Spear Saintess

Previously, I'd heard of it.

That in this world, there were rare skills, which were stronger than

the normal ones and had special powers.

They were, "Sword Saint", "God Spear", "Heaven Bow",

"Nether Axe", "Void Staff", "Emperor Fist", and "Treasure

Shield".

Those who possessed these seven skills were said to be balancers

chosen by the Goddess, and were bearing the destiny to protect the

world.

Of course, my childhood friend—— Saintess Elma was one of them.

She had the "Sword Saint" skill and was the wielder of 'Holy

Sword' that was forged by the ancient sage. [TL: In chapter 3 it is

blacksmith, tho]

Naturally, the sage created all seven arms in accordance to the rare

skills, and only those with corresponding skills could handle them.

If a man got it, he'd be called a 'saint', and if a woman got it, she'd

called a 'saintess', and people praised them as symbols of hope.

Therefore, it wasn't strange even if there were more than one person

who bear the name of 'saint/saintess' in the same era, but it also

meant that that just how powerful the force of evil was spreading in

the world.

I broke up with one of those saintesses, but I never thought I'd meet

another one in such a place…

Could it be, I had some sort of connection with those called

'saintesses'…?

"T-that was amazing…"

Anyways, as said by Fio-chan who was blinking in surprise, it was an

amazing match.

Since this was the Martial God Festival, she shouldn't have been

using her Holy Spear, but still, the power of the Saintess—— Arcadia

was overwhelming.

The man who was her opponent was not, in any way, weak.

The morning star he was using must had been a supreme product

that was prepared just for this day.

Yet, Arcadia had crushed it head-on.

She had blown the man to the wall with one thrust.

The fate of the morning star should rather be left unsaid, but perhaps

because the power of the thrust was very tremendous, even the

armor worn by the man was shattered to pieces.

That was a saintess who had the "God Spear" skill for you.

She possessed an overwhelming power.

"..." After the match, Arcadia calmly began to return.

She still had an icy air about her.

Probably, she was about the same age as me.

"!"

At that time, I felt like she looked my way for a moment, making me

be slightly on guard.

Was it just my feeling?

I didn't want to have anything to do with a saintess, if possible, but I

might be going to face her in the final…

I mean, the next match was the semi-final…

◇ ◇

As I had predicted, Arcadia made it to the final with overwhelming

power.

Naturally, I also defeated my opponent in the semi-final without

breaking a sweat, and the only thing left was the final tomorrow.

And perhaps I should say as expected, the one who made the

weapon used by Arcadia was Gunfleet Firm, the employer of the

bad-looking men who had appeared at Leia-san's shop the other

day.

I heard from Leia-san that the firm had various bad rumours about

them, but why did Saintess Arcadia became their representative?

I hadn't the slightest idea of the reason, but they were a bunch who

did not choose the means to achieve their purpose

They probably wouldn't leave us who had made it to the final as we

were.

I mean.

――Pusu.

"..."

――Pusu.

"..."

――Pusu.

Things had been stabbing my neck with pusupusu since a while

ago…

They must be poison needles, but it didn't work on me because I

was immortal…

No, to be precise, they worked a for little bit, but then they

immediately got detoxified, so it was basically meaningless…

I wished they would have at least waited until we had dinner.

"Ehehe, please do your best in the final tomorrow."

"Un, thanks. I'll definitely win for Fio-chan and your mom, so cheer

on me, okay?"

"Yes, of course!" Fio-chan smiled brightly.

While patting her head, I glanced at the darkness of the buildings

facing the street.

But still, they sure sent quite some people…

Were we really that much of a hindrance to them?

But with this many of them crawling around, it seemed that even

Leia-had noticed them as well.

She brought Fio-chan closer to her and whispered, "What're we

going to do? Those guys are probably after us."

"Rather, I'm sure they are. That said, their aim is to defeat me… no,

Leia-san's weapon at the Martial God Festival, so I don't think

they're going to kill us." They had been firing poisons though.

"Even so…"

"Yes, it's very likely that you two will be held hostage. So, I'll go

knock them out."

"…Are you going to be fine?"

"Exa-san…"

I nodded with a smile to the two who looked at me worriedly. "No

worries. I'll be back soon, so please wait here. I'm off to get rid of

them, starting from the close ones first!" After saying that, I kicked off

the ground and closed in upon the man hiding in shadow nearby.

"——Gah!?"

At the same time as I knocked the man unconscious with a single

blow, I kicked off the wall and went to do the same to the men who

were in other places.

Then, in the middle of robbing the consciousness of the guys aiming

for Fio-chan and Leia-san, I suddenly felt a sense of discomfort and

stopped.

Because, even those who I had no memory of defeating were lying

on the ground before I knew it.

Could it be, thinking so, I hurried to the last remaining presence I

could felt.

"——Guge!?"

Then, on the roof of a building, I caught a sight of a man being

knocked out unconscious.

"You are——"

Up there was a woman with a flowing silver hair swaying in the wind.

"——quite faster than I expected."

Yes, it was the spear saintess—— Arcadia.