Cooking with Wild Game: Volume 23 [Parts 1 to 8] by EDA

Author:EDA
Language: eng
Format: epub

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“To the west! Leiriss of the Knights of Saturas! To the East! Shin Ruu of the forest’s edge!”

The tournament continued smoothly.

I had only intended to take a peek at the proceedings, but now that we stuck around for this long, I couldn’t look away anymore. I felt bad for Toor Deen’s group who got left behind to watch over everything, but at this point, we couldn’t head back to the forest’s edge until both Shin Ruu and Geol Zaza were eliminated.

What are Lala Ruu and the others feeling, watching these fights? Shin Ruu’s been able to secure easy wins so far, so I guess they haven’t had much to be concerned about on that front.

However, Leiriss turned out to be quite a difficult opponent. Having been observing Shin Ruu’s tactics since the morning, he was avoiding clashing blades at all costs.

Shin Ruu was aiming for Leiriss’s blade with the agility of a hunter. However, Leiriss was utilizing careful footwork that made him difficult to pursue, making sure Shin Ruu’s blade sliced through thin air instead. He also kept boldly challenging the hunter, thrusting his own blade forward whenever there was an opening. Shin Ruu wasn’t in any danger yet, but it seemed like his ability to move around was being restricted.

It was a quiet battle, as the two were cutting through nothing but air, but the audience was watching over the back and forth between them with bated breath. That just went to show how much tension there was in the air, coming off the two of them.

“That Ruu hunter’s fighting style is somewhat odd. If he aimed for the torso rather than the blade, I believe he would have landed a number of hits,” Raielfam Sudra remarked.

Ai Fa nodded, watching the fight with crossed arms. “Right. In the previous contest of strength, Shin Ruu heavily injured his opponent. And his opponent then was the father of the man he is currently facing, which may be why his skills seem dull.”

“Oh? I have to say, changing how he fights for a reason like that seems like the worst slight he could possibly make against his opponent.”

“It isn’t that he’s changing how he fights on purpose. Rather, it’s something that is happening naturally. That Shin Ruu is kind to his core.” I turned toward Ai Fa with a look of surprise, only for her to shoot me a sidelong glare and ask, “What?”

“Oh, I just thought it was unusual to hear you assessing someone else’s character... But, well, I guess we’ve known Shin Ruu for quite a while now.”

Shin Ruu had been acting as one of our bodyguards for a long time at this point. When Sanjura abducted me, he took his inability to keep me safe really hard, and afterward he spent a lot of time training intensively with Rau Lea. I was pretty attached to him, and considered him an important friend.

Still, that Leiriss guy is frustratingly calm. Especially considering how he kept glaring at Shin Ruu back during that dinner party.

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