Satou's here. There are things you can't fight against even though you know. During overtimes late at night, I had eaten snacks with high calories even though I knew they were no good.
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"You'll lose instantly if you think I'm still what I used to be and let your guard down you know?"
"That is scary. Please don't be too hard on me."
"Fuhn, desuwa. I wonder how long can you keep looking calm?"
Raka is quiet today.
Looks like it's busy invoking physical reinforcement, spirit enhancement, and acceleration force artes in secret.
I set up my stance after making sure that Raka has finished casting the reinforcement magic.
--There's no start signal in a match between explorers.
Lady Karina who's approaching like she's crawling on the ground falls down in front of me--no, it only looks like she's fallen down.
She's begun spinning to do an ax kick before my eyes.
In most stories, this should be the time where I cross my arms to block the kick, but there's no point doing such consideration.
I shift half of my body, avoiding her heel.
--The heel that should've been evaded suddenly changes its direction diagonally mid-air.
Raka probably made a scaffold in the air which allowed her to alter the kicking direction.
Even disregarding that, I think Lady Karina who could do such thing in that instant is amazing herself.
Tama is good at this kind of maneuver, so Lady Karina might've been taught by her.
I hit Lady Karina's foot in short range with palm strike.
While my palm is destroying many small shields that Raka's created, I parry another of Lady Karina's strike.
The peanut gallery cheer.
"Oh! He evaded that blow!"
"Rather, is that beauty-san's armor a magic items"
"Isn't that the same equipment as the ones 『Pendragon』's people have?"
"As expected of equipments belonging to the ones they call 『Woundless』!"
I can't spare any time to listen to their commentaries.
While using the foot that's touching the ground as the axis, Lady Karina unleashes a roundhouse kick with her other leg.
I evade that with a back step while being careful not to get out of the arena.
It seems she's judged that using only big moves won't hit me, she's changed her tactic to using combinations of small moves.
Lady Karina is attacking with shrewdness that's clearly different than the time when she was in Muno city, such as the flurry of jabs to distract me on the upper part while trying to trip my leg.
Looks like the result of the accumulated training she's done with the beastkin girls ever since she arrived in the labyrinth city is surfacing.
The ebb and flow of Lady Karina's and my's offenses and defenses continue.
Unfolding left and right as if we're dancing.
I handle Lady Karina mid-air triple kicks with my hand and counterattack her with a roundhouse kick.
Of course I've held back on the kick quite a bit but no one will doubt it since the speed is not inferior to Lady Karina's.
Lady Karina uses the force field created with Raka's power as a scaffold and changes her orbit mid-air, avoiding my kick.
Her movement is already expert enough.
"Oy, how the heck did she evade that kick!"
"Shut it, concentrate on the goddess's fight!"
"Ah, too bad! Karina-sama! Fight!"
"Aah, mou. Stop fighting dangerously and finish it already!"
"Mwu."
Lady Karina finally reveals her trump card while the spectators are giving their arbitrary explanation and encouragement in the background.
"Oy! That!"
"Is that Magic Edge?"
"But, it's blue?"
In accordance to my crisis perception, I jump back to evade Lady Karina who's slashing down a blade made of blue light from the air.
It's a 30 cm long blade of light embodied from the light released by Raka's main body.
It was an unexpected attack, it probably would have scared me if the light was a bit longer.
However, it won't hit me with this distance.
"Got youuu!"
Ah, Lady Karina, you shouldn't speak out that line.
The two layered trump card that was planned to take me by surprise was ruined by Lady Karina who shouted that out loud, believing she had won.
I twist my upper body to evade the light blade shot from Raka's main body.
The attack flies diagonally downward, so there's no one beyond the line of fire.
I was on guard when the light blade was passing through beside me, worrying whether it would explode, but it proved to be a needless worry.
The light blade pierces the ground, and disperses just like that.
"Not yett!"
Nevertheless Lady Karina hasn't given up, and continues to attack fiercely, but fatigue and impatience are floating on her face.
It seems she had put the stake on the attack just now, the blue light that's emitting from Raka's main body has clearly weakened too. Lady Karina is also running out of magic power.
Good grief, fighting Lady Karina whose breasts aren't swaying isn't fun, so let's put this to an end about now.
The peanut gallery are probably satisfied now anyway, and Lady Karina who has shown her trump card should have no regret too.
I have to think of a way to make it look