chapter 28
Duel (3)
“Ugh… !”
I woke up with a sharp pain in my head, wrapped my head around, and looked around.
The 3rd Training Center, which had been bright until quite some time passed or passed out, was engulfed in deep darkness.
Slowly getting up in the dark, I thought as I stepped on the shards of the hammer that had fallen on the floor.
‘… I lost.’
I’ve never been defeated in my life.
Fighting against my father, older brothers, and other knights, I have experienced countless defeats.
However, it was the first time that I have suffered as anger and irreversible defeat as today.
“Ugh… !!”
Tomorrow, the rumors will surely spread that the woman of the vongrind family fearlessly applied for a duel, but was eventually defeated by a baron or something like that.
It was also the humiliating fact that even though he had applied for a duel, he had barely survived at the mercy of his opponent.
When I thought that my family’s honor had been tarnished because of a few incidents, the anger I’ve had until now burst out of my mouth.
“Ugh… !! aah!!”
“I am surprised! what?! What’s up?!”
When I turned my head to a strange sound I suddenly heard from next to me, I saw the man from behind the darkness looking down at me sitting on the floor.
“What are you doing here… !”
“Can’t you see? Oh, can’t you see it’s so dark? After the duel, I continued to train.”
You keep training with the person you stunned… I’ve been thinking for a while, but what could have happened to this human head?
Even though I got up and staggered, I stood upright and stared in the direction he was.
He walked slowly in my direction and said with a fishy smile.
“Now you know? It’s impossible to be just a bun-haired girl, so I’d recommend just telling your parents like a child.”
“… Is that your purpose?”
“yes?”
Come to think of it, it was strange from the beginning.
Why did a human with such skills dare to turn the Fongrind family into an enemy?
If he had bowed his head for a moment and lowered himself, he would have obtained a position and wealth commensurate with his skills.
If you didn’t want to bow your head to a weak person like me, wouldn’t you just have to come to the exchange meeting?
There was not enough time left to find and punish the barons who did not attend the exchange meeting, and if they did, they would have simply ignored it.
However, this man participated in the exchange meeting with the former Tae-Yeo and did such things, creating a situation in which I could not back down.
Up until now, I thought it was just something I did impulsively or just because I was a crazy person.
But even a madman may not understand it, but it has its own reasons and principles of action.
If so, what is the reason and principle of action? Unless you are a maniac with a hope of ruin, it must have been for some profit.
I didn’t know what that profit was at first, but when I think about it, the answer was always nearby.
“… The purpose is to kill my father.”
At first, I thought it was a provocation to treat me like a child because I couldn’t do it anyway.
However, if I ever think about it, this man was tenaciously trying to get his father into this business and have him fight a duel.
“By the way, did you say that your father died? Is that why you are targeting my father?”
“What?”
The southern part was always a land ravaged by the invasions of demons and barbarians coming up from unexplored areas.
Therefore, a summons order was frequently issued to prevent them, and there were quite a number of people who died while complying with the summons order.
Perhaps his father was also killed during the battle with the barbarians, and he blamed his father for his death on his father, who ordered the summons.
That’s why he constantly provoked me to get my father to duel with him.
It is absurd, but it was surprisingly common for a person who lost a loved one to resent the wrong person.
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My anger at him had lessened a bit of sympathy, and I spoke to him, who listened to me in silence.
“I think your father will come back for such a foolish thing!! Even if you take revenge, the dead will not come back!”
Hearing my words, he hesitated for a moment, then tilted his head and asked.
“No, what nonsense are you talking about? father? revenge? Why is the story of my father suddenly appearing?”
At first, I thought it was going to be shichimi, but his voice as he said that was mixed with genuine embarrassment.
Hearing that voice, I asked him, wondering if he had stretched his legs.
“Oh, isn’t it?”
“that… First of all, I don’t even know where my father was killed, so I had to practice my feet at the funeral, so I did it roughly.”
“… … Yes?”
Feet at your father’s funeral?
What are you talking about now?
I was bewildered, unable to understand what he was saying, but he didn’t care and continued.
“It’s right to aim for your father. But it’s not just for a trivial reason like revenge.”
“Then why… .”
“Everything is for Baldo.”
… … What are you talking about now?
“For the sake of Baldo, what nonsense are you talking about! What does that have to do with killing my father!!”
“It doesn’t matter, why not?! Think about it, what would happen if I took down your father with baldancing?”
“How are you… yeah… .”
Of course, that’s not going to happen, but if it did, there would be a lot of commotion.
It’s because the baron, and only one academy student, defeated the uninhabited man who is called the strongest in the south, even bearing the penalty of baldancing.
“It must be widely known that you took down your father with baldancing.”
“okay!! That’s my purpose!! Defeat all the famous strong men and show the world the power of baldosu!! That is my purpose!!”
“… … Are you serious about that?”
When asked that question, he nodded with a firm attitude without hesitation.
Seeing that, I thought. This person isn’t as normal as I thought it would be.
It is natural for a swordsman to be proud of his or her skills, but this went beyond that.
Besides, to defeat all the powerful, not only the father, but also all the strong ones like the swordsman.
“… Are you crazy?”
“Do you think a crazy person could come up with such a perfect plan?”
The maniac said he didn’t know he was crazy, but he was just that.
Surprised by his so dignified attitude, I screamed at him with the heat.
“What a perfect plan! This is just crazy!!”
“It’s not crazy, it’s a revolution!! A revolution that takes Baldo back to where he should have been!!”
The words that followed were nonsensical remarks that I could not understand and did not want to understand with my common sense.
To change friction into speed and force, or to spread the martial arts and bring the world back to normal.
Every word was something that made me doubt my mental state.
I admit that this man is stronger than anything else, but he was only a student at that level.
It seems that he had a talent in his own way, so if it was a story in the distant future, there might be a chance of success, but now there was no possibility at all.
“You are just a frog in a well! Do you think you can win by fighting my father now?!”
“Probably, as I imagined, there is a high probability of death. But what does that mean?”
“… … Yes?”
“If it’s for Baldo, I don’t care if I die.”
There was no tremor or blur in his eyes when he said that. In a way, looking at her innocent eyes, I thought.
“Crazy… .”
It was a low-key word that I had never spit out of my mouth since I was born, but it came out very naturally.
I knew that saying these words would only hurt my dignity, but I didn’t stop and just kept repeating the words, “I’m crazy.”
“Crazy… crazy guy… !!”
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My father or my brother once said something like this. To defeat a madman, you have to become a madman more than him.
“Whew… .”
Taking a deep breath, I pointed at the man, Ian, with a hammer that had only a handle on it.
“I cannot give in to a psychopath like you. Stop expecting me to ask my dad for help!”
“What if I don’t come? Are you just going to cover it up after being humiliated like this?”
“No, I won’t give up on that either. I will make sure you pay the price you deserve! But that’s something I can do on my own!”
“So how? Would you like to apply for a duel again?”
“Yes, I will apply. Over and over until I win!! I will apply again and again until I smash your head with my hammer!!”
He said to me with a smirk, as if he thought it was trivial.
“Then give it a try! I will accept anything!! instead… Do you know what will happen when you lose?”
“Oh, I know! No matter what disgrace you face, I will surely overcome it and crush your head!”
To defeat a madman, you have to become more insane. I’m a crazy bitch, so even if I get to the point of being criticized, I’ll definitely take revenge on my own.
“… Then look forward to it! Come back to the duel as soon as possible!!”
After leaving those words, the man passed me by and tried to leave the 3rd training center, but before leaving, he picked up my hair that had fallen on the floor and said:
“Oh, can I take this? I’ve always wanted to have a bun hair!”
“… … .”
Could it be more crazy than this?