Chapter 9: Middle Round Battle
……The special viewing box of the arena where the inter-school competition was being held.
It was positioned opposite the main spectator seats where the students sat, and was a viewing room constructed with glass walls facing the central field. In this special viewing box, about ten luxurious single-seat sofas were arranged in a row, where the principals of both academies and invited guests were seated.
In such a special viewing box, Irene called out excitedly to Princess Luna, who was seated on the sofa right beside her.
“T-The battles have been amazing, ojou-sama……!”
“……! Yes, indeed they have.”
Luna put down the binoculars she had been peering through and replied to Irene, who was standing beside her.
She wore a smile that accentuated her beauty, and seemed to be fully in princess mode.
“Um, excuse me……. During the matches aside, but even when they’re not happening, you keep looking through those binoculars……. What are you looking at?”
“……!……These are for looking at the people in the spectator seats.”
Luna answered not in her usual tone, but in her princess mode way of speaking.
“The spectator seats, you say……?”
“When I see the people getting excited, I get heated up too, and I just……. you know.”
“Ah, I see.”
The maid Irene nodded as if understanding upon hearing this.
“(I thought she would just sit there with a princess-like expression on her face, but she seems to be enjoying herself unexpectedly……)”
“(Sigh……. I can’t find him anywhere……. Perhaps he’s not a student at the academy currently here……)”
“Now, the contestants for the next match are……”
As Irene lowered her gaze to the roster of contestants in her hands…….
“……! Irene, could you show me that as well?”
“Ah, yes, ojou-sama. Here you are.”
Luna took the representative contestant roster that Irene had been looking at.
“……. ……Well, he’s not here, is he……”
After confirming the names listed on the roster, Luna muttered softly.
“……? Ojou-sama, is something wrong?”
“……! No, it’s nothing, Irene. ……By the way”
“Yes? What is it?”
“What do these ‘provisional registration’ and ‘substitute registration’ markings mean?”
“Ah, this. It seems that a student who was originally scheduled to compete for the Knight Academy is currently absent, and if that student returns, there will be a substitution among the representative contestants.”
“Absent?”
“Yes. He’s currently participating in a mission with the Royal Knight Order, but that student is apparently incredibly strong. That’s the student whose name is written as substitute registration on the roster. If that student can return during this inter-school competition, he will compete in place of the provisionally registered contestant.”
“……I see. Thank you, Irene.”
“Not at all.”
Saying this, Irene received the roster back from Luna.
“(……Even so, I would really like to see it……. The match of the student on substitute registration, the one called the strongest at the current Knight Academy, ‘Reacher-Diablo’……)”
……Irene gazed at that name written on the roster in her hands.
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【Middle Round Battle】
【Knight Academy Fourth Year Class A Seesaket-Rodriguez】
【Magic Academy Second Year Class A Eliza-Lowred】
Eliza-Lowred, standing on the flat field of the arena, was wearing a black-based skirt-type reinforced fiber combat outfit and competition gloves, similar to Yufia-Queensroad.
And facing Eliza at a distance of thirty meters was the Knight Academy representative Seesaket-Rodriguez, who wore minimal lightweight armor on his gauntlets, shoulders, left chest, and shins. In his left hand he held a circular shield with a diameter of forty centimeters, and in his right hand he wielded a one-handed axe with a fifty-five centimeter handle and a twenty-five centimeter blade.
–As both faced each other, the academy competition was about to begin the Middle Round battle.
Following the overwhelming displays of power in the vanguard and second battles, consecutive victories continued, and spirited cheers flew from the Magic Academy students.
One more victory until winning the competition.
……For this crucial competition they couldn’t afford to lose, Magic Academy had deployed two S-rank students as vanguard and second to secure two definite victories and gain momentum.
And considering that the opponent’s strongest students would likely appear in the general and vice-general battles, this next Middle Round battle was the match with the greatest chance of achieving a third victory.
The one selected for this Middle Round battle was Eliza-Lowred, ranked fifth in the hierarchy.
Excluding the two S-rank students, Eliza-Lowred undoubtedly possessed academy top-class abilities.
She could handle offensive and defensive magic of all attributes at an extremely high level. And above all, there was the existence of her ultimate magic technique: “Vindehih-Shutorumu-Lanze” (Annihilating Piercing Scorching Barrage).
That magic, which unleashed countless flaming arrows, was truly spectacular. Its firing rate, speed, and destructive power were enough to make even the teaching staff gasp in amazement.
What was most excellent was that magic’s superiority against close combat.
Excluding the two S-rank students, no other student could demonstrate the advantage of long-range attacks better than Eliza.
That was precisely why Eliza-Lowred was selected for this Middle Round battle, which had the greatest chance of securing a third victory.
Against such a Magic Academy, the Knight Academy had suffered two consecutive defeats.
Already cornered with match point against them, they were completely overwhelmed by the overwhelming power of the Magic Academy, which was being called the “strongest in history.”
However, the supporting side couldn’t simply give up on their representative’s victory, so the Knight Academy students rallied their nearly dejected spirits and sent their full-hearted cheers to their representative.
Seesaket-Rodriguez, who served as the Knight Academy’s Middle Round representative, was a student outside the ranking at Alvarez Knight Academy and had never participated in an academy competition before.
There was almost no detailed information about his combat style, and the Magic Academy side harbored no small amount of wariness.
They could certainly predict he was a hidden card specialized in anti-mage combat, but speaking of hidden cards, Eliza-Lowred was also a Magic Academy hidden card whose capabilities weren’t yet known to the opposing side.
Eliza’s “Windeich Sturm-Lanze” would give even first-class knights of the Royal Knight Order trouble if they saw it for the first time–believing in such predictions and Eliza’s abilities, the Magic Academy teaching staff watched over the match…….
Seesaket-Rodriguez possessed a certain unique constitution.
It was the ability for his lungs to expand to about six times the size of a normal person’s, with his ribs flexibly expanding accordingly.
And while body enhancement magic varied in which parts could be strengthened and to what degree depending on the person, Seesaket could use body enhancement magic to intensively strengthen his diaphragm, intercostal muscles, rectus abdominis, and other complex respiratory muscles, as well as his vocal cords.
What this unique constitution and skill produced was–.
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