Chapter 488 – Encounter.
“”…””
Silence and bleak gazes pass between them, examining each other’s arms. Usher’s weapon is a rapier, Paris’s is a longsword. Even the slightest wind stopped, leaving only clouds floating over the water.
– Kuruk!
Chaaaaak! At the same time as Hildisbini watched the scene, Usher and Paris jumped at each other, cutting through the sky with their feet.
-Chaeeng!!
The sound of blades clashing against each other. But there was no rustling sound. Their swords resonated with the impact of the collision, and before they even sounded, they were moving on their blades and shaving away their blades.
– Skaak!
“Kuh!?”
However, the result was clearly Usher’s advantage. Faris pulled his shoulders and body forward, somehow trying to push his sword away with force.
“This…!”
Because of this, Usher’s sword, which lightly relaxed the hand holding the sword, rather fell forward and gave up his upper body.
“It’s big?!”
Naturally, Usher didn’t miss the opportunity and punched him in the stomach. Paris’s armor was mainly made of chains rather than sheet metal.
It doesn’t know how to block blades, but it’s weak against thrusts and blows. Being Usher was no different. His armor was also of the same shape, and this is bound to be similar no matter which country you go to.
Knights, even with full plate armor, often had to deal with monsters that were bigger and stronger than humans, so they had to be designed so that they could move quickly.
“Keep it off!!”
Ignoring the pain in his stomach, Paris tried to push Usher’s stomach with all his might, putting strength into the hilt of his sword and pushing it towards him.
Stabbing the stomach with the cross guard would cause more pain than a fist. However, Faris’ action was stopped when Usher moved his foot and pushed it into his leg.
“Cheukhak!?”
Not only that, but the cross guard that was trying to stab him was pushed towards him, rather stabbing his stomach. Usher shoved Paris back with his shoulder and looked at him with a puzzled look.
“Are you sure the article was right?”
Usher’s expression in the helmet was invisible to Paris, but he could see it. He knows that Usher is disappointed. Disappointment about what?
I didn’t even have to think about it. Paris had never once had the upper hand over Usher during that moment of sword splitting.
“…Damn it! Don’t look down on me!!!”
Faris couldn’t contain his anger and swung his longsword down.
-Chaeeng!
This was also lightly blocked by Usher’s rapier. He didn’t think it would work anyway. It was because Paris realized that the opponent was overwhelmingly stronger than she had just exchanged swords for a moment.
‘If you can’t do it with a straight attack, take a surprise attack!’
He tried to strike Usher in the stomach again with his raised left knee as he clashed his swords.
-With a splash!
What had been overlooked was the fact that the track they were standing on was submerged and that Usher had one hand empty. Paris’ knee is blocked by his hand, of course.
‘Does not matter!’
Paris still thought it didn’t matter. What I was really aiming for was the head, not the stomach. The weight of the weapon is superior to the longsword over the rapier.
In addition, Usher is holding the sword with only one hand. Aiming for this gap, I grabbed the sword body with one of his two hands that were holding his handle and pushed it.
‘It’s a success. Just like this…!?’
He tried to thrust his sword through Usher’s helmet, but Paris was moving away from Usher instead of pushing him.
‘Oops!’
Again, he belatedly realized his mistake. It was a problem that he raised his knee as an answer to create a gap in the first place. In addition to the unbalanced situation, his knees were caught in Usher’s hands.
-With a splash!
It was natural for him to fall asleep. But Paris did not give up. As he fell into the water, he pulled out the pommel from the back of the handle and threw it at Usher’s pitch with all his might.
After all, Pommel is a piece of iron, so if you get hit, you won’t be able to ignore the shock even if you’re wearing a helmet. Usher, as if laughing, easily dodged the pommel thrown by him and trampled on the stomach of the fallen Paris.
“Is this the end?”
In the end, Paris had to admit that she couldn’t defeat Usher on her own. So, there is only one way left. He shouted as he grabbed Usher’s leg, who had trampled on his stomach.
“Pirika-sama! Now! Run away!!”
“Under?”
“I’ll be holding him right now!”
He grabbed Usher’s feet with all his might and shouted, but there was no answer from Pirika. Even Usher’s gaze looking down at him seems to be lukewarm, while Paris is embarrassed by the atmosphere.
“I’m sorry I misunderstood you, Paris.”
“Pirika, sir?”
He spoke with a clear voice that sounded like silver bells ringing from him and contained feelings of pity.
“I know him. He only brought me out because I was too busy with work.”
“That, it can’t be. But how did Pirika-sama…”
Paris couldn’t help but put on a blank expression. If so, aren’t her things he’s been trying to save up to now pointless? I realized something strange about losing energy for a while.
“…Don’t lie.”
“That’s a lie. Why am I?”
“How long do you think I’ve been by your side?”
He has been with her most of the time, even though he can’t help but watch her every move from the days when Pirika was di Macaeri until she became Mai Na Des.
“Did you say you knew each other? It can’t be!”
If it was a friendly relationship, it was normal to have seen or run into him at least once.
“Did you threaten Pirika-sama to say something like that!?”
“I won’t listen to you any more.”
“It’s big?!”
Usher stomped on Paris’ belly with all his might, then kicked him off with a series of kicks in the stomach. Because of this, while Paris was writhing in pain, she turned around and boarded the boat Pirika and Elkana were riding on.
“Huh!? Usher? G-here right now?”
Hearing Pirika’s embarrassing voice at the moment, he suppressed her pain as much as possible and stood up from her seat, but it soon froze.
“Chum, haeup ♡ sssss ♡ chueup ♡”
As soon as Paris woke up, the first thing that caught her eye was Usher kissing Pirika after taking off his helmet on the boat.
He’d rather believe that Pirika was being forcefully kissed by Usher. However, no matter how many times I washed my eyes and looked again, the scene in front of me did not change.
His arms were wrapped around Usher’s shoulders and he lifted his heels to make up for his short stature. The white light that opens her tightly closed eyes and looks up at him is filled with sweet emotions that she has never seen before.
“Yeah ♡ uh yeah ♡ chung ♡”
Pirika’s voice as she kissed her, even the flirtatious moaning that permeated even the woman’s desperation as if she was grunting in agony even though Usher had only hugged her tightly.
When you’re with yourself, a face you’ve never shown, an action you’ve never shown, a voice you’ve never heard. The sight of everything new to him did not belong to Paris.
“Ha ha♡”
Even at the moment when the transparent thread that stretched and connected their tongues snapped, Paris was unable to do anything. Even until Usher disappeared over the lake in a boat carrying Pirika.
“Did you really need to do that?”
Usher asked the opposite of Pirika’s words, looking at him as if he was grumpy.
“Then you didn’t like Pirika?”
“Hee, it’s not like that. Speaking of normal dating…”
“Why do we have to keep an eye on him?”
Was there any room for Paris to intervene between them in the first place? Whether dating or expressing affection, why do I have to pay attention to him?
“Yeah, that’s right.”
Pirika, who quietly blinked a white light, is a mate! Clapping her hands, she stood on the boat.
“Pirika?”
“Whoops, wait a minute.”
It was when she spoke with her laughter when he questioned him curiously.
-Kikkiik!
“What?!”
Something suddenly moved from the bottom of the ship. Not only that, but small things bumped into the oar he was holding, blocking the movement. When I wondered if something like Pacitilla lived in this lake.
“Mister! Look at this!”
Bored, Elkanah, who had put her hand out over her stomach and was just splashing around her paddle, smiled brightly and pointed down at her. Then Usher’s eyes could see what was under the ship.
“Fish? No, snake?”
Beneath the boat, they looked like fish at first glance, but they were not fish. Their scales were harder and more colorful, and they had vertically slit eyes like those of snakes.
However, it was only a small size of the palm of my hand, and what appeared next was even the size was huge.
-Shoot!
As it exposed its long neck, the boat rocked and the water in the lake rose. Another strange-looking reptile with fins instead of legs was carrying the boat they were riding on as if it were carrying them on its back.
“These are…”
“Even Usher now can make that kind of expression, right?”
Seeing his face, Pirika laughed happily. Usher looked at him and smiled. Because she was laughing too. Just like the girls of those days.
