Chapter 264: Sylvio-niisan VS Luna-san
「Welcome back, loser. There was only one exchange, huh」
「Shut up」
When I console Eric as he approaches me with his body covered in sand, he said that to me while looking displeased.
Even though I’ve taken all that trouble to advise and console him, what an unfriendly guy.
Even so, the spar between Eric and Eleonora-neesan ended quickly as predicted.
Maybe around five seconds after the starting signal?
Truly fast. Eleonora-neesan is too strong that I can hardly see Eric’s skill, it can’t be helped.
Next, let’s watch Luna-san and Sylvio-niisan’s spar as planned.
「Hey, Alfried. Surely, you’re skilled in magic, right?」
As I thought like that and was about to turn my sight to those two, Eric suddenly talked to me.
「Yeah, what is it?」
「I see. So that means, your sister - miss Eleonora - also excels at manipulating magic power like you? Like an amazing Body Strengthening――」
「Eric, Eleonora-neesan didn’t use Body Strengthening magic, you know?」
Interrupting Eric from making a strange, mistaken idea, I resolutely inform him of the fact.
Then, Eric repeatedly opened and closed his mouth like a fish, making an astonished expression.
「……th, that’s absurd. To be able to reach that kind of speed without using magic……」
「It’s because it’s Eleonora-neesan she can do that」
「…………」
This is the phrase that Sylvio-niisan and I can understand.
However, from Eric’s perspective - who only had a single spar with Eleonora-neesan - it looks like he can’t seem to understand Eleonora-neesan’s absurdity.
Oh well, you would be made to keenly understand that today.
There’s no need for me to forcefully explain anything to him. I turn my gaze away from Eric - who is pondering about Eleonora-neesan - to express my stance and look toward Luna-san and Sylvio-niisan.
The two of them don’t decide the fight with swift attacks like Eric, it seems like they are having their face-off while measuring the distance between them.
Luna-san is still wearing her thin, light protector and a somewhat short wooden sword, while Sylvio-niisan is heavily armed, with thick armor and a shield in one hand.
The two have the exact opposite nature, one emphasizes speed and one on armor, but I wonder what kind of exchange they will have?
As I watch them while feeling excited, Luna-san - who is usually expressionless - has a slight frown on her face.
「……there are no gaps」
It looks like she realized that there is an unfamiliar feeling of oppression coming from Sylvio-niisan.
That’s right, Sylvio-niisan as he holds a shield has no gaps. If you attack him without thinking, then you will feel like he will immediately counter it.
Actually, he is not that terrifying besides his counter so there is no need to be that nervous, but since Luna-san doesn’t know about that fact, she may think that Sylvio-niisan is quite a powerful opponent.
「……if he has no gaps, then I will attack him until he shows a gap」
As their face-off continues, Luna-san resolves herself to attack, I guess she thought that they are getting nowhere.
Luna-san took a deep breath, exhale, and then she started running toward Sylvio-niisan who was holding a shield.
When Luna-san rushed on from the front like that, Sylvio-niisan receives her with the shield equipped in his left hand. And at the same time, the wooden sword in his right-hand makes a sharp counter cut.
Sylvio-niisan’s specialty was unleashed and the match is immediately decided, or so I thought, but Luna-san’s figure suddenly disappeared.
No, she didn’t disappear, she evaded by withdrawing his upper body to the limit and evading the counter.
「Eehh?」
What a flexible body! She is as flexible as a gymnast or skating athlete.
Crossing the horizontal cut, Luna-san kick Sylvio-niisan’s leg and retreated.
And after returning to her original position, she go around and cut into Sylvio-niisan’s side - whose posture collapsed.
Advancing while looking like she crawls on the sand, Luna-san sends out a sharp thrust to Sylvio-niisan.
And yet, Sylvio-niisan can still try to meet the thrust with his wooden sword to parry the attack. However, I guess it’s due to his poor posture that he can’t parry the attack cleanly.
And perhaps she had predicted that as Luna-san uses the energy from the half-parried attack as they are to move even further toward Sylvio-niisan’s chest.
Finding that to be intolerable, Sylvio-niisan tries to retreat while dodging that.
However, Luna-san continues to move closer to him without letting him do that and sent out successive attacks using the easy-to-carry wooden sword and her flexible body.
Attack, attack, dodge, attack. Offense is the best defense.
Luna-san’s battle style was reminiscent of such a phrase.
Sylvio-niisan is counterattacking Luna-san - who is dashing freely in his surroundings - with a distressed expression on his face.
Her movements were just like a dancing goddess, and Sylvio-niisan was at Luna-san’s mercy since he can’t predict her movements.
Sylvio-niisan frantically defends himself from her attacks, but this place is unfamiliar with sandy ground. And then his posture was greatly disturbed after being caught up in a deeply piled sand.
And when Luna-san rushes toward him - not passing up such an opportunity-, Sylvio-niisan strongly pushed out his shield out of desperation.
「It’s here! Sylvio Bash!」
「Sylvio Bash?」
Eric tilted his head and asks with a curious look when I yelled in excitement.
It’s a technique that can be said to represent Sylvio-niisan! But, that’s not important right now.
He sent out his shield to counterattack. And contrary to my expectation that she will dodge it, Luna-san charges in Sylvio-niisan’s direction.
While evading the shield by making full use of her body’s flexibility, she rolls toward Sylvio-niisan’s center of gravity.
Immediately after that, Luna-san arrived at Sylvio-niisan’s back in a flash and put her wooden sword on his neck.
「That’s it!」
After Egar-san raises the ending signal, Luna-san slowly put her sword away.
Uwaa, she’s absurdly strong, isn’t she?
I mean, Sylvio-niisan might not be familiar with the sandy ground, but even without it, it was still an advantage for predicting Luna-san’s victory.
Swordsmanship along with the ever-changing taijutsu that made full use of her flexible body. Even Sylvio-niisan - who excels in defense - lost to Luna-san, so Eleonora-neesan’s judgment before was right.
Ahー, I can’t picture the image of me winning against Luna-san at all.
「It took longer than I thought it would, huh?」
Eleonora-neesan calls out to her as Luna-san returns to the side and brushes off the sand on her body.
「……he was much stronger than what I heard from you, Eleonora. That defensive strength, that’s unfair」
「But, attacking that sort of defense is your specialty, right?」
「……well」
Luna-san’s answer was short, but I felt something like confidence in her tone and expression.
I guess she’s the type that specializes in irregular attacks, so she would be confident in maneuvering through all sorts of defense.
「Ahー, I lost」
「Sylvio-niisan, good work」
「You’re really amazing, being able to spar with my aneue to that extent on your first fight against her」
Eric and I made congratulatory remarks to Sylvio-niisan when he returned.
「I wonder if that was really considered a spar? From the first counter, I was not able to attack at all」
「Luna-san, her body was very flexible」
「She took full advantage of her flexibility, attacking while combining her unique rhythm and feints, that is aneue’s fighting style after all. I think it will be difficult to become familiar with her movements」
Eleonora-neesan and Luna-san have completely different fighting styles. It’s going to be difficult to get used to her fighting style.
「Next are Eric and Alfried-kun!」
As we were casually talking about the previous match,
Egar-san calls out to us.
And then, Eric sent a provocative gaze at me.
「Hou, I can finally have a rematch with you」
「Ehー? Could it be you’re holding a grudge over our fight with tongs?」
「That’s obvious! That kind of result is invalid. This time is a match using only pure swordsmanship!」
If it’s invalid then you shouldn’t be holding a grudge though……
Oh well, even if I told him that, Eric would not listen anyway.
In any case, it looks like this guy doesn’t like losing to me, even if it’s just a tongs match.
I don’t care about the result of sparring in this training, but it’ll be annoying to lose to Eric.
So let’s win this match, so he won’t make fun of me in the future.
「Yosh, I will also beat you this time」
「You can’t use magic this time, all right! Prepare yourself, Alfried!」
When Eric stands up and said that to me while pointing his finger at me, Egar-san’s irritated voice comes from the distance.
「The two of you, come here quickly!」
「「Ah, yes!」」