109 – level difference (4)

It didn’t take long for the metal sound that filled the gymnasium to die down.

As long as they split up into teams and practiced, even if they had the organizational power to maintain the team, it was virtually impossible to have such organizational power from the first day they met face to face, so except for a few children, they quickly let go of the sword. .

The fierce battle is now slowly coming to an end.

The children who let go of the sword look at the children who have not yet let go of the sword.

It is a good phenomenon to watch the opponent who defeated you to the end, rather than being frustrated just because you lost.

However, the behavior of children today was not caused by such competitive desire and self-reflection. As we approached the end of Dalian, the children all turned their heads to one place.

Quaggagak-

“Damian, don’t look away.”

“Where are you looking now!”

Even in the midst of the overheated atmosphere, a roar like thunder is still resonating in the place where the children’s eyes are directed.

That space where sword strikes were rampant that cut through the ground and air to the point where one wondered how a sound like that could be produced just by striking a piece of metal was a different dimension from the place where children had been wielding their swords until now.

The children were stunned and watched as the common sense they had so far collapsed.

This was not limited to students, but Rex, who was the organizer of this match, was also the same.

It wasn’t that he didn’t expect the situation to turn out like this, but it was his mistake to miss the opportunity to intervene. The three of them, who had become like a lump of iron heated by fire, did not dare to intervene.

The battle between these three was so fierce.

‘I’ll have to dry it though.’

Rex sighed and put the sword in his still empty hand.

Will these children follow what they say? It was something he didn’t know, but Rex thought about the situation. As his mind was deeply focused on one place, the possibility of his voice reaching him was very small.

Still, the possibility wasn’t completely out of the question, so Rex began to inject history into his neck just in case.

“Ah, it’s over.”

In the midst of this, a student suddenly spat out these words.

In a situation where most of the children let go of their swords, Hailey Hartman, one of the few children who didn’t let go, said that for some reason, the sparring of the three had come to an end.

Rex didn’t understand her words for a moment, but he knew that Hailey’s words were not empty words as the atmosphere of the set subsided at the same time as her words.

I don’t know what caused it, but starting with Damian, the children stopped their swords.

It seemed that all three of them still had enough time to see that their stamina had been exhausted. It was Rex’s purpose to stop these three, but it was only natural that he would be curious about him when he suddenly stopped fighting.

“Everyone let go of the sword.”

Thinking about what was the problem with the suddenly stopped sparring was postponed for a while, and Rex hurriedly informed the children that the sparring was over. There were quite a few children still holding swords in their hands, but further sparring was meaningless.

Even if Rex didn’t declare a halt, Damian and the children’s stopping the sword meant the end of this sparring. Noel, Reinhardt, and Damian had already been chosen as the main characters for this class, so what Lex had to do here was to finish the class appropriately at this point.

In any case, as he first thought, the purpose of checking the students’ skills was achieved.

“Even though the team was suddenly divided without a clear statement, everyone did well. However, there were a few regrets… I won’t talk about it now. Those who left early should think about what was their problem. And talk to each other in the previous class. I don’t know if they shared, but these are classmates who will be taking this class together from now on. Lastly, today’s class ends here by saying each other in unison.”

Rex gathered the children together, said that, and left the gymnasium.

Rex’s face as he left the gym looked complicated, but only a few students noticed it. What else could be important to students other than that the class ended early?

***

While sparring with Noel and Reinhardt, Elena’s face suddenly caught my eye.

no reason.

I don’t know why she was there. I didn’t even notice that Elena was coming here, and I was really focused on dealing with Noel and Reinhardt. It would have to be a coincidence that I met her eyes.

“Suck!”

“Don’t keep looking elsewhere. Focus here.”

Of course, there was no way Noel and Reinhardt would have liked this distraction.

At first, the two of them played separately, but I kept attacking and sending them to each other, so at some point they came together and started attacking. However, this did not mean that the connection between the two was perfect, so I returned their attacks to each other without any change, but it was actually a one-on-two situation.

It was a very risky move to look elsewhere in such a situation.

It was a situation where the balance that had been maintained so far could collapse.

Well, it was under the assumption that everyone was using their power.

Perhaps because what they were doing was sparring, everyone was swinging their swords with some leeway.

Or maybe it was because it bothered me that the two of them were attacking me, but whatever it was, both Noel and Reinhardt seemed to have a lot of hidden cards, and neither of them were serious.

Whether sincere or not, since I had the upper hand in my ability to appear on the surface, the balance of sparring won’t collapse if I turn my eyes elsewhere for a moment. Just as Noel and Reinhardt had room, I had that much room.

“Huh? This feeling…”

After me, it was Noel who noticed that Elena was here.

After meeting my eyes, Elena stopped hiding her presence, and as a result, Noel and Reinhardt also noticed that she had come here. This was the reason we stopped Dalian.

It didn’t just stop because of her appearance. Elena’s appearance would be an appropriate opportunity to look around the situation for a moment.

When I looked around, it was only the three of us who had been dancing with excitement so far. After reading the professor’s mood for a while, we knew it was time to let go of the sword.

As Rex Morpier left the gymnasium with the words that he would finish with a full statement, the eyes of the remaining students naturally turned to us. Curiously, unlike the previous class, it felt like the wall had collapsed a bit, but it seems that our sparring while laughing hahahaha worked in a good way.

It would have been the same as bloody from the viewer’s point of view to say that we did it with a smile, but this was also a proof of our skills, and the atmosphere of us during the sparring was not bad, so it seems to have been a plus factor.

Reinhardt always had a hard face. Even so, in the case of Noel, as long as he didn’t feel a wall in his social status, he had a personality that was easy to approach. Even if it takes a little time, the days when the children won’t be difficult with these two seemed not far away.

This was the same story for me, but first of all, I had to do more than that.

I left before the eyes of the children caught on. Even if the walls were lowered a little, it would still be awkward to talk to. No one had ever spoken to me first.

Hayley, Noel and Reinhardt didn’t bother following me because they knew where I was going. With the words to see you in a while, I walked out of the gymnasium.

“It was great.”

As I was about to go up to the audience, I heard a voice in the dark where there was no one there. It is a voice in memory. When I turned my head and looked in the direction where the voice came from, I met eyes with the dark blue-blue eyes of the swordsman I don’t know when.

At the completely unexpected meeting, I looked at him with a puzzled face for a moment, then lowered my head and said,

“Have you been watching?”

“By accident. My feet were drawn to the familiar energy.”

After saying that, the swordsman rubbed his chin for a while, then slightly raised the corners of his mouth to the point where it was difficult to judge with the naked eye, then opened his mouth again.

“It was a good match to see after a long time.”

“Thank you for the compliment.”

I felt a little hesitant about the attitude of the swordsman who was more friendly than I thought.

As you can see if you watched the match, I was the one who had the upper hand in the close battle with Reinhardt. Knowing that his relationship with his father was not good, it was difficult for him to purely accept the kindness that the Sword Master was showing him.

Is it because I said hello at the first meeting?

On the day of the entrance ceremony, when our eyes met, I said hello for a while, and this may have been an opportunity to see my father and me differently.

“Who do you think will win if the two of you fight alone?”

The swordsman who had been quietly looking at me suddenly said this. It was sudden, but I answered right away without hesitation.

“I will win.”

“Yes. I will. It’s good to be honest. Then, what about three years from now?”

“I’m not sure about that, but…”

At my answer, the Sword Saint smiled again. It was not a faint smile like before, but a smile that anyone could see.

“There’s no such thing as an old man. Well, that’s enough for now.”

And the swordsman asked me if there was anything he wanted to ask me, and when I replied that I was not, he disappeared like the wind, just like when he first appeared in front of me.

I’m not sure what the conversation I had with him meant, but I didn’t give it much thought. Anyway, the important thing for me now was to go up to the audience.