Moon Ripper

I entered the castle, but the river salt is almost empty, however, I felt a small presence, someone had been there not long ago, although now that I took a look at the room again, a figure can be seen, oh, just a butler.

Walter: - Welcome, the king is waiting.

Would the king have hired this boy as a bodyguard? I can tell by looking at him that he is not yet 18 years old.

Arriving at an ornate door, I a powerful voice that I feel the weight of on my shoulders.

Naofuda: - You can come in.

I went in and was amazed to see that there were almost the only books in the room, even on the shelves and on the table, as if I were in a library.

He looks at me strangely, then stands up and starts measuring me with his eyes, but he's not getting anywhere with this look, I thought to myself.

Naofuda: - I think this will be a misunderstanding. So they sent a child as a bodyguard, is Gertz so disrespectful?

Mizeya: - My king, I can assure you that this will not be a misunderstanding, I was selected for the secret formation and I can assure you that I received the appropriate training.

Naofuda: - Even then, it's hard for me to believe that a child will be able to protect my daughter, the princess.

Mizeya: - How can I prove it? If I can't do it anymore with words.

Naofuda: - Prove it? How old are you again?

Mizeya: - I can fight with one of His Majesty's best knights, he will be able to measure my current strength, and whether I will be able to protect the princess. The answer to the other question is that I have over 14 years of experience...

Naofuda: - Come with me, I'll show you the place where our training takes place.

With that, I got to the place, then I cracked my neck on the way, I felt a little relieved, I don't feel that pressure in front of the door anymore, although if you think about it, this little exercise doesn't hurt, I can't rest until I can master its technique shown by Gertz.

Naofuda: - We have arrived.

As soon as they saw the king, the knights lined up and waited for his order, the spark of the will was visible in their eyes, but rather the flame.

He summoned 2 people, one the highest performing knight and another who also had exceptional talent judging by the reactions of the others, so I have to duel with them.

Naofuda: - Take it, here is your sword.

He threw a practice sword at me.

Their piercing gaze disturbs my concentration a bit, but I should be able to bridge this obstacle easily, I can overcome the situation, and I hope that I will face the first challenge with all my strength.

Mizeya: - Let's start.

This started our fight. It hurts me violently, which I easily deflect, it feels like I'm almost gliding through his strong blows, and then I can easily counter it with a steady cut.

Mizeya: - Hyacinth.

Maybe I'm overconfident, but so far this promises to be easy torture, just one more precise cut and I can send him to the ground.

He responded with an unexpectedly strong blow to Hyacinth, which knocked my balance to nothing. He tries to knock me to the ground with a quick alternating-speed jab.

Mizeya: - Rose.

I just managed to avoid it by a hair, then thanks to my Rose, my arm moved automatically and I responded to the former's sudden blow with a huge cut.

Mizeya: - Rose.

I started concentrating on Rose so that I could dominate as large an area as possible around me, now I dominate a distance of about 2 meters, until then I just have to defend his attacks with calmness, my perfect Rose is not hot-headed or wasted.

The knight tries to get as close as possible to me with a somewhat rough but powerful swing of his sword, but to no avail, although I can't even send him to the floor with this rudimentary rose, he's too far from me...

He jumps into the air and now approaches me with an incredibly fast cut, the direction of which I just managed to calculate, I managed to avoid it with a minor scratch that hit my arm.

I don't need much and I can spread the range of my rose, just a little more.

The knight continued his senseless charge, which ended unsuccessfully each time, and then, seeing a chance, I could finally strike.

Now my total area reaches 10 meters, from this distance I hit with almost every single strike.

Mizeya: - Hyacinth.

He gets cut from one direction, but I don't stop here, I have to attack from all directions, it's thanks to the territory control that the other use of my Rose gives me.

Mizeya: - Hyacinth.

On the left.

Mizeya: - Hyacinth.

Right side.

Mizeya: - Hyacinth.

From the sky.

Mizeya: - Hyacinth.

The knights watched our fight with wide eyes at the king's back, as a boy of barely 14 beats a much older and more trained knight.

The knight fell to the ground, then I nailed the end of my sword to his throat.

Knight: - I give up, you won.

Naofuda: - It looks like the next one is coming, although you won't have such an easy time with him, he is the best here. Norohima!

Norohima: - It's my turn, I see.

The knight looks at me, and then he looks at me. So this boy was sent to be Miss Aika's bodyguard, but he's still almost a child.

I stood in front of the kid with my blunt sword, which I only use for practice.

Norohima: - Are you ready?

Mizeya: - I'm ready.

Norohima: - Let's start then.

We both got into a fighting stance and then fell for each other. As our blades touched, I could feel the knight's confidence, even as he twirled his sword I could tell that Gertz's swordsmanship rivaled his.

This is an unmissable opportunity to cross my limits, I have to give everything to be able to stay on my feet against it.

He starts to charge with very fast sword strikes, which I just manage to avoid, although my sword bends quite a bit towards me, with each strike I feel the sword bend down to my throat.

Norohima: - I see, it's hard for you to defend yourself, but there are still a couple here, here's another one.

He knocks my sword out of my hand with a loose swing of his sword, then prepares with a concentrated cut to decide this duel, but I won't let him. As his sword reached within half a meter of me, I jumped in the direction of my sword, thanks to which he responded with another blow, which unfortunately caused a scratch on my chin.

I pick up the sword from the ground, and now I'm standing in front of him with the sword in my hand, completely defenseless, unable to do anything against him.

Norohima: - There are a few more, here, here, this one too.

The speed of his sword strikes has increased rapidly, I can barely keep up with them anymore, it's as if each of his strikes is claiming my life. I have to get over this.

The mark on my arm started to glow, it's time to use my strongest defensive ability, I thought to myself.

I thrust my sword into the ground with all my might.

Mizeya: - Thorny Rose!

The thorns shot up from the ground into the sky, interrupting the knight's attack, and he almost immediately cut off all the thorns with his sword, but at least I got some time to counterattack.

I get up from the deep chasm of the huge thorns, then kick off the ground and run towards him using a powerful concentrated technique, maybe I will manage to send him to the ground.

Mizeya: - Hyacinth of helplessness.

As my sword reached the full force of the centripetal force and then collided with the centrifugal force, I felt it hit them fully, which caused a wind force to be generated, completely enveloping the knight, I could barely see him.

Norohima: - That wasn't such a bad kid.

This surprised me, I didn't think I would have to use my ability against a child, Norohima thought to himself.

He parried my strongest attack with a sword strike.

Mizeya: - How?

Norohima: - Overcast cut.

A huge wind blade appeared in front of him, which was left behind by his blow and which is heading directly in my direction if it hits me, I will surely die, look like I have no other choice, I have to gather all my strength.

Mizeya: - AHGWHHHHHHHHHHHHHGH.

Represented by a huge shout, I squeezed every bit of my strength out of me, thanks to which a new kind of attack was born.

Mizeya: - Thorny Rose. Hyacinth of helplessness.

By digging huge gaping holes in the ground and using an auto-generated full-force strike right after my Thorn Rose, I managed to create an amazingly sharp cut that splits the smaller hill of sorts behind Norohima's back.

My unexpected combined technique was finally able to injure him, I managed to make a small cut exactly on his arm, even though he was not prepared for this, that I would use 2 techniques at the same time.

What should I call you, my new technique? Let's say your name is on Perfect Flower, I thought to myself proudly.

Norohima: - Don't think that this is the end.

He gets up from the ground, then a soft but familiar sentence leaves his mouth.

Norohima: - Dream weapon summon.

The king comes to us, then Norohima sharpens his sword and says the following.

Naofuda: - This has been just a practice match, you can't use your dream weapon against a child.

When the other knights heard the king, they looked at him a bit strangely, they also didn't understand how I was capable of such an almost attack and how I was able to beat them.

Knights: - My King!

Naofuda: - Sorry for my comment, Mizeya, you passed. Welcome to the kingdom of Tirinia.

Extending his hand to me and greeting me with a huge smile, he will count on me and gladly accept my further services, so he accepted me as the princess's bodyguard, I was relieved.

After a while, I moved into the room assigned to me.

Faina: - Wake up, Mizeya.

I know that the trip was exhausting and the little fight completely exhausted him, but not that much...

Faina: - Get up, you lazy!

I pull the boy's hair a little, then I started poking his back.

Mizeya: - Enough Faina, am I up, Faina?

I can see that she has taken shape again outside of my arms, this silly girl.

Faina: - Did I surprise you?

Mizeya: - Doesn't this consume too much energy?

Faina: - Don't be stupid, I know what I'm doing.

Mizeya: - It's okay, I was just worried.

Faina: - So you're worried about me, come here.

The elf girl's face turned red, then pull me to her shoulder.

Mizeya: - Not like that, Demigra will take my head off if something happens to you.

The pleasant feeling dissipated around the woman, and then she conveys it with a contemptuous look.

Faina: - Ah, only because of my little sister, I understand.

Mizeya: - You misunderstood.

Faina: - Let's leave it at that, what's more, important is that I felt a strange aura, rather murderous intent.

As soon as I heard that there could potentially be someone within the kingdom who could only emanate the desire to kill, I immediately got dressed and walked out into the courtyard.

Mizeya: - Faina, where do you feel?

Faina: - Right in front of us.

She then points to a mountain.

It took me a few minutes to get to the bottom of the mountain, then I look up at the top of the mountain.

Mizeya: - And now where?

Faina: - This is strange, the murderous intent has completely disappeared.

Mizeya: - Dream weapon summon.

I looked around the mountain, but I didn't find anything, then I look up the mountain again, although now there is a figure standing there.

Mizeya: - Who are you?

He pulled out his huge sword, which shone perfectly in the light of the moon, I feel completely cold just looking at its blade and then I catch a glimpse of his silver hair, this feeling is so familiar, it was all that could leave my mouth.

Mizeya: - Beautiful.

With that, the mysterious boy disappeared, almost in the blink of an eye.