「Ah……S, sorry……After everything yesterday, I read the book of secrets that founder-sama left behind over again, and then it was morning before I knew it……」
「For soba?」
「Au……Th, that’s not it. Things like the method for the trial, and in regards to levels, various things were written. I should have read about them long ago though.」
「So that’s why you forgot.」
「Uuu……I’m sorryー.」
「Damned novice Master Swordsman. And so? Weren’t we going to be crossing swords today?」
For Sasala, she wasn’t even holding a wooden sword.
「Ah……It was written in the book of secrets that you would die even if I held back……So since I will be dodging, you pass if you hit me, desu.」
He felt gratitude from the bottom of his heart for the book of secrets that was left behind.
──Founter-sama, nice!
「Is it fine if I slash with all of my strength?」
「That is alright. It seems that, I have a constitution where I don’t receive damage once per day after all.」
「!?」
「I am a tiny bit sturdy.」
He felt that that being a tiny bit sturdy wasn’t something cute, but was more of a legitimate cheat though.
「From now on, if something happens, I will first make you a shield.」
「Hawawa!?」
Diablo focused on his sword.
Thanks to Sasala’s mistaken difficulty level setting and the Gold Fruits, he leveled up remarkably as a Warrior.
Thanks to having slept well, his physical condition was better than yesterday. The stomach ache remained, but the chills and the cramps had vanished.
──Just how much is my offensive ability as I am now?
He slashed with full power.
「Seei!」
A side sweeping blow.
Sasala crouched down, and easily evaded it.
「U, um……You mustn’t look at where your are slashing, before you slash. It gets exposed, by the movement of your eyes.」
「Kuh.」
He swung again.
She avoided it once again.
「It was exposed with the movements of your muscles.」
「Gunu.」
「It needs to be much faster, desu. Muscles that aren’t needed for slashing, it would be best if they don’t move……maybe.」
「The body of the Races, aren’t made to be like that!」
「Auu……How should I put it……Have you ever seen weaving done? That sort of movement where there is no uselessness and only required movements are done is good.」
Being told that by Sasala, Diablo gazed at his own hands.
Arriving at that mental state, he had done it before.
──I, remember.
The operation of extreme Players, would become unchasable with the eyes of an ordinary person. They would end up not having any unnecessary movements just like machines in a factory.
If you want to win, then quit being human! He had been on the side that declared that.
Since he was swinging a sword, he had moved his body while going with the sensations of the flesh and blood he was familiar with but……
If he were a high level Warrior, then he was probably already a different existence from the body he had in his original world. It was just like using magic in this other world.
He imagined a normal attack done in the MMORPG Cross Reverie.
──Perceiving the target in range, then the attack button.
By the time he realized it, he had already swung his sword.
The sound of cutting the air, was different.
「Oo!?」
It was a speed that surprised even himself.
「Hyaah!?」
Surprised by the sudden change, Sasala’s evasion was delayed. He grazed her pointed ears.
Diablo expressed a smile.
「I hit, didn’t I?」
「Th, that just now……since it was the hair……it was no good, desu.」
「I don’t mind that but, the next time I hit you, won’t you receive damage?」
「Hawaー……I will endure it.」
Against a Sasala that was absorbed in evading, he couldn’t hit her all that easily.
Even for Diablo, when compared to the magic that was ingrained into his brain, his attacks with a sword couldn’t be said to be smooth.
It took three days until he could properly hit her.
At that time, having challenged her several times, Rem and Shera were somehow able to pass.
They became the Master Swordsman’s disciples number two and number three.
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