Chapter 349: Difference in siblings’ strength


    Sophia and Darphy-dono were ring at each other as they squared off.


    Neither Sophia nor Darphy-dono were using mock weapons, but rather, real weapons. As one would expect, Freesia-san grew pale upon seeing her children drawing their swords to fight each other.


    Believing that Sophia wouldn’t cause him great harm, ourpanions watched without worry.


    Sophia held her sword in one hand as she eyed her opponent’s de, unmoving. Darphy-dono readied his long sword and and round shield, gradually shortening their distance.


    The first to move was Darphy-dono.


    When Darphy-dono swung his longsword diagonally and Sophia easily brushed it off with one hand, his body drifted. He hurriedly jumped backwards, but Sophia remained still without pursuing him.


    「Kuh! Don’t look down on me!」


    Darphy-dono shortened the distance in one leap, and swung at Sophia with a side sweep that was difficult to avoid. Sophia handled this so easily, as if it was nothing.


    Darphy-dono’s sword fighting was likely the orthodox style of knights. It looks to be the type of swordsmanship for interpersonal fights. On the other hand, since Sophia was also trained in this sword style since she was a knight of Yggurle Kingdom, but perhaps as a result of fighting multitudes of monsters with me, and because she sparred with us, she had refined it into her own original style.


    「The little brother is being treated like a child.」


    「It’s inevitable. There is a 4-fold gap between their levels, so the difference in their status is too vast to bridge with skills.」


    「Even Sophia’s sword skills are higher than his, though.」


    Even to Akane’s untrained eyes, the gap in Sophia and Darphy-dono’s strength was still overwhelming. She could tell they were absolutely safe.


    Simrly, Freesia-san, who watched her own children fight with swords, was relieved when she figured that the worst would not happen.


    On the other hand, Dante-san, a knight, was frozen in shock by Sophia’s strength.


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    (Shit! Why! Why won’t it hit!? Wasn’t she a useless person kept in a ve shop for 50 years!?


    Darphy’s sword continued to swing at and miss Sophia without evennding a graze.


    Ever since he joined the Chivalric Order, he had beenpared to his elder sister Sophia. The sister that was a genius who excelled not only with the sword, but also spears and magic. The younger brother should do his best to get even a little bit closer to her……


    Every time, his hatred for Sophia continued to umte.


    Darphy strived to train as desperately as he could. As the Sylphide family’s heir, he worked hard to not bring shame to the house.


    (How about this?)


    Despite Darphy swinging the sword with intent to kill, they were simply parried or avoided no matter where he attacked.


    (Why! What is it, this gap!?)


    Unlike Darphy who works as a knight in the royal capital, Sophia who fought repeatedly in monster nests and dungeons, and against Triaria Kngdom and Divine Empire of Sydnia, had be the continent’s strongest.


    (Kuh, then I’ll do this!)


    Darphy tried to fire Wind des using Spirit Magic, yet the Spirits would not respond.


    (Wha, why!? The Spirits aren’t doing what I tell them to!)


    As flustered as Darphy was, there was no way that a low ranking Wind Spirit would help him use magic to injure Sophia who is favored by the Great Wind Spirit, Sylph.


    (In that case……)


    「Wind Cutter!」


    Backstepping one step, Darphy fired Wind magic.


    The look on Darphy, who was certain of his victory with the des of wind fired at point nk distance, froze.


    The fired spell was blocked by a barrier in front of Sophia and had dispersed.


    「Kuh! Wind Cutter! Wind Cutter!」


    「It’s useless, Darphy!」


    Sophia influenced a Wind Spirit to disperse Darphy’s Wind Cutters immediately upon activation.


    「Uwaaaaa!!」


    Darphy who had descended into a panic began swinging his sword recklessly at Sophia.


    Kin!


    Darphy’s longsword spun around in the air.


    「Ah!?」


    Dosu!


    Sophia struck the Darphy’s head using the hilt of her sword, taking his consciousness.


    「Fuu……」


    Sophia looked unimaginably lonely as she watched Darphy copse.


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    When the unconscious Darphy was brought into the house, Dante-san and Freesia-san apologized to Sophia who looked sad.


    「Sophia, we’re sorry about Darphy. We must have made a mistake with how we raised him.」


    「Perhaps ever since that time, we had averted our eyes from our responsibility to this child who was bing arrogant.」


    「Father, Mother, please take care of Darphy.」


    Sophia shook her head, saying that Dante-san and Freesia-san need not apologize, and entrusted Darphy-dono to them.


    「Dante-san, Freesia-san, we would be d if everyone could attend the wedding.」


    「Iruma-dono, I will try to talk to Darphy properly once more.」


    「I’m sorry. I will persuade Darphy as well.」


    I bowed my head, giving my farewell greetings and went on my way.


    There had been many tiring things, but the real match starts here……


    TLN: Takumi switches between Darphy and Darphy-dono… not that I understand why he needs to add dono to someone who just insulted him and his group.


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