The Branded Female Fencer

"Knock."

"Crush it!

A full slap grate unleashed by the boat. The layers were in insufficient shape and when they tried to take it, the boat suddenly stopped moving. If you look at the body of the boat, isn't it pierced by something from behind?

Layer looked at the original piercing through the body of the boat. There was Kersu's right arm, which had changed like a combined sword. The boat didn't know what was going on, and I saw it with a face that seemed unreliable behind me.

"That... brother? Why..."

"Ah, it's hard."

Kersu was crushing like a groan, keeping his face under control. How aware are you that you have pierced the boat as well? The face was ugly and distorted and didn't look like it was equipped with intelligence anymore.

"Let everything go to hell now. Thinking about running a mercenary regiment, life being chased as a bounty neck, taking care of you. I wanted to be a respected man like my father. You can do it in the country, go out to the city a little bit with the money you earn, and hold a good woman sometimes. That was enough. And yet you're not smart enough, because Temehe, the idiot, accidentally kills people - this must have happened! It's all Temehe's fault, die and apologize to me! Keep apologizing. Whoa!

Kersu's right arm pierces the boat's body even deeper. Blood flooded heavily from the boat's mouth, and Kersu slammed the boat's body to the ground as much as he wanted, throwing it away. The layer last saw the look on the face of the boat slapped against the wall beside the layer. A desperate face, and from that mouth did Layer hear the last word.

"Brother, I'm sorry..."

The look on the boat looked sad, as I apologize. But the expression was instant, and soon he collapsed and returned to the dust. Remaining Kersu roars.

"Ha ha! Finally, my foot is dead! Now I'm free, nothing will stand in my way anymore! I'm free, you're not even human anymore! No more laws, no more guilds, nothing binds me!

"So? What do you want?

Layer was calmly speaking to Kersu. It's not like Kersu killed the boat or any particular emotion. That's what Layer thought himself, but he couldn't explain what was like a tiny sense of impatience in the back of his chest.

Kersu, who makes a mockery, turned to the layer.

"That's what we're going to think! There's plenty of time!

Do you want to talk about my brother?

"That's okay! You're such a brainless brother, if you die!

Don't you have what you want to protect?

Layer was surprised by the words, saying it himself. I've never been very conscious of waving a sword for what layers are supposed to protect. I have certainly thought of wielding power for Elsia and Gail, but that was because they would treat me like a brother about the layer. He said even livestock would appreciate it. Layers didn't like being below animals. So maybe for Layer, Elsia and Gayle were something to protect, not something they wanted to protect.

But he belonged to Jaeger, and after various experiences, layers were gradually becoming aware of how to use their powers. The use of force without purpose is just violence, and each force has a place to be used. Layer was angry with Kersu, who was contrary to that experience.

"Your power with nothing to protect is dangerous, you can't miss it"

"What are you, on the side of justice? We're mercenaries, it would be our pleasure to live on our own!

"I'm human. I have perseverance as a human being. But you're not. You've already quit the human race."

"I'm a human being. How dare you! Not if you can get this kind of power!

Kersu's whole body began to change. The clothes peeked from a torn and enlarged body was skin whose whole body was cured like a sword. No, I guess my whole body really turned into a sword. The body was stretched out, and even the torso was a sword with verses, like a concatenated sword. More became swords, with a total of six. Kersu's physique was superior to that of the boat, about twice the height of the layer.

Layer instincts tell the crisis. This opponent is unusual. Whatever your emotions, he said you might not be the kind of person he can handle on his own. That emotion also appeared on the look of the layer, or Kersu asks plenty of room.

"What do you say, kid? I got it, with this power, I'm free. I won't be tied to anything. You don't want this power, either."

"... I want power. But it's not that power. I'm not quitting on human beings."

"Where do we need to focus on humans?

Sure, and I might have agreed with the layers a while ago. But now I didn't want to quit being human. The reason for this didn't even make it clear to the layer yet, but I felt Alphilis' face floated all the time.

But the delusion was fogged by Kersu's attack.

"So much! So much power. Ooh!

Kersu's hand strikes six at the same time. Six bottles each seems to interfere with each other's movements, but neither does it. And regardless of speed, the destructive power of the sword is unparalleled before. There was no way he could have worked on cutting between the concatenated swords or anything like that before, but he was slashed with an aggressive Shempez and was full of using that recoil to escape outside the scope of the attack.

A layer that managed to escape once, but has sustained several wounds in one attack. And Shempez broke, and he was absolutely desperate.

I'm willing to fight. But it was only then that the voice was heard in the layers, where there was no way.

Continued