Chapter 173 Aoba / The Life of a Happy Couple (1/2)

Chapter 172 Aoba / ‘A Duck with Chives on its Back’ or ‘A Golden Opportunity’ Chapter 174 - Aoba / Spartan T

Translator: Ranzan

It was a strange silence.

Before them were large stone tiles that led up to the main building and on both sides were small bonfires blazing.

The 「Castle 」 that Youran had mentioned, was a place associated since long ago with warriors.

And all these warriors were lined up on the sizes.

Looking like an army or something, it was a rough line of men.

Even though there were more than 100 men standing, there was not one sign of movement.

But the scene wasn’t one of complete stillness.

It wasn’t a physical sensation, but one could sense there were sounds of things moving.

It was a sudden sensation, one that occurred almost immediately in the presence of a large mass humans.

The will to fight, violence, and these men’s hostility.

The feeling they gave off was enough to feel like it was piercing your skin.

Silence, yet not still.

Those are the sensations that Taiyou felt.

Suddenly, he could feel Aoba’s grip harden on his left side. Her thin grip around his arm seemed to jolt, and it seemed filled with anxiety.

Taiyou, however, was unaware and ready to go.

(I’m a mean guy I guess.)

He laughed at himself quietly.

He was used to things like this, so Aoba’s reaction seemed so cute because she was unprepared, while he also was now preparing to give her a real show.

Taiyou still couldn’t get rid of his fastidiousness strange at his age. He was happy that his love was startled…he wanted to feel her anxiousness.

He spoke to Aoba as he looked out on them.

「Lotta guys here.」

「Yeah…so many.」

As Aoba answered in a small voice. She was trying to hide her fear, but was still unable to.

「100…no 200 or so.」

「Natsuno-kun…will we be…okay?」

「Nope, not okay.」

「Whaaaat?!」

「If I beat all these guys up, it’s going to look like hell here.」

「Wha?」

「It’s going to be scary. Could you close your eyes, Aoba?」

She thought he was joking and was momentarily surprised.

「No, I’ll watch.」

She shook her head, and Taiyou could see a slight smile on her mouth.

「I want to see you act cool again.」

「Okay, then I’ll show you.」

It wasn’t the conversation they had expected, but Aoba maxed out his fighting spirit with one phrase.

He could expect that someone he loved was watching him.

It was what roused this youth to fight like nothing else could.

An extreme power not understood by physics that was the power of real leveling.

Until now it had been impossible, however, he could feel that all the muscles in his body were powered to the maximum amount.

While he still held on to Aoba, he broke into the line of men.

The men sprung to action against him in lines and groups of men, but the front all ended up in a semicircle against Taiyou.

Using his strong arm, he countered the first fighter that lunged at him from the side. The warrior slammed into the ground on his side.

「Missed.」

「Wha?」

Aoba looked worried.

「Well, he didn’t miss the ground.」

He dodged the next fighter’s punch, dove near to his chest, grabbed his collar and threw him right through the line of other soldiers.

「I should have used him to beat them back!」

Just like a boxer, he was surrounded by fighter after fighter and knocked them down.

「Whoaaa….」

He heard Aoba’s emotional voice, as Taiyou’s energy got higher and higher.

He never stopped moving his feet.

Until now he was stopped in one place, standing and awaiting those attacking him and countering them when he could as strategy.

Now he began to move around, attacking and dropping the enemy in order.

Taiyou clinging to Aoba, a man and woman.

A happy couple breaking through a huge group of trudging soldiers.

As Taiyou’s energy grew and grew, the numbers of defeated soldiers on the ground increased.

「Natsuno-kun! Behind you!」

「Wha!」

A enemy sprung at him from behind. He swung a sword from above his head, which Taiyou blocked with a blunt weapon, snatched his sword away, and hit him in the head with it.

「Kyaaa!」

He heard Aoba scream.

An enemy came at him from the left.

「Aaaarrggg!」

「Don’t stand on my left!」

Aoba changed her standing position as Taiyou delivered a painful punch to the face of the attacker.

His face changed in and explosion of teeth.

Instead of being blown away, he simply sank, defeated to the ground.

One more, then one more, were thrown to the ground which had accumulated an endless stack of men.

Taiyou’s fist was covered with fresh blood, as the number of new sacrifices increased one by one.

Emotion…fear…

There was a pandemic that grew among the fighting army.

「He…he’s a monster!」

As nearly 100 men had fallen, someone screamed aloud.

Just then, the dam broke in their fighting emotions, and suddenly changed into fear.

「We can’t win against him!」

「Are you puttin’ your life on the line for her!?」

「Waaagh!」

There were screams everywhere, and many began to flee.

All of the approaching enemy forces had now turned to run in fear.

「Ah…ah!」

He could hear a voice below. The was a man who had fallen down with fear in his eyes.