A Man Who is Too Stubborn to Give Up
The duel between Kenji and Mary immediately began.
The location is the rooftop training grounds of the Adventurer's Guild.
It is mainly a place where grade-based evaluation tests are conducted.
If they fought normally, Mary would have won by a landslide, so it was decided that it would be a five-minute match with a wooden sword, without magic or Touki.
The referee is Bruce, the guild leader who has the Appraisal skill, and the odds are 1.8 for Kenji to win, 2.5 for a draw, and 1.2 for Mary to win.
A draw occurs when neither player gets a hit within 5 minutes.
"Hey, hey! What’s going on!
That big Nee-chan have lower odds than lolicon Kenji, a professional swordsman?"
"But Bruce, who has appraisal skills, decided the odds, right?”
The adventurers are completely confused.
Currently, Kenji is said to be the best swordsman on the Atlesian continent.
The odds were lower than the best swordsman on the continent of Atlesia, which is something that would normally be unthinkable.
"But, isn’t it Cedric’s new party member who’s carrying around the angel Shiro-chan?
Maybe, just maybe!"
"That's true too. She's Cedric's new woman who's been playing around with Shiro-chan!"
I feel like my image has been getting worse lately.
Well, it's because of Shiro, who boasts an abnormal amount of popularity in the Amru Fortress City.
Perhaps it was due to Kenji's steady missionary work.
Well, Mary and Kenji haven't moved an inch since the match started.
Perhaps there is a lot of invisible matches between the masters.
"That lolicon Kenji didn’t move an inch!
Normally, it would be an instant kill!"
In the Amru Adventurer's Guild, Kenji's sword is well known.
Usually, he's an idiot and just a lolicon, but when you give him a sword, he's a genius with no equal.
When I was an adventurer before I turned into bones, I was pretty confident in my sword skills, but when I saw Kenji's sword, I quickly realized that I was just an ordinary person.
"Hey, hey, hey! No way, it's a draw!"
"Okay! Let's keep it a draw!"
Surprisingly, they were getting excited even though the two hadn't done anything.
"You have 20 seconds left!"
Hearing Bruce-nii's voice, Mary, who had been keeping her eyes straight, moved first.
But at that moment.
Clack*!
Kenji's strike lands perfectly.
"I give up"
Mary, like a samurai, graciously admitted defeat.
"Whoa! He did it!"
"Shit! It was almost a draw!"
After all, Kenji was a genius.
In a real fight, Mary is definitely stronger, but in a sword fight, there is no one who can match Kenji.
A natural intuition. It is no longer humanly possible for every attack to be a decisive blow.
If Kenji wasn't nearby, I might have worked a little harder on my swordsmanship.
Or maybe if Kenji's ability was a little lower, we could have worked hard together and honed our swordsmanship.
Well, it's too late now.
But lately, I've been thinking about something.
If I had remembered that I was a hero back then.
If only the cheat skills had been released.
Then I realized that Kenji and I could have been aiming higher together.
And I wonder if there was a life different from the one I have now.
Lately, I've been thinking about this before I go to sleep.
"Master is happy with your current life.
If Master had realized from the beginning that you are a hero, I don't think you would have ever met me..."
Shiro reads my mind and whispers.
"That's right. I definitely won't be able to meet Shiro..."
However, after becoming a skeleton,
Become a monster,
Making an impossible evolution,
I became incredibly strong and reached the 35th level...
If I hadn't reached the 35th level, I shouldn't have met Mylene, and she shouldn't have been killed by Drake...
The negative emotions that I had been able to forget for a while because of Kenji and Mary's stupid duel invaded my heart once again.
"Master. I'm sure it'll be fine.
Mylene-san is a strong person.
She definitely wasn't killed by Drake!"
Shiro is trying to cheer me up.
It is true that Mylene is a strong girl who has always fought without giving up, even though she has been discriminated against by vampires.
"Really? That's right. Absolutely!"
I strongly urge myself.
Mary, who knows Drake well, declared that Mylene had been killed, but I myself had not actually seen Mylene killed with my own eyes.
I know that Mary's words were meant to be kind so that I wouldn't have any strange expectations.
I know all too well the feeling of disappointment when you have high hopes.
I tried desperately to catch up with Kenji, thinking that I had become extremely strong, and went to see Kenji, but then I felt a sense of despair when I realized that Kenji was far stronger than I had imagined...
Even though I knew I couldn't catch up, I couldn't give up and continued to do reckless things all by myself.
Until the day I fell into the trap and died, I had actually continued to vomit blood.
But that doesn't mean you should give up hope.
In fact, I died, became a skeleton, and started my life over again.
I was also able to repair my relationship with Kenji.
My sword skills still aren't up to par with Kenji, but overall, I'm confident that I'm definitely stronger than him.
If I keep trying, amazing miracles can happen.
I, Mylene's Ancestor,
My only strength is that I'm bad at giving up,
It was strange to give up so easily, thinking that Mylene was dead.
After all, I'm a man who won't die even if I turn into bones.
An immortal man who won't die even if I turn into a poop.
There is no way Mylene, who has become my kin, will die easily!
"That's right!
Mylene-san is a strong and persistent girl who has managed to evade the pursuit of that insidious and persistent Drake!"
Shiro also agrees with me.
"Yeah. That's right!"
I'm bad at giving up.
I'm a man who didn't die even though I was a fragile bone because I was too stubborn to give up.
That's why I believe Mylene is alive.
Because I, who never gives up, decided to do so.
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