*Sigh*… dude, I gave you a chance to stop and walk away with you life, and you won't even stop to consider taking it? I'm not just threatening you with empty words, you know?
「I might not look like It, but it's best not to anger if you know what's good for you.」
「That's my line!」
「I didn't sleep much last night, but that shouldn't be a problem. I'm in my usual condition today, and I'm pretty sure that I could take you on even after a completely sleepless night and still erge victorious.」
「Let's hurry up and start so I could test that for myself then!」
Ugh, it's no use. No matter what I try to say, this idiot is just not letting go.
「Then, if there are no objections, shall we begin the second duel?」
「Ooo!!!」
Sabo yells, and I nod affirmatively at Gozer. However, I don't pull out Durandal.
I'm not sure if I can win by fighting this guy head on, so instead I should plan an alternative way of winning and utilize it as quickly as I can to secure a fast victory.
I can use 「Overwhelming」and Recovery dicine to heal myself if anything were to happen to . There is also a possibility that Sabo might try to use The Orb of Self-destruction or so other items, but in that case, I'll just use 「Equivalent Exchange」on him if her tries anything suspicious.
I can win this.
「Both of you, co forward.」
Instructing us to face each other, Gozer begins the duel. As soon as he gave the signal, Sabo charged in at .
Is it like I expected, that trying to discuss anything with him is pointless at this point? In that case, I use 「Lv.99 Death」, and indicate Sabo as the target.
There is no visible change at first. Sabo is still approaching . However, 「Identify」no longer lists Sacrificial Misanga as one of his pieces of equipnt. 「Lv.99 Death」 seems to have been successfully used then.
I charge forward and use [Lv.99 Death] again while Sabo swings his sword down on , so I also use「Overwhelming」. Everything becos slowed down as I use it to avoid the incoming sword.
I grab Sabo's arm, which has already lost its power. I pull his arm while being careful not to touch the sword. I also move my leg, moving his center of gravity without much effort, and then end 「Overwhelming's」effect.
After ti begins to move normally once again, Sabo is on the ground, defeated.
「Ah…!」
「Huh? But it only just began! So how…?」
Roxanne and Sherry call out to as I ca back straight away. Even Roxanne doesn't seem to be able to work out what happened.
「It's over.」
「It was amazing. I saw you move your feet and grab his arm, but I don't understand what you did afterwards.」
She saw everything. I didn't really do anything special, but still, Roxanne seems to have seen everything. Her eyes are as sharp as always.
「Defeating him with such swiftness, without even drawing your sword…」
「Wow, desu.」
Sherry and Miria give praise.
「He is most certainly dead.」
Gozer confird Sabo's status. He probably doesn't understand what happened either.
「Lv.99 Death」 seems to be a Spell that is designed to instantly kill anything and anyone as long as they are Lv.99. Well, at the very least they die normally instead of so gory way like the bloody explosion that is the result of using 「Equivalent Exchange」, so if I ever were to use it again, I won't have to worry about not being able to retrieve the Intelligence Card of the target.
「I heard that Sabo is extraordinarily strong, but now nobody from the Baradam household will be able to act up. To defeat him so easily… As expected of Master!」
「Well, I wonder about that. I still think Roxanne might be stronger.」
I wasn't able to understand how strong Sabo was after all, but it could be said that I didn't really need to understand it. All I had to do was to win the duel against him. Nothing more, nothing less.
「But… but Sabo was…」
「That woman who fought against the young lady was certainly strong, but for soone to actually exceed Sabo…」
Sabo's Party mbers are surprised as well. All four of them that remained.
「I, Gozer of the Knight Order of Hartz Duchy hereby testify that this was a fair duel and that there may be no retaliation for this outco.」
Gozer instructs Sabo's Party mbers. Should I also say sothing? I feel like I should, since the follow up to this whole thing might be sowhat important. That, and I don't want to worry about them coming for revenge either.
「The circumstances were unavoidable because it was a duel. Please don't hold a grudge against .」
「Ah, yes, I understand. I don't intend to cause a dispute with soone who defeated Sabo. But, about the equipnt….」
「The equipnt? What about it?」
I thought there might be problems, but there won't be any grudges? If so, then leaving them the equipnt is better than keeping it to myself and causing them to want revenge.
「The equipnt of soone defeated in a duel belongs to the winner. However, they don't often take it. So people challenge others to duels to get equipnt in a fast and easy way, especially if there are strong emotions from having equipnt taken from you.」
Sherry tells about the inner workings of taking the equipnt of soone defeated in a duel. So, the equipnt of the one who lost the duel officially belongs to the winner, and that is why there are certain groups of people who challenge others to duels just so that they could get their hand on their equipnt. That's why, in order to show that I am not like that, I should leave Sabo's equipnt alone.
Honestly though, it all seems a little confusing to .
「Roxanne, what do you think we should do here?」
「I don't really have a grudge against them.」
「Yes, and we don't really need that equipnt either.」
I inford the other Party's mbers about our decision after hearing Roxanne's answer. Sabo had equipnt with Skills on him, but I think that this is probably for the best, because if I took his equipnt, then the probability of them going after would be that much greater.
「Thank you… we'll take the equipnt and Intelligence Cards ho, and leave disposal of the remains to you.」
「I understand.」
「Thank you very much.」
Sabo's Party mbers thanked , and then spoke to Gozer. So they don't want to take the remains of their fallen comrades back ho with them? Are they that unnecessary? Thinking about it, not even bones are left of the body when you die in the Labyrinth either, so maybe it has beco a common thing to just leave the bodies where they are so that they could just fade away on their own?
But then again, they did decide to take their Intelligence Cards with them, but I guess that's pretty self-explanatory, since that is definitely a better proof of sobody's death than, say, a lock of their hair or so other bullshit like that.
I thought about getting myself appointed as a Village Chief Lv.1 by sobody who I would make a Knight in my Party so I could check the Intelligence Cards from people's hands myself, but it look like there is going to be no need for to do that. Maybe when they check the Intelligence Cards, they can actually see what happened in their minds? They might even be able to see the entire fight, but honestly, I don't think that such a thing is going to be possible.
「Ok, this way.」
Gozer leads us.
The leftover work and cleaning of the ss that we made is being left for the mbers of the Knight Order while we head into the castle.
「Master, I'm sorry.」
Roxanne apologizes to as soon as we arrive in the lobby.
「It's alright, Roxanne. Actually, I think so of what happened might be my fault, since I was the one insisting on you going for a draw in your duel.」
「But…」
「It's fine, Roxanne, really. I'm not blaming you for anything that happened today.」
「Oh… okay.」
Who knows, maybe Roxanne is just as shocked about everything that's happened today as I am?
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