Tensei Shite Inaka de Slowlife wo Okuritai - Chapter 504

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Al's Automatic Swordsmanship

 Eleonora-neesan and I face each other in the the mansion courtyard. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com

 Eleonora-neesan stands ready and holding a wooden sword in front.

 However, her opponent - which is me - is not holding a wooden sword and uses Psychic to make my sword float in the air.

 Although I couldn’t feel the handle with my hand, I could firmly feel it from the way my mana transmitted back.

「Let’s go!」

 Eleonora-neesan started running with foolishly meticulous attention as she raised her voice I brought my sword to the front and swung it with Psychic to match her timing.

「!?」

 Eleonora-neesan - who was trying to close the distance between us in an instant - suddenly stopped as if she stumbled and stopped my sword.

 Of course, I didn’t move from my starting position.

 Eleonora-neesan stopped her advances three meters in front of me. If it’s the usual swordsmanship sparring, then it’s a distance a normal sword won’t be able to reach her.

 However, the sword that was floating in midair due to Psychic had nothing to do with a normal sword spar.

 While Eleonora-neesan blocks my sword with hers, I already rotate my sword horizontally with magic and make a clean sweep at her.

 Eleonora-neesan’s eyes widened at the sudden and weird trajectory of the sword released from the motionless state.

 Just as I thought like that, Eleonora-neesan stimulated her mana inside her body as she cast magic and she showed an impossible reaction speed.

「Aaahh! Eleonora-neesan used Body Strengthening magic!」

「You also use magic so we’re even!」

 Despite protesting to her, Eleonora-neesan retorted like that.

「Setting against Nord-tousan aside, this is the first time you use Body Strengthening magic against me, right?」

 When Eleonora-neesan fights with Nord-tousan, she uses Body Strengthening magic against him.

 But, when her opponents are people weaker than her which is me and Sylvio-niisan, she never uses it

 When I tried pointing that out, Eleonora-neesan looked annoyed. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com

「……you’re noisy」

 I knew it, it looked like Eleonora-neesan couldn’t resist the sparring experience ingrained in her mind.

 Feeling a certain response, I resolutely attack Eleonora-neesan continuously.

 To attack Eleonora-neesan by manipulating the sword with Psychic without moving at all.

 Aah, this is nice. I can’t believe how easy it is to do that without needing to move myself.

 Since there’s no need for me to move myself there is also no noise mixed in the sword’s movement. The mana’s reaction is faster than my own body so the sword moves exactly as I want it to.

 Or rather, I think I can absolutely use the sword moves I normally wouldn’t be able to use as hoped.

 I name it Automatic Swordsmanship.

 If it’s like this then wouldn’t I be able to compete against Eleonora-neesan?

 Just as I was getting carried away like that, Eleonora-neesan - who was on the defensive until now - blew my wooden sword away.

「Eh?」

「This is not swordsmanship. There is also no soul in the sword at all and it also doesn’t have weight behind it. It’s no different from a projectile that comes to attack you with a weird trajectory」

 Certainly, since the sword is moving with magic, it probably doesn’t have weight and pressure behind it.

 However, even this needs a certain skill to make full use of so being treated as just a projectile makes me a little annoyed.

「In that case I will increase the number of swords next」

「It will be the same no matter how much you increase the swords. I will break them all」

 Annoyed, I use Psychic to open the storehouse door and increase five more swords from there.

 Along with the previous wooden sword I manipulated earlier, the number of wooden swords now is six.

 Four swords are for attacking while the rest two are floating around to intercept her.

 By simple calculation, it is six times more than earlier. Even Eleonora-neesan would be unable to deal with six swords.

「Go」

 I send the four swords to attack her to begin. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com

 Eleonora-neesan uses her body and footwork to avoid the approaching swords coming towards her from different angles. She only repelled a single sword she couldn’t evade.

 Eleonora-neesan is getting closer while leaving the swords attacking her behind so I immediately blocked her advance with the swords that were meant to intercept her.

「 That’s dangerous!」

「……hee」

 

Eleonora-neesan has approached in front of my eyes.

 I wouldn’t be able to win if we brought the fight at such a short distance so while I restrain her with a sword meant to intercept her, I hurriedly bring the 4 attack swords back.

 Eleonora-neesan retreated while rolling on the ground to evade the swords going for her back.

 I’m glad I left the swords for interception at hand.

 If I were to use all of them to attack her then I may have been defeated by now.

 Six swords may not be enough at this rate.

 I take out four more swords from the storehouse with Psychic and add them to the group of swords.

 I kept two swords ready to intercept while the rest eight of them were shooting toward Eleonora-neesan.

 Then, each of the swords attacks her at a slightly different timing and angle.

 There’s nothing wrong with my Psychic’s manipulation. All of them are manipulated in a way that they will attack at a slightly different timing.

 However, Eleonora-neesan continues to intercept them all with her whole body movements and her single wooden sword.

 She’s moving around freely in the snow-covered courtyard and avoiding the multiple swords attacking her.

「No matter how much you add the number it will all be the same!」

 I’ve seen this scene somewhere before. That’s right, it’s the previous year’s snowball fight.

 At that time, I challenged Eleonora-neesan by manipulating more than 30 snowballs.

 While I managed to win against her as a result, my magic skills were defeated with just a single sword of hers. 1

 As expected, I don’t want to make the same mistake and lose.

 My mana and magic control skills have improved compared to last year.

 Do you think I will accept being overmatched by just a single person and a sword?

 I know that if I just simply increase the number of swords or attack her with a different time lag will be anticipated and defended against. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com

 And so, I can just prevent her from letting it happen easily.

 So I move the positions of all eight swords and attack Eleonora-neesan.

 However, three of them are just bluffs. They are not in a trajectory that will hit Eleonora-neesan, but they move around to limit her range of movement.

 It’s quite difficult to precisely move every single one of them, but I’ve been practicing magic of my own initiative so I’ve become familiar with this.

 Eleonora-neensan’s movements become a little dull due to the attacks mixed with the bluffs.

 She must have realized that some of the multiple approaching swords were bluffs. However, she can’t ignore it even though she notices them.

 No matter how superhuman her reflexes are, it would still be a little burden for Eleonora-neesan to determine which is which in an instant and intercept them.

「This is irritating! Blow them away」

 Eleonora-neesan wraps her sword with mana and tries to blow away my sword.

 However, a hard sound echoes out as it ends in failure.

「It’s hard!」

「How naive. I coated them with my mana you know」

 It just happened earlier so I already took countermeasure. My current swords are now filled with a considerable amount of mana.

 It won’t be sent flying away with just a little force now.

 I throw my swords with great vigor toward Eleonora-neesan, whose posture starts to collapse.

 Hide a wooden sword behind the other wooden swords and swing it at her to split it from the other swords at her blind spot at the last moment.

 Purposely missing the attack, I limit her visibility by raising the snow on the ground.

 The numerous attacks that keep the opponent busy seem to be effective as Eleonora-neesan is only on the defensive.

 Two swords always floating nearby, ready to intercept her.

 They are always ready for any possible unexpected situations.

「How is it Eleonora-neesan? This is my Automatic Swordsmanship!」

「Ahahahaha!」

 So I said to provoke her, but the person herself started to smile even though she was still on the defensive. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com

 What happened? Has her mind finally gone crazy?

「This is nice, Al! This is the best!」

「Yes?」

「This practice, this is so fun! It’s like I’m taking on a large number of knights as my opponents!」

 I couldn’t help but listen while staring in wonder at her, Eleonora-neesan said all that with a really happy smile on her face.

 I can’t say that her expression is relaxed, but it’s very bright.

 It’s like she’s playing the most fun game in the world.

 ……somehow, looking at Eleonora-neesan’s smiling face makes me feel stupid.

 Why am I doing this? There’s no particular reason why I have to win against Eleonora-neesan and to begin with, if I want to purely win against her then I wouldn’t fight in the field of swordsmanship.

 Realizing such an obvious fact, I stopped the Psychic.

「Eehh? Hey wait! Why do you stop it!」

「I mean, it’s cold and I’m tired. I think I’m going to end the practice now」

 I found a new application of Psychic so got excited for a moment there.

 I return the wooden swords floating in the air with Psychic to the storeroom and their original locations.

 And just as I wanted to turn around and return inside the mansion, Eleonora-neesan grabbed my arm.

「Hey, Al. Do it one more time!」

「Don’t wanna, I’m tired already」

 From that day onwards, the number of times Elenora-neesan invited me for self-practice increased, leaving me somewhat exasperated with it for a while.

 ……I shouldn’t have shown her such an unusual applications of swordsmanship. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com

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