Chivalry of a Failed Knight: Volume 1 [Parts 1 to 3] by Riku Misora

Author:Riku Misora
Language: eng
Format: epub

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“Nh...”

White light hit Stella’s eyelids, forcing her awake. As she opened her eyes, she noticed that the ceiling was surprisingly low.

“Finally awake, Vermillion?”

Stella turned and saw Kurono sitting in a chair next to her bed, smoking a cigarette.

“Where...am I?” she asked groggily.

“Your room. You passed out from exhaustion after being hit by a killing blow from a Device in phantom form. There was no need for a doctor or iPS capsule, so we just brought you to your room and let you rest.”

Kurono blew out a puff of smoke.

Isn’t smoking prohibited in the dorms?

However, Stella didn’t bother reprimanding her.

“That battle really happened, then,” Stella said in a heavy voice. She’d hoped it had just been a dream, but sadly, this was reality.

Stella had lost. She’d been defeated so thoroughly that she didn’t even feel like making excuses for it.

“Haah...” she sighed. “So, this is what losing feels like. It’s been so long that I’d forgotten.”

“Don’t let it get to you. Kurogane even managed to beat me in a fight—though I did give him a handicap. He’s not the kind of guy you can beat at your level of strength.”

“He beat you, the famous World Clock who was once ranked the third-strongest in the world? You can’t be serious.”

Just how strong is he? Well, I guess I saw his strength firsthand.

No normal person could force themselves to expend every fiber of their being to fight at full strength for a minute. It took incredible determination and resolve. Ikki had truly become a Shura, the Asura of Buddhist legend.

Oh! Come to think of it, what happened to him after that?

“Director, is he all right?”

Kurono nodded in response.

“He’s fine. Well, he’s in a lot worse shape than you, but he’ll live,” she replied, looking up at the top of the bunk bed.

Stella crawled out of her bed and looked up as well. Lying on the top bunk was Ikki. He was wearing a tank top, and his face was incredibly pale. If it wasn’t for the fact that she could hear his faint breathing, she would have thought he was dead. That was how lifeless his body looked.

Ittou Shura was a Noble Art that used up all of Ikki’s energy, including what his body would normally hold back to keep him alive. After a minute passed, he was left so weak that he could barely breathe. It was only natural that he’d ended up this way after beating Stella.

“He did leave himself enough strength to limp back to his room and change out of his uniform. If he couldn’t even do that then his Noble Art would be too unwieldy to use. Kurogane’s able to make minor adjustments to how much of his energy he’ll be using up.”

“‘Minor’ sounds like the key word there.”

Despite having left himself some energy, Ikki was clearly in no state to fight.

Ittou Shura was a double-edged sword. If Ikki missed the right time to use it or failed to defeat his opponent in the allotted minute, he’d be completely helpless afterward.

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