The Branded Female Fencer
War and Peace, Part 131 - Unified Martial Arts Congress, Bow Division ④ -
"Target... spinning in the wind"
Ori bracketed it with a string, and it was spinning with the wind. Of course Auri was thinking about it, but it's windier than she imagined, and even if she chopped the string, it's a totally unreadable situation.
Bardre, who was just the first to set up, was also a look of tension. Bardre removed the first two and succeeded in cutting the string with the third shot, but the arrow against the falling one did not make it, making it just as unscored. Baldre looked up to heaven and sighed loudly. I didn't even think of Bardre as everyone else would take it off, and it was considered a virtual shedding.
And Fenna is also a face of tension. Even if the target is dropped with a second shot, the arrows are disliked and scoreless. Shargin dropped the target at first sight, but fluttering and spinning the fall moved like an arrow, making Shargin just as unscored.
"Oh my..."
Shargin herself looked incredible, but after sighing about how she also gave up on what she wanted to do with that spin, she returned to her place with a look of remorse.
The next step is the proposer Auri's turn. Orri usually quietly and facelessly follows Fenna, but that temper is never very dear. Rather young and emotional among the seekers, Auri spends time hiding her flaming temper. In fact, there was a tremendous amount of concentration from Auri, who set the arrow in the shooting area, making the air on the field so tense that even the audience could see it.
Auri then dropped the target brilliantly at the first shot, hitting it near the abyss of rotation at the second shot he immediately released. A big round of applause arose from the audience, and Auri had secured 20 points.
"You have a surprisingly low score."
"Yeah, I was able to calculate the dots if I hit them even at the end. Depending on the direction of the wind, I naturally thought about removing it."
Are you saying we still have a chance when we remove it?
Shargin once again fiercely glanced at the challenge, but the next aerial, as opposed to Auri, shot an immediate arrow at the same time as the erection.
"Huh?"
"What!?
The audience and the other competitors can only be surprised at the early work. And the Aerial score...
"- Lord Aerial, 90 points!
"Whoa!
Almost shooting through the middle, Aerial pays his hands for his hair that was bouncy by the wind and returns to its original position as if nothing had happened. Other competitors who see Aerial with astonishment, but only Fenna spoke to Aerial.
"Aerie, how can you shoot so easily? Even we have difficulty doing it carefully."
"Fenna, have you forgotten that I am the protector of the prairie? If you're going to read the wind, I'm not in the regiment, and few people on the continent stand to my right. When you can handle bows and arrows, no bowman would be the first to be more precise than me in a windy situation.
It's the right day for me. If it weren't for today, I would have fought harder. "
Aerial's words could also be taken as arrogant shores, but because of Aerial's character she only tells the facts, they all gave a hard look. If so, this score difference can hardly be overridden more than the wind blows. There are still challenges that Aerial himself thought about after this, and there are no signs that the wind will weaken. Everyone thought that the advantage of Aerial would be an unwavering one.
And then stand where Touta shoots. There's a bitter smile on that face, and it even looks like he's embracing defeat before he shoots. But the look on Aerial's face doesn't change from the beginning. Because Aerial thought the biggest enemy in this bowing division was Touta.
Touta sighed loudly as she set the arrow.
"Huh - I didn't mean to be too serious at the competition. I don't have the clever personality to be clueless, and I can't help it more than I did in my first assignment."
Touta fired two arrows at the same time. Of course it's not an anomaly, and the system will increase more than save time to set up a second bottle, but we need to cut the rope first. Everyone thought it would be impossible to cut the rope first if it were to be a two-shot shot shot.
But even though Touta shot an arrow at the same time, the two arrows had a velocity difference, and the second arrow caught the middle of the target the moment the first arrow cut the rope. It may have been a momentary difference unknown to the audience, but it is while the bowman clearly understands.
At the moment of the hit, the audience climbed out, and so did the other archers.
"Stupid! Impossible!"
"How can there be a velocity difference between the arrows fired at the same time...?
"Again."
Only Aerial was blurring and crushing, listening to the referee uttering Touta's 100 points, heading first for the next challenge. Touta pointed a smile at the other competitors but never told them anything. And those eyes were chasing only Aerial.
And the fifth challenge. It is due to Aerial's proposal. It's a challenge that needs to read the wind and bend the start of the arrows, but Baldre, Fenna and Auri scored 40 points each. It was only from there that it was decided that it was impossible.
Shargin alone attempted a challenge from the only place he could score 60 points, but that ended in failure and failed to score a single point. The result is a miscalculation, but no one laughs at his challenge. It is within this challenge to identify what is physically impossible, but challenging is also a necessary courage.
Continued