2nd Rank Has Returned

Darkness-1

where was the problem

The starting point of this story was obviously in the frame of ‘dating counseling’.

And Leo himself obviously started dating counseling with ‘The Story of First Love’.

“Are you ready?”

“…uh…yes?”

But why is he preparing for a match with that love counselor? Why is Chris checking the dagger with such a serious expression and expecting a match under the guise of dating counseling?

[…Do you understand Nanda?]

Leo remembers the sage’s venom.

The conversation we had in the room was like dating counseling.

***

It was an awful story.

There was nothing but tragedy in that boy’s life.

Family, happiness, and now even love.

They are all swallowed up by unjustifiable malice.

Come now and love and share.

Where is the torture worse than that?

He would be unbearably hated and disgusted.

I finally understood.

Why do you become so strong?

Are you blind to growing up?

Is it so longing and obsessive?

‘…that was unforgivable.’

weak self.

helpless self.

He would not have been able to forgive himself for having survived alone.

So I couldn’t express my love to others.

You would think you didn’t deserve it.

deserve to be loved,

Even the right to show love.

It’s cold and it’s cruel

You deserve more love than anyone else.

Why doesn’t the world love that child?

“…Leonardo.”

That’s too much of a story.

“Yes?”

It’s not just a life of exhaustion.

“The weather is nice today.”

Only Pihak is the boy’s birthday.

“…Yes?”

Darkness could not tolerate that.

“Let’s fight for a while. If you relax, your head will be empty.”

＜Oh… no, Chris…? Darkness?＞

Perhaps Rios also felt a sense of incongruity and alienation from Chris’ words, and with a bewildered look, he continued to call Chris’s name, title, and nickname.

But Chris had already made up his mind.

“…Yes? It doesn’t matter, but…”

Leonardo shook his head in embarrassment.

I don’t quite understand why you’re (nominally) in a position to receive counseling, but you’re talking as if you’re suggesting a solution.

***

present again.

“…uh…but…”

Why didn’t the main topic come out, but why did it develop like a way to solve the worries and struggles that you had already put in your mind?

If you look at it after all, it’s your own dating counseling.

“Come to think of it, I’ve never had a sword-to-sword with you as a telegraph messenger.”

Before he could even ask, Chris brought out his own story. If I could solve my problems with this fistfighting method, I didn’t bother to point it out because it wouldn’t be a serious problem for Leo either.

And if you think about it, Chris’s words made sense. When I was young, even if I had experience, there was no meaning in competing because of the big difference in skill or weight.

[Because even when I went to the Senate, I lost my fighting spirit by beating people with words.]

Although he admits it, he only told the facts about the white tiger, which he had proven in his scientific studies.

The same was true of lions and wolves, of course.

“I can even say that it is right for me to challenge myself now.”

Those eyes aren’t just ostentatious or pretentiousness.

Seriously, he will fight the sword with all his might and mind, bearing weight in this duel.

“By the way… I came to Reinhardt because of an offer from Chris.”

It’s not just this life. Even before the return, Chris reached out to him.

At that time, he couldn’t even hold a balrog, and he was half penny as a prosecutor or a knight.

It was of no benefit to her at all.

Nevertheless, Chris took responsibility and passed on Reinhardt’s vision to Leonardo.

In order to live up to her expectations, Leonardo continued his mana training for a month without any tricks.

If you think about it, the reason he showed the sage and his mana training techniques to her without hesitation or bargaining was also to repay this favor.

“okay. Bringing you was the wisest choice of my life.”

At the time, when he left, it was by far the most active hold on Chris. At the front door, leaning clumsily against a tree, he was biting a cigar.

‘Are you going?’

‘There is no reason or justification to remain.’

‘…there is a cause.’

‘Is that so?’

‘Because I’ve never regretted bringing you here.’

Perhaps something would have changed if he had listened to those words and had endured to the end. But the idea at the time was too childish and young.

‘Yeah, it would have been nice if you didn’t ask for cigarettes. Darkness.’

At that time, I could not forget the bewildered and absurd expression of darkness at that time.

“I have never once regretted following the Dark Lord.”

so

“A few, please. Shadow of Reinhardt.”

Leo is also devoted to her with all his heart and strength.

“Please.”

A suffocating air current through the honorable recognition.

There were no other people in the Dalian, but perhaps it was because of the energy, the crowd started to come in gradually.

Because the door was open, a leaf of fallen leaves came in and floated in the air with the wind.

Chae Aeeng!

The first thing that rang out was the sound of metal, that is, the clash of swords.

visor! Chaeeng! Kahn!!

Once was not the end. The chords of the continuous geomhaps were over, and the leaves fell to the ground.

“…fast. I didn’t neglect martial arts either.”

Chris, who thought that his double swordsmanship would be advantageous for consecutive attacks, had to withdraw his thoughts with the swordsmanship earlier.

“The basic premise of its unique magic is martial arts skills.”

Leo said while holding a long sword made of black stone. Although I knew it originally, Chris was the daughter of a cheongtap master, no, he had a skill that surpassed even that of a cheongtapju.

A pair of swordsmen with superior skills than the head owner, Gladio, and Reinhardt’s knight who is the second strongest after Arya.

Because it was Chris Reinhardt.

“okay. That’s great. Then can you show me the magic sword you were proud of?”

Of course it was. Originally, his own unique magic was not a fluff, but a skill that should be used for such a knight.

Eventually, when he connects the circuit of mana with the black stone, a red electric current dwells in the blade. It was a speed that could not be compared with the ordinary dagger used at the time.

“…!”

Crazy!

The Aurors obviously collided. However, the sound was buried in the sound of thunder, creating a rather threatening atmosphere.

“Lightning Vortex.”

Lightning magic of 3rd circle maximum voltage.

The magic of lightning is formed under the magic sword of electric current and explodes. However, Chris, who was struck by lightning, did not lose a single face even though he was being struck by lightning.

Quajiic!!

“Where are you looking? It is an afterimage.”

Because only her tracks were left behind.

A series of double swords fires from the rear. Concentrating on defense now, Leo once again completed the detection of lightning.

“Lightning.”

In the subsequent lightning strike, Chris also opened up the distance again. What remained were the same afterimages and clones of Chris.

“Great. It is strategic, and it is the best technique for you with high technical skill and application ability.”

“The reality is… but it’s not as good as the afterimage.”

Chris’ afterimage was not an optical illusion created by speed. No matter how romantic and stylish she may be, she knew how meaningless and wasteful it would be to create afterimages at speed.

So, she leaves her own alter ego on the trajectory she runs. A technique that deceives you as if you were there by leaving it as if you were escaping the strength of the Auror you were wearing.

Of course, since she is an Auror clone, it was her special special move, capable of exploding and feeding the counter if it hits the wrong way.

“Hey, thank you for letting me know.”

Then she moved quickly.

All that’s left is the mirror-like afterimages beyond the mirror.

The afterimages gradually began to surround Leo.

It wasn’t a body and it didn’t move, but it exploded automatically when touched, so it was like being trapped.

“But, you’ve been watching too much.”

Leonardo draws a huge magic circle towards the ground. The circular pillar of fire that followed, burned not only the ground, but also the entire gymnasium in all directions.

“…Did you do it?”

Someone who had seen Dalian said so. He was a really merciless person, even if he didn’t notice.

“I didn’t neglect magic either. You have really grown up remarkably.”

Chris jumped into the air like the main character who received a double track and glided back to the ground.

For Chris, who is a master of Auror to the point of making the afterimage look like a clone, compressing air with the Auror and propelling it with the soles of his feet was nothing.

Aww!! damn…

Black stone cracked. Through training in the tower, the black stone became a weapon with hardness harder than the weapons in Marken’s arsenal.

However, Leonardo’s long sword was broken under the twin swords that Chris slashed as he rushed.

“…it was a great weapon, but it’s a pity.”

Looking at the broken black long sword, Chris looked sadly at the black stone.

I knew it would be fixed again, but on the other hand, it was because I had a little greed that it would have been better if that sword had been hers. It was because that blackish variable weapon really suited the name of darkness.

“There are even better ones.”

Leonardo raised the broken blade with the opposite hand, changing its form again. When he grabbed the broken blade, the two black stones he held in both hands became double swords.

“…Hmm, that weapon is really greedy.”

“Unfortunately, I can’t give it to you.”

Leonardo began to spin his twin swords with his hands, leaving Chris who had become truly gloomy behind him.

In his right hand, mana of fire was spinning in a trajectory, and mana of cold was rotating in a circle in his left hand.

“…that…”

[Unique magic double cast, I’m getting used to it now.]

The twin swords, each with opposite magic, rotated and twisted the prediction of the next attack.

‘…something is strange. To show such a flashy movement on purpose…’

Instinctively feeling the trap, she quickly looked down.

What was drawn toward the ground was a magic circle created from a distance.

“By the way, unique and universal magic are two separate things.”

Therefore, it was possible to form a separate explosion magic circle on the ground by using the triple cast.

Aww!

Like this.

[…hatch…]

＜I couldn’t do it. So don’t say anything.＞

Obviously, it was not an afterimage, but an existence with a substance and a body was blown away with an explosion. But Leonardo knew.

That Chris’ true strength is not just an afterimage.

Chaeeng! Kaang!

“It feels good.”

“Did you already know?”

Pincers coming from the front and the back, but the battle was only done with Chris.

It wasn’t contradictory.

“I don’t think you’re surprised.”

Both were Chris.

“Did you expect it?”

It wasn’t what I expected, it was closer to what I had been preparing for.

“The multiplication sword Alter Blade, it’s my favorite sword.”

The multiplication sword, that sword is not a dual sword, but an external sword.

However, the sword itself was cloned and became a double sword.

It was common to end there, but perhaps the blood of the hero could not be deceived.

“This sword makes my Alter Doppelganger.”

[…what do you mean?]

To interpret it, it meant that it was possible to create an alter ego.