Chapter 21 (2/2)

“Hahhahha! So you admit it too. I’m f.u.c.ken strong. It’s natural that I was the overall champion,” laughed Gorms with his arms crossed, with the cold compress still on his forehead.

Under the compress was the bruise that Fii had given him with all her might.

“But the hardest fight I had was the first match with you, yanno. You were slippery, and annoying, stubborn and cowardly too. Honestly, it was the worst.”

From his words, Fii could tell that he had acknowledged her.

“I see. So I was the one that gave you the hardest fight.”

“That’s how it is. Don’t pay any attention to those idiots.”

“Mn. Ehehe,” she laughed happily.

Gorms sat down on the chair next to hers. His expression turned serious.

“I’m sorry for telling you to go home. You were desperately giving your all. And you had b.a.l.l.s too.”

“Nah, don’t worry about it. I’m sorry for calling you a gorilla too.”

“I’m begging you, don’t make me remember that…”

Having the gorilla thing brought up again, Gorms looked seriously depressed now.

Fii really did feel guilty, so seeing that, she tried to cheer him up telling him that she was just getting him back, and that he didn’t really look like one.

(And even if you do look like a gorilla, you’re a very cool gorilla) she thought in her heart.

After his expression returned to normal, Gorms turned to Fii with a clenched fist.

“Well, next time things won’t go your way, so prepare yourself. This time I’ll really send you flying in a hit.”

“Then I’d better think of a new tactic to confuse you the next time as well.”

“Put some of that effort into your sword first, dammit…” muttered a pale Gorms.

He couldn’t feel even a little chivalry from her reply.

“By the way, if you claimed the overall victory, does that mean that you’re the strongest out of all the apprentice knights?”

Having completely put Gorms into her ‘friends’ category, Fii’s tone was without reserve.

“Obviously! Or so I wanna say, but we’re actually divided into blocks, so it’s hard to say. A total of 11 other guys made it in their own blocks. Well, I’m probably still the strongest though.”

“I see~ So even you’re still just the top 12 huhh.”

“OI!”

Gorms glared at Fii for so easily demoting him in her eyes.

“Ahaha, looks like the two of us are going to have to work hard, Gorms.”

“Yeah. You’re right.”

Fii and Gorms smiled at each other.

By the by, the reason this chapter came a little later is because I was waiting for a response from NEET-sensei. I wasn’t quite sure about the line,

“Gorms gave another mocking smirk.”

but surprisingly, the reply came with not only a detailed explanation, but a picture as well.

Let us all bask in the glory of not only Sensei’s writing skills, but ill.u.s.trative wonders as well.

Since this is a rare-ish case of the author actually giving permission, if you have anything you want to say, feel free to let me know, and I’ll pa.s.s the message along. I probably won’t be able to translate it though. Alternatively, you can register an account at syosetu and message NEET-Sensei directly.

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