Yomigaeri no Maou

"... Well, then who's to whom first?

Major Siu says so with a provocative grin and sees the Lulu's.

Come on, call me, we don't need any help, that's why.

Generally speaking, those who have received such a gaze from the opponent of the match in this exam will either have a burning, motivating look from the enemy's heart, or will spray a tingling fighting spirit with an invincible look that wants to test their arms.

There are other reactions like knowing the strength of the opponent you are going to have to fight, understanding the inadequacy of your arm and losing confidence, or rejecting it because it doesn't help, and relaxing tension.

So if Lulu and the others had shown such a reaction, Major Sioux would not have been surprised, nor would he have thought it would have been rather normal.

But reality wasn't.

When Major Siu saw the Lulu's, they looked at each other and had a subtle look.

What are you thinking, well, I didn't know.

Rarely, but with Major Siu, who has been in charge of this exam several times, it is the expression of the first examinee to be seen.

There's no tension, there's nothing like disobedience to provocation, and I don't seem to have lost confidence, or feel reopened.

Well, then, what do you think, Major Sioux didn't know exactly what was inside them right now.

This seems to be the same for Walls, the soldier who just served as Major Sioux's opponent,

"... kind of weird guys, huh?

That's how I squealed in Major Siu's ear with a quiet voice.

Major Sioux agreed, but still nothing changes what he does.

So I decide to leave the confusion aside for now, I say.

"Hey, who was it at first? I don't care who you are. Normally, I would put the order here and put it in order, but this number of people would be fine."

If you fight, you'll also understand what their reaction means.

With that in mind, Lulu and the others nodded at Major Siu's words, consulting only a little before

"... then I'll take it from me"

So Zoe came forward.

She was a tall, silver-haired, beautiful woman there, but Major Sioux has no hair, such as intending to be confused by her appearance.

I can't make a single decision right now as to how much strength I have, but coming out of this exam is in itself a sign of confidence in a way.

Weak, which rarely means you shouldn't be alarmed.

"Is that from you? What are we gonna do with the money?

In that question of Major Siu, Zoë looked at the blade crushed weapons arranged between the walls,

"I'll make this one. May I?"

I took the spear and said so.

It's shorter than what Walls just used, and it seems like a roundabout type.

Still, since it's longer than Major Siu's two-handed sword, would it feel like saying Zoe's weapon is more advantageous on the reach?

In the battle against Walls, Major Sioux may have seemed quite tormented by that difference in reach.

And that's not a mistake.

Major Siu was fighting to look like that.

Observation power should be appreciated because what you choose for your weaponry does not determine whether you accept or not, but at least you are making a choice in your favor.

Well, maybe it means I'm good at spears originally... but no, even if I am, I seem to have figured it out and picked it out.

Because Zoe smiled and replied to the gaze against the spear directed by Major Siu.

You're not good at this, are you?

But that's a provocative gaze.

I see, this sounds interesting, and there was a grin in Major Sioux's mouth as well.

"Fine. Well, it's nothing. It's the same where I chose any weapon."

"Perhaps..."

To Major Siu's words, Zoe replied so in a strange tone.

What is it?

Major Siu had no idea what that word meant.

Of course, you can take it as saying so without confidence, and that's exactly what most adventurers mean when they say something like this.

But......

Like something different.

I felt Major Siu's suspicion say it that way.

But Major Siu flushed this conjecture, I'm sure it was his fault.

It should have been helped more than once on the battlefield.

I should have taken advantage of what I felt, without flushing it if it had been.

And yet I couldn't do that, I guess, because this was just a mock fight, a battle that didn't cost my life.

A battle without fear of death. Maybe that's all that blunts the warrior's mind.

"Then I'll work for the referee. I don't see any objection."

That's what Walls, with his stern face, said as he looked at the Lulu's, but there can't be any complaints.

Because it doesn't matter to the Lulu people whether they have a judgment or not.

When winning or losing is decided, it will undoubtedly be decided in an obvious way by whoever sees it.

Because I am so sure.

And only Major Sioux and Walls knew about it, not on this occasion.

That's all we're talking about.

"... then, opposite each other..."

In that word of Walls, Zoe and Major Sioux face each other at a certain distance.

That's where Major Sioux and Walls stood earlier.

There's a line on the ground for that, and I guess that means the starting line for a simulated battle.

And Walls slowly raises his hand......

"Begin!

That said, hands down, the two people who were facing each other moved instantly.

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Major Siu shook his sword gently and turned to Zoë and shook it thoughtfully.

Of course, this is an exam.

The aim was the sorting of the powerful, and Major Sioux is well aware of that, so it was only a blow as a small handful.

But if there was one computational difference between Major Siu, that would have been that he didn't understand Zoe's strength as if he had.

She instantly understands Major Siu's intentions for a blow, as well as his power, and laughs and waves his spear.

Zoe's spear is not light.

Rather, it seemed to me that you had considered meeting with Major Sioux's great sword, or had chosen something relatively heavy.

For that reason, you can't shake it so lightly.

Major Siu thought so.

Anyway, Zoe is a woman.

If you activate a powerful physical enhancement. Also, apart from the story, Major Sioux, of course, if magic is used, you will immediately see the signs.

That is why it was understood at a glance that Zoë was not going to activate any further sorcery today.

And for that, I was surprised by the speed of Zoe's swinging spear.

- By the time I realized, Major Siu's sword had been played by Zoe's spear.

Stupid.

That's what I thought. In the meantime, Zoe has already dived into Major Sioux's nostalgia.

Coming here, for the first time, Major Siu felt a sense of crisis about this fight.

I finally understood that it wasn't the first person I could handle.

Major Siu hastily strolled his magic, strengthening his physical abilities and, at the same time, returning to the position of the great sword played, wielding all his might to pull off the distance from Zoe.

Then you thought it would be dangerous for Zoe to stay this close to the boulder, and then you retreat.

However, that was only temporarily lowered, and I didn't take the time to take the distance and observe Major Sioux's way out.

She kicked the ground again and came toward Major Sioux, as if she thought it was quicker than that that that would determine the victory or loss of the battle.

He is fighting with a weapon that has a long reach for each other: a spear and a great sword.

For that reason, it would normally have been a more distant battle.

And yet, how is the situation now?

At a distance as if we were using daggers against each other, we are meeting weapons.

This was an anomaly.

Naturally, there can be no such thing as in-depth experience with such a battle on Major Sioux, and the result is a rather unusual appearance.

However, it was no longer possible to withstand the onslaught of Zoe because it was willful.

I couldn't have come by this method of warfare and lost easily.

Anyway, the situation is the same over there.

Zoe's handiwork dealing with spears was familiar beyond its expert, Walls.

I mean, this kind of short-range combat shouldn't be the distance she's supposed to be good at.

And yet Major Sioux broke more easily, so much so that he said something smelled like excuse or even looked poorly.

Keep all that big language spectacular before you fight...... even if you lose, there is something to say how to lose.

"... you had unexpected guts?

I called Major Siu, who was thinking about that, uh, that voice.

That is the word released from the mouth of Zoe, who is now blaming it before his eyes.

Nonetheless, it was lacking to say it, or Major Sioux thought.

Major Siu tells Zoe, keeping his inner stomach hidden.

"Unfortunately, the army is not a comfortable place to live without guts."

"Sure... whoever doesn't will die soon enough"

It was surprising that Zoe agreed to the word, and when she turned her gaze all the way at her, she had some strange eye color that looked far away.

Maybe he's remembering something.

And Major Sioux is surprised once again that we can afford that during a fight like this.

Then Zoe put her gaze back,

"There are still things that can't be done with just your guts. The rest is jammed, and shall we end it around here?

That said Zoe changed the spear grip all the time.

When Major Siu thinks what the hell... the way Zoe fights changes from that moment on.

I was hoping for a moment that fatigue had accumulated in too much onslaught, but that didn't apply, but rather now even the slightest gap I had felt earlier was gone.

And Zoe says.

"I tried not to fight the old (...) way, but this is an exam, isn't it? Sometimes we can fight for ourselves."

At the next moment, Major Siu could not see the spear waving at all, and could only look with surprise at the fact that the great sword he had was blown to the edge of the training ground at some point, with the tip of the spear of the elephant on his neck.

in that state,

"... Acceptance or Disagreement?

That's what Zoe's been asking, so Major Sioux, in a cold sweat, squeezing voice,

"... you're set to pass. Where have you been hiding, such a powerful man..."

That's what I said.