Legend

"Mm... mmm...?

With such a voice, Ray regains consciousness.

Get up and check with your half-sleep head where you are.

Like it looks familiar, like it's not, like it's such a place.

Keep looking around...... I notice a shadow on the couch that was placed in such a way that I was facing the couch I was sleeping on, and I rapidly awaken my consciousness.

Opponents across the street from me...... I guess I acted like I was going to get up off the couch after seeing the noise, because I had a colorful memory from the finals.

Looks like you're awake.

"Noise... this is... no, what the hell is this place?

"It's a modest room addressed to you. Remember the finals?

Ray sits back on the couch, feeling nervous and ridiculous about the noise he's laughing in a good mood for some reason.

Keep your eyes meditating...... that's how I remember what happened before I lost my mind.

(Final...... yes, I did fight noise. No, can you even describe me as fighting? more right to describe it as either unilaterally done)

Past the back of the brain is the appearance of noise wrapped around you compressing the magic enough to visualize it.

I did a similar imitation with almost instinctive magic operations, but eventually I lost.

"Lost, huh?"

Mumbling Ray, Noise stares and nods as she sits on the couch.

"Right. But it's also true that I've never been that serious in the last few years."

Rather than telling him to comfort himself, it was a noise word that looked like he was purely mouthful of facts, but Ray doesn't particularly return words to it, but covers his face.

The pain in the right rib in the finals and the kind of fine abrasions have disappeared when I got off the stage.

Ray noticed the effect again, but sighs without being able to afford to think about it.

(I also felt the difference in strength from Noise when I first met him. Still...... yeah, I thought if I could still win, I might.)

About a year and a half since Ray came to this world called Elgin. We've dived through a lot of battles in the meantime, but we've still won everything.

... Well, there were some exceptions like Rich's Grimm.

Above all, I am also proud that I have beaten opponents such as Elk and Digma, who are rank A adventurers.

Still... I couldn't even get the noise in front of me to be serious.

No, of course you meant it. It's totally different from training your opponent like you did until the semifinals, because you let them give you the strength to just be a battle.

But in the end, that's all. I guess I let some power go, but it's true that I couldn't be hunted down to places like exhausting my dying power, or giving it all.

(Strong, huh. Of course I didn't think in the wind I couldn't beat anyone at this point, but still didn't think there was a difference in strength so far)

Noise, who looked funny at Ray thinking that way, eventually opens his mouth.

"You won't even have to be so depressed. You just saw my king's armor and let him use it. On the balance of payments, it would be a huge plus."

"The King's armor? … is that the name of that skill"

Ray didn't know what it meant for a moment to the word king's armor, but if I heard the word I made it my own just by looking at it, I knew immediately what it was like.

And I guess I understood it in Ray's words. Noise also nods again and opens his mouth.

"That's right. That skill I used. That's the King's armor. Most commonly, it's a name that's hardly widespread.... I didn't think anyone could use it other than me"

What comes to mind with that word is a fierce grin.

But seeing such a grin of noise makes me realize that I'm not as afraid as I used to be.

Palms, for example. When I first met Noise, sweat seeped out of my palms just talking across the street.

Even though it is, I don't feel threatened at all when I say that this is how we now face each other, and even more so when Noise has a grin that can even be described as belligerent.

No, it doesn't exactly mean you don't feel threatened. Even if we were just facing each other this way, I could understand that noise had a different intensity of digits, and above all, I could hardly doubt it more than I experienced it myself.

Still, why can I stay fine like this?

I didn't know why, but it was Ray's expectation that it was probably because he actually fought the noise and felt one end of its strength.

Independently of how Ray looks like that, Noise continues his words with a fierce grin.

"Some have said before that they want to use the armor of the king. Naturally, they're all with some strength, but still no one could wear them.... I didn't expect you to master that just because you saw me use it once. Deep Red, it wasn't even Dade."

"You seem to be getting compliments, but I lost to you at all?

I was poked at the impression by that one word out of Ray's mouth, or I'm surprised at the unusual rounding of my eyes for noise.

Stay put for a few seconds. Eventually he opens his mouth with a tingle and a laugh.

"That's natural. How long do you think it took me to use that champion's armor? You did use the King's armor. But I just used it. I am not using it. Usually, with all that magic, it's nothing but immature from anywhere."

It would have been true to get out of Noise's mouth.

Just to understand that, Ray doesn't speak any more rebellious words.

The fact is, the skill I used, the King's armor, was not far from the noise.

Noise whines inside as she smiles bitterly as she watches Ray.

(Still, let's see. It's unusual that I was able to get there. How long did it take for me to concentrate the King's armor in one place and keep it that way?

Whimpering inside like that, he opens his mouth again towards Ray.

"If you keep growing like this... sooner or later you can beat me. Maybe that day will come."

Pickle.

I heard the words coming out of Noise's mouth and Ray's movements stopped unexpectedly...... then a few seconds. Open your mouth to make sure.

"Is that true?

"Oh. What happens when I lie here in the first place? Not immediately, of course. It's going to take a lot of training and diving through the field."

Or maybe I'll be strong outside of the armor of the King, which should also be called my inherent skill.

That was never an impossible story, given Ray's unusually fast mastery of the battle. No, if you instinctively want other strengths than Ning Luo, that's better. Because then I guess I won't even feel bored of myself.

I open my mouth hoping that this boredom will disappear sooner or later, though I have risen to heights but feel the loneliness of the late.

"I'll change the story, but there will be an award ceremony for the Martial Arts Games soon. The referee wants me out if I can get Ray out too... you okay?

"... right"

Squeeze, get up from the couch where you were sitting, and check how your body is doing.

When I got off the stage, my injuries were gone, but still, just in case.

That's a few seconds. Open your mouth, making sure you are not particularly uncomfortable with your body.

"No problem."

"Right.... Oh, there's your weapon."

Ahead of the gaze of noise, a death-size figure that is placed on the floor overturned.

Ray, who saw it, looked at the death size rolling on the floor with a pocan look on his face.

"You brought this...?

"Oh. You think I should have put you down?

"No, I appreciate you bringing it, and I appreciate it. It's just... you've been able to hold it well. Normal people can't have it...... no, I see. The King's Armor."

You've noticed. Noise that listens to Ray and smiles like that.

It was noise that showed the entire body wrapped around the King's armor in the final, but the fast movement that seemed to have used the King's armor even in the battle to the semi-finals in the first place. I guess that means that the effects of the King's armor can be exerted without necessarily having to wrap up high-density compressed magic in such a way as to look like the people around him.

(Plus, the way you stopped Luzi's Claymore poking with your sword tip. Being able to do that would mean you are perfectly in control of the King's armor)

Even if he is, he can understand it because he also wore the armor of the king on him. Surely it will be true that I have come one step closer to the intensity of the noise myself. But that's why I know the difference in strength from noise.

I can't control the King's armor so delicately right now, even if it's less.

(Far... na)

Whilst whining inside, there is no color of despair in those eyes. The fact that Ningro had an object to challenge in front of him made him grin so fiercely that it was no different than the noise was floating around.

You must have noticed that. Noise also smiles like it sounds funny again, fierce, can't wait to rematch.

He says it hasn't been that long since the battle ended, but he burns his willingness to fight again already.

That's all the noise had been invaded by boredom, touching Death Size as he exposed his determination to overcome a clear wall that was also the first for Ray.

A voice that impressed me when I stored it in Mystering as it was.

The fierce grin that had floated until a few seconds earlier had already vanished.

I open my mouth remembering the first time Ray met Noise, who smiled internally at how Noise looked.

"An item box? Mine is bag-shaped..."

That's the word for the noise I told you, but there is no bag of items boxes on the waist of the noise that I've seen before.

"That being said, you said it before. But you don't seem to have it?

"Hmm? Oh. If they find out I have an item box, they're usually after me. Because that's the only way you're gonna get laid. I'm not bringing it anywhere as prominent as a martial arts competition."

"You chose not to cause trouble by putting the benefit and hassle of the item box on your balance."

You're the opposite of yourself. That's what I'll tell you, Ray.

Ray has been using item boxes with dignity since he was in the Guild.

Most of them have already traveled to the afterlife, although a few of them have attacked for the item box. For those who were otherwise, they were to regret it more or less.

"Well, let me hear more about that area later. There's an award ceremony now, isn't there? Shall we go?"

Ray gently taps the dragon robe to remove dirt and tells him to turn his gaze to noise.

The noise that sees it also nods small, asking Ray to learn and check the condition of his gear.

It's a complicated look on Ray's face watching how it goes.

In the final, the equipment couldn't do enough damage to the noise after all.

I also used magic, but I can say its effects are limited.

(Hell, that's the same thing here)

He was beaten on the right flank several times, or attacked. Still, Ray's dragon robe has not suffered any damage or dirt whatsoever.

Naturally, there are some differences. Because in Ray's case, he pulled out the dragon robe and directly damaged the flesh, compared to the noise that wasn't damaged by the truth.

(Is that the effect of the King's armor even with respect to that technology?... No, maybe not. The pedigree seems completely different. Then it would be a completely different skill.... Rank S, huh? Far again)

Leaving the modem with the noise, whining small.

When each other doesn't talk about anything in particular, but is silently headed toward the stage, there are shadows running from the one at the end of the aisle.

The shadow opens his mouth as if he was relieved to see both Noise and Ray.

"Good, you two don't seem to have a problem going to the awards ceremony. Those on stage are already ready for the award ceremony.... I just think that what will take place today is only an extraordinary awards ceremony and that the formal awards ceremony will take place at a later date at the castle. I hope to His Majesty the Emperor here regarding the request for the winning prize, and I was wondering if it would take the form of a award at a later awards ceremony."

"No problem."

"Okay."

Noise and Ray will both nod and be briefed on the award ceremony procedures.

The busiest part of this awards ceremony is only the winner's noise, and Ray, the semi-winner, is almost just listening to the story so that he can turn it around when he requests a prize.

That's how the explanation ended, and eventually Noise and Ray tried to show up from the athlete's entrance to a place with a stage, at that time.

While the ceremonies are shaped there in such a way that they look somewhat good in this short time, and each is cheering from the audience…

Boom!

Unexpectedly, a blast echoed from wherever and went beyond the cheers of the audience inside the arena.