Act 4-34: The End of Hubris Knight

They had clashed so many times, and yet Tamri’s sword could never reach Deimos.

「IMPOSSIBLE! I’M GUARDIAN KNIGHT OF YOUR HIGHNESS GILBERT! FAMOUS SWORDSMAN OF THE KINGDOM!」

And I had been trained thoroughly in various martial arts, swordcraft by transcendences for years in that strange realm. I knew that he was a master of swordcraft in just a few clashes, but still far from my level.

Rather, Deimos got really confused from Tamri’s confidence with such meagre swordcraft, which barely reached the master realm.

『Though I have no idea from where your confidence comes from, in our eyes, your prided swordcraft is just child’s play. 』

This was an undeniable truth. The reason being even the children who trained in that mysterious realm had also become scarily powerful; they definitely won’t lose against the trash before me. In fact, anyone in that city could insta-kill this hubris swordsman before me.

「Child… Play?」

Tamri glared at Deimos with enraged eyes.

『You’ve been abusing that youth over there for a while, right? Calling him weak and such. You’re absolutely right. That youth is weak. But, he actually isn’t that much weaker than you.』

「HOW DARE A MERE SKELETON CALL ME WEAK! DIEEEEEEEEE!」

Maybe because of his built up fatigue, Tamri swung his sword in an disorderly manner toward Deimos as he ran out of breath, and naturally, none of those childish swings ever reached Deimos.

「KIEEEEEE!!」

Demios observed Tamri swing his sword at his head with a strange wail,

『You won’t be able to land a hit with such large swings. 』

Deimos dodged it, and swept Tamri’s feet.

「UWO!?」

Tamri fell to the ground in the most unsightly way, his face planted right on the ground.

「YOU! I KNOW NOW! THE SOURCE OF YOUR POWER IS THAT BLACK SWORD!」

Hearing that baseless yet stupid declaration, Deimos was utterly dumbfounded.

『No, it’s simply a difference in skill.』

Surely, I created this black sword with my magic, but it is just an ordinary sharp sword. It has no power whatsoever to boost physical strength, neither would it make me more skilled. I just wanted to measure just how much skilled my swordcraft had become without the assistance of my magic. That was something that I wanted to understand after experiencing the hellish training in that mysterious realm.

「YOU COWARD, HOW DARE YOU TO USE MAGIC WEAPON IN THIS SACRED DUEL! WHAT A COWARD SKELETON!」

Whether Deimos heard it or not, Tamri kept babbling on and on, creating a non-existencial situation in his mind.

How ridiculous. Is he doing this because he simply can’t face his own weakness? It felt like I saw my own reflection before I met Our Supreme Ruler.

Nevertheless, this sorry excuse of a man actually dared to touch the sensitive scale of Our Supreme Ruler. At this point, only one end awaits him.

『It seems you really are an unsalvageable fool.』

Deimos slashed with his black sword at Tamri, who keep prattling non-stop like an idiot, severing his right arm down to its root.

「Eh?」

Tamri raised a dumbfounded voice as he looked to his right, with his hand lying on the ground still gripping his sword. A moment later, Tamri raised a bestial roar, probably due to the scorching pain in his shoulder.

Deimos pointed his black sword at Tamri’s nose,

『If you’ve time to scream, you should use that to pick your sword! You still have your left arm, right?』

Muttered such cold remark that didn’t allow any refusal,

「HIIIIIII!」

Tamri retreated as he raised a scream with a horror filled face,

「S-SAVE ME, TOKOTSU!」

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「…」

Tokotsu completely ignored Tamri, his line of sight completely focusing on Deimos for a while, forgetting about Tamri’s existence.

「OI, TOKOTSU! ARE YOU DEAF!?」

Seeing Tamri shout toward Tokotsu again,

『I’ll say for the last time! TAKE YOUR SWORD!』

He was threatening Tamri by the second part of his remark and yet,

「I-I, I can’t fight anymore!」

Tamri replied in the most unexpected way.

「Haa?」

What in the hell is this guy talking about? 

「I can’t fight anymore with this injury!」

『Are you fu*cking serious?』

Can’t fight just because you lost an arm? Even the children who participated in that hellish training camp wasn’t as sissy as this guy. Rather, they would use their tears to invoke sympathy from the other party while secretly aiming to turn the table. Even the youth called Somni, who he called a weakling a while ago, was still trying to accomplish his mission despite the wound that prevented him from using right arm. Even as a joke, a kingdom knight shouldn’t be as sissy as this guy.

Or maybe… I see now. He wanted me to let go of my vigilance toward him, huh. Indeed, his acting is so real that it almost fooled me. Since he knew that he couldn’t win against me from the front, he chose sink or swim tactic. Since that was the case, all his crying and bawling might be just a performance.

『Just how, much are you looking down on me, BRAT! You think your crude acting can fool me hah!』

Deimos was Kai’s subordinate. Thus, he thought that Tamri was doing something like trying to dishonor his Lord as part of the latter’s plan to turn the table against Deimos. But, smearing mud on their Lord’s face was the biggest taboo for all member of subjugation picture book.

「Y-Y-YOU’RE MISTAKEN! I REALLY CAN’T FIGHT ANYMORE! 」

Tamri screamed desperately with tears and mucus smearing on his face as he held on the cross section of his bisected right arm.

『YOU CAN STILL BABBLE SUCH NONSENSE HUH! THEN I SHALL PUNISH YOU SO THAT YOU CAN’T SPAT THAT KIND OF NONSENSE ANYMORE! 』

Deimos erased the black sword in his right hand and then stepped in closer toward Tamri. And then, he unleashed dozens of punches with his left hand toward Tamri’s abdomen. It was a storm of a punch with residual strength and rapid pace enough to suspend Tamri’s body in the air in the form of letter “く” from start to finish.

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Deimos: ORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORA!