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Al vs Eleonora
「Children mixed group, those in the sixth match please come over here!」
Carla-san raises her voice and the preparation for the sixth match begins. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
It finally came. The arm wrestling showdown between me and Eleonora-neesan.
Amidst the many cheers, Eleonora-neesan starts to walk toward the battlefield calmly.
She turns her arms around with a fearless smile on her face and also cracks her neck.
Judging from her confident expression and attitude, it looks like she doesn’t even have a fragment of doubt that she will lose.
Eleonora-neesan believes that she is the hunter.
It’s not arrogance, but self-confidence.
A champion aura manifested around Eleonora-neesan, coming from the accumulation of victory many times.
……un, it’s impossible. There’s no way I can win against Eleonora-neesan in arm wrestling. This is her field when it comes to pure physical strength.
「Please, Al! You must win!」
「At this rate we will be made fun of by the villagers」
「Alfried, take revenge for us!」
Not knowing my state of mind, Torr, Asmo, and Eric say whatever they want.
「Even if you told me to do such an absurd thing……」
「Why are you being weak? Al’s cunning will somehow reverse the situation!」
When I uttered such words of weakness, Torr shouted at me, whether intentionally or not.
Use cunning tricks to win they said, but to begin with there’s no way to use tricks in a simple arm wrestling. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
A match will mostly decided before the match starts.
It greatly depends on how much you can prepare in advance or how you can bring about advantageous circumstances.
I can’t bring out either of those this time, and it is Eleonora-neesan’s field of pure physical strength.
In the first place, I would never make it into a physical strength contest between us if I were to be in a situation where I had to fight against Eleonora-neesan.
That’s because no sooner when I bring it into her field, she would overwhelm any petty tricks used on her with force.
So that’s why, in arm wrestling where you are limited to pure physical strength, I have a high probability of losing.
Haaah……can’t be helped. Since it’s certain I will lose, I will just show everyone that I tried my best so everyone won’t complain about it but still not get hurt myself.
Just when I finished deciding that in my mind, Ra-chan came in front of me.
「Al!」
「Hm? What’s wrong?」
「Good luck, alright!」
Ra-chan’s pure eyes are directed at me.
She’s innocently smiling at me with a belief that I won’t lose.
What to do now? I feel pathetic thinking that I will definitely lose and trying to avoid getting hurt.
Ra-chan is already like a little sister to me.
It would be uncool to show such an unsightly figure in front of my sister.
Even I know that this is so out of character for me.
But, I don’t want to do an embarrassing match in front of Ra-chan, who has high expectations of me.
「……okay. I’ll do my best」
「Un!」
Being sent off by Ra-chan, I came to the arm wrestling stage.
Then, the villagers inside the restaurant become lively.
「Ooh, it’s a showdown between Alfried-sama and Eleonora-sama!」
「This might be the cruelest match of the day」
「But, I can’t imagine Alfried-sama to lose so easily」
Perhaps it’s because this is the last showdown between siblings for the day that the excitement reaches its peak. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
Everyone predicted how the match would turn out on their own.
As expected, most of them appear to be sure of Eleonora-neesan’s victory. Un, I think so too.
But, I don’t want to pretend that I am doing my best now that Ra-chan is watching me.
Staring forward, I saw Eleonora-neesan staring down at me.
「Looks like you’ve prepared yourself, then? The sin of wasting my time practicing for the tea party is heavy, you know?」
Eleonora-neesan said while cracking her finger joints.
I was wondering about her gesture as a woman, but it’s strangely becoming, which is puzzling.
Her cold tone and intensity make me want to run away despite myself, but I can’t do that since Ra-chan is watching.
「Well, I’ll just do my best」
「……hee, how interesting」
Eleonora-neesan’s eyes widened and she smiled, maybe she thought I would say something more pathetic.
If Ra-chan were not here, I would have already begged for my life after all. Her prediction is not wrong actually.
「Now then, please grab each other hands」
With Carla-san’s signal, Eleonora-neesan and I placed our elbows on the table and put our fingers together.
Eleonora-neesan’s slender fingers are firmly entwined with mine.
Eleonora-neesan’s fingers seem to be saying something like 『I won’t let you escape』.
They don’t even twitch even when I try to shake them off.
……this may be a bad idea after all.
No, I can’t give up. I still have magic.
There’s no rule that says we can’t particularly use magic in arm wrestling.
But still, it will be a foregone conclusion that I will receive a backlash if I were to use flashy magic in front of such large spectators, but it’s fine as long as I don’t get found out.
I’m used to using magic without being noticed.
I will make a momentary, sharp Body Strengthening magic in an instant and finish it in one go.
As I was making a path toward victory inside my mind, the referee - Carla-san - put her hand on top of ours. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
「Now then let us start. Readyー.....」
Before Carla-san let go of her hand and announced the start of the match, I flicked the finger of my left hand and sent an air shot while being clasped in Eleonora-neesan’s finger.
However, Eleonora-neesan avoids it by slightly turning her face away.
That’s absurd! Did she read that move?
It was a high-speed air cannon impossible to see and with so little magic power that almost everyone wouldn’t be able to sense it. Even though it was really small and came from her blind spot, I don’t understand the meaning of her being able to avoid it at this distance.
It is now impossible to defeat her using Body Strengthening magic and doing a surprise attack after I fail to make her flinch from the Air Shot.
Having said that, even if I use Light to blind her, she can just close her eyes and continue the arm wrestling. What’s more, a surprise attack is only effective when the opponent is not on guard. It won’t work toward an opponent who has astounding reflexes and is vigilant like Eleonora-neesan.
Eei, at this rate, I’ll just use Body Strengthening magic and push her. I don’t like this kind of hot-blooded game but it can’t be helped. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
「Goー!」
The moment I heard the voice to start the match, I cast Body Strengthening magic and put strength into my arm.
When it comes to the manipulation of mana and Body Strengthening magic, I’m far better at it compared to Eleonora-neesan.
Even if the strength idiot Eleonora-neesan won’t be able to do anything against Body Strengthening――
「Eh? It won’t budge?」
I’ve definitely filled my arm with mana. My strength should have increased by manyfold due to the magic.
However, Eleonora-neesan’s arm - which was linked with mine - didn’t move at all from the starting position.
――Eh? A rock?
When I tried to look up toward Eleonora-neesan, I had a vision of a large rock in front of me.
That was exactly the symbol of being immovable. It makes me realize that no matter how hard we try, there are things in this world that human beings won’t be able to reach.
And unbelievably, Eleonora-neesan doesn’t even use Body Strengthening magic.
She stopped my arm which was supported by the Body Strengthening magic without the the aid of mana.
She’s already a monster.
「What are you doing? You can start anytime, you know?」
Eleonora-neesan provoked me, while knowing that I was putting my all into this.
「What the heck are you doing, Al! Properly put some strength into your arm!」
「You! Do you have a motivation or not!」
Irritated at the situation at the stage where our arms didn’t move at all, Torr and Eric jeered at me.
I’ve already done my best, even going as far as using Body Strengthening magic, though......
As I was flooded by the feeling of despair, Eleonora-neesan slowly put some strength into her arm.
「Ughgugugugu!」
I desperately resist while using the Body Strengthening magic, but I can’t stop the arm of Eleonora-neesan that feels like a heavy machine.
But still, her arm pushes mine as though my resistance doesn’t matter to her.
And, Eleonora-neesan enjoys watching me resist. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
Her method this time is more malicious than usual. I can understand she was angry that she was forced to participate in the tea party instead of practicing swordsmanship with Luna-san.
N, not good. I can’t resist.
「Alー! You can do itー!」
Though, Ra-chan is watching me.
I can’t just let Eleonora-neesan look down on me and continue to slowly push me like this.
I have a pained expression on my face while enduring Eleonora-neesan’s push desperately and putting more strength into my arm.
Then, when my arm was about to hit the cushion below, Eleonora-neesan was convinced of her victory, and the success of her revenge against me - showed a gap.
Seeing that opportunity, I put all my all into the Body Strengthening magic.
「――!!」
Her arm was impressively pushed back due to her being caught off guard by my Body Strengthening magic.
Despite being startled, Eleonora-neesan instantly resisted with all her strength.
Darn it, I used all my strength but how did she resist it with her flesh and blood for an instant?
Although, Eleonora-neesan resisted the full powered-mana Body Strengthening magic, I continued to forcibly push her hand.
The crowd let out a cheer at my sudden disadvantaged position, but I don’t care about that now.
I will defeat Eleonora-neesan now! Before Eleonora-neesan strengthened her body!
However, Eleonora-neesan strengthened her body just in time.
The definite response I felt until just a while ago now vanished.
The moment mana passed through Eleonora-neesan’s arm, her arm didn’t move in the slightest.
I thought Eleonora-neesan was going to slowly - but steadily - corner me again, but she didn’t do that and simply just crushed me with all her might.
My arm moved and fell like a pendulum, and being slammed onto the cushion.
「Winner, Eleonora-sama」
Carla-san raises her voice and the spectators let out a roar of excitement.
「Uoohー! That was quite an intense match, more than I thought!」
「Yeah, I thought at first that it was impossible for Alfried-sama when he was being looked down on by Eleonora-sama, but as expected of him. That was because he was acting to find an opportunity 」
「Rather, didn’t Eleonora-sama become serious in the middle?」
「To be able to fight that hard with his sister who is older than him, Alfried-sama is surprisingly strong」
I guess it was strange I didn’t get one-sidedly crushed by Eleonora-neesan.
Everyone tilted their heads in confusion. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
「Cheー, he was just resisting a bit」
「Well, but didn’t Alfried do his best?」
It’d be fine if they just got unreasonably angry at me, but I couldn’t quite understand why the instantly-defeated group was evaluating things so arrogantly.
Even so, my right arm hurt. I use Body Strengthening magic with all my mana, but still, it seems like the burden was too severe for this immature body.
I felt like it wasn’t converted into strength at all compared to the mana I put in.
「Rather than that, Eleonora-neesan squeezed my hand as hard as you can, didn’t you? There are finger marks on them, you know?」
「…………」
I tried talking to Eleonora-neesan, but for some reason, there was no response.
Eleonora-neesan stares fixedly at her right arm, squeezing and opening her hand repeatedly.
「Could it be, your arm hurt?」
「T, there’s no way it will hurt. Rather, you shot an air bullet even before the match started, and made a surprise attack using Body Strengthening magic, didn’t you?」
「It, it can’t be helped, right! There’s no way I can rival Eleonora-neesan’s strength if I play fair and square!」
It’s impossible to compete against Eleonora-neesan with just your flesh and blood.
Just when I tried to escape from Eleonora-neesan’s intense stare, Ra-chan tugged at my sleeve.
「Al, that was regrettable!」
「Ah, Ra-chan. Sorry, I lost even though you cheered for me」
「But, Al looked cool when you did your best!」
「……Ra-chan!」
I’m deeply moved by Ra-chan’s kindness as she still looks at me with unchanging eyes even when I am lost.
「Hey, Al! I also want to be able to put my mana into my arm!」
「Aah, Body Strengthening magic, huh. Hmーm, I actually don’t recommend using that technique forcibly when you’re still young but there’s no harm in learning that magic. Okay. Let’s practice that magic while doing arm wrestling with me!」
「Un!」
We enjoyed the arm wrestling competition in Celia’s restaurant in this manner. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
I support the murder of the sister.
ReplyDeletethat proves that you should be killed :))
DeleteLol atleast its explain that even if you use Strengthening magic as a child you can't beat a mutated hardwork big sister! Because you don't have a muscle yet! Alfred was like 8 or 9 yrs old still underdeveloped compare to girls they develop fast
ReplyDeleteI don't understand why he didn't just used his psychic magic telekinesis to push his arm, he would have easily won the match... Al is supposed to be cunning, he should have thought about that, especially considering that is one of his signature moves. :-/
ReplyDeleteEleanora-sama said will only get engaged to someone stronger than her. It's a shame that the only contenders shown at this time are her female friend Luna and her own little brother.
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