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When Grendel san challenged me to a fight, I came with him to the training center. ……
“Grendel san, I’m about to start my morning lecture, so I don’t think it’s possible for me to fight now.”
“I don’t care about that,…… but rather, as a member of the Marquise family, I have to stop any further foolishness on the part of the Duke family.”
“foolishness…… you mean me?”
“Yes.”
“….”
Although I came to this training center, I had no particular reason to fight Grendel san, so I wasn’t going to accept this match,……, but I also made a decision after thinking about it.
“I understand. What is the game?”
“It’s a real fight using a wooden sword and magic.”
The wooden sword …… naturally, we don’t intend to have a life-threatening fight.
For me, that’s good enough.
“I understand.”
“…… then let’s get started.”
When Charlotte san and Grendel san fought before, the game ended in an instant because Charlotte san froze only the joints of Grendel san precisely, she was able to manipulate the ice magic with such precision because she is Charlotte san, but I am not that good with the ice magic.
As Grendel-san came at me with a wooden sword, I tried to catch it with my wooden sword and push it back, but Grendel-san tried to push it back as well.
This caused our wooden swords to make minute advances and retreats toward each other.
“Feal, through this battle, I will erase your egotism.”
“Egotism ……? What am I smug about?”
“I’m talking about Charlotte Anastasia!”
Grendel-san, who said that loudly, once he moved away from me, this time unleashed a fire magic on me.
In response, I immediately released water magic,…… and the collision of flame and water caused the water to vaporize, temporarily reducing my vision.
At that moment, Grendel-san came slashing at me with a wooden sword from my blind spot, but I firmly blocked it, and again, just as before, our wooden swords overlapped, and our swords started advancing and retreating again.
“Feal! You said, you understand Charlotte Anastasia better than anyone else!”
“I said, in fact, I understand Charlotte san better than anyone else.”
“Surely you may understand Charlotte Anastasia better than anyone else ……, but!”
Grendel-san said, increasing the force with which he pressed his wooden sword into the ground.
“Surely you do not understand Charlotte Anastasia better than Charlotte Anastasia!”
“Eh ……? What ────?”
“In short! You are so proud of yourself because you understand Charlotte Anastasia better than anyone else, that you haven’t even tried to find out what you might be able to do to help Charlotte Anastasia,…… and that is nothing short of foolish!”
Saying this, Grendel-san forcefully flicked my wooden sword away from me.
Then he slashed at me with his wooden sword,──── and a moment later, I was thinking about the meaning of what Grendel-san had said to me.
Have I even tried to find out what I might be able to do to help Charlotte-san? …… I see.
Charlotte san is suffering, I want to help her with that……Yes, that’s what I really want to do.
And yet, I assume that I can’t do anything and just watch Charlotte-san suffer──── Sure, I’m stupid like that……, so I have to change.
“Thank you ……, Grendel san”
I thanked Grendel sam for going so far as to make me aware of the fact, and he said happily with the corners of his mouth slightly turned up.
“You noticed,…… but I’ll take this match,────.”
Right before the wooden sword was about to swing at me, I fired a lightning spell that knocked Grendel san’s sword away.
“Whaa…!”
I really liked Grendel-san right now, so I could have guessed Grendel-san, but right now I didn’t want to win against Grendel-san.
“Grendel san, is it okay if we call it a draw?”
“……W-Well, it doesn’t matter, because it seems from the look on Feal’s face that he got my message across.”
Saying this, Grendel san showed a little smile.
“…Grendel-san is also a member of the noble family of a marquis, after all.”
“Hmm? That would be true, what do you mean?”
…I can’t say that he is normal like that, so sometimes I almost forget that Grendel-san is a marquis.
“No, it’s nothing.”
“Don’t lie to me, you have something to tell me, talk!”
“I’m about to start my lecture, hurry up and get back.”
I said, and I ran to the lecture room.
“H-hey! Don’t leave me!”
Grendel-san followed behind me, and somehow we managed to get into the lecture room before the lecture started. …… At any rate, thanks to Grendel-san, I could see what I needed to do.
Understanding Charlotte-san, that’s what I have to do,──── all after returning to the Anastasia family mansion.
Yesterday I was called by Charlotte san and I was afraid of that and prayed that the whole sermon would be over as late as possible, but today I was praying that the whole school lecture would be over as soon as possible.
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