＜Infinite Dendrogram＞

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Claudia L. Drife began to deal with spears because the Barbaros Border House, her mother's home, was a lineage that gave birth to [Punch God].

In addition, it is rare as a drife of a mechanical state, and it is a household with many people who originally mend manners. (Although it was ironic that Ronald, who was [Punch God], used Pilebunker as a weapon, not a spear)

Thus, six years ago, Claudia, who had taken to her mother's home workout yard, had one of several spears lined up, which may also have been a natural story in some ways.

I took a trip to the workout three years ago from that time...... to rehabilitate the aftermath of the bomb attack my family died of.

Although there was no obstacle to living a daily life, there was still a slight paralysis in Claudia's hands and feet. Rehab in the workout is to cure it.

At that time Claudia was the weakest royal family, so there was only about a place where she could exercise without caring for the eyes and at her mother's home.

But Claudia took the spear, thinking that she would rather wear even one of the martial arts for future self-defense than simply exercise.

Those in the house also agreed that if Claudia's mind cleared at all, he called those who excelled in spears from among the Borderline Bo Army, and began mentoring the next day.

And - within that day, no one was better at spears than she was.

After she received basic instruction, she quickly surpassed them.

For her, the spear is the same as her own will.

This is not a conceptual story.

No effort or effort existed for her, such as waving the spear as she willed.

Wave the spear as you will and as you wish.

There is no divergence between image and motion.

One of the most famous martial artist anecdotes on the planet, such as' Only poke and kill a bug that stopped on the wall without damaging the wall ', was done not long after he began to hold the spear.

The slight paralysis of her hands and feet, which should have remained, had also disappeared like a lie when she started spearing.

That's how I realized, 'No one can teach me anymore,' and shifted to training on my own.

Then she thought about how to move the long score of spears efficiently, and immersed herself in the task of moving the spears in motion with no different dimensions to that thought, making them a little more efficient.

That is inherently a frontier that should be traced over the years, and not something that is allowed to be reached in a single day.

But it was allowed to the world by one thing: her talent.

The matter, also to be said as proof left, came about two weeks after she held the spear.

"... [Punch God]?

Repeating the words of the Heavenly Voice (Annunciation) that she had heard, she found herself in a land where Ronald had nothing to trace after his death… and it was extremely light.

That's how she got into "If you can get it, you should get it," and [Punch God], and then she repeated her training and gained more in the form of skills as well as technology.

She had a gift. Everyone in the house recognized her spear talent and was in awe.

Still, if my predecessor [Punch God] Ronald Barbaros were alive, this is what I would have said about her spears.

'Claudia. That's not what your talent is (...),' he said.

But no one pointed it out, and she succeeded the [Punch God] seat, which was young and empty.

Though she herself didn't have to be told, she knew who her talents were faster than anyone else.

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Silver flashes and jade winds repeat contact and divergence while drawing two rings in the air.

The silver color is [Silver Wind], the outside body of a brilliant jade horse made by a famous artisan flagman.

Run into the First Princess of the Kingdom of Alter, [Holy Sword Princess] Ultimia A. Alter.

The emerald color is [Emerald Great Storm], the second unit of a brilliant jade horse made by a prestigious flagman.

Run for the Imperial Sister of Dryfe, [Punch God] Claudia L. Dryfe.

[Silver Wind] is a disease while creating a scaffold of compressed air in the air, while [Emerald Great Storm] is a flight by spraying the wind.

However, there were differences in flight methods, but there was no significant difference in speed between the two.

Or is one of them adjusting speed to meet (...)?

A seven-pack clash has already taken place since the two rides on the brilliant jade horse began to compete in the air.

In the meantime, we haven't had a single scratch on each other.

But it's not that it's never divided into advantages and disadvantages.

"... ugh!

After the seventh staggering, silver - Ultimia sweated cold.

(Also, I was outdone...!

That is because seven attacks, all of which have been carried out so far, have been recirculated.

Or if it's a regular martial arts competition, that might not be worth surprise.

It means the opponent is on the defensive side, and depending on what you look at it, it can be described as Ultimia's advantage.

But no. Clearly not.

Because Ultimia uses [the original Holy Sword Alter].

Cut off all things [Alter] slaughter - everything is prevented.

Everything, and to energy, there is nothing uncut in the blade of [Alter].

Therefore, it should be impossible to prevent the attack... the impossible has happened seven times.

(On the side, it's being recirculated......!

Alter's blade cleaves any defense.

But there is no more cleavage on the side than being a blade.

Thus, Claudia's application of force to the side of [Alter] … is derailing all the slaughter trajectories.

It does make sense to flush the cutting blade on the side, and there are some underlying genres.

However, in the crossing near the speed of sound, it is not human work, such as completely cutting off the operation of [Alter], which even cuts off energy, and deviating slightly without feeding the blade into the spear.

(... as always, huh)

Ultimia knows.

Claudia's talent is roughly not human.

Because he's the one who played many games as a student, and he also hears terrible facts.

That's about the time of the two first matches (...).

Ultimia defeated by no skin, as of that day......

- Claudia had only been using the spear for a month.

Just a month after I started studying martial arts, I overwhelmed Ultimia, who had been trained as [Holy Sword Princess], without sweating a single thing.

(My arms haven't fallen off, and I haven't even gone up. But naturally, so be it.... because it has already been reached)

Ultimia is convinced because she knows her skill better than anyone else in the world but her.

Claudia's skill is perfect, otherwise it must be regarded as a distortion.

(Turning the score into a giant horse spear without slight deterioration...)

In the words, 'Hiroshi did not choose a brush'.

Claudia is exactly what I said.

Spear or not, horse or spear, irrelevant.

Perhaps you don't have to choose a spear... to [God] with the weapon of your choice.

To the point of entering the Five Fingers in this world, she excelled in the handling of technology.

If Ultimate's talent is derived from [Holy Sword King] 's... human blood, Claudia is a genius in heaven.

No, that's not enough.

The word genius is not enough.

Even the word anomaly is raw.

It finally arrives with the word that it shouldn't be (...).

That is the talent of a girl named Claudia L. Drife.

(Really, I doubt my own sanity relative)

Once Ultimia rated Claudia's spear a mechanical trick, but it's odd to say.

Because a girl named Claudia made her spear extremely easy enough to install software on her computer.

Conceptual God is not professed in this world, but if there were, she would be like a machine made by God.

(But, Claudia)

But even with so many opponents......

(If I were scared of you here, I wouldn't be your best friend anymore)

- Even with so many opponents, the feeling of cowering at Ultimia is not finely dusty.

To be outnumbered seven times by a special sword, it is not Ultimia's defeat.

The sword, the waving hands, the exciting soul, are still alive.

Then we are far from settling the battle.

"You look good, Ultimia"

During the eighth staggering, I heard Claudia on the wind.

"For a long time, you are truly lovely with your sword."

It reaches the ear even if the distance is apart after staggering.

Or maybe Claudia's ridden [Emerald Great Storm] is conveying his voice from the wind with some function.

"Because you kept facing me, I couldn't help but think I was alone"

…………

"Because no one has this about me. I'm just gonna give up 'cause you're not talented enough to fight'."

That's the sight Claudia has seen many times.

On the day I started spears, or in school, … even in the midst of a battle to inherit the throne.

But......

"But Ultimia isn't. Even if I lost the match, I never lost my mind. I never gave in with my talent on top, and held it strongly in my heart: 'Even if I am losing now, I will win next'. So... you've really lost before."

"... right"

To Claudia's words, Ultimia also responds.

That voice, unleashed on the horse that walked, still reached Claudia with some force.

"I like Ultimia."

"Me too. You're my best friend."

The two staggered for the ninth time as they exchanged words.

"... Hey, Ultimia. Have you noticed? I've always had three thoughts about you."

…………

The two horsemen circle smaller than ever and stagger for the tenth time.

"Friendship. It's my first friend, my best friend for life"

Eleventh staggered.

"Enthusiasm. As an imperial spear, someone who wants to cross the blades more than anyone else"

Twelfth staggered.

"And - love (...)"

The thirteenth staggered...... without matching the sword.

Only words arrive in the wind.

"Someone you love more than anyone in the world and want to get. My confession...... did you know how this feels?

"I knew it. Ever since school."

Claudia glanced slightly at Ultimia, who responded instantly.

"... ugh. You didn't turn me down, even though you knew it."

"Yeah, that's not even a reason to deny your friendship."

I had realized by the time I had been friends for a year that my best friend had thoughts that would never be my way to being same-sex.

But Ultimia had no desire to deny friendship because of affection.

He also did not mention it from Ultimia because he was never confessed to the thoughts he held until now.

But I wasn't putting it off.

When she revealed the thought, she had already laid down the language to return it.

"... when you say that thought one day, there's a word I was going to answer too"

That's how Ultimia stopped Silver's leg.

Claudia also stands still in the air waiting for her words.

"I make it the sword of the Kingdom of Alter, the representative of the royal family. You and I are best friends till the end, but we never accept love"

"... I knew it, too"

To be returned such words to the confession… Claudia also had a hunch.

But... to the words that followed, Claudia turned a blind eye again.

"This answer I have had since that time remains the same. So you and I will be husband and wife, and we will never rule the two countries."

That didn't just turn down a confession.

Because it contained terribly important implications… Claudia was also slightly stunned.

"Ultimia...... could you have known?

"Exactly. Claudia...... no"

Ultimia cut the words there,

"Emperor Dreiffe - Claudia Reinhardt (L) Dreiffe"

I turned to Claudia and told her to be absolute.

…………

Claudia did not return a word to that word that Ultimia had unleashed.

No, I couldn't give it back.

Because that was the right answer.

"You don't deny it. If you deny it, it'll be a verdict, so it won't make any sense."

Therefore, silence is affirmative.

"... what time did you find out?

"It's half sickle, actually. The other half is a pageant."

"... when that Ray Sterling nursed you?

"No, not long before."

That's just before Ray nursed through the imperial spicy pitfalls.

When conditions were being put in place one by one for a satisfactory conclusion.

"At that time, we packed the contents of the treaty, adjusted it, and took it to the final draft. But... you didn't contact the Imperial Capital afterwards"

…………

"Inter-State arrangements, though it was a treaty like the one that read this one through from the beginning. If changes have been made, it is normal to ask the king, who is at the top, not just the scene. I'm the king's deputy, I'm the head of the kingdom now that I don't have a father... but you're only here as a deputy, and you should have your brother, who is supposed to be the king above"

Claudia is a plenipotentiary agent at this pageant, but still shouldn't have been at the top of the empire.

But if that is the case, then there remain doubts about action.

"I didn't use communication magic, and the distance is far away in [telepathic cuffs]. In the first place, the Empire hadn't even brought in personnel for communications magic."

The Imperial side was obviously unwilling to contact the King.

"There's one reason for that. I didn't have to ask."

……

"Because you were king yourself. Right. Claudia Reinhardt (L) Drife"

Again, Ultimia called her best friend by her full name.

"Imperial familiarity. The twins make each other's names their middle names.... that you taught me a long time ago after I heard Reinhardt's name."

"... that's what happened."

Once, Ultimia only met Reinhardt once at school.

Then I heard his name from Claudia, and at the same time I heard about this familiarity.

And Ultimia comes to a conclusion.

"The real Reinhardt died in the Civil War of the succession to the throne."

If my best friend is on the throne of the king, I wonder if that Reinhardt I once met is no longer in this world.

"Men's inheritance prevails in the empire, just like in the kingdom. While concealing the death of Reinhardt, the flag head, you took up your duties as king of substance. Marshal Barbaros, the head of the army, was your uncle, and Prime Minister Vigoma, the head of politics, was your governess. You could have hidden your death if you had solidified it with trustworthy people."

The risk of a name being found out in The Nursing... is actually small.

Because royalty possesses equipment that even a high level of "nursing" can delude.

Although [Zifu Dragon Surface] used to conceal the name of [Dragon Emperor] is famous in the Yellow River, Ultimia herself often wears such equipment and moves with patience.

If Claudia also had such equipment, she could play King on behalf of her deceased brother.

"Two melons twins since we met at school. If you put in some modifications with skills like [makeup artist (makeup capper)], you won't notice."

That was Ultimia's guess.

…………

After hearing that guess Claudia was a little silent,

"Seventy percent correct."

I said that with a slightly troubled face for some reason.

"... 70%?

"I was right along the way, but I missed a lot around the end."

That she was right to be king, but then something went wrong.

What is that...

"My brother Reinhardt Claudia Drife did not die in the battle for succession to the throne."

Then Ultimia's prediction is that it will take the deep hand and entrust Claudia with the aftermath to hide as well...

'Cause... he was killed nine years ago in a bomb attack.

Too unexpected words, overshadowed.

"Huh...?

Nine years ago, he is dead.

That doesn't make sense.

As of six years ago, when Ultimia studied abroad, she should have been alive and in therapy.

Most importantly, Ultimia also met in school five years ago.

whereas such questions boil down to Ultimia one after another,

"Please wait a moment. This kind of story comes from your brother (...)"

That's what Claudia said - she pressed her forehead against the spear.

That was like the day I first met him, but unlike then, I just pushed him quietly.

Meditate, quietly nestled Claudia.

But then I opened my eyelids again less than ten seconds later...

- Long time no see.

That's what I said. Her face was... completely different than it was just a few seconds ago.

I don't see anything called emotion, a puppet-like look.

Yet speaking the language badly and smoothly it seems to be mechanical...

- When we first met, it seemed like Claudia.

"I am in charge of the King… I am the 'Reinhardt' of 'Brother'"

With the look and signs of someone else, that's what those who were Claudia named them.

To be continued