7 Chapter 1 4 : The examination, part 3 (1/2)
Chapter 1 (4): The examination, part 3
As I clipped the sheaths to my feet, I saw that most people were looking puzzled, and the triplets were the ones to appear truly perplexed.
”Huh? What's that for?” (Triplet A)
”That's odd...” (Triplet B)
”Wonder why she did that” (Triplet C)
As soon as the match started, I drew my swords and had the sheaths attach themselves to my feet, and started to rapidly attack in a fluid and dance-like manner, using both the swords in my hands and the sheaths on my feet. After less than a minute, the three were disarmed and on the ground.
”Can someone tell me what the hell just happened?” (Headmistress)
”Well, first, I attacked her from behind, which she blocked with the hilt of the sword in her right hand, causing it to leap out of her hand in a way that could only be called intentional, and she grabbed it by the blade. Then, she swung the hilt at me as she thrust the tip of her sword at Kyle who was in front and to the right of her, and he blocked it, and so she let go of it again to grab it by the hilt, but backwards, as she spun around and knocked my sword out of my hand with her sheath and I fell down” (Triplet B)
”Then, as she was thrusting at Kyle, I had attacked her from her left, which she blocked with her other sword. That caused it to twist in her grip, and she let it twist to a 90 degree angle, as she spun it towards Kyle while disarming Fred with her sheath. Right after, I blocked her sheath, or tried to, but it spun around along a plane parallel to her leg, and hit me from the other side, and I missed what happened afterwards. However, I soon found her spinning in the air while hammering away at my sword, and it eventually broke free of my grip. I've never seen anything like it, it was like she was born with swords on each limb or something” (Triplet A)
”Yeah, so, what happened to me was a thrust, then a sideways sweep with a sword whose blade was facing perpendicular to her arm, which I blocked, and it spun in the air as her sheath hit my wrist, and then she threw her sword at me. I blocked it, but she caught the two with the hands that had held the other one, and in a reverse grip too. By the time I'd noticed that, she'd caught my sword inside of one of her sheaths and flung it to the side, and hit me with the hilt of her sword” (Kyle)
They missed a few things, but that's about right.
”That's... I see what she meant when she said she was better against groups of people. Still, to beat you like that, I can only think of her as extraordinary, to say the least. I wouldn't be surprised if someone said she was as strong as the Demon Lord was at her age” (HM)
”So, S rank in swordsmanship, or unable to be evaluated?” (Fred)
”Unable, I'd say. Her style is... unique. I've never heard of anything like it, so one can't compare it to anything at all. Thus, I'd like to see how she does one-on-one with a more... normal fighting style, if possible” (HM)
I accepted that fight, and it was pre~tty boring. More accurately, I was a bit tired of the test, so I stopped hiding as much of my speed and placed my sword on his neck before he could draw his.
”With that speed... we couldn't have any kind of match, as for every strike I made, you could make three, and I wouldn't be able to block all of them even if I focused on nothing but defense” (Sword teacher)
”Well, you've beaten four A ranks, three of them on a team against just you, at their specialties. I think that, even though we can't evaluate your skill normally, that should prove you as being on par with an A rank, or an upper B rank at least. Last but not least, the axe” (HM)
I drew my axe, and faced off against a short, burly man - a dwarf - who laughed when he saw it.
”That thing? It's tiny! A child's toy! What can you do with that?” (Dwarf)
”Well, I can do this...” (Ryuu)