Sendai Yuusha wa Inkyou Shitai Chapter 155

Crap. Sorry I'm late. I remembered that I was late on the morning after the night I usually make the post, then procrastinated and then procrastinated some more. In any case, here is the next chapter. Enjoy.

 Fist Saint

「Good job out there, Yuu.」
In Galarie's arena, Yuu and Sylvia were in an area where only authorized people were allow to enter.
「Things have only just started you know?」
「You feel more at ease at the times when you're fighting. Things like opening ceremonies, you're worse with things like that, right?」
As expected, she knew me well.
「Pretty much. ……So, Sylvia, how do things look on your side?」
Of course, it was in relation to the matter of Mazoku invading.
「The enemy this time is the Mazoku after all……There's no telling how things will turn out. Tomorrow rather than today, and I assess that the final day has the higher possibility.」
「The reason is?」
「It is because with something like a Mazoku invasion, that coarse and repulsive Aquadine is obviously taking the lead. ……And then, Aquadine is the type to fuss over theatrics.」
「That's true……Hey, would it be better if I lose in the first round?」
It's because if I lose, I would be able to move more freely afterwards.
「That would be good……But there is also the debt with Zeke Oisast……In the end, it had ended up being pointless, but that does not make for a good reason to not fulfill our obligation.」
「And that means?」
「……Do not lose the first round. If you were to lose against someone of that level, the Leezelion name would fall as well.」
Come to think of it, I am being treated as Leezelion's house guest, aren't I.
「Got it. Well, I'll do my best.」
「I'm counting on you, Yuu. ……However, you really are unlucky, aren't you.」
Sylvia said that sounding exasperated.
「Certainly, I was the one that made you a participant but……」
「Oh shut itー, even I'm annoyed with it. Each and every place I go to, it's filled with nothing but problems. At this rate, no matter how much time passes, I won't be able to have a calm journey.」
「Would you also try retirement? There is a good place on the Floating Continent, you know?」
The Floating Continent was a region that the Magic Major Power Leezelion had.
「Retirement, huh.」
「What, do you not want to?」
「……No, I guess retirement would be good too. Journeys are good……but calm places are needed too.」
「Is that so. In, in that case, once this matter is resolved, would you like to go to Leezelion together?」
Sylvia's cheeks were a bit red.
「Let's seeー, I guess I could have a small break from my journey.」
If the turmoil this time around safely comes to an end, that would be good too.

WAAAAAAAH!!

「Oh, so it's starting already.」
Most likely, Iibsal's match is going to start. The cheers have started to reach even a place like this.
「Well then, I shall return to my seat.」
「I'll be heading back too.」
「Well then, if you will excuse me.」
「Ou.」

I pulled up my hood, Sylvia tightened up her expression, and we both left that place behind.

「Oh, so you have come? Master, over here -jya.」
As I pushed my way through the stands, the vampire princess waved her hand seeming to have noticed me.
「So you've finally come, Yuu.」
「Welcome back, Yuu.」
「Sorry to keep you waiting, Tre-san. And sorry about that, Lililuri. Making you save me a seat and all.」
Since my current self was here as a spectator, I took off the 『Darkness Executioner』's overcoat, the 『』, and am in my usual 『cloth clothes』.
「Come, over here -jya, Master. Sit here -no jya.」
「Ou. And here we, go……How's the match.」
Sitting in between Paimon and Lililuri, I focused my eyes on the arena's ring.
「It's just about to start.」
「Starting now, the first match of the Magic Clad Martial Arts Demonstration Main Tournament will be carried out!」
When the hostess, Usagi-chan, announced that, the audience in the venue got excited.

「Knight Narante versus, Fist Saint Iibsal Dora Gregoria Valanshel……Commence!!」

The one that started first was the knight. With a shield and sword, the solidly equipped knight took a big step forward. And at the same time that he did, he swung his sword for a side sweep, and cut empty space.
Facing off against that knight, Iibsal noticed the knight's intentions and averted half of his body.
When he did, a thin cut was made on Iibsal's cheek, and red blood went down along his cheek.
「So it was one of those slash wave things.」
Tre-san guessed that from Iibsal's action and the thin cut on his cheek.
And then, most likely, that was probably correct.
He probably sensed that something was cutting the air and approaching so he avoided it.
However, sensing something that can't be seen is difficult to the point of being abnormal.
The cut on his cheek was proof that he couldn't avoid it.
「Hou……Kikiki, just when I thought he was a mere small fry, it would seem that knight is also pretty good -jya.」
「He just doesn't stand out, and in terms of strength, he probably holds a high position even in this world.」
He would probably made a good fight against a low class Mazoku.
「Well, still, he probably won't win against Iibsal though.」
The time that I said that was almost the same time that Iibsal made his move.

「Ha? What is with that fellow -jya, raising his leg like that.」
Iibsal raised his right leg.
His right leg and his left leg became a straight line as if they were a single pillar, and after several seconds of him stiffening up with it raised overhead,
──*Batsunnnn!!
The sound of a wall of air being broken through resounded, and his leg was swung down.
──*Koーn!
The sound that rung next was, compared to the sound of breaking through the sound barrier, a sound that resounded much, much longer.
And then, a phenomenon that could make anyone doubt their eyes occurred.

The arena's ring was something where a block of a cut up boulder was laid out.
That boulder arena undulated as if ripples were being transmitted in a lake.

「!?」
As expected, even I was surprised.
I had come this far being completely separated from things like magic, but something like this, I would probably be unable to do it no matter how hard I tried.
Moreover, that thing Iibsal did, it wasn't something like magic, but something done through Taijutsu.
「Oh, we're shaking.」
The impact fired from Iibsal's swung down leg made ripples on the arena's ring, and that seismic intensity was transmitted even to us who were in the audience seating.
The audience kept silent by the excessive thing that just happened.
And then, within that silence, Iibsal took up a stance with slow movements.
When he did, the knight, who had only been gazing at Iibsal similar to how the audience was, readied his shield looking like he had just remembered to do that, and in an instant, Iibsal's figure vanished,
and then in the next instant, he appeared right in front of the knight.
「Th, that jerk!?」
I couldn't see it.
I, who possessed kinetic vision good enough to see through even Sylvia's 『Shukuchi』, was unable to catch hold of Iibsal's movements.
I could still understand it if he moved quickly enough that a portion of his body temporarily became unseeable like Bernadette's Quick Draw.
But, something like moving quickly enough that even his whole body's movements became unseeable……Honestly, that was impossible even for Duke class Mazoku.
「Teleportation, that isn't it, right……」
It was fast enough movement to make me think that.

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The Knight of the small to medium sized country Shootvania, Narante endured not letting out a single letter from his mouth that wanted to shout out.
(Y, you mean to say that I, was unable to see through it at all!?)
Narante was famed and well-known not only in Shootvania but also in the neighboring countries.
He, who was celebrated as the second coming of the knight among knights Falhut Enhans from his ability and upright personality, was in a vortex of confusion.
The man who he was facing off against right in front of him suddenly vanished right in front of him, and then stood right before him in the next instant.
Him promptly putting up his shield was nothing more than a deeply engrained movement from years of training that his body took.

「Heeh……You saw through it, no, it doesn't look like it. Is it one of those things where your body just moved?」
The red haired man, the imperial prince of the Valanshel Empire Iibsal, stopped his body right before his fist hit the shield that Narante had put up.
「Kuh!!」
「Yotto.」
He fired a thrust with his sword. But however, the imperial prince of Valanshel, Iibsal, of all things, held the sword's tip in between two fingers and stopped it.
He stopped a sword stroke with just two fingers.
「Wha!?」
「Heheh, you won't be able to kill me with something of that level, you know?」
Saying that, Iibsal raised a fist overhead.
「Fuh!!」
What was fired from that strong arm was a body blow. The Knight Narante's body floated up a lot.
「Ugeh!?」
The impact that assailed Narante the moment the body blow was fired was something that was hard to describe.
His body shook, and the impact was strong enough to make one wonder "wouldn't that fist have pierced through his armor and body?"
However, Iibsal's attack did not stop.
「ORAORAORAORAORAORAORAH!!」
A rush of fists struck his floating body. Narante desperately tried to keep consciousness and endured it by biting down his back teeth.
But,
「RAH!!」
Being blown away by an attack that was fired with a big wind up, he was thrown into the sea that surrounded the arena ring.

「W, winner, Fist Emperor Iibsal!」

The curtain of the Magic Clad Martial Arts Demonstration Main Tournament was raised with Iibsal's complete victory.

Chapter end