CH 94

While Claudia was training at the castle grounds as Sir Claudio, a person popped in from the entrance.

“Everyone’s certainly lively today.”

“Floto…!?” Claudio shouted.

She’s surprised at seeing a person who should not be there. As Floto quietly steps into the training ground, Claudio finds herself fascinated by her.

Her long hair would get in her way, so she wraps it around her head and ties it into a bun. She’s cute with that hairstyle. She wore the formal attire of a knight, but her upper body was hidden by a rather loose cloak. She’s probably using it to hide her breasts, which are far too plump.

Claudio, who knew that Floto was the female Flora, could immediately see them no matter how much she tried to hide them, her breasts were unusually growing larger. However, if you look at her from a distance without thinking about it much, she might just look like a handsome man wearing a loose cloak and the formal attire of a knight.

“Are you on a break, Claudio?” Floto asked.

“Huh? Ah! Uu…? Oh?” Claudio stammered.

Claudio didn’t know how to respond when Floto sat down beside him and suddenly said those words. The only thoughts in Claudio’s head were, “Floto dressed as a man is cute, too!” and “I want to push her down and take her like this!”. All he could think about was the fact that he was overwhelmed by his worldly desires, so even if she suddenly spoke to him, Claudio had no idea what to say.

Horst, the Commander of the Royal Guard Division, comes over and has a conversation with Floto. For some reason, Horst decided Floto would go into the Hundred Man Spar and Claudio tried to stop it.

There aren’t many people who can deal with 100 members of the Royal Guard Division, as it’s full of ferocious men. After Claudio joined the Royal Guard Division, he had never seen anyone who had actually completed the Hundred Man Spar. There’s no way Floto, who is such a beautiful young lady, can finish it.

And yet… an event happened before Claudio that made him wonder where those slender arms stored that sort of power. With one hand, she easily blocked Adon’s blow, visibly overwhelmingly stronger than Floto’s. Even Claudio acknowledges Adon’s strength. His sword-handling skills are still rough, but his strength is real. Claudio can only think he’s having a bad dream when Floto’s thin arm catches Adon’s blade and stops it.

And when Floto discarded the broken sword and unsheathed her personal sword, Claudio gasped when he saw her wield it. How thick is that sword? Just by looking at the blade, thick and wide like a meat cleaver, it looks extremely heavy.

With a single swing of her sword, Floto ran at such speed that even from a distance Claudio’s eyes could not follow, then she shattered Adon’s greatsword, and Adon in all his muscle and armor went flying several meters up into the air. The height he reached seemed impossible before he crashed back down. And since Adon had been knocked unconscious at Floto’s first sword strike, he didn’t even have the opportunity to brace himself for impact.

The incredible sight continues. Floto knocked back Samson’s iron ball, and he’s said to be stronger than even Adon. That alone is surprising, but along with the flail, even the giant Samson flies with it and crashes into the wall, too. He faints then and there.

Claudio doesn’t know what to do anymore. Floto’s smiling face was adorable as ever, but he can’t shake the sense that there was also a monster standing there.

After that, until about the 30th man, they were going one-by-one, but after witnessing Floto blowing them all away without even taking a hit herself, Horst changed the strategy.

“The rest of you are going all at once,” he said. “Though I doubt even with all of you, you’ll come out on top.”

Horst’s casual prediction was correct. Rather, it was a simple fact that anyone could understand. Looking at Floto’s fights up until now, it wouldn’t be a match even if everyone else surrounded Floto and attacked her all at once.

“Surround him!” one of them cried.

“Hit him all at once!”

“Strike him from behind!”

With rushing noises, sixty-odd people surround Floto. However, Floto didn’t seem to panic. She just stood there with a quiet expression.

“Five people or more, go all at once!”

“Don’t die…!”

Floto didn’t move much even though the fierce men of the Royal Guard Division were rushing in from all directions. But every time she swings, people fly into the sky and their screams echo. It’s exactly a scene of Hell and the wailing of the damned souls. The Royal Guard Division, which is said to be the most elite, has dozens of members on their side and yet they cannot even strike a single blow at one target.

In the blink of an eye, the 60-odd members of the Royal Guard Division were all laying motionless on the ground.

“Huh? Is this it?” Floto said. “That was just about 97 people, right? Will Commander Horst and Claudio make up for the rest?”

“Huh? No, no! I refuse to go!” Claudio said.

He’s not joking. Claudio immediately refused, as though he’d love to be Floto’s partner at night, he would not like to have such an insane sparring partner.

The members here are all relatively newcomers, and most of them are younger than Claudio. Claudio is a woman physically, but he has the ability to be on par with other men. He’s one of the most talented people on the current roster.

Even so, Claudio didn’t think he could even land a single blow on Floto. The power to push through and win even if several powerful men are involved. A speed that you can lose track of even while watching from a distance. A combat style that specializes in how to efficiently kill the enemy, while moving gracefully as if she were dancing. It’s obvious that you won’t even survive, let alone win.

“Hmm! I’m tired after training now, too! I absolutely won’t go!” Horst said after Claudio’s refusal.

Horst also rather he doesn’t lose competitions. As the leader, he can’t show himself losing in front of his men… but now, it’s just that he doesn’t want to do it because it’ll hurt terribly once he’s hit, but he can’t say that out loud.

“Ah… that’s right,” Floto said. “I came after school ended, so normally it would be after the training in the afternoon. Is it because you’re all tired that your movements were so slow?”

Floto decided that everyone was tired and exhausted because it was after the regular training of the Royal Guard Division, which was said to be the toughest in the Kingdom of Ploiss. But that is not the case. It’s true that they were tired after training, but it was clear to anyone that Floto was on a different level.

Floto’s sword is too bizarre. Her strength, speed, swordsmanship, and everything else were beyond common sense, and no matter how many ordinary people fought together as one, they couldn’t even fight on even plane. What kind of training would it take to make such a person? It’s not hard to imagine that Floto’s daily training was insane, that the Royal Guard Division, who devoted themselves to rigorous training daily, were as easy to beat as children.

“Uooooh! What in the hell is this!?!”

“What’s going on?”

“Are all the juniors dead?”

“It’s the senior knights…” Claudio said.

While Claudio was staring at the training grounds in a daze, the senior members who had returned from security patrols came back. The ones who have returned now are all veterans who have been around since before Floto joined the Royal Guard Division. Their juniors, who were relatively new to the group, stayed here to train.

“Geh…!” one of the junior knights coughed. “That was impossible!”

“Aah! I couldn’t even catch a glimpse!”

“That was the 10-year-old monster that could go through training from hell without running crying!”

Floto, who had been participating in the training since she was knighted, had easily completed the entire regime of the Royal Guard Division. Seeing this, Division Commander Holst became frustrated and increased the intensity of her training more and more.

Almost all of the senior members and her fellow juniors could not keep up, and those who could barely do so were exhausted completely after every day’s training. Floto was feared by the members of the group at the time as a monster in human form who easily went through such hellish training and even went so far as to go through more self-training after and then leisurely return home with Claudio.

If a person who looks like that monster is in the training ground where the dead are piled up, they’ll remember the old days whether they like it or not.

“Hiyeeehh…!”

“Run for it!”

“We’re going to get killed, too!”

The senior members who had just returned tried to escape in a panic. But the world is not so forgiving.

“You lot, do you think you can escape from this?” Horst said. “Now then! You all get him in a Hundred Man Fight!”

In order to avoid fighting Floto by himself, Holst once again desperately stood in front of the shut gate and sent the still-standing members to train with Floto.

Shortly after that, Horst was the only person standing on the parade ground. Floto has already headed home with Claudio. All that’s left here are the battered members of the Royal Guard Division and Horst.

“You lot! It’s pathetic that you couldn’t even win against Floto by himself!”

“… If you say that, Commander, you should have fought him,” one member said.

“Don’t be ridiculous!” Horst snapped. “I’m not going into fights I know I’ll lose!”

“…”

They feel a fresh sense of fear at Horst’s clear words. The junior members asked the senior members in whispers,

“Who was that guy just now?”

“Don’t you know? He’s the legendary monster boy.”

“Huh?! That was him?!”

The senior members that knew Floto then trained with her, so they know her well. However, the juniors, who thought heard of Floto as second-hand accounts of a legend, never thought that such a person actually existed. They thought their seniors were just trying to scare them.

However, there was no one who could laugh at the current situation where they were all knocked flat and unable to move, and then say that it was just a lie or a made-up story to scare newbies. In this way, another legend was added to the Royal Guard Division.

Floto, who finished training, decided to invite Claudio to her home. Claudio felt a slight chill from Floto, as she didn’t even break a sweat even though she had faced such a fierce battle. She looks cute but Claudio should never get on her bad side. He swears this in his heart.

He got a ride on Floto’s carriage and headed to the Carruthers Residence while sitting facing each other. It’s not like Claudio specifically promised to stop by there, but for some reason, that was the flow of the situation.

“Can I hold that sword of yours for a while, Floto?” Claudio asked.

“Huh? Sure, go ahead?” Floto said as she casually handed over her sword with one hand…

“Uwah…!” Claudio yelled. “Heavy! Hey! Hold up! I can’t do it! Take it back!”

Even though Floto was still holding it, Claudio understood that he could not hold all its weight, so he asked Floto to take it back. If he took it into his hands, he would have been trapped under the sword and unable to move.

Where in Floto’s slender arm is the strength hidden to hold such a heavy sword? Floto’s smiling face looks like a different person now.

While they had that exchange, they soon arrived at the Carruthers Residence. As a prominent noble family, it’s located in an important position near the royal castle in the aristocratic district. The location of your home matters quite a bit. This is nothing but proof that there is a decisive difference in family status between the houses on the outskirts of the aristocratic district and the ones in the center.

Floto and Claudio entered the Carruthers Residence and were now in front of the temporary bathroom. This was in fact Floto’s goal in inviting Claudio inside.

“I’m sorry that it’s a temporary bath, but it’s functional and spacious enough, so we can take our time,” Floto said. “Come on, let’s get in.”

Floto wanted to legally see other girls naked under the pretext of getting the sweat off together, and enjoying the classic situation of girls bathing together.

“Your breasts are large, Claudia.”

“Ahn! That tickles~. Even your tits are big, Floto. I’ll return the favor!”

“Aa~hhn, I’m sorry! Please, forgive me already~!”

In Floto’s brain, such a simulation was taking place. Claudio didn’t realize it, but there was no way Katharina would miss Floto’s intentions.

“Well then, I will assist Claudia in her bath, so please wait in your room, Miss Flora,” Katharina said.

“Huh?!” Floto cried, panicked.

“… What is it?” Katharina said coldly.

“…No. There’s no problem…” Floto said, withdrawing.

Even so, Flora was restless in her room, thinking that she would still be able to see Claudia after taking a bath. She welcomes Claudia and Katharina as they came out of the bath and into her room.

“It was a great bath! And that bar soap? It was really good!” Claudia said. “Ordinary soap is muddier and smells really bad! That bar soap smells good, so I’m happy!”

(You are the one who smells good, Claudia! I want to push you down right now!) Flora thought.

She was reaching the limits of her patience when Claudia unconsciously hugged her while in thin, light clothes, and smelling like floral soap. However, she manages to restrain herself because Katharina is staring at her coldly.

And in fact, Claudia knew that Katharina could tell Claudia wasn’t doing this by accident. Since she couldn’t press the attack and push Flora down in front of Katharina, Claudia compromised by pressing against Flora while in light clothes.

But Flora isn’t quite ready for it, and Claudia wanted it that way. It’s a win-win and no one loses. No, only Katharina was glaring at Claudia with a frightening expression, but for Claudia, who was getting a bit of pleasure from being glared at by a beautiful girl like Katharina, that was nothing but a reward for her.