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Arifureta After III'll Defeat You Bastard- Today, Right Here!

AN: This is the posting of the second chapter for today

The previous chapter had been posted, so for those who still hasn't read it, please visit there

「Kaori!」

「Ah, Shizuku-chan」

Shizuku rushed with a worried look into a sht distance away from the residential area from before It seeether with Shizuku

「So she ended up causing a scene What'sa really nastywith a cold voice when he saw the person sitting down beside Kaori The voice without a shred of warhtforords caused the person's big body to twitch

Shizuku thanked Kaori once aze toward that person――Fudou Akari

「……Fudou-san」

「……」

Fudou didn't react and kept looking down Her expression and eyes were dark Not even the slightest bit of doe body And above all else……the track of nosebleed Kaori-san's face punch was terrible The sruesomeness of that punch

「……Just quickly call the police or whatever」

After some time of silence, Fudou whispered those words with faint volume Self-abandonnation and weariness h she was a tired old woh it was only an attempt but what Fudou did was still a criminal act She was completely a suspicious person After all, she was Lord Vad○r in the middle of day She had no way to make any excuse

But, Shizuku really hesitated when Fudouthat hesitation of Shizuku, Kaori opened her mouth with an expression that looked worried for both Fudou and Shizuku

「You see, Shizuku-chan From the start it didn't look like Fudou-san planned to actually hit me you know?」

「Kaori?」

「-……」

Fudou looked at Kaori with a taken aback expression, and Shizuku also faced Kaori with a questioning look that wondered what she h- The shinai you see, it suddenly lost ht be intending to stop just barely before it hit Even in the case that it hit me, I think it would only hurtat the shoulder just in case」

Shizuku understood that Fudou still hadn't lost her rationality after hearing Kaori's words and let out a sight of relieve On the other hand, Fudou was looking at Kaori with a shocked expression for soht after that, sheher whole sense of inferiority

While that happened, Hajiaze toward Kaori

「Even while understanding that it won't be a problem, you snapped the opponent's shinai, and in the end you even smashed her face…… Kaori-san, that's lovely yes」

「Tha, that couldn't be helped! Because, it was Lord Vade○ right in the middle of town! Anyone would be shaken just like me! There was even the sound 'SSSHHH, HOHHHH'!」

「I think that sound is unreated though……」

Kaori was speaking her justification with bright red face In respond Haji expression while glancing at the pulverized mask and Fudou's face that was dyed with nosebleed, and then he snapped a thumb up at her

Kaori-san rushed forward She let out her protesting punches poka poka at Hajiht, Fudou raised a low laughing voice that was un this tiashi My sword is coirl who doesn't even do kendo Hahahah, I' I did is just pointless In the end, the kid who have it will go above the kid who is have-not even without doing anything」

Actually Shizuku really wanted toon the situation, Kaori was stronger than Shizuku After all, her specs were that of a god's apostle It was fine to even call it a foul play

After laughing for a while, Fudou looked exhausted as though her soul had slipped out from her body, then she said one more time 「Just call the police already」 It was clear even without any words She was broken right now She had given up her own life as worthless

Seeing such Fudou, Shizuku closed her eyes once and then whispered with a faint voice

「――You are a woht that Shizuku was ht that this was the payback for her trying to hurt Shizuku's friend

But, Shizuku's next words caused her heart that should have been closed to unconsciously react

「You see, at the past when I was in eleashi was?」

It couldn't be helped that her gaze turned unconsciously suspicious There was no way Yaegashi Shizuku as praised as a beautiful girl by everyone would be gotten told that

Shizuku made a wry smile and she then talked about her appearance when she was a child and the series of events related to that

Fudou snorted at that

「What? Do you want to say that by working hard you can become beautiful like now? That's only the talk if the person has a good base fro That kind of talk――」

「That's not what Iabout whether you like yourself or not」

「Liking, etting what Shizuku was talking about, to which Shizuku nodded silently

「I, hated myself I wasn't aware of it myself, but I stifled myself, ran around busily for other people's sake, took only the role of protecting others…… Even though I actually didn't want to do soirly, I want to laet protected like a princess…… Even though it would be great if I could be like that, but everything was the polar opposite of that」

「……」

The self she wanted to become, her ideal self, they all were the polar opposite of her current self――those words caused Fudou's eyes to widen slightly It was as though she was hearing about herself

「Evenwith it, that was how I persuadedit, but one day, the day when I needed to pay the price fro to deceive and hate ulped She wanted to laugh Shizuku down fro, but Shizuku's expression and voice didn't even have the slightest bit of huhably pathetically My whole body was chopped up, I was also hu to saveinto my head at that time」

「No no no no no, just what the heck with that kind of situation huh!」

Shizuku let out a dry chuckle when she recalled that tiht-inable to happen to ht that it was a lie, but it was just too out there for a nonsense talk, and above all her instinct screamed at her that it wasn't a lie

「When I was at ele the time I disappeared, it was Haji saved by someone ……Fudou-san You said that I'ory of the have, but if I really have everything, then I wonder why is it that I'ashi」

The perfect and dignified girl as recognized by everyone Shizuku who Fudou thought as such person was nowan expression that looked pitiful from the bottom of her heart Fudou's expression turned into disbelief

「It's the fact that everyone has difference due to things like their birth and upbringing But, surely it depends on themselves whether they can make use of it or not I who Fudou-san said to be soood that I almost died I finally could affirain」

Shizuku cut off her words for a aze at Fudou as staring at her in astonishment

「The national meet when I was just entered middle school I faced a first year like ht with upper stance Her skill was obvious even when that was the first tih her first move looked slohen I noticed "the invisible face strike" was already swung down」 (TN: Upper stance = a stance where the athlete held the shinai with both hands above their head)

「Yaegashi, you, reot a faraway look in her remembrance of that time, however she then shook her head

「I don't remember most of what happened in that match My head became blank when I received the first face strike, I was siet hit, hoould I block it, hoould I see through it! Those were all I could think Your sas really really scary……」

For Fudou, the first tih Shizuku was perfectly handling her technique It was a bolt from the blue for her to hear that unexpectedly, Shizuku at that ti her

「When the match was over, after I comprehended that I so…… However, after est impression that remained inside me was only――what a beautiful sword that was」

「Beau, tiful?」

Shizuku nodded Her gaze returned toward Fudou It was difficult to describe the emotion that peeked out from deep inside her eyes It was like envy, or respect, or perhaps fear, it was an emotion with such a mysterious color

「It wasn't a cheap trick An attack of certain defeat that doesn't need the second attack Sihtforwardly It was direct, and resolute to the ut in it, it was a beautiful sword」

Shizuku had never even dreae like her who could swing such sword

Because Shizuku had done kenjutsu since she was little, the skill she had piled up led her to victory in the match, but Shizuku wasn't able to be happy at all with her victory She won the ht That was how she felt

「After that, I becaure each time I participated in the national meet At our second match, as expected your sas beautiful, but that ti sed, executed the technique I trained to face you, and I was able to win……I couldn't do it in the uts pose outside」

「Such, thing……」

There was no conceit in those words The athlete as her objective was training hard the saenuinely happy froht beca that fact

Shizuku picked up the snapped shinai of Fudou and she suddenly took a stance with in on her waist It wasn't a stance for kendoart At the same time, a heavy aura burst out from her body Fudou's body froze spontaneously The cause was because that aura was of killing intent Even though a kendoka and a swordsman both wielded sword, but there was a decisive difference between the two sides

Shizuku suddenly relaxed her stance and talked with a wry smile

「I'll leave it to you whether you will believe it or not, but I, during the tis」

「Eh? Cut?」

「Yes I cut down a living thing with real sword Even now I re flesh, the s that was necessary to survive, so I don't regret it But, I'th or the h I'm a swordsman, but I'm not a kendoka」

「Not a kendoka, but swordsman……」

She had heard the rumor about Shizuku and her classmates It was a story that was so hard to believe so suddenly It would be strange to believe the story of a war in another world

But……

The gaze of Shizuku that was staring at her, in the end was it so dishonest that could be washed away by "common sense"? Fudou didn't think so

「I won't return back to being a kendoka any it That beautiful sword of yours Perhaps this sound like sarcas that sas also really beautiful」

「……is that so」

Fudou looked back at Shizuku, and then she looked down

She clenched her fist tightly as though enduring so drop by drop on top of that fist

It was unclear howFudou lifted up her face Her expression was a refreshed one that looked as though so that haunted her had vanished away somewhere

Fudou sat with seiza posture on that spot, and then her gaze htforwardly And then, she lowered her head hard and pressed her forehead on the ground

「I had done so dreadful and caused trouble for all of you, I'y of Fudou resounded inside the saze uessed Shizuku's question to her whether it was okay to forgive Fudou, and she s up and down He was e Shizuku to step on Fudou's head to uessed hishim

「Promise me, Fudou-san Continue with your kendo Polish your sword, without getting influenced by soashi…… Yes, I promise ……It will take time until I can like myself I also cannot declare that my unjustified resentment will absolutely vanish But, I won't discard what I have piled up until now, that's the only thing that I won't do I ork hard, so so the clear eyes on the face that Fudou lifted up, Shizuku s that expression Even though her look was severe just like Fudou Myouou, her refreshed s

Surely, in a future that wouldn't be so far away, she would be able to grow to like herself for sure That srasped the hand that Shizuku presented and she stood up Kaori tried to wipe up Fudou's blood with her handkerchief, but Fudou hurriedly backed away Kaori was un the atmosphere to turn harht so leisurely It was at that titiely charot goosebu alarh we have an appointment」

「Don't worry about it Kaori-chan You had already contacted me beforehand after all, Onee-san doesn't mind at all yahn♡」

He couldn't understand the reality Why was thethat clothes shop in Brook was here? Why was that guy talking to Kaori so naturally like that? Why was that guy wearing frilly one piece h ainto reality

No, rather that was, an indescribable, blaspheht now, you are thinking about so impoliteee?」

「&8211;!?」

'Be cool, be cool, me' Hajime desperately told himself

「Why, are you here? How did you creep out fro that always crept out sly!」

The sudden invasion of er of clothes shop, Chrystabel, it caused Kaori to ignore Fudou as flustered for the ti and she explained the situation with a wry s and accessory of earth and he (TN: Or she? What should I use here?) consulted Liliana whether she could possibly learn about clothing and accessory in this side