"Ha... ha... ha...!!

The current time is perfect for noon.

Just about six hours after that, which means about half of it will have passed, but my remaining roses were already four.

Ray's operation was powerful because of its simplicity.

It takes Hit-and-Away as the spindle, and when I can aim, I get close and scatter my roses by that sword. But there is never going to be an impossible assault. If you scatter the roses, there will be no overlapping attacks without greed, and they will quickly retreat away.

There's nothing dramatic about this fight. Just pale, shredding my mind a little bit, Ray just keeps doing the same work. On the other hand, I must continue to endure it. I was also not allowed to escape that overwhelming presence in front of me, and I had to continue to stand alone.

Think of it, this exam is well done. He scatters my roses, that's where it ends. Sometimes it will end within the time limit. But my clearance conditions require twelve hours of endurance. Twelve hours, if you can't stand it all... that's where it ends.

Perhaps Ray's concentration will not be interrupted for about twelve hours. Am I already familiar with this forest, or is it no longer just his garden for him? I had delayed magic "Delay" everywhere, like trees and bushes, but never got hooked.

Ray doesn't even have one scratch. By contrast, I was already worn out. I don't remember how many times they threw me and how many times they slapped me on this ground, etc.

I was just selflessly obsessed with protecting the rose, while contemplating repelling him.

But I'm sure it would have been over by now if I had trained with Ray. Basic health, plus time to exercise magic. Bottom-up of its underlying part. Without it, I must have already been scattered with all the roses.

I can also be considered my own growth...... but I was never satisfied there.

"Ha... ha... ha...!

I don't remember how much I got in touch with him anymore.

So much so that Ray was gone that I hadn't had time to count the number of roses left in the ho... I couldn't even relax and was cornered.

Calm down, I need to be calm... every time I think that way, my body doesn't move well. My movements get dull, as if tied up in chains.

……

"...... Grr!!

Ray just pales through every fight. There is no light in those eyes. The brightness, as usual, and the smile when you're doing something ruinous, are all gone.

I found out once again that this is his one scale as an ice sword mage.

"Ugh... wow!!

My voice leaks like that unexpectedly.

Ray thinks he'll scatter roses with his sword, or he'll come packing the distance at once and grab my arm as it is and carry one. Thanks to what he had taught me, I also managed to take the passive. The next moment, that hand of Ray was stretching out to my rose.

But...... ugh!!

"I won't let you do it!!

Raise your voice.

I couldn't think of Shape Zhen "Becoming Fu" anymore. Now we will guard this rose, and we will guard this remaining rose. If you manage to bounce Ray's arm off of that thought, now I try to set him up with physical surgery.

If this distance, this one is faster than using magic!!

Without training with Ray, I wouldn't have done this. I must have relied on witchcraft. But even this flesh becomes a weapon. That was something he could do because he taught me.

So I, what, do everything I can!!

And even attract him to the position of the delayed magic "Delay" that installed him... without Ray perceiving it in his sight, without difficulty. Delayed Sorcery "Delay" is one of the sorceries that finely builds code to the top.

For that reason, I have been estranged until now, but this technique was also thoroughly worked out by Ray. But again, it apparently didn't work for him who knew me well.

I have already made multiple overlaps around me to stretch the delayed magic "Delay" and build something like a junction. Even so, I guess Ray perceives it all. Relative to me without difficulty, he was just a monster.

I know that this is the scale of the Seven Mages.

……

And he leaves this place again.

"Ha... ha... yay..."

First time. It's the first time I've done anything wrong. I still have 4 roses left in my chest. We have five and a half hours left. At the pace of the first half, I'm sure I won't be able to complete this exam.

But... I won't give up until the end. Even I said I could do it. I wanted to prove that. Not for anyone else, for yourself.

Until now, all I had to do was chase after Senior Rebecca and Ariane.

And he was imitating those two and acting like nobles. But I had a cut out for myself somewhere like that.

Anyway, he said he was inferior to those two.

Anyway, he said he couldn't do anything.

Anyway, he said he was only a fake.

So I decided on my own and narrowed that possibility. I am desperate for myself because I feel like I understood only the beautiful part of that supernatant without seeing people's efforts and suffering.

That was the essence of Amelia-Rose.

But... I'm sure it's not.

We both live free. After taking the heavy pressure of the nobility, we are not proud of it, but proud of it, we are on its path.

Last year I actually saw Senior Rebecca's final at the Magics Chevalier tournament, and I saw him win, and I thought this was the look of the three great nobles that should be...

But looking into it later, Senior Rebecca seemed to lose World War II in the Rookie.

I'm sure he tried. I won the top of it a year later, believing I could still move on.

Also, I was the same age as Ariane. So he assumed that the Magics Chevalier would have to defeat the Magic Sword Games. Because I've always felt inferior to her.

We used to be close. He was my best friend. But I started to feel uncomfortable, and I started to distance myself. Because I get jealous of Ariane for what she looks like.

Because I knew I was inferior to Ariane both in my way as a nobleman and as a magician.

I admired that confident look. Sometimes I was so anxious to be like her myself. But I could never be her.

Then I wished to be like Ray.

But... I'm not the only one and I can't be anyone.

If I were you right now... I know exactly why that is.

And... that confidence was waking up in me that I could do it too, that I had prevented that Ray-White attack.

Five and a half hours left.

I can do it. I can do it.

That's what I think, I tie my messy hair together again with proper hair rubber and gently pay for the mud that sticks to my face.

If I get here, I don't care about my shape or anything. Just protect this rose. That's all. That's all I can be now.

And I continue to relate to Ray in this forest again.

The time limit is coming to an end, until then...

"Ha... ha... ha...!! Ugh... gu... ha... ha!

I wonder how much magic you used. I wonder how much energy you've squeezed.

The sun is already falling, and the light of "Tucker" reigns over us at dusk.

My body is already messed up by sweat. My hair is muddy, and I'm scratched all over this body. Managing to contain the bleeding will not stop this pain. Besides, the pain still lingers like blunt pain when Ray throws it at me. He's probably bleeding internally. Ray didn't condone anything. With a whole body of spirits, we are relative.

And he...... just pales and acts repeatedly to shatter my heart.

You know, my weakness in that heart.

It's how you fight because you're spotting it.

But I manage to eat up. Now it was often safe to finish the fight. Perhaps if we kill each other without question, it's over in a flash. But I just have to protect this rose. All you have to do is be thorough and protective.

Attack too, but that's restraint. Because all I have to do is get the time limit right.

And I've only learned a little bit about Ray's impatience in the eye.

But I was... full of creativity. No one will complain if you give up anymore. Even if the rest of the roses were scattered quietly here, I would have been content.

I've done this far, so I've had enough. If I had ever...... yes, I would have thought.

……

"Ha... ha... I won't give up... I will never give up!!

- Get him up!

- Encourage yourself!

Flesh is not the limit. I can still move. But if this heart admits to losing, that's where it ends. So I squeeze. Stimulate your own mind.

I don't know how much time I have left. From the moment I cut the last hour, Ray's attacks never stopped.

There are two roses left for me. Defend this and I will be able to successfully complete this training.

Come this far and give up?

Such a stupid thing, there was no way I could do it.

No more... I don't want to cut myself off anymore.

I wanted to change.

Come to this academy. I met an unhung friend, and I wanted to be real.

So I'll be it. Because someday I'm alive at this moment, not from now on.

"─ ─ Huh!

"... over"

Moment after moment, his hand stretches out to my chest. Really the last offense. I wasn't in love. But even in this time period, Ray's speed still remained the same. He tries to take my rose with his right hand to make sure it stays put.

What do we do? What do we do? Fast Magic "Quick"? No, there's no way we're gonna make it. Plus I have little energy left to just use magic anymore.

Physical surgery? No, that too. If I get to this distance... I can't.

What can I do, what can I do...... lose? Here I am as usual...... will I give in to myself?

Even after such a thought, the moment... something strange happened.

"Mm..."

"Huh..."

When I saw it, there was a butterfly... one butterfly floating fluffy. But that has never existed before. But between me and Ray, there was definitely one butterfly that burned red. A being that appeared abruptly, stitching between consciousness.

It feels like time has stopped.

Me and Ray were just staring at it in the time we stopped.