19 – Huh? Could it be that she’s crying?

Zeria tilted her head for a moment, as if she hadn’t heard me well.

But as soon as I got into my position, she immediately got into her position too.

For a moment, her eyes cool down.

Then I watch my movements and focus on my next attack.

For an ordinary female knight, her concentration and judgment were frightening.

‘Twice the gravity.’

Once in her, she lightly used her gravity magic towards her.

As soon as she cast the magic lightly, her eyes widened.

But unlike the guys who had been enchanted by me up until this point, Zeria didn’t get down on her knees.

Rather, perhaps I knew how to use gravity magic, so I strengthened my legs in advance to withstand my magic.

I smiled and used light magic on my body.

I can feel my body becoming as light as a feather.

I flew towards her, using the weight of her left leg to spur her off the ground.

In the case of yesterday, she was unable to respond to my speed and was overpowered.

Besides, she is now in a situation where her body has become heavy due to my gravity magic.

If it was as I expected, it was clear that she would not be able to withstand my attack and be subdued again.

Seureung-

But contrary to my expectations, she responded to my speed.

Taking her sword from her waistband, Zeria swung her sword at her shoulder.

Chang-! At her unexpected sword strike, I quickly created a transparent bullet and fired it at her sword.

But perhaps because it didn’t contain blue magic, the trajectory of her sword couldn’t be twisted with only transparent bullets.

In the end, like Fenia used, I raised her magical power and pushed her attack away from my shoulder.

“Chit.”

Her sword couldn’t reach my shoulder.

As Zeria’s sword came to a close stop right in front of her shoulder, she clicked her tongue in regret.

Her attack was blocked, and Zeria took a step back.

Then, as if she was going to attack right away, she took up her stance again.

But in the meantime, my two finished blue bullets flew towards her.

Chang-! I twist her back to avoid one, and then raise the other to block my bullets.

There was no superfluity in her movements, as if she had adapted to her already heavy body.

So I had no choice but to add more weight.

‘Three times the gravity.’

Her pupils shook like an earthquake.

Up to 2x, I was able to endure it to some extent, but from 3x, it seemed difficult to move.

Eventually Zeria got down on her one knee on the floor.

From the moment she knelt down, it was as if victory or defeat had been decided.

But Penia did not finish this sparring.

The reason must be that I also have no mana left.

I had already used gravity magic, fired bullets 5 times, and had already run out of mana due to the hastily made defense magic, but after using it 3x again, my body couldn’t be okay.

But the difference between her and her was that she couldn’t move, and I could still move her body.

Stretching my back, I pulled out a gold coin from my chest.

Then he aimed the gold coin at Zeria.

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My gold coin after aiming flew towards Zeria.

Hwiik – A gold coin flying at high speed through the wind strikes the handle of her sword.

“Heuk!”

She dropped her own sword to the ground, clutching her wrist.

I didn’t miss the moment and jumped at her.

Zeria struggled to get up and she tried to block my attack, but Zeria, who had already reached her limit, could not block my attack.

Pulling out a small dagger from her waistband, she thrust it into her heart.

“Stop.”

And just before reaching the heart.

Fenia’s magic stopped my body for a moment.

“Today’s Dalian ends there.”

Puffed up.

When she said that the sparring was over, I immediately let go of my magic and slumped back into my seat.

“Ha ha, ha ha.”

A rough breath escaped from his mouth.

I couldn’t move my body, probably because I overworked myself.

“Whoa.”

And if it wasn’t just me who was tired, she also let out a hot sigh and sat down.

The two of us were able to calm our breathing and get up from our seats only after receiving the potion Fenia gave her.

Still, I could feel the amount of mana increasing, albeit little by little.

If it was like before, I would have collapsed on the spot just by using gravity magic once, but even if I used magic like this consecutively, I didn’t fall right away.

I looked at Zeria standing next to her with her satisfied face.

But, unlike me, her face was distorted as if she was resentful.

Anyway, he seemed quite resentful of losing to me twice in a row.

To be honest, if I hadn’t seen the magic Fenia used, I wouldn’t have bothered to show condescension because I would rather have lost this match.

I slowly approached Zeria.

In an instant, she started to wary me, flinching her body as I approached.

But I held her hand to her as if I had no intention of attacking her.

“Hey, good job.”

At my handshake, she raises her head with a bewildered face and meets her eyes with mine.

Then she slowly reaches out her hand and shakes my hand with a helpless look.

“Have you eaten?”

“No. I didn’t eat….”

“Then go eat at home.”

“Huh?”

Zeria looked at me with a face that couldn’t understand what I was saying.

But I ignored her answer and went straight to her mansion, ordering Luna to bring Zeria’s share of food.

Zeria, who happened to be part of her meal, sat next to Fenia.

At first, two chairs were added to the table, where five people, including myself, were seated.

Now I think I need to change the table to a bigger one to invite more guests.

As Zeria sat down at her table, the eyes of her family turned to her.

Only Layla sighed as her face asked who else she had brought.

Perhaps because she has been doing good deeds lately, Lila’s reaction is more natural than before.

“Rail. Who is next to Penny?”

“Zeria.”

After I briefly introduced her name, Euler turned her head toward her, her face unsure of who she was.

Then Euler met her eyes, and Zeria slowly opened her mouth with her tense face.

“I-I am Zeria, the daughter of the Douglas Knight Commander.”

“Oh. You mean the daughter of the Douglas Knight Commander?”

She was the daughter of a knight commander?

I admired her unexpected identity.

Plus, Euler’s reaction to knowing her father was quite interesting.

“Douglas is the man who served as the knight commander in the imperial family a long time ago. I’ve had a conversation with him once, and he’s a pretty dependable person.”

“It is a great honor that the Marquis knows my father.”

“So what is Douglas doing after his retirement?”

“Now he opens a small dojo and teaches students there.”

Anyway, Euler didn’t seem to know that I had gone to her dojo.

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More than that, I thought Zeria hated the B. Orland family, but it seemed like I was the only one she hated.

Euler asked no further questions after that.

“Enjoy your meal.”

When the chef’s steak is served, Zeria looks at me with a puzzled face.

She seemed quite taken aback when the steak that was bigger than her face was served.

Actually, I deliberately ordered a larger size for Zeria, who must have been tired from sparring.

But I don’t know, her face shrugged her shoulders, and she turned her head to focus on my meal.

After I lost weight, I started eating the same food as my family, but I don’t eat huge steaks like before because I was worried that a yo-yo would come.

Suddenly. Squeak.

As I slice the steak and put it in my mouth, the other party also start eating.

Well well.

And Aline, as usual, begins to slaughter the meat at high speed.

No one was surprised to see it anymore.

Penia, who sat right behind her, also seemed to have adapted to Aline’s appetite.

But Jeria, who saw Aline’s appetite for the first time today, was taken aback. She couldn’t put the fork with the steak in her mouth, and she continued to float in the air.

I couldn’t keep watching him, so I opened my mouth.

“I didn’t starve for several days, so just ignore it and eat.”

“Ugh, yes.”

It was only after Zeria heard me that she immediately put her steak in her mouth.

And as if her food was right in her mouth, she ate the meat deliciously with her cute snort.

In the end, Zeria, who really finished eating all of that huge steak, put on a satisfied face.

I stood up from her seat and looked at Zeria and said.

“Come tomorrow at the same time.”

“Tomorrow too?”

“Uh. You lost to me today.”

“That, that….”

In the end, Zeria reluctantly nodded her head and left her mansion after giving us a brief greeting.

*

The next day.

Just like yesterday, after finishing her physical training with Aline, Zeria appeared.

She also changed into a more comfortable uniform than the one she wore yesterday.

She seemed to be wearing a uniform from her father’s dojang.

After receiving the potion from Fenia and recovering her body, I got up and straightened up.

The first attacker was Zeria.

She kicked her ground and ran at me.

But the speed is different from before.

Hwiik-

With the sound of cutting through the wind, her sword draws an arc.

Using the blue bullet, I twisted the sword’s echo and narrowly avoided her sword.

Zeria’s sword cuts through the air.

But her sword didn’t stop.

As gently as a flowing river, her sword flew towards my hand.

Chang-! I quickly took out my dagger and applied gravity magic to my arm, pushing Zeria’s sword away with force.

And then I used her gravity magic at her when she opened the gap.

An unexpected attack throws Zeria off balance.

I seized the moment and made a translucent bullet and fired it at her waist.

She struggled to block the bullet with her sword, but the second bullet stopped right in front of her eyes.

Fenia used her magic to stop her attack before the bullet hit her face.

“Stop.”

I let out the breath I was holding back at Fenia’s voice that signaled the end.

But she didn’t fall to the ground like yesterday.

I didn’t notice it when I was sparring with Allin or Fenia, but when I was sparring with opponents with similar skills to mine, I felt that my magic proficiency grew rapidly.

I felt that the amount of mana required to use magic decreased as the skill level increased.

So I led her to her restaurant just like yesterday, with her words of thanks to her, Zeria, for being my opponent.

Zeria also nodded her head and naturally entered the restaurant to eat.

It’s the 3rd day since I started sparring with Zeria.

Thanks to the increased proficiency, the mana consumption has been greatly reduced.

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Maybe thanks to that, the amount of bullets that were only made up to three has increased to five.

As if she hadn’t met an opponent of the same level as her, she became more agile with the speed and movement of her sword.

I’ve easily caught up with her, but now I miss her once in a while.

But Zeria, who couldn’t block all of my five bullets, was defeated by me again.

I moved to the restaurant with the words that I won today, so come back tomorrow at this time.

Day 4.

The long-awaited day of Aron’s party has finally arrived.

And that also meant that today was the last battle with Zeria.

So I decided to deal with her more seriously than usual.

Zeria spurred her foot and lunged at her.

I couldn’t find any gaps in her posture anymore.

I swallowed dry saliva at her perfect movements, as if becoming one with the sword.

Her quicksword starts rushing toward my heart at a fierce speed.

Chang-!

I managed to deflect her attack with a bullet I made.

However, it was not easy to completely avoid it, so I finally allowed one attack.

I felt hot blood flowing from my right side.

But I didn’t feel any pain, probably because I was already immersed in the sparring.

After sparring with Zeria for three days, I learned how to use gravity magic more elaborately.

Originally, if you hit the opponent’s whole body with gravity magic, now you cast gravity magic on the opponent’s legs, head, and upper body, respectively, so that the opponent’s balance is tilted to one side.

But as I grew, she must have grown rapidly as well, so she swung her sword at me while maintaining her body balance despite my gravity magic.

However, my growth rate was faster than hers, so I changed her balance with her gravity magic once again.

It’s a big deal.

I quickly approached Zeria, who had slammed her face into the dirt floor due to mismanagement.

‘I’m sure he’s not dead?’

Arriving in front of her, I cautiously asked her.

“Hey, are you okay?”

“… ….”

There was no reply.

I was puzzled for a moment to see if she was really dead, but she let out a sigh of relief as she slowly fell on her face.

But her face is hard to see because of the dirt when she pulls her face out from the floor.

Penia, who was looking at that figure sadly, erased her face with cleaning magic.

As soon as the mud on her face was wiped away, Zeria hurriedly covered her face with both hands.

It’s as if she doesn’t want to show her face right now.

And with the sound of her small snoring, her body starts to shake.

“Where are you injured?”

I carefully thrust my face into hers.

And I could see her eyes through her little hands.

For some reason, there were small tears in her eyes.

Huh? Wait for a sec. Are you crying?

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