CH 48

TL: Yuki

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『Everyone, just like yesterday, today we will be having exciting battles, I am very pleased to be the announcer for this time too!! Today will be the second round of the battle tournament, and it seems that our participants are also rearing to do this!! Let’s start with the first pair!! 』

When La Veil entered the stage, it was filled with bright cheers. Men and women carrying flowers were scattering it all over the place. In the middle of the huge amount of petals being scattered about, everyone’s eyes were stolen by the beauty that was bountiful in just the right corners standing in the stage.

『The first one to enter the stage is La Veil-ane-sama!! The beautiful red princess is now being decorated with flowers is now ready for the competition!! We couldn’t really comprehend her fighting power in the first round, but will we witness it this time with ane-sama’s opponent!?』

「Umu, you can leave that to me!!」

『Kyaaa Ane-sama!! Next we present is the participant Horomir, Please enter the stage!! 』

Horomir, just like in the first round didn’t wear armor and was only clad in the same attire as she did yesterday. She was also carrying her special quiver along with her bow.

『Participant Horomir who haven’t shown yet the best of her abilities in the first round now stand before us!! Will she show more of her skill in this round? Let us all take part in witnessing the best of her skills!!』

In the current stadium where the audience’s excitement was way much higher than yesterday, La Veil and Horomir was looking at each other’s eyes without moving. La Veil was holding her halberd horizontally ready to attack at any time and Horomir was also in a position ready to fire at any moment.

『Then for the first battle of the second round, La Veil vs Horomir, let the battle start!!!』

「Haaa!!!」

At the moment the sound of the gong rung, Horomir jumped a bit back then quickly released her arrows towards La Veil. The invisible arrows headed straight for La Veil at speeds that made travel in less than a second.

「Woops」

Rotating her halberd that she was holding horizontally, a *gurun sound was heard as if something hit her halberd. After a short moment, the appearance of a broken arrow was revealed on the ground.

「That’s still not the end of that」

Horomir sends her second volley. This time it was two arrows aiming for La Veil’s feet and shoulders. The arrows that were shot were also moving at staggering speed.

「Naive」

This time La Veil poses herself and strike the two arrows in one large swing. At that instant, voices of admiration were leaking from the audience side.

「For you to even make two arrows useless, but that still won’t decide the end of the fight right?」

「Shoot, give it your best shot, bow girl」

La Veil provokes her with hand signals to give it her best shot. Horomir accepts the offer and fire her attacks once more just a La Veil wanted.

「…Huf!!」

The third volley were three arrows aiming for her head, stomach and right foot. La Veil didn’t crush it with her Halberd this time but plainly dodged all of the arrows. All of the arrows stabbing the ground was revealed a few moments later.

「Could it be… Can you see my arrows?」

「Indeed, and I can tell that you are really quite proficient at using the bow」

La Veil then started to slowly walk towards her enemy. Detecting the difference in her pattern, Horomir fired her fourth volley with four arrows. But all the arrows she shot were crushed the moment they closed in. The face ofhoromir were dyed in shock.

『That was amazing, ane-sama!! She was handling Horomir’s attacks splendidly!! And didn’t even break a sweat from that chain of attacks!!』

「Guess I really have to get serious from here on!」

Horomir greatly increased the number of arrows this time. The total number is 16. This is the current limit Horomir could use and release at once. The speed of the arrows were also way much faster than the previous ones that people would probably termed it as god speed. La Veil was quite impressed by her technique and equally responded.

「Then I’ll also be serious for a bit」

Moving instantly to the side of the arrows trajectory, she swings her halberd down really fast crushing all the arrows that was supposedly aiming for her.

Horormir, whose best technique was broken, gave up on firing the next shot and tried to overturn it quickly approaching La Veil to attack, but she became stiff when she noticed that the halberd’s blade was already pointed at her neck. She was thinking just how absurd that moment was, she also noticed that her quiver was empty.

『And that ends it, the winner of the match goes to La Veil ane-sama!! She has proven her strength overcoming Horomir’s rain of invisible arrows directly and win!! She will be advancing into the quarter finals of the battle tournament!! Congratulations Ane-sama!!』

「I wasn’t even considered an enemy huh, I accept my complete defeat」

「Umu, continue polishing that skill of your from now on, I will be looking forward to the next time we have a match」

They exchanged a firm handshake and left the stage behind them. The audiences praised the two for showing them a great fight and continued to rain applause to them until they entered their waiting area and disappeared.

「How about that Arena, am I cool?」

「Un, La Veil, very cool~」

「Oooohweheheheh~~」

It’s fine to go all weird like that but you know, were in the middle of a crowd right now. Can you stop that for now because a lot of people are staring at us you know? Did La Veil already converted into something on the same mind as a fairy? No, I don’t think she’s even aware of how she should act in public which is kind of worrying.

『In the next match, the ones fighting will be Abil with a new sword in hand!! The opponent will be Chuck who uses a big chakram as weapon!!』

Both people who were now in the stage were not making any eye contact. Instead the both of them were looking at the weapons the other side carries and was only concentrating at the position of the other’s feet.

『Will Abil’s tricks and techniques be able to take down his enemy that uses a huge all-rounder weapon which is the chakram that can attack and defend from all directions!! I will be looking forward to their fight and see if who will reign victorious!! And so for the second battle, start!!』

「Uuuooooohhhh!!」

「I won’t let you!!」

An attack from the side which Abil quickly initiated was blocked Chuck’s chakram. Chuck is not as fast as Abil, but have good kinetic vision and movement control which is his selling point as an adventurer. Not to mention that chuck has enough sturdiness to even withstand an attack from a red bear and was able to stop it.

This time chuck counterattacked targeting Abil’s stomach but was prevented by quickly being blocked by Abil’s sword. But even though he was able to successfully block it, it was powerful enough to throw him off and numb his hands. Abil jumps away to regain his posture but chuck didn’t let him do that and pursed him once more.

「You were not down yet?」

「Chi!!」

Chuck spins his chackram to attck. Abil barely dodged it by squatting down and feeling the terrible wind pressure from the attack. Then chuck grins at Abil, while Abil was cautiously monitoring his movements.

「Do you think that it’s good to just quickly select goods as you want after throwing away your previous weapon?」

「It will be decided only by the characteristics of the weapon!」

Abil quickly assaulted chuck by moving at his blind spot in a really quick step and seings his sword. But chuck was able to predict it and countered, protecting himself by intercepting his sword.

「Don’t you think that something like that would only become fragile not matter how big that might become!!!」

「That talk about materials again!!?? This fool! 」

The chakram brilliantly prevented the whole force of the blow. Abil then noticed that his chakram was emitting small amounts of magic power making it a magic weapon which is certainly powered up.

「Damn, are you telling me that you’re using mithril? Does it become tougher if magicpower is inserted!? 」

「Good, correct answer!!」

Chuck quickly entered Abil’s attack zone and was able to make a gap for an instant and made a big swing. The audience screamed at Abil when he received the attack. After moving away being able to barely escape, blood dripped from Abil’s shoulders.

「Guh… Haah, haah, haah, a wound of this level would only be considered as a scratch!!!」

Abil immediately returned to a battle stance while giving off a strained smile and attacked. He was also preparing to receive chuck’s counter.

「Slow!!」

Stopping just before his attack approached, Abil slashed aiming for Chuck’s hand holding the chackram.

「Kuh, yo, youuuu to aim formy hand is!!」

「Uuuuuoooohhh!!!」

Aiming for that lapse, Abil quickly kicked Chuck’s chakram and delivered a massive head-butt on Chuck. Chuck’s helmet was slightly dented from the impact but it was effective in delivering a decisive to make Chuck faint making him fall down.

『Kyaaaaaaaaaa!! Despite the intense struggles, Abil was able to somehow knock his enemy Chuck down!! Abil has splendidly won his spot for the quarterfinals!!!!』

「This year, I might still be able to aim higher」

「What’s up Hino, for you to contact me now using that ridiculous magic tool?」

『Well, it’s just that there are two people in the battle tournament that I’m curious about』

The Hero, Kosaka Ayana was currently talking with another Hero Hino Eiki, they were using a magic tool that was similar to what Aidle was using when she was contacting Testania. She is currently hiding herself        using covert skills so that she won’t be noticed by everyone when she was making contact with other Heroes and can calmly talk without worries. However, Kosaka disliked thismagic tool because it consumes an extreme amount of magic power. Even though she hates it, it was still being used by other heroes for its convenience.

「Can you get straight to the point?」

『Okay, it’s about that Red lady called La Veil that was fighting earlier, also there’s Aidle in the b group, I don’t really have any information about them at the moment but I know that they are from a single party.』

If it’s about that, then Kosaka was also concerned. More like she didn’t like it. For there to be someone who would stand out more than the heroes, a beauty which was far more beautiful than the heroes, not to mention declaring that they were far more stronger than them and everything else.

『Well, judging from their actions, they would probably be people who would face Hallia in the future. That’s why I want them to be destroyed at this early stage』

「What do you want to do?」

『That is you know______』

「……Got it」

Kosaka was showing a distorted ugly face while listening to what Hino was plotting without any hesitation.

「So how much damage? Because killing is impossible, will it be an arm or a leg? 」

『It is such a place after all, maybe inflicting something that would prevent them from reattaching the cut off parts at the moment of being cut』

「I’d also like to mess up their faces, that’s fine right?」

『Do whatever pleases you. Well then, I’ll contact you again later if I got ahold of that kid』

After saying that, the call ended. Kosaka was in a nice mood humming after leaving that place.

Kosaka was free and have a lot of time so she was just spending her time leisurely, and she decided to enter the tournament just to blow off some steam. But still, for there to be an inconspicuous woman who took the center of attention from her and even foolishly declared to challenge the heroes. Kosaka wanted to kill her, but she couldn’t. Because the rules said that killing is prohibited, she was forced to only heavily damage her enemies.

However, for kosaka who knewthat she could ruin the life of those two people, her mood improved more than she expected and was waiting for the time where she would be contact once more.

「I’ll be looking forward as to what cries you will showing me♪

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I tried to compete with her in Jenga

「Why won’t it come off?」

「Is this balance really not going to fall?」

「Challenge to the limit~!!」

At the end all of the corners were removed and the tower fell when it was Aidle’s turn.