Chapter 374
Reinhardt became stronger in his own way.
I became stronger by bumping into and enduring dangerous things.
That’s Reinhardt’s way.
That method couldn’t work for Cliffman either.
but.
Does it really not work?
Ellen is worried.
Cliff’s talent.
Think about ‘combat’.
It is a talent in a very comprehensive sense of what is called combat.
Talent to win the battle.
That includes any weapon used.
However, Cliffman continues to fall apart for Reinhardt.
Cliff’s talent.
What is it?
-Pacan!
The training sword that Reinhardt wielded was broken by Cliffman’s training sword.
However, rather, Reinhardt, who was on the side where the training sword was broken, pulled his body back greatly, avoiding Cliffman’s training sword, and at the same time grabbing him by the collar and throwing him over.
-thud!
“Keugh!”
Even when his own sword is broken, Reinhardt is ahead due to his reaction speed.
Seeing only Cliff who stumbled up, Ellen spoke to the two.
“stop.”
“Okay, get some rest now. Not just today… … .”
“no. more… … .”
When Cliffman said he could do more, Ellen glared at Cliffman.
“You can’t be like this.”
Ellen sweeps up the broken training sword pieces with a broom and puts them away. Then she, she snatched her training sword from Cliffman’s hand and hung it on the cradle.
“You have to do it differently.”
“differently… … ?”
Ellen looks at Reinhardt.
“Reinhardt.”
“… … uh?”
Reinhardt didn’t know what Ellen was thinking.
“Can you bring that sister?”
“what? Maybe senior Olivia?”
“huh.”
“No, why is that senior all of a sudden?”
“I want her to help me a little.”
Olivia’s help.
Reinhardt seemed to think for a moment, then nodded.
“okay. I’ll try to talk.”
Cliffman was dumbfounded, and Ellen leaned against the window of the gymnasium with her arms crossed, waiting for Olivia to come.
how long did you wait
– jumped
“… … Why are you looking for me?”
Reinhardt called Olivia Ranze and came reluctantly, but she showed signs of not liking it. But Ellen didn’t look particularly hostile.
Ellen knows.
Since the last time they shared a secret, Olivia’s hostility feels like a mask.
It’s not that strong animosity.
Knowing that neither of them could be more threatening or malicious than the other, they were forced to accept each other to some degree even though they didn’t like each other.
“I need your help, sister.”
“what? my help?”
Olivia narrowed her brows as if she was even more offended by those words.
“Why should I help you?”
“It’s not me who helps, it’s him.”
What Ellen was pointing at was Cliffman.
Cliffman suddenly looked startled when Olivia Ranze, a fifth-year student he didn’t know very well but had a notoriety for, looked at him.
Although immunity has developed in many areas, it is still difficult to deal with someone who is not close to Cliff.
Ellen goes to the center of the gymnasium and looks at Cliffman without the training sword.
– Kurleung!
Ellen, who had strengthened her magical power, looked at Cliffman with haunting eyes.
“With unnie’s skills, if I think I’m going to kill him, I can stop him before that, right?”
“uh… … . what?”
It was also a statement that honestly admitted that you were much better than me, so Olivia was dumbfounded.
“Can you do it?”
“I guess I can… … . No, what if you suddenly call me and ask me to do something like that? Why should I do that!”
“ah.”
And, Reinhardt exclaimed as if he noticed something.
Cliffman was still bewildered, as if he had no idea what was going on.
Ellen Artorius gazes at Cliff in the blue flame of magical power enhancement.
“You can really die from now on.”
“uh… … . uh?”
“I am not kidding.”
battle.
It’s not about sparring.
I’m talking about a real fight.
Ellen knew that Cliffman’s talent would manifest in practice.
“Are you going to do it anyway?”
Cliffman finally realized what Ellen was talking about.
It’s not about overpowering your opponent and ending it. Only when life is really at stake, and there must be that much urgency, but your talent will truly shine.
In a real life-and-death battle, one’s talents exert real power.
That’s why I brought Olivia.
In a crisis situation, he can intervene in the situation to stop Ellen, and if only Cliff is injured, he has powerful enough divine power to heal him.
Cliffman stares into Ellen’s calm eyes.
What Reinhardt had whispered, Olivia sighed and nodded saying she understood.
Cliffman swallows and looks at Ellen.
He’s not a joke guy.
He said he would fight with the momentum to really kill himself, and since there was a safety device, he would really fight with the momentum to kill himself.
“I will.”
Cliffman takes a stand.
No further conversation is necessary.
Ellen steps on the advance.
-thud!
Cliffman didn’t even see Ellen approaching.
– Pleasant!
“big… … omg!”
-bang!
Only Cliff, who had been hit with a heavy blow to the abdomen, collapsed in an instant, rolling several times on the floor of the gymnasium.
“ugh… … ugh… … . Wow! Whoops!”
Without even getting up properly, red blood flowed from Cliffman’s mouth.
“this… … . That crazy bitch!”
Olivia’s complexion turned white, and she quickly approached Cliffman and cast divine magic on him.
“her… … . her. Heo-eok… … . omg… … .”
Without Olivia in time, it was a blow that would have killed Cliffman with a ruptured intestine. Cliffman recovered from his pain, but his complexion turned white and his body trembled.
Cliffman couldn’t even speak, and it was Olivia who was rather angry.
“hey! Are you crazy! What if I really die!”
However, Ellen’s expression was calm.
“If you can’t do it, stop. I have no intention of forcing it.”
Ellen said that to Cliffman with a cool expression.
“Instead, if you say continue, I won’t be kidding.”
If it is a talent that can be displayed only by risking one’s life, wouldn’t it be possible to display even half of it when half of one’s life is staked?
Cliffman wants to be strong.
As a result, it is the same way as Reinhardt.
fight for one’s life Reinhardt became stronger at the end.
If you want to follow that process, even Cliffman will have to fight a battle that could lead to his death.
Fight, not sparring.
Ellen had already shown that she had no intention of looking after the situation at all.
That was the last thing that was in Cliffman’s mind, and even the mind that was in case disappeared.
Cliffman stands up slowly.
“Go, thank you… … . senior. That, though, will do.”
“hey… … . what are you Why are you doing this?”
Whether Olivia is lost or not, Cliffman is also desperate in her own way.
I decided to face the Demon King. I decided to help Riana’s revenge.
He said he would awaken his talent that he didn’t even know he had, but he couldn’t back down.
“Come on, Ellen.”
“okay.”
“no… … . Reinhardt, why are you guys doing this?”
Olivia came closer to Reinhardt, and Reinhardt muttered something to comfort Olivia as if to watch for the moment.
If it was a training sword, it would have been pierced through the stomach and died.
Ellen’s fist is a minimal control device.
Cliffman’s talent, even what kind of weapon is used in combat is irrelevant.
Ellen is objectively stronger than Reinhardt.
Even to Reinhardt, Cliffman was defeated in a matter of seconds, and Cliffman didn’t even see Ellen’s charge just now.
Olivia can recover it, but if Olivia doesn’t react or gets hit in the wrong place, she could die right away.
What Ellen is trying to convey is that tension.
If you do it wrong, you really die.
So, if there is something like your own power that you don’t even know about, bring it out.
The one who clung to Reinhardt all day because he wanted to become stronger was Cliffman himself.
Fighting too violent for Ellen is scary, so I can’t say that I want to quit.
Cliffman gritted his teeth and looked at Ellen.
“Goes.”
With another warning, Ellen steps on the advance.
-thud!
I still couldn’t follow him.
You can’t avoid what you can’t see.
Unless you deliberately miss it, that’s impossible.
– Jjaeong!
Ellen’s fist was blocked by the white protective field formed around Cliffman’s chest.
Again, Cliffman did not respond. What blocked Ellen’s fists was Olivia’s urgently activated holy magic.
“… … Do you really want to kill me?”
The voice of Olivia who blocked the attack by a narrow margin.
“… … Wasn’t this a trend to be avoided?”
Cliffman couldn’t escape.
‘no.’
However, Ellen saw Cliffman twist slightly just before the protective field formed.
Without the protective field, the attack would have been allowed anyway.
‘I was trying to avoid something invisible.’
However, Cliffman certainly made an attempt to accurately avoid what the senses could not know.
I don’t know if it’s driven by instinct or what.
Cliffman’s talent couldn’t reach victory, but he did make a move to reach victory.
Olivia looked at Ellen and Cliffman, then sighed helplessly.
“You are so out of shape. come out.”
“… … .”
Olivia didn’t know the details, but she knew what the first year kids were up to.
Ellen is so fast and strong. With her killer momentum, she might really kill Cliffman before Olivia can react.
“Reinhardt, you do it.”
“To be treated appropriately… … . It looks like a dog.”
Reinhardt scratches the back of her head and grabs Ellen by the shoulder and pulls her back.
Someone Olivia can deal with in emergencies and who could be a very big threat to Cliffman if she goes out of her heart.
Ellen is out of weight class.
“Well, it’s not that I’m wrong.”
So, in the end, there was only Reinhardt.
Do your best, Cliffman continued.
But that’s not to say I’m going to kill you.
Reinhardt will be ready to kill from now on. He would rather do it with more power than Ellen. Because you will have faith that Olivia will do something for you.
But Cliffman can’t believe that.
Only when you think that you will die if you do something wrong, you can realize your true talent.
– Kurleung!
Reinhardt’s body was enveloped in blue magic once again.
Strengthen one’s own body by self-suggestion.
Fighting with the momentum to kill the opponent, which is different from exerting one’s strength.
Cliffman didn’t know, but Reinhardt had quite a bit of that experience. There are things that only those who have gone through such a real battle can have.
“Where, let’s do it.”
live.
Cliffman was now feeling alive from Reinhardt.
The vague belief that Olivia would protect him disappeared with just one kill.
With the feeling that someone is holding your breath.
Reinhardt rushed into Cliffman.
Not as fast as Ellen.
However, it is true that the speed is difficult to sense.
shoulder movement.
Only the width of the stride is visible.
Cliffman instinctively grasps where Reinhardt is aiming through that trajectory.
Axis left foot.
Retraction of the right shoulder.
Soon, he realized that his right arm would move.
The body, not the head, realizes that the trajectory is aiming for the face.
If a fist imbued with magic power hits her face, if Olivia doesn’t react to it.
die for real
can’t react
That’s right.
-Shhh!
but.
“… … .”
At that moment, Cliffman dodged that fist with a nod of the head, digging into Reinhardt’s arms.
In the bizarre sensations that the body itself, not the head, reacts to.
– Pleasant!
“… … .”
Cliffman’s uppercut while avoiding the hook hit Reinhardt’s chin precisely.
Cliffman’s strength and physique are not normal.
And the chin is a vital point.
Under normal circumstances, the fight should end here.
“oh.”
However, Reinhardt, who was slapped on the chin, grinned.
As if I couldn’t feel any blow.
“Are you sure it’s different?”
The difference between power and intensity.
– Pleasant!
“Cuck!”
As if he couldn’t overcome it, Reinhardt put his knee on Cliffman’s abdomen and slashed it.
It did react, and even countered it, but it couldn’t pierce the defense of magical power enhancement.
Looking at Cliff as he jumped out and rolled on the floor, Reinhardt calmly touched his chin.
“Huh… … . omg… … .”
“Try some more.”
Reinhardt grinned as he watched Cliffman gasp.
“If you do it, it seems like something will happen.”
The words are really only for Cliff.
Because of his expression, his actions, and his way of speaking, he looked like a third-class villain.
* * *
Olivia was right in thinking that it would be better for her to be with Reinhardt rather than Ellen.
Ellen was too fast and too strong, and even with Cliffman’s talent, the wall was too high.
Of course, it is true that Reinhardt is relatively weak compared to Ellen, but Reinhardt was able to bring out Cliffman’s talent more technically.
– Perok! Perpuck! thud!
It is true that Reinhardt’s fist, which has raised all his abilities, cannot be defeated, and the difference in overall weight class is very large.
However, Cliffman could not receive it, so he was avoiding Reinhardt’s attack and poking through loopholes.
Taking what he shouldn’t be able to see, being pushed back and eventually allowing a fatal blow and Olivia recovering, but obviously Cliffman was different from before.
Both Olivia and Ellen were watching their fight.
“… … I don’t know. Does he move better than when he was with you?”
“I think so.”
Both of them sensed to some extent that Cliffman moved better against Reinhardt than against Ellen.
skill in combat.
It is a talent that demonstrates real strength in situations of crisis and actual combat.
Cliffman’s talent was clearly being exercised in a sense of crisis.
Ellen seemed to know why Cliffman’s talent was displayed more strongly in the fight against Reinhardt.
It’s hard to read Ellen’s emotions in her expression.
But now, Reinhardt radiates hostility, and even feels alive.
The reason why I have to say this and that is simple.
Ellen doesn’t have much expression, and her impression is subtly fierce.
So, it is difficult to feel a sense of crisis from Ellen’s calm appearance when you actually face each other. It’s just that she’s so lethal that a blind guy can’t predict.
However, Reinhardt has a dirty impression.
If they face each other in a fight, they give off an aura that seems like they’re going to destroy any opponent.
So, apart from his actual skills, Reinhardt gives off this kind of momentum, ‘Where to take a chance on you’, and Ellen doesn’t have anything like that.
In fact, it is Reinhardt, not Ellen, who creates more tension when facing each other.
On top of that, Ellen was able to finish it all in one go before the battles even came and went, and Reinhardt had enough time to realize that Cliffman was getting into a corner as the momentum itself was bloody and the battles went back and forth.
– Pleasant!
“ugh… … Ugh!”
blast furnace.
In many ways, Reinhardt was the best opponent to draw out Cliffman’s power. Reinhardt looks down as Olivia restores the fallen Cliffman.
“Even if your talent is displayed, isn’t it still a long way at this level?”
One more sip there.
At Reinhardt’s provocation, only Cliff stands up again with his teeth clenched. Reinhardt smiled at Cliffman.
“Am I still watching too much?”
“… … .”
Ellen knows why Reinhardt is doing that.
In addition to the sense of crisis, it is to bring out the desire to win by provoking Cliff.
“Even if you look at it, it seems like it would be a bit difficult at this level.”
Know.
I know why Reinhardt is like that.
I’m not doing that for nothing.
“Try using more force.”
I know
I don’t like it too much
“Reinhardt… … . I knew it, but it’s really bad.”
Olivia muttered blankly whether she was feeling it in real time as well.
-thud!
When Cliffman rushed in and swung his fist into the pit of the stomach, Reinhardt lightly dodged and tripped Cliffman’s hamstrings.
Reinhardt lifted his feet toward Cliffman’s head, which fell to the floor.
Reinhardt, who is wearing a cool smile, tries to trample on Cliffman’s face.
If you’ve done your best, your head will break.
-thud!
Reinhardt immediately slammed his leg down, and Cliffman managed to roll over and get back into his stance as if to bounce back.
It was true that he was provoking it like scratching, but Reinhardt’s hands were ruthless.
Looking at Cliff, who escaped and rose again, Reinhardt laughed coldly.
I would like to think that the murderous intent and madness boiling in that smile were smoke, but no matter how I look at it, it wasn’t smoke.
“why.”
Reinhardt smiled at Cliffman.
“The Demon King is right in front of you.”
“Think of it that way.”
Cliffman didn’t know what the true meaning of those words was, but he felt goosebumps all over his body.
“Are you still going to do something like this?”
I don’t know what the real demon king is.
But would he do this even if the demon king was in front of him?
Rolling on the floor, avoiding somehow, his own attack doesn’t work.
If the one in front of me was the demon king, I might not be able to even have a conversation like this. He may die before he has time to avoid the first sum.
Will I die without being able to wriggle?
The one in front of me is not the Demon King. The Demon King must be a very fearful, evil, and powerful being different from Reinhardt.
“Let’s try image training.”
however.
Reinhardt had a smile that looked evil no matter how he looked at it.
“I am the Demon King.”
whispered to Cliffman.
i am the devil
Cliffman doesn’t know what the power of those words is. However, as soon as Cliffman hears Reinhardt’s words, he feels something like a hallucination.
The thing in front of me felt like something incomprehensible and powerful, not Reinhardt.
-gulp
Cold sweat broke out all over Cliffman’s body.
As if he had been subjected to some kind of evil magic.
As if he had been hypnotized by Reinhardt.
Reinhardt feels like something completely different. Cliffman surrenders himself to any suggestion or hypnosis.
The one in front of me is the Demon King.
I can’t deal with it though.
I can’t win though.
decided to fight together.
If you decide to fight together, you must be able to stand by your side. I can’t be pushed to the side because I’m in the middle of a real fight.
he is weak
If you are the weak, you have to bet big against the strong.
What should I do if the one in front of me is truly the Demon King?
Even risking one’s life, one arm. Or even one leg.
No, even one finger if you can’t even do that.
If that is also impossible, you will have to pay at least one scratch.
Even if he, the weak, could do just that much against the demon king, it would be a great achievement. The demon lord would be strong, so even if he did that much, he would be doing something heroic.
-Shhh!
He deflected Reinhardt’s right fist with his left arm and aimed for a counter, but Reinhardt avoided it with a single jaw gesture and then opened the distance again.
Even this much is good enough.
His own fists could not pierce Reinhardt’s magical power enhancement, so at this moment when he was able to somehow deflect the movements he couldn’t grasp and even aim for a counter, he was no different from having already grown up.
Enough of this.
This is the best of the weak.
All you can do is avoid Reinhardt’s attack.
Against the Demon King, it is enough to risk one’s life and inflict even one scratch.
I doubt if even that is possible.
indeed.
Is that enough?
“… … .”
did that happen?
Cliffman gritted his teeth and stared at Reinhardt, who was looking for a gap with a cool smile.
Is it okay to be an underdog?
can’t it be okay
Their talents in battle.
The purpose of the talent is not combat.
to win the battle.
winning the fight.
The true name of this talent is not in the fight itself.
The true name of this talent is victory.
to fight and win.
is to overcome
There’s no way you can be satisfied with scratches.
You can’t be satisfied with just avoiding it.
The purpose of battle is victory.
There is no such thing as a battle to lose.
Then, only when victory is brought, the talent named combat lives up to its name.
“Goes.”
Reinhardt approaches. With a completely different look from before, he jumps in with a fierce advance, as if he were really going to smash it.
An instinctive warning that this is dangerous hits Cliffman’s head.
You won’t be able to defeat the Demon King.
You won’t be able to win against Reinhardt either.
Even so, one’s talent must be worthy of the name.
You have to make the impossible possible.
I had to do what I couldn’t do.
There is only one thing to do.
Victory.
For the single goal of winning, Cliffman must satisfy several preconditions.
However, you must avoid the invisible enemy’s attack.
-Shhh!
Cliffman let go of Reinhardt’s outstretched fist with a slight twist of his shoulder.
But the attack continues. The trajectory of the flying low kick, changing staff, was unavoidable.
avoided the invisible.
But the inevitable offensive is coming.
if so then two.
Attacks that normally would have been hit and run, he had to repel.
– Perok!
The thigh, hit by Reinhardt’s low kick, remained firmly in place.
Maybe he didn’t think he would survive, and when only Cliff, who was supposed to bounce off, didn’t bounce back, Reinhardt had a gap.
Opportunity comes.
I avoided the invisible, and withstood the attack that I couldn’t withstand.
if so then three.
If the true value of one’s talent is to win an unwinnable battle.
It can pierce things that were impossible to pierce until now, and it can pierce the defense of the opponent’s magical power enhancement.
You need a powerful shot.
Just like the superpower of self-suggestion.
The cause may be different, but the effect must be the same.
A name that makes the impossible possible.
talent to win.
battle.
It is different from causation, but it must bring about the same miracle, just as autosuggestion has brought about miracles.
Autosuggestion makes many things possible.
The gift of combat should make only one possible.
It is a relatively narrow condition that makes victory possible.
Since it has narrow conditions, it should have a more powerful output.
– Kurleung!
Everyone’s eyes widened as they watched the blue flames exploding from Cliffman’s body.
“!”
Blue magic power surged from Cliffman’s body.
– Jjaeong!
“Keugh!”
Reinhardt, who had been hit by Cliffman’s punch, bounced back.
-thud!
“uh… … . uh?”
Olivia’s expression was bewildered, as if she didn’t know what I was seeing.
“… … .”
Elem’s calm attitude, as if he somehow knew this would happen.
“… … X feet.”
Reinhardt’s single-sounding voice mixed with very complex emotions muttered while staring blankly at the ceiling of the gymnasium.
Reinhardt knew it would end up like this, but he had a very complicated expression because it really turned out like this.
and.
“big… … omg!”
Even Cliffman’s planned hemoptysis.
that day.
The priest’s office on duty received one more patient.
