Chapter 81


    <strong>CHAPTER 81 – JUST A GOOD WOMAN</strong>


    In the outskirts of Roizen, in the open grasnds .


    The two hundred ve soldiers were challenging me .


    With “Warrior’s Eyes” that can only be wielded by people who have experienced many battles, they grouped and attacked me .


    I fought back using Eleanor . Hikari was still hanging on my waist .


    『They have be quite useful now』


    「I think so too, if it’s like this, I can take them to battlefields」


    While chatting with Eleanor, I counterattacked with the thought of training them .


    It’s a mock battle after all, so I fought while holding back to not let them get severe injuries .


    「Retreat once!」


    When one of the ve soldiers shouted that, all of them started to fall back .


    「Ohh」


    I was slightly moved .


    Their formation while falling back was surprisingly orderly .


    『They’re quite trained』


    「I think so too」


    『You want to do a pursuit attack? It’s also interesting how their rear guard fairs』


    “Alright”ーーwhen I nodded like that, I felt a pressure from the side .


    I held Eleanor and stopped the one who was closing in .


    *Kakiーn!*, the sharp sword sounds echoes .


    It was the appearance of a woman holding arge sword .


    「Agnes huh」


    「The only one who can call me that is Nee-san」


    Showing an angry expression, Agnes pushes me to a sword lock .


    Looking over her shoulder, there was Io and the clerical clothed woman, Julia .


    Io’s party, an orthodox party of a swordsman, magician, and priest .


    After the ve soldiers, the three challenged me .


    「UUOOOOOO!!」


    「Just brute strength?」


    「ーー!! There’s no way right!」


    Agnes reddened her face .


    She shifted her de, and this time, she shed horizontally using the centrifugal force with therge swords .


    The sound of the swords shing, and an impact greater than earlier .


    It was an impact that made Eleanor slightly shake .


    「You’re good」


    「Don’t look down on me!」


    Agnes shed consecutively . Behind her, Julia supported her, and Io started to cast her spell .


    Io’s party’s standard strategy . While Agnes was blocking the enemy, Julia heightens her magic powers to support, and Io would deal the finishing blow .


    It’s a good orthodox strategy, I can easily imagine its high results .


    And furthermore, that’s not all, while chanting, Io’s eyes were shining .


    “She’s aiming for something”, I thought . Thinking of her intention, I started to look forward to it .


    The sounds of the swords shing continued, I waited for that . And finally .


    「Agnes!」


    Julia shouted . Agnes who was fighting me used the recoil of exchanging swords to greatly fall back .


    And with almost no pauseーーIo’s magic flew .


    The lightning magic fell from the sky, a hundred lightning strikes fell consecutively .


    Io’s great magic, her finishing magic .


    I held Eleanor, and endured it .


    I couldn’t escape with no damage, but the damage isn’t that much .


    It’s damage that I could endure knowing that it woulde .


    The one hundred strikes fell, and my smoke raised from my body .


    Well then, what’s next after this magicーー .


    「Onee-sama! Now!」


    「Yes! Kakeru-san! Here Ie!」


    Julia’s body shined, and that light goes to Io .


    Soon after, Io released a magic .


    「Guu!」


    I felt it to the core of my body . The pain, heat, and numbness ran through me .


    The consecutive blows came, a hundred lightning strikes, it’s the second one!


    I didn’t think that the great magic that requires a long chant woulde consecutively, so the magic hits my body without me being on guard .


    The damage came to my body directly .


    「We did it, we really did it . As expected of Nee-san」


    「That’s the price of underestimating Onee-sama」


    Agnes and Julia celebrated .


    「Fuu?……」


    I let out the breath I held in my lungs .


    Even if it’s me, I still received quite some damage .


    「Bluffing isn’t good for you, you know, receiving Nee-san’s Lightning Hundredーー」


    「That’s right, the two of them directly hit, soーー」


    I sprinted off, kicking the ground .


    First, I closed in to Agnes, I grabbed her who wasn’t able to even react, and threw her towards Julia .


    The two of them were blown away together .


    This time, I closed in to Io . I ced Eleanor’s edge to her throat, and make a formal checkmate .


    「As expected of Kakeru-san」


    Ioughed wryly .


    「It was quite effective」


    「I thought that I had a chance though」


    「If it’s anyone other than me, you would have a lot」


    「Then, how about this?」


    「Whatーーku!」


    I was shot by magic from the side . The magic hits me off guard .


    I mean, it’s magic?! Who is it!


    I held Eleanor and looked to the side, and in there, there was the ghost maid pair, Tania and Peggy .


    The two who were floating in the air released their magic one next to the other .


    I blocked them using Eleanor, and shed .


    And while I was doing that, Agnes recovered, and shes to me with herrge sword .


    And furthermore, as if they were waiting just for that, the 200 ve soldiers joined the fray .


    ve soldiers, Io’s party, maid ghosts .


    They all attacked me at once .


    「This is great, it’s starting to get fun . Hikari」


    『Un!』


    I drew Hikari answering, and dual wield with Eleanor .


    I d myself with the dark auraing out from the Demon Sword .


    It’s fun .


    Io’s party, the ghosts’ magic, the ve soldiers’ attacks .


    It’s fun fighting against them .


    I got a little serious .


    I broke through Agnes’ guard and stopped Io’s incantation, trampled the ve soldiers, and erased the ghosts’ magic using the Demon Sword’s aura .


    I fought them with Eleanor and Hikari .


    All of them were defeated, and when the attacks finally calmed downーーthat flew .


    「You finally came」


    I grinned, and countered with Eleanor .


    The sharp sword sound was deafening .


    Two blows with one sh .


    The one who closed in was Nana who was d in a tinum armor .


    「I guessed you’de」


    「I will attack will all of my strength」


    Nana who gained the new powers of 100% additional attack .


    From how the events progressed, I guessed that she’de .


    The Demon Sword and her long sword shes . Both of them had additional attacks, and double the times of the shing swords, the sword sounds echoes through .


    The ve soldiers, Io’s party, and maid ghosts .


    All of them were watching from the side .


    「You’re strong, Nana . You’d gotten stronger than before」


    「I trained for the sake of Aruji!」


    「Come more」


    「Fu!」


    shes full of her willーーthree consecutive sh .


    Three lights appeared in front of me, and the six blows numbed my hand that holds Eleanor .


    「Haaaaaa!!」


    And after that, I started to lose leeway to think, this time, six consecutive attacks followed .


    Twelve bows, I couldn’t help but use Hikari to parry .


    「You’re good」


    「Gratitude!」


    「How about this!」


    I got a little serious, I thought that if it’s Nana .


    I shed with the six consecutive shes that came by using Eleanor to attack with the same speed, and shed using Hikari .


    *Zaku!*


    The small Demon Sword touched Nana’s skinーーbut there wasn’t any reaction .


    I was sure that I cut her, but there was no reaction at all . What does thisーー .


    「ーーMelissa!」


    I couldn’t help to let out a voice . Behind Nana, I saw there the appearance of the Immortal Saintess .


    Melissa was in a pose of praying with her hands together, and there was blood spurting out from her body, the same ce where Nana was cut .


    This is unexpected, this ispletely unexpected .


    I couldn’t expect at all that Nana and Melissa would join forces .


    It was too unexpected thatーー


    「Haha」


    Iughed out .


    I kicked the ground and jumped back .


    I looked at the women in front of me .


    Nana .


    Melissa .


    Io and her party .


    Maid ghosts .


    ve soldiers .


    The women’s eyes were shining all the same .


    They were eyes that were aiming for something, after all this .


    This battle, it was a fight to measure their strengthーーand they have eyes that show that they are seriously thinking of defeating me .


    「Haha」


    Iughed again, it’s so fun I can’t help myself .


    『Otou-san, he looks happy』


    『Men are idiots after all . They’d be like that with good women in front of them』


    『Onee-chans, all of them are good women?』


    『Hmph . You can tell just looking at this guy’s attitude right?』


    Eleanor and Hikari chatted inside my head .


    Ipletely agree .


    「All of you are good women」


    I charged towards Nana who was in the spearhead, and towards the women .


    Holding back, I’m done with that .


    I wanted to know, how good women they are .


    ☆


    I returned advanced to the mansion .


    It was a fierce battle, and I really feel fierce as well .


    The density of the battle waspletely different; this heightened feeling exceeds what I felt at the time when I defeated the Red Dragon .


    And with that heightened feelings, I came to Althea’s room .


    「Althea」


    「What is it?」


    I reached out my hand .


    With just that, Althea understood .


    She took out her hand from her cloak, and held my hand .


    All of the vigor from my body felt like it was being absorbed . The wrinkly hand became rejuvenated .


    Great Sage Althea . A woman who bes youthful with a thousand people’s vigor, or the vigor by myself .


    And finally, she stopped absorbing the vigor, and showed her face .


    I was surprised .


    「Althea?」


    「What is it」


    「That appearance」


    The Althea in front of me is very beautiful .


    When I first met her, I thought of her as a matchless beauty .


    But the Althea right in front of me was more than that .


    She was more beautiful than the time I thought of her as a matchless beauty .


    「……this is my prime」


    「Prime?」


    「Yes . I have be rejuvenated up until now, but it was 80% of my prime . The amount of vigor was enough, but the quality wasn’t so it was only up to 80%」


    「The quality was enough now, that’s what you’re saying」


    「Yes……what happened?」


    Althea stared at me, and asked .


    「There were good women」


    「Is that so」


    With only that, Althea had a convinced expression .


    「And so」


    She said that, and stared at me furthermore .


    Her eyes were asking what was next .


    I wanted Althea .


    Up until now, I was only giving her vigor to be rejuvenated, but I couldn’t feel anything anymore after that .


    My vigor waspletely sucked away .


    But, right nowーーI still can do it .


    I carried Althea to an embrace .


    I took her from the room while carrying her like a princess, and went to my room .


    I ced her on top of the bed, and stared straight at her .


    「Althea . Tell me your name . I only know you as Althea」


    I wanted to know the name of the woman that I was going to make as mine .


    「I am Althea, just Althea」


    「Althea……」


    「I am “just” Althea」


    Staring at her for a while, I said .


    「No, up until now, you were the Great Sage Althea . But here, from now on」


    I stared straight at her eyes, and kissed her .


    「I will, make you just Althea」


    「Un……」


    She nodded, and Althea slowly closed her eyes .


    Today is full of surprises, up to the end, I was surprised .


    Althea, it was the first time .


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