How to Conquer the "Horny Sow Princess" in a Duel
I gave up on the idea of a surprise attack and thrust my rapier straight at him. "Haaah!" Every time she stabbed, magic power erupted from her forearm, using the force as propulsion. She aimed precisely at vital spots—throat, heart, groin, thighs—any of which would be fatal.
I deftly parried her blade with the dagger I'd received for the first time today. "Ugh!? You blocked that too!? Just how high is your Lich rank? The more I see, the harder it is to hold back~!"
"Sister! This man is no ordinary opponent! Don't think of him as some backwater noble!"
"Selena, you should keep your eyes forward! Another sisterly brawl is about to break out!"
Amid this brief exchange of blows, some strange advice flew back and forth. A sisterly fight? I'm the one fighting her right now. I tilted my head in confusion at why such words were being tossed around, and they gave me an answer.
"I told you already. Our family can't help but go crazy for talented people. This isn't just a figure of speech or a compliment to you—it's a hereditary instinct passed down through our bloodline."
"What?"
When I failed to understand, Nora-sensei, standing right beside me, chimed in.
"If you look at the attendance register later, you'll see it. The Bellamore sisters have a constitution where they go into heat the moment they see talent. The reason they fought each other over the previous Staloze royalty and ended up hurting them was exactly because of that heat cycle."
"People aren't animals, what kind of nonsense are you—"
Clang!
"Ugh!"
"The provocation Lord Ludo threw at us earlier. It really pissed me off. But the reason I can't completely deny it is because it's not entirely wrong!"
Her attacks grew heavier. When she ambushed me, it had been technique. Now she was overpowering me with sheer innate magic power and physical strength. As if to prove it, her face grew increasingly flushed as she shouted with delight.
"We may carry the title of royalty, but just as you said, we're nothing more than selectively bred breeding sows! The result of taking in so much blood to survive! My sister and I have this sexual fetish for talent deeply rooted in us!"
"Sister, your mouth is getting loose!"
"I know! But I can't help it! The moment I learned the new teacher was a decent man, my body heated up and I just can't hold back anymore!?"
Elena was so excited she was blurting out anything and everything. On the other hand, Selena was desperately trying to deny this reality. Selectively bred breeding sow? So that's what getting excited by talent meant?
"When that heat switch or whatever flips, you can't control it?"
"Yes. Once we find someone we like, our reason completely flies out the window. It's a strong tendency in anyone from the Bellamore royal family, but it manifests especially intensely in us sisters. Even toward you, whom we genuinely wanted to chase out just a few minutes ago. Can you even imagine what we looked like when we harmed that other person?"
"You're just beasts."
"That's exactly why we're stuck in a shameful class like the Spinsters Class! You think I enjoy being in a place like this!?"
Even as she spoke, an upper thrust aimed at my philtrum came flying. Moreover, as she stabbed, a swirling vortex of pale pink magic power obscured my vision.
"The upper thrust is a feint. You're planning to block my sight and then stab with your left hand."
"Hiiik!"
Elena's heat level deepened. I deflected the point flying at my head with my right hand and flicked away the blade of magic power gathered at her fingertips with my left, as if scraping it off. Especially her left hand—since it was bare, she'd clearly intended to stab and apply poison, but I dodged it like a ghost.
"Don't excite me any more than this! Just quietly leave this class! If you do, I'll forgive your earlier verbal abuse and prepare a suitable reward for you!"
"What, are you going to bear my child while you're in heat?"
"Aah, that doesn't sound so bad either. With talent like yours, I'm sure we'd have a strong, healthy child~♪"
"……."
"…Kuh!"
I'd only thrown it out as a joke, but her personality flipped back and forth like a woman with bipolar disorder. It was hilarious. So this is what both sisters were like?
"Born a human, born into the noble status of royalty, yet to think your life would revolve around thinking with your womb."
"Are you pitying me?"
"Yeah. I genuinely pity you. I'll apologize again for the verbal abuse earlier, but I still have no intention of backing down from this spot."
"Heh, why is that? You say you pity us, yet you still have a reason to covet us in the end?"
"Just as you said, if I go back like this it'll be embarrassing. Getting ahead in life after entering the academy has been my long-held dream. For about twenty-six years, I've trained while hoping to do something, anything. And now the opportunity I've waited so long for has finally arrived. There's no way I'd run away just because your circumstances are a bit embarrassing to hear."
"This is a class full of nothing but perverted women like this. It'll only tarnish your career."
"The problem is that if I go back to the countryside, there won't be anyone to even look at that career…."
"Aha, I'll pity you for that too~!"
Deciding that words wouldn't work and she'd have to drive me away by force, she charged at me head-on again. When she extended her rapier, she exploded magic power from her forearm. When pulling it back, she sprayed it from her elbow to retract her arm. Repeating this made her hand movements leave afterimages.
I faced it all head-on with a blank expression, but the continuous thin thrusts raining down from all directions were incredibly precarious. The conversation from the sidelines was ignored.
『She's pretty good.』
『Which one?』
『Both the sow and the teacher are beyond expectations. I'm seeing him in a new light now that I know there are warriors like this overseas too.』
『Lady Hwi-ryeong, who do you think will win?』
『Well──』
Anyway, every time Elena tried to mark my body with her point, the magic clones I'd used earlier scattered everywhere. Even without ambushing, she precisely targeted spots like the back of my hand, ankle, and waist—places that would make movement difficult if stabbed. It was incredibly annoying.
Since Elena herself was blocking me from the front with her thrusts, it created a special fork where I couldn't avoid the attacks coming from the side. 'If I retreat, she'll charge with the rapier right away, huh.'
I blocked the front with my right hand and knocked away the side with my left. If I hadn't been using both hands, it might have been dangerous. The offense and defense were that sharp.
"What are you going to do about it!"
"Like this."
But my skill was far superior. Using my right hand in a reverse grip, I twisted the surface of her rapier as if scraping it away.
"Ugh!"
"You were so focused on the clones that you left an opening in the magic power wrapped around your weapon."
"…Already acting like a teacher, are we!"
The pale pink aura grew thicker, and the princess's breathing turned vulgarly rough. The moment she pulled back, she dropped to all fours and charged like a beast.
"!"
She gripped the bent blade and the rapier in each hand and thrust them forward simultaneously. She intended to pierce my neck in an X-shape and skewer me.
"Come on, just take it already! If you drag this out any longer, both my sister and I will be in danger!"
I didn't understand what she meant, but the attack trajectory was simple, so blocking it was easy. To protect my neck, I crossed my daggers and entered a contest of strength.
'Is this really how a princess of a nation fights?'
The sound of metal clashing rang in both ears, and the screeching was like nails on a chalkboard. I put strength into both arms to push it away, but it wouldn't budge. No—in fact, I was the one being pushed back. I, a man, was being overpowered by a woman… and by pure strength at that.
"I told you! I'm a selectively bred sow! Our ancestors only passed down the good traits—did you think I'd lose to a woman in a contest of strength!?"
"Ugh!"
The two broken blade fragments drew dangerously close to my neck. Elena laughed, her fangs fully bared. Her face was flushed bright red—half from excitement, half from heat. She really was a beast of a woman.
『──I won!』
Convinced of her victory, she opened her mouth wide and thrust her fangs forward as if to bite me. In response, I coolly released my right and left hands into the air.
"Eh?"
Immediately after, her excitement cooled and her expression revealed, without any ulterior motive, that she realized something had gone wrong. Only then did she notice that my face, which had let out a short groan, showed none of the fear typical of a loser.
"You…!"
"Idiot. You think a teacher would seriously fight a student?"
Right before the two crossed blades could pierce my neck, I thrust my head forward, narrowly avoiding the skewering angle. I was surprised by her specs, but that was it. Without using the poison enchanted on my dagger or any skills, I was able to place my hand on Elena's neck with ridiculous ease.
"~~~~!!!"
She didn't know my ability, but with her beast-like senses, her expression showed she had predicted what was about to happen. I lived up to her expectations and activated my Blessing.
Elena's entire body instantly turned into a cluster of light.
"S-Sister!"
"Lord Ludo!?"
『Whoa!』
『…Did he kill her?』
『No way.』
Whatever about Selena, even Nora-sensei, who should have known my personal information, screamed. The other women in the outfield and the few spectators who had poked their heads into the arena all looked shocked.
In the meantime, the light that had spread in all directions gathered at my fingertips. Elena's lewd body transformed in an instant into a rapier.
『A-Aah!』
『What is this!?』
And I was surprised too. She had definitely been turned into a blade by my blessing, but unlike before, her consciousness remained clearly intact. Moreover, she seemed able to move somewhat on her own, as the blade was shaking in a bizarre manner.
'What the hell. This is a first.'
I immediately appraised it.
'Unique. As expected of royalty. I'd only seen Epic before, yet here I am seeing a Unique rank on the same day.'
Then what rank would the end be? Master? Legendary? Even though it was my own blessing, there were still many things I didn't know. As I was thinking that, another anomaly occurred.
『O-Oh, I… to think I would lose in a head-on fight to a man….』
『Me, who defeated Brother Raphael… me, who defeated the knight commander….』
『The greatest breeding sow in our family… losing in a duel…!』
"Huh?"
The rapier—no, Elena's reaction was strange. The blade kept trembling with a sound like a chainsaw, and her breathing grew rough.
『Uhyiiiiiiiii~~♡♡』
When she let out a perverted cry loud enough to echo throughout the arena, a cloudy white liquid spurted from the tip of the blade… and even shot up high…?
"Ugh, what the hell! Why are you doing that all of a sudden!?"
I was startled by the sudden spray of liquid. Seeing white smoke rising, I wondered if it was something like hydrochloric acid, but looking again, it didn't seem that dangerous.
'It's not what I'm thinking, right?'
I stopped thinking about it. There was nothing good to be gained from knowing. Afraid the filthy liquid might touch my fingertips, I immediately pointed the blade downward.
The victory message appeared, and Selena, who had been at the edge of the stage, came running with all her might.
"Sister!"
"Wait, she's just become a sword, so don't be too surprised!"
Nora-sensei followed behind her. To reassure them, I held the rapier that had once been Elena and gave my wrist a snap, spinning it around. The pale pink rapier, matching her coloring, shone brilliantly. And so did the suspicious liquid pouring from the tip.
"There. I won. No complaints now, right?"
『Yes. I have lost. From now on, I will serve you as my husband…♡』
…This is weird. The promise had definitely been "If I lose, I'll take you as my boyfriend," so why did it warp straight past dating and a wedding into calling me husband?
'Is it because of the instinct and bloodline she mentioned earlier? I'm glad she recognizes me as that much of a talent, but seeing her like this, it seems difficult for her to live a normal life.'
A truly strange bloodline that gets excited upon seeing talent. This must be why both the royal family and the sisters have suffered so much.
'Right from the start, a woman like this pops out. The other women in this class are definitely just as crazy.'
While I was sweating internally, the blade began shaking on its own. I was startled, wondering if it was trying to resist my blessing, but that wasn't it.
『H-Husband! Mmm, that's not right. Darling? Or would it be better to call you "dear"?』
『No, that doesn't feel right either. Since we're still getting to know each other, I think I'll stick with calling you Lord Ludo for now~!』
Just ten seconds ago she'd been screaming at me to get out of here, and now this. As I ignored her and tried to step down from the stage—
『Ah, Lord Ludo. Be careful.』
『If this is the usual pattern, then────my little sister is about to pounce on you?』
"…What?"
"Ludo von Eisenwalt!!"
Immediately after, my vision went dark.