The Branded Female Fencer

"It's still a secret."

"That's sloppy. Don't waste your time telling me."

"I guess it's boring that I taught you that easily. Miriazal, the supreme bishop would have told you a lot, wouldn't he? If it wasn't something I thought about with my own head, I'd grab it."

"I don't care if Peppo tells me you don't seem to think about anything..."

Jake accidentally said his honest thoughts, but Crudas was smiling bitterly.

"You're the only one who can speak like that to the Supreme Bishop. Normally, I'm punished for disrespect."

"That's good. There's nobody here but us."

"You'd better get in the habit of respecting the man of honor a little more."

"That's the worst part. I'm worse than lecturing on basic magic theory."

On Jake's funny excuse, Crudas laughed again. On second thought, Marion and Miltre are seriously one-sided and never say anything like this. Crudas himself was surprised to have himself to consider these crappy conversations to be good once in a while.

In doing so, they were already inside the underground waterway. The water flow was also calm and quiet in the waterway due to the fact that it had not rained as decent as it had been in the past month. It is not unclean in the waterway for domestic drainage to flow, and it does not have the odor of something that is starchy with moist air.

Jake looked around in wonder at the underground waterway he had first seen.

I can't believe this is in Arnelia's basement.

"Looks like the prototype was there in advance. I hear it's only recently serviced. This is a relatively new place, so we have a decent place for us to walk on both ends, but when we go to an old place, there's nothing like that. It is forbidden for the general public to enter, as increased water can be a very dangerous place. Large entrances everywhere are always guarded, and small entrances for inspection are magically protected so that they will never break normally. I'm also practicing payroll magic."

"That measure, it didn't look like it?

"Someone erased me. That's why I'm here to find out."

Crudas said with some excitement. There is a different sense of exaltation here than on the usual battlefield. If you try to be an honorary student Crudas, you may have taken some action of your own volition for the first time outside of your assignment. While secretly thinking that these actions might not be bad either, Crudas concentrated and was looking for the demons he had seen earlier.

But what they found was an unexpected man.

"Jake! How did you get here?

"Lisa?"

It was Lisa and Lunatica who ran to them sweating.

"Well, shall we begin?"

"Yeah, let's get started"

Just before Crudas and Jake dived into the groundwaterway, Ips and Lisa were again standing at the entrance to the groundwaterway. Behind it was Lunatica, and Ips, who had chosen from among the Knights of the Outer Rim.

"Ips, what about them?

"It's a lookout. Don't worry, I won't let you in the fight."

Ips looked at Lisa and Renatica as a dust. They are the nearby Knights and the groundwaterways are inherently under their jurisdiction. It was an act of contemplation, but more than that, to ensure that the mission was carried out. Ips was a man who worked with all his strength in his work, backed by a light tone and attitude.

Lisa was slowly beginning to understand a person named Ips. Put the surrounding knights on watch, Lisa, Ips and Renatica go into the underground waterway.

"To the extent that it hasn't been a day yet face-to-face, I can somehow see your figure"

"Heh. What does he look like?

"At least, you're honest about your job. On the other hand, the appetite for birth and so on is very strong. Until then, if you say so."

"Aha, it's a hit"

Ips answers lightly.

"Don't you like me like that?

"No, I like it because it's human. I was wondering if I could be more trustworthy than I could arrange a noble title. But you don't have much of a leak, and you don't like it."

"Should I have soaked it moderately, as much as the captain at your place?

He said, "I don't like that."

Lisa replied somewhat outrageously, but Ips didn't seem to.

"Try me, your captain looks more like a monster ~"

"... I don't deny it. But why do you think so?

"It's a compliment just to be alive fighting a hero king. Do you know the end of those who once fought the King of Heroes?

"... no. I only know a few things."

"All defeated. At least whoever's in history was either murdered by him or snarled. I'm not dying or snarling at it, and yet what do you say without saying a person with just enough nerve to speak to each other as a masterpiece? She's already becoming quite famous on the continent, isn't she? All I don't know is who I am. Of course, you guys are famous, aren't you? You may not have gotten that visibility to the public."

"Mm..."

Lisa was somehow wondering if that was even possible, but when it was put into words, she didn't know how realistic it was. I've certainly survived desperately, but it made me feel strange to hear it from someone else's mouth again that being alive is a miracle in itself.

Continued