Chapter 7 – Beast Knight Mirian
‘Lost…’
The sword that I swore to never let go of flew away somewhere, and my body rolled on the floor and was covered in mud.
Excluding my parents and teachers, the first defeat I faced in my life was unexpectedly refreshing.
Mirian, who was defeated in the duel, closed his eyes, prepared for his imminent death, but the warrior’s sword did not pierce Mirian’s heart.
Having won the victory over Mirian, the warrior put his sword back into the scabbard and reached out to Mirian.
‘What are you thinking…’
Mirian, who thought that defeat in a duel was death, did not know the meaning of the hand that the hero held out.
‘Uh… Since I won, isn’t this the end?’
There was a big difference in the perception of dueling between Mirian, who grew up in a country of warriors, and the hero, who was just an orphan.
‘Warrior… For the Beast Tribe, defeat in a duel is death.’
When YuRia, who had known about the Beasts to some extent, taught him the truth, the hero raised his hand with a serious expression.
Death is coming soon
Mirian thought so and closed his eyes. And soon, a dry sound of slapping flesh resounded.
‘… What?’
When I touched the pickled cheek, the red handprints were clearly visible.
‘This, this child… !!’
Mi-an, who was about to shoot him, wondering if he was going to insult himself, was surprised by the angry expression of the warrior he saw for the first time and shut his mouth.
‘… Did you just risk your life for a duel?’
‘Wait, barely! A duel is not just such a thing…’
‘… Have you been killing people if you lose a duel like this until now?’
‘Well, you say it like that…’
‘Is a human life that easy for you?’
‘…’
Feeling as if he was being scolded by his parents, Mirian couldn’t say anything back.
And at the same time he realized something.
‘I tried to kill myself… Did this guy fight with the intention of saving me?’
Suspiciously strong power that does not match his age.
That personality who recklessly puts his life on the sword rather than aiming for his own life.
And thick gloves worn in midsummer.
Even children know that the mark of a warrior that proves that they are a warrior appears on their right hand.
He said to the hero, hoping that his reasoning was correct, saying that it was Mirian or Margot.
‘… Are you a warrior by any chance?’
‘Uh? Uh?!’
As if Mirian’s reasoning was not wrong, YuRia and Horde, who were behind the hero, looked at Mirian with round eyes in fright.
‘Ugh… ! That, rather than that, I promise that I won’t duel anymore…’
‘I won’t duel anymore!’
‘That’s right?’
‘Instead, put me as a teammate!!’
‘… Why are things the way they are?’
For Mirian, who went on a trip to see the strongest radish, this was an opportunity that he would never have again.
Mirian threw away the pride of being a knight and slammed his head on the floor as he spoke to the hero.
‘I won’t move here until I accept you as a colleague! Accept me as a colleague!!’
Seeing Mirian suddenly banging his head, the embarrassed warrior broke into a cold sweat and said to Mirian.
‘Oh, okay, wake up quickly… People can see it!’
‘It’s a promise!!’
With the hero’s bewildered expression, a new party member joined the hero party.
*****
“Mirian? What are you doing there?”
The warrior standing under the moonlit riverside with his shirt off, probably training, was sweaty.
“Warrior… Aren’t you sleeping and training?”
“Huh. Lina and Marta are in the tent… More than anything, I couldn’t sleep because I kept worrying about the village.”
“I see, as usual… Were you training like this every night?”
“Um… Not every day, but occasionally.”
The hero was bad at lying.
If he only lied, he would have a distorted expression and a stutter so that even an idiot would know he was lying.
‘Because of me…’
Mirian wasn’t so stupid that he didn’t know why the hero lied.
She had lied like that so that Mirian, who had been indulging in lust without training every night, would not be bothered.
‘I’m pathetic…’
How did Mirian, who went on a trip to see the strongest radish, end up like this?
Thinking of the hero who worked tirelessly for training while panting under a man every night, she felt even more pitiful for herself.
“Warrior… Won’t you have a sparring with me after a long time?”
“Dalian?”
“Yes. Wouldn’t it be better to train together than to train alone?”
“If you do, thank you! But I guess it’s a little different here…”
There was a fear that the sound of swords clashing would wake up other comrades sleeping in the tent.
“Then, how about doing it in that forest a little further away?”
“Good idea. Let’s hurry.”
In the forest thick with trees, the trees blocked the moonlight and were shrouded in darkness.
“Reveal.”
However, as the hero chanted the spell, a fist-sized sphere of light began to illuminate the surroundings.
“Then shall we begin?”
“Okay.”
As the surroundings brightened, Mirian and the warrior each took their own stances and narrowed the gap between them.
Mi An knew that the hero had become much stronger than when he first met her, but she felt the strength of the hero with her whole body after confronting them with enemies like this.
Even though he knows that his head is Dalian, the blood of the beast flowing in Mirian’s body screams to run away immediately.
Mirian desperately suppressed the instinct of the beast running through her body and said to the hero.
“Warrior… You can use magic to write.”
“No, then there’s no point in training, so I’ll just use the sword.”
“Is it… Then go!!”
Mirian rushed forward vigorously and swung the huge greatsword he usually carried on his back.
The wind pressure created by the swinging of the sword made the nearby leaves flutter wildly, and the vicious sound of the wind gave people goosebumps just by hearing it.
With such tremendous violence in front of his eyes, the hero rather dug forward.
Because Mirian’s greatsword was so huge, it had low mobility and it was difficult to slash the enemy if it burrowed forward.
It was a simple method that anyone could think of, not to mention breaking the law, but actually doing it was a completely different story.
It took a lot of courage to dig in after seeing the attack of distant leaves falling due to the wind pressure just by simply swinging the sword.
‘I knew it, but I can’t do it with this… !’
Mirian, who immediately placed the greatsword, immediately unleashed the longsword at her waist.
– Poof!
The hero narrowly avoided Mirian’s sword, which was swung with the sound of cutting the wind, and swung his sword.
However, Mirian, who somewhat predicted that he would avoid his attack, jumped high into the sky faster than that.
With the overwhelming leg strength of the tiger beastman, Mirian pierced the tree branches and soared high into the sky.
‘I’ll be waiting for you below.’
Mirian only jumped high, but he was not particularly able to fly.
Even if he landed on the floor like this, Mi An, knowing full well that only defeat awaited him, threw the sword he was holding at the hero.
“What?!”
Suddenly, a sword fell from the sky, and the startled hero retreated far away from the sword.
Landing on the floor, Mirian immediately ran out to the place where he had placed the great sword.
The hero who had stepped back immediately followed Mirian, but sooner than that, he grabbed the greatsword that Mirian had placed earlier.
The sword was held in Mirian’s hand again, but the warrior, who was well aware of how to destroy Mirian’s greatsword, was not frightened when he saw the greatsword, but rather dug inside.
The hero expected Mirian to wield a greatsword, but Mirian, who knew better than anyone that there was no chance of winning with a greatsword, did not wield the greatsword.
Instead of swinging his greatsword, he stuck it into the ground as a pole and jumped behind the hero.
“Uh?!”
Surprised by Mirian’s sudden sudden action, the hero looked at Mirian as he jumped over the hero.
In the place where Mirian jumped behind the hero, there was a longsword that Mirian had thrown earlier.
‘Good!’
Mi An, holding his long sword, rushed at the hero as it was, and this time the hero threw his sword at Mi An.
“The sword… ?!”
At least as far as Mirian knew, the hero shouldn’t have had a spare weapon.
Mirian, who had deflected the hero’s sword, looked at the hero while doing something.
‘Dangerous!’
Mirian hurriedly raised his longsword to block the greatsword, but he could not withstand the strength of the hero and fell to the ground at that time.
Retracting his greatsword, the warrior smiled and approached the fallen Mirian.
“Because of this, it reminds me of the old days.”
“A long ago… ? Oh, was it when we first met?”
True to the hero’s words, Mirian was now rolling on the floor covered in dirt.
“This time… You won’t have to slap Mirian on the cheek, right?”
“I’m sorry…”
Hearing that, Mirian smiled and took the hand that the hero had extended.
“Oh oh?!”
Then, he pulled the hero and held him in his arms.
“Mirian… ! What are you doing?!”
“You were careless. Dalian isn’t over until you say it’s over.”
He was Mirian, who had been wearing armor a while ago, but he had taken off his armor and changed into light clothes for himself.
Mirian’s huge breasts, which were twice as large as Yuria’s, directly touched the topless hero’s body.
“Come on, get out of here!”
“Wow… !!”
Mirian rolled on the ground holding her hero in her arms to prevent him from escaping.
Her whole body was covered with sweat and dirt and she was rolling around, but Mi An wished that this time of holding her warrior would last forever.
However, not long after thinking about it, Mirian’s brief happiness was shattered by the voice of an uninvited guest from afar.
“Warrior… And Mr. Mirian. What are you doing there?”
At Martha’s cold voice, Mi-an unknowingly loosened his grip on the hero.
“Now, I thought you were sleeping.”
“… I heard something strange.”
Every time Mirian saw Martha, she felt ashamed of herself, like an adulteress who was caught by her own wife while having an affair.
“Sorry, Martha. Did we wake you up?”
Seeing the warrior stand up again after escaping from Mirian’s arms, Martha’s cold expression immediately relaxed.
“No! This happened while the hero was training, what is there to be sorry about! But tomorrow… No, I have something important to do today, so stop now and go to sleep.”
“Huh… Yes.”
The hero’s expression darkened, as if he remembered the culprit behind this incident, which was waiting deep in the forest.
The hero retrieved the sword he had thrown at Mirian earlier, looked at his body, and smiled.
“Before I go to bed, I need to wash my body first. Mirian, I’m sorry, but I’ll go first.”
“Ah… That, yes I will retrieve the sword and follow soon.”
As the hero left for the riverside, Mirian picked up his greatsword that the hero had put down on the floor earlier.
Mirian, who retrieved the greatsword, did not follow the hero and asked Martha, who stayed by Mirian’s side and smiled.
“… You’re not leaving, what are you doing?”
“I thought he might have been injured during sparring, so I tried to treat him… You seem to be fine.”
“Of course. Really hurting people during sparring is something that only inexperienced people do…”
“I see! However… I have one concern. Would it be all right if I said a word?”
“… What?”
“Kuhm… !”
Martha cleared her throat briefly and said to Mirian, who desperately suppressed her trembling hands.
“No matter how sparring it is, I wonder what it would be like to stick together like that between a man and a woman.”
“… Stupid sound. Dalian is done while assuming the real battle. Can you fight while arguing whether you are a woman or a man in real life?”
“That’s true, but… You have a lover, so you have to be careful with your behavior.”
Hearing her words, Mirian, who had been avoiding Martha’s gaze, looked at her from the front.
But Martha spoke confidently with her smile on her face, whether or not Mirian was glaring at her.
“For the sake of Mr. Horde, please behave yourself carefully. That way, both Mr. Horde and the hero will be relieved!”
Martha left only her words and moved her steps to the gable where her hero was.
In the meantime, Mirian had been staring at Martha’s back without moving a single step.
In Mirian’s eyes staring at Martha, there was a ghastly murderous look that could not be compared to the one directed at Lina.
