The Branded Female Fencer

"- Yar"

"Layers!

"Ugh?"

Layers that return to me in the voice of Uty. Apparently, he was too focused to notice until Utility was watered in front of him.

Layer grinned bitterly as to when he had been so immersed in thought as he wiped the water on his face. Concentrated and in good physical condition. But I think I put it in too much. Even though this was just one battle among many, Layer took a seat in retrospect.

The layer glances at Utility worryingly.

"I'm here to inspire you..."

"Oh, don't worry about it. I'll give it my best shot."

"It's not..."

Uty tried to say something, but the words didn't get into the ears of the layer already. While the layers were rethinking, they were still coming to the game with an unusual concentration.

The time is midday when the sun hits Jomtien. Layers come to the game where the peace conference is assembled to coincide with the time of the break. The opponent now qualifies as the first seed of the tournament, a master with only two people on the continent, a callous Ravenstein with the best knights on the continent because of his character and strength. This is why layers who were now thinking about abstaining on the way to the tournament have won so far.

Do the greatest knights of the continent have what they lack? Do you have anything to know if you fight? I wanted a serious battle with Ravenstein to find the answer to that question of the layer.

For once, Kaho may have accidentally visited and answered Layer's questions. Or maybe they bothered me together. But Layer wanted to get all the answers in battle. Aside from whether the means were right or not, the layer wanted to do so.

Layer was a little surprised that he himself had such a strong desire, and now he was shaking off his strays. You won't be looking forward to this fight since you beat Zeho yesterday. Now instead of a clutter, all the voices of the audience and even the presence of the competitors around them disappear, just waiting for the battle.

The game before one of the layers ended and the attendant tried to walk over to speak to the layer. But before that, the layers stood up and walked on their own. The attendant missed the opportunity to speak to the layer.

"Ah, Lord Layer. Matches -"

"I know. Because I can see them waiting."

The attendant is surprised at what he's saying when he says he can't see his opponent from here. But Layer left the arena without waiting for the attendant's signal. The sharpened feeling of the layer captures what Ravenstein is already on the other side.

The back of the layer, Uti floated on the spot and just dropped it off blindly. The truth is that it was Elsia who wanted to speak, but instead she spoke to the layer because Elsia was hesitant. But Uty regretted the deed he had done in a mild way.

Elsia, who sensed that the layers' atmosphere was different than usual, had stopped her from entering the holding room. I thought it was a hard atmosphere to speak up to the layers. I envy the Utility for not being able to read the air in that regard, but I accidentally visited the Utility about the layer.

"How was it, Layer?

"... I shouldn't have called you."

"Why?"

"Layer, I'm scared."

"Heh?"

Neither Elsia nor Uty know the essence of the layer. Initially, I just thought a layer was a weak boy willing to go around about Elsia for Uty. I knew I would wave a sword, but I thought that was also about hands-on. I thought I was supposed to be trembling with nervousness that it would win this far. I thought it would relieve the nervousness from one.

But it wasn't. The face of the layer that Uty saw was trembling with joy. But it is not the expression of those who look forward brightly. It looked like a laugh when I found the object to hit darker emotions, negative emotions that people couldn't tell me about.

Uty thought Elsia's failure to see that cruel look was at least a salvation. To the best of Uty's knowledge, the only person with that look is a sexual bearer who can kill while enjoying others.

And Ravenstein, relative to Layer, also felt strange before he went out on the arena.

Continued