Academy Ankle Reaper

17. I’ll take off the car and the gun

There is a VIP room for faculty members and other VIPs on the upper floor of the amphitheater.

Three students gathered in one of the several VIP rooms to watch the duel.

Composed of two male students and one female student, they were looking at the stadium with different thoughts.

All three were members of the Five Pillars.

“I don’t like this duel.”

Drinking a drink from a crystal glass, a woman expressed her displeasure.

The appearance of holding a crystal glass in a dignified posture was like a painting delicately expressed by an artist.

Even in a dark room with minimal lighting turned on to focus on the stadium, her golden hair, which is uncomfortably long but well-groomed, shines softly.

However, on the contrary, her eyes, frowning in displeasure, were black as if they contained endless darkness.

The woman was very small for her age when she entered the academy.

The two men sitting nearby seemed even more so because they were tall, but they probably felt small even when they were standing with the others.

However, it was no fault of hers that she had a small frame.

She is the daughter of one of the Five Pillars, the golden Phrygia family.

Physical conditions were a trivial matter for Shaara Phrygia, who was praised as the most suitable successor to the golden ball that moves the empire’s economy.

She doesn’t seem to like this duel at all.

“What do you not like?”

A man with long hair like a blue waterfall sitting on the right… Zeke Albion asks her.

“I don’t get any benefit from this duel.”

“Benefit?”

Prygia weighed this duel on the scales.

As long as they are entangled in the name of the Five Pillars, everything the other families do affects Phrygia, so she is fed up with the other families thinking only of themselves and acting as they please.

“If you win, Russell and Lemnos are all about arranging the ranks. If you lose, the image of the five pillars will only go gold.”

“If Lemnos loses? Did you say that Lemnos would lose?”

“Don’t change your mind. If you win, if you lose, you lose.”

Albion’s emotional reaction made Phrygia’s head throb.

Phrygia hasn’t been with them for long, but she’s fed up with their emotional and thoughtless behavior.

The five pillars are brands.

And it was clear that they did not yet have the awareness that the signboard of the brand was the successor, except for the current family heads.

“You just have to win. Lemnos can’t get tired of it.”

“Okay~ If Lemnos wins, there’s no problem, right?”

Nivas Ferda, who was watching from the sidelines, fanned it.

She hates Albion, who is emotional while pretending to be rational, but also hates Ferda, who knows everything and fancies it.

“That’s why it’s a loss for a situation like this to come out.”

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The sound of the loudspeakers crackles in the amphitheater.

-Ah ah… Then we’ll have a duel. The witness is Niko Prague, a professor of sorcery biology.

It was a woman’s voice that sounded very troublesome.

If it was a duel of this scale, rather than an informal duel where each individual was emotionally involved, a proper witness would be attached.

The third party, the witness, checks whether the conditions have been properly met and whether the duel has been fair.

He’s a referee, but he’s a somewhat loose referee.

By the way, Nico Prague…? Where did you hear the name…

-Win or lose… Until either side becomes incapacitated or admits defeat.

I’ll think about it later.

The winning condition for this duel is the highest level for a student.

The only condition higher than this is a duel until either side dies.

This condition is also a rule that requires you to admit defeat or fight until you are incapacitated, so you can see that the medical team is already preparing outside the field, perhaps because there are many cases where one of them dies after going to the end.

It’s going to be a messy, bloody fight rather than a sport.

Even if one side admits defeat, it will end, but in this case, since the emotions between the two have become intense, everyone naturally assumes that one side will end up incapacitated.

Therefore, it is clear that Lemnos came with such a good sword.

“I brought a very good sword. Could it be the family’s treasured sword?”

The Flamberge that Lemnos wears around his waist is no ordinary sword, even from a sidelong glance.

Flaverge is a unique sword with a wavy or flame-shaped blade.

It’s like a saw that rips apart rather than slashes, so it’s difficult to deal with with normal swordsmanship.

The Flamberge of Lemnos doesn’t have the shape of a flame, but rather the blade is shimmering little by little as if it were really on fire.

It’s the first time I’ve seen a sword made of iron shake like that in real time.

“It is said that lions do their best even when catching rabbits. Consider it an honor to fall by this sword.”

“Yes, I have to write something like that so I can’t make excuses after losing.”

“What?!”

– In each position..

When Lemnos, whose face was full of anger, heard the command to start, he took the wolf’s posture, the most stable stop to run.

As always, I take the snake pose, which is the lower part.

– The duel begins!

As soon as the start command was given, Lemnos took a big step forward and swung the Flamberge.

The Flamberge, which shimmered in the shape of a flame, really burned as if it had become a flame.

Lemnos breathed an aura into the sword.

‘As expected, a sword of flame is coming, right?’

Flamberge, like a blazing flame, actually began to radiate intense heat.

It was as if the knife had caught fire.

A sword that grants a flame-like quality change to the aura… That is Lemnos’s treasured sword, Flamberge of Flame.

I thought it was something when I saw it only in the description of the novel, but when I saw it in real life, it was incredibly powerful.

Flaming Flamberge is not a sword that looks good only on the outside.

At the point when it worked properly, Flamberge is an aura blade, so it is impossible to defend with normal weapons, and sword grappling is also limited in some movements because of the curved expression like the flame.

And even if you fight with the same aura blade, Flamberge emits intense heat, so it eats up your stamina…

Above all, thanks to its ability to burn with low heat, the wounds it cuts are immediately erased, so it works very well against some monsters that regenerate quickly.

There is a record that the founder of Lemnos cut off the breath of a monster that is said to regenerate infinitely with that.

As its name suggests, swordsmanship using a sword that burns like a flame, that is the flame swordsmanship that Lemnos is proud of.

Lemnos is fighting me with all his might.

Not wearing any special armor on the outside and trying not to listen to each other’s cowardice, but ordinary armor is useless against an aura blade like that.

Of course, Lemnos must have thought that I was an expert-level person who could use Aura Blade.

That’s true, but… There is one other thing.

“You…!! Why don’t you use an aura!!!”

Contrary to what Lemnos thought, I still wasn’t using the aura.

The long sword I am holding is still a normal long sword.

Perhaps, if it touches the blade of Flamberge in this state, it will be cut in two like a candy toe cut with a kitchen knife at 1000 degrees.

But I had no intention of using an aura.

“Why me?”

Obviously, Flamberge is a formidable sword.

But if it doesn’t fit, isn’t it just a burning club?

“You have to be at that level to use it.”

“It’s arrogant… That arrogance will cost you your life…!!!”

The Flaming Sword Flamberge is swung with terrifying momentum.

If I was directly hit by that attack even once with my bare body, I would be incapacitated right away, but Flamberge couldn’t even touch my body.

It feels like being a bullfighter taming a bull in a bullfight.

Even though each shot is an undefensible one-hit kill, if it seems like the distance has narrowed, it gets farther away.

I saw that the field of view was moving and I got out of the blind spot a few times with the motion of mixing the paint, and it looks like this.

Having eyes on the back of the head… It seems that we haven’t reached that point yet.

“Take your life, kill me?”

“That’s what it says!!”

“Do it if you can. I’m in your gap and still haven’t landed a single effective hit. So, do I need to use an aura?”

“Awesome!!”

Lemnos’s attacks became more violent as if he was nervous as he continued to fail to hit.

There is a time limit to maintaining that flame sword.

The raging flame must be eating something from Lemnos as fuel.

“aaa!!!”

Analyze the condition of Lemnos while avoiding the swinging sword.

He was using up a lot of stamina to perform the family’s secret swordsmanship, but Lemnos was very excited when not a single attack hit him.

Now, when you are so absorbed in attacking that you uselessly strain your body, ‘this’ will work.

‘Now..!’

A gap was clearly visible.

I swung the long sword that I had been holding like an ornament until now toward Lemnos.

Lemnos’ eyes widened.

It must have been hard to see something like this elsewhere

The tip of my sword turned into a cross.

It’s not like the long sword suddenly became like a hammer.

‘Half swording’ is simply holding the long sword ‘upside down’ and swinging it towards the cross guard and handle.

From the beginning of the sword expert who started using the aura blade, these skills are all called catch skills and they are not taught.

“What… What is this??”

As for the advantages of holding a long sword like this…

First of all, it is good for snatching something with a strong cross guard in the shape of a cross.

The sword blade of the reverse longsword I wielded hit Lemnos’ hand, and the cross guard ‘interlocked’ with the lower part of Flamberge’s cross guard.

The hand that had been struck by the blade of the long sword slightly loosened from the impact.

Aiming for the moment when it loosened up for a moment, I pulled the cross guard that was engaged.

“What?!”

Then Flamberge flies into the air like a fish caught on a fishing rod.

An exclamation erupted from the audience at the same time.

Many emotions crossed Edgar Lemnos’ face.

Bewildered, ashamed, angry about missing the sword… But it’s already too late.

The treasured sword Flamberge left Lemnos’ hand.

“Yeah..Do!!!”

Still, as soon as the basics were done, the gaze was fixed on me, not Flamberge, who had left his hands.

I clenched my fist in place of the flying sword.

However, as soon as Flamberge was snatched away, the reverse long sword’s cross guard struck in a continuous motion and hit Lemnos’ head like a blunt weapon.

-Fuck!!

“Keah!!!!”

Lemnos, who was hit on the head, falls to the side.

The second advantage of half-swording is that it is possible to attack like a blunt weapon with a long sword, a weapon that cuts and stabs.

After that, I guess I didn’t expect to hit him with a cross guard.

“Job…Skills…!!”

“But did it work?”

The impact of being hit in the head was so great that Lemnos stumbled and couldn’t control his body.

Leaving behind Lemnos, who couldn’t move properly, I went to Flambert, which was far behind me, and hit him with his foot.

As soon as he touched the sword, Lemnos’ expression became even more stern.

“Isn’t it going to end like this?”

Then he kicked Flamberge.

Flamberge, which spun and flew, stopped exactly in front of Lemnos.

Your passing skills haven’t died yet.

“What do you mean!”

Looking at the Flamberge delivered to him, Lemnos exclaimed.

I don’t think I’ll understand… If Lemnos can’t hold his weapon like this, I’ll win without any major incidents.

I would have thought that he wrapped his weapon around him and threw it away, but he gave it back to me, so it seems absurd.

“Why Admit Defeat?”

“It can’t be.”

“Then raise your sword again, stand up, fight back, the duel is not over yet.”