Chapter 349: Difference in siblings’ strength

Chapter 349: Difference in siblings’ strength

Sophia and Darphy-dono were glaring at each other as they squared off.

Neither Sophia nor Darphy-dono were using mock weapons, but rather, real weapons. As one would expect, Freesia-san grew pale upon seeing her children drawing their swords to fight each other.

Believing that Sophia wouldn’t cause him great harm, our companions watched without worry.

Sophia held her sword in one hand as she eyed her opponent’s blade, unmoving. Darphy-dono readied his long sword and and round shield, gradually shortening their distance.

The first to move was Darphy-dono.

When Darphy-dono swung his longsword diagonally and Sophia easily brushed it off with one hand, his body drifted. He hurriedly jumped backwards, but Sophia remained still without pursuing him.

「Kuh! Don’t look down on me!」

Darphy-dono shortened the distance in one leap, and swung at Sophia with a side sweep that was difficult to avoid. Sophia handled this so easily, as if it was nothing.

Darphy-dono’s sword fighting was likely the orthodox style of knights. It looks to be the type of swordsmanship for interpersonal fights. On the other hand, since Sophia was also trained in this sword style since she was a knight of Yggurle Kingdom, but perhaps as a result of fighting multitudes of monsters with me, and because she sparred with us, she had refined it into her own original style.VịSit no(v)3lb/!n(.)com for new novels

「The little brother is being treated like a child.」

「It’s inevitable. There is a 4-fold gap between their levels, so the difference in their status is too vast to bridge with skills.」

「Even Sophia’s sword skills are higher than his, though.」

Even to Akane’s untrained eyes, the gap in Sophia and Darphy-dono’s strength was still overwhelming. She could tell they were absolutely safe.

Similarly, Freesia-san, who watched her own children fight with swords, was relieved when she figured that the worst would not happen.

On the other hand, Dante-san, a knight, was frozen in shock by Sophia’s strength.

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(Shit! Why! Why won’t it hit!? Wasn’t she a useless person kept in a slave shop for 50 years!?

Darphy’s sword continued to swing at and miss Sophia without even landing a graze.

Ever since he joined the Chivalric Order, he had been compared to his elder sister Sophia. The sister that was a genius who excelled not only with the sword, but also spears and magic. The younger brother should do his best to get even a little bit closer to her......

Kin!

Darphy’s longsword spun around in the air.

「Ah!?」

Dosu!

Sophia struck the Darphy’s head using the hilt of her sword, taking his consciousness.

「Fuu......」

Sophia looked unimaginably lonely as she watched Darphy collapse.

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When the unconscious Darphy was brought into the house, Dante-san and Freesia-san apologized to Sophia who looked sad.

「Sophia, we’re sorry about Darphy. We must have made a mistake with how we raised him.」

「Perhaps ever since that time, we had averted our eyes from our responsibility to this child who was becoming arrogant.」

「Father, Mother, please take care of Darphy.」

Sophia shook her head, saying that Dante-san and Freesia-san need not apologize, and entrusted Darphy-dono to them.

「Dante-san, Freesia-san, we would be glad if everyone could attend the wedding.」

「Iruma-dono, I will try to talk to Darphy properly once more.」

「I’m sorry. I will persuade Darphy as well.」

I bowed my head, giving my farewell greetings and went on my way.

There had been many tiring things, but the real match starts here......

TLN: Takumi switches between Darphy and Darphy-dono... not that I understand why he needs to add dono to someone who just insulted him and his group.

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