Chapter 66 – Volume 14 – It’s Me First (1)
“No, why did so many people gather?”
“…I do not know.”
YuRia focused on her magic practice for a week, and at the end of it, the promised Friday came, and she came to the appointed place with me.
But I don’t know where the information was leaked, but I was a little embarrassed because there were so many people gathered in the magic training center.
No, this is not an official match, so why are there so many people?
‘This makes me even more worried.’
Dueling in front of so many people was too much of a burden for Rosaria.
If she fails, Rosalia, who was considered a genius, will lose to her freshman classmate.
It didn’t seem like Yuria did it, and did the student council who hired it do it because they thought that Rosaria would win?
Whatever the outcome, this makes things too complicated.
Once Rosaria wins, Yuria has to leave her club.
Looking for a new club member is a little off, and now that I’m close with YuRia, I think I’ll be confused in many ways.
So, she prayed that Yuria would win, but in terms of the bet anyway, Rosaria was all about recognizing her Yuria.
So she had no choice but to hope that Yuria would defeat Rosaria, even if her odds were low, in order to keep the situation as similar as possible.
But if this is the case, even if YuRia wins, Rosaria will be put under tremendous pressure, creating an unprecedented risk.
‘Even most sophomores…’
After all, being a human being, when a person in a high place falls, a lot of bad stories come out.
Because just being at the top is the subject of envy and jealousy.
I just didn’t touch it because it was on top.
Humans are animals that bite and harass like prey the moment they look weak.
In fact, if Rosalia had been certain to win, she wouldn’t have worried about me either.
After seeing Yuria practiced recently, it was difficult for her to be sure of that.
If Rosaria had seen how YuRia practiced beforehand, Rosalia would have won, but since there’s no way that would be the case, she said that she should respond immediately after seeing that for the first time.
It can’t be that easy.
“Before we start the magic mock battle, let me explain the rules.”
This time, Rosaria and Yuria got into a fight, and I learned about it after studying.
The magic mock battle had a very different feel from the swordsmanship side.
Should I say it feels close to some kind of real-time turn-based?
They fight while exchanging the right to attack and the right to defend.
The person with the right to attack can cut off powerful magic for a much longer period of time, and the person with the right to defend only looks at the magic circle and starts drawing a counter magic circle from the middle.
That way, if you take more than a certain amount of damage, you lose.
‘That’s why Yuria has the advantage.’
First of all, the first attack is taken by the challenger who is generally evaluated as weak.
In other words, this mock battle means that Yuria will take her first attack.
But when you first see Yuria, she uses a technique that is difficult to avoid or block.
Then, of course, Yuria would have a huge advantage.
Even though YuRia was inferior in all aspects, including her experience and firepower, that was the reason why I gave her a high chance of winning.
Ha, it hurts my heart because it doesn’t go in a very good direction.
However, if I jump right in and stop it, the situation becomes even more serious as information spreads that this mock battle is fighting over me.
I’ll just have to wait and accept the results.
“And as there is a difference in grade level, for the sake of fairness, the use of magic letters will be based only on those used for admission.”
After all the guidance is over, YuRia and Rosaria take their seats.
In preparation for an unexpected accident, denominations or professors wait nearby, and a clock appears to proceed with the game.
“Attack, challenger Yuria, please prepare.”
“Yeah.”
“Defense, Rosaria de Magius-sama, please prepare.”
“I’m ready.”
The attack that Yuria takes on takes a total of 1 minute to draw a magic circle.
And the defense that Rosaria takes on can draw a magic circle for 30 seconds, starting from the point where 30 seconds have passed in that one minute.
In this way, it was the basis of the magic mock battle to alternate air and water in such a way as to minimize the damage and endure it.
‘It’s impossible to deal with avoiding by moving from the seat like when fighting swordsmanship, so it’s the only way to counter magic with magic.’
To be honest, I only use it because it’s a traditional method, so there’s no way I can properly grasp my magic skills.
To be honest, it’s more like a special sport using magic than an evaluation of magic skills.
To some extent, it was only used as an evaluation index because it was proportional to magic skills.
Come to think of it, it’s fun to draw something like sports as a cartoon, but using a magic mock battle as a subject matter is quite…
“What is that…?”
A puzzled voice comes from one of the many spectators.
And the reason was, of course, Yuria drawing an attacking magic circle.
He must have been taken aback by the neat appearance of the magic formation, which was unbelievable for a first year student.
Rosaria, who responded by drawing a magic circle after 30 seconds, was calm, not much different from that.
However, the problem with Yuria’s magic circle was that she couldn’t figure it out after only looking at it for 30 seconds.
She doesn’t know that she can’t figure it out exactly, and the problem is that she’s already drawn the magic circle.
“Crazy…?”
“Is that possible?”
That magic circle prepared by Yuria has more ⍁ than she thought, and this ⍁ is a magic circle that takes advantage of the fact that this ⍁ has the ability to isolate and divide the magic circle.
There is a strangely empty space between the ⍁ without any magic characters, and that was the space that Yuria drew at the end so that she could draw her line.
Just by drawing several lines between these ⍁, the magic of this magic circle can be completely changed by discarding some of the magic.
‘When the last 5 seconds remain.’
Yuria reversed the magic circle drawn by Rosaria.
She will be able to complete an attack that can counter that magic circle in 5 seconds.
No matter how much firepower you have, if you perfectly counter the magic circle in this way, there is no answer.
As soon as Yuria saw her completed magic circle, her second year students started to panic.
When you think about it, it’s only natural that even Yuria, who was good at drawing her magic circle on the spot, had to work on that one magic circle for several days before finally completing it.
Wow!
Crackling lightning along with intense light poured out of the magic circle and crashed into Rosaria’s defenses.
Originally, she had strong flame magic, so she defended with water, but since it suddenly became lightning, she couldn’t defend at all.
The lightning strikes Rosaria’s body as it is.
“Kyaaaaah
“Rosaria…!”
“Oh, huh?”
“The damage Rosaria de Magius suffered has reached its limit! The mock battle is over! The winner is Yuria!”
To be honest, Rosaria made a non-attribute shield together in preparation for such a situation.
If the firepower had been increased by drawing the magic circle itself a little bigger, it wouldn’t have been able to retire at once even if it took damage.
However, even if the magic circle is small for perfect defense, it must have happened because I was trying to use counter magic in detail to stop it.
“Ha…”
Rosalia, soaked in the waters of her self-made shield, slowly slipped through her magic thread habit, looking at her land.
The fact that Rosaria had lost by single decision made the spectators whisper and riot.
YuRia was drawing her V as if she had done it, but her mind was complicated because she just saw Rosa Ria walking despondently like her water-soaked mouse.
Although I hurriedly ran to her Rosaria and tried to console her.
Rosalia shook me off with her wet hands and went back to her dormitory alone.
I stayed up all night not knowing what to say.
When she tried to sleep, Rosalia couldn’t sleep because she thought of her.
“Carly? Don’t you eat breakfast?”
“…I’m not going to eat.”
Nia continued to talk to her, worried that she couldn’t sleep well and didn’t go out to eat.
In the end, she couldn’t just keep making excuses and run away until evening, so she came to have dinner as if she was being dragged out by Nia.
I’m hungry, so I’m eating it, but I don’t know what it tastes like.
“Cali junior?”
“… Senior Whiria?”
She was a senior named ‘Hyria de Furio’, who was known to belong to the student council.
She probably helped usher in her first day when she came to the academy.
“Look at me for a second. Ah, junior Nia is in the seat. It’s a story that only junior Kali should hear.”
“All right.”
Senior Hyria, who seemed to be dragging me half way, pulled me by the collar with a spirit different from her small size.
It seemed like I knew something about it, so I accepted it without protesting at all.
Come to think of it, that person Rosaria was a fan of the ‘Pink Diary’ that drew us as a motif.
“You may not know, but I am Rosaria-sama’s roommate.”
“Ah…?”
“Since Anim Rosary went into the bathroom to wash up yesterday, she still hasn’t come out of it.”
“…”
“I know roughly what happened, but I’m not in a position to say anything about it anyway. But… There’s no one other than you who can make Rosaria-sama come out.”
Beyond not eating, she didn’t even want to hear the consolation of her roommate, so she was stuck in her bathroom.
Whiria senior gave me the key to her dormitory, and she told me to take care of it.
And since I will be taken care of in a different room today, I was told not to worry and to stay with her until morning and return her to her original Rosaria-sama.
“This is all I can do for Rosaria-sama.”
“…Thank you.”
“That greeting will be from Rosaria-sama, not you, so go quickly.”
I threw away the rice I was eating and ran to Rosaria.
