“[Kouka]… I’ve never heard of that.”
“Huh? Is Lin being taunted?”
“Sorry, I’m a bit out of touch with the world for reasons…”
“It’s fine, it’s fine! But I think that’s pretty rare, you know?”
“I bet.”
While carrying on a very friendly conversation, the woman raised a pale leg from her crimson cheongsam, bending her knee and moving her body as if she were dancing.
Instead of a warm-up, it was a martial form so perfected it could be mistaken for a dance.
Her movements, specializing in hand-to-hand combat, would be difficult for an ordinary person to even follow with their eyes.
“It’s rare to be liked by Kaguya-chan… but not knowing the somewhat famous Lin… could it be that Hizaki-kun has some connection to the Great King of the Raid?”
“Not now, anyway. I wouldn’t want anything to do with monsters like that.”
“Heh…”
At his words, which hinted at a past connection he wasn’t trying to hide, Linfa neville lowered her voice.
His way of casually overpowering an opponent using Attribute Enchantment and his bottomless aura reminded her of the monsters from the Great King of the Raid’s circle.
However, questioning him was pointless.
For Linfa neville, who viewed combat as the supreme pursuit, the opponent’s true power was secondary.
Whether they were strong or weak, if it was her first time meeting them, she would be driven by the urge to fight and face them with everything she had.
“You’re an opponent I can fight with my full power… right?”
“I’d be happy if you went easy on me.”
“Liar.”
“Then why’d you ask?”
“…Phew—make sure to entertain me!”
The Explorer known as [Kouka] laughed innocently, and then—
“We shall now begin the exhibition match between Hizaki and [Kouka] Linfa neville. Now, begin!!”
“Grant me the favor of the Flame Spirit—Flame Enchant! Here I gooooo!!”
Kicking off the ground, she shrouded herself in mana similar to what one would use against a demon.
The attribute she wore was a fierce blaze.
It was a spearhead specialized for offense.
Her Attribute Enchantment level was 7.
Her skill, refined to the point where her body practically became magic itself, was something an average Fighters couldn’t even survive a single hit from.
It was a charge from Linfa neville that would mean certain death if unleashed on an opponent with a gap in skill.
Linfa neville, clad in scorching heat, kicked out her leg in a straight line toward Hizaki.
Her speed was beyond what the spectators could follow; only the charred black trail behind her gave away her path.
“—Whoa, close!”
But her opponent, clearly recognizing the thrust leg, dodged by leaning his upper body back. While claiming it was “dangerous,” he deflected the leg in front of his face with a kick of his own.
“You really are strong!”
“Thanks—hup!”
Hizaki, closing in to prevent Linfa neville from retreating and taking distance, dove into her guard while slipping through her feints.
When Hizaki went on the offensive with a high-speed flurry of strikes—
“Not bad!”
Linfa neville parried them nimbly while making light talk.
Furthermore, because of the Attribute Enchantment, Linfa neville had the advantage in parrying power.
The clash of physical abilities was far from equal. They were fighting on entirely different levels.
That stalemate didn’t last long.
“Flame Dance: Suzaku!”
A kick, a double-palm strike, a burst of internal force, a flying knee. Her speed in performing this sequence almost instantly was superior to Aleu’s.
Withstanding the onslaught of [Kouka], who stood as a superior version of various martial artists, was an nearly impossible feat.
As if justifying the betting odds, Hizaki was forced into a purely defensive situation.
While ignoring his arms and body that were becoming battered just from blocking, Hizaki avoided direct hits at the very last second.
Ignoring his sudden counterattacks, Linfa neville’s strikes grew more intense.
“Come on, come on, come on! You’ll remember Lin’s name after this!!”
“I’ve already remembered it more than I’d like…!”
Taking a full-powered blow from Linfa neville’s mid-air spin kick with both hands, Hizaki was blown backward with great force.
Forcing his posture back into alignment in the air, Hizaki landed with a wobbling body.
[Kouka] was not about to miss such a massive and obvious opening.
“Ah well, it’s over, okay?”
In front of Hizaki’s eyes as he looked up was Linfa neville, gathering her strength.
The destructive power of her right leg, drawn back like a bowstring, was easy to imagine.
The beautiful princess looking down at the match from the night sky gripped her hands with unusual strength.
At least, make my heart tremble. Just for a moment.
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“…………After all this, was I overestimating him?”
A faint shade of disappointment appeared on Kaguya’s face as she muttered, hoping for a counterattack, even just once.
It was too much according to plan. A curtain call that was far too abrupt.
Faced with the boring development of a Level 8 Explorer’s overwhelming victory, heckles and sighs echoed through the arena.
As she unleashed her final kick, Linfa neville spoke with a drop in her tone, expressing her dissatisfaction.
“Hizaki… this is boring. It was only interesting at the start… this way—”
“Yeah—as I thought, it’s boring for me too.”
“—Eh?”
—Crack.
Linfa neville’s pivot foot made a distorted sound.
It was too light to be the sound of a bone; it was the sound of stepping through something thin.
“—Ice Enchant.“
The cold air released from Hizaki as the center frozen the surroundings in an instant.
“!? “
Linfa neville instinctively chose to retreat.
But—
“To be honest, I was thinking about losing gracefully… I thought that would make things move faster… but…”
Hizaki’s fist, appearing in front of Linfa neville in an instant, caught her.
Simultaneously, certain voices struck Hizaki’s eardrums.
“King! Good luck!”
“You cannot serve as the Dragon’s Mate like that! Show them once more why you are our King!”
As expected, Hizaki laughed and swung his arm with speed incomparable to before.
“—Losing in front of my subordinates is way more embarrassing than everyone finding out who I am. Sorry!!”
BOOM!! Linfa neville, slammed into the ground, immediately tried to counter.
However, her body wouldn’t move as she wanted.
“No… I mean, after giving Careless-kun that lecture, what am I doing holding back? Being two-faced is just too lame…”
Hizaki slapped both his cheeks to scold himself.
Realizing that this was his true strength, Linfa neville widened her eyes, which could be mistaken for rubies. Naturally, out of pure joy.
“Ice Attribute Enchantment isn’t a self-buff—it’s a target-debuff. Drop down to my level, [Kouka].”
Exhaling cold air, he beckoned her with an arrogant smirk.
“Is that even allowed!?”
“It is. I’m the living proof.
[Ice Sword Glagius].”
Forming in his hand was a sword of ice. Faced with the use of magic that was impossible to pick up overnight, Linfa neville’s eyes nearly popped out.
“Hizaki… are you a Mage…?”
“Correct. That’s my specialty.”
“—!?”
A Mage was trading blows with a Level 8 Explorer martial artist.
Even though he had been purely on the defensive, he hadn’t taken any critical damage.
That fact sent the Fighting Arena into a frenzy.
And further, Hizaki’s magic didn’t stop.
Countless ice spears filled the stage and rained down on Linfa neville.
“Ahaha! Sorry, sorry! This is fun!!”
Linfa neville, slipping through the ice spears tracking her, was gradually approaching Hizaki.
Front, back, left, right—Linfa neville, dodging the magic by a hair’s breadth, enchanted the audience like a dancer.
Despite Linfa neville leaping back and sometimes crushing the spears to get closer, Hizaki’s expression didn’t change.
After getting past ten… twenty… and more spears, Linfa neville finally got Hizaki within her reach.
“Now, Hizaki! How will you—”
“There. You stepped on it.”
“————”
Hizaki pointed his ice sword at her feet.
A landmine-type spell.
“Ice-Cast Monster: Jack Frost.“
What was created was a massive ice wall.
Hizaki’s magic, which instantly froze Linfa neville’s limbs and the stage, was high-tier magic impossible for an ordinary Mage.
Linfa neville, frozen except for her face and torso, cried out and strengthened her mana.
“You littleeeee!!”
Strengthening her flames, Linfa neville tried to escape.
However, the unmelting ice did not loosen its binding.
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