Gorgeous music caught my ear when I made my report and went home. Seems like everyone in one of the semroids is still practicing.
Go softly toward the sound so as not to disturb you.
……
In a matter of minutes, find a grass that they can see across and hide themselves.
Now Mr. Maya and Mr. Sordio. I would be practicing the sworddancer and the two introduced performances. Round shield and long sword decorated by Mr. Soldio. Maya has the same sword, and this one is dancing to fight with two bottles.
Outside the stage and the supposed line, besides the chairman, Mr. Prenance, there are people who can play the instrument playing music. That also makes the tune intense as the two people on stage move more intensely. In a quiet tune where something is likely to happen if you are in a state of distances and confusion.
Plus if the sword and sword bump into each other, there's a spark scattered magical production everywhere, and even though there's not a word of song or dialogue, it's like watching a story.
Their practice itself saw only a little before leaving the house this morning when renting out a place. But I guess that was still about the prep movement. I felt so much enthusiasm and power in front of me.
Lurk your breath. Don't expose the water on the way.
Eventually, when the song culminates, Mr. Maya's sword is waved in an orbit that does not strike Mr. Sordio's neck critically. It removes the clasp and drops the cape by removing the neck hidden by the decorative cape. Mr. Soldio, who fell at the same time, looked like he had been beheaded.
And the curtain ends with the sound of a stirred instrument.
I opened a few seconds and finished the job, making sure their air was loose. I was standing and applauding unexpectedly.
"Lord Lyoma, how long have you been there?
"Excuse me, I've been watching this for a while. When I got back, I heard music."
Wouldn't it have been a bad idea to look at it on your own?
"I don't have a problem with being seen, but I didn't realize it at all."
"I'm a little surprised."
"Because it's our job to be seen by people in a way. I was proud to say that I was sensitive to my gaze..."
You seem to have surprised me.
"How was the meadow, by the way?
"Well, it doesn't seem like a very good situation."
That's what I heard when I reported to the Alliance, but besides what I found, they keep gathering reports of nest discoveries. An active call had been made for a little more hands to be gathered at the reception after tomorrow to continue the search request or help with the exhumation work of the nest.
"If you deal with it late, distribution may lag, and then you don't know how far it will affect your feet and purchases, so I'll work there for a while. If you don't have a problem with your place of practice, use it tomorrow or later."
"Sweet for your words"
All one of you, with Mr. Prenance at the head, then clears the tools and heads back to the city.
Looks like the act I saw earlier was today's closing.
I dropped them off. I go straight into training.
Just a few moments, I tried to imitate their dance-like movements with my ability.
But it doesn't work. I feel a little kinky when using magic.
... magical performances may be good for training to use magic and weapons at the same time.
Use a combination of magic and weapons. In this regard, their movements were smoother than mine.
Mm-hmm...
Next day
"About the magic production?
"Could you be interested in a sworddancer?
I picked up one that came to practice and decided to ask the two sworddancers in person.
"I saw yesterday's performance and I wanted to learn the skills of both of you"
"I don't mind teaching you anything else, but why would you do that?
I was asked why, so I answered what I felt yesterday.
Melee combat with weapons and martial arts dominates the way you fight. You can use magic, but you are unfamiliar with it because you don't use it much in combat. It also reveals that you want to widen your own range.
"I mean, I was wondering if we could replace the magic we use to perform with attack magic."
"Yes, if you have time, I'd love to ask you"
"Wouldn't that be nice?
"Right. It's not a lot of trouble if it's a little. It wouldn't be the same as ours because the weapons are different...... would that still be good?
"Yes, of course!
"So will you come back about the same time as yesterday? You'll have a job, too, and we'll teach you after the whole exercise."
"Thank you!
I was wondering what I would do if they told me it was a secret, but surprisingly, you could tell me light.
"Do you have anything special to prepare?
"I just need my own weapons. I'll see what you can do today."
"Oh, just leave the magic behind."
"Okay. See you in the evening. Best regards,"
"You're not trying!
And evening.
After turning to search for feelings of pleasure in the morning, I discovered twice as many nests as yesterday and went home.
When I went back as promised, one of you was unpacking.
"It's late. Sorry to keep you waiting?
"We're just finishing up too. Let's get ready right away. Maya!"
"Yes, yes!
From behind the luggage car she came with some kind of wrap.
"Yes, this is for you, Lyoma."
"Firewood... right?
He also looks like a little marutai. It's firewood cut to size enough to grip with one hand.
"I'll start as soon as I'm done cleaning up, so wait!
"Oh, hey..."
He's gone.
"You can leave that to Mya and the others."
... Indeed. Seeing the movement of a single people, they alone are able to flow. I'm more likely to get in the way if I help poorly.
"Before you practice, look at this first. That's the sword Me and Mya are using."
I thought it was a sword with a lot of decorations, as I've seen before, but when I look close like this, it's mixed with decorations and depicts strange texts. Looks like there's something on the surface.
"This is a paint made by processing the body fluids of rainbow slugs, which have the properties to store the light on them and keep them just a little"
When I thought it was something different in how it glowed but like fluorescent paint, it used magic to actually show it to me. In the glow of light magic, light runs along the lines drawn with paint. Successfully doing this at the moment of meeting swords and shields would make the audience look like they had a flashy spark.
But in order to make it happen, you have to quickly and accurately control magic during a weapons-based meeting, even though the procedure is set.
"And to make it happen, swords or magic first. Both require some mastery. So let me measure your skill first today. I'll figure out how to teach with the results."
"Regards"
"Hey! I'm ready!
Looks like the place is ready, so move over there and start practicing.
Head to the center where all of you stand in circles.
...... hmm?
"All of you..."
"Get a little help"
"Half the time, I'm interested."
"Really? Thank you for your cooperation. Best regards,"
"Then put your weapon in Maya's direction."
Set up an iron slime knife.
"That guy throws the firewood from earlier. Cut it off."
They say cutting something someone threw is one of the sworddancer's performances, as well as a one-step to learning how to meet multiple people. This will be my strength test.
"I don't mind cutting as much as you like, but try to cut the center as much as you can"
"Okay. Please!
"Come on!
A single piece of firewood leaves Mya's hand. At first, not so fast. Slash off firewood depicting a loose parabola, just in time.
"Ah, success? Wow, wow! It keeps going!
She looks at the firewood split in two and throws the next. If you slash that down the same way, it's even next. Firewood thrown one after the other is gradually faster and at narrower intervals. But I was able to handle it.
And the firewood runs out first.
"Last!"
"Yes!"
Slash away the last bottle, and the test is over. I wonder if the result is, and I see Mr. Soldio. Then he looked difficult...
"Next then."
Grab all the slashed firewood and gather it with the help of one of you. Mr. Soldio distributes them to everyone but me. And only for myself and Mya, I applied red paint to the top and bottom.
Now the test of slashing only the firewood thrown by two while avoiding the firewood thrown by one of you.
"Let's go!
The first one, slashing firewood from Mr. Soldio, triggers it to fly one after the other from the perimeter.
Roughly one or two can be thrown at a time. Many and three. While avoiding them, only two firewood will be slashed......
……
……
At first, the two people who were throwing firewood from a fixed position nodded silently and began to move with firewood in their arms. I run around the outer circumference of a circle made by all of you, and throw it from that gap. Besides, Mr. Soldio is a little bothersome because he throws it at a subtly hard time and position to slash, according to the timing of others.
“Attention" to avoid firewood while paying attention to the movements of the two. The “judgment” of slashing and non-slashing firewood and the “execution" from which they actually acted were required.
After such a test.
"How about that?
"Swordsmanship is without complaint."
"Yeah, yeah, it's amazing!... but what's the point of using magic?
In front of me is slashed firewood. The test ended up being satisfactory to me, but I hear Mya thinks so just because she got a good result.
Actually, I haven't said this is the trouble so far, but that's for the future.
"You're serious."
"You too, apprentice. If that's the case, we might be outrun soon."
"I don't feel like I can win with sword arms already?
After such an exchange, a magic test is now carried out.
This one usually just used magic to show it, nothing special.
But I could hear an interesting story.
"No chant?
"Oh, to use magic silently, as its name implies. We sworddancers make faces and describe the situation during the act. If you can use magic without chanting, don't move your mouth."
"Well, that's a genre difference around here. Some wear faces and hide their mouths, while others chant grandiously during performances to make them part of the play. And you have hands that use the sword as a magic tool for sword dancing. I mean, that's the mainstream."
When Mr. Maya says so, Mr. Sordio snorts in dissatisfaction.
"That thing is out of the way. Former sworddancers said they attracted people only with exceptional swordsmanship and magical skill. That's the magic tool now. Magic relies on simple tools, and swords are equal to just remembering moulds. Because of that, sworddancers are called entertainers, spectacles that don't help in action."
"Yes, yes, I know. I was just explaining."
I don't know how old Mr. Sordio used to be, but apparently he focuses on preserving an ancient tradition.
"Let's do our best anyway!
"Yes! Regards!
Let's work hard enough to make the opportunity, all the technology we can learn, a thing.