn't win all this time, even with the information."

……

Dragon Dou, pulled and stood, shuts up. Whatever was frustrating, what Keido was saying was undoubtedly true.

"Honestly, I thought Pearl and Aoi knew about my protection."

"Ugh... yes"

"... n"

"I don't really root stuffing either, but I wouldn't have relied on Ryudo forever. You don't want to sneak up on me? I wonder if you guys can handle the information so that Ryudo can focus on training, for example. I need to know more about brave men and what to do about them."

Zhuhi sneers.

Likewise looking down, Aoi asked Keido.

"What to do, too?

"Oh, yeah. We need to know more about protection than we need to fight together, but we don't need another way to deal with it..."

"Are you thinking about the possibility of hostility to other brave men?

Ryudo asks Keido. Keido nodded naturally.

"Do you think that's why the Empire is gathering information on protection? When you sign with the Demons, people become demons. It also strengthens your physical abilities. Betrayal is easy."

To Keido's words, Aoi and Zhuhi blush their faces. We understood the current situation we were optimistic about.

"... When you become a demon, can you be strong..."

"... Did you say something?

"No."

Ryudo shakes his head.

Keido has a bad feeling about the disturbing grunt he heard earlier.

(Temporary distraction, if I do it, yeah...)

"Anyway, I won the bet. The three of you have a date. With sky, pearl and sunflower, talk to me about your date course."

"Oh, yes."

"Mmm."

"Okay, Keido."

Three people nod at Keido's words.

After the fornicating women left the training ground, Keido turned to Ryudo.

"... what?

"No, I thought I'd fulfill it even before I built it."

Keido pulls out Rapier, his own holy sword.

"Shall we get used to the Holy Sword? Let's do another mock fight without protection."

"... right"

Ryudo replied with a slight laugh. You're not gonna lose next time, like I said.

(If you're worried, yes...)

With anxiety, Keido superimposed his sword with Ryudo.