Academy Slave Instructor

23 – Sword Breaker

Sword Breaker

“Captain, play with me!”

With a beautiful yet cruel smile, Diana enters the formation of the assassins alone. Her innumerable blades stopped her as she aimed at her, shedding what was spilled and skilfully swaying her formation, she swung her sword at Uraros, the leader of her assassins.

– Caang!

As Uraros holds up the curved sword and blocks it, a loud metallic sound is heard. Diana, who touched her sword, grinned, grabbed the back of her sword with her hand, and pushed Uraros as it was.

As if a bull had rushed in, Uraros was pushed back and broke away from the formation where the assassins were gathered.

“Catch the princess!”

The assassins turn to help him, but Uraros tells them to focus on her princess and then swings his sword at Diana. Seeing Diana break away from her group and create a confrontation between the two of them, Philia regroups her formation.

“Two-in-one, lean back on the shield protecting the princess and turn right to defend!”

Filia, joined by Arya who was close by, stands in front of the shield to deal with approaching enemies. She first matches the sum, but Philia, who has already mastered the passing technique, matches the sum with Arya’s movements.

She thought she must have learned it, but Arya, who seemed surprisingly awkward since she was doing it for the first time, Philia took care of her sum, and she noticed her intentions and threw her sword in all directions, full of loopholes. .

‘Because I use a sharp sword, I have to focus on attacking rather than defending.’

Her thin blade grasps Arya’s weapon, and Philia moves after her in line with Arya’s actions, cutting off the swords of her assassins who are targeting her.

Thanks to Philia, who keeps pace with her, Arya’s sword quickly stabs the assassins and returns. If she takes a stabbing stance, she ignores her surroundings and the assassins can’t come close to the sword that comes right in.

The two easily fend off the assassins, but Zeroa and Abigail on the other side don’t.

“Go away!”

Abigail kicks Zeroa in the side. With her foe in front of her eyes, her act of kicking her opponent could have been dangerous, but if she hadn’t kicked Zeroa, he would have been cut in half by the assassin’s strike with her sword.

Stopped by the shield to protect, Zeroa hurriedly swung her sword while grabbing her throbbing side.

However, the sword he wielded clumsily had no power, and the assassin easily defeated him and swung his sword at Zeroa. Zeroa dodged the sword almost as if he was sitting down, and stepped aside while punching him on the buttocks.

In the meantime, Abigail is dealing with several assassins by herself. Alone, but better than when there are two, Abigail overwhelms the opponent and knocks out the enemy in front, then moves right away and attacks again.

Abigail, who defends a much wider range than the combination of Philia and Aria, continues to push back the assassins based on her strong strength.

Zero Ah, who had an eye on her for a while, but there was no time to let her go.

As he rolls on the ground avoiding the swinging sword and tries to straighten his posture, a sharp sword falls in front of his eyes.

Should I call it a kaleidoscope? Zeroa, who felt that everything around him slowed down at the moment, saw the sword splitting his head. With no room to move or mind, he blankly watches her blade fall on him.

– Caang!

The thin sword fell on Zeroa’s head and stabbed her sword body. The assassin’s sword passed by Zeroa and fell to the ground.

At the same time, time returns to normal, and Arya, who is stabbing in an almost falling position, enters Zeroa’s eyes. Forcing her long distance to save her Zeroa, she lost her balance and fell in front of her. Philia rushed to block the attacking assassins without missing her chance.

Philia, ignoring her own body to protect her Aria, swung her sword and cut her shoulder.

“Keuu-“

Whilst letting out her moan of pain, Philia swung her sword again and pulled her aria up with her injured hand. Rising as her philia springs back using her drag power, Arya thrusts her sword at her in all directions, causing her assassins to fall back in a fierce barrage.

“Welcome!”

With a loud cry, the backs of the assassins who retreated were cut off, and Diana jumped out between the two separated assassins and leaned on the shield.

She cut down four people with one swing, but she doesn’t look good either.

The armor with residual scars showed traces of a fierce battle, and there were thin cuts on the back especially between the torn armor.

“Are you hurt?”

“Yeah, a little bit. Are you hurt too?”

“There’s nothing wrong with fighting.”

Philia and Diana have a conversation and keep an eye on the front.

The scar on Diana’s back told me a lot. She was fighting her one-on-one match with Uraros, and when she was told that her back was cut, it was that she was ambushed or forced to move and expose her back to him.

And as her formation collapsed because of her, the fact that Diana forcibly returned could be noticed even by Zero Ah, who was not familiar with her tactics.

Zeroa, who could not become a burden as it is, rushed at the assassin in front.

At the sudden change of offensive, the assassin swung his sword at Zeroa with thinned eyes as if he was grateful. Raising his sword and taking a blocking stance, Zeroa extends his empty hand forward.

– Flash

There was no sound, but as if a sound was heard, a bright and brilliant light burst in front of the assassin’s eyes. It was the flash that Rai taught for magic training.

While the blind assassin squinted his eyes and turned his head, Zeroa, who thought he had seized his chance, took a step forward and swung his sword.

“Kek-“

But someone grabs him by the nape of his neck and pulls him.

Zeroa, who was distracted by the dizzy vision, bumped his back into his protective shield and raised his head with a bewildered expression.

Abigail was glaring at Zeroa with angry eyes. If it weren’t for Abigail, he would have been decapitated by an assassin pretending to be through the Flash.

She belatedly recalled Rai’s words, telling her not to use it carelessly.

“Don’t be an asshole, you’ll get in the way.”

Zeroa couldn’t see Abigail’s face as she spat out her nasty words.

She is embarrassed and can’t make eye contact with her. Her life is saved by Arya and Abigail. In order to protect Aria, who threw her body to save herself, Philia suffered her wounds, and when her formation was broken, Diana returned to this place despite her wounds.

Yes. All because of yourself

The shame, the sense of shame, and the sadness of the powerless weak come all at once. If they had died earlier, they might have survived safely.

“Zeroa! Wake up!”

Zeroa’s head, which had fallen at Philia’s shouting, went up. There is no time for leisurely grumbling in a fierce battle situation. The four of them were swinging their swords at enemies coming from all sides.

Zeroa also participated in the battle, holding back the feeling of bursting into tears, but with her already exhausted mind, it was only a hindrance.

“Zeroa-kun. I think you can rest for a while. Oh, will you protect my back?”

Even Diana smiles awkwardly and tells her to step back.

Zeroa, who swung his sword mindlessly without thinking about the formation, was only a nuisance to the others. Even though he lacks even one hand, he steps back with a dark expression at Diana’s bitter smile, who rather chose to take out Zeroa.

The four of them are fighting fiercely in front, but the tension in the battlefield disappears and only her devastating frustration remains for Zeroa, who has become protected by her.

“If you survive, you have a chance.”

Inside the protective shield, Emilia spoke quietly. Zeroa, who would have been embarrassed if it was her usual, but with her weakened spirit, she doesn’t even have time to answer. She turns her head to her without saying a word.

Emilia, who is holding her fainting Somneri, looks directly in front of her without losing her dignity even in an emergency situation.

“So survive. Please survive today and become a better Zeroa-kun. Today’s disgrace and shame will become tomorrow’s strength.”

Emilia ignored the threat in front of her and comforted her, but the knowledge of zero was not enough.

Such words are for those who are fighting in front.

After staring at Zeroa staring at them with her eyes that had lost her light, Emilia turned her eyes back to her battlefield.

The situation was not good. Believing that if Diana had the skills of the Philias, she would be able to hold on, and she forcibly held Uraros, but thanks to Zeroa, she returned to formation with only her twisted wounds.

I don’t know if it’s her one-on-one, but it’s hard to stop Urarath’s offensive with her own men. The Philias suffered losses every time from the surprise attacks coming and going between her subordinates, and their physical strength and mana were reduced due to excessive movements, and they were rapidly exhausted.

The number of assassins also decreased, but it was questionable whether four people’s stamina would hold up.

“Back off!!”

While attacking Philia, Uraros felt something and screamed back. Despite the urgent order, the assassins moved in perfect order and fell back, but it was too late for some who got too close to Diana to escape.

– Quaang!

For the moment’s delay, she had to pay with her life. Something flew and attacked the assassins with a loud sound.

As the dust covering the surroundings clears, Rai is seen holding the assassin’s head with his bare hands and pinning it to the ground.

“Raikang!!”

Diana recognized it first and shouted. Her voice was much brighter than usual.

Rai slams the assassin he’s holding back into the ground again for a confirmed kill, then gets up slowly. When the assassin’s head was broken, blood splattered on his face, making Rai’s expressionless face look bloody. Philia involuntarily swallows her saliva in an atmosphere completely different from her usual sloppy image.

Rai’s mouth opens as she turns her head to stare at her assassins, then turns her head again to see Emilia.

“Wuweheek-“

Seeing Rai vomit on her floor, Philea widens her eyes in embarrassment.

He vomited coolly over the completely smashed assassin’s head, and sat down with a heavy breath.

“Whoa- I must have lost my stamina. I feel like I’m going to die just from running at full speed. Ah, is the princess still alive?”

Rai speaks in a bright voice, but even Emilia can’t answer properly, as if she’s absurd, and she looks at him with blank eyes.

It seems strange that Rai turns his back completely and talks to him, but he thinks he has a chance and an assassin sneaks up on him.

“You guys say thank you to Thena. She ran to her death and told me you were in danger.”

“Back, back, back!! Raikang back!”

Diana hurriedly shouts, but the assassin quickly rushes in and swings her sword at Rai’s back, which is full of loopholes.

At the same time, a burst of air is heard and the assassin flies backwards.

“Gumcha- don’t rush. It was so tiring that I tried to take a break. Why are you in such a hurry?”

Rai struggles to stand up and bangs his fist on his thigh.

The assassin, who was blown away by an unknown force but has no abnormalities in his body, immediately joins the ranks and raises his sword.

Even if the enemy were left behind, Rai didn’t care and approached the place where Emilia was. Rai, who placed her hand on her translucent shield and saw that she was all right, put her gaze on her shadow and said:

“You didn’t run away? Loyalty is good, but the kids would have been more comfortable without you. Is it because of honor, not loyalty?”

“……Thank you for coming to help, Instructor Rai.”

Rai’s words and Emilia’s answer did not mesh with each other. Philia, who couldn’t understand how the princess was telling her to run away alone, looked closely at Emilia, but she found nothing.

“Why are you so downhearted?”

Shaking Zeroa’s hair with her dead eyes in the palm of her hand, she took the sword that he stretched out powerlessly. Looking back and forth at the sword in the sunlight, he swung it in the air several times and headed for the assassins.

“Is this expensive? Isn’t it like an heirloom? Does this look expensive?”

“It doesn’t deserve to be considered an heirloom, but it’s one of the Skella artisan’s collections. It usually goes for around 200 gold on the market.”

“sh*t- Then I can’t use it.”

Her philia answered her, and upon hearing her price, her frightened rai threw away her sword and stared at her blankly.

She looks really disgusted, but when she reluctantly holds out the sword in her hand, Rai laughs and accepts the sword. Rai, who had swung in the air several times as before, asked while checking the blade.

“Certainly this is worse.”

“Thank you for the compliment.”

“Is this precious? Is there such a thing as a memory of the first sword I received?”

“No, I bought it new for training.”

“Okay, I guess this doesn’t exist anymore.”

Philia, thinking that she was naturally stealing her academy student’s weapon, frowned at her as she couldn’t understand what he was saying. She says as Diana, giggling at the look on her expression of immense dislike, clings to Rai.

“Raikang, Raikang. Don’t bully Philia and use my sword.”

“I can’t because it’s expensive. I don’t have the ability to pay it back.”

Diana also tilts her head, not understanding what Rai is talking about. After telling them to back off because it’s dangerous, Rai walks over to the nervous assassins, dragging her sword on the ground.

Uraros beckons his men to deploy tactics against the stronger, and the Assassins quickly switch places.

“It’s okay, you can stay. It will be over soon.”

Ignoring Rai’s words, showing the pride that only the strong have, Uraros saw his men ready and prepared to attack.

Her distance is quite far, but Rai takes the posture to wield the extended sword as if to attack first. Her spread and lowered posture is not good for movement.

Seeing Rai holding up her longsword and wielding her greatsword, Philia tilts her head. And even at a distance from her assassins, Rai wields her sword.

The tip of the sword dragged on the ground and the sword, which had been moving slowly, suddenly received an acceleration and moved quickly. It was a sword so fast that Philia missed the process halfway through, but she didn’t even shoot mana, she just swung her air.

After a while, there is a whining vibration and the sound of metal grinding. While people were frowning at the sudden roar, the sword Philia had lent her broke and disappeared without a trace.

As if turning to dust, countless split sword blades were blown away by the wind, leaving only the handle in Rai’s hand.

“Nonsense… No way…”

An embarrassed voice came out of Uraros’ mouth. He is looking at his stomach, where his blood is flowing.

Blood is overflowing from the abdomen of not only Uraros alone, but everyone in front of Rai. And his severed upper body slowly falls to the floor.

With a loud noise, the surrounding trees also fell, and nothing was standing properly in front of Rai’s eyes. As if the entire space was cut with a knife, a clean cutting line unfolds in nature.

At the sight that cannot be believed to be real, the mouths of Philia and everyone else in the room drop open.

“Sword Breaker…”

Zeroa, who was attached to the shield, heard Emilia muttering. As she said, Rai was nicknamed the Sword Breaker.

The absurd attack, unbelievable in reality, annihilated not only the opponent, but also the sword he was holding.

The sword wielded by Rai disregarded the laws of nature and disappeared, to the extent that the expression extinction would be more appropriate than the word shattered.

It was at this moment that I realized why Rai had avoided the expensive sword.