Chapter 67 – Chapter 5 – On the Weekend Too
The opponent in front of me is strong, even in the magic I am most confident in, that man is ahead of me.
Above all, the presence or absence of actual combat experience had a greater effect than anything else.
It’s not a gap that can be narrowed simply by practicing. Even if you want to reach it, you can’t reach it.
These were Cecily’s thoughts about the opponent she would face, Klaus.
As the youngest daughter of the well-bred LeBlanc family or a demon, she knows how to gauge the strength of the other person and quickly accept her own situation.
From that point of view, Cecily’s conclusion was that she could never defeat a human man named Klaus as she was now.
‘Yes. He never thought of winning. She thought he was getting closer, little by little, though. By the way, but… !’
Cecily managed to hold back the regurgitation of something that tried to flow from within.
As soon as the body, which had been curled up in pain, straightened out, I saw Klaus’s wooden sword flying again.
Not too long ago, yesterday, it was an attack that I thought I could have avoided if I played with my body a little more swiftly.
However, Cecily came to the realization that they had been misunderstood.
Puck! Wow!-
“Kyaaak!”
Severe pain was transmitted sequentially in two places, the side and the shoulder.
Far from avoiding it, she couldn’t even see the attack properly, and she had no idea where the sword path was heading.
I thought I had somewhat adapted to Klaus’ speed now, but the other person seemed to be telling me not to talk nonsense. He was laughing at her, as if he didn’t even care about her nonsense.
‘It’s nonsense. Hey, you mean you’ve never been serious about it before!’
Cecily still had confidence in her own abilities.
It could be seen that his talent for magic was better than that of quite a few demon warriors.
It was not simply his own misunderstanding, but a fact he had heard from the mouths of those who had gone through the continental war.
And among those talents was the ability to read the other person’s magic and prepare for a surprise attack or something else.
The reason why Cecily didn’t bother with melee combat, and the reason why the Les Blancs family didn’t force her to learn about her melee combat, was that by reading her magic, she was able to detect and deal with approaching enemies. .
‘I sure did!’
But somehow, after Klaus skipped that part.
The attack came before I could even feel the magic, and when I barely predicted the attack and tried to move my body, Klaus’s attack was already entrenched in my body.
I can’t possibly read it, even if I can detect it, it’s too late.
Cecily was left unable to do anything as her own specialty and talent was blocked.
Everything in the counterattack operation that had been prepared overnight was completely destroyed and collapsed again.
What kind of counterattack are you talking about when you can’t read attacks and can’t even properly defend?
Whoops!-
“Keep off!!”
Once again, the wooden sword hit her thigh hard and passed.
Cecily, who had been staggering for a while from her shock and her pain, tried hard to hold on, but she collapsed as if even that wasn’t enough in the end.
Originally, sparring would have stopped at this point.
It was indirectly saying that if the opponent lost all will to fight and collapsed on the ground, he could no longer fight.
“Wake up. Cadet Cecily. Don’t think about hanging around under the excuse of sparring.”
However, Klaus pushed Cecily even more harshly.
He trampled on her who had fallen on the seat and began to roll her more violently than necessary.
It was the first time she had been treated like this, so Cecily looked very flustered and startled, but for now, she frantically rolled her body and tried to escape Klaus’ attack.
“Haha! Haha!”
Cecily, barely getting up, gasped for breath.
She woke up and she was suddenly brought to the arena, so she was in a mess, but in just a few minutes, her soul was stolen and even rolled on her floor, so her face could not be seen.
“It is inconvenient. It’s disappointing.”
The first words Klaus uttered as he looked at the dusty Cecily were cynical evaluations.
There was already a gap in experience between himself and Cecily that even talent couldn’t overcome.
Even taking that into account, he would do it in moderation, but on the contrary, he was crushing it very thoroughly.
“I’ve always liked the way you look, Cadet Cecily. I thought it was great to continue to challenge even though I knew I was going to lose, and to ask for sparring. But something felt strange. I asked for sparring, but there was no earnestness to become stronger, no desire to win, or at least no hostility toward my enemy.”
“Um, what are you saying…”
“To Cadet Cecily, everything called sparring felt like a joke. This effort and time, which will one day replace your blood and life, is simply replaced with the time to satisfy the interests of Cadet Cecily.”
The demon woman was greatly surprised by the unexpected words.
I have never thought of it that way myself, but I have always thought that sparring was for real combat and I did my best, so why am I being evaluated like this?
“T-Wrong! Professor! No! How hard am I working…”
“No matter what I do, I just look like an immature child who is working hard at playing house. For me.”
“No, no!!”
“So you’re saying I’m wrong? Am I the one who can now know how the other person’s heart is, what kind of attack they will attack, and what kind of earnestness they are trying to harm me with just a few encounters while crossing countless lines? Are you trying to say that the southern devil you are talking about is talking nonsense about combat and not about anything else?”
Why did Klaus suffer so much in the Continental War and finally become a war hero?
The biggest reason was, of course, that everything related to Yulia had a positive side, but of course other secondary factors also existed.
One of them is that the effect is many times stronger if you look exceptional on the contrary among humans who have fought the most filthyly since the Continental War.
In particular, it was aimed at the part that becomes a strong plus factor for the demons who treat the strong even if they are enemies.
Cecily, who immediately heard the insulting words, was unable to refute.
Klaus, who could be said to know more about combat than most demons.
They even gave it the name ‘Devil of the South’, and they couldn’t muster up the courage to refute it because someone they feared and reverenced at the same time said so.
‘If the other person was like Yulia, there’s a higher chance that it wouldn’t work, but what I’m dealing with now is Cecily LeBlanc. She falls when she pushes hard, and she rather likes it when she falls and gets stepped on. Of course, if she goes strong, whether logically or forcefully, she will fall apart on her own.’
She says Cecily is a woman with a pervert temperament, but she is a demon no matter what.
If her opponent is weak, will her pleasure be conveyed when he crushes her?
In her heart, she had to be able to use it to crush her thoroughly, letting her know that in order to bring out and manipulate her everything, she must be overwhelmingly above her.
And now, Klaus was overwhelming Cecily in all areas: experience with experience, force with force, and reputation with social prestige.
In this situation, even though all her efforts had been denied, Cecily was not angry, let alone panicked, and said that it was absolutely not.
“Dalian is for actual combat after all. This is the moment when you replace your blood with sweat. If, as the youngest daughter of the Les Blancs, you perceive such an important moment as a joke or as a play to satisfy her interests, you should be prepared.”
“…”
“I will come out stronger from now on. Wake up, take heart, and face your ‘enemy’. Don’t be halfhearted. Do you understand?”
At Klaus’ terrifying voice, Cecily nodded her head nervously.
The joy and excitement of sparring that had filled my heart until yesterday had disappeared, and what remained was the fear, fear, and pressure I felt as a single demon facing the southern devil.
Klaus smiled as he confirmed that Cecily was ready to step out a little more seriously.
In this way, she brought her to her limit, and even that limit had to be shattered in her, so that this woman could be her own in her true sense.
It is not enough to simply inflict physical pain and beat.
To humiliate, to humiliate, to ridicule, to ridicule, and even to inflict mental abuse.
It could be said that that was a kind of trigger that brought out Cecily’s true nature.
‘It seems that the onlookers are gradually gathering.’
He deliberately chose a place close to the dormitory where the demon cadets stayed.
Since it was the weekend, some of them might have been away, but compared to the cadets of the Western Union, many of them were still staying in their rooms because they were demons who looked relatively student-like.
Klaus intended to completely destroy Cecily under that circumstance.
What a pain it is to lose miserably in a situation where many people are watching.
And he knew very well where Cecily’s eyes were opened due to that pain.
“Block my attack with everything you can. If you don’t stop, you’ll get hurt.”
That too was very refined, and the word ‘hurt’ came out.
Cecily, too, was well aware of how great the threat was in Klaus’s words, “I’m hurt.”
Chou Shu Shoot!-
As soon as Cecily finished her preparations by raising her magical energy, Klaus’s new form disappeared.
This time, too, he didn’t even give her time to read her magic, and disturbed her own and those around her, making it difficult for Cecily to predict her location.
Thanks to this, the magical genius of the LeBlanc family failed to catch up with Klaus again.
The result of poor body vision, hearing, or even predicting the other person’s movements.
Because she only relied on magic, she was a woman who couldn’t do anything when it was blocked.
In an instant, Klaus seized Cecily from behind and kicked her in the back.
At the last moment, she barely found the location, but her magic attack came flying, but her body was already shaken, so it couldn’t be an accurate aim.
“Shut up!”
Cecily fell forward screaming.
Still, like a demon who had heard the sound of a genius, he showed the appearance of trying to counterattack by casting magic again at the location where Klaus attacked him.
It could be said that it was much better than the image of him floundering because he lost his mind after a few attacks like before.
‘It’s still a long way off.’
Current Cecily’s biggest weakness is, of course, that she has no real combat experience.
Yulia Yaha also received a lot of assassination threats, so she had accumulated some things, and Natasha also tried to make up for the fact that she couldn’t handle her magic with close combat, so she went to the fairy warriors and fought fiercely with a real sword.
However, since Cecily was the daughter of the Les Blancs family, and the youngest member of the direct line of the head of the family who received the most prettiness, there was no way she would have had such a bloody experience.
As those parts pile up little by little, they come to hold her back at critical moments and critical times.
She is not able to overcome the pain, not to the level of losing if she falls, but not thinking that she will die.
Besides that, Cecily was still lacking in many areas.
“Ah.”
Despair filled Cecily’s eyes with energy.
She obviously thought she had taken a chance to counterattack by keeping her distance even as she flew away from Klaus’ kick, but at some point in her life, he came right in front of her.
Whoa!!-
Again the man’s fist struck her woman in the stomach.
This time, it was a blow with her magical power still lingering, so the pain wasn’t the only thing that ended.
For a while, her internal magical power was so shaken that it was said that she couldn’t use magic recklessly due to the pain.
“Kreukreuk!!”
Cecily fell forward as she clutched her stomach.
It was a little pity for the woman who couldn’t even breathe properly, but made a croaking sound, but she had no other alternative that came to mind other than this.
For this woman tends to prefer being treated rough rather than being treated kindly.
