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Chapter  3-37. With a fist!
The Adventurer’ Guild reception counter space was filled with loud laughter.
The adventurers, who had been quietly watching the whole thing because they were adventurers who knew about Roz, were laughing their stomachs out as they pointed at Reizen and Alena.
Most of them seemed to have a bad sense of humor.
As for me, I had no idea why they were laughing at us.
Reizen and Alena seemed to be in the same boat, tilting their heads.
“……what’s your problem?”
I have no idea why they are laughing at us.
Because of the loud laughter coming from here, people who were far away are gathering to see what is going on.
We didn’t want to stand out too much, but …….
They laughed for a while and gradually calmed down.
But the laughter still showed no sign of dissipating.
The adventurers who had begun to calm down laughed, pointing especially at Reizen, and finally said why they were laughing.
“With a fist? … You can’t beat a monster with a fist! Hahaha!”
“Ah, yeah, totally! And that kid! She’ s just a little girl!　I thought she was just baggage that would drag them down.”
Oh ……. I see.
So they are making fun of us.
If we look around, it is true that there are no adventurers who do not have weapons.
It is a standard practice to defeat monsters with weapons.
If that’s the case, why aren’t they laughing at me for claiming to be a water manipulator?
Maybe because of my expertise. ……
Not sure what the criteria are.
It seems that Zero Tun understood that they were making fun of some of us by listening to what the adventurers said.
Well, their words were focused on Reizen and Alena.
Reizen immediately stepped forward to express his protest.
“What the hell is wrong with you all?　What’s so wrong with that!　I’ve killed monsters with my bare hands before!”
“Hahahaha! Who would believe that”
“Yeah, tell him more!”
The adventurers were not listening to him.
Yet Reizen’s skills are strong.
Believe it or not, this guy is capable of destroying everything with his bare hands.
And tough too.
No monster in the area would be able to even scratch Reizen.
But …… this is a kinda bad.
Reizen is just plain angry.
It looks like it’s going to turn into a fight.
A duel might start any moment now.
No, that’s okay. The problem is what happens if that were to happen.
How would a fight between adventurers …… be handled?
“Roz”
“Yes?”
“Is fighting between adventurers a crime of any sort?”
“As long as they don’t kill each other, there’s no problem. Fights happen all the time.”
“All right, Reizen. Show ’em your fist!”
“With fists! I’m allowed to? I understand!”
Then Reizen stepped forward.
The people in the vicinity immediately stepped back, naturally setting the stage for a duel.
Reizen clenched his fists together and made a cracking sound.
“Phew!　It’s been a long time since I’ve played against a person, but anyone who laughs at …… someone’s weapon is no match for me!”
Reizen is very determined to do it.
Some of the adventurers were shouting at him after hearing what he had just said.
And for some reason, betting began to take place.
Well, let them do as they please.
Then, the person who had just pointed and laughed at Reizen came forward.
He was wearing cheap equipment, but the sword he carried at his waist was impressive.
He pulled out his sword and stood in front of Reizen.
“Oh, you’re the first one. Oh, you don’t have to tell me your name. I’m not interested in remembering the names of weak opponents.”
A streak of veins runs across the man’s forehead.
The man quietly takes a stance without speaking.
On the other hand, Reizen stood still.
There is no posture, not even a stance.
In the first place, I don’t think a sword like that can even hurt Reizen ……
Against the odds, though.
This looks a little interesting.
Let’s support Reizen for now.
Then the man kicked the floor and charged straight up to Reizen.
He cut up from the lower position. It didn’t seem like a very good strike, but still, with the weight of the sword, it seemed to be powerful enough.
Reizen did not avoid it, he simply took it.
He did not defend himself or anything.
The sword that was slashed up passed from Reizen’s right abdomen and went over his left shoulder.
Giyin! A heavy sound echoed.
Some were wondering why it echoed, and others were convinced that he had cut him, but Reizen remained in the same position with a cool expression on his face.
The only thing that was cut was his clothes.
“What the!?”
“Okay … next is my turn!”
In a moment, Reizen instantly takes a Chishouken stance.
His arms were held out in front of him and his stance was lowered.
Kicking the floor, he quickly dives into his opponent’s lower body.
The opponent was deceived by his movement, and he immediately put his sword on the defensive, but there was no impact from his attack.
Seeing that the feint was successful, Reizen quickly lowered himself to a low posture and used his arm as a pivot for a foot strike, which greatly disrupts the opponent’s posture.
The man was knocked down so that he was struck in the abdomen.
However, Reizen’s assault on the opponent did not end.
Using the momentum from the rotation, he twisted his opponent’s body in a half-turn and launched a powerful elbow drop.
“GHuaaaa!”
The man was kicked on the side of the head, and all the air in his lungs was expelled.
Then he immediately fainted.
He fell to the ground with a single blow.
Reizen did a back flip and landed cleanly.
He put his hands on his hips and exhaled heavily.
“Hmm … look, he stopped moving.”
Then three men from the audience rushed toward Reizen.
They were the ones who had just pointed and laughed at Reizen.
All of them attacked Reizen with their own weapons.
One had a sword.
One has a bludgeon
The last one has a hammer.
Although Reizen was within a distance to react, he did not do anything.
Therefore, the attack of the three was directly in front of him.
The sword was aimed at his chest.
The bludgeon was aimed at his leg.
The hammer aimed at his head as if he was swinging a powerful blow with all his might.
Kin!
Con!
Gaaaaan!
Three sounds rang out simultaneously.
But usually, such sounds don’t occur.
The fact that the sound is heard means that …… Reizen is alive and well.
“Nice strike! But it’s my turn next!”
With that, he launched five attacks in rapid succession at the person in front of him who had been thrusting his sword at him.
He punched him in the face, causing his head to slant back, and then he punched him in the stomach, this time causing his face to turn back toward him.
Before his face came back, he spun around and slammed his elbow into his opponent’s temple, and as his body rolled to the side, he kicked it up and back to his front, then blew him away with a spinning kick.
Meanwhile, the man with the bludgeon and the man with the hammer were attacking Reizen, but it didn’t seem to be working at all.
In other words, he was in super armor at all times.
The attacks never stopped.
And when he did a spinning kick, he also blew away the man with the bludgeon, just by accident.
After the spinning kick, he rolled on the ground to avoid the hammer once and then attacked the man with the hammer, using his arms as if they were legs and his legs as if they were arms.
The man with the hammer was hit in the stomach and between the strikr by Reizen’s kick, and he fell to the ground.
Using the momentum from his last kick, Reizen flew through the air and dropped to his knees on the man holding the bludgeon, who had fallen but was still conscious.
After confirming that everyone had passed out, Reizen quickly stood up.
“Can we end this now?”
Everyone must have agreed with Reizen’s words.
No one said anything. The noise that had just been made earlier seemed to be a lie, and now you could almost hear the sound of buzzing insects even in this area.
Reizen came back to us with a happy look.
“Quite a show there.”
“I can’t just lose to these guys!”
“Reizen amazing!”
“Ha ha ha!”
“I will do it too!”
“Haha- hawait a minute?”
Reizen stopped laughing instantly and was surprised by what Alena said.
Frankly, I’m surprised too.
Alena doesn’t have a weapon right now.
How does she intend to fight?
It is true that when she was asked about weapons, she answered “magic,” but I have never seen Alena use magic before.
Alena moved forward at a steady pace.
No, wait a minute!
“Alena!? Don’t push yourself! If you need help, just tell me… ……”
“Don’t worry! I don’t want to be made fun of either.”
That’s a lot of confidence.
But I wonder if it’s really okay. …… Such anxiety lingers in my heart.
I’m sure she is angry that she was ridiculed.
Alena did come here with the right amount of determination.
I understand that.
But if you ask me if Alena can beat the adventurers around here, I have nothing but concerns,…….
Let’s get her some water just in case.
In case I decide to come to the rescue.
The people around me began to make a fuss again, as if they had regained their composure.
It seemed that people were still making fun of her, asking if this time it was a child.
However, Alena was not bothered by these voices and moved forward without hesitation.
She has a lot of guts.
As Alena stood in the center of the room, a big, brazen man walked up to her.
I wonder why we are dealing with this guy of all people …….
You should be ashamed of yourself! What an immature adult!
“Hmph. Of course the kid should go home and play with her friends. They shouldn’t come here.”
“…”
A large man walks up to her saying so.
He is carrying a large shield, so it is safe to assume that he is a defenseman.
His armor looks heavy, and more importantly, his shield has a blade.
He was probably using it to protect himself and attack at the same time.
Alena, on the other hand, held her hands over the man and remained still.
There was no sign of anything being activated.
I slowly brought the water closer and prepared the water shield.
“… 【Extreme Weight】 “
The man was just three steps away from Alena when she finally uttered her skill.
Then the big man kneeled down and took his hands off his shield as well.
“!!? What the … Hnghhhhhhhhhh!”
I don’t know why, but he couldn’t stand up.
The big man put his arms on the floor.
He is trying his best to raise himself up, but it doesn’t seem to be working, and finally he fell down to a prone position.
The man seemed to be in a lot of pain.
“Ghhhh..! Heavy ……! Hey, little girl! Stop it, I give up!”
“Ah … oh. Yeah.”
“!!? Guuuhhhh …! Hey !!”
Alena is pacing around like she doesn’t know what to do.
Perhaps Alena didn’t mean to go this far.
Why is she not deactivating her skill?
…… Huh? Could it be Alena, ……?
“I’m sorry, uncle. I don’t know…… how to stop it.”
“What … Guuuuuoooooo !?”
Eventually, the floor started to crack.
The fissures got bigger and bigger and …… finally the floor finally broke out.
There was only the sound of something big falling to the ground and the floor breaking with a screeching sound.
And then it was a thud, and one by one, the adventurers were leaving the building.
“Alena”
Alena freaked out and looked at me.
She looked frightened.
Well, I guess she really didn’t mean to go this far.
But I have to tell her something.
“Man, you’re good!
Only a handful of people know how Alena felt coming here.
Alena must have felt that her feelings were trampled upon when she was mocked.
So she tried to force herself to show her power so that she would not be ridiculed.
I didn’t know she had that kind of skill, but this is probably the first time she has used it.
It’s a skill that she didn’t know how to use.
Some mistakes are made.
It happened to me, too.
Therefore, instead of blaming Alena, I thought I should praise her for showing her own ability.
Alena smiled with a hella smile and made a little run toward us
Reizen immediately rushed over to her and lifted her up.
“Isn’t Alena amazing!” he said as he lifted Alena up high.
Alena looked very happy to be praised.
“You lot are …”
“… Roz-san. It’s for the repair cost.”
Uchiage was secretly settling things without me knowing with the money he was getting from Asure.
That was really nice.
Thank you very much. Uchikage.