Carb Sears (R) 96

Chapter 96 – Rules of Barbarism.

Usher remembered Donnar’s words. He had to come to his senses, even though his heart was burning and even his head was seething. Only then could he win this fight. That day, as usual, training was over.

“Wait a minute. I have something else to teach you.”
“Isn’t training for this hour over? I’m hungry.”

He was full of thoughts of going to eat soon after training. The training at dawn was arduous, and it was only natural that he would think of Bob more deeply.

“Don’t talk nonsense, just listen. It’s not like you’re losing money.”

At the same time, Donar holding him was quite annoying, but Usher decided to listen to him.

“It’s nothing else, but I think I need to teach you how to fight.”
“Aren’t you already learning how to fight?”
“Is there any guarantee that you will always be able to hold the sword?”

He said that it is not unusual for a sword to break or become unusable in actual combat, so learning how to use various weapons is not a prerequisite for knights.

“Especially important is bare-handed fighting.”
“A hand-to-hand fight?”
“Yes, bare-handed fighting. It is often referred to as a fist fight.”
“Why is that?”

I wondered if it was okay to learn something like that while learning the sword, but Donnar says there are times when it’s more important. No matter how well-trained and prepared a knight is, if he loses his weapon, he will have to fight with his bare body if he loses even that, with his bare body.

“Standard methods are good, but too standard fighting methods are rather poisonous.”

Then he dug up the gymnasium, put dirt on his hands and threw it on the part corresponding to the face of the straw practice puppet and scattered it.

“Now, what will the other person do if we do this?”
“Would you mind closing your eyes?”
“That’s right, that’s an important moment. Especially if the opponent hasn’t properly prepared for battle, it’s the best.”
“But isn’t that cowardly?”

I thought it was too cowardly to see it as a knight’s fighting law, but Donnar shrugged his shoulders as if it was no big deal.

“Where is there any cowardice in war and battle? Winning is enough. There are also numerous cases where Hildisbini is made to carry a bag of sand that can be sprayed on the opponent.”

Honor is important to a knight, but it is said that victory itself is more important than that. In any situation, defeat is not acceptable, so you have to know how to fight and win in any situation. It targets the opponent’s weakness and sometimes steals the opponent’s weapon and defeats the owner with that weapon. Even if you are cowardly and cover up with filth, you must win the victory.

“Anyway, the things I’m going to teach you now are mainly these things. It’s really not a big deal. The difference between knowing this or not knowing it is quite big, so memorize it well.”

Usher was annoyed by Donar’s extra instruction by procrastinating until mealtime, but he was really grateful for it now. Thanks to that, I was able to beat up the guy who insulted Belka like this. When the children saw Pavel being beaten, they looked at each other, unable to find anything to say.

“Hey, shouldn’t I help you?”
“Wouldn’t it be okay to intervene in a duel?”
“I think he’s going to work like that.”

The children, at least right up to the start of the fight, were excited, but they stamped their feet like a lie and became anxious. In particular, the blood that flowed so much that they couldn’t tell whether it was from Pavel’s nose or her mouth, and Usher, who kicked down the opponent without mercy even when he was knocked down, and when he opened her eyes, threw sand at her to take away her sight and repeatedly hit her, made the children think recklessly. Made it impossible to dry. It wasn’t like the duel of knights they were expecting, but a bloody battle.

“What the hell did Mr. Donard teach him?”

Rogi was in the same place as the children surrounded Usher, so he had been watching what had happened. When Usher started a fight. She was going to help if you were going to lose, but she didn’t have to. Rather, it was to the point where Usher wondered whether he should be stopped before he really killed his opponent. It was when Logi was watching the duel with a nervous feeling.

“What the hell is this?”

Three girls, including Medea, approached this place with surprised eyes. Logi knew who Mediah was. She had never met her face to face, but she was very nervous knowing that she was the daughter of the lord. Behind her was Belka and a girl he saw as a dwarf he had never seen before. She asked him with cold eyes that the girl who met her eyes with him felt nothing.

“What happened to Usher?”

It was a sharp voice, as if he wouldn’t stay still if he didn’t say it right. Logi wanted to say something, but Pavel’s voice rang first.

“Ha, surrender! Surrender!! Stop hitting me!”

At the place where the voice came from, Pavel collapsed covered in blood and Usher stood there sighing, and the girls made faces of surprise. Yes, Pavel was the one who made the children bully Usher until yesterday. It was unbelievable that he, who had refused to duel until now, had made his opponent bloody with an angry look.

“Surrender? Surrender? Don’t be ridiculous. It doesn’t mean that I don’t know the rules of dueling, right?”

Now, even though the girl he liked so much came here, Usher stepped on the fallen Pavel and questioned him.

“When you challenged me to a duel. Tell me what you were trying to put me on.”
“It’s just that I don’t like you…”
“Tell me!”
“Ouch!”

As Usher pressed his foot against his chest, Pavel gasped for breath. The children couldn’t intervene in Usher’s already blinded appearance, and the girls around them questioned what had happened and the girls who had heard the story watched silently.

“Or do you want to die like this?”

As Usher tightened his feet more and more, Pavel gasped and opened his mouth, probably realizing the danger.

“Yes, give me your girlfriend.”

At that, the children murmured, and Medea and Lyudmila were really impressed with the fact that it was not different from what they expected. Perhaps because of this, Usher could hardly calm down his excitement even after winning the duel.

“If you really liked Belka, you should have confessed to Belka first, no matter what the outcome, rather than challenging me to a duel.”

It wasn’t whether or not she had a girl that mattered, it was her heart. Pavel had an expression of belated realization, but she was already too late.

“But you challenged me to a duel and bet Belka!”

Without even considering the girl’s mind and will, she forced her girl to a duel while she herself risked nothing. Like a thing.

“But I won. Then I’m entitled to demand from you the same terms as you forced me to.”
“That!”
“Stop thinking about saying no! Do you still have the right to tell me I’m a coward who ran away from a knight’s duel?!”

The guy who was trying to say something immediately shut his mouth. The words the guys used to bully him.

“I’ve heard you guys whisper. There’s nothing to say even if your opponent loses his life during a duel. To me, he ran away because he was scared.”

The boy looked at him with a pale face. He seemed to have a vague intuition of what he was asking for.

“That, that kind of thing! Just!”
“Just? Just!?”

Has such a guy persistently forced a duel up until now? Did they harass him so filthy and mercilessly with the prejudice they created?

“I only ask for one thing. Your life.”
“That’s impossible…!”
“Don’t talk nonsense! It was as if he had already bet Belka on me as a condition for a duel, and from the moment this guy asked me to risk his life.”

One of the children who watched the duel around tried to speak on his side, but when Usher gnashed his teeth and glared at him, he shut his mouth. The other children were too overwhelmed by the bloody force to say anything. He just watched with a blank face. Seeing that, Usher realized that what Mediah had said was accurate. See how he was speechless and frightened when those who had been calling him a coward and persecuting him had now defeated their leader, even though he refused to duel for a just cause.

They were truly pathetic and savage people. That was when Usher raised his sword just as he was about to put his finishing touches. Someone walked out among the children.

“Usher.”

The children were speechless at the sight of the girl who came out of their gap. It was a calm and soft voice that was far from it, as if he had not noticed anything strange even though he had seen the bloody battle that had just taken place. She was just a girl in a maid’s uniform, and the children froze at her figure and mood. Seeing her, Usher bit her lip and averted her gaze. She looked like a child who had been caught up in the wrong way, as if she had just gone mad with blood and looked like she was about to kill Pavel.

“Belka, but this guy.”

As if Usher hadn’t been reluctant to do such a thing just before, the girl approached her casually, took her handkerchief from her pocket and wiped the blood off his face.

“It doesn’t matter now. Let’s go eat. You’re hungry.”
“…Okay.”

Only then did Usher release the strength in his hand, and the sword rolled on the ground making a loud noise. Belka took his hand and slowly moved out of the crowd. Pavel and her children could hardly catch them escaping the encirclement they had created.

“You ran around like that and won the duel.”
“Wow, you guys really can’t live without each other.”

It was Medea and Lyudmila who welcomed them out of the crowd of children. Usher turned his head at the sight of him looking at him with a warm, lukewarm gaze, as if he was great or proud. Just a moment ago, the fever had risen to the top of his head and he felt like he was going crazy. Now his face is so hot it’s driving him crazy. So when they tried to get out of there completely. I ran into Heath, a picky dwarf. He immediately saw Lyudmila next to him. Lyudmila also noticed him and was the first to open her mouth.

“Uncle.”

Usher looked back and forth between Lyudmilla and Heath, startled by the words. Now that I look at it, it looks a bit like it.

“It’s been a while.”
“Yes.”

After a short conversation, they soon looked away as if nothing had happened. It was too desolate to say that he had met his family or blood relatives. Either that or not, Heath turned his gaze to Mediah.

“My lady, how would you like to do this?”
“Heath knows what happened, right?”
“Yes.”
“Will you tell Sir Gregory that you will ask for a just punishment?”
“All right.”

Then the hiss disappeared. Confirming that he had completely disappeared, Ludmilla put on a sullen expression.

“Really. How does that golem-like appearance never change?”
“Huh, no matter how you look at it. You were worried about Ryuda a lot?”
“Nonsense.”

Usher thought for a moment that he had uttered the thought himself, but it was Lyudmila’s.

“Really?”
“Meah. I’d rather believe these guys will break up.”
“Why us?!”
“That’s why you can’t believe it.”

The way she shrugs Usher’s shoulders as he huffs up makes me wonder who isn’t a friend. That look was also similar to Mediah. On the other hand, Rogi, who was unable to do this or that among the children, stood vaguely watching them.

“I can’t.”

He murmured and trudged to the other side.