Reincarnated Young Lady Aims to Be an Adventurer - Volume 8 Chapter 126

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“Sieg, has your thrown out back gotten any better?”  asked Kodak-sensei with a furrowed brow, “You can’t just win, you know?  If you don’t crush this guy, our guild will get a bad rep.” 

“Ah, Shut up! You’re in my way!” Old man Sieg took off my special cape and discarded it, steadily walking onto center stage.  

I thought, whoa now if he’s facing off against His Excellency, he’s not going to be able to land any strong magic attacks. Is this really a safe move?

“God of Wind…” His Excellency uttered softly.  It seemed he had at last grasped who he was up against, now that Sieg had fully revealed himself. 

“Guild leader! Remember, His Excellency can use magic!”

“Hmph! Dual-wielding a sword and magic is nothing to an adventurer.”

Well, yes, Sieg can control a tornado, after all, and wh – what?! Is that a… sickle and chain dangling from Sieg’s waist? Is he going to fight with that? We had only ever seen him unarmed in the guild.  Things were getting intense!

“Sensei, how far can that chain extend?”

“Don’t know.  This is my first time seeing the ‘God of Wind’ fight, too.”

“What! Are you sure you want to send out such an old man? Have you given up on fighting because your opponent’s too great a warrior? Ah, so that’s your strategy.  Well, I guess that makes sense. Alright, I’ll respect your move.”

That arrogant tone of voice is unbelievable.

His Excellency quietly made his way to the center stage, as well. 

“So, you are General Gainz’s buddy, Lord Sieg… To be blessed with this opportunity is an honor.”

“The very same General Gainz whose wife you betrayed, and whose grandchild you tried to kill. You conveniently left that part out while you spoke of honor, didn’t you? What a piece of work.”

“…”

The referee trembled and twitched as he stepped between the two parties.

“Preparations… seem to be finished. W-well then, let’s begin!” the referee said, and blew the whistle.

Old man Sieg’s sudden energy raised a booming sound, tingling my skin as if by electricity.  At the same time, old man Sieg conjured from his back a tornado more than three meters in diameter, raising a thunderous roar.

“I heard that in their younger days, Gainz-sama ran lightning through that tornado, and together, they killed 300 murderous bandits in an instant.”

Thanks for the commentary, sensei.

“Swirling wind magic in that way couldn’t possibly have been come up with through theory.  It must be a product of experience.”

“Gilan managed to do it through theory.”

“Well, that’s the work of a genius.  You can’t use him for comparison.”

I subconsciously gripped Gilan’s plate armor. His wind surrounded my hand as if to give me strength.

Old man Sieg unhooked his sickle and chain and began to swing it in a buzzing circle. It looked quite heavy, but he swung it with ease, using only his wrist. The end of the chain stayed hidden in old man Sieg’s clothing.

His Excellency drew his one-handed sword. As he raised it level, his left hand conjured magic.

A sudden blinding light!

His Excellency’s blade glinted blue. A sword with water magic. Even more than last time, his magic level had increased. Did this mean it was enhanced by a certain someone’s help?

Swoosh! Sieg’s sickle and chain sounded as he released it.  As it twirled, it headed straight at His Excellency, but of course – His Excellency’s sword deflected it.[Read this novel and other amazing translated novels from the original source at the “Novel Multiverse dot com” website @ novelmultiverse.com]

Sieg tugged back the chain, using the momentum of the deflection to raise the sickle into the air, and threw a small tornado around the sickle to pull it into a spin. The sickle spun at a terrifyingly fast rate.  Inside the tornado formed… a blender. It had the power to make mincemeat of its enemies!

The revolving sickle flew at His Excellency with an unreadable speed.  He deflected with his sword and made low jumps to evade, but it was clear that Sieg had the advantage, attacking from a distance. Sieg never lost his breath and manipulated his sickle and tornado as though they were simple extensions of his body.

I’ve never seen a technique like this, but, he is a magic-wielding knight, right? I mean His Excellency. The old man’s a long-retired adventurer, and yet… his actions are more flexible and unrestricted. Well, he is the one setting the wild Trundle Guild straight. Of course, he’s tough. Old man Sieg is actually seriously kick-ass! I know it’s a bit late, but thank God we’ve got him in our guild.

At last, His Excellency had gotten pushed up against the wall. Old man Sieg, while keeping his distance, directed the chain with his right hand and extended the sickle with his left. In one fluid action, the sickle was fired straight at His Excellency.

His Excellency, shockingly, threw himself straight into the center of the whirlwind, at the hurtling sickle. Though he took a glancing cut, he managed to misdirect the sickle, and wrapped the chain round and round his arm, and jerked it towards himself. Thusly rendering the sickle useless, he then swung down hard with his sword imbued with water magic!

A spray of water burst forth and the droplets began to fly, aimed directly at old man Sieg. The multitude of droplets froze and turned to bullets of ice. A power lacking in magic built up through time with brute strength… Was he able to channel his overflow of physical power and convert it into magical energy? And that ice magic… This was undoubtedly the guidance of Schneider or Tahl-sama at work.

Ice bullets assailed Sieg with tremendous speed! Sieg raised an eyebrow, creating a tornado at his back and moving it forward, surrounding his body and blasting away the ice bullets. With both eyes widened, he flung down his right hand. Oh man, he was done going easy.

The large tornado covering Sieg’s body picked up sand and dust from the field of battle while growing steadily in intensity, and was then thrust at His Excellency. Sieg pulled tightly inwards at the chain in his left hand, unwilling to let the ensnared His Excellency escape.

Just before impact, a great gust of wind equal in strength to old man Sieg’s tornado rose up from the side and crashed into it.  

Boom!!!……

The walls crumbled, and wreckage fell to the ground in a flutter. His Excellency, still hanging on by a single thread, got to his knee.

“Sorry for getting involved,” Schneider said, shrugging, “I’ll allow the old man the win, here.”

Did this mean Schneider… was showing sort of mercy for His Excellency? Towards the one adult who stuck by him and dismissed his circumstances and personal issues?

And yet…

“…Shouldn’t His Excellency have surrendered?  Even more than that, you should have stepped in from the start and stopped this.  For you to interfere now in the middle of a battle despite you declaring the rules in the first place… What can you even say to defend that? I understand that you didn’t have it easy, either, but, As. Your. Opponent. You come at me like that?  I’m disappointed.”

“You’ve got me there.  You’re saying that while I say you’re the one I trust most in this world, how could I forget our promise.  Serafiona, what can I do to have you forgive me?”

“…First of all, due process says, out of five battles, I now have 3 victories.  I’ve won this one.  Return to me His Majesty.”

“….And?”

“This is our victory, and on top of never interfering with Trundle Guild again, I demand you let me fight you and the young lady.”

“I see… You’ve decided to face your destiny head-on.  Cute, Serafiona.”

“You’re not facing your destiny head-on, your path has become twisted.”

“Oh really?  We won’t know until we see the end, right?”

“Wait, hold on!  How come no one ever told me Grandpa’s this strong!” said Maribelle, puffing up her cheeks in frustration.

“You’re right, Maribelle.  But, during this contest you’ve hosted, we’ve lost three times, so we’re done.  Let’s be gracious losers and return His Majesty.  That way, you know?  You’re fans, I think?  Will be satisfied, you know?

“Wait, what?  Accepting the loss is the more popular move, here? Well, it’s true that if I complain now, it’ll just make me look like a sore loser. Who cares about the king anyway… But, how in the heck is the hero supposed to lose?”

“That’s exactly why I want to fight this hero’s fight with you again, Maribelle!”

“Aww!  I like it when people fight for me.”

“But it’s about time people bow down before your power.  The people, the soldiers – they’re all exhausted.  It’s time for you to step up.”

“Y-You’re right!”

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