With a wooden sword in one hand, Rio walks.
With the suppleness that wild animals are also cowardly, he stands resolutely against a boy perhaps a head bigger than himself.
The opponent - Jake - also rushes to Rio with a fierce agility reminiscent of a large silver wolf.
On that face, an extra grin.
Stuck in a flash, such as a dozen steps between regular people.
Moment of contact.
"I got it - [Bifurcated]!
Rio's sword was wielded first.
A double hit I'm good at.
Iris and Mayfa fisting when they saw it.
"All right!"
"... Taken....... Rio's Win"
The two eyes are excellent.
At that time, the sword unleashed in that time cannot be avoided with Jake's agility.
So that's settled.
─ ─ I guess that's what it looked like.
But what actually happened was different.
"─ Oops."
"Become...!?
Jake dodged the attack and Rio was shouting surprises.
But soon Jake's hand grew lukewarm, so Rio panicked and dodged in the backstep.
It took a few moments between the two and took the form of a confrontation again.
Jake has not broken his nagging and spare grin, and Rio is sweating.
The only person surprised by the event was not the fighting Rio himself.
"Oh, no..."
"... why not.... you know, you're not supposed to get hurt.... I just made an impossible move"
Iris and Mayfa also couldn't hide their surprises.
Special time, special time.
Rio and Jake's agility is almost mutually reinforcing, rather Rio is a little faster, so there's no way we can get around that...
That's what I'm assuming, so the two of us can't get to the truth.
I'll give Illis and Mayfa a commentary.
"It's not that hard to talk about. ─ ─ Jake is faster, that's pretty much it."
Iris and Mayfa have looked at my face in surprise at my words.
"That shouldn't be... 'Cause that guy, he's about as strong as we are, a little below..."
He looks like he noticed something hah while Illis says so.
Mayfa also seems to have got her thoughts there.
I'm dressed in arms, teasing the pebble in my hand.
"That's the thing. All three of you, you couldn't see my strength right. I mean, Jake has reached that level."
Brave men with certain or more strengths typically acquire "hide their true strengths" skills.
This skill always works if you are not particularly aware of it.
It is therefore difficult to discern the strength of advanced brave men at first sight.
And whatever Illis and Mayfa got commentary from me over watching beside them, it would be harder for Rio, who is fighting Jake in front of him, to realize that.
"Ku......! I don't know what kind of magic you used, but... if it was a miracle, you'd never do it again!
Rio, again, ran into Jake.
[Double-cut] [Smash] and use the skills he possesses to attack him resolutely, but Jake keeps hitting it off.
And as Rio tried to release several [binary cuts], Jake's hand, which cut the timing and origin, grabbed Rio's right wrist with the wooden sword firmly.
"Hi-hi, I got you."
"Damn......! Why......!?
Rio tries to punch Jake with his fist with his empty left hand, but in the same way, he gets his wrist grabbed with Jake's other hand.
Jake puts out his tongue and stuffs it to Rio.
"Come on, what do we do, little lady? Wolf's gonna eat you like this, huh?
"Come on... let go!
Now I'm trying to kick some ass, Rio, but...
By Jake's foot payment, which was released slightly faster than that, Rio was rolled over on his back.
"Become... agoo!
"Hihihihi, climax entry ~"
To the fallen Rio, Jake took the mount so that he could rush.
Slowly bring your face closer with a long tongue out of your pointy-toothed lined mouth.
"Come on, it's finally a pinch. Good luck getting out of here. Otherwise, it's gonna be a big deal, huh?
─ Even so, there's no way we can get out of that state with Rio's power.
Jake is better in muscle strength.
The battle is settled.
I glance at Alma, who was looking at me in a dazed manner.
So Alma hurriedly raised the flag as she noticed.
"And there's a battle! Jake wins! Get away from both of them!
But Jake, who heard the verdict of the referee, pointed his mouth in dissatisfaction.
"Eh, you're not settled until you get an effective hit. You haven't hit it yet. Dr. Alma, is that jealous?
"I don't rationalize. When the referee says I have a fight, I have a fight. Just stay away from them."
"Yes, it was a good one."
Jake walks away from Rio, like a shabu-shabu.
And when you leave, butt Rio while he's lying on the gravel, a word.
"See you sometime, kitty. I want to fuck each other till the end. Hihihihihi."
And Jake walked away from Rio with a flickering wave.
Jake stays put and heads to Cyrus.
Cyrus just praised Jake.
"Hey, that's great! That's Jake. You are the brave of the brave. Let's keep your father well informed of your achievements."
"That would help. We're a so-so poor aristocrat anyway, so it's just hard to get a tutor to put on a good brave man. I don't know if Bravery College classes are too low - even if you have a good teacher once in a while, it's loud how bravery works. I like Silas's idea that power is everything."
That's what Jake's been looking at me for.
Cyrus nodded in a good mood to see if he was aware of it or not, "Uh-huh, I guess, I guess," etc.
I made sure it was blurry, but I decided to do my job.
Walk over to Rio.
Lying on gravel by the river, looking defeated, Rio was crying as he tried to hide his face with his arms.
"Rio, can you stand?"
That's what I say and I give him my hand, but Rio didn't move for a while, crying when I hit him.
Iris and Mayfa were also looking at Rio worryingly, but even her sisters looked like they didn't know what to say.
I think I'm a little cowardly, but I say the words.
"Rio... do you want to be strong?
Then Rio nodded kokun, looking as if he had kept his face hidden with his arms.
─ ─ There are certain things that are difficult to determine when it comes to giving students experience of failure or defeat.
Depending on how many successful experiences you have by then, or the strength of your personal defeat, etc., it will change dramatically whether it works positively or negatively.
But I believed that Rio would be able to spring this experience.
... No, it's not really a great thing to "believe" in.
Half of it is done.
I was wondering if I would tell Rio by the end that Jake was more of a fighter and he couldn't win first.
If I had told you that, what would Rio have done?
Did you stop fighting, or...
But such a "if" past no longer exists.
All we have to do is move on to the future.
"Okay. I'll make Rio a lot stronger than he is now."
That's what I said, and I offered Rio my hand again.
Rio also now, hesitantly, reaches out for it.
"... more than that guy?
"Oh, much stronger than Jake, much stronger than them... than anyone in this world, I will raise the Rio's to the strongest brave men in the world."
"... really?
"True."
"Really, really?
"Really, really."
"... ok. I'll give you everything I have. So, brother... make me stronger. Strong enough to beat no one."
Rio took my hand, grabbed it.
He stares at me with a face filled with eyes for remorse.
I pulled Rio to make him stand.
Rising up, Rio wets his tears with a gutter and a sleeve of clothes.
Meanwhile, Iris and Mayfa have also stood next to Rio and looked up to me.
"Doctor... Me too, please!
"... Neither am I going to keep my mouth shut.... for being fooled, I'll do it again"
In both eyes, too, there was a fighting spirit.
I'll give you both a nod.
"Okay. Iris and Mayfa, I'll take care of them all. I'll give you a hands-on training, so be ready for all three of you!
"" "Yes!
A healthy reply from the girls.
That day, against the backdrop of the sound of the river's spirals, we were bloody.