Vampire Prince Trapped Into a Hunter

Chapter 50 – FIRST YEAR COMPETITION. 3

Every night after that day before the competition day came, I practiced sword aura with Lisanna.

For the initial 3 days, it had only ended in a one-sided defeat of me because the aura of Lisanna's sword was too strong even for me to stand before her even though my body had been strengthened by my own sword aura.

Then arriving on Thursday night, I was able to stand before the hot burning aura.

As our sword auras clashed against each other, it evolved into each other.

Thanks to him, my tolerance level to heat is now increasing and I no longer have trouble breathing in the stuffy and hot with just a few inches of Lisanna's sword aura.

On Friday, I began to be able to launch a counterattack that could penetrate the Lisanna defense directly.

But nevertheless, the,

-bruak.

- Prak.

-Truk, tuk, no, no.

Lisanna was always able to predict my movements accurately, but on the other hand I was always stuck in every feint movement.

Even though I had finally been able to defend well against his sword aura, my overly amateurish movements were easily broken and I still always ended in defeat.

On Saturday and Sunday I decided to go home.

There, according to my request, Father has prepared me for battle training.

At first I was disappointed that the opponent provided by Father was just an ordinary D level swordsman hunter.

However, it is precisely me who is already in the realm of magic swordsman even though he is still at level E never once won against him.

“How to say it. The Young Master Arno movement was too simple to read. On the other hand, Young Master Arno is too emotional in fighting until it is very easy to trap.”

“If compared to when the Young Master still uses the style of a large sword, the strong momentum of the great sword itself becomes a good shield for Young Master Arno so even with a simple movement, it will be difficult to break the defense of Young Master.”

“But now with bastard swords, it is not a difficult thing anymore.”

I looked carefully at the words of the hunter.

On Monday night, as I was rehearsing a match back with Lisanna, I expressed my confusion at the hunter's words.

“What do Yayang Arno think of the movement of a person's hand if his right foot steps first?”

“Eh? That... because the symmetry between the hands and feet is opposite each other, most likely the person will punch with his left hand.”

“It's true. So, what will happen then if someone lowers his right shoulder slightly?”

“Eh? I don't know. Is that predictable?”

“The average beginner if he makes such a move, it is likely that he will kick using his left foot. Some chances of left hand grip is also not small.”

“Any particular action will always have a specific reaction. Similarly, in the fight movement, each person has certain characteristics and characteristics in each attack, but there are some that can be classified into similar domains.”

“Of course the more expert you are in fighting, you can more and more cover the monotony of your movements with various tricks such as by preventing the emergence of a general reaction in a particular action that you launch, such as, in the sense of feint movement as natural as possible.”

“That sounds easy to talk about, but it will certainly be difficult to apply to the practice, right?”

“What does Yayang Arno doubt? In front of you at this time has not there been a perfect feint master?”

Lisanna, who had always been cold in front of the other person, had just smiled in a fox manner in front of me.

As we trained together, I could feel that I was getting closer to Lisanna.

Whatever my request, he will always try his best to help me.

He was sincere and really gave his best effort for me.

But with her pure sincerity, an inexplicable sense of guilt became more and more imprinted on my chest.

He helped me sincerely because all this time I thought that I was Arno who was still in a state of slump because he could not escape completely from the trauma.

Without Lisanna realizing it, she had actually helped the enemies of mankind to develop into stronger ones.

Will it be if that day comes where I can get my power back from the System and then stand before humanity as their greatest enemy, my relationship with Lisanna can still be like this?

A vampire and a descendant of vampire hunter, our relationship was truly a combination of the worst.

One day, Lisanna with her brilliant talent will surely stand at the forefront as the main force of mankind in getting rid of the enemies of humanity, including myself.

Inevitably in the future, we will stand as enemies of each other.

***

Thanks to Lisanna's enlightenment, I slightly understood my flaws.

I try to train my sword style to be able to cover up the weaknesses, although in fact the habits and style in the sword is a very difficult thing to hide completely.

“You felt it too before right when fighting Alvin Hermes? He is one of the quite cunning rookies able to hide his attack intent.”

Lisanna later explained to me that rather than predict the opponent's movements clearly through visuals alone, we should be able to capture the ulterior intent in each opponent's movement.

The more expert the opponent, the more difficult it is to visually predict the next movement, but not with intention.

As long as we can know the intentions of the opponent through his habits and mindset reflected by his movements, according to Lisanna it is actually very easy to control the flow of the fight as you like.

Of course it is far from my shadow.

Nevertheless, Lisanna has given me a very useful klu.

Not only the sense of sight, the sense of hearing to detect the speed of the opponent's heart rate to predict the rhythm of his attack, including to detect any hidden weapons throughout his body, was also an important force to have.

Then, the sense of sight is not limited to paying attention to the moving and attacking parts of the body, but we must see the whole body of the opponent as a unit, considering his reaction action through the nature of the opponent, including the gaze of the eye, shoulder movements, horses and so on, to predict the opponent's thoughts in his attack plan.

Thus, we can reverse control the flow of the opponent's game.

***

Without notice, the day of the competition arrived.

As for class S being given the privilege of being able to qualify for the core tournament without needing to enter the qualifying round, I increasingly have more time to practice preparing myself for this competition.

A total of 6 swordsman representatives came from class S, which meant that there were as many as 26 opponents from other classes who qualified after the qualifying round.

But there was one of them that caught my attention.

Of course it was not Mulyadi Murhahan who had made a fuss with me in the early days of college, but Erna Silverwood, one of my precious old friends.

But the unexpected thing is that Erna will be my first opponent in the swordsmanship battle of the new student.