The Branded Female Fencer

challenge that everyone thought was impossible for more than 60 points. In it, Aerial stood where 80 points could be targeted. The audience flourishes, but the competitors, on the contrary, watched with skepticism.

"Can you aim from that position?

"If a stronger wind blows now, or"

"But if you don't release the arrow by the time the hourglass falls off, you're disqualified. There won't be that much time."

Approximately within 20 breaths from when you decide where to hit it until you release the arrow. More than that, it becomes null and void as an act of delay. It is no other time set by Aerial. But Aerial was calmly calculating his time. And a strong wind shook the flag at the edge of the venue.

"- Now"

Aerial's unleashed arrows ride in the wind, bending the track and proceeding. Do not squeeze the bow too far and release it into the mountains at the angle of the rinse. The arrows rode in the wind, drawing an unlikely curve and heading toward the target. It was thought to be slightly short, but a gust of wind made Aerial's arrows extend.

When the arrow hit the target, the audience shouted unbreakably. In contrast to fanaticism, Aerial calmly returns to his place. I heard from Touta, not unlike the next Touta.

"Brilliant."

"... right"

"So have I read the wind, but you were also setting up magic, weren't you? I knew the extent of the junction that would invalidate witchcraft, and I pretended to set up a target and set up witchcraft outside of it. Fits?"

Aerial opened his eyes for a moment to Touta's point, and then narrowed his eyes to define Touta's reaction. There seemed to be no evil in Touta's face.

"What if I say yes? Notify the referee of any irregularities?

"No way? Ola doesn't think it's an anomaly to use wisdom to the extent that it doesn't deviate from the rules. Besides, it wouldn't be 'funny' if I did something so frivolous right now"

"What?"

Aerial was surprised by Touta's words. Because I think I got a glimpse of what's at the bottom of Touta's personality. But Touta had already walked out before he could see what look Touta was wearing.

"Well, watch me, because I'll show you something even more interesting. Come on. It's a festival, so I remembered it's a loss if you don't enjoy it."

Touta stretched his back and shook his neck left and right to ease the tension, entering a position where he could aim for 100 points. Naturally the audience thrived, but it is a standing position set in a place where we know it is not possible to do aerial. Even if I assisted with sorcery, I thought I needed a few assists.

But Touta doesn't use witchcraft. Aerial was looking at what to do, but Touta set up a bow and arrow, once he had solved the setup.

I see you can't do it right.

When Touta took the short knife out of his pocket, he picked one out of several arrows that were in the arrow barrel and began machining it into arrows in the main. Remove some of the arrow feathers and put a cut in the arrow butt. When I saw the process, the competitors said there were.

"He's got a bunch of arrows ready?

"Although it is true that the provisions of the consultation say nothing about the shape of the arrows. No way, you think it's being used separately by application?

"I sometimes notice the strength and material of the bow, but I didn't expect to process the arrow itself - and how confident are you if you were to do it instantly?

"In the form of a hand..."

Aerial shrugged.

"Over and over again the strings were cut and hit by the hand, with countless marks of injuries to the hand. I guess I often handle bows and arrows with my bare hands, the skin of my hands peeled off many times and some places were completely solidified. It's a hand that spared me a bow and arrow while I slept.

Besides, this bow and arrow was paid for on the first day of the competition, but at the end of the competition (we should have) there were terrible marks. If you were to leave all those marks for a short period of time, that would be the number of times you even doubted if you were asleep.

How can I live so immersed in bows and arrows at that age? As much as I'd like to beg you to teach me if I wasn't your opponent this time. "

Aerial's thoughts were genuine, but he thought that Touta would not be taught bows and arrows. Because those who deal with bows and arrows usually don't smell blood. Because we tailor the opponent from a distance, but there were signs of dark blood from Touta.

The profession said hunter. But at least, the number of opponents you've hunted shouldn't be compared to yourself. Bloody breeze, Aerial wondered if he'd always been at such a hunting ground. A nostalgic smile and attitude at the bottom of it didn't make me trustworthy.

And when Touta finished processing the arrows, he squeezed them off in an instant. One arrow without too much hesitation. Not long before the audience cheered, arrows flying in a straight line, drawing an unlikely parabola because of air resistance, were shooting brilliantly through the target.

"Lord Touta, 100 points!

With the voice of the referee, the venue showed its culminating exuberance. Touta also waved and responded lightly to the cheer, but there was no smile on that expression, rather it was tighter. Touta 406 points and Aerial 418 points at the moment. The other faces were so far apart in scoring that you can say that the real winner was narrowed down to these two.

And we all made our way to the final competition, but during that time Aerial and Touta never looked at each other, and there was a tension between them that was neither killing nor fighting.

Continued