"How long will you keep him waiting?I thought you were scared and ran away. "

Lars says to Zirconia, who stopped about 10 meters in front of him.

Lars stood on the ground with a large rectangular iron shield in the middle, with a cheek cane attached to it.

Zirconia smiled at him like that.

"I'm sorry, I didn't think it was so early in the morning.I've already finished my meal in a hurry. "

"Oh, have you eaten your favorite?"

Lars replies to what Zirconia said before: "Eat your favorite food for the last meal."

"Yes, of course, I'm hungry. What about you?"

"I'm still hungry.I'll cut you up and then we'll eat again. "

"Yes, let's get this over with soon."

Zirconia slams a spear stone into the ground.

I wiped my hands with my pants and grabbed my spear again.

"... hey, let me hear it again"

Lars looks seriously at Zirconia.

"Why did you kill Asha?"

"I told you. Because I was his family."

"The broken tip of his sword was rolling in the tent.And his body was outside the tent. "

……

"You tried to miss him once.What the hell happened? "

Zirconia sighs when Lars asks.

"... yes, I did. I tried to miss it.But I stopped. "

"Why?"

"She told me."I will kill you one day."I couldn't keep him alive. "

Zirconia looks up at the sky.

There was a blue sky where small white clouds floated everywhere.

"If I missed it, my family and I might get the same thing this time.It was like I was looking at myself in the past. "

Zirconia turns to Lars again.

"But now, after all, you've come to avenge me.Nothing has changed. "

"... why didn't you say that the other day?"

"An excuse is meaningless."

"... I see. I see."

Lars stared and sighed.

I took my shield and pulled out my great sword.

"It's hard. But I can't forgive you."

"I know, because I killed someone I care about.If you don't take care of it yourself, you won't feel any better. "

"Oh, that's it. Take your weapon."

Nudged by Lars, Zirconia pulled his spear out of the ground.

Lightly toss up and reverse.

"Oh my god, are you going to throw it?"

"Yes, I'm a coward.You have such a big shield. "

Zirconia said Lars smiled hard.

"I'm a coward, too. We're each other."

"Isn't that heavy? Can you move agile with something like that?"

"For me, it's just a piece of paper"

Well, that was incredibly powerful.

"Come on, come on."

"Yes, try to prevent it."

At the same time, Zirconia shook her spear with a big swing.

The spear went straight to Lars, who was looking to parry with a light shield, at an incredible speed.

With a dull noise, the tip penetrated the center of the shield and scratched the back of Lars' hand as he held his hand.

"Eh!?"

"Where are you looking!"

Lars raised his face in a hurry at the voice.

Zirconia quickly closed her distance and grabbed the edge of her shield with her right hand.

The shield was pushed down by force, and Lars grabbed it forward.

Zirconia threw her shield at the side and hit her.

Lars bleeds out of his mouth and falls unusually to the ground.

The stunned air spreads among the watchers.

At once, a cheer burst from the Arcadian side of the faction.

"Heh heh! Heh heh heh heh...!"

Lars stood up and pulled out a spear pierced into his shield.

He threw up blood and stared at Zirconia.

"It's no big deal. How much?"

"Don't joke!!"

Lars rushes into Zirconia and waves down his sword.

Zirconia wields her shield with a tremendous amount of suspicion, making a sound and knocking off the slash.

Zirconia kicked heavily into Lars' belly.

Lars devours it and blows it back a few meters.

Barber's soldiers blushed at the sight as if it had never been a battle.

Zirconia hasn't even pulled out his sword yet.

"Stand up, you will avenge me, won't you?"

"Ugh... shit"

Lars stood up with his sword as a cane, and looked at his stomach and opened his eyes, feeling the difficulty of breathing.

Because the iron armor was heavily dented.

Zirconia hits her right hand and sighs.

"Why don't you train and come back out?It's like we're not going to be together. "

"Gu... haaa!"

Lars let go of his shield and rushed in with his sword in both hands.

I kept swinging my sword to my strength.

Zirconia kept all of it close at hand.

All of Lars' angry attacks look huge, but they're not miscellaneous.

On the contrary, it is faster than a one-handed sword handled by ordinary people.

Zirconia is too fast to hit.

Lars breathes and slows down.

"Shit! Don't mess with me!"

"Okay."

The moment Lars screamed and waved down his sword, Zirconia threw away his shield and fleshly grabbed Lars' right hand, which was holding the sword, from above.

Lars' arms, swinging down with his own strength, stopped bitterly.

Ha!?

I'll break it.

Zirconia keeps doing what she can.

A loud and annoying sound of broken bones sounded, and Lars screamed in pain and knelt.

Zirconia's right hand was crushed, pointing in the impossible direction of all fingers.

Zirconia let go.

Lars' great sword fell to the ground and made a noise.

"Aahh!!"

"You want to kill me?"

Zirconia looks down at Lars on his knees.

Lars raised his face and stared at Zirconia.

At that moment, Zirconia shook her right hand up beside her face.

Vin grabbed the arrow and glanced to the right.

I saw a man holding a bow with a slight peek into his face from the ground, a few metres away, wondering when he was hiding.

Zirconia's cheeks are bleeding.

After a moment of silence, countless angers and shouts of scolding Lars erupted from the Arcadian position.

"Fuck you!!"

Lars floats on his forehead and barks to the man.

"... I thought this would happen."

"Chi, no! I didn't imitate you like this!"

Of course.

"Jill, come back!! All troops, prepare for battle!!"

Nelson's anger, amplified by loudspeakers, echoes from the hills.

There were countless voices of anger from the Arcadian faction, and the captains gave orders to prepare for battle.

Zirconia abandoned the arrow and threw it at the man who pulled out the dagger and threw the arrow.

Douche, the sound sounds, and the raised ground collapses.

Zirconia turned to Lars again.

"Challenge me anytime.I'll make you an opponent. But from now on, there's no cowardly hand. "

"Hmm, what...?"

"I'll see you again. I'll be waiting."

Zirconia turns her heel and runs back.

Lars looked stunned and dropped it off.

Lars was doing so until he was brought back to his side of the force, amidst a rush of noise from both positions.

"Hmm... did that really work?"

Narson says as he stares at the Barber army, which is retreating to its position in a hurry.

"What do you think, Mr. Narsson?That scream was an imminent act! "

"I just screamed for the truth and nothing."

Narson laughs bitterly at the best next door.

Earlier, the arrows were self-made on our side.

A few nights ago, he had his archers hidden in the ground and shot an arrow in front of Zirconia's face when he overwhelmed Lars and breathed.

The drafter of the plan is Narsson.

Taking on enemies reduces morale when Lars takes a cowardly approach to the duel, and allies burn angrily and gain morale.

Lars, who has returned to his own army, will be furious that he will never again make a cowardly imitation.

Zirconia was supposed to pretend to hold the flying arrow, but what a break she did was grab the arrow.

All of them were so surprised that their eyes jumped out.

Incidentally, the dagger that Zirconia threw was a simulated dagger with a blade of leather.

The archers pretending to be dead in the ground are on their way to retrieve them.

I have to play a special allowance later.

"Welcome back, Mother!"

"I'm home. You're okay, right?"

Yes!

Riese hugs Zirconia as she rushes back.

And she looked up at her mother's face, and became a slight face.

"Bleeding from your cheeks! Did you get hurt!?"

"Oh, this? I put it on myself when I grabbed the arrow earlier.I was wondering if it would be more powerful. "

"I see. Barretta, give me some medicine!"

"Before that, I have to wash my wound.Zirconia, please use this. "

"Thank you."

Zirconia receives the balletta water bag and washes the scratches on her cheeks.

Barretta put a little red medicine on her fingertips from the tube of herbal medicine and applied it to the wound.

"Zirconia, please turn to your cheeks."

"Nh"

Zirconia turns her cheeks.

Ichira took out the bandage of the animated character of the locomotive and stretched it tightly.

"Oh, Zirconia, you're incredibly strong. It's not what it was 11 years ago, it's a mess!"

Luglo smiles at Zirconia's back.

"Ahaha. thank you."

"I can't believe you're so beautiful and so strong. Yeah, it's like a scroll!Now let's make a play! "

"Ah, yeah... give it a break..."

Everyone laughs at Zirconia in trouble.

Then he smiled and looked at Narson's retreating enemy forces.

Are you going to bump me? Cannon unit, target... "

Kazura-sama!

When Narsson was about to say, Corz and Mullah, riding on Titania, came running from the open gates.

Everyone turns to them.

"Hmm? Cortz, what's wrong?"

"Something tells me that Uribou and his sisters saw a very big battle begin a few days ago, north of Barber...."

They say, "Eh!?"She shouted.