Kapitel 31: Clash of Kings

It's day fifteen of the fourth month of the year K421. Today, I just turned 13 years old, thirteen years in this world.

I have been a Sword King for three years since I crossed the barrier that some can only dream of crossing in their entire life.

I had those examples in front of me daily.

Sword Saints who remained stagnant in their rank due to their lack of talent or ambition.

Most were in their thirties, and some were at the end of their lives. The youngest Sword Saint in the central dojo is currently Nina Farion, my cousin and fiancée.

She is already 16 years old, and since a year ago she is already considered an adult in this world.

She is by right the strongest Sword Saint in the dojo, but she is still light years away from the King rank.

And it's been five months since Eris Greyrat arrived at the dojo. Recently, she was finally able to execute a perfect long sword of light, after my body stabilization exercises and helping her swing the sword.

She rewarded me with a bear hug that surely broke something inside me and that I could only heal with advanced healing magic.

And on the other hand, she has become kinder to me... in part...

I have to be careful with her so she doesn't want to hit me, although that's not a concern.

Also, at this age, I'm already 170 centimeters tall, which is the average height here, and I can now look down to see Nina and Eris.

Leaving that aside, I have been training hard these past few months with one goal in mind.

Defeat Ghislaine Dedoldia.

Gull saw it in my eyes and indeed that is the only way to advance to the Emperor rank, and so I dedicated myself to training.

Even since they had just arrived at the dojo, Gull declared that I should already be stronger than her, his word should not be doubted in that regard, but even so, I should not be overconfident.

I prefer a one-sided defeat to a close battle.

And today was the day, the day that I feel ready, why?...

For the simple reason that I am already as fast as my father, just as strong and I can fight him, he can no longer hold back with me.

That is a sign and I want to officially advance.

That is why since the beginning of the year I proposed to Gull the idea of a duel against Ghislaine, he gave me the go-ahead and I chose this day for the duel.

I woke up, went out to run as fast as I could, and covered the entire holy land of the sword in half an hour.

I had the closest duel with my father so far, we ended up completely exhausted, my father had slight cuts all over his body, if my eight-year-old self could see this he would never have believed it.

My mother made a special stew for breakfast and I ate until I was full.

I went out to the holy land of the sword with my Dragon Phoenix sword on my waist, I almost never used it since I trained most of the time with wooden swords but today was a special day.

It was approximately seven in the morning, the sun was just coming up, the cold spring air filled my nose and filled me with energy, and the snowy pines reflected the sunlight on the snow which gave a beautiful air to the place, a place as beautiful as it was deadly.

At the entrance of the dojo was Nina, she had a ponytail, a brown leather jacket, and black leather pants.

She was leaning on the entrance while looking at me with a smile

"Are you ready?" She asked as she approached me and hugged me.

"Yes, who's inside?" I asked as I looked at her with my own smile.

"Dad, Miss Ghislaine, and Eris...the other saints are just arriving," she said as she gave me a kiss on the cheek.

I continued to hug her for a few moments and then let go to enter the dojo.

I opened the sliding door and was greeted by the image of Gull lying on his pillow while staring at me, next to him was Ghislaine, her imposing body to others was sexier to me.

She was looking at me seriously, her ears were erect and her tail was down but swaying slightly.

Eris was in a corner doing her swings, unfazed by the current situation.

I also counted around six sword saints who were beginning their training equally ignorant of the situation.

Nina entered behind her and walked towards Eris, it was already customary to see the two of them training.

"So Gino? Are you ready?" Gull said with a smile

"Yes," I answered as I turned to look at Ghislaine.

"Please accept a duel against me," I said bowing to her.

She smiled as she looked at me.

"Alright, I accept," she said as she started walking to the right side of the dojo.

The saints who had arrived noticed the situation and sat in a half circle to watch us.

I could see that even Nina and Eris were staring at us.

"Alright, attack on my signal," Gull said as he sat upright on his cushion.

Ghislaine and I were twenty steps away from each other.

We both unsheathed our swords at the same time and got into a combat stance.

I got into my usual stance and I could see that Ghislaine did the same, but I could see something, she hunched over, bent her knees too much, and held her sword with only one hand and it was at the height of her neck, she was in a position to throw a long sword of light immediately.

Her yellow eyes were looking at me intensely, analyzing every move I could make.

I simply smiled, I put on my best smile as I looked at her.

She raised an eyebrow as she looked at me, I could see her clench her crotch as she breathed deeply.

"Alright, begin!!" Gull shouted.

Ghislaine unfolded her legs like a spring and jumped towards me, her sword with the blunt side at her neck, she made a half-circle movement towards my chest.

How slow... no!...

She wasn't slow, she was fast, as fast as you could expect from a Sword King.

But... oh shit how could I not realize it before...

I could see her movement in almost slow motion.

I should have known that already, right? Every morning I face a Sword Emperor on equal terms, Ghislaine is very, very strong... but my father is on another level, and I'm fighting my father...

If I had faced Ghislaine the day she arrived, it might have been a closer fight.

But not now, I had trained for almost half a year, I had become infinitely stronger than at that time...

With a precise movement, I moved to the right and crouched slightly, her sword grazed my head cutting a couple of strands of hair.

Her chest was exposed, I could finish her off right here, I looked at Gull and he raised an eyebrow in response.

I moved my sword so that the blunt side hit her, and I executed a long sword of light.

The attack ripped her from shoulder to rib and she shot towards where the sword saints were with a dull sound.

All this happened in just 2 seconds.

I was still in my attack position while staring at her.

Nina and Eris looked at me with wide eyes and Gull looked at me with a shark-tooth smile.

It was almost like a grimace as if he had already expected this result.

Ghislaine slowly got up from the ground while breathing heavily. A red line formed on her chest, it looked like a huge scratch but there was no puncture.

She was breathing heavily as she looked at me, we stayed silent for a moment and she finally smiled, letting out a sigh.

"I surrender," she said with a smile.

The saints who were here burst into a round of applause and both Ghislaine and I sheathed our swords.

I looked at Gull and he was looking at me with a smile.

"Who would have thought, huh?" he muttered as he lifted her off her cushion.

"Did you see her movements, Ghislaine?" Gull said as he looked at the beastwoman.

"...no, I couldn't see them," she said seriously.

Well...that's impressive.

"Heh..." Gull muttered as his smile grew bigger.

"Well, well, well...it seems my dear son-in-law has come this far, huh?" Gull muttered.

"Dad!..." Nina complained, blushing brightly from the other side of the room.

Gull just shook his head as he smiled at me.

"Then...I, Gull Farion, Sword God...appoint you, Gino Britzs, Sword Emperor," he said as he sat upright on his cushion.

I bowed in respect as I didn't want him to see my huge smile.

I also looked at Ghislaine and bowed in respect as well.

"Well? What are you going to do now? If you want to advance then you'll have to beat me" Gull said as he frowned and grabbed the hilt of his sword.

I just smiled at this as I looked at him.

"Not for now sir, I want to learn other sword styles" I said in a combination of mockery and serious tone.

Gull's eyes widened and he let out a huge laugh.

"Hahahahaha! Of course, of course! That's why I like you so much kid, hahaha!" He laughed carefree.

Amazingly, the day after that step, my training proceeded as normal and when I sat down next to Gull, he moved my seat one step higher.

I also noticed that Ghislaine looked at me with new eyes, in them there was a deep respect and I almost forgot that the Dedoldia respect strength above all else.

So it made sense, Nina congratulated me with a deep kiss and Eris just gave me a thumbs up.

Although it was enough for her to show me her respect.

That was a good day and Gull also took my advice about studying other styles as he told me that he had written letters to two very powerful swordsmen of the Water God and North God styles.

Obviously I already knew that Eran Reída and Aubert were coming to train Eris, but Gull also allowed me to train with those two.

I already knew that my training had no end, it had only just begun, my idea of venturing out into the world would have to wait I suppose...

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