Chapter 15
Translator: True Detective
Chapter 15. The Female Protagonist Alicia Shudroy
Going back in time a little to the day Dame Kalix barely managed to match the schedules of the Seven Wolves.
Elise was calmly waiting for the time.
‘Other Seven Wolves, huh.’
The Seven Wolves Elise had encountered so far were a total of four people.
Kalix. Hugo. Richard. Flora.
There were times she couldn't see their skills properly because it was during a fight, but to think all seven would gather this time.
Elise harbored anticipation in her own way.
‘How will it be.’
Without a doubt, they must possess plenty of good moves.
It felt like it would be worth fighting.
The moment Elise, Kalix, and Ravia were waiting.
“Oh! They are here! Everyone!”
Kalix looked somewhere and waved her hand.
In the place she was looking, six men and women were approaching.
“Hugo. Is it true. What you saw?”
“I'm telling you it is. Argh. So throw away that strange conviction of yours.”
“I heard it from His Highness the Grand Duke too, but I'm not really….”
The Seven Wolves approaching while conversing.
Shortly after all the Seven Wolves arrived, Kalix pointed to them and spoke.
“Lady Elise. I will introduce them. You saw the three people on the left back then, right? It's Hugo, Richard, and Flora.”
Hugo.
The one with deep navy hair bowed his head and greeted Elise.
“We meet again. Young Lady. How is your body.”
“It has gotten much better. Lord Hugo.”
“Nice to meet you! Young Lady!”
“Nice to meet you. Young Lady. Your body seems fine.”
“Ah. Dame Flora. Lord Richard. Nice to meet you.”
After also greeting the Seven Wolves who helped when the Seven Wild Monsters came last time, the conversation went back and forth in earnest.
“Now, everyone. I have one favor to ask.”
Kalix introduced Elise and spoke to the Seven Wolves.
“I hope you would teach your respective techniques to Lady Elise.”
At Kalix's words, the expressions of the Seven Wolves each became strange.
“To the Young Lady? Kalix?”
“Mm. This is new again.”
“To teach techniques….”
The moment each of their expressions became strange, someone raised a hand.
“Excuse me, Kalix.”
“Yeah. Grace.”
The person who raised her hand was one of the Seven Wolves, Grace.
It was a woman characterized by having a hammer hooked on her wrist along with long hair.
“I slightly can't understand just hearing this right now. What's going on?”
“Ah, actually.”
Kalix talked about the story from a few days ago.
To summarize, the point that Elise's talent is not ordinary.
She emphasized the point that she is a person worthy enough for the Seven Wolves to teach their techniques to.
“I'm telling you it's true. I already taught her the Three-Headed Ice Dragon Spear.”
“…That? That thing you never taught even when your subordinates asked?”
“Yeah!”
“Since you went that far, I'm a bit interested.”
The moment Grace's interest was piqued, someone opened their mouth.
“I won't do it.”
“…Renouvi?”
A member of the Seven Wolves, a Wolf with short hair and a sword scar over his eye.
Renouvi shook his head.
“I know too. That the Young Lady of the Blaze Ducal House possesses crazy skill. Because I heard the news.”
But Renouvi actually just shrugged his shoulders.
“But you know. From what I heard, I only heard that the youngest Young Lady of the Blaze Ducal House was so sick that she stayed in the Ducal Territory all day.”
Renouvi carefully pointed at Elise and spoke.
“But the fact that she is calmly in the North right now…. Mm. Thinking differently, wouldn't it not be strange if she collapsed at any time.”
“…Does that mean. Renouvi, you. Are you saying you won't teach her because you are worried about the Young Lady's health?”
“Yeah. What if a big problem needlessly happens. I have no intention to do it.”
It's Elise who was already rumored to be sickly.
Renouvi was afraid that sparks might fly to him by any chance.
Moreover, this dissonance did not end with Renouvi.
“I'm opposed too.”
“Valadi? You too?”
One of the Seven Wolves of the North, Valadi.
Valadi looked at Elise with an expression full of doubt.
“She has talent? Mm. Mm…. I can't believe it?”
He pointed at himself with his thumb and spoke.
“As you know. I only believe what I see. But until now, I have never seen the Young Lady's skill directly.”
His eyes become sharp.
“The Young Lady's skill, I want to see it directly?”
At those words, Kalix answered while putting her hand to her forehead.
“Phew…. That is starting again. Believing only what he sees.”
Kalix had a headache.
Valadi had been like that since the past.
He had a habit of not properly believing unless he clearly saw it with his two eyes.
Seeing that he cannot easily fix it even when His Highness the Grand Duke Gayrad pointed it out directly, hasn't it already melted into his life.
Still, occasionally thanks to that habit, it led to good results, so the others didn't say much severely.
But it seems that habit acted up again today.
“Well, there's nothing bad about seeing it. You guys saw it directly, but the three of us haven't seen it.”
The last member of the Seven Wolves, Leian nodded.
It seems factions were divided into those who directly saw Elise's active performance and those who didn't.
Elise grasped her situation.
Ah, so.
‘I just have to show them.’
It was a common occurrence in her previous life too.
Even bearing the name of the massive sect called Mount Hua Sect, those who picked fights existed.
For instance, the Southern Edge Sect living together in the Shaanxi province.
Or the so-called fools.
In Elise's memory, there are memories of the martial artists of the Southern Edge Sect constantly rushing at her.
She consistently defeated them every time, and later Elise even bore the name Mount Hua Fairy….
Even so, they still rushed at her.
They are fools.
From the events back then, there is one thing Elise realized.
People surprisingly easily forget memories.
“I will show you.”
Elise spoke while gripping the sheath of Rina at her waist.
“Will it be fine if I show you.”
At those words, Ravia immediately waved her hands in denial.
“No! Nooo! Elise! There is no need to go that far! Everyone! Stop being stubborn and teach Elise a little! You can tell even if you just try teaching a little!”
“No. Ravia. Since it has come to this, I don't think it would be bad to try crossing swords once.”
“Elise!”
“It's fine.”
Elise's two eyes, having smoothed over Ravia's worry, head clearly towards Valadi.
“Lord Valadi. One move.”
“Mm. I understand. Young Lady. Let's compete for one move.”
The board was laid.
Then, I must show him.
***
With Rina drawn, Elise checked the blade.
The Twig of Ristoire, how good the edge is, not a single chip is missing.
Good. If it's to this extent.
While Elise inspected Rina's edge, Valadi spoke with his two-handed sword taken out.
“Are you confident. With merely a one-handed sword.”
That strange conviction of not believing what he hasn't actually seen.
Perhaps because of that, Valadi had slightly doubting eyes.
“Let's do it. This much.”
As she spoke confidently, positive signals stood out from the Seven Wolves.
“Heh. As expected. She didn't face Donota for nothing.”
“Excuse me, Hugo. Is it true? That Iron Hammer Donota?”
“Of course. Really. The Young Lady endured somehow. Even though she is at the 3rd Rank.”
“…Good heavens. Donota? It's no joke? That lunatic head harvester?”
“I'm telling you. Before that, she fought with Nagagor too.”
“Huh. Haha. This is why I don't believe it.”
While a member of the Seven Wolves, Leian, was muttering.
The two took their stances before they knew it.
Valadi's two-handed sword finishes preparing to run wild and Elise's sword, Rina, raises its blade.
The moment the two confronted each other was extremely short.
The moment they blinked, the two shot forward.
‘Full power.’
Beyond the Six Harmonies Sword, Elise, who now commands the Plum Blossom Clear Cloud Sword, naturally finishes preparing to command the sword's trajectory.
Even if the Plum Blossom Clear Cloud Sword is not as much plum blossoms as the Twenty-Four Plum Blossom Sword, it can bloom those flowers.
If so.
‘Come. Plum blossoms.’
Come closer. Come closer and bloom flowers.
Bloom flowers and burn that splendid life.
‘Just, like me.’
Plum blossoms burning life force to shine a moment's splendor.
Plum blossoms living a lifetime for that moment even if it is a single moment.
Come closer to my hand now.
‘Let's bloom flowers.’
At the same time the words ended, the figures of the two people reached close proximity.
At that moment, her blade draws a trajectory.
At the same time, plum blossoms began to bloom from the place her sword passed.
“Huh? Good heavens? Good heavens!!! Is it Aura!?”
“No, that's not it. To be exact, it seemed to be a singularity possessed by the Young Lady's swordsmanship.”
“Good heavens. And she isn't even at the 4th Rank?”
The moment the Seven Wolves admired.
Kang!
The two blades clashed and sparked.
At the same time, the blades of the two people drew each other's trajectories and began to vomit the resonance sound of blades.
Kang! Kang! Kang!
While the swords of the two people clashed dizzily, a smile was contained on Valadi's lips before he knew it.
“Huh?”
Good heavens.
Valadi spat out admiration before he knew it.
Look at this?
‘Actually, I just made an excuse of checking facts to see her skill properly. She shows more promise than I thought?’
Valadi, bearing a smile, drew his blade largely in a horizontal direction.
Seeing the blade drawn drawing a horizontal line, Elise's body lowered in an instant.
At the same time, Elise's figure, having dodged the blade, immediately kicked off the floor and shot forward.
“This!”
Valadi, surprised, hurriedly turned his wrist and placed an obstruction on her sword path.
But this too was within the range of Elise's thought.
She immediately gripped her strength strongly with internal energy and drew a sword path at an incomprehensible angle.
Slice!
Along with the sound of cutting, a deep scratch occurred on Valadi's leather armor.
Valadi hurriedly retreated backward and then laughed heartily.
“Kuha! Kuhahahaha!!! Young Lady! This lacking Valadi will apologize!”
Valadi looked at Elise with his eyes shining brightly before he knew it and bowed his head slightly.
“I finally realized that these eyes of mine were rotten! A competitive spirit rushing in without sparing the body! Refined swordsmanship! To say something like let's check facts seeing such a splendid sprout!”
Clack—.
He clenched his teeth tightly and looked at Elise with a bloodshot gaze along with a grinding sound.
“This Valadi! I will face you a bit more seriously!”
“As much as you like.”
The fight between the two continues.
***
“Hmm.”
Shudroy Ducal House.
One of the five Ducal Houses of the Latensio Empire.
The youngest daughter of the Shudroy Ducal House, succeeding the Blaze Ducal House and the Valterich Ducal House, was lost in thought on the balcony swallowing a groan.
“Northern Grand Duke…. It is strange.”
Her two eyes look into the distance.
“I don't hear news that the youngest daughter was severely injured…. It was clearly conveyed before the regression. And. Why was the Blaze family's engagement annulled?”
It's strange.
The youngest daughter of the Shudroy Ducal House, Alicia Shudroy.
The female protagonist and regressor of this The Withered Flower Finds Its Own Light.
She frowned at the series of dissonances occurring after the regression.
“What is it.”
She looked into the distance harboring doubts.
Without even dreaming that there is a certain woman crazy about plum blossoms and swords in the North.
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