Chapter 949 – Week 9, Tuesday (19)
To be honest, Marey couldn’t figure out why the story went like this.
Why did Lauren suddenly ask to spar, and why did the three people, including LaBella, just wait and see instead of dissuading them?
I thought she would hate her, but then she treated me well again. I thought she would hate me again, but the elf princess, who didn’t know what the change of heart was, thought it was an opportunity and rushed to her.
However, all I could do now was take the posture I learned from Nagisa and Lee Ha-un.
The basics of battle lie with Lee Ha-un.
The basics of the sword belong to Nagisa.
Although I only learned it for less than two months, the two people praised me for being a great talent. I couldn’t tell Nagisa’s true feelings, but Lee Ha-un wasn’t the type of person to lie about something like that.
As I stood with my sword in hand, I seemed to see the illusion of Celestine’s body appearing several times larger.
Without saying a word, Marei raised her sword, or rather, in a posture that seemed optimal for a thrust, she lowered her sword and prepared to strike.
The sting was a point. Although she was powerful, her attacks were also difficult to deal with. Marei took a long breath, thinking that her spear would have made her feel a little more comfortable.
My great-grandfather’s sword technique that Lauren taught me. The basics that Labella takes care of from time to time. And techniques learned from Lee Ha-un.
“Because there is a spell on it, it won’t hurt you. What hurts… “Because the governor has put a terrible stake on it.”
It must hurt so bad. Seeing the elf princess smiling cruelly, Marei instinctively raised her sword.
-Chaeng!
I felt a strange pain on my cheek along with the sound of the tip of her sword striking.
“Oh, you know how to do a little?”
Marei swallowed her dry saliva as she saw Celestine adjusting her posture again as if nothing had happened. Sick. No, it hurts a lot. The entire inside of her mouth trembled in pain.
Did you see it? No, you didn’t see it. She wasn’t sure. Rather than thinking that she was moving, her body moved on its own, and she struck down Celestine’s sword. However, only by slightly twisting her trajectory, I could tell that she had grazed her cheek.
No, my cheek must have been pierced. I thought that if it weren’t for the enchanted sword, her cheek would have been torn apart, so I tightened my grip on the sword.
“This time it’s the heart. Damage. “If you get hit, you won’t be able to breathe, right?”
Seeing Celestine’s more relaxed appearance, Marey focused on the tip of Celestine’s sword. She aims for the heart. How do I stop it? No, should I avoid it? After dodging, the next attack is. Because I didn’t have enough strength. Isn’t it threatening?
And immediately the tip of her sword stabbed her in the chest.
“… !”
It was a moment, but her body did not move. The feeling of not being able to even breathe. Rather than feeling pain, it felt like she was just standing still, and Marei flinched and barely managed to exhale.
“Is this your first time in sparring? Or is it still not enough?”
Celestine lightly twirled her sword and looked at Marei. I tried to reduce the impact by twisting my body, but it was a method that only worked in sparring. If it had been real, the sword that had lightly penetrated the sternum would have pierced the heart.
Somehow. However, this was Celestine’s evaluation after looking at the sum of the two. He said it was a great talent, great, and cool, but compared to the two months of flying geniuses he knew, it was insignificant.
Especially.
Celestine’s gaze turned to Ravella.
Compared to LaBella, who became a sword master in less than a year by squeezing into the Registry class led by Lauren, it was truly insignificant.
Thanks to the ridiculous character of Labella de Pawen, even high-ranking nobles and royal families could be sure of it because she was one of the people who suffered from the Labella method of education for a while.
“Next time is snow.”
“Please.”
Ask? Celestine smiled without realizing it. This wasn’t teaching, it was just anger. How dare you, Lavela, how dare you. How. On your topic. Contains such emotions.
Celestine took a deep breath and stretched out his arms.
-Chaeng!
“You blocked this?”
Blocked. No, it wasn’t blocked. However, it was accurate to say that he narrowly avoided the attack by tilting his head as he raised his sword.
Should I speed up a little more?
“Try again. Also, because it’s snow.”
Celestine stabbed her sword into Marei’s eyes in the same posture, at the same timing, and with the same trajectory.
-Chaeng!
“Lie.”
Blocked. I definitely blocked it this time. He moved his body slightly, but not funnily. It was just like an ordinary defensive stance. Should I say that it moves like looking at a textbook?
No, she most likely made a mistake. No, she made a mistake. Despite his cute appearance, I just didn’t have strong hands. He felt like he would smile strangely at the boy who was looking at him with such a serious expression.
It’s not ridiculing or being funny or anything like that. I just felt like I was going to laugh strangely. It was difficult to make eye contact as he looked at him seriously.
It would have been great if it wasn’t at such pervert, lowest level. No, if it weren’t for LaBella, I would have just passed it off as an extremely complicated personal story… It was a shameful face.
“Thighs.”
As soon as she spoke, Celestine stabbed her sword.
-Chaeng.
This too is blocked. It was definitely faster than before.
Does this mean that you are slowly getting used to it? I was planning on playing around with it, but little by little it started to become more serious.
“Thursday.”
“Tsk… !”
Stabbed I tried to stop it, but I was faster.
“Can you do it one more time?”
“If I do it one more time, can I stop it?”
Seeing the little girl nodding her head, Celestine let out an awkward laugh.
“Thursday.”
Same orbit. Same speed, and same power. Celestine moved her sword in perfect control and stabbed Marei in the neck again.
-Chaeng!
Couldn’t stop it. It was slightly, very slightly late and the back of her neck was scratched.
“Again… “Please do it again.”
Celestine had a feeling that something strange was going on.
“… Thursday.”
-Chaeng!
It’s blocked.
Celestine finally seemed to understand why this place was created. The elf princess’s silver eyes glared at Lauren. As she looked at Marey, she could see how the situation had unfolded as she saw the governor smiling slightly.
“… It’s absurd.”
She doesn’t want to put her hands on her talented young grandson. But you need someone who can lead you harshly. Is it that much? No, at this rate, Lauren would just have to teach her the level of bullying for a few days.
Does he want to show off to himself the talent of that pervert kid? Celestine threw away the half-joking feeling and took her stance again.
“From now on… Do it right.”
“Yes!”
Celestine smiled bitterly at the boy’s energetic response. She was an outstanding child. She might not be as good as or similar to LaBella. No, seeing as she spoke of her successor in front of her, she could have been more than just Ravella, the talent of Marey de Pawen.
But you’re giving the position of Lady Labella to a little boy with only one talent and a lack of character, who violated his mother, tamed and trained him?
I couldn’t admit it to myself.
Opening his closed eyes, Celestine wordlessly drew the path of the sword from the bottom right to the top left.
“Ugh… !”
I tried to avoid it, but it was slow. Marei sat down, hugging her chest with her white face.
Was it too much? Celestine looked at Lauren’s eyes. Looking at her without saying anything, it seemed like this was okay.
“Please, please do it again.”
“… Your mental strength is useless.”
It wasn’t an actual cut, but the pain was enough to make me scream and roll around. Nevertheless, Celestine moved her sword again as she took a stance with trembling hands.
Bang. There was a light metallic sound. No, it was accurate to say ‘bang tada dang tang’.
“… You lack the basics, but you show strange skills.”
He was unable to twist the trajectory or block it completely, so he struck his sword three times to lessen the impact. It was an art that would be performed by masters at a far higher level.
“Oh, that’s… Isn’t this it?”
Even though she wanted to hate Marei as she asked questions with her innocent face, strangely she couldn’t. As if some kind of spell had been cast. He was a pervert kid who did such a ridiculous thing to Labella.
A type of human being that is not worth dealing with. Even though she was thinking that, seeing her looking at her with a serious face only made her mind feel confused.
I think it may have happened because Lavela accepted her foolish behavior. There’s no way someone like Labella would have been violated by a kid like this because he had a weakness, so I guess it’s just an agreed-upon story between the two.
My head was spinning. Countless hypotheses and stories swirled around.
Even the thoughts were not properly formed.
“… It’s okay. From now on, I will do it while moving. Follow me properly.”
Right now, I just wanted to use my body without thinking about anything. Celestine moved lightly and extended her sword.
-Chaeng.
Marei blocked again, increasing the distance between her. Celestine let out a long sigh.
Let’s think about Labella later, let’s focus on the present for now.
Thinking like that.
