Chapter 418 – Instructor Siyoung Kim (3)
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There is something the instructors at the academy always say.
Practice is different.
Fighting virtual targets versus real monsters.
When I met someone who sincerely tried to kill me, I had no choice but to instinctively shrink.
Instructor Kim Si-young must be familiar with such murderous intentions, because in her early days when she was active, it was literally an era of great confusion.
It was a time when gates appearing from all sides, chaos created by the awakening and all kinds of villains were rampaging.
In those days, she said, it was normal for her to deal with people, not just monsters.
There were even people who suddenly changed and tried to kill people inside the gate, so it must have felt like walking on thin ice.
And, like a hunter who experienced those days firsthand, she seemed very familiar with killing intentions.
‘That’s why he must be glaring at me like that.’
It wasn’t just to intimidate. What Instructor Kim Si-yeong, now in front of me, was showing me was real life.
It’s not because he hates me, it must mean that he’s immersed in the battle right now.
It seemed like he would fight like a real battle to accumulate real combat experience.
The other cadets might have been frightened by her tingling sharpness, but not me.
How many experiences have you had so far, how many times have you dealt with villains, and have you actually died?
In addition, I don’t know if it’s because of the experience of dealing with the old man, but the threshold of feeling fear is quite high compared to others.
‘Because the old man is no joke either.’
Instead of shrinking from Instructor Kim Si-young’s earnest murderous intent, her body heats up with excitement.
She must have felt that too, and her expression didn’t look very sweet.
Yeah, she doesn’t mind that she doesn’t bat an eye when she’s really intent on killing.
I don’t know the details, but my pride seemed stronger than I thought.
Kim Si-young came in first, probably thinking of taking over the steamer.
Putting her weight on her right foot, Kim Si-young narrows her distance in one breath, how will her next attack come in.
She’s in a downward motion, but there’s no way she’ll attack so simply.
Not all of them, but I was constantly watching the way Instructor Kim Si-young used the sword.
That’s why she had expected to some extent how she would wield it. As expected, her sword suddenly changed its trajectory.
If it were the other guys, I might not have reacted and allowed the attack, but I was used to this kind of sword.
Since it’s a sword that I usually use often, I decided to go beyond simply blocking it and use Instructor Kim Si-young’s sword in reverse.
It was not difficult to change the trajectory because the sword had considerable power, probably because it was intended to be pulled out at once.
When she turned the angle, her sword flowing along the blade, the moment she was about to attack Instructor Kim Si-young’s defenseless body, her legs came up from the bottom.
‘I don’t think it’s going to be easy.
He blocked the kick aiming for the stomach, but the recoil spread the distance in an instant.
Thanks to that, my attack cut through the air. Seeing the fight back then, I expected it to a certain extent, but he was the type to use taijutsu.
‘I was careless too.’
Her main weapon is a double dagger, and since she often fights in close quarters, it is natural that her taijutsu skills are developed as well.
A fairly tricky attack continued, but I got used to it to some extent while dealing with Minji.
__Widely!! Percussion!! Widely!! Widely!!
Wooden swords collided one after another in the air. A workshop that comes and goes in just a few seconds.
Even the slightest mistake would lead to fatal attacks in quick succession.
I don’t know if it’s because she uses twin swords, but her swordsmanship seamlessly connects between attacks.
Even so, it was inevitable that there would be a gap with the main weapon, the twin swords, but it seemed to have been complemented by a combination of martial arts.
‘It’s tricky.’
Even though it wasn’t my main weapon, I had enough skills to not be pushed by my swordsmanship.
But, to put it simply, not using magical power means fighting only with pure physical ability and swordsmanship.
Thanks to his stats, his physical abilities have also improved, and his main weapon is a flying sword.
No matter how different the skills are, you can’t just be defeated by opponents who aren’t your main weapon.
I stopped defending myself and fixed my sword.
‘For this kind of thing, momentum is important.’
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‘Did your eyes suddenly change?’
Kim Si-woo, who was silently accepting his sword, changed his expression.
Most of the other guys are the ones who couldn’t even make eye contact with themselves, but they go beyond accepting their life casually and even counter it?
‘Kang isn’t normal.’
It may seem like boasting, but in the past, tolerable hunters couldn’t even make eye contact with themselves.
In the past, they lived more like animals than people. Time had passed, but it was clear that it was not a pressure he could endure at the cadet level.
In fact, the other guys couldn’t stand the pressure and collapsed, but it didn’t seem to have any effect on Kim Si-woo.
‘Is it because I have experience dealing with villains?’
I was interested, so I looked up the records, and although he had quite a bit of experience fighting villains, I never thought it would be this much.
If he did not know that Siwoo Kim was in front of him, he was at a level that would be mistaken for a veteran who has been rolling for over 10 years in the field.
‘I thought he was a soft-hearted guy… Did he have this kind of side?’
When Kim Si-woo, who became aggressive with her eyes, and Kim Si-woo, who had only defended her, started attacking, she began to be pushed back little by little without realizing it.
This was by no means a sword made in a short time.
A blow sharp enough to make even himself chill, and the ability to use the other person’s psychology in reverse.
A sword this sharp could only be possessed by those who had experienced the battle between life and death.
__ Booung!!
Kim Si-woo’s sword narrowly passes his face while taking a second glance.
The level was so excellent that if you didn’t do your best, you would be defeated.
As the sword, drawing a unique and bizarre trajectory, passed by narrowly several times, I had no choice but to backtrack naturally.
‘Tsk. If I had known it would be like this, I would have picked up the twin daggers.’
It wasn’t that he couldn’t use a sword, but it wasn’t his main weapon.
‘Still, I thought it wasn’t to the level of being pushed by the cadets.’
Kim Si-young licked her lips with her tongue and checked Kim Si-woo’s face.
At that time, she had the face of an innocent young man who knew nothing, but now she has the face of an old warlord who has gone through all the battlefields.
Even though she is living her life, she maintains reason, her heart is hot and her head is cold.
It’s widely known as the most important mindset in battle, but there aren’t many people who can really do it.
‘You’re real.’
Since I was dealing with Kim Si-woo, my heart started beating fast.
How long have you been feeling this?
Was there anyone who made my heart beat like this?
It was a pity that this was a simple sparring. If it had been a confrontation using mana, I would have felt a stronger trembling than this.
‘But, I can’t just lose to a cadet!!’
Kim Si-woo’s skills are excellent, to the point that he makes even himself nervous.
However, no matter how it was, losing to a cadet was something that pride would not allow.
Kim Si-young read the strange movement of her sword and rather dug into her arms.
Although at first she was taken aback, she began to get used to it by countering it somewhat.
Of course, she can’t read perfectly, but her taijutsu covers that.
Each weapon has an appropriate distance. And those who use swords are inevitably vulnerable to such super-close combat.
She did a good job parrying attacks for intermittent containment, but that wasn’t her whole hearted swing.
In order not to even give the sword any distance to move, he continued to dig into his arms, and at the same time he threw out a long fist.
“Keugh..”
Embarrassed by the unexpected attack, Siwoo Kim began to be pushed away.
Yes, no matter how experienced you are, you will have a hard time responding to these irregular attacks.
It may look ugly, but it’s a catch technique that I learned from Choi Tae-soo over his shoulder.
It may not be enough to use it as a main force, but there is nothing like a catch skill to create a variable.
‘This is the difference in experience. Cadet Kim Si-woo!!’
The gap created by the attack just now, aiming for that gap, stabbed the sword.
It held up well, but that’s it.
The moment he tried to push the sword in, Kim Si-woo’s sword moved.
__ Creepy.
Her survival instincts suddenly gave her a warning.
I thought it was a gap, but cadet Kim Si-woo raised his sword and struck back his sword.
She moved without hesitation, as if she knew she was going to be there from the start.
The moment the sword touches, the direction of the force suddenly begins to twist. Her own sword that twists her trajectory.
‘Is that what happened earlier!!’
Could it be that he showed a gap to let his guard down and induced an attack?
If you go like this!
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When the confrontation between Kim Si-woo and Instructor Kim Si-young began, all the cadets around them held their breath and watched the two fight.
__That… How do you hold on?
__Was Siwoo Kim at that level?
They couldn’t breathe properly in front of Kim Si-young, but Kim Si-woo was receiving the sword as if nothing happened.
Kim Si-young’s sword that rages like a storm.
The cadets, who had been stabbed in vital places by that sword in the space of a moment, shuddered as they recalled the memories of that time.
__Still, the instructor will win, right?
__Ay, could the instructor lose?
The moment he was thinking that, Kim Si-woo’s mood suddenly changed.
Kim Si-woo’s movement, which has changed more sharply than before, began to draw an incomprehensible trajectory even though he was clearly seeing it with his own eyes.
Instructor Kim Si-young started to fall behind.
An unbelievable sight even though I was looking at it with my own eyes. I didn’t succeed there, but even a threatening attack succeeded.
Then, Instructor Kim Si-young also began to use taijutsu accordingly.
The way he kicks and stretches his fists in the middle and pushes back, usually swinging his sword like that and then kicking it will break his posture.
Kim Si-young did not see that kind of appearance.
A confrontation in which the winner or loser was unknown, and at that moment, Instructor Kim Si-young, who suddenly dug in, stabbed Jang Kwon.
The balance collapsed in an instant, and instructor Kim Si-young’s attack followed.
__Ah..
__Look, you can’t win.
He tried to defend himself somehow, but Kim Si-woo missed the sword as if he couldn’t withstand Kim Si-young’s attack.
Instructor Kim Si-young’s sword stopped precisely in front of Kim Si-woo’s stomach.
The winner was Instructor Siyoung Kim.
The result everyone expected.
‘By the way…Why are you smiling?’
Someone saw Kim Si-woo smiling quietly and had doubts, but did not think deeply.
