Chapter 9 (2/2)

After considering her next move for an instant, Fii immediately took her next move.

“Here!”

The fingers of her right hand grasped at the gravel, and threw it at Gorms’ face.

“WHA-!”

Gorms immediately defended against the unexpected attack, but a few rocks still managed to hit him in the eyelids.

“That kid threw dirt! So dirty!”

“Does he really want to be a knight!?”

Having found her opening, Fii slipped through Gorms’ large legs on all fours, and fled to his blind spot.

“Kuh-! Where’d he go!?”

As Gorms sought Fii with his pained eyes, one of his feet floated before Fii’s eyes.

Grabbing it, she ripped the boot off.

“Wha-!?”

With the boot in hand, Fii stood up and gained some distance from Gorms who was rolling about on the ground.

“He f.u.c.king stole his shoe!”

“The kid is a thief too!”

*imouto*

“You stole my shoe! So f.u.c.king dirty!”

“He he he.”

Seeing Fii laughing like a villain with his shoe in hand, Gorms was just about to charge towards her, but he froze.

The examination grounds were covered with pebbles.

Once you were used to it, the pain of having rocks in your soles was negligible, but even so, Gorms stopped for a moment.

And because only one foot was bare, his balance was worse than usual which affected his movements.

Gorms was at a loss. Would it be better to take off his other boot as well? Or would it be better to stay this way.

It had only taken a second for Fii to steal his boot, and yet it was more effective than expected.

“Now!”

Not overlooking her chance, Fii spurred her injured body into action and swung her sword.

“Naive!”

Gorms defended against her strike.

Their two swords clashed.

Gorms’ vision was still obstructed, he was bare on one foot, and his confidence was shaken. Because of all that, his attacks had grown duller.

In particular, the fact that he was bare on one foot made him hesitant to charge in, and he no longer had the strength to send her flying.

The overwhelming difference in strength had been reduced to the point where they could exchange blows now.

But even so, Fii was still at a disadvantage.

“There’s too much difference in height between them. Like that, he can’t reach any vitals.”

Given Fii’s height, her strikes only reached Gorms’ lower body. His vitals like the neck and the head were out of reach.

And the longer the match went, the more Gorms’ condition would improve.

If the match dragged on, then Fii would have no chance of winning.

(Now or never!)

Perhaps because they had fought for a while, Fii was familiar with Gorms’ habits now.

His attacks were direct, and took the fastest route of attack.

When she crouched down a little, Gorms’ sword came down from above.

(As expected!)

Fii rolled to the side to avoid it.

When she did, the sword mowed horizontally to chase her. Although one would usually backstep in a situation like this, Fii instead leapt high to avoid it.

Seeing this chance, Gorms swept his sword towards her.

“You’re done!”

(My chance!)

While airborne, she contracted her body like a coiling spring.

And then when the wooden sword came at her, she kicked off it with all her might.

“Wha-, he jumped off the sword!”

Fii’s body drew a large arc through the air.

She could now see Gorms’ head beneath her.

With all the power she could muster, Fii swung her sword down at him.

(I’ll win this match… and then live my second life!)

The strike that took her all smashed into Gorms’ head.

And then――

After a while…

“The winner of the match is Gorms!!!”

The match ended.

<script>