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Chapter 78 : Complete Victory
🕑 Added 2022-09-11 05:32:19 +0000 UTCTL:SummerPeanut
Third chapter for this week as special thanks to the patrons and supporters.
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I didn't expect that Kuro to lose... this is completely unexpected... The nut crusher called Clarice was really strong.
But that was probably thanks to her overly strong weapon.
My father also did a good job of getting the other side’s blonde general to announce himself that he will not be using a sword so my victory is as solid as it can be.
But just what is that blondie's relationship with Ellie? He dared to hug her head and whatnot... I'm going to make sure he suffers before killing him...
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“Well then, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for waiting. We will now begin the battle of the generals between our own Lister Imperial School and the Royal School of Syrian!"
The crowd's voltage was at its highest.
“The general of the Royal School of Syrian is the eldest son of the current Duke of Syrian and the most formidable opponent, Brad Leo!”
The audience booed loudly as various objects were thrown into the air.
“Please don't throw things, everyone!"
Miss announcer desperately tried to stop them but there was no sign of stopping at all.
In the end, they decided to wait until there were no more things left for the audience to throw.
“And the general of Lister's Imperial School.......EH!! Isn’t this amazing!”
For some reason, miss announcer looked at the cheat sheet and got excited.
“Our strongest student in the Lister Imperial School! Glenn's younger brother! And ranked first, Mars Bryant!!!!!"
Ah, so you meant being Ike's brother is amazing.
Then there were ‘Mars’ shoutouts and ‘Glenn’ shoutouts from the audience.
How popular is Glenn that there are shoutouts for him when he's not even competing...
Naturally, the Syrian Royal School side is upset about this.
This is because they remember the Freshmen Combat Tournament during Ike’s first year.
It is said that Ike won overwhelmingly back then too.
Brad and I were facing each other.
Brad asked me a question.
“What is your relationship with Ellie?”
"I'll tell you when you beat me. But it is probably as what you guessed.”
I appraised Brad again.
Name: Brad Leo
Title: -
Status: Beastman(Lion Race), heir to the Duke of Syrian
Condition: Good
Age: 10 years old
Level: 21
HP: 68/68
MP: 20/20
Strength: 33
Agility: 30
Magic: 10
Dexterity: 5
Durability: 36
Luck: 1
Special Ability: Axe Technique (Lv3/D)
Special Ability: Martial Arts (Lv5/B)
Special Ability: Earth Magic (Lv1/G)
Yup. About the same as Baron but the difference in skill and magical power gives Baron the edge.
Well, he's strong but I wouldn't need to be too careful.
I guess all I have to do is watch out for traps and stuff.
“Start!"
And so began the brutal showtime between me and Brad.
First, Brad lunged at me while clawing at me, and I used my Wind Cutter to slash away all of his claws.
At first, I thought I could let him hit me once but the claws are coated with paralyzing poison.
As usual, playing dirty…
Brad doesn't know when or how his claws were cut down.
Now he tried to grab me and bite me with his teeth or rather his sharp fangs.
I slashed away all of Brad's teeth with my Wind Cutter.
By the way, I made sure the fangs stayed in his mouth.
Brad thought that he could bite me and bit down hard but I back stepped and ducked just in time.
Brad's mouth covered in blood from biting his own fangs.
Brad had lost all of his weapons at this point.
He had no choice but to punch and kick me with all his might.
And he still doesn't know why his claws and fangs are gone.
Naturally, he stopped attacking me.
Duke Regan stared at me in surprise.
I guess that besides Clarice, Ellie, and my blood relatives, Duke Regan was the only one who knew what I had done.
Brad is confused but still comes at me but this time I intercepted him.
When Brad swung his right hand towards me, I aimed my punch at his fist.
The sound of Brad's fist breaking echoed through the hall.
It was not only his fist but also the bone of his right arm that was broken.
I thought punching with pure brute force will only break his fist so I only put barely enough strength but seems like it was a little too strong for him and broke his right arm too.
The fist may have shattered a little but I think it's at a level where it can recover naturally...
Obviously, I cloaked myself in Sylphid.
As expectedly, I would be suffering from a few broken bones without Sylphid.
This time he’s punching out with his left hand so I also matched him by punching out with my left hand.
The sound of Brad's fist breaking again echoed throughout the hall, and Brad finally let out his voice.
“Gwahhhh!!!!”
And fell to his knees.
I suggested to him to give up but Brad is still coming at me.
This time he tried to kick me with his foot.
I intercepted his foot with my fist and the only limb of Brad's that was not already broken in his left leg.
He could no longer stand up.
The whole hall was holding its breath in anticipation of this unexpected event.
A human being was beating a beastman with his bare hands.
And it was done with overwhelming fashion...
I looked at miss announcer.
With a look as if asking her isn’t it already my win?
Still, Brad would not say he was done so the match continued.
To be honest, I was thinking of never letting him go when I saw Dominic being done in, but as it turned out in the end, Dominic is not permanently injured.
However, on the Syrian Royal School side, one of them was injured with irrecoverable burn wounds.
One other fainted with injury on the level where he may have permanent brain damage.
And another has ended his life as a man.
It seems like our side is the one that has gone overboard.
And I want Ellie to get a proper closure.
I'm fine with a supporting role instead of a leading role in this faceoff against the beastmen and if we're going to cooperate with the beastmen in the future, I think overdoing it is not good.
I looked at the Duke of Syrian, and he still has a look of disbelief on his face.
I said a few words to the Duke of Syrian.
“Would it be alright if I torture your son more? Or would you like to give up now? If I attack your son any further, he will surely be left with permanent injuries. And his chance for revenge against me will be lost forever. I beg you to make a wise decision."
The Duke of Syrian could not hide his confusion.
And again Brad tried to come at me while screaming and struggling to stand up.
"Uuooh!!!!"
He is just screaming as he tried to crawl his way towards me with all his strength by using his unbroken arm and still decent leg.
“If Brad reaches me, this time I shall break his left leg and cut it off. If your side still doesn’t surrender even then, I will slash off his limbs one by one? Brad's life is in your hands, Duke of Syrian, you know?"
Then the Duke of Syrian seemed to give up and said in a loud voice
"I admit that we have lost!"
Thus, we, the Lister Imperial School, won the championship, and at the same time, the internal division of the Lister Confederacy is prevented.
Huh? I'm from the Kingdom of Balkus so wouldn’t the internal division of Lister Confederacy be to our benefit?
“Winner! Martial Saint Mars Bryant! With this, the martial arts division is won by the Lister Imperial School! And the magic division, is also won by Lister Imperial School! Lister Imperial School is the overall winner!”
"Sword Saint. I want to talk. Come to me alone.”
Duke Syrian said that before going to Brad.
I thrust out my right hand amidst all the shoutouts for ‘Sword Saint’ and ‘Mars’, and a ground-shaking cheer followed.
The crowd was jumping all over the place in a frenzy, it was comparable to the Inaba-jump.*1
Clarice and Ellie embraced me along with the audience’’s cheers, and the other members of the group burst into joy with me in the center.
Dominic had also come down on his own from the infirmary and the crowd started to make even more noise when they saw that Dominic was safe.
After a short while, I went alone to the waiting room for the Royal School of Syrian, where the beastmen around me were showing their hostility toward me.
“I've been summoned by the Duke of Syrian...”
“Phew. I didn't expect you to come in here by yourself. ......are you really that stupid?"
The Duke of Syrian stood in front of me with his beastmen surrounding me.
“I wonder if that is the case? If something were to happen, I'm confident that I could definitely escape? Besides, though I wanted to come here alone but it seems that there are several people who followed me..."
Then Duke Regan appeared from behind me.
“I see you've noticed my tail...”
“Yes, and by the way, I've noticed you too, Sasha. After all, at the closing year of previous year I was bathed with that much gaze until I feel sick. My body remembers.”
Then Sasha came out and said
“I knew it’s impossible for me to tail you, Mars. Duke.”
“So what do you want? Duke of Syrian?”
……
"Hmmm. I really wanted to kill you, but as expected, it's tough against the Duke of Regan. And I didn't realize Sasha was here too. ...then I have a question for you, Sword Saint. What do you want? If you want Ellie, I can help you, you know?"
……
I can swear, that the Duke of Syrian never meant to kill me...
Ellie came out from behind Sasha after hearing Duke of Syrian’s words.
Unexpectedly, Duke of Syrian backed away and the other beastmen flinched.
After all, even among the beastmen, the Golden Lion is special.
…………
"......I am Mars' fiancée. I belong to Mars. Mars is mine too..."
“Hey, Mars is mine!"
I guess Clarice and Ellie came together too.
I really came here alone, okay? I didn’t ask or hint to anyone to tail me, honest.
By the way I’m fine being treated as Clarice and Ellie’s possession but I will never treat them as object, capiche?
The Duke of Syrian was startled.
"Ellie...are you going to marry that man? Did esteemed brother not object?"
“......Papa entrusted me to Mars.....”
The Duke of Syrian was muttering in anger or some emotion of such.
"Even my brother, who is pro-human race, would never give his beloved daughter to a human being...... So he is that much of a capable human being......”
Suddenly, Duke Syrian turned to me and spoke.
"Sword Saint, you are not from the Regan Confederacy...... Speaking of which, you said you are Ike's younger brother......Are you from the Kingdom of Balkus?"
“Indeed. I am."
Then the Duke of Syrian laughed out loud.
“This guy’s a masterpiece. Lord Regan! Since when did the Lister Imperial School belong to the Kingdom of Balkus? Ike, the fourth year, is also in the Kingdom of Balkus, and the current first year students are also from the Kingdom of Balkus. Doesn't Lister Imperial School belong to the Kingdom of Balkus already? Hey, Sword Saint! I'm going to ask you one more time. What do you want?”
Come to think of it, he asked something like that just now.
"What do I want...? To be happy with Clarice and Ellie. I guess that will be my family happiness. After that, I hope to have an environment where I can make an effort. As for the goal, anything to strive for."
“That's a lie. It's not possible to become that strong just by doing that. There must be something much darker in your heart......”
Even if you say so......was there something like that? As I was fell into deep thoughts, Ellie said in my stead.
"......harem party?......"
“It’s not like I wanted it though...”
But then the Duke of Syrian took the bait.
“So there's more than you two? Who is it?"
"......Misha......Karen......”
“Sasha's daughter and Fresvald's daughter!”
“Uhm, I am only engaged to Clarice and Ellie so...”
When I said so, Sasha suddenly chipped in.
"I think Misha and Karen will probably become your fiancée too, Mars...”
These words surprised not only me but also Clarice and Ellie.
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Author’s note:
2022
I will post tomorrow at 8pm and 10pm.
Mars:
TL’s note:
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2014/09/03/baseball/japanese-baseball/fan-favorite-inaba-jumping-sunset/ . I’m not following japanese baseball so…
Comments
Robert Apgar
Yeah i guess the whole engagement, and breaking of, could have been from Baron's side. Because his brain seems damaged enough for that. Maybe Karen had "no choice in the matter" but still you have 1 human, 1 elf, and 1 liongirl gotta keep that variety up. Dragon girl and demon girl before Karen.
Have to agree w/ you from our POV. lol.
Robert Apgar
Oh no not Karen too. I'd prefer he picked up a demon girl before that girl. She has only been portrayed as a manipulative gold digger, so it wouldn't make much sense to just accept her into the household because she is a woman that is interested? I mean that is the genre so maybe it does make sense....
