The Branded Female Fencer

Swordsman Encounter, Part 3 - Subject of Fear

Who is it?

"Hehe, you don't have to."

"Yeah, she's beautiful enough not to look inside. I don't want to let you hold my sword."

"Would you rather hold mine than a sword like that?

"Knock it off"

It was not one man who stood in the way of Titania's whereabouts. A large number of men stand up to her, as they surround her at some point. None of them are amateurs, even if they deduce from the way they carry their feet. Naturally, too, they were the face of the Fifth Squad led by Gergeda. They are Blackhawk haters and those who take on dirty work in one hand.

And slowly from behind them, the captain, Gergeda, shows up messing with his red hair.

"Kuku. Woman, only the liver is sitting. Or are you dull?

"The requirements are predictable, just in case?

"It's settled. From now on, we're all gonna make a mistake. You're gonna regret having a woman here all by herself."

When Titania looked around, that number had already exceeded 10. Confirming that number still doesn't break her margins.

Before that Titania, Gergeda strips away its brutal nature.

"What's the matter, no voice?

"In a way. I hope you don't have to."

"You can afford it, Ama!

One of Gergeda's men pokes Titania and forcefully rips that garment apart. Dewy from under a black robe is a bright white complexion as scratchless as a snowfield. Its whiteness, which can also be seen in the darkness, cheers from all around.

"Hey! This woman is richer than she looks, huh?

"This guy looks like he's gonna enjoy it"

"But you're not responding. Is that a throwaway bowl?

"Don't bother with that. I prefer to be resisted."

"There's a pervert!

"I'm only interested in your ass. Better than I am!

"Hi-ha"

Did the men convince themselves of their absolute advantage when they saw how Titania wouldn't resist, and they laugh downright at themselves.

And the man who tore Titania's clothes grabbed her breasts abusively, but she was calm and didn't even seem to care that her body was being wandered. That gaze is pointing towards the day after tomorrow.

"What, this woman? I don't know what to say."

"Aren't you insensitive?

"You're a maiden, and you don't even have a voice in too much fear?

Titania pronounces on the face of Squad 5, who says things of his own free will, with a face that knows nothing of emotion.

"... well, you don't feel much, but it's not like you don't feel anything. It's not like I don't have any experience. I was wondering if I could do this more than that."

The moment the men missed grasping the meaning of Titania's words, the man who was at the rearmost collapsed to cover himself with the previous man.

"What the..."

But the voice of the man who looked back was blocked by the fact that blood like a fountain was bathed in his face. A man who plunges his already neckless companion's body and pulls out his sword.

"Hey, what are you talking about!?

"To attack me, you've set the line between soundproofing and blocking the signs."

Titania answers softly.

"What?"

Captain!

"Don't wander around!

Gergeda lifts up her voice. But the line between soundproofing and blocking signs will not disappear until a certain amount of time has elapsed. It became a vendetta that they joined forces quite strongly in an attempt to conquer plenty of Titania. There are those who surround them further.

"No way... there's still a demon king in the daytime?

"People with no luck. If it weren't for this demon king, I wouldn't have had time to deal with you in my spare time."

Titania pulls out the golden sword on her back.

"I wouldn't care who dies if I were supposed to. Especially a bastard like you. Even if I should die, it seems to me... this regiment owes me a meal, even though I don't want it. Let me give it back to you quite a bit."

Titania loosens up and dresses like a sword. Then, from that body, the killing temper swells to a lesser extent. The poor woman, who had been drinking sober until earlier, was nowhere else already. It's the Sword Ghost who's there. At least that's what Gergeda felt like.

"I suggest you crouch"

"! Crouch everyone!

A glimpse of wind blew over their heads as they all reacted to Gergeda's voice. Only Gergeda in it watched Titania as she crouched. I felt like I had to see it.

That's not just because she was beautiful. More than that, Gergeda couldn't keep her eyes off Titania. Gergeda is a person who is not particularly impressed. Of course I want to hold a good woman if I see her. I would also like to see beautiful gems. But that turns to rubbish the moment you get it. His actions easily crossed the line as he shifted his interest towards stronger stimuli and more entertaining objects.

In his criminal activity, which was so tirelessly repeated and followed an intense journey, Gergeda felt "terror" for the first time in confrontation with Valsas, directed at him. Nonetheless, it was also the strongest emotion he had ever felt in his life. I follow Valsas wondering if he will ever get a stronger emotion than that in the future.

But the fear that Gergeda now feels of Titania is not comparable to that of Valsas.

"(I... you bastard! Can't move one fingertip. Or what?

Gergeda, for the first time in her life, trembled less of a fear. Because he has seen the eyes of Titania when she waves her sword. Bottomless darkness, endless madness, paranoia. Such a beautiful woman in front of her eyes made her feel like an abyss while she was alive. While alive, Gergeda met a human being who enclosed hell in his body.

"... you monster."

To that voice, which Gergeda finally groaned with his thoughts, Titania, with her sword, slightly distorted her expression, which was neither self-derisive nor dissenting, and disappeared into darkness.

And after nightfall. What Blackhawk faces see were the trees on one side, knocked down without sound, and the bodies of the demon kings yesterday, cut completely into one letter across the side.

But most members weren't surprised to see the likelihood.

"Gergeda, what happened?

It was Canato who asked. He's also a sensor, and he realizes about what the Gergedas tried to do last night. Naturally if only some of the sensors don't go through. But Canato dares not say anything. Because even if I say that, I know that it has no effect on Gergeda. Instead, I felt the demon kings of yesterday breaking into their kingdom, and I just wanted them dead.

"... I hate to say it"

"Gergeda. Whatever you do, don't even get involved with us. If that's what happens, I'll kill you first, okay?

"Chip!"

Canato thought Gergeda was coming back, but he was spitting and leaving, and it felt like he ate his shoulder blush.

With a view of its fallen trees, Valsas speaks.

"You had a hard time yesterday, Max, Lexus"

"... I needed to be more prepared than on the battlefield."

"Not at all. I didn't feel alive."

"Again?"

Louis replied in place of Valsas. Lexus looks unexpected in the words.

"Did you notice that?

"Naturally. Your attitude was strange. How long do you think we've been seeing each other?

Lexus is a little grateful for the words.

"Monsieur..."

"Right. After all, it wasn't stretched under my nose yesterday"

To that one word, Lexus tried to hug Louis. The perimeter is a big bang around Squad 4.

"But seriously."

Max, who most tears up at times like this, blocked the laugh with a serious face.

"If that woman was rampaging yesterday... I wonder what happened"

"I agree with that."

Lexus gets up peeling and this one looks serious too.

"Yesterday's swordsmen like Titania, I've been thinking about how they can kill us efficiently while we're drinking. You can tell by the look in your eyes. That guy is insane. Strength, that thought. I'm sorry about any beauty who walks the hell out of here alone."

To the words of Lexus, everyone shuts up. We all know very well that his words, which are usually mild, are also more serious than anyone when it comes to fighting things.

"If he tried to fight, you were gonna stop him first, weren't you?

Zeldos backed the tree as he put his arms together and spoke. Max and Lexus face to face with that word.

"That's... that's what I was gonna do at first."

"You couldn't have done it."

The two of them gave their opinion.

"How many seconds have you been stopped?"

"It could have been a moment..."

Max sighed loudly. And he looked in the eyes of the captain, as though he were a little.

"Valsas, can you win?

And Max's question that can go on. To the Word, Valsas looked up to heaven.

"... how can I answer that and you guys will be satisfied?

Everyone turned silently down to that word to which Valsas replied slowly. Valsas said, "I can't." This is the first time the team has heard Valsas speak so clearly of defeat. And don't fight.

Seeing them like that, Zeldos and Betts converse softly.

"... I can't believe there's such a monster in this world. You don't want to see me again."

"Oh. But if when we meet..."

"I know. If you give up your life, we have to stop you."

"Uhm. The young won't let him live."

"Someday on the battlefield, as our forefathers did,"

That's how they nodded slowly at each other.

Around that time, Titania, who left the Valsas and the others in the dark of night, was meditating under an internationally large Connerito tree standing on the summit of the mountain. Conelito, used as the lumber of a house, emits a very young, life-filled smell that makes you imagine budding sprouts.

There is one black shadow that flutters and descends upon its Titania.

"Thank you for waiting, Titania"

"Is it silence"

As Titania slowly opened her eyes, she knelt back before Titania and had a silence to thank the lady.

"... an imitation of what?"

No, I wanted to apologize for keeping you waiting.

"Stop, you're throwing up."

Tiania said something harsh in a quiet tone, so Silence looked surprised.

"This is not a very good word... what has offended your mood?

"Everything that exists,"

Titania ran out of starvation.

"Silence, you are indeed sturdy. Even me not interested in looking at it, I think so. But your insides are the ugliest. That's so uncomparable, like Doom or Anomaly."

"This is it. I hate you."

Silence lay down his face, but that was to keep the hatred directed at Titania from being enlightened. Silence and not foolish enough to sell a fight to Titania. Titania understood the meaning of the silence.

"But why do you hate me so much?

Silence, calmed down, smiles and asks Titania a question.

"... Doom, in a sense, is the one who was so ordained at birth. Perhaps so will Anomaly. They also do cruel things in the course of their actions, but they had no choice. But you're not."

"You had other options. In doing so, you dare choose to scorch yourself with hatred. Moving on, hoping, you wanted to be enemies of people. There is no harm in its existence. They call them demons, demons."

"... huffy."

Silence distorted his face. In that expression, there is no beauty until earlier. Just because the original is beautiful, his tight laughter makes the beholder have an unusual fear. If the sculpture suddenly looks back at this one and starts laughing, I'm sure it'll look like him.

Even Titania feels a little chilly.

"I'm surprised... to know so much about me. No one should know about me."

"... I don't know anything about you either. That's just what I feel."

"I see."

Silence nods as convinced.

"Swordsman's observational eye. Is that so?"

"... I'm horrible. I wonder if the devil is beautiful."

"That's right. If you think about it, my beauty in shaping can also be quite a fear-proliferating effect"

Silence grinned and Titania felt that any further discussion was futile. Titania regrets that it would have been better to slaughter him on this occasion now if he hadn't been one of them.

"(Mouthless. I didn't know you couldn't cut this one. Sooner or later, this guy will do harm to everyone. Probably to us, too. If I slash it now, I can say no to my later worries)"

"Well, it's time to go? I have some business to attend to."

Silence gratefully urges Titania. Titania nodded at the trick as well. I'm already cut out for work in my head. No matter how silent Titania doesn't care, it's not the kind of personality that interferes with the mission for that matter.

"I have only been informed of the place, because it is OK at Fort Richton in the Kingdom of Nagostella?

"Yeah, I'm pretty sure there."

"I heard it was a weapon robbery, but what the hell?

Titania answers Silence's question without hesitation.

"Demon Sword Glam Rock. It's a legendary sword called the Dragon Killer's Devil's Sword."

Continued