I Give Up on Conquering the Heroines

11 – Episode 11. Yerina Frost (3)

“This is the ice cave that will become the stadium.”

“Wow. It’s beautiful.”

“Right?”

Yerina smiles excitedly and guides me to an ice cave that glows like crystal.

It looks like he’s really excited about beating me up and sitting on top of me from now on.

She is such an honest person that she doesn’t even seem to have any intention of hiding it.

“Can I place two conditions?”

“Yes? Now?”

Yerina suddenly turns around with a tearful expression on her face.

She was planning on relieving her stress by chewing, tearing, tasting and enjoying me without any restrictions, but she seems upset that she was prevented from doing so.

But she doesn’t have to worry.

She has no intention of changing the rules of the match or imposing a penalty on Lina Ye’s side.

“Well… I’ll accept it as long as there are no unreasonable conditions. If there are no conditions, I’m at too much of an advantage.”

“First, I need time. Please give me just 5 minutes to be alone.”

“······You’re not trying to do doping, are you?”

“If in doubt, search your body. I didn’t bring any medicine. I just have a book I want to read one sentence before sparring begins.”

“What is this?”

Yeri took the book I had taken out of her bag, opened it, and quickly lost interest.

Of course.

It’s a book written in elven language, which she can’t even read.

“I guess it’s for religious reasons. Okay. What’s the second condition?”

“These are the conditions when I am defeated.”

“Oh my god… You’re asking me to become a man and make such a condition? Are you serious?”

Yerina’s expression becomes crumpled.

They seem to be mistaken in thinking that I want to take out insurance in case I lose.

“Yes. If I lose, I will receive 10 gold from the guard to the right of the monarch. Do you agree?”

“10 Gold? Did I hear that correctly?”

“That’s right.”

“Well, let’s do that. Guard warrior, you can pay about 10 gold, right?”

“Willingly.”

Yerina asks the guard with a puzzled expression, and he agrees.

As if my defeat was decided.

With this, I achieved all the conditions I wanted.

When I smiled as if I was satisfied, Yeri tilted her head as if I didn’t even know what she was talking about.

“You said you were putting conditions… Why are both of them meaningless?”

“Maybe it’s not meaningless to me. Now, could you give me five minutes to be alone?”

“You can use the room over there.”

It would seem to Yerina that I missed a golden opportunity.

If you wanted, you could have set conditions such as sealing Yerina’s cutting technique or sealing her stabbing technique.

But using such a cowardly tactic would not only not greatly increase my chances of winning, but would also have the worst result of lowering Yerina’s favorability.

‘The goal is to make a save. At least it should leave a lasting impression on Yerina.’

She comes fully prepared for her sparring match, and Yerina unexpectedly shows off her surprising skills.

Since what Yerina values most is force, she must show a good performance here.

The conditions for that are the ones just put forward.

Go behind the cave wall pointed out by Yerina and sit in front of the ice table.

As soon as she opened the old book in elven language, her system window popped up.

[The trait ‘Merida (lv.1)’ Is given.]

[Characteristic: Merida type (lv.1)]

[Learn the traditional one-handed swordsmanship of the Elven tribe, which was improved by adopting the swordsmanship of the human tribe. Your understanding of one-handed swords increases.]

She stopped in Pettenburg on her way from Hamelin.

And then I met Julia and received this swordsmanship book.

This is an item that allows you to acquire one swordsmanship characteristic.

Actually, I wanted to stay in Pettenburg all along, but it was clear that Jill would immediately invade Pettenburg to look for me, so I had to leave quickly.

‘With this, I have gathered two sword skills.’

With this, I learned one sword skill from each of the two main heroines, Jill and Julia.

If Jill’s Dacian style awakens in the latter half of the sword and defeats everyone, it is a king-like trait, while Julia’s Merida style is the most powerful sword technique in the middle half.

It is still level 1, so it is impossible to use it as a main attack, but it can be used as a special move to catch Yerina off guard.

Then what is the strong swordsmanship in the beginning?

I have to learn that from Yerina from now on.

But if you don’t catch Yerina’s eye in this sparring, it’s because of her swordsmanship skills and you won’t even get a chance to meet her in the first place.

‘It’s almost time for it to be activated.’

And one more thing.

[The characteristic ‘Guardian Knight’ is activated.]

[Stats]

[Strength: 13(x5) *Guardian knight effect in effect]

[Stamina: 12(x5) *Guardian knight effect in effect]

[Magic power: 12(x5) *Guardian knight effect in effect]

[Agility: 20(x5) *Guardian knight effect in effect]

[Luck: 14(x5) *Guardian knight effect in effect]

It’s finally activated.

What I learned while staying with Jill was not only how to be pampered by a childish saint.

We also explored the activation conditions for Guardian Knight in more detail.

Then I discovered a trick.

The condition of ‘when protected’ mentioned by the guardian knight is satisfied when the target recognizes that he or she is being protected.

It doesn’t matter what form it takes or how trivial it is.

It doesn’t matter whether I take the lead with the sword and protect the target’s safety, or protect the target’s property from afar.

‘In other words, I am protecting the guard’s money.’

The guard warrior, who is scheduled to lose 10 gold if I lose, is in a position where my money will be solid only if I win.

He wouldn’t want his monarch to be defeated in an ugly way, but somewhere in his heart, he wouldn’t want to lose 10 gold.

It doesn’t matter how small your heart is.

Unless that guard knight is a crazy person who treats money as if it were stones scattered on the ground, the guardian knight will definitely be activated.

“Come on. Let’s go.”

All preparations are complete.

Now, I cover my swordsmanship book, warm up, and come out.

Let’s go sometime.

To protect the poor guard’s precious 10,000 Won from the evil Frost Lord.

***

‘The atmosphere has clearly changed.’

A man walks out from behind the wall, dragging his sword.

Irina’s eyes twisted as she followed that figure with her eyes.

Although she seemed to be making an effort not to show off, she couldn’t fool Yerina’s eyes.

The spirit when entering and when leaving is clearly different.

At first, it seemed like he was carrying a sword that clearly wasn’t suitable for use.

Now, he is giving off the air of a seasoned person who knows how to skillfully handle a light one-handed sword.

‘As expected, they used some kind of trick.’

I sent it after a body search, so it wasn’t drugs.

I suspected for a moment that this was a vampire whose power would become stronger when awakened, but looking at the color of the pupils, it seems that was not the case.

For a blood demon to begin with, his complexion is not that pale.

‘You were hiding your power!’

It is rather good.

I was worried that it would be a somewhat one-sided fight.

No, in fact, I originally applied for a sparring match because I wanted to see how cunning and clumsy this man was in avoiding a fight…

I was a little perplexed as to how it ended up here, but it seemed like it would be a pretty exciting fight, so that was it.

Yeri I took off her fur coat and took in her hand the crude long sword that the guard warrior had given me.

It was a messed up sword with a messed up center of gravity and the blade had been out for a long time, but it was already an excellent weapon once it was in Yerina’s hands.

‘Suddenly I remember a declaration I made a while ago.’

-I, Yerina Frost, will marry a man stronger than me.

Of course, I had no intention of getting married and was saying that I would sacrifice my body for the country.

But why do I suddenly remember that declaration?

There is no way we will lose anyway.

“You can handle minor injuries, right? There’s a competent therapist on standby, so don’t worry.”

“hahahahaha…”

“We will fight with our conscience. We will exclude magic power and use only swordsmanship.”

“Is that all?”

“Yes. That’s all the rules are.”

The rule declared by Yerina is ‘follow your conscience’.

This means that there is nothing other than the basic rules.

You win by projecting unlimited force and making the opponent surrender first.

It is up to the individual to choose whether or not to stop the sword right in front of the neck.

The moment the sword stops in front of the neck, it is also up to the individual whether to continue the fight ugly without surrendering.

‘Huh. I’m looking forward to it.’

When you stop the sword in front of your eyes after looking at it several times.

Will that man cowardly throw away his sword and continue sparring, or will he admit defeat cleanly?

If the sparring continues, how many times will he have to humiliate him before admitting defeat?

It is a rule that is fun to observe.

“Shall we begin?”

“Start whenever you want.”

“······.”

The player who goes first gives the ball first.

But even after hearing those words, Eugene just stands still and maintains his posture.

He told her to start whenever she wanted, so Yerina couldn’t move until Eugene made a move.

At that moment, Yeri let out a sigh, wondering if this was a low-level intention to leave Jin out like this.

‘Huh?’

I notice that Eugene’s feet were already moving.

I was slow to realize it.

He was slowly but surely moving his feet and changing his posture.

The moment when his posture changed very slightly.

Eujin’s leg muscles swelled and he shot out like a bullet.

“Stab?!”

Kagagak.

The sword that rushed at her like a flash of light aimed at Yerina’s chest and stabbed her.

Yerina couldn’t help but be surprised even as she skillfully struck it down.

In essence, a stab is an attack that inevitably exposes many loopholes.

There are not many sword techniques that open with a stab…

“Huh?! Ugh!”

She even thought about that for a moment.

Yeri’s expression crumpled as she frantically tried to block attacks coming from both sides.

It’s fast.

And it’s spicy.

I have never seen such aggressive swordsmanship in my life.

I wonder if ancient swordsmanship was like this when exchange between swordsmanships was not active.

However, that does not mean that defeating this sword technique is easy.

‘It may seem like they’re only attacking at random, but that’s not true?!’

We’re ahead of her in terms of reaction speed, so we’re somehow able to block it, but there’s no room for her to counterattack.

She might be able to counterattack somehow, but that would all be a ploy by her opponent.

If you go in honestly at a time that is clearly visible, you can end up being countered and extended.

If you are this good at attacking, you must be confident at countering as well.

There would be no way for a sword technique that specializes only in attack to exist.

‘It seems like the numbers are coming out a little early, but…!’

There is nothing we can do.

She tried to play with the basics, but now she can’t handle it anymore.

Yelina decided to show off her secret swordsmanship that has been passed down from generation to generation in the Frost family and raised her foot high.

“Pfft!”

Can.

Eujin’s sword fails to follow the intended trajectory and is blocked midway, making a clear sound.

In an unexpected pattern, Eugene stopped attacking and took about ten steps back.

Meanwhile, Yeri Na still holds her legs up high, her cast iron shoes covering her ankles shining.

Ttogak.

As her shoes hit the ground, the ice on her ground cracked and cracked.

“Unification of the sword and the sword. It means reaching a state where the sword becomes me and I become the sword. But is that possible? It is possible only in fantasy novels, but we searched for a way to realize that state, even if imperfectly. In the end, The sword technique developed is the Frost style. It is a sword technique that weaponizes the entire body.”

“······.”

Cast iron shoes on her feet.

On her finger was a ring made of steel instead of gold.

A steel bracelet on my wrist.

They all look like accessories that could be worn on a daily basis, but in reality, they are meant to be used as swords and shields in times of emergency.

If a material thick and hard enough to block the impact of a sword is hung on the extremities of the body rather than the torso, the restrictions on movement become too great.

Any human would think that way.

However, this is not a big problem for the beast people, whose physical abilities are far superior to those of the humans.

If you can hang a few sandbags and use your whole body as a sword and shield, that is a much bigger advantage.

‘This guy’s defense is terrible?’

The corners of Yerina’s eyes narrow as she pours out her attack in a fluid combination of her kicks, her punches, and her blade’s slashes.

Her Eugene just keeps falling backwards, and she doesn’t counter at all.

I thought he was acting like he was not good at defense, so even if I intentionally attacked him with an attack that was easy to counter and had many loopholes, Eugene just ran away.

Only then did Yerina notice.

The fact is that Eugene’s offense is only slightly good, but his defense is absolutely terrible.

“How long is she going to run away!”

“Pfft!”

Boom.

Imitating Eugene’s movements when he first jumped in, he jumped out quickly and attacked Eugene.

Behind is a wall of ice.

There is no way for her to back down any longer.

She was Eugene who barely managed to avoid the onslaught of punches and kicks, but soon found herself in a position where she could not react to the sword blade that was attacking her.

‘It’s over.’

It seems like she learned barbaric swordsmanship somewhere, but that wasn’t enough.

A boring man who couldn’t find anything interesting other than the unexpected.

I was already looking forward to when this man would admit defeat.

Something unexpected happened.

“What?!”

Gagagak.

The blade of the sword sinks into the sole of Eugene’s high-rise shoe.

In an instant, the blade cut into the sole, and right before Eugene’s foot was cut in two, he changed the angle of his foot and struck the sword away.

‘You just copied Frost’s technique?!’

It makes no sense.

This technique is taught by throwing away a sword with leather shoes when you have not yet prepared cast iron shoes.

You learned that on your own by intuitively reasoning just by seeing a few Frost-like techniques?

It was something that couldn’t happen.

Yerina decided to admit this.

Eujin was not the type to learn cheap sword techniques and whine about them.

He is truly talented.

He was a talented person worthy of being formally taught Frost-style swordsmanship.

‘Still, I won!’

But regardless, the winner of this sparring match has just been decided.

Because Eugene took his steps in the wrong direction, his body ended up floating in the air.

It’s a piece of cake to cut through an enemy caught in the air.

I can’t just cut my body in half like this, so I’ll have to hit it hard on the back with the back of my sword.

‘Your persistence is amazing.’

But Eugene’s movements floundering in the air are strange.

It is a movement as if she is swinging her sword and trying to decapitate Yerina.

Of course, it was an impossible angle due to the position of the sword.

It’s amazing how hard he works and doesn’t give up until the end.

Thinking like that, Yerina wanted to end the sparring, but

“Oh?”

Bong.

The sharp blade of the sword comes to a precarious halt in front of Yerina’s eyes.

Just before slicing open her eyeball.

In a dangerous position.

“······?”

I couldn’t understand the English text.

The sword was obviously bent at an angle that could never be bent.

I was frozen, wondering if this was some kind of magic, and soon Eugene’s body fell and rolled on the ground.

“Ayayaya…”

Only after she saw Eugene’s arm lying on the ground, was I able to understand what had happened to her.

Her Eugene’s wrist is swollen and shaking.

Her bones were broken.

Angle that cannot fly refers to an angle that is impossible due to the structure of the human body.

Yujin changed that angle by breaking his bones.

As if using the swordsmanship of a race whose body flexibility is completely different from that of the human race.

“You! What kind of swordsmanship have you learned?!”

“It’s my victory, right?”

“Yes?”

“If I hadn’t stopped just now, you would have died. Are you going to continue sparring here without admitting defeat?”

“······.”

Yerina’s eyes widen as she was about to ask a hasty question.

She was so surprised that she brought up the results of sparring, which she had put aside.

“My, I lost?”

And then, her body stiffened from the shock of being defeated for the first time in her life.

At the same time, her face turns red all the way to the tips of her ears.

“Ah!”

-I, Yerina Frost, will marry a man stronger than me.

She recalled again what she had previously declared to herself.