Chapter 29: Why did you come to my house? (Complete)

There was such a game on Earth called ‘Souls’.

The player has no skills and can only dodge and swing his sword.

The enemy boss monsters have all sorts of flashy skills and have various attack patterns, and unlike the player who dies after one hit, they have a lot of HP, making it an unreasonable game.

Of course, when you first play, the player keeps dying.

-Huh. gasp… Kieek-!!

-Euaaa!!

However, as the cycle of dying and coming back to life repeats and the number of turns increases, the time it takes for the player to die gradually increases.

Crunch-!

Kieek..!!?

Even though it is very weak compared to the boss’s attacks, it definitely starts to inflict damage to the opponent little by little.

-Die, you brat. Phew..!!!

Creak..whoosh..

Eventually, the player who experienced multiple turns defeats the boss.

Although he did not have powerful skills or outstanding physical abilities, the player had ‘experience!’

Real combat is not much different.

Whether he runs away or rolls on the ground, if he survives in any way, he gains experience.

-I’m…going to die…

The supporter of the warrior party, HanYooseong, did not die.

He survived by using everything he could, such as device weapons with mechanical devices inserted into them, scrolls that allow instantaneous magic usage, and various poisons and hidden weapons.

It was impossible for a normal body, not even a knight or wizard who uses magic and aura, to survive against the monsters under the Demon King.

It was possible because he was lucky and his mental strength did not collapse even in extreme situations.

-Sparring. Supporter.

-I won’t lose this time.

In the last sparring with Sylvia, Yooseong was confident.

If Sylvia Sylvester had used aura and charged at him, it would have been his unconditional defeat.

However, in the sparring, Sylvia used a real sword but did not use aura.

It was not a separate rule.

At the time, Sylvia looked down on Yooseong as a weakling and thought it was shameful as a swordsman to use aura on a supporter who had the profession of a sorcerer.

Chae-Ang-!!

Chaeng-!!

-Don’t you even have pride as a warrior!?

-What do you want me to do..! This is how I survived!

He rolls on the ground, sprinkles dirt, and makes moves to deceive his opponent.

Sylvia swung her sword with all her might, even though she despised that meteor’s fighting style.

At that time, her purple eyes were clearly filled with confusion.

When they first fought, he was a bug-like guy who would fall with just a few swings of his sword without even using any strength.

Chaeng–!

Chaeng-!

Even now, he was clearly threatening her, even if he was using dirty tricks.

The swordsmanship that the Sylvester family was proud of was crumbling one by one under that guy’s insignificant attacks.

Are you saying that you won those battles anyway?

Stagger_!

-Huh?!

As she was stepping back, she stepped on something stuck in the ground and Sylvia’s posture collapsed.

-Uh- ah-!!

At that moment, Sylvia sensed her defeat for the first time as she saw the blade of the sword slashing diagonally across his neck and chest while screaming.

Woof..!

Was that why?

She ended up using her

-Crack-!!

-Keuheukk..!

The blue-black Aura, which she had said she would never use on a guy like him.

The sword passed through HanYooseong’s eyes faster than normal speed.

The tip of the sword dug into his eyeball as it passed, needless to say, blinding him.

-I’ll tell the party that you guys went back on your own. Go back, HanYooseong.

While saying that while looking at the fallen HanYooseong, Sylvia, who had hated Yooseong as a weakling, was embarrassed and ashamed that she had broken the unspoken rule of not using aura against Yooseong.

At the same time, she felt anger at herself for not being able to win the next duel with HanYooseong, and fear at the tenacity that HanYooseong had shown.

What are you planning?

In the past, Sylvia had committed such a violent act due to the change in the goddess’s settings.

Then now?

There is no reason to request a duel at all.

Furthermore, assuming that Sylvia Sylvester likes Yooseong, why would she bring up the past that would be detrimental to her image and ask him to continue now?

Surely…

Are you going to use sparring as an excuse to take my anger out on me?”

Sylvia poked out one of her own eyes out of guilt.

Yooseong felt uncomfortable at the same time, even though he thought it was possible.

This side has no intention of untangling the tangled relationship, nor does it have any intention of punishing anyone.

The very idea of trying to inflict pain on oneself under the pretext of paying the price for one’s sins is extremely repulsive.

Well… seeing someone suffer might feel satisfying for a little while.

However, Yooseong knows very well that he is not the type of person to be able to sleep soundly after inflicting pain on someone he holds a grudge against.

The reason he has not sought revenge until now is not because of the other person, but because he feels that they will never be erased from his mind.

Only by consistently ignoring them can he completely forget those who are no different from nightmares.

“Needless to say, I refuse.”

Yooseong planned to tell Sylvia to stop talking nonsense, fix her eyesight, and go help Seyeon.

“Yooseong, back then, I used Auror against you, who didn’t receive any ability compensation. That was clearly against the rules… In reality, it was my defeat. However, if you, Yooseong, want to fight properly again and check the result that time, I’m making this suggestion. Aren’t you curious? Who would win if we fought properly?”

However, the words Sylvia blurted out the next moment provoked Yooseong.

Sylvia’s attitude wasn’t at all like, “I’ll lose for you.” She was just requesting a duel as a knight… Her eyes and face were like that.

Even though she was shouting in her head that there was no reason for her to fight him.

“Okay.”

With her mouth, she ended up accepting the ridiculous offer.

“I don’t use transmutation or Auror. The person who gets hurt in a vital spot other than the neck loses. Right?”

“Yes. Also, if I use Auror, it’s definitely my defeat, Yooseong.”

“If you use Auror, I’ll fight in a different way.”

After deciding on the rules for the duel called Daeryun, Yooseong and Sylvia went to an empty lot near the hill and faced each other with their weapons.

What are they doing…

While thinking that, the moment he saw Sylvia standing there holding her weapon, his heart started pounding.

What he was looking at right now was not Sylvia Sylvester. It was a memory of a past defeat that he could not accept.

-Ughhhhh-!!

The reason he lost his eyesight and screamed in the forest was because he felt deprived that he had to give up the party that he had been doggedly following.

At the same time, it was also because he felt resentful that he had been able to defeat Sylvia Sylvester, an unapproachable opponent, with his pure skills, but lost due to his opponent’s foul play.

Swish.

[Canceling]

Sylvia is still wearing her blindfold.

Then, he also takes off his artificial eye.

He matches the situation from the past as much as possible.

He also sets conditions so that his opponent will not even have a chance to look at him.

If he wins, Sylvia Sylvester will never come near HanYooseong again and will not let him see her. Go back to the palace.

If Sylvia wins, HanYooseong will allow Sylvia Sylvester to be nearby.

If Sylvia Sylvester likes HanYooseong, he will absolutely not let her go or intentionally lose to her.

Chul-chul-

Also, he prepared to equip Stealth Armor in case Sylvia Sylvester behaves strangely contrary to expectations.

The situation was set to allow him to focus on the duel without any hesitation.

Sreung-…

Sylvia Sylvester draws her sword. She is currently wearing violet armor and has makeup on.

The silver armored short-haired knight who used to be terrifying whenever he faced her in the past is projected.

“Huh..”

Yooseong caught his breath and lowered his left hand holding the Sword Breaker and his right hand holding the Stiletto.

He does not use heavy weapons. He only faces Sylvia Sylvester with his past weapons.

‘I’ll go in first’

In a fight between knights, it is very dangerous to attack first.

Ta-da!

However, Yooseong is not a knight. Rather, if you fight him with a fair attack, you will never be able to defeat Sylvia, who has been training in swordsmanship since she was young.

‘Hit the mark’

Sylvia, who is holding the handle of her sword with both hands and letting it hang, gets closer.

Yooseong crosses his arms as if he is going to swing his sword…

–Whew!

He lowered his posture as if he was lying on the ground and tackled Sylvia’s lower body.

In a fight between two people, it is very dangerous to raise your body or lower your posture.

Shallow moves can never beat a direct attack, and you are easily detected and counterattacked.

Swish-!!

Sylvia easily avoided the incoming meteor’s toes by kneeling on one knee and stabbed the tip of her sword down at the meteor below.

She countered the meteor’s irregular attack by applying her own method.

SylviaSylvester did not judge her inaction as a Grandmaster by the amount of aura.

Wedge-!

If she remained still, the tip of her sword would stab her leg, and the meteor swung her fan-shaped leg horizontally.

“.”

The target she was trying to strike with her sword would trip her leg, Sylvia reflexively stepped back and retreated.

“My posture collapsed.”

The fact that Sylvia backed away was enough to prove that the move worked, and it was no different from losing that pace and moving onto Yooseong’s turn!

A swordsman’s battles must be as solid as tree roots.

Since he must keep his balance with his lower body and swing his sword by rotating his body, his lower body must never move much.

Bang-!

Swish-!!

Knock-!!

Yooseong, who had fought with Sylvia in the past and faced monsters wielding various weapons, knew very well how important it was to break Yooseong’s balance with his legs.

All of Yooseong’s attack methods were irregular and resembled the fighting style of an animal that used everything it could, including its arms, legs, and even its torso and head.

Bang-!

Whether it was a somersault or rolling on the ground, he would continue to take acrobatic poses to break his opponent’s balance.

Bang-!

“No matter how shallow the move, if it was repeated thousands and tens of thousands of times, it would become a technique.

If Sylvia, a swordsman at the highest level, could properly balance herself once and swing her sword, she could defeat Yooseong by aiming at his vital point.

As he continued to retreat and step sideways, his balance was broken, and he couldn’t find the flow to make a proper attack!

Bam-!!

On top of that, the sharp tip of the stiletto thrust in irregularly and

Clang-!

With the rush of the Sword Breaker trying to bite his sword through several grooves like a shark’s teeth.

This battle could end with just one moment of carelessness.

Clang-!!

Clang-

‘It’s caught..!’

In the end, after dozens of attacks, Sylvia’s longsword blade got caught between the Sword Breaker’s teeth!

If he were a normal swordsman, he would have lost his will to fight upon seeing his own sword not moving due to the opponent’s weapon.

Ting-!

Ting..!!

But Sylvia wasn’t a normal swordsman.

In any case, she was a genius with the greatest talent as a ‘swordsman’ selected by a country to deal with the Demon King.

She deflected it with a gauntlet?

Without letting go of his sword grip, he deflected all of Yooseong’s stilettos using the front and back of his gauntlets.

The bizarre attack postures Yooseong had shown so far were close to stunts, but Sylvia’s defense now showing off her gauntlet defense technique was also close to a stunt.

Kkikik..!

On top of that, he figured out the movements of Swordbreaker, who was holding on so that she wouldn’t let go of her blade while continuously turning it in the opposite direction.

Chaeng-

Sylvia’s sword slips out from between those teeth in an instant.

Wedge-!

Crunch!

Yooseong hastily retreated from the diagonal slash, but he couldn’t stop his wrist.

If I had gone in a little deeper, my wrist would have been cut.

Yooseong, who retreated, realized this clearly when he saw Sylvia’s purple single eye.

Sylvia had no intention of losing.

‘I lost my venom there.’

The opponent was under the influence of drugs and alcohol and had neglected his training, but there was a reason why he absolutely could not lose, and he was only going into the fight with the question of what would have happened if the results of the past battle had continued.

In one corner of his heart, there was even an inexplicable hesitation.

A glimmer of leeway for SylviaSylvester, engraved deep in his heart.

The foolish thought that if she had only been controlled by the goddess, he could forgive SylviaSylvester.

‘I’ll leave all my grudges in this world and return to my original world… home.”

Yooseong changed his mindset.

He hypnotized himself that the current fight was a battle to return home.

I’ve become sharper.”

Sylvia, who sensed that the next attack would be the last since Yooseong’s momentum had changed.

Swish…

She changed her stance from having her sword hanging down to raising it next to her ear.

The swordsmanship of the Sylvester family is basically a swordsmanship called Paegeom ().

It is a sword that repeatedly strikes the opponent and turns them into a mess, so it is said to be suitable for men.

However, Sylvia overcame it with training and talent for the sword.

Her current stance is a swordsmanship that strikes with all her strength.

Crack…!

Yooseong stomps the ground with his hind legs.

WHACK–!

He throws the stiletto he was holding.

The stiletto, which aimed for the vital point precisely and flew like a comb, was imbued with a skilled throwing technique.

Chae-ang-!!

Sylvia simply swung her sword and deflected the stiletto.

“Ugh-!”

From the beginning, Yooseong had no intention of successfully attacking him.

He just needed a moment to close the distance.

While Sylvia was making a move to swipe the stiletto, Yooseong approached three steps ahead of Sylvia and swung the Sword Breaker he was holding.

I’m sorry, but…

Sylvia had already imagined putting her sword into the Sword Breaker, using the pattern she had memorized, and then striking Yooseong’s arm to subdue him.

‘I won. Yooseong.’

The moment she thought that, Yooseong’s hand let go of the Sword Breaker, and the image was shattered.

Kik-!

Sylvia’s sword, which had already been bitten by the Sword Breaker, stopped in midair for a moment.

“I let go of all my weapons…huh?”

With both the stiletto and the Sword Breaker gone, Yooseong’s only attack was a martial arts.

However, a simple blow is not recognized as a victory even if it hits a vital point.

In addition, since he is wearing armor, even if he allows a blow, he will be attacked by a weapon, so defeat is almost certain.

Sylvia looked at Yooseong’s hand moving without a weapon in his hand, which she could not understand.

‘Ah… in the sleeve of his clothes….”

She saw a silver stiletto tied between the wrist sleeves that had been cut off earlier.

There was something like a thread tied to the middle finger of the moving hand, and the stiletto that had been fixed to the wrist came out as soon as the hand was opened.

Snap-!

Yooseong’s hand caught the stiletto that had been skillfully pulled out.

If he stayed like this, he would not be able to avoid the stiletto’s attack.

‘That time too…”

It was the same in the past. Of course, the method was different this time.

In the past duel, Yooseong stepped on the handle of the dagger that he had planted in the ground in advance, losing his balance, and at that moment, he attacked.

I cut Yooseong with Aura…

He did it because he thought he would lose if he didn’t.

Wedge–!

…This time, it’s my will.

Sylvia was aiming for the chest with the stiletto blade.

Shatter-!

“Kuuk..!”

She was hit straight.

Thud..!

Her chest was not pierced, but part of her chest armor was crushed.

She had hit her chest because of the rule that said she couldn’t aim for the neck.

“I won.”

Chae-ang-

Yooseong threw the stiletto he was holding on the ground and looked down at Sylvia who had fallen.

“Yes. Of course. Yooseong, you won.”

Sylvia answered with a satisfied face.

‘This woman knew it too.’

Yooseong thought while looking at that.

Sylvia also expected herself to lose.

Even if it was a fight where she didn’t show mercy, there was bound to be a gap between Sylvia who had neglected her training for a year and Yooseong who had been living in a struggle to return home every day for the past time.

Yooseong’s physical condition was also better than in the past battles.

“Even though I knew I would lose… I accepted the condition that if I lost, I wouldn’t be around you, but I challenged you to a fight.

The reason was only Yooseong, to erase one of his own traumas from defeat.

It’s an obvious consideration.

It wasn’t Yooseong who set the condition that he would fix his eyes and go back if he lost.

It was a condition that Sylvia had set herself.

Knowing that she would lose, she set such a condition?

A strong person who is considerate of others?

That’s why she liked him.

“I will carry out the condition as it is, Yooseong.”

“Uh.”

Yooseong answered briefly and lowered his body to retrieve his weapons.

Compared to firearms, they were insufficient weapons, but they were his beloved soldiers who had saved his life many times in the past.

No.

In fact, these weapons weren’t important.

It was just that he felt uncomfortable looking at Sylvia’s face for some reason, so he did it.

Despite his victory, Yooseong’s expression wasn’t very good.

“Yooseong.”

At that moment, a wet voice different from his usual tone was heard.

In the end, Yooseong straightened his bent back and looked at Sylvia.

“I won’t be able to see you anymore… Can I say one thing? No, I’ll just do it.”

“I like you… Yooseong.”

The person who had never shown tears said this with an incredibly beautiful smile.

“I liked you. Me too.”

Leaving those words, Yooseong headed to his house where Hoyeon was waiting.