Orc Harem Vol 2 Chapter 14

Chapter 14: Orc-san’s Swordsmanship

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We were welcomed by loud cheers when we came up on the ring.

It was mainly for the white rose knight though.

「Die! Die! Die!」

「I’m betting a lot of money on the white rose knight!」

「Your luck has run out already you bastard!」

「Don’t get in Levn-sama’s way!」

The other reason was the betting.

Most of the audiences were betting on the white rose knight because they thought that this would be a sure bet.

Normally it would be impossible for a bet to be established when the popularity was completely leaning on one side like that, but I had made Kururu to bet a lot of money on me, because of that the odd had increased slightly so that those who bet on the white rose knight could get some return in case they won even if it was very small.

Even so the odd was still really horrible. The odd was 1,3x for the white rose knight, and 12x for me.

「Yooosh, I’ll do my best here.」

I wasn’t the type who would get cold feet just from this kind of jeers.

Rather it motivated me because I’d be able to make all these fellows lost money if I won.

……Besides, that much money that I gave to Kururu would return to me twelve times bigger.

I would be able to start a large business with that much money.

I got motivated now.

「Fufufu, it looks like the audiences properly understand which one of us is the true hero.」

「No, if it’s that, it has been decided when I pulled the sword.」

「I’m telling you that was only because I had pulled it until it was almost out.」

「Here-, feel free.」

I tossed the failed sword of oracle to him.

「Y-you, what are you-」

The mister white rose knight caught the sword in panic.

「Heavy-, uwah. Ouch」

He let out an amusing cry and dropped the sword.

It seemed that his ability to deal with danger was quite good.

The failed sword of oracle weighed almost five tons when it had no mana put inside it. If he didn’t immediately let go of the sword, his hands would get sandwiched between the ground and the sword and get flattened.

「See, you can’t use it right?」

「Wrong-, this must be some kind of mistake.」

「That so?」

I picked the sword lightly.

A vein pulsed on the mister white rose knight’s forehead.

It seemed his pride was wounded seeing me lightly picking up the sword that he was unable to even hold up.

「I see, I get it now. That sword has mistakenly recognized you as its owner after you pulled it out. T-then the solution is simple. I’ll cut you down and make it recognize me as its correct owner.」

……That’s not the case here though.

It wasn’t like there was any mystical power at work here. It was just the matter of orichalcum’s trait.

Kaa-san was also plainly troubled by this.

After all it was fine when the sword was hanging on her waist, but if it was let alone somewhere, it would gradually getting buried into the ground.

In Kaa-san’s case, she would gather mana in the amount that could maintain the sword’s weight for several days and poured it into the sword. But there were several times when she was careless and left the sword alone for too long. When she realized the sword had already smashed through the floor and sunk until deep into the ground.

「Well, do your best.」

There was no doubt that this sword was super first class in quality simply as a weapon.

Kururu called it incomplete, but at present it was already a world ranked sword.

While we were facing each other, an announcer spoke to heat up the match.

「The one at the left is Oruruk. The lucky boy who inadvertently pulled out the sword that the white rose knight Levn Fortula almost finished pulling out! In the end, will his luck also work against the white rose knight?」

Bursts of laughter and death calls exploded.

「And then at the right is our white rose knight. He has left behind many legendary accomplishments in countless battlefields including in Marialna War. The strongest knight of this generation. That strength, that beautiful face, he is truly someone worthy to be the hero!」

Shrill voices and cheers burst up this time.

……But, my ears could hear it. Tita had properly cheered for me when the announcer spoke my introduction.

Tita’s cheer had the value that was hundreds of millions times greater than the cheers of inconsequential tens of thousands of people.

Unfortunately I couldn’t hear Kururu’s cheer.

Shit, was her positivity level to me still insufficient?

「Then, both sides, please draw out your sword. ……Duel start」

And then the battle started.

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It was mister white rose knight who made the first move.

「Let me show you my secret technique. Roose, Splashh!」

I could sense him using wind magic when he was chanting, so I raised my guard against projectile attack.

However I was taken aback by the oddness of that projectile attack.

Astonishingly, he had countless white roses put inside a knapsack. He fired them out with the power of wind.

The tips of the white roses’ stems were cut to be sharp. They became countless throwing knives.

……Was there a point using white roses for this? No, the petals part of the roses could easily catch the wind I guessed, but I could think of several other weapons that would be a better option for stronger attack.

I covered my whole body with ki to harden my defense.

「Hahahah, my win is decided with this. The tips of these white roses are lathered with poison that can make even elephant unconscious instantly. It’s already The End for you when you got even just a single light scratch. This is the flower bucket for a beautiful death, Rose Splashhh!」

Shrewd, that’s just shrewd, white rose knight.

You are using projectile weapon and poison even though you’re a knight?

「Well, I’m not even lightly scratched though.」

「You bastard, you can use ki!?」

It would be a big problem instead if swordsman or anyone who wished to battle in close range couldn’t use it.

「Then it can’t be helped. I shall settle this with my beautiful sword.」

The white rose knight took his stance.

His sword was thin. His stance was a fencing posture. From how it looked, he would mainly use thrust.

The sword was thin and light, in exchange it lacked power, but it was fast and very hard to block. Even though it lacked power, it would be bad if it stabbed on a vital spot.

「……That shape, it’s a sword that will inject poison when it stab isn’t it?」

In addition, that thin sword was equipped with special mechanism to inject poison from the tip.

「Good work in seeing through the special trait of my beloved sword, the Merciless White Rose. Its tip is filled with a powerful poison that can make even an elephant die instantly in one hit.」

「Say, do you have any grudge against elephant?

「Enough talk, die!」

Countless thrusts attacked me.

This guy, just how much he loved poison?

……Well, that was an extremely realistic combat approach though.

His fencing was completely specialized in speed and hitting the enemy. Its compatibility with poison was spot on.

Even though his appearance and behavior were like a joke, his ruthlessness was the real thing.

He was strong. Even so, it was still within the realm of ordinary people.

It was normal.

Compared to the monsters that I had seen, he was just too mediocre.

I easily dodged his thrusts.

「Why won’t my godspeed hit?」

「You call this godspeed? Don’t make me laugh.」

How could he call this godspeed when he couldn’t even reach the speed of sound.

Kaa-san, the Hero of Azure Thunder, Mireille Forland’s swordsmanship surpassed the lightning speed.

Compared to that, this guy’s movement looked like he was standing still.

I could dodge his attacks even with my eyes closed.

「You know, I actually don’t have that many experience fighting swordsman.」

Other than fighting against my teachers, at most I would fight against the demon king’s four heavenly kings.

「I’m thinking to observe your fighting style carefully to learn what I can. ……That’s why, don’t hold back anything. Or are you telling me that you don’t have any more trump card? If that’s the case then I’ll end this now.」

The white rose knight sweated. He suddenly stepped back and took some distance.

「……What’s that killing intent just now!? This me, is frightened. Impossible!! Very well. I’ll show you my all. My ultimate special move, the super godspeed thrust that surpass even godspeed.」

What’s that, sounds cool.

A super godspeed that surpassed godspeed. This phrase was really hitting the spot in my chuunibyou mind.

Come on, show it to me. I’m thrilled here.

「HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!」

He let out a loud shout of fighting spirit and double strengthened himself with ki and magic power.

And then he took a stance for a forward step that would immediately connect into a rushing thrust. There wasn’t any hint of a feint at all in it.

In other words, the thrust would be unavoidable even when the opponent already knew that it was coming.

The technique was filled with that much confidence.

Gulp.

「Eat this, my sure kill, attack. RO───────────SE…FLASHH!」

He stepped forward with all his strength before smoothly unleashing a thrust.

But there was too much distance between us. It wouldn’t reach me at all.

I observed his movement closely. The moment the sword was thrust to the limit, the blade was fired out.

It seemed the sword was also equipped with a spring. I see, after the sword was accelerated to thrust with the fastest speed that he could possibly achieve, it was accelerated even further by firing off the blade with a spring. That was why it was a super godspeed that surpassed even godspeed.

Fumu fumu, I see I see.

「Are you stupid-!」

I flicked away the blade with the back of my fist hitting its side.

It was stupid of me to hold any expectation. That was just a hidden weapon.

What Rose Flash.

What super godspeed that surpassed even godspeed.

There was a limit even when screwing around!

「What, no way, my ultimate special move, the super godspeed Rose Flash is-」

「You have already run out of trick huh. Then I’ll end this. This is a warning, raise your ki and magic power with all your strength. If not……you’ll die.」

If I was able to watch something interesting, I planned to use it to counterbalance his sin of touching Tita and let him off with just three fourth killing him.

But, this was the end result after he kept increasing my expectation like that.

Let’s seven eighth kill him just as planned.

I casually stepped forward.

It was a step with the strengthening of ki and magic power. I intentionally suppressed my ki, magic power, and physical strength to the same level like mister white rose knight.

Even then, my movement was still several levels faster than him.

This wasn’t a matter of basic specs, but the difference in proficiency.

I slashed horizontally down from above.

……The sword of oracle, its trait was it had no weight as long as it was filled with mana.

In other words it became a super fast sword.

However not having weight meant not having any strength.

That was why, there was a bit of trick when using this sword.

When swinging down the sowrd, I ejected the mana that was seeping at the inside of the sword to be converted into reinforcement from outside. Then its weight returned.

In other words, the super godspeed from the sword not having any weight was not filled with the power of super heavy weight.

I was astounded by that cheat ability when Kaa-san used it.

My diagonal swing hit empty air.

That was intentional. Even though I was suppressing my strength to be in the same level with the white rose knight, he would die instantly if he was hit with something like this.

However…….

「UWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!」

A slash that was faster than the speed of sound and concept strengthening using magic power produced a wave at its wake. It launched a sword pressure that created a shockwave.

It smashed the metal armor of the white rose knight into pieces and blew him away.

His body got stuck on the spectator stand.

「Yosh, I manage to accurately hit the hardest spot of his metal armor. He also heightened his ki and magic power just as I warned. Well, he won’t die with this.」

I looked toward the audience stand that was enveloped in dust.

Hopefully he was still alive.

……And then, I saw a shocking sight. The white rose knight stood up. He stood on his knee and vomited blood.

Even though I intended to seven eighth killed him with that attack, this was surprising.

「Cough, beau-, ti-, ful, even more, than me. I recognize it, you are, the hero.」

He only left those words behind before falling forward unconscious.

Don’t tell me, he mustered all his remaining willpower just to say that?

「……So you aren’t just a funny person huh.」

I reevaluated the mister white rose knight a little.

I looked toward the referee.

「Wi-, winner, Oruruk!」

The referee announced.

The audiences stiffened from the shocking development and didn’t move.

However, Tita and Kururu sent me a loud applause. The audiences finally returned to their senses with that. I could hear small applauses, but then it spread and became loud applauses.

I turned toward Kururu and thrust the sword of oracle.

『Did you see that, this is the way to use the sword of oracle』

That single swing was just to show to Kururu.

Kururu nodded.

Surely the real sword of oracle that she was going to make after this would take the slash I showed her into consideration.

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