NOVEL NEXT chapter 66 - Your name is (7)
“I didn’t… want something like this.”
Leaving Daisy, who was sulking with a completely forlorn expression, neglected in the corner, we were sharing the results of our research.
“The sword absorbs magic too, but not nearly as much as the sword energy.”
“Hey, Boradori, how can you not know this?”
“No, think about it. The Demon King is the focal point of the demons and the final boss unless the author’s obsession with alchemy revives the evil god. Would such a guy fight on the front lines? Once at his first appearance. After that, he only shows up two or three more times! The rest of the fights were with the Four Heavenly Kings, the legion commanders, and their subordinates. The Demon King was just waiting in his demon castle for the romantic fantasy male leads!”
“The Demon King sure is stingy.”
“Because he’s a king! Besides, battle scenes get skipped unless they’re important.”
“Why?”
“Because it’s a romantic fantasy. If you wanted to watch battles, you’d read a martial arts story!”
I feel like I’ve heard this before. Well, yeah, people watch romantic fantasy for the romance, not the fights.
“But still, that weapon is insanely overpowered. How are they supposed to beat it?”
Indeed, the Demon King’s magical sword was extremely powerful.
“Of course, the romantic fantasy male leads dump all the continent’s overpowered gear on themselves.”
Seems like the author knew what they were doing.
“Who’d live without a bit of jealousy?”
“That’s not something you should say!”
Bickering like that, the analysis of the magical sword’s results was fascinating.
“It absorbs pure magical energy, so magic itself isn’t very efficient against it.”
“But since it cuts the source magic, the power decreases.”
“That’s true, but if you hadn’t stolen your magic beforehand, it could have been dangerous.”
“Right now, Daisy’s pure strength is being overwhelmed. If I used it immediately, that kind of magic wouldn’t be a threat.”
“That’s true, but…”
The more we estimated, the more the sword made our mouths water.
Do you desire power?
Though the magical sword said nothing, I felt whispers like that.
Ah, if only I had that. Maybe all the hell I’ve gone through to beat Prince Ellen would finally end!
“Can I use that?”
“Want it?”
“Who wouldn’t?”
“If you’re a knight of Leon, you can’t use such a satanic weapon.”
“Did you forget we fought Silence on drugs? And our royal family doesn’t really use dwarf-made weapons.”
At least, the swords made by Leon’s famous smiths are comparable to dwarves’.
They just don’t usually use magic swords with special powers, but the quality is top-notch.
It’s not that magic swords are banned unless they involve dark magic.
Therefore—
“Can I try using this once?”
“Ah, that.”
Daisy, who was about to say something, suddenly nodded as if she remembered something.
“Feel free.”
Having gotten the owner’s permission, I reached for the hilt of the magical sword.
“If I can use it.”
Immediately, Daisy’s evil grin appeared.
“Ah.”
In an instant, I lost consciousness.
About ten minutes later, I woke up to Daisy sticking her tongue out, teasing me.
“This is revenge.”
Because I was treated like an experiment rat, she took revenge on me just the same.
“The goddess said it’s hard for anyone but me to handle it.”
Contrary to appearances, the magical sword wasn’t truly unsealed.
It was just—
“It feels like only I was permitted to use it. Of course, it’s not impossible for others, but…”
That method is Daisy charging her own divine power into the magical sword.
“Can you charge it for me later?”
“We’ll see.”
Just when I was starting to feel the threat that maybe the romance would get extended another year.
“A magical sword, not a holy sword, but a sealed magic sword…”
Arang, who was listening beside me, closed his eyes and drifted into thought.
“Impressive.”
When he opened his eyes again, they sparkled like starlight.
“A sealed magic sword. Words that stir a man’s heart.”
He was a bit of an individualist, or rather, a member of the Individual Tribe.
Arang looked at Daisy with interest and fighting spirit.
It was more like seeing a warrior chosen by the goddess than an apostle.
“But she still lacks skill.”
“As far as I know, this is only the second time she’s held a sword.”
“What?”
With a tone of regret, I let him know she was a novice who had barely held a sword before.
“I put everything into my fists, but that doesn’t mean I never learned how to wield weapons. The saint’s skill is far from master level, but she didn’t feel like a beginner handling a sword for the first time…”
He admired Daisy’s talent but admitted she still had a long way to go.
“Actually, she’s more familiar with fists than swords.”
“Oh?”
His eyes began to sparkle even more.
“As a child, she learned simple self-defense techniques.”
Just as his expression was about to turn regretful again—
“With just that, she annihilated the entire Holy Nation’s knight order who challenged her.”
“…Impressive.”
There was some exaggeration, but it wasn’t a lie.
“Then, when she first grasped the sword, it was said to be the goddess’s power, cleaving the Holy Nation in two…”
According to the Boradori agent, that was a bit exaggerated.
But in our kingdom, that was the rumor.
And rumors around the Individual Tribe’s territory only grew louder, never quieter.
Without hesitation, I spread the rumor of Daisy.
#1 Daisy — The Legendary Magical Sword
“Ow…”
Opening my eyes, my whole body felt like it was screaming.
Why was I like this?
I gave my brain, which had briefly stopped working, something to do again.
And my brain quickly recalled why my body felt like this.
“Bad people.”
Sniffling.
Remembering what happened yesterday, tears almost welled up.
My most precious friend and my first-ever boyfriend, even if a lie, had betrayed me.
The two of them holding hands and betraying me.
“This is cheating.”
After cheating once, that boyfriend didn’t hesitate to cheat again.
Violet said that’s what a bad man is, someone you should never meet.
Yet she herself betrayed me with that bad man.
“Prepare yourself.”
Until my body recovered, I would cling on and not let go.
Until I got tired of it, I’d throw a tantrum!
With that resolve, I got up to find my target, Violet.
Carefully opening the door, I went out and was checking the situation when—
“…Hah!”
A member of the Individual Tribe caught sight of me, got startled, and ran away.
“Uh, is there something on my face?”
Seeing how shocked they were, I retreated back to my room.
I looked for a mirror to check my appearance, but there wasn’t much different from usual.
“Oh, is that so?”
I’d heard at the academy that other races have a rejection toward humans.
It was the price for the wrongs humans committed in the past.
Even if invited, not every member of the Individual Tribe would welcome us.
Bracing myself, I went back outside.
I met the Individual Tribe member who had run away earlier.
But—
“……”
There were many of them.
Several members of the Individual Tribe were watching from a distance.
D-Do they have some business?
“Um…”
Carefully speaking, the Individual Tribe started whispering in surprise.
“The saint? That’s ‘the’ saint, right?”
“The others who were invited were taken by Chief Arang.”
“But she doesn’t have that legendary sword?”
“Ohhh!”
What were they saying?
From what I could catch, something was off.
If I’m not mistaken, this was no longer about a woman, a student, or a saint.
“I request a duel, saint.”
Sounds like something you say when looking at a warrior in a novel!
“Me? Me?”
While I was confused, one of the Individual Tribe members who was watching me looked at me expectantly.
Honestly, my whole body was screaming!
If I moved any more, I really thought I might die!
But I’d learned that the beastkin love fighting.
Some disparage them as rough, savage, and uncivilized.
But I was taught that was misunderstanding their nature and way of life.
Fighting was a product of the beastkin struggling to survive in the wild.
So, that challenge might be an effort to forget the grudge with humans and face me as a person!
“Ah, alright!”
And as proof—
“Wow!”
When I accepted the duel, look at the tail wagging excitedly.
The other members watching behind looked at me with envy.
“Oh, that sword…”
“I just left it at home for a moment since I was going out. I’ll bring it quickly!”
Since it couldn’t be touched by anyone else but me anyway, I had just left it in my room.
I needed to fetch it quickly.
Carrying the sword, I followed the challenger to a wide clearing.
A clearing inside a cave like this.
The more I saw the Individual Tribe village, the more fascinating it became.
“Please take care of me!”
“Yep!”
The duel started—and ended faster than I expected.
The magic power gathered in my fist was easier to consume than the magic power that had been on Adam’s sword yesterday.
Because in just a few exchanges, my sword contained all of the opponent’s magic.
“As expected!”
Even I looked like a true apostle.
The Individual Tribe members, however, gleamed their eyes and showed satisfaction.
“If it’s okay, I want to…”
There was even a challenger right away!
Since the duel had ended so quickly, I nodded and agreed.
“Anytime!”
“Thank you!”
I defeated the second opponent.
I used some of the magic power stored in the sword, but the amount I absorbed was more, so it seemed 1.5 times greater than before.
“Then me too!”
Defeating the third and fourth opponents, more members of the Individual Tribe had gathered to watch.
“The next…”
A long line of Individual Tribe members were waiting to challenge me.
“Uh, uh?”
This isn’t what ◆ Nоvеlіgһt ◆ (Only on Nоvеlіgһt) I wanted.
Today, I just wanted to lie sprawled on Violet’s bed and hear all the things I hid, feeling sorry all day.
“Ne-Next!”
But I couldn’t disappoint the hopeful looks of the Individual Tribe members looking at me.
Just one person. Only one more.
“……”
But the line never shortened.
Ah, this is—
“I’m screwed.”
Yeah, it’s hard to explain, but I was just screwed.
There was nothing to do until Daisy, who collapsed in exhaustion as soon as we arrived at the Individual Tribe village, woke up.
So I was just sightseeing the village with Bell and Arang.
“The human saint and warriors are fighting!”
“They say already thirty warriors have fallen!”
“Just as the rumors said!”
I don’t know what was going on, but since there was a commotion, I went to the source.
“Hey! Hey! Stop!”
Looking at Daisy’s magical sword, which had absorbed so much magic it nearly reached the ceiling, I had no choice but to urgently stop her.
At this rate, the Individual Tribe village will collapse!