Chapter 15 – Flame Ax and Lightning Rapier
Translator: Eros
Stella, Ash, Deen, and then of course Riona, before I aware of it, had suddenly appear close by and looking at us. Riona with a puffed up cheek is running to approach us.
“Ha!...... W-wrong, I’m not......”
“A-are you stupid? What are you doing?”
Riona’s way of talking has grown more mature compared to when she is 2 years old but I can still feel childish tone from her. She is still the spoiled girls she were and she also still unhesitant in her skinship with me...... Seems like she will take a bit more time until she develops shyness.
“I also become able to do it, the mow down skill...... If I can do this much then I can even challenge the pink colored rabbit right?”
Riona has now finally learn how to read the mood so she stopped making me her hugging pillow and move away a bit. Ash and Deen are holding their own wooden sword for training purpose and take their stance in front of me.
Ash said that he wanted to become strong like me so I use [Request] to the adventurer Wendy to use [Coaching] on him to teach him [Sword Mastery] skill. Deen also joined midway and since that time, those two kids had started their sword training diligently.
The thing that started to influence them to get stronger is of course because of that orc attack that day. From that day on, Deen started to acknowledge me better. He starts to treat me as his superior even if I am 2 years younger than him. From the start, I don’t have any intention on antagonizing him anyway so I am quite pleased with the current situation.
“I’ll go too…… Eeei!”
- 《Ash》 is unleashing [Mow down]!
(Oo…… They finally could perform the skill that can only learn after they reach Sword Mastery level 10. With this, they could even beat a goblin)
“Ash-niichan, Deen-niichan, that’s amazing! It’s perfect”
“Haa, Haa…… I’m already tired. Let me rest for a bit first”
“Yeah, I’m alright. Thank you for your concern Stella”
“But I’m still nowhere near you Hiroto…… I will definitely become strong and become able to defeat orc by myself like you!”
“I will also go!”
Riona is…… if I can, I don’t want her to get close to monster though. But for Milty, she has the potential of becoming stronger. I might someday invite her to my party.
“Muu- (pouts)…… Hiro-chan is only looking at Milty. If you don’t bring me along then I will squeeze-hug you”
“If you go to those monsters place again then I might squeeze-hug you too to stop you from going”
“Ahaha! Hiroto, your face is all red!”
“Niisan, what I said is not weird okay? I was just……”
(I wish to at least achieve one of my major objective here…… but, just when will I reach it?)
“Hiro-chan, tomorrow Filianes-san and the other two older sister will come visit right? Would you not be able to play with Riona?”
“Yeah! Then let’s all play together again tomorrow”
“Oh, that’s a good suggestion Niisan. I also have some book that I want to read for Hiroto”
After I say goodbye to everyone, on the road back home, Riona walking together with me while holding my arm like it was normal. While holding in my embarrassed feeling, I ask her a question.
“Riona wants…… Umm……”
(…… At that time, what is that girl saying I wonder)
“…… It’s a secret. I won’t teach you Hiro-chan”
Hearing my question, Riona acts shy in a cute way then said.
“…… Is that so? Then I will wait until we grown up”
Just why is this? Why can’t I just urge her to say so or maybe tease her about it? Why did you make it a secret? Telling me that won’t really hurt right? But why can’t I just say it straight.
---- That was because, I already done the same kind of dialogue way far in the past.
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When they arrive, I immediately guide them to the practice ground in the city that Monica-san had booked before under my request. Wendy also idolizes Filianes-san so she definitely can’t wait to meet her but for today, there are things that I want to do with just the four of us.
“Even though this is just a martial arts demonstration, accidents could still happen. Never let your guard down for a second okay?”
I said that as I take a stance with my ax. Compared to when I was 2 years old, my ax had gotten one size bigger…… I use it as my main weapon so I have to make it as comfortable as I can. Even Mar-san and Filianes-san also had their weapon resized to fit their growing body.
My request to Filianes-san is to train together with me each time she come visiting. And the method used for the training is in this [martial art demonstration] form. It was like a mock battle where you send out fighting arts after another to each other while trying not hit them directly with it.
“Hiroto-chan is a rare genius that can use any kind of skill after he saw it once, the ultimately genius ax user right~? [There are no skills that I can’t copy] Ora!” as Mar-san says while having fun mimicking me.
“That’s right. But most of it was thanks to Filianes-san teaching. If it’s not because of her kindly teaching me, how could a kid like me become able to use some cool skill like magic sword art?”
Filianes-san said that while having her cheek red from blushing. She who have become a 18 years old girl this year…… has grown a certain part of her body into something even more magnificent. Those milk bags have become something very sinful…… In the other hand, her [Elegance] had leveled up more under the influence of her job as the Holy Knight. I could even faintly see a glow of halo around her because of her disposition.
“I am still nothing compared to you Filianes-san. But I wish to surpass you someday”
[Magic sword art] is a skill that would enchant not only sword, but all kind of other weapon too without exception, with a chosen magic. I self-study about spirit magic from books and then polish it with the help of Obaba-sama teaching to support [Magic sword art]. And then I also train the [Magic sword art] skill that I received from Filianes-san before by using [Request] to ask her to do [Nurturing] on me. In just this short 2 years, I managed to train the skill up until level 30. And because it already reached 30, I got to learn a passive skill from it. That skill is named [Clemency].
Besides that, I also learn knighthood from Mar-san so I managed to level it up quite a lot. And because Aletta-san is also around to keep watch, my [Combat Medic] skill is also increases…… They also get stronger themselves by training me and I also get more benefit from getting their training.
Form these girls eyes, they might not be able to see it but, even when my level is not comparable to Filianes-san now, my strength is already comparable to or might be stronger than any other normal knight brigade member. The results that one get from training are proportional to one’s level so if they went along to train with me, then the result that they got from training me should not be too low.
Filianes-san is left handed. She grab the rapier handle by her left hand then pull it out, lower her hip position, and her right hand then support the rapier blade in a thrusting stance ---- That is one of the stance of one basic attack skill that She is familiar the most, the stance to execute the [Piercing] Skill.
“---- Haaa!”
LOG
- You unleash [Head Splitter]!
The two weapons moves in a flash leaving behind a pair of arcs in the air and the sound of splitting air. Even by doing this kind of simple moves, it was already counted as doing training already but, there are a lot other action that can be considered as training too.
“You can say that again…… He is only a 4 years old kid yet he can already use an ax this with such mastery…… If he were to take the knight brigade combat test now, he definitely could pass it with ease. He really does inherit a lot from his father. You can just feel the bloodline of Ricardo-sama the ax knight……”
“Well now…… The next is the main performance. Hiroto, let me see your magic blade. I will also show you my double magic blade”
“Ha…… Hiroto-chan, having such kind of appearance while still being a 4 years old is a total sin~. You even make this 20 years old older sister hearts throbbing for you”
Aletta is saying like that but for me, a 24 years old older sister is still in the midst of her youth. She doesn’t look any different from when she was 20. She still gives the feeling of a college student or an office lady. But her ability as combat medic has remarkably improves. In this aspect, Mar-san is also the same as her bludgeon mastery had passed the level 50 mark which enabled her to learn the attack skill [Double Impact]. Her battle prowess has upgraded even more by leap and bounds.
“Uooo…… Flame x Slash!”
LOG
- 《Filianes》 is enchanting her weapon with [Lightning]!
- 《Filianes》 unleashes [Piercing]! [Lightning x Paralyze x Piercing]!
- You enchant your weapon with [Soul Flame]!
(Eros: before in flame slash, it was in katakana saying literally flame slash but in the log dialogue, it use kanji instead of Engrish katakana and the kanji used is a cool one: 火炎 (kaen) which mean raging fire 烈 (retsu) which mean ardent/ vehement/ violent and 斬 (zan) which mean slash/ cut/ slice. So translating 火炎烈斬 (kaen retsu zan) as just a mere flame slash is a meh. So I use Blazing x Slash instead)