I Possessed The Villain’s Childhood Friend

52 – Final Exams – 3

Helen was gifted with a tremendous amount of magical power.

A person with a large amount of magical power becomes an ordinary wizard in this world.

But she dreamed of becoming a knight of her own.

Use all of your innate magical power to strengthen your body, and subdue your enemies with physical abilities that others cannot match.

Most people who have seen it think this way.

‘Helen Oberon is a style that pushes with force’.

However, after entering Arcana and having engaged in more sparring with Helen than anyone else, I could assure you.

The really scary thing about her is.

It’s a technique that accurately penetrates gaps with overwhelming speed and delivers a blow.

Yes. Even knowing that, I was a fool for narrowing the distance myself.

Helen’s first blow shook my gut with precision and was so intense that it made me feel sick.

Even if someone laughed at me for being careless, I had nothing to say.

In fact, after looking at the list of exams, Helen was the one I put my heart on the most.

That’s also true, because the current match between her and me is 26 wins and 16 losses in 42 matches.

“I didn’t know you were hiding these teeth.”

“Every woman has a hidden weapon or two.”

Helen replied with a bright smile.

After allowing her first blow, I was now one-sidedly being pushed back by Helen.

If you try to run away from this side, the same counterattack as before.

If you stay still, you will be driven into her skill, speed battle.

“Keah!”

Again, just a slight mistake in her distance control, Helen dug in in an instant and hit her inside her left shoulder.

If I was in this situation normally, I would have accepted defeat and moved on.

But now, this wasn’t the usual sparring, it was a performance for exam results.

Since it is said that it is not decided only by winning or losing, but by looking at the process, it was not easy to give up.

“Suck!”

With her weary body, she stretched out her Neia, aiming for a gap.

But Helen must have already noticed her aim, as she raised her leg on the blade and slammed it down, forcing her to the ground.

I’ve seen it countless times, but it was only Helen’s feat that I still can’t understand.

She managed to get away with her ensuing straight and pulled back behind her to give her some distance.

… The gap was not visible.

How can I overcome this hardship?

If it was my first sparring with Helen, it would have been simpler.

If so, she would have been able to poke her gaps because of her inexperience in pure hand-to-hand combat.

But that method was already used in Heros’ dance competitions.

When I sparred with her in Arcana after a long time.

It was her first defeat in sparring with Helen when she happened to be cornered and used the method again.

However, there is no way that Helen didn’t come up with a countermeasure for her raid using Diana.

This is a real dilemma.

“Ha ha.”

I still haven’t calmed down.

Her left shoulder and right leg were cracked and throbbing.

Can a counterattack catch the clue in this situation?

“Keep going!”

Helen runs at me again.

Me she also stanced and pointed her sword.

Helen twisted her body slightly to dig into the part of her left shoulder where I had hurt her, and threw her fist out.

And I expected her to be.

“Huh?”

Turning Neia’s sword blade, the lower part of her handle collided hard with her fist.

“Keugh?!”

It was a success.

Even if I make a big move anyway, it will put me at a disadvantage on the part of me who has a lot of scars.

All you need to aim for is one accurate counterattack.

Thankfully, that goal worked out nicely.

“… I got hit.”

Immediately behind her, Helen grabbed her right fist.

Maybe it’s cracked.

Of course she couldn’t let go of her heart yet.

Because even now I am at an overwhelming disadvantage.

The only part of her where Helen was injured was her right fist at best.

But her whole body is like a weapon.

She couldn’t let her guard down, at most she blocked a way to attack.

“As expected, sparring with Ike is the most fun.”

At the same time, Helen closed her distance and extended her left fist.

She immediately struck Neia down, but she lightly twisted her body to avoid it and grabbed her by the collar.

“Caught.”

At the same time, I grabbed my collar and pulled it, and my balance was easily thrown off.

And then Helen gave her cracked right fist a hard punch.

“Keah!”

The world turns.

No, it was me who was spinning.

I was struck again with a strong blow to my stomach, and I rolled over and fell to the corner.

I finally woke up and saw Neia lying on the floor.

“It’s great.”

This time it was Helen holding her left arm and letting out her moans.

“That is really against the rules, Mr. Ike.”

She took my right hand slowly.

“If you think you won every day, fight back with that.”

To be precise, it pointed at the Diana I was holding.

Blood was flowing from Helen’s left arm before she knew it.

Of course I did.

“Because if I don’t do this, I can’t win.”

At best, I took out Diana and cut her left arm before her fist could reach it.

It hurts more than me getting hit in the stomach again.

This one is already to the point of throwing up if you’re not paying attention.

Fortunately, though, Helen had a tendon cut on her left arm.

“I think it’s better to end it sooner rather than later.”

“I agree.”

Helen picked up Neia and threw it at me.

“But if you want to win, you don’t have to give her sword back.”

“That’s no fun.”

Helen said that and she smiled.

Of course, I think either I or Helen can fight longer if we put our minds to it.

But this is just a test anyway.

It was the conclusion that there would be nothing better by dragging it further.

“Suck!”

They rush at each other with shouts of cheer.

“… Lost.”

Then the voice that ended the dance rang out.

★

“A draw is ridiculous.”

“That’s why I said there was no need to return the sword.”

“That is a different matter.”

After the test, Helen and I took a break in the waiting room prepared by Arcana.

The result was a draw, as Helen just said.

I stabbed Helen’s shoulder with her Neia.

At the same time, she reached out and kicked her in the pit of my stomach.

As a result, we both fell down at the same time and declared defeat at the same time.

“No matter how you think about it, I started out with a huge advantage.”

Looks like Helen didn’t want to accept that fact.

“A draw. It’s a pity, Ike.”

It was the prince who I met when I arrived at the cafe I had become a regular at to take a break.

Originally, I was going to watch the other students perform, but I gave up thinking that I was tired for some reason.

“Well, I think it can’t be helped. Didn’t you say that Your Highness’ test starts tomorrow?”

“Yes. So today I enjoyed a break watching other people perform.”

The prince continued his words while drinking coffee.

“As expected, the performance between you and Miss Helen was the highest?”

“Thank you for the compliment.”

It was a matter of course.

When I checked the schedule, on the first day, only Helen and I were among the aspiring knights.

“But it was the other side that bothered me the most.”

“Can I hear you?”

“It was Miss Reina and Gerd’s performance.”

“Gerd-kun, are you referring to the third son of the Marquis of Ribbon?”

“Of course not. There is no other Gerd-kun in Arcana.”

Gerd wasn’t a character from the original work, nor did he have a separate relationship with me.

Nevertheless, there was one reason why I remember him.

“You must have been an aspiring knight, right?”

When you fight Avatar head-on later, the aspiring knights will also be a great force.

Gerd Ribbon was one of the most talented men.

“Then Reina must have lost.”

“Wrong. It was a landslide victory for Miss Reina.”

“… Yes?”

I couldn’t understand.

The reason Reina chose to major in swordsmanship was to follow the crown prince, not because of her talent for swordsmanship.

Of course, in this test, magic restrictions were lifted in the haze, and Reina’s attribute magic talent was counted among three fingers in world history.

However, when a knight and a wizard are matched, the odds are clearly higher than the knight.

Unlike a wizard who needs time to unleash high firepower from the rear, a knight simply strengthens his body and rushes at the enemy.

The time required to fight is different.

But Reina beat Gerd.

“Is that possible?”

“It is difficult to explain in words. Miss Reina has a test tomorrow too, so you’d better see it yourself.”

I’m sure you’ll be amazed when you see it.

After saying that, the prince drank all his coffee and left the cafe.

★

“Salute each other.”

“Thank you very much.”

“Thank you very much.”

Today, Reina’s opponent was Marcel of the Logger family.

He, like Gerd, also aspires to be a knight.

If you think about it, there are only 11 aspiring knights in the swordsmanship major, which has slightly over 40 people.

I’m known as a wannabe knight anyway, so it doesn’t matter, but Reina’s test subjects are all aspiring knights, so it must be extremely unlucky.

Maybe Reina didn’t know that, but Reina, standing in the center of the arena, had a cold expression as usual.

“God bless Eos!”

That’s how the haze started.

Reina held a one-handed sword, while Marcel held a spear.

And it was Marcel who set her foot first.

A spear has a much longer reach than a sword.

It was advantageous to use that part to counter attacks and to catch the first attack.

It was the latter that Marcel chose.

“Hot!”

A sharp thrust that attacks Reina with spirit.

Reina stretched out her empty left hand in front of her, summoning her water curtain.

However, her spear only slightly slowed down and broke through the curtain in an instant.

But Reina wasn’t standing still either.

She saw the direction of the slowed spear and twisted her body to avoid it, then she burrowed inside Marcel.

The spear is a very advantageous weapon in street fights, but it was a good move aimed at the fact that its power drops sharply when it penetrates.

If there is a problem, there is no way that Marcel, the opponent, is unaware of it.

In an instant, she pulled her spear back and swung it, forcibly blocking Reina from digging in.

“As expected.”

They have different physical abilities.

It was a matter of course.

Unlike Marcel, who trains to become a knight and strengthens her body by circulating her mana.

Reina hasn’t trained to become a knight, so she’ll use ordinary body-strengthening magic.

If it were me, I would have been able to subdue him in an instant without even allowing him to pull back his spear in that situation.

Then, how did Reina win a landslide victory against Gerd?

The moment when such a question is about to arise.

“Huh?”

I heard someone startled.

I couldn’t help it.

Because even I lost my mind.

Watching Reina attacking her opponent with countless magic floating behind her back.