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Arifureta After IIIs This Grudge, Ought to be Left Uncleared Like This-
Dead silence filled the lobby The cheering for other match and other voices came in from the match venue, but even with all those noises it felt like silence had visited this place, it ht about by the two high school girls staring at each other
"You are calling yourself a samurai" "I'm not a samurai" It was only those words It wasn't a conversation that high school girls would generally make, but the atmosphere of the tas too serious to call it a joke
The asking side even noas exhaling out wild breath that was accompanied with vapor froh her bloodshot eyesside wasn't even irl saying?」, rather a desperation of「You think I'll let anyone attach anye attribute on me more than this! I'ap of her expression
「I'll change how I said it You, you are calling yourself a kendoka like that!?」
The kendo girl who boasted a huge body frame where people who seemed to be her kendo club teammates and Shizuku's friends frory yell with a cute aniap between the voice and the Fudou Myouou face was terrific
The first thing Shizuku did was to let out a sigh of relieve while stroking her chest hearing she was entered into a category that wasn't that strange for an active high school girl to be in while showing a perplexed expression at the indignation of the Fudou Myouou girl
「I don't understand what do you ht now I'm not even in kendo club, so I cannot say that I' that you resigned? You are not just taking absent?」
Her aura of anger was still unchanged, but the Fudou Myouu girl asked with an expression that soned, and I also don't have plan of co back」
「……I know that you encountered a serious incident Is that the cause? I heard that you aren't injured, but do you have a circurit There was such sound It was the sound of Fudou Myouou girl clenching her fist tightly The kouhai-chan that was clinging on that arirl stared still at that fist while her expression was starting to go pale Her tear gland looked like it would burst crying anytime
「No Both my mind and body are healthy It's not that I "cannot" return, but I "won't" return That's what I decided」
「-, Yaegashiii, you are-, -……hat is, your reason?」
Kouhai-chan's ar arm muscle! Kouhai-chan fell on her butt and she trembled all over! The friends of Shizuku, and also the tea the vision of the girl's rage aura and shivered in fear!
The Fudou Myouou girl desperately repressed the so out fro that question, Shizuku scratched on her cheek aardly while deliberating of how to answer
If she said her reason honestly, it would be because in the world of kendo there was already no one that could become her opponent, because the specs she obtained in another world was a foul play, those were the reasons but……
By no s just like that If she said such thing, perhaps Fudou Myouou would really descent to this world for real
Now then, how to answer so that the matter could be settled peacefully……
Shizuku didn't even need five second to ruave the other party a conclusion
「……I see I get it I didn't want to believe it, because I thought that there is no way that Yaegashi would, but――it's because you got a man aren't you」
「Eh? Ah, no, it's not like――」
Shizuku noticed that the gaze of the Fudou Myouou girl turned toward behind her and she tried to say soirl threw a gaze that glinted with ht nearby, even the kendo boys and officials who becaether!
「Aaa?」
「&8211;!?」
Haji out fro pupils was exactly madness! It caused everyone to feel shiver and their body locked up thinking「Those eyes, those are absolutely the eyes of aover there was a deh school boy!
The Fudou Myouou girl quietly returned her gaze to Shizuku
That thing was no good That was soot involved with no irl-chan that et a fresh start
「It's because you got a man aren't you!」
「For noait a little bit okay ……Haji teary eyed, and several people collapsed already while foa in the mouth Look, like
When Shizuku looked back across her shoulder and asked Hajime to stop with a wry shastly aura He folded his arms onceback to a quiet one The madness had left Everyone's SAN value was protected!
Shizuku's friends let out whispers of gratitude「Shizuku is goddess」 Also, it seeoddess would increase In a bit of differentme that someone like me is not even worthy to be your opponent is it?」
「Err, you look like you are going to burst into tear anyti, so don't force yourself to progress the talk and wipe your……」
「Are you pitying me!?」
Looks like she was already in a state that couldn't withdraw back anye that she harbored toward Shizuku for soirl shouldn't get exposed at for their whole life seemed to cause herhera quarrel with that teary eyes while still ereat intensity, but the heated up Fudou-chan raised her voice angrily as though to drown out Shizuku's voice
「I, in order to win against you! I' it my all until now only for that! Whether it's in the h school, I was undefeated! Except against you! You were the one who always beca that you is ry voice, was it really? Her intensity caused the people there to feel that it was like that, but for Shizuku, she was soirl looked like she was clinging to so because she understood that what she wanted was forever out of her reach
「When you disappeared, I despaired at that tiht for a moment to stop with kendo- I transferred here was also because I thought, that if I do kendo at the district where you were at, then perhapswill cleared up a bit! That's hen you came back, I was really happy, and yet……and yet, for you to abandon your sword just for a irl-chan's surname seemed to be "Fudou" What a match Shizuku's whisper was faint and it only reached Haji 「What, did you say……don't tell irl's name was Fudou Akari Hajime, consolation price for you (TN: Fudou Myouou = 不動明王, Fudou Akari = 不動明)
Fudou-chan rapidly walked toward Shizuku, leaving behind her teao of her due to heraura
And then, she pointed with a snap at Shizuku's nose, and with a blazing straightforward gaze she,
「Fight et abouttrivial, then I'll make you remember This kendo of mine that you don't pay any attention to, I'll beat it into your body to teach you how formidable it is!」
……「」
Yes, it was a war declaration
Of course, Shizuku had no duty or responsibility to accept The other party was considering her as rival, feeling furious, and tried to drag her into a fight were all by her own convenience It was completely unrelated with Shizuku
But,
(――It will be easier if I can just ignore this, huh)
That was exactly why Yaegashi Shizuku couldn't ignore this Her personality wasn't one that would let her choose the easy path
To say nothing of how the other party didn't co how the other party so with her own heart, made her unable to refuse even e」
「-」
She accepted that challenge gallantly The sharp glint of the other party, was replied back with a deep gaze that looked like a tranquil forest
That voice wasn't raised to be louder or displayed intense pressure by any " inside that voice definitelythat, Shizuku's look loosened up slightly
「However, is it fine with you if we do it at another day? Today, I' to cheer for my friends I cannot prioritize you here Fudou-san yourself, you aren't planning to co your teaaze, Fudou looked back behind her Over there, there were her kendo club tearoan 「u」 leaked out from Fudou It see her teaetic, and then she shook her head as though to shake off so
Shizuku handed over a scrap of paper to such Fudou
「This is, my contact address Please contact et it」
Fudou received the paper and she directed a gaze that see to Shizuku for a bit, but then she returned toward her teammates
「Shizuku! Are you okay?」
「Onee-saathered one after another and talked to her orried voice Event the kouhai-chan who had revived before anyone knew also rushed toward Shizuku after glaring angrily at the back of Fudou
「I'm fine, I'm fine That person also isn't so like a ht? It will be against that kind of person you know? Won't it be dangerous?」
「I thought she is a barbarian fro of a face like a de you this for your own good, it's better to report this to the teacher or soht, Onee-sah school girl! That irl! Onee-saet eaten by that!」
It appeared that everyone was scared against Fudou's pressure and threatening aura, and also her atrocious body build and face At the sareat unease with this personal nored without the supervision of any adult It was clear that they orrying for Shizuku from the bottom of their heart
But, the one in question here, Shizuku was instead frowning slightly
She was happy that they orried for her But, if they then deprecated Fudou's appearance and body build because of that, even if that was because of the consequence of the girl's own action, what they were saying still wasn't so the inside of Shizuku's heart, Shizuku's friends were getting heated up even further with their criticism toward Fudou because seen fro coed into this
「……Everyone, I' aside criticizing her action, saying those kind of words toward her appearance that she was born with is a bit too much」
「Eh, ah, Shizuku……」
「So, sorry……」
The friends came back to their senses suddenly when they saw Shizuku's expression that was enduring distress Shizuku's friends knew about the personality of the busybody Shizuku ould feel other people's pain as though it was her own pain At the sa the maliciously behind someone's back
「H worried for me But she――Fudou-san, just like I said just now, she isn't someone that I didn't know I alular in the national tournaainst her several times She is definitely not a bad person」
Shizuku said that with a wry s behind across her shoulder
「Even in the unlikely chance that she took unfair method, I'll still be fine After all a sca~ry person is watching overas it that Shizuku referred to Shizuku's friends looked at Haji behind Shizuku, and then they trelanced back at the all the senpai as shield
「Indeed, it will be fine if Nagumo is there, I think?」
「In a sense, it feels like the person just now is still better」
「Onee-sama, that person, he absolutely had killed two or three people before You should rethink about going out with――hiihn!?」
To tell the truth, Shizuku's friends were thinking 「Is it really okay going out with that kind of boyfriend」, but when they recalled the glint and aura from before that resembled a devilish homicide, they couldn't think that Hajiined the end of the person who tried to lay their hand on Shizuku and even felt sy up toward such person
On top of that, if they knew that kouhai-chan's words was actually an underestimation……
For some reason kouhai-chan felt an intense chill in theand she screamed When Shizuku's friends looked at Hajime all at once,
「What did you say, about Shizuku and me?」
「You two are really a ivelike a baby deer that was only just born Shizuku's friends were getting cold sweat seeing Hajime's faint smile
「Haji her It's punishathering and action」
「Do it umo is totally a bad news', and then 'Shizuku is a wild beast tamer' By the way, for so Hajih……
For the sake of friendship, Shizuku pretended to not notice that
After that, Shizuku's friends returned to the venue in order to participate in the re matches, while Shizuku and also Hajime returned to the audience seat Shizuku's friends splendidly took the cha party, Hajime read the mood and he didn't participate in it For so about Haji fro party, Hajime expressly caet excited again and Shizuku's face got even redder fros happened
Shizuku whose hand was pulled by Haji greeting to the others Her expression while doing that caused kouhai-chan to lift the slogan「Onee-saht to die」 That expression looked so happy, to the degree that it would htly after school ended, at the period when the last of the students would go ho kendo uniform and protectors inside the kendo hall
The students of the other clubs had one home, the people there were only kendo club members who had specially received per spectator
「……so you caaze toward the entrance The clubtheir practice because it was a waste to not do anything were aze following Shizuku's gaze
About a few seconds later, a large shadow of a person slo~wly appeared at the entrance of the dojo building Even though the shadow appeared quietly, Dede-de-deden! Dede-de-deden! the BGM of Terers grasping the door of the dojo building was thick, the legs that were stretching from the skirt were burly like rock The upper arms caused the sailor uniform to look like it would burst open anytime, the uniform looked like it was a no-sleeved clothes like what the 'hyahhaa' group living at the end of century earing
And then, her expression was also……
He roove carved between her forehead, her lips that were pressed on each other to for brutally The shinai bag and kendo protectors case she were shouldering looked like flail and od's descent!'
Several female club members spontaneously screamed「Hih」 and fell back on their butt, but iti objectively, it was so that couldn't be helped, it was clear that for normal people, ten out of ten would say that she looked terrifying
「Excuse ainst Yaegashi Shizuku」
With a lovely voice that like before had a terrific gap with her appearance, Akari-chan gave her greeting also following the decoruirls who fell on their butt and theaway, but her expression soon returned to before
She focused toward one thing Only toward Yaegashi Shizuku She decided that everything else was but a trifle
「Please co words――are unnecessary isn't it?」
「Yes, I caht after all Your preparation?」
Fudou was approaching with a pressure thatwith each of her brisk step Shizuku cal「There is no probleed her clothes there, and then she sat down across Shizuku and began to put on her protectors
「Before thea towel on her head Fudou nodded
「You said, that your objective is to win against me Is that really all there is to it?」
「……What do youbut…… No matter how, it feels like this is not si to raise your skill in kendo further above」
「……」
Being unable to have a ainst the athlete that was her objective That athlete co kendo Would she display that e just because of that……
An athlete that was considered as rival not participating in competition or retired from the club because of some kind of circumstance wasn't that rare of a story Many peopleof being off their gaht that the intensity of the emotion that Fudou shoas hard to be explained with just that She felt fro was stolen away, a fervent sohtly It was unclear whether it was directed toward Shizuku, or toward herself But for Shizuku, if she was pressed to say, it looked like it was directed toward Fudou herself
「……A person like you who have everything won't understand, the feeling of a person doesn't have Foronly that with a faint h to hide her expression
Shizuku stared at such Fudou for a while, but urged by the gaze of Fudou that peeked out from behind the mask, Shizuku put on her own mask
Both of them entered theattentively They followed the etiquette with flowing in!」 fronal, the ht away,
「oOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!!!!」
A yell of fighting spirit that felt as though the air ruptured resounded The club lasses were rattling for real, not just metaphor
Fudou atte step that see
In respond Shizuku was only quietly standing still with her shinai readied in front of her She didn't look perturbed or paralyzed at all
「-, oOOOO-!!」
Like a large tree That was how Shizuku seeh to bloay the weakness that she felt for aaura many time over toward Shizuku She moved the tip of her shinai with saze and footwork, all in order to lure in the opponent
I in her mind
She would strike the face protector
――Her torso was hit
From the face toward the torso
――Her forearm was hit
From forearm to face Even if it was blocked she would push in……
(-, it would get, returned-)
No e herself getting struck back
Didn't she give up doing kendo? Didn't she stop participating inuntil now? Or else, was it that even with her only doing kendo in her spare ti kendo, yet she was still unable to even reach toward her feet……
(Such thing-, that's absurd-)
An indescribable ee of defeat
To crush down that feeling, Fudou tried to gush out a yell of fighting spirit that would be even louder than before――
「oOO――」
「yAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!」
She was crushed instead by the sudden war cry running through her
shin, silence fell It was as though even the insects outside the building were holding their breath, a quiet world Just with a roar, it was as though the world was overwritten with Shizuku's territory
If it was just iht" that was ha