chapter 156
156 – Welcome to Hell
Welcome to Hell
The winner of the martial arts competition was Violet.
Violet, who easily climbed past the competitors, met Sojeta in the finals and showed a fierce match worthy of the finals and proudly won the championship.
Sojeta, who lost her honor last year, clearly imprinted her skills on people with this match, and Violet, who lost to Diana, gained the honor of avenging her defeat and winning the championship.
An academy student walking around the academy campus sees Diana and approaches her brightly, then stops.
No one makes fun of Diana, who was defeated by Violet during her martial arts competition.
Because her interpersonal relationship was so good, there were more people who worried about her.
After hesitating for a moment, the academy student cautiously approaches Diana.
“Diana… How are you feeling?”
“Huh? I’m always the best!”
Contrary to her worries, Diana is in a cheerful mood as usual.
The academy student, who remembered the desperate look of her trying to force her disorganized body to stand up during her game, assumed that Diana was just acting cheerfully.
There was no way that a person who showed such fighting spirit would not feel the bitter taste of defeat.
Diana laughs at the pitying eyes of her academy student.
“I can’t help it because I lost completely. I lost so cleanly that I don’t even have any regrets.”
“……Would you like to go down the street together after the academy? Let’s go to the secret garden. Diana I’ll buy you anything you want to eat.”
“The desserts there are really good.”
Diana likes her eyes to sparkle.
“But no.”
“Do you have any prior arrangements?”
“No, I lost coolly, so now I have to pay it back. I’m going to train.”
Diana smiled.
Her academy student, who was momentarily taken aback by the fact that her words about going to her training didn’t suit her at all, smiled at her and nodded her head.
* * *
“So, this is Diana, who I will be with from today.”
Rai points to Diana, who is clinging to her side and crossing her arms.
Abigail, who was eating a simple snack before her training, stares at Diana as she chews on the food in her mouth.
“There’s one more guy I want to kill.”
Philia, who was staring at Diana’s folded arms, answered.
“It’s a coincidence. I think the same thing.”
Seeing their reactions, when Zeroa smiles bitterly, Diana holds out her hand with her V-ja and she says.
“This is Diana~ I’m here to take your lycan.”
“Yes, he’s such a fool, but take good care of him.”
“Ah?! What are you talking about, stupid?”
As if Diana is a nuisance, Rai enters the house saying that she will change her clothes.
“Hello, Senior Diana. Are you really taking private lessons from Instructor Rai?”
“Hello, hello. Mia. Yes, maybe not always, but often. Please take good care of me.”
As Mia looks at her with her respectful eyes, Diana smiles and strokes her hair.
Asran, who was next to her, looked at Diana with her disapproving face.
“You really want to learn from Rai? I don’t recommend it.”
“What is it, even Aslan? The territories here are too severe. Or do you only hate me?”
“No, I… No, I warned you anyway.”
It didn’t take long to understand Asran’s ominous words.
“I’m going to leave the magic training behind and start with sparring, so relax.”
“Nah~!”
Diana answers brightly, but the other children silently nod.
Mia’s face in particular is livid.
No matter how much she fights every day, she never gets used to it.
Because when it comes to sparring, it was basically her bones being scattered.
Once, a rib was lodged in her lung and her Abigail miraculously healed after Rai cut out her stomach on the spot and fitted her rib in place.
It was an experience I would never get used to.
Sensing tension between people, Diana feels strange and looks up, but she doesn’t give anyone an answer.
“Continuous sparring begins with Diana.”
“Oh ho, oh ho. Continuous sparring is quite realistic.”
It was Zero Awa Aslan who looked at Diana who nodded with pity.
“Diana’s weak point is her short interval. It’s a fatal weakness. She’s the difference between the interval she thinks and the actual interval…”
“Ah! What! Why are you revealing my weakness all of a sudden!”
“You came here to overcome it.”
After Rai dismisses her Diana’s rebuttal with her short words, she explains her weaknesses in detail and tells her how to attack them.
“The reason Dianna fell for her Violet is because of the spacing I just mentioned. With her experience from last year, she dug into her spacing problem and won it perfectly. Actually, the difference between her skills isn’t that overwhelming.”
“That’s such a fatal flaw.”
Philia nods her head and gets up from her seat.
Diana’s first opponent was Philia.
The two of them cross swords several times and continue the battle.
Although her flaws were exposed and she lost miserably to Violet, Diana’s basic skills did not go anywhere.
During her sparring, reinforcements such as light mines and Juenuru Shotso are prohibited, so Philia is pushed back by Diana’s attacks and is increasingly on the defensive.
Diana’s sophisticated swordsmanship puts pressure on Philia, but she calmly defends and observes her sword.
“Yeah, I understand. That’s it.”
When her Philia’s eyes turn red, Diana smiles a little and moves faster as if to try.
Philia, who struggled to block Diana’s sword from her raging attack, sneakily dodged her sword aiming for her shoulder.
Philia, who managed to do away with a narrow dodge, dug in quickly and swung her sword.
– Caang!
Diana hurriedly raised her sword to block it, but it was not an attack with her power.
Using her swinging stance, Philia stepped on her advance and stabbed her with her fist, which was pinned to her side.
Seeing her fists stretched straight through her body as if they were about to pierce her body, Diana twists her body but is hit by her side and pushed away.
“Koo hek, kuluk, kuluk.”
Looking down at Diana, who knelt down on her knees and vomited up as she was, Philia said.
“Swordsmanship is elaborately structured by assuming many situations and combining countless movements. If the original swordsmanship is shorter than the assumed interval, you can counterattack much faster. The car can win, too, right?”
Receiving her gaze, Rai nodded her head.
“That’s right. People often say it’s a paper gap. Well, it’s not as thin as real paper, but that small gap ruins the swordsmanship itself. The person who made the swordsmanship made it with Diana’s short gap in mind. No. Next, Abigail.”
“I didn’t hit you at all.”
“I’m not sparring to hit you.”
Philia returns to her seat with her disgruntled face.
In the meantime, Diana, who has recovered her body, smiles dejectedly.
“I didn’t even notice her Violet at once, but Philia is amazing.”
She catches a glimpse of the vomit she has vomited, and as if she is ashamed of herself, Diana pushes the soil over her with her feet.
“Don’t ruin the lawn.”
“That’s sensitive. It’s always grass.”
Asran added to Rai’s words, Diana shrugged her shoulders and raised her sword to look at her Abigail.
“Be careful because I’m not kind unlike that finely grown girl.”
“Okay, I’ll be careful.”
Diana nods her head as her Abigail hints to live.
Mia is troubled when she is said to be kind.
She says that Philia is kind, but she is kind even in sparring, she is vague if you ask her.
To increase her experience, long sparring and treading lightly. If she is kind, she will be kind, but the time of suffering is also long.
As she said earlier, Philia never finished her sparring in one blow.
Mia, who had sparred with many seniors, liked Asran the best in her one shot.
Although she likes Zeroa, she is specialized in her defense, and when sparring with him, she is always angry and nasty.
Philia and Abigail were terrifyingly painful to deal with.
As swords clash, Diana and Abigail’s sparring begins.
Although she suffered a wound on her side, Diana dealt with Abigail skillfully, and unlike Philia, Abigail, who could not properly read her distance, was put on the defensive.
“Search!”
– Booung
Abigail’s sword cut through the air as she properly withdrew her hand, but regardless of the success of her attack, Diana’s eyes widened.
“You were just about to cut her hand, right?”
“Didn’t I tell you to think in the same way as in real life? Doesn’t a cat girl with a small brain understand? I’ll fix it, so don’t worry and get cut.”
Unlike the usual sparring where she shows her skills and subdues her opponent, Abigail’s sword was thickly covered with her own flesh.
Diana is surprised by the sword with the will to cut off her arm, but she calms down at Abigail’s ridicule.
“Aha, now I understand. Raicang gave you this kind of training. Everyone deserves to be strong.”
Diana thought she understood, but she didn’t at all.
She has never experienced her real life.
Since she always practiced in hiding, she doesn’t even have a lot of sparring experience.
However, Abigail grew up among mercenaries from a young age and experienced countless real battles.
There was a time when she survived by using her wits despite the difference in her skills, and there was a time when she escaped from limb while suffering from an injury that drained her blood.
Diana was too weak to take on the fierce attacks of Abigail, who had a different mindset.
Diana also wields her sword to slash her opponents in her subjugation, but it also takes experience to wound her opponents.
Being stabbed in the stomach and cutting off the head is a terrifying experience that is difficult for a person with a normal mind to calmly accept.
And as if reflecting the fear of her experience of the unknown, Diana’s blade is dull.
When her sophisticated swordsmanship is disturbed, her Diana’s battle itself begins to crumble.
She said at first she was holding down Abigail for sure, but now it’s boiling.
“Is this the only thing you can do? Don’t underestimate the wild for a house cat that grew up comfortably in the hands of its owner!”
“It’s stuck.”
Diana laughs at Abigail’s wild attack and stabs her sword.
– Pushyuk
Diana furrowed her eyebrows a little as the feel of her arm pierced her handle, but she attacked Abigail with certainty.
I stabbed her arm with her sword, and that was it.
“Caught.”
Abigail’s arms stiffen with a goosebumps smile.
Abigail headbutts her sword into Diana’s face, who panics because her sword won’t come off.
– Grasp!
“This!”
Blowing her nose and pulling her face back, Diana frowned and tried to straighten herself up, but all she could see was her Abigail’s knee.
– Puck!
Diana, who was hit in the face with her knee, falls behind her, passing out.
She looks tired as if she is sick of Mia, who was watching.
Anyone who has ever been hit in the face by that knee can sympathize, and Zeroa and Aslan have the same expression.
After some time has passed and she has come to her senses, Diana looks around her with her blank eyes.
“Did you wake up? I wiped the stain off her face, but there will be hardened blood in her nose, so wipe it with water.”
Aslan pours water into a wide bowl and hands it over, but she doesn’t know how to use it, so Diana looks blankly.
“You can do it like this.”
Zero Ah next to her demonstrates.
Perhaps he continued sparring while he passed out, and his condition was also in a mess.
Zeroa, who put her nose in a bowl and inhaled, coughed and frowned.
Water drips from his nose as he raises his head.
After a while, he lowers his head to drain the water and wipes the inside with a thinly rolled cloth.
In a way Diana could not have imagined.
“I often use it on the battlefield. If I use it too much, it hurts my nose, so I’m told to use it in moderation, but it makes breathing easier and it’s pretty good.”
When Aslan said it casually, Diana looked at her dish blankly and then pierced her nose.
As her bubbling drops of water came out and sucked in through her nose, Diana lifted her head with a caek-keek.
After helping Zeroa to get rid of her nosebleed, Diana leans against her fence with her weary face on her face.
“That’s terrible.”
“Keukkeuk, I was like that when I first started.”
Athran, who has bruises on both eyes, giggles.
She’s not particularly harsh on herself, but Diana smiles bitterly when she realizes that this is normal.
“The training here is really rough. I can’t lift her face when she passed out from the first day and even sat down.”
“Peeping up is a common occurrence, so don’t be ashamed. Mia wore her pants the other day…”
“Ah! Ahh! Senpai! I told you to keep that a secret! Ahh!”
Mia, her face reddened, covers Aslan’s mouth as she screams.
Judging by the dangling of her left hand, it must have been broken.
Nobody here was normal.
Diana, who had never experienced anything like this, was still afraid of the throbbing pain, but at the same time she felt anticipation and strange excitement.
Diana jumped up and exclaimed vigorously.
“Okay, who’s next?”
Although she speaks brightly, she looks at Mia, Aslan, and Zeroa with compassion.
From afar her rai flicks her fingers as she watches her.
“Ah… Do I have to fight with Lycan?”
“It’s more vicious because I have to fight while exhausted after sparring with others.”
“The Demon King has appeared.”
Diana forced a smile and approached Rai.
“Raikang! Let’s have fun together.”
– Puck
Diana’s chin snapped at her fist as she attacked her without saying a word.
Rai, who crouched down in front of Diana who collapsed on the grass due to her body’s weakness, smiles at her single single smile.
“It’s hard? I guess I’m lacking in stamina because I only trained in the room.”
Diana, frowning at her sarcasm, gets up with all her might.
“Where is yesterday’s sweet lycan?”
“I don’t feed the full catch.”
When told that she wasn’t feeding Philia glanced at her, but she didn’t notice anyone.
“He’s a bad boy.”
Diana gets up on her trembling legs with her grin and swings her sword.
On that day, Diana fainted a total of three times, and experienced countless times her world spinning.
Diana’s figure, covered in blood and dirt all over her body, was ugly, but her stunned expression was somehow calm.