Life at village

Amazing. No matter how I attack you, it doesn't feel like I can land a blow at

all!" Uzura stated unhappily, and in a stubborn attempt to make Kyle move, drove

his spear up from a lower angle, putting all his might into one thrust. Kyle took

half a step to the side and evaded it elegantly.

Then, he retaliated with a swinging slice at Uzura. His sword was aimed

precisely at his body, stopping just barely before making direct contact.

Judging that the hit was one he certainly could not have dodged... "...I admit

defeat. Forgive me — I became too frenzied in the heat of the moment." Briefly,

his expression twisted with frustration, but he accepted his loss calmly and

gave a polite bow.

"No, I had fun. I'd love to spar again some time."

"Yes, it would be a pleasure!" Kyle offered him a hand, which Uzura shook

immediately.

They seemed to have come to an understanding. The air of awkwardness

present from before the fight had dissipated, leaving relaxed expressions on

both of their faces. The spectators of their fierce battle watched in

dumbfounded amazement.

After that Kyle also fought with Emma and Emmily and defeated both of them .

After deafeating them he went to Fraderick together with Emma and other three .

"So how was your tour been going on Kyle." She asked Kyle with a smile. "Its going on very nice. this place is very good.," Kyle also answered him with a smile. "Now then let me show tour house where you will during your stay at village. follow me."

Kyle followed after him and reached under a certain Tree house. "Woah , Am I going to live alone in such a big house." When Kyle entered the room he was shocked by its size. it was avery spacious from inside and had fantastic furniture. "

"I am glad you liked the house. If you want to live alone you can. But we are thinking of getting some people to help you live here."

"ooh who are they. Kyle asked curiously."

"haha, It's them" Fraderick laughed and then pointed towards Emma,Emily and Uzura.

"we will be in your carefrom now onwards Mr Kyle. " Emma said with a smile as she grabed Kyle's hand without waiting for his response. This request had been made orginally by her after knowing about Kyle's background.

Several days after the sparring match between Kyle, Uzura, and Emmily...

Early in the morning, while the others were still asleep, Kyle and Emily sparred

again. After she had tasted defeat at Kyle's hands, Emily had asked Kyle to train

her.

"Your movements are getting duller. Do you want to take a break?"

"I-I'm still... fine...! I want to at least land a scratch!"

Unlike Kyle's calm breaths, Emily was panting harshly. Her tone was a little

rougher than usual too. Even then, she held her wooden knife and attacked Kyle.

"All the warriors of the village have wonderful physical abilities, but their

movements are inefficient. The same goes for you, Emily. You make too many

unnecessary movements." Kyle dodged Emily's attack as he gave her advice.

Perhaps it was because of their isolation deep within the forest, living

peacefully amongst their own kind, but the battle style of the village's warriors

were entirely specialized towards facing creatures of the natural world.

Since

they would never fight amongst themselves, the most practice they got from

fighting others like them was through practice matches.

Furthermore, since their individual physical abilities were so advanced, it

didn't require them to hone their combat techniques against other people.

That's why when it came to fighting others, their style was dauntless and

daring, to put it nicely... or reckless and foolhardy, to put it bluntly.

Rather than

luring the opponent into lowering their guard, changing their attacking pace to

shake up the opponent, or relying on technical movements, they preferred to

fight with plain strength and speed.

That preference applied to Emily too.

"I-I know that!" Emily said, lunging to stab at Kyle with a large swing.

Kyle grabbed her hand easily, toppling her off-balance and throwing her to the

side. Emily flipped in the air and landed on the ground.

"For someone so calm, you're unexpectedly competitive," Kyle said with a

small smile.

"Grrr! But... but... the battle isn't over yet... It's not over yet!" Emily was bright

red with frustration and a little bit of embarrassment. In order to brush that off,

she charged towards Kyle again.

Sometime later

" Haah, I can't take this anymore." Emily was lying on the ground as she shouted with frustration.

Good morning, you two. Do you mind if I join you, Kyle?"

"Morning! I wanna do it too!"

A sleepy Uzura appeared. He wanted to learn from

Kyle's training as well, but he was not a morning person, and often showed up

late like this. However, it was still early in the morning, so they had plenty of

time to practice before breakfast.

"I'll check the forms I taught you yesterday, so let's slowly go through the

movements."

They all poured their sweat into training until Emma finished preparing

breakfast and came to call on them.

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After their morning practice, Kyle and the others sat on deck chairs and ate the

sandwiches Emma had prepared for breakfast.

"Ugh... I couldn't land a single hit on Kyle again... Ah, this is delicious," Emily muttered with her head hung low, munching on her sandwich dejectedly. Her

wolf ears were drooping a little more than usual.

"Emily was defeated rather splendidly," Uzura pointed out, making Emily's wolf

ears flick in response.

"Uzura , you're not one to talk! You were in a similar position to me."

"I'm not as reckless as Emily."

Ugh..."

Emily was in no place to object, having had Kyle make similar observations

numerous times.

"I like Emily's direct way of approach. We'll work on fixing her habit of getting

too engrossed and making the same repetitive motions again and again." Kyle smiled faintly from where he sat before Emily, offering her words of

encouragement. Emily blinked blankly for a beat.

"Y-Yes... Please." She looked down, her cheeks reddening with

embarrassment.

Taking the sandwich with two hands, she munched furiously

with her small mouth.

"Emily, your face is red," Uzura said, looking at Emily's face apathetically from

where she sat beside him. Emily startled.

"W-Wha — That's not true!"

"You know that's not what he meant by 'like'!" Uzura whispered in her ear,

low enough that Kyle wouldn't hear it from where he sat across the table.

"I-Isn't that obvious?! W-What are you trying to imply?!" Emily's cheeks

reddened even more.

"Fufu, what are you talking about, Emily?" Emma asked with an amused smile;

she was sitting on the other side of the table just beside Kyle .

"Emma, you're an elf! You could hear that clearly, couldn't you?!"

"Fufu, who knows? Right, Kyle? Emma said, looking at them for his response.

Kyle had been unable to hear their conversation midway, so he tilted his head

in confusion.