The Branded Female Fencer

"Oh, oh..."

"Why are you here?"

"I don't care why. Focus on how you survive."

Ruth switches her mind in Jake's voice. But that was not the case with Dute Hilde. For the first time in my life I see a warcraft, my teeth are trembling and making a noise.

In front of those three, the forest wolf brought his neck to recognize Jake and the others as prey.

"Run!

Ruth rushes to a glance with those words. Jake pulls his hand away and lets Dute Hilde solidify. Kick one sword at the door at the same time. From behind came a forest wolf as he scattered his saliva.

"Ruth!"

"Let it go!"

Ruth tightens the lateral pulling door as Jake jumps with Dute Hilde in his arms. Forest wolf colliding from face to face at its door. And Ruth uses Jake's kicked sword, and he clutches to the door and does the stick.

"Ugh, is that one of you?

"No, not yet. There are other entrances and exits here. Get out of here before he realizes it."

"Ugh. I don't care what you want."

"Don't blur, let's go!

Jake runs the lead. Dute Hilde was sitting and shaking, so Jake grabbed his hand and did it.

"Ooh, whirl! Let's go?"

"Ha, ha!

"Oh, because I do this..."

Ruth thought and sighed afterwards, but Jake is always serious. Besides, if we don't get out of here alive first, then there's nothing. Ruth still lacks the tension around him. Given his age, it's not impossible, probably because he's never stood on the arrow himself. Ruth still doesn't know what the word "risk his life" means in the true sense.

Of course, Jake doesn't know, but if you always look at Rafferty and Alberto, you somehow know what it means to risk your life.

"(This is the actual battle... my heart sounds and my breathing becomes shallow. Your health is draining fast and your body doesn't move as you thought it would with tension. Yet my head is abnormally stuck. This is... the exchange of life!

Jake went through a real battle once during Doom, but only momentum stands on the battlefield then. The next time he's trained, he's quite aware of himself as a warrior, and he holds the sword after knowing what it means to defeat an enemy and what a battle to protect others means. Otherwise this was Jake's first line.

"(Sure, when you turn right at that corner, there's a door, and from there, there's definitely a way out into the garden -)"

Jake recalls the path to escape, but a gap is created there.

"Jeez!

"Side by side?

A forest wolf jumped out of the shadows. Jake took his fangs with his sword, but he became a wolf. But he immediately kicked the wolf in the stomach and flew away. At the same time, the wolf flies and distance himself from Jake. Then,

"Ah."

"I missed..."

Dute Hilde took shape between the wolf and Jake. Dute Hilde is shuddering as he compares Jake to the wolf, smugly.

"Whirl, can you walk over here slowly?

"No... lose your hips"

Dute Hilde slipped on the spot and sat down naked. But Jake thought that would be all right. Now I can narrow my thoughts.

"(It's just a matter of being slashed faster than a wolf. What, that's all)"

That's never easy. But even that makes Jake more focused than he cares. Forgetting the tension in the first line, the surrounding noise slowly disappeared. Yet Jake knows what's around him, how he's moving, how he's trying to move. For example, Ruth, who was supposed to be behind it, could tell as if he was seeing his right foot in front now.

"(When Rafferty concentrated, you said you could count the number of leaves falling behind you. Is this what this is about, Rafferty?

Jake talks to Rafferty in his head, but even that eventually disappears. And the sound finally disappeared completely. What you hear is the sound of your heart and the breath of a wolf. And then there's Dute Hilde's appearance to protect. Just that.

"Jake... I don't want to die..."

Dute Hilde groans as she twitches her face with a half-bake, but Jake just said the words gently without changing his expression.

"It's okay, because I'll definitely protect you. So don't move, Hilde."

"... yes"

Dute Hilde was very relieved by the words why. She was convinced that it was Jake who would win. Besides, it was the end of even remembering a little joy that Jake called his name for the first time.

And

"Don't you move, Ruth. Out of the way."

"Huh."

The moment Ruth was about to move, Jake stopped him. Ruth managed to help Jake, but it didn't come as a surprise as to why Jake could see that with his back to himself.

Ruth thinks. That Jake's back was different than usual.

"(This is... what is it? It's just a bunch of stuff)"

Ruth decided to leave everything to Jake for the atmosphere. He also decided it was best. And the killing that rises from Jake's body.

"... defeat"

"Grrrrrrrrrr"

When Jake made the move to step forward, the wolf stepped back. So Jake sets up even more.

"Ha!

"Garruh!"

As Jake gave his temper roar, a forest wolf flew in. To be precise, Jake's temper made me jump.

And Jake was looking very slowly, as if a forest wolf were flying at him.

"(What, it's finally too late?

That is a sign that Jake's concentration has reached its limits. Jake thought he was moving at a normal rate at that time, but for Ruth and others it was just an unusual rate that didn't even catch his eye. Speed not comparable to when you jump on the Bruns. It was Jake who took the lead, even though he was completely behind the forest wolf.

"Shh!

The sword, wiped out with Jake's temper, smashes the bones off the neck of the forest wolf and slaps the wolf straight against the wall. Even the young but overwhelming speed of initiation prevented the monster from taking a full weight blow with one neck. A forest wolf who gets slammed against the wall without time to scream and blows bubbles with cramps. The battle was a moment.

"Hmm."

"Yay!

Ruth snarls her fingers unexpectedly. And you rush over to him. And it was when Jake tried to reach out to the two of us when he tried to unconcentrate.

"Grrrrrrrrrr"

"What!?

A forest wolf has emerged from behind. Jake gets in the shape of being taken back.

"(Right, shit. You said in your training, 'Watch the Battle of the Warcraft'. Then is it normal for Warcraft to fight each other? It was Crudas' turn after either side fell. Why can't you think about it there, me!

Jake's anger at his nagging was now overwhelmingly unfavourable. The forest wolf behind it seems to be stopping at a certain distance, but Jake is supposed to have a dute hilde behind him even though he just wants to dodge it once with a jump. In other words, Jake doesn't have the option to escape, he has to turn around and fight the forest wolf. And the distance is closer than earlier.

"(It's just a battle... can you do it?

In case Jake thinks about it, look at Ruth. Worst case scenario, we have to let Ruth and Dute Hilde alone get away with it. Ruth also looks into Jake's eyes and guesses his intentions, nodding and leaning over here.

Jake increases his focus again, understanding that the intent went through, but this time it didn't work out the way it did earlier. I thought it was a one-time focus earlier, so it really doesn't get as focused as it was earlier. Seeing Dute Hilde still wiggling like he was about to cry, Jake thought he had to protect him from nature.

When Jake stares back at Dute Hilde, she also stares back at Jake. After a while of staring, Jake confirmed that his fright had faded from Dute Hilde, and he nodded to Dute Hilde to show him. That signals.

"Gah!"

"Ooh!"

As the forest wolf flies, Jake turns around and puts his fastest poke together. Jake chose to poke at him because he felt he couldn't make it with a shove. But if you fail, you will die, and if you fail, it is a breakthrough. And Ruth pops up, too, heading toward Dute Hilde.

"(Nah, wolves are faster!

Jake's sight showed that the forest wolf's forefoot was supposed to push Jake down before the poke stretched. But Jake saw it. It is the hesitation in the air, as the forest wolf was frightened by something. Still, I couldn't stop poking Jake I let go.

"Uh-oh!

Jake's poking hit in the wolf's mouth and was piercing the wolf's throat. The tip of the sword is also crushed because it is an iron sword for practice, but Jake is still dressed to stick it up from the bottom, so the wolf weighing more than 2m will be in the shape of a throat. The soft wolf's throat was torn without a scratch.

Jake, pushed down by a wolf after gaining momentum, gets up with the wolf out of the way. At that moment, Ruth came running over to him.

"Yikes! Are you hurt?

"Oh, I can handle it. What about you guys?

"I'm a good fighter. The twirl..."

"Ah, haha"

Dute Hilde had a weird laugh. Jake worries purely about her and gently stops by.

"You're all right now, twirl."

"Ho, is that true?

"Oh. I told you I'd protect you. Trust me."

"Oh, really? That's... hi, higu... whoa, whoa, whoa!

Whether the thread of tension was broken, Dute Hilde began to cry on Jake. I can't help it. Children were in unexpected danger of their lives. Well, she's a Duke's Lady. I have faced several kidnappings and other crises before, but there have always been many escorts around her and I never even felt my life was in danger. Being kidnapped again doesn't put your life in danger when you reach the Duke's house. If the other person is human, it can be bargaining.

But demons can't possibly negotiate or anything, they just force me to make a pure choice between killing or getting killed. For the first time, Dute Hilde, who had a real sense that his own life was really in crisis, cried because of the relief. But this would be the reaction of a normal child. Jake and Ruth are intolerant because of the environment in which they grew up, but it's not weird if they're usually panicking and running away.

Jake stayed by until Dute Hilde settled down, and Ruth gently left the scene to call the instructor. And the school becomes temporarily noisy. As a matter of course, the exercise was discontinued and the cause was immediately investigated. The school's safety management system is questioned, and inspectors are dispatched from the Arnelian Church, and the students just wander around. Jake's reputation spreads like a wave in it. It's not what a normal person does, such as defeating two Warcraft with a practice sword. Regardless of whether Jake wanted it or not, he became the target of attention irrevocably. As the gaze that sees him with curiosity and amazement grows, there is only one gaze that means something completely different.

"(Totally dangerous. You had a hair in between, though it sounds good because I made it. It wouldn't be weird if I wasn't letting the wolf kill me, you little brat)"

Person staring at Jake from behind the pillars. By the time Jake noticed the signs and looked at the pillar, the figure had already disappeared.

Continued