The Branded Female Fencer

"Titania..."

"It was a good battle, I thought. Looking at that, you seemed to have noticed that girl's habits. Do you mean you're a good match from time to time?"

"Yeah, you're right. It's just that if you're the first person to see it, you've just taken a different approach. In that case, I'll admit I couldn't afford it."

"That's a special victory."

That's all the conversation, Titania sat quietly on the bench. But Alphilis realizes that he has no hegemony for that look. My face is blue and my breathing feels a little messy.

Alphilis has heard reports from Miranda. Titania should be quite handy. I immediately dismissed the idea that I could do something about it for a moment.

"(If you can do something about this, someone's done something about it by now, right? Miranda couldn't have missed it in the first place. You don't need me to do anything to weaken you thoroughly. I have nothing else to do)"

Alphilis reconsidered and decided to converse with Titania. No way, he wouldn't come slaughtered in this situation, rather because he even wanted to talk slowly.

"I'm sorry before the game, can I talk to you for a second?"

"Alfi...!"

"I don't mind a little bit. Because they say there will be a little during the game anyway. Because I came here to rest."

Next to Titania, who tolerated Lisa's worries so lightly, Alphilis sat down.

"Is Titania a sorcerer?

"What makes you think that?

"'Cause you were in Black Mage."

"That's what you call it - swordsmanship, as it used to be, something you never systematically learned to be magic, so most humans preferred both sorcery and martial arts.

In my case, I was born with some magic. If you say it the way it is today, is it inherent magic not based on lineage? "

"What kind?

"Don't tell me that."

"Kechi."

Alphilis tells things to Titania like a public tale and even fumbles. Lisa was a frozen thought, but besides her thoughts, Titania didn't seem to feel bad either.

Alphilis kept talking in.

"Titania uses a spell, too, right?

"Yes, sir."

"But it's a little different from mine, isn't it?

"Your curse marks are a single 'sealed curse' from limb to trunk, right? In my case, the one in the trunk is a 'sealed spell' and the one in the extremities is a 'reinforcement'. Different roles."

"Receive and strengthen the power of the Great Demon King that leaks when he releases the curse on the trunk with a curse on the extremities. That kind of place?"

"... you know very well"

Titania gave the look of surprise, but Alphilis asked an even sharper question.

"That's a pretty advanced way to impose a curse, isn't it? Who did that? I don't think I can do it myself."

"... There used to be people who were good 'tattoo masters'. Because the sealing of the Great Demon King Perpergis was one of the great propositions for man at the time. When he found out he couldn't defeat it, he said sealing it was more important to the people involved in it than his own life.

Actually, I'm the third person to receive the seal - the previous two are wearing out and dying early. That's the burden on those who seal it. "

"You never thought about giving it to someone else?

"Of course I as well as the others were thinking. The first generation of seals is my grandmother, my mother next, and me. I was prepared to find a solution and to give this seal to the next generation.

Until the fall of the mountains wiped out their tattoo masters. "

Alphilis and Lisa were often stunned by Titania's words. In other words, the resurrection of Perpergis, the Great Demon King, was not strange hundreds of years ago.

Titania continued.

"This seal depends on the viability of the host. My grandmother was a little over 5 years old and my mother had over 10 years. I thought I could bring more if I worked out - but it was hard to imagine that a tattoo master who could apply the same seal in 10 years would show up from a completely different place.

As well as training myself, I also learned the art of putting myself to sleep. That it drops its metabolism to extremes and goes into dormancy.

And he was regularly awakening, training, collecting weapons that could crusade Perpergis, and even exploring a methodology that could maintain the seal itself. There hasn't been anything like that in the last millennium. "

"... one question. Honestly, can't you defeat that Great Demon King with your current strength?

"You can take it down, probably"

Titania ran out of questions for Alphilis. Then the answer should be simple.

"Then..."

"When this seal can be lifted, the host will surely die. It's the same if you give the seal to the next person. So if I have the strength to defeat Perpergis, it won't solve anything. What I need to do is entrust the collected weapons to someone, and the emergence of someone who can inherit my technology. Or finding a delicacy that could just defeat me.

This martial arts tournament is supposed to be about getting Levantine, but it's very convenient for me in the sense of identifying the strong. In fact, there are some very interesting people here. At this stage there are two likely to be me and me, and most of them have more than me if only talent.

If they were trained for a hundred years, or... "

"Then you can't in the end. That seal is about to be unsealed, isn't it?

Titania laughed lonely at the words of Alphilis.

"I'll show you as much as I can, but if I don't do anything, I'll be sure within three years."

"What's the countermeasure?

"If it's a slight possibility, I could find it. But it's too early to guess that. I just want to get a little ready by then.

Fortunately, there are still those on this continent who know the threat of Perpergis, and those are the forces. I guess I can leave decisive countermeasures to them, but what I need to do is minimize the damage.

More than that, I believe there is only one role I can do. "

"Only in Titania?

"Yep. You'll only know this in the Sword-delivering clan, and I'll be the only one with certainty - Alphilis, do you know something called 'King of Arms'?

King of Arms - Alphilis shook his head sideways to a word he had never heard.

"Really? - In collecting weapons, I realized that ancient weapons have a will. Impulses etc. at your place would be a good example, but they don't mean the same thing with weapons that you remember the art of humanizing and weapons from 'ruins'.

Either way, it's the Silver Clan that's destroying surplus weapons in people's hands, and we moved to keep them unavailable. "

"Huh? That's..."

Alphilis' head hasn't caught up with the unexpected story. Lisa thought it was unusual for Alphilis to be able to wolf, but Titania continued to ignore Alphilis as if something had happened to her.

"Some of them are dangerous weapons that can destroy the country in one swing. That's exactly what this time Levantine is, but it's so much so that he once evaporated the mountain in one swing. But that's only a secondary effect, and if it's supposed to have another use - I don't know if it's true, but the important thing is that someone who doesn't care about them can wield the 'ruins' keepers hidden from view.

A ruin that even black magicians can't even get in without gathering more than one. Even Brady Maria is said to be impossible to attack alone. In who holds Levantine, a bit of a ruin attack may be made - you can't leave a weapon like that alone. Levantine is too dangerous a substitute to present as a prize for the Games.

But I heard that there is a sword that retains absolute command over such weapons. That's the sword that's gonna lemegate. "

Continued