Battle War; Magic, Sword and Dragon

32. A hero?

A month had passed since the second meeting with the strange masked man.

Rumors about her having a boyfriend are almost unheard of. Eventually Laila is able to lead a normal school life as usual.

Today school lessons are self-study or free lessons because the teacher arrived suddenly there was a sudden affair.

Laila and her 3 friends, Aleca, Mitra, and Sella decide to train at a training field located southwest of Shiryuu Academy school.

The training ground is a field of 10 square km which is overgrown with lush grass and some trees that are quite shady.

Many craters in various places as evidence that this place is often used to train magic art.

In the middle of the field there is a small lake that is commonly used to train water element magic arts, and of course in the lake there is a Rellfish fish that is used as a training target.

Brutal right?

The weather is still not too hot because the sun is not too high, so this is a great time to practice.

After changing into a sports uniform that is commonly used to practice, Laila went first to the training ground because 3 friends were still not finished changing clothes.

Their sportswear is a jersey that covers the entire surface of the skin, however, a thin, lightweight material keeps the uniform comfortable to wear.

It is also to avoid serious injuries while practicing magic.

"Whaaaa.. Today's weather is very sunny....."

Laila got to the training ground first and started warming up. Warming is important so that the body is not stiff when practicing.

But there was nobody in the training ground.

This is quite natural because this training ground is actually rarely used. If used, at least there is only one class that performs exercises in one day.

Dueling between students is more popular and teachers also support this, so it is not strange that the training ground is rarely used.

But for Laila, a duel is not the only way to get stronger. In addition, the duel was full of rules so it differed greatly from the real battle.

After warming up, Laila made a small run towards the lake.

He stopped at the edge of the lake and summoned his magic arm.

"Sartoflare."

Two smoldering red swords appeared in both of Laila's hands.

Laila's magic arm is actually quite rare and unique when compared to Magic Arm in general.

Scarflare was a countless fire sword. This is not normal considering that usually magicians only have 1 or 2 magic arms.

Until now it was a mystery why Laila's magic arm was like that, but thanks to that, she didn't have to worry about the limit of the amount of magic arm she summoned as long as she had magic energy.

"Yes!!"

Laila swung both of her swords and practiced a dual sword technique that she still had not mastered.

He began to practice the dual sword technique because it was a bit of a waste to be able to create a limited number of swords, but only using one.

Even so, the double sword technique was more difficult than he had thought.

If it was one sword, he would be able to fight easily, but if he used two swords, for some reason he was in a mess or had not found a suitable technique.

If there is a friend or teacher who has a magic arm in the form of a double sword, he will be helped, but this type of magic arm is quite rare. Moreover, they did not necessarily tell Laila because telling the technique, was the same as telling their weaknesses.

"Hhhh!"

Laila swung her sword horizontally, diagonally and vertically several times. Sometimes he also jumped while slashing.

I don't know why he felt something was lacking. But what is it?

"HE..he... A..."

Sweat is flowing.

Double sword techniques deplete stamina more than using a single sword. If he didn't handle that basic matter, it was impossible for him to master the double sword technique.

Despite that, he decided to continue practicing.

"Hey!! "

He swung his sword, but-

"Huh?"

The scarflare in his left hand was no longer in his grasp.

Where did the other Scarflare go?

Buouk.

In a moment of confusion he heard the sound of falling objects coming from a large tree not far behind him.

It's not a thing, it's a human being.

And that man is a masked young man who always wears a robe.

The young man patted his body several times to remove the dirt as it fell and the young man's left hand was gripping the red sword, Scarflare.

"Geez, do you want to kill me? Did I do you wrong, Miss?"

The young man complained. He did not expect to meet the girl for the third time.

"Sorry, I'm not sen-Hey shouldn't I be the one asking why you're here?"

"Haaa... Why am I always unlucky when I meet you?"

"Ugg."

Laila realized what the young man said was true, but it did not answer her question.

"I was just sleeping on a tree, but I woke up because a sword almost hit my head. So what's your reason for attacking me this time?"

".............."

Laila fell silent and thought.

"I was just exhausted and accidentally threw my sword. That'sthat's all. So I'm sorry!"

Laila admitted her mistake and bowed in apology.

"All right, I'll forgive you. But I hope it's the last time because I could've considered you an enemy and accidentally attacked you."

The young man smiled, but his words slightly frightened Laila.

"Ha... "

Laila sighs. He then walked past the young man and sat under a tree to rest.

The young man also sat under a tree not far from Laila.

"So why are you here? Don't you know this is Shiryuu Academy's training ground? Don't don't you... eyes eyes?"

That was all Laila thought, if not the eyes, why would the young man be in a place like this?

"Eye eye? Hmmmm... That's right, but it's wrong."

"Eh?"

Laila didn't really understand, but she had already held Scarflare tightly to guard if the young man was the enemy.

"Just calm. I've only ever been an eye, that's all. I'm not your enemy, what I mean is I'm the eye of this country."

"You are right an eye. Hey, how does anyone believe that?"

"Just because no one believes, I'm the eye."

"Eh?"

Laila realized what the young man said was indeed true. Precisely because no one believes, it becomes the perfect reason not to be suspected by the enemy.

But isn't that dangerous work?

Is the young man lying?

"Yahhh, it's a shameful job, so I don't want to talk about it. I only did it once anyway, to be honest it traumatized me until now."

"Are you serious?"

"Yes. ....Never mind. I don't want to talk about it."

Laila chuckled when she heard the young man.

That job must be pretty scary.

"Then why are you here?'

"It's coincidence. I was looking for dinner and found this lake. It was full and sleepy, so I slept and someone woke me up with a sword."

"Ahaa, uh.."

Laila laughed bitterly, but after a while, she realized that something was strange.

"Eat dinner? Why are you looking for him here and not in town? You have money, right?"

"You're saying it like I don't have any money. Look, I have money, but it's in the bank, so I'm forced to find dinner here."

"You don't have any money, do you?"

".........."

Technically, the young man did not have any money at the moment.

The young man finally looked down limp and fell silent.

He can't say anything else.

The silence was created for a few minutes and only a strong wind sounded.

Comfortable and quiet. That's how they feel right now.

"Hmm?"

Looking the other way, Laila was startled by some of the rest of the campfire not far from where she was sitting. Not only that, he also found the head of a cut Rellfish.

(Don't tell me dinner she's a fish?)

"Ahaa..."

Laila smiled wryly, not long after, she stood up.

The tiredness has disappeared a little. So he intends to continue his training again.

(Why were the three of them so long?)

Laila doesn't understand. The three of them should have arrived since. Did something happen?

"?"

The young man glanced at Laila who stood up and put up a horse.

It was then that the young man saw a new sword appear in Laila's left hand.

"Heeeehhh..double sword?"

The young man smiled when he saw Laila practicing.

But after a while, the young man realized that Laila's technique was a little unbalanced.

"Miss, do you want me to be your match trainer?"

The young man stood up and offered himself to be Laila's training companion.

It was then that Laila stopped moving and raised her eyebrows as if saying "What did you say?".

"Train match? Are you sure? Aren't you buk-"

"Not witch? That's right, but blade art has nothing to do with witches or not witches, right?"

"...................... Yeah you're right." Laila said with a smile. "alright. You can be my opponent, but don't cry when you're hurt."

"Yes yes. But before that, lend me one more sword. That way, I can show you the double sword technique."

"Eh?"

Astounded.

Yep. That was Laila's reaction. Not only Laila, surely everyone would be shocked upon hearing the young man's request.

Laila was surprised not because the young man realized that Laila's magic arm numbered more than three. The problem was that the young man asked Laila to lend Scarflare.

Is that young man stupid?

magic arm or magic beast can only be used by the magician who created it, and if you try to use magic arm or magic beast belonging to another witch, it will be rejected or will disappear immediately. This is because the form of magic is the embodiment of the witch's soul, but-

The young man could hold Scarflare.

This isn't normal.

"Aren't you going to lend me?"

"Ah. no. It's not that, I'm just wondering why you could use Scarflare."

"Eitherway. I can use all magic arm but I can't use magic beast.. That'sthat's all. So....?"

"............."

Laila fell silent and could not say what.

Did the young man tell the truth?

Or could he do it because of using a certain trick?

But the hand that was holding Scarflare was empty-handed.

Who is that young man really?

"alright. Catch her!"

Laila threw Scarflare in her right hand at the young man, then created a new Scarflare in both hands. Now two dual sword users were ready to fight.

But that's when 3 of Laila's friends came and brought some food and drinks.

This is the reason they are old.

"Hmm.. What did we miss?"

Aleca and Mitra shook their heads as they saw the white masked young man and Laila preparing to fight.

The two put horses on each other. The difference was that Laila's right horse was slightly forward, while the young man was level.

(He.).

Laila realized that the young man was a blade art user of how to hold and a sturdy horse. Laila finally understood why the young man had offered to train for her match.

Although not a witch, Laila knew the young man was strong. But how strong?

(It's a great opportunity to find out.)

Laila smiled, at the same time, she kicked the ground and advanced.

The young man also advanced.

"Yes!''

Laila attacked with a sword in her right hand.

But the young man managed to hold back with both of his swords

"Miss, the core of the double sword is the balance of power of the left hand and hand. If you only use one of your hands while you hold two swords, then you are no different than using one."

"Eh?"

Laila was pushed back a few meters.

Only with one sword. Laila knew the manpower, speed, technique of the young man far above Laila.

"Not only that, you must be able to harmonize your sword techniques in order to move the two swords harmoniously. This is all I can say, no, one more thing. Practice your left hand. Once your left hand has the same strength as your right hand, then you start practicing the double sword technique again."

".......Apparently so. So that's why I was able to release Scarflare earlier."

"Yes. So-so ?"

The young man was suddenly startled by the vibrations coming from his phone.

The young man stuck Scarflare in his right hand onto the ground and then took his cell phone.

The young man answered the call.

"Hmmm....All right, I'll be there soon."

Laila could guess what the young man was going to say.

"It seems that we should part ways, but I want to show you the true power of the double sword. Hows it? Still going on?"

"....Alright. I don't think there's any harm."

After taking Scarflare. The young man pointed his right sword slightly back, while his left sword slightly forward.

"?!"

Realizing that the young man would be serious, Laila would also fight seriously.

Laila crossed her two swords forward and took a defensive position.

The young man quickly kicked the ground and sped towards Laila.

"........hnn."

Laila smiled slightly as she had expected the young man's attack.

But Laila was startled when the young man arrived already in front of her.

(Leap?)

Klao...

Laila's sword and the young man clashed once again.

Laila was pushed back, while the young man leaped back and used momentum as he landed and shot straight towards Laila.

"Secret Blade Art [Twin Moon]"

After hearing the name of the technique, Laila could not remember what happened next.

She fainted and when she regained consciousness, she was already in the school's treatment room.

"Hmmm... Wh-what happened? Why am I here?"

Laila opened her eyes. His head was dizzy and he felt pain all over his body.

"You were hit by the young man's sword technique and fainted."

"You know, this is the second time we've got you to school, so thank you!" Said Mitra in a slightly irritated tone.

"Unn.unn.."

There were three girls waiting for Laila. Of course they are Aleca, Mitra and Sella who have changed uniforms.

They look angry, but they also look anxious because Laila fainted for more than 4 hours.

Laila then woke up. He is fully aware.

And he only wears underwear and underwear.

He didn't try to cover up or be embarrassed because there was only a girl in that place.

"Young man? ..... Where is he now?"

"Well.. Why are you asking him? Do you know how worried we were when we thought you were dead, you idiot!"

Mitra finally exploded because the person she was worried about was asking the person who hurt her.

It makes Laila happy because Mitra cares so much for her.

"Have it, you all should be grateful that Laila was hit by a magic arm attack, if she was hit by a metal sword attack, she would have already died into pieces of flesh. Fu fu's..."

"Doctor Sfara... ummm.. What do you mean?"

A red-haired big-breasted woman wearing a lab jacket arrived.

She was one of the doctors at Shiryuu Magic School who treated Laila.

"You must have known from the sword marks on Laila's uniform that numbered more than ten. Not only that, his attack also targeted a vital place. You're really lucky, my Laila"

"""".......................................""""

Are you serious?

That's what's on all of them.

"Who's the young man you met, anyway? He must have been quite strong since he had managed to defeat one of the top ten in Shiryuu Magic School so easily. I would love to meet and examine the entire body of the young man thoroughly.. Fu fu's......"

The vices of Sfara appeared and made the four of them sigh deeply.

But at that time also 3 friends of Laila turned towards Laila with a curious look.

"I don't know, I haven't had time to ask her name."

""""Huh?""""

In the end, Laila got into new trouble because of her defeat and because of her stupidity.

But most think that Laila lied about the young man's identity.

The boy was a problem-bearer. Don't we?

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Two days have passed since that day.

The masked youth was still a warm talk at Shiryuu Magic School.

It was natural because the one defeated the young man was one of the top ten and a strongest paladin princess.

"Our task today is really difficult. Are you guys sure we can finish on time?"

Partners are grim-faced when remembering tasks their teacher gave them.

Currently the four of them were walking together towards the city library, the Aste Library.

The sky was almost dark a sign of soon night.

"Yes. I concur. I'm not sure we can finish this job. Jill's mother teacher is a demon."

Laila, Sella, and Mitra nodded their heads in agreement with Aleca.

"Our job is to make a report on the development of technology that uses magic, Magitec and we only have until tomorrow. This is so unfair. Why aren't we given easy tasks like flying magic or recovery magic?"

"Partner, you know. I don't think our job is too difficult because all the records are in the library." Laila.

"Yupps. Moreover, we already have evidence of Magitec progress, which is mobile." added Sella.

"The problem is that we have to compile a Magitec progress report, I think we're just going to have a hard time compiling rather than looking for Magitec developmental data."

Not long after, the four of them finally arrived at the Aste Library.

The old building is 200 meters long and 5 floors. That's what they saw.

The high pole and the big door that's the entrance to the library.

The Aste Library is a comprehensive library that holds billions of books from the latest and oldest, 500-year-old books.

The most famous myth of this library is that one of the books in the library is a Grimoire that is able to change this whole world or destroy the world.

But until now no one has found the Grimoire since the library was built 300 years ago.

As the most complete library, it is natural that visitors to this library can reach 10000 per day.

Laila and her three friends walked to the library guard and asked where the book stored Magitec's developmental data.

Although only the majority of Magitec data is shown to the general public, it is enough given the possibility that Magitec will be used for crime.

After asking for the place of the book, the guard happily showed the place to Laila and her friend.

The place turned out to be quite far away and was on the top floor of the library. Thanks to the elevator that drove them easily and quickly.

After that they finally found 3 shelves full of books containing about 1000 more books containing Magitec development data.

""""..................................................""""

Surrender, that's what they think.

"Well, does anyone have a suggestion that we quickly complete our task?" ask Laila

"Nothing."

"I'll write a will."

"..............."

Sella was lifeless and no longer speaking.

"You guys gave up too soon. How about we search separately and look for 1 book that summarizes the development of Magitec or at least look for a book whose contents approach it. I'm sure there must be. "

"""......................"""

This time the three of them were already lifeless, but Laila had a way to get them excited.

"Do you remember the punishment for not completing a task?"

"""?!"""

Upon hearing that, they quickly got up and excited.

"Let's do it fast. I never want to taste the dark curry made by Master Jill"

The four of them nodded and started searching for books randomly.

The Darkness Kare by their teacher, Jill is the most famous kare in the school.

Although the material used like kare in general, but always ends up being a cause of darkness. In other words, Jill can't cook.

Of course it feels amazingly bad.

Not only that, Jill is smart enough to use her artificial darkness as punishment. Or make his student as a taster?

"?"

Laila felt a little strange when she found enough empty shelves to store 20 books.

Does anyone read 20 books at a time?

30 minutes passed, they continued to search for the book containing Magitec's progress, but they only found a super long summary.

"Haaa. You agree?"

Laila's friend nodded in agreement, but the sign of surrender was already visible.

This was natural since they had already searched 200 books, but had yet to find the book they were looking for.

There are 800 more books. They have not yet compiled a report.

Tap tap tap tap.

While they were in despair, the four of them heard the sound of footsteps approaching. The voice came from a man.

The man was carrying 20 books at once that covered his face. Then the man stopped and put the book on the floor and reassembled it on an empty bookshelf.

It was at that moment that Laila saw the person who slashed at her with Scarflare.

"Aaaa...Wh-why are you here?"

"?"

The man turned his head towards Laila who was shouting in surprise.

Laila's friend was also surprised and turned her head towards the man.

White masked men wear jeans jackets, shirts in white and jeans in black. He's dressed cool today. (?)

"Srrr."

The man put his index finger in his mouth and warned Laila not to make any noise.

Laila and her friend approached the young man out of curiosity.

"What's up, Miss. No, Miss Sweet. Aren't we?"

"Here you go, I don't want to listen to your dreadlocks. What I want to ask you is why you're here?"

"""Unn.."""

They were finally forced to chat in a soft voice because they did not want to disturb others.

"Of course I read a book. I've been here for two days, you know."

"2 days?"

The young man nodded.

"Then you four?"

"We searched for books as material for Magitec's progress report, but we only found thick books."

"so apparently. Then I'll help you, but I'll just find you a book. How's it?"

It wasn't a bad offer, but-

"Can you find the book we're looking for in no time? Just so you know, we're tired and don't have much time."

"Ohhhh. just calm down."

The young man suddenly jumped up and picked up several books at the same time.

After landing, he gave 4 thick books to Laila.

"Please. It's as I promised!"

""""Huh?...............Eeeeeeeeeeeeehhh?""""

Now the four of them are making noise.

This was natural because the book they were looking for could be found in a matter of seconds.

"You look at the book, I'm sure it's all you're looking for."

Without many words, Laila and her three friends took each of the 1 book and opened it.

The eyes of the four of them widened as they looked at the contents of the book which was the Magitec summary.

"W-how is that possible?"

"What do you think I've been doing for 2 days here? I only had time to read the book, then return to my original position. That's all."

"That's all?"

"Yes. And I have to go now. I found what I was looking for. So see you soon!"

The young man left and waved his hand towards the back.

After a while, the young man was nowhere to be seen again at the corner of the shelf.

"You know Laila?" said Aleca "I'm happy now that we can finish the task quickly, but I'm sorry I didn't get to ask the cool young man's name and phone number. Right Mitra, Sella?"

"Youp."

"Unn ..Unn's.."

Cooly?

"Are you three serious?"

"Of course."

"It's your fault, too, you know?" Partner Say.

"What do you mean? Ahhh. Let's get our report done. Don't you want to go home soon?"

That's the story of how they completed the task and survived Jill's Kare of Darkness.

One thing they did not expect, the four of them were the only group that successfully completed the task of 8 groups.

In other words from the beginning Jill did give an impossible task to complete.

But thanks to the young man, they survived.

For the record: Jill apparently tried a new recipe for her homemade darkness, and the results were predictable.7 groups who tasted the dark curry all fainted.

That young man is now a hero, right?