Translator: Tsukii
Editor: Lilia
Read at Watashi wa Sugoi Desu!
Chapter 44 – Flesh Bullet Accelerate, Accelerate, Accelerate
Round, white afterimages flashed all over my vision.
It was Sir Braveheart, wearing the white-based uniform of the knights affiliated to the Tail Kingdom, bouncing about with his body curled up.
If I had to name it, it would be “Bizarre ambush! The mystery of the killer giant super ball!”
What a nightmarish title.
“Oops?!”
I caught the body of Sir Braveheart that rushed toward me.
But at the moment of contact, an impact was applied to me and he escaped by bouncing in the wrong direction.
I was knocked down and slowly stood up in the dust cloud that was created.
The sensation I felt was clearly twisting the laws of physics.
After amplifying the potential power of impact several times, not only could he apply a powerful force toward me, but he could also use it for thrust.
It probably held a magic formula that intervened with the impact and law of motion.
“Teach’, are you okay?! Didn’t you just take a direct hit?!”
“Was there contact just now? I can’t follow it with my eyes anymore…!”
“There’s no way sensei could be blown away so easily… I think he’s using a combat magic formula♡”
The three girls were sitting at a distance and waiting.
There was no sign that Sir Braveheart was bouncing over there.
In other words, he had complete control over this seemingly chaotic, vicious superball-like motion.
As time passed, Sir Braveheart accelerated endlessly as he bounced around the practice field at high speed.
What a disgusting depiction.
But I could follow the movement with my eyes.
In terms of speed alone, Zanba’s [Lightning Muramasa] was much faster.
As for dealing with it, well, this was much more difficult to handle.
“Tch…”
He approached from the right.
I avoided it, but the aftermath alone felt like it was going to twist my arm.
Zanba’s lightning discharge ability and lightning conversion ability was powerful because of its simplicity.
But it could also be said that it was simple because it was powerful.
It was fast, sharp, and strong enough to burn upon touch.
In that case, I just needed to respond while avoiding being hit and slip into close range in between attacks.
However, Sir Braveheart constantly changed direction and that method wouldn’t work against him.
I couldn’t cut him, couldn’t parry him, and had no gap to slip into close range.
It was probably the effect of a magic formula that allowed him to unilaterally transmit power without worrying about counterattacks.
“The change of direction is too precise…! You’re dohya dohya, all around me!”
“What do you mean by dohya dohya, gowasu?!” 1
Every time he bumped into me, I felt like my body was going to break.
If I avoided it completely, he would continue to accelerate without limit.
If I tried to stop him, he would use me as a wall and still bounce, leaving me damaged and his speed unaffected.
If I tried to parry it, he would change his angle, knocking him away.
He bounced around and it was really troublesome.
It wasn’t like I didn’t have the option to chase after him, but to do so, I would have to increase my output.
But if I did that, that would go against the intention of the practice.
Limiting the output for practice didn’t simply reduce the overall firepower, but also reduced the options available.
Sir Braveheart was likely expecting this as well.
In other words, he set me up.
“I see, so for dealing with an inferior opponent who doesn’t have enough overall output, you can shut them down without doing anything just by bouncing about…!”
It was a fatal tactic against an inferior opponent unprepared for this specific attack.
And if he was facing a superior opponent, they would still have to play their higher cards to handle it.
I was impressed that it was a really well thought out strategy.
If I ignored things like “Is it really okay to do that as a knight?” “Are you seriously doing something like this for a practice match?” “Wouldn’t you get bullied if you tried this against other knights?” It was both a rational and troublesome move.
However──It was about time I saw through that move.
The moment I felt a tingle run down my neck, I changed the direction of my body.
I caught Sir Braveheart flying right in front of me perfectly.
“Uoraahhh!!”
I swung my sword down and tried to slam Sir Braveheart’s body to the ground.
If I sank him into the ground, he wouldn’t be able to move.
But just before my attack connected, the paladin’s body ejected mysticism into the thrust and he suddenly braked in the air.
While the momentum remained the same, the attack changed to a slashing attack rather than ramming.
“……?!”
“Oidon already expected you’d see through Oidon’s moves soon, gowasu!”
The golden sword he had been using to change direction was swung up like a golf swing.
A high-pitched crashing sound that rattled the space itself echoed.
The flying sparks burned my vision, and the impact nearly ripped off my arm.
“Guuuhhhh…?!”
“Fuuuhhnnn!!”
The two swords raised their fury in an attempt to devour each other, raising the voltage of the clash.
Although my sword wasn’t at full power, he actually managed to take the Hero’s Sword head on!
I knew he was strong, but to think he was this strong!
“I knew you were stronger than other knights, but it seems I should have compared you to other paladins instead of knights!”
“No way! If it’s just this much, other paladins could have endured it using a different method than Oidon’s, gowasu…!”
Even as he sweated and his face distorted in agony, Sir Braveheart provoked me.
He seemed to say, “why don’t you be more serious?”
“Tch…”
The mysticism exploded with a dull sound, and Sir Braveheart repelled the clash and distanced himself.
By the time I managed to return to my stance, which was about to collapse, he had already begun to accelerate again.
It should be a foul to still be able to seamlessly slash about even in that state.
I shook my head.
I could see Erin’s group looking at me with worried expressions on their faces.
I guess it wouldn’t be good to continue showing unreproducible clashes for the class.
“Fuuh…”
I breathed out and sped up my thoughts without dropping my guard.
I tried to find a similar enemy in my memories.
Among enemies I faced in the past, I specifically sought out non-human enemies.
After all, his movement was literally inhuman, and I could safely say any combat experience against humans would be useless.
Rather than humanoid demons, the best source would be monsters.
There was a boar-shaped fellow that tried to ram me, and a snake-shaped fellow who slid on the ground at high speed.
I guess I should counter their combined strengths and create the finished product in my head.
“What’s wrong, gowasu? You still have more strength to show to Oidon, gowasu!”
“……Aah, I approve of your wish.”
I shall fulfill his wish.
With a noise, I raised the gear of my body.
Sir Braveheart attacked from behind, and I slashed with my sword as I turned around.
“……?!”
In an instant reaction, he also raised his sword and blocked the slash.
This was the exact opposite of what happened earlier, as now it was my sword that was raised to attack him.
“Explode, light of the god of destruction.”
“Nuu…?!”
In the middle of an irregular clash:
Before the other party could sense the crisis and leave, the light of the Hero’s Sword was unleashed.
Breaking out from the center of the blade towards the edge, extremely intense light exploded outwards.
“Fuuuuooooohhhh?!”
It was a full swing with heavy momentum, a trajectory similar to a man’s swing aiming for a homerun.
It launched Sir Braveheart’s plump body high into the sky.
“This year’s home run king is me!”
As I shouted, I solidified my magic power, created a foothold in the air, and ran up into the sky.
He already proved that he could use the walls and ground to increase his inertia, but in the sky, there were no walls nor ground.
If it was in the air, there was no escape. I could definitely beat him!
“Oidon already expected that much, gowasu!”
However, Sir Braveheart’s body stopped dead in the air.
The mysticism he wielded increased in output, creating an invisible wall in the air.
With that as the starting point, his body bounced in the air again.
As if to shake me off, he continued to increase his altitude.
But I wouldn’t lose sight of him.
It was because his body was connected to a line of golden brilliance.
“……?!”
The paladin’s face froze in shock.
During the earlier clash, I had converted a part of his white knight uniform into a Hero’s Sword.
The golden line that connected me and him was the mystic brilliance of the Hero’s Sword, a light that I could freely manipulate.
“I came up with this idea when I was watching how my student fought…!”
I used Kuyumi’s wire anchor as a reference.
The wire of mysticism pulled me upward and quickly closed the distance.
He certainly could bounce about in the air, but I already expected that much, gowasu! 2
It seemed he realized I would catch up to him, because Sir Braveheart hung still in the air and swung his sword.
The clash would take place here, but since it was a battle in instantaneous firepower, I wouldn’t lose.
“Fall down, paladin!”
As soon as I caught up with him, I cut the wire and stopped above him with the sun against my back.
I swung down the sword with all my strength.
The resistance against my blade lasted less than a moment and only the sound of a collision remained.
At the same time, as sparks flew wildly, Sir Braveheart was sent plummeting toward the ground.
At the same time as the crash, a huge cloud of dust rose up.
“……Well, it’s something like this.”
I stopped hovering and let myself fall freely, landing on the training ground.
As the students rushed toward me, I could see a silhouette coughing and standing up on the other side of the dust cloud.
“Wow, Oidon has been completely defeated, gowasu. Oidon is impressed, gowasu.”
Sir Braveheart appeared unharmed, as I expected.
He would have dampened the damage as he fell. In a real battle, we would’ve kept going.
But in the scope of the class, I guess it could be considered my win, since I managed to land the most effective blow.
“It’s been a long time since I handled such an effective first-time-kill tactic the same time I encountered it for the first time. It’s a highly accomplished attack.”
I gave my frank opinion and held out my hand.
He stared at my hand, and then started rubbing his hand through his uniform.
“Ah, wai, sorry, can you let Oidon wash my hand first, gowasu…?”
“It feels the same anyway…”
While fed-up, I shook his hand half-forcefully.
The contact lasted a few seconds, but he moaned and entered an ecstatic state.
“Well then, the fight ended up in the sky at the end, but you watched properly, right?”
I turned away from the paladin’s disgraceful behavior and turned toward the students.
The three’s expressions── were frighteningly cold and serious.
“……E-err.”
“Hm, is something wrong, gowasu?”
As I flinched and Sir Braveheart returned to reality, Erin opened her mouth.
“You see, teach’.”
“Y-yes?”
“How should we use that battle as reference?”
……Ah.
Sir Braveheart and I looked at each other and awkwardly looked away.
No good… I was so excited to fight while being restricted by output… that I completely forgot about the learning aspect…
The atmosphere of the place gradually became heavy.
Erin and Sharon’s cold gazes seemed to say, “These two must have forgotten the purpose of the class in the middle of battle.”
At that moment, Kuyumi clapped her hand.
“I guess it shows that a wire anchor is convenient, right♡”
“Y-yes! That’s how it is!”
“That’s really it, gowasu! What an understanding student, gowasu!”
“Hah? Why are you two so excited? Isn’t it obviously not a good lesson, since neither Erin-chan nor Sharon-chan can use it as a reference♡”
The support was removed with great momentum, making both the paladin and I fall silent.
The winner of this practical class was Kuyumi.
Although Sir Braveheart looked really apologetic, he said, “Well, the practical exam was fun, so that’s +30,000 points,” and returned to the capital quite abruptly.
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