They Don’t Know I’m Too Young for the Adventurer’s Guild: Volume 3 by KAME

Author:KAME [KAME]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2025-11-14T00:00:00+00:00

I’d gone over this fight again and again. I’d really thought it through. Nigu’s attacks were all big swings. His fighting style was about shouting to rattle his opponent before locking them down with heavy blows. It was crude and simple but surprisingly effective. Hearing an angry scream in the middle of a fight made you tense, and dealing with huge attacks made you anticipate pain. That was enough to mess with your reactions.

The force of one of his attacks was enough to knock me out of my stance. Getting caught in his rhythm meant dealing with a nonstop assault without the chance to get myself ready again. That made Nigu’s style such a pain to deal with, but I was ready this time. I wasn’t going to play his game.

“I’m coming, runt! Yaaaah!” Nigu, with his dark, bulging eyes, yelled and charged at me from far away when Waine was still giving the start signal.

He raised his stick up high. That was just like him—no stance, straight into an attack from overhead. A big move like that took time to prepare. I knew what he was doing this time. To me, that windup turned into an opening.

I timed my breathing and movements with his: I planted my back foot, twisted my hips, rotated my shoulders, kept my elbows tucked in, then put all of my speed into a forward strike. I didn’t need power. All I did was send my stick on the fastest and shortest path to my opponent without letting that yell shake me.

“Ugh!” Nigu’s eyes went even wider with shock.

I felt a clean, solid thwack on impact, but something was off. This wasn’t like yesterday. This wasn’t what I remembered or what I’d planned for. Nigu’s windup had been way bigger and higher last time, when all he’d cared about was offense, not defense. Right now, he was still holding his stick up in the air aggressively, but...

He blocked my thrust with the part of the stick that was between his hands. If we’d been fighting with swords, that would’ve been like blocking with the hilt—a last-second defense that probably looked like sheer luck to someone watching from the sidelines. That was how close it’d been. I clenched my teeth. If I’d been just a little faster, I could’ve hit him. I could’ve won, but my setup had failed.

“Not done yet!!!” My voice exploded from deep inside me, and I lunged forward with everything I had.

My setup had failed, but I’d forced Nigu to block. He’d barely yanked his stick back in time, so he didn’t have the stance or balance to counter right. I followed up with a horizontal strike to press him.

“Tch!” Nigu only just managed to block with the same part of his stick again, but this time he stepped back.

I dragged my stick along his and used that motion to launch another thrust. I aimed straight for his gut, and he dodged it with a jump to the side.

That was fine. I wasn’t going to bank everything on one strike.

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