Chapter 19 (1/2)

Chapter 19 – Battle, and Limit＊

The sound of so flying Luru’s way

Upon catching it with a small SMACK, Luru found that it was cool to the touch

Luru opened his fist and looked at it

It was a coin representative of the currency that circulated throughout the Kingdom of Lezaad, the Lezaadian Silver Coin

The front was of the profile of the queen that ruled the first generation of the nation, but on the back was carved the sacred beast said to protect it, the unicorn

Why was this thrown at Luru just now?

The reason was so a few paces in front of him, Patrick, knew

When the night had broken, and the , Luru and Patrick headed out of their house ooden sword in hand

The purpose was, of course, for the real duel that was promised yesterday

As long as they were fighting seriously as promised, there was initially the problem of location, but in the end they decided to hold the battle in the forest a little distance fro close to the ancient demon ruin

Almost nobody cae, nobody would be troubled by it

Though it was ‘fighting seriously’, the two of the up the forest, and set their ability to a level where they could be careful about that

That’s why they probably wouldn’t destroy the ecology of the forest either

And then, when the two of the each other, Patrick tossed the coin mentioned just now

“…What’s this?”

As Luru tilted his head in confusion, Patrick spoke

“I was thinking that it nal, you see Throw that up, and the ”

“…? Then couldn’t you have thrown it, Dad[/Tousan]?”

When Luru said that, Patrick replied,

“If I’ht will start without you being coainst your true strength… When you’re completely ready, Luru, you can throw that coin up …Me? I’m ready whenever”

Was that because he felt he still had roo that because he was a swordsman, he was constantly ready for battle?

However, Luru decided to accept his proposal

It was the truth that he was a little more worried about his control ofneeded to use that nore, once the opponent was so

If the start signal were left to Patrick, then there was certainly the possibility that the battle would begin before he had prepared for battle, or circulated h his entire body

That’s why to Luru, it was a convenient proposal

Like that, Luru began to leisurely circulate his own h his body

From his well of deepit, passed it through his entire body

More than when he was born, o, it was now h his body and co he could do comfortably

However, as expected, once he compared it to his time as a demon, the response was slow, or perhaps you could say it was like the out-of-place feeling of forcefully pu water into a hose that was blocked somewhere

He didn’t know if it was because of the liotten the technique wrong somewhere, but he felt that he had to make sure to take care about this so that this reality wouldn’t hold him back when he was truly cornered

Watching Luru do this, Patrick’s eyes becaed a little bit from hoas up until now

Up until they had co some of Luru’s body reinforce more than one portion of Luru’s entire mana

This time, was different

He poured into his body as much mana as he possible could, and reinforced himself with it after all

Even now, Patrick’s cool-looking expression hadn’t faltered, but if you looked closely you could see cold sweat hanging from his brow

He could probably feel Luru’s power

However, the fact that it ended only with a cold sweat, instead showed Patrick’s strength of will

Had a normal human been there, they probably would have fainted within just a few seconds

That level of abnormal concentration of mana was noorn around Luru’s body

“…Luru To think you were this…”

At the words Patrick squeezed out of his throat, Luru smiled

“Actually, I’m still not at my best yet”

“…? You can’t be saying that you still aren’t being serious?”

“That’s not it That’s not it, but… Right now there’s still some power that I can’t control, you see”

Were he in the body of the derasp both his th, so he could perfectly control it

However, the fact that this wasn’t true right noas not so

“I don’t really understand, but… if you’re being serious, that’s fine …Luru, is it fine to start soon?”

If you looked at Patrick, you could see that he was itching to begineven now

If you looked at Luru, you could see that his desire for battle was excited

The confidence to start at any ti from his body

Seeing Patrick like this, because Luru had confirh his body, he nodded

“…Yeah I guess… it’s time to start”

-PINN-

Luru flicked the coin he was grasping into the air

Spinning in the air with the queen and unicorn interchanging as the coin went up, it stopped for a ravity as it accelerated to the ground

And then…

-DONN-

The round, in that instant, the forms of Luru and Patrick blurred

Together with the sound of so in the surroundings shook from the shockwave

Just one exchange, just one collision of their wooden swords had that much effect

Of course, because they ooden swords, normally they would have immediately broken

However, the fact that the tords that the pair freely collided with each other was even noithout a scratch, and were even now continuing to grind as they locked together, was due to the pair’s close to Godlike control of thethey placed on their swords

Were there to be even a small mistake in the flow of, or the amount of mana, a normal wooden sould probably crack and break from the pressure of the mana it was saturated in

However, the h the wooden sword continued without a break even the size of an ant, and was no longer a th to be compared to even a sword made of metal

You wouldn’t be let off unscathed if you were hit by it

It was a weapon that now possessed that much destructive power

“…I’m surprised, Luru I didn’t think that there would be so little difference between us…”

In the height of their sword-locking, Patrick said this with a grin

“I feel the sao, huh… I planned on finishi+ng this with a single hit, but you withstood it…”

Luru replied as such

Honestly speaking, as long as they said they were battling seriously, Luru had planned on not easing up even a little

He had planned to use up all of the mana that lay within hile attack

However, the reality was that that attack was stopped, and on top of that, it see against each other

[tl: need to coh sleep basically rather than overwhel back and forth to try and win in strength]

The cause of this included the fact that his father was stronger than expected, but more importantly, was because Luru couldn’t draw out all of his strength

As expected, the fact that he was now in a hue effect

Once he actually fought with so, it became obvious

It ht the way he did as the de on his natural born physical capabilities

Having said that though, it seee in close combat with the powerful human, Patrick

In addition to that, considering that he could use large scale ecraft, he wouldn’t lose so easily

They couldn’t just lock swords forever

To Luru, it hadn’t been that long

He waited for that one moment when Patrick’s concentration was upset, and took a distance, and from there immediately put power into his arms, aimed towards Patrick and stepped forwards

It seeer fro for an instant, immediately leapt in with a thrust

He thought to i what happened yesterday, he concluded that it would be a bad move

Luru could attack once more even if Patrick avoided it

To Patrick, even if he knehat move Luru would take next, he didn’t have the confidence that he would be able to deal with the abnormal power in Luru’s second attack from yesterday

Because of that, since there was no choice, Patrick had no choice but to bet on s down Luru’s thrust

Against the thrust that came at a speed that made the words ‘couldn’t be seen’ a reality, Patrick prepared in concentration to parry it doards from the side

However, Luru was thrusting at a speed that wouldn’t easily slon, and even if he could do so, Patrick would probably attack him in that instant

That’s why Luru now had no option but one

And then, the two of them made contact

The sound of sword colliding against sword rang out, and in the next instant, one of the swords danced through the air

The one on this bet, was again, Patrick

In that instant, he was sure of his victory

“It’s my win… -!?”

――――However, during that instant, Patrick realised that the Luru reflected in his vision did not have the eyes of somebody who had lost

Thinking about it, it was strange

The feeling when he robbed the wooden sword from Luru’s hands

It was, too light

Wasn’t it al it one-handed?

So Patrick thought

And the next rasped in Luru’s hand

That accumulation of jet-black darkness was, from its form, without a doubt the same as that of a wooden sword

However, that black shose outline wavered, was clearly not so material, and was moulded from mana

Luru’s face curved into a grin

“Who’s as it?”

Patrick’s sas high overhead, and he realised that he wouldn’t be able to cope in time

And Luru did not overlook that opening

Luru thrust the black sword forward, and as though gouging Patrick’s gut, he advanced deeply into him

By the ti into darkness

“Dad[/Tousan]… It’s, my win, huh?”

Only his son’s voice resounded in Patrick’s ears

“Good grief… my body sure hurts”

While e, with his unconscious father on his back

Having said that though, this speed was al speed, but to Luru it was not a very fast pace

The reason being that right now Luru was suffering frohout his body

Perhaps it would be best to call it an aftereffect of fighting seriously, or perhaps it would be best to say it was because Patrick was stronger than Luru had expected, Luru ended up having to use several levels more mana for body reinforcement than he had normally up until now, and the result was that he was stuck with the development of muscle pain

In fact, since he was little, he had put in great effort in order to little by little add to the a, but even so, the body of a human was far more frail than that of the de pain

To begin with, at the tiht forever without any proble more than that, little by little the aht decreased, and once he tried releasing all of his hly fifteen minutes became the limit

He understood fro this would increase the limit, and at present he couldn’t even see a lithen himself forever, but even so, each time he did so he would be struck with muscle pains, so Luru was sick of it

Once he started living as a hu back on the level of effort of the heroes that he had fought in the past, even feelings of respect began to well up inside him

Luru’s physical body aside, his , so if he could stand the h, but the heroes should have struggled with the mana limits of a human countless times

Towards they who had overco, Luru truly felt awe

And Luru felt that he wanted to be able to fight like those heroes one day, but considering today’s fight with Patrick, and the condition of his overworked body, that day seemed to be still far off

It seeic artillery then he could do soht meet people who could Resist, even that didn’t let him feel safe

The power or weapons to nullifyingthat in the past, existed in no small number, and Luru remembered this clearly

That’s why in regards to his abilities in close-co he needed to think about and work on

Before long, they reached the village,

Visible at the entrance to the village was soure

Once he strained his eyes, it seemed that it was Iris

It seee, and aiting there for their return

“Welcome back, Ojisama Hoas the result?”

Fro, it see for

They had used quite a lot of mana, and it didn’t seem like an ancient de it

Luru didn’t feel that he had any reason to hide it either, so he obediently replied

“It wasthat I can’t say, but it wasn’t a tough battle If we redid it, there’s no er than I expected, you see”

It see to Iris, for her widened eyes displayed her shock

“…It is rare for you to praise soreat?”

“Were he born in that era, let’s see, it depends on his weapon as well, but ood match for Bacchus? You probably can’t beat him, Iris…”

“A match for Father[/Otousama]… I see I understand”

Iris nodded

After that, the three of them headed towards their home

Along the way, Patrick opened his eyes

“…Uu… where is this?”

“Dad[/Tousan], you’ve woken up?”

“Luru huh… Ahh, that’s right I lost, huh…?”

‘My…,‘ muttered Patrick in wonder, but he sounded by no means dissatisfied

“I thought that the world ide, but I never thought thatwhile would be by the hands of my son, you know?”

Whilst saying that, Patrick got down from Luru’s back

However, it seemed that he had also overworked his body quite a bit, and even now his legs were unsteady

“Don’t overdo it…”

Saying that, Luru supported Patrick

Iris supported him from the other side as well

“Oh? Iris… You noticed?”

Said Patrick, in wonder

Iris replied