The Former Assassin Who Got Reincarnated as a Noble Girl Vol.2 by Satsuki Otonashi

Author:Satsuki Otonashi [Otonashi, Satsuki]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Cross Infinite World
Published: 2024-11-30T00:00:00+00:00

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“THIS is grueling.”

At night, I had training with Selena and Tiegel. And quite the merciless training it was. During the day, I had classes. I wasn’t getting nearly enough sleep, preventing me from fully restoring my physical and mental strength.

“Training at school, too?” I murmured.

“Today, we’ll be training through duels,” said the teacher.

The classes integrated a certain amount of sword training to ensure we could defend ourselves.

I was hoping to take a break to recover my strength before my training with Selena.

“Shall we begin, Prince Shaghad?”

“Of course, Ismail.”

Ismail always stepped up to be my sparring partner at times like these because he could tease and embarrass me.

A small amount of injury wouldn’t, and couldn’t, become an issue if inflicted during a spar. If it did become a problem, the injured person would be laughed at for causing a fuss over something so minor.

“Ready, begin!” called the teacher, and Ismail immediately stepped forward. His approach was swift. A normal student would be too slow to react and be flung backward.

“Heh, you blocked that?” he said.

If Selena hadn’t trained me, and I hadn’t spent every night fighting Tiegel, I wasn’t sure if I’d have been able to block that attack.

“You’re pretty uppity for a reject,” said Ismail.

Our upper body strength still wasn’t equal. If I kept blocking like this, I’d lose the contest of strength.

“Don’t block. Deflect. You won’t get anywhere using strength against an opponent stronger than you!”

Selana’s words echoed in my mind, and I did as they told me to, deflecting Ismail’s sword. He looked shocked when I did. He lost his balance and tipped forward when I deflected his attack, and I struck back, but despite his lack of balance, he flipped the trajectory of his blade and blocked my attack.

“Looks like you’ve gotten a bit better,” he said. “But you can’t win against me. I’m the one who will be king.”

“Ack.”

My blade bounced back, and Ismail’s next attack came.

I have to get my footing. Calm down, don’t panic.

“Agh!”

In the end, I lost that match when I was flung backward, though I wasn’t injured since I deflected rather than blocked Ismail’s attack.

The loss stung, but part of me was happy. It was visible proof that my work each night was bearing fruit.

“It seems my efforts are not in vain.”

Despite finishing the class’s training, Ismail hadn’t had his fill. I’d have preferred to preserve my strength for Selena’s training or even recover it if possible, but it wasn’t. Ismail and his gang captured me.

“Hey, reject.”

He obviously had a hard time swallowing our close fight earlier, but I realized by his next words that something else bothered him more:

“I thought I saw you getting friendly with Lady Selena earlier.”

Ismail had his eyes on Selena. She was a beauty, of course, but her pedigree was nothing to sniff at either. Her parents didn’t have much social weight since they weren’t actively engaged in the social sphere. Still, House Violette was engaged with a breadth of industries that gave them significant financial power, and the duke had strong connections outside Astra.

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