Things about the female knight in black stockings

Enoli didn't say anything more, but looked at Valencia with a lot of curiosity and a little bit of dissatisfaction.

The red-haired maid is still very confident in her eyesight. No matter how she looks at it, it will be difficult for Valencia to turn the situation around, unless she has some particularly powerful secret technique or suddenly takes out an inherited treasure...

Is it difficult?

In the surprised eyes of many people, including Enoli, Valencia, who was out of breath and almost unable to hold on, suddenly disappeared from under Bill's light blade.

Invisible?No, it’s too fast!

With a sharp look in her eyes, Enoli immediately stood in front of Tia and Melina, crossed her arms to block, and used her wall-like invisible energy to block the spread of the shock wave left behind when Valencia disappeared.

But several other people nearby did not receive this treatment, and they were all swept away by the shock wave.

The two stout women who wanted to capture Melina were the most unlucky. They were rolled on the ground by the shock wave and finally hit the wall. They went from pretending to be dizzy to actually being dizzy.

The few remaining guards of the Badr family were also in a very embarrassed state, and it took a lot of effort to stay standing.

Become!

Valencia, who had done all this, felt only joy in her heart at the moment.

As she had expected, after breaking through to the Pearl level, the explosive speed enhancement of the power of the mind and the second-stage acceleration of the high-tech military boots could be used together, allowing her to strike at supersonic speeds like a Wing Blade Falcon.

And her body, whose defense has been greatly improved after deeply absorbing the power of light, is enough to support her body load when moving at supersonic speeds.

This blow obviously far exceeded Bill's expectations.

If Bill had been concentrating on defense, he might have been able to take this move. Unfortunately, he was deceived by Valencia's initial attack performance and thought that was Valencia's upper limit.

It's too late to regret now.

Bill could only watch helplessly as Valencia rushed in front of him, leaving him wide open. Even because he maintained the glowing blade, he couldn't even activate his body protection.

At this time, Valencia could kill or seriously injure Bill just by stabbing him casually with a weapon.

But the two were relatives after all, and Valencia didn't want to completely break up, so she neither used the alloy long sword nor the dragon tooth dagger, but pushed her elbow forward...

Supersonic elbow strike!

Bang!

Bill, who had endured this blow, kept retreating, and finally failed to remain standing, half-kneeling and hitting a wall.

After that, neither of the two duels took any action.

Bill was in so much pain that he couldn't get up for a while, and Valencia was panting from exhaustion and exhaustion in an instant.

"This...this is my limit, better than...cousin Bill."

Tens of seconds later, Valencia, who was still panting and sweating, spoke first:

"If...if you still have the strength to fight, I...I will admit defeat."

"...No, cousin, you won this duel."

After more than ten seconds, Bill slowly stood up, holding his waist and supporting the wall:

"If my cousin had used a sword just now, I would probably be dead by now."

"it is good."

Tia immediately seized the opportunity to intervene in the conversation:

"Since Mr. Bill has admitted defeat, Valencia wins this duel! Do you have any objections?"

The guards of the Badr family and the onlooking adventurers remained silent.

Although Bill seemed to recover faster than Valencia and seemed to still have the strength to fight, he did admit defeat personally, and the blow Valensa had just hit was really amazing.

"Then I will officially announce the result of the duel..."

In Tia's declaration with a smile, the sudden duel was settled, but there may be another legend in the streets of the French capital.

In France, it is not uncommon for nobles to use duels to resolve conflicts, especially in the royal capital where nobles are almost everywhere on the streets.

But the one party to the duel was a beautiful girl knight with black stockings, and she also hit such a beautiful reversal, which is enough to be worthy of a few verses from the bards.

After all, no matter how quickly popular topics change, the popularity of beautiful girls will never go out of style.

Chapter 28 The emperor is not in a hurry for the eunuch

After the duel officially ended, enthusiastic priests from the besieging crowd quickly came out spontaneously to treat Valencia and Bill's injuries and restore their strength.

"To be able to hit such a blow...it seems that you have worked very hard in the past three years, cousin."

After the injury to his waist from the Supersonic elbow was almost healed, Bill sighed again.

"Of course, Valencia is very powerful now... If you dare to have any bad intentions again, you won't just get an elbow attack next time."

Tia snorted softly:

"And you swore an oath to the Sun Goddess. You shouldn't break your oath, right?"

"That's for sure, don't worry."

Bill nodded seriously:

"I will never bother Melina again, and I will try my best to prevent other people in the family from disturbing her."

"...I hope you will do what you say, cousin."

Seeing that Bill's current attitude was quite good, Valencia decided not to pursue it further.

"Let's go, Tia, sister Melina."

She held hands with Tia with her left hand, and her arm, whose shoulder armor and part of the sleeves were cut off, was supported by Melina, and she was about to leave.

"and many more!"

Bill stopped them again.

"...Cousin, what else do you want?"

Valenza glared over with some dissatisfaction, and Tia narrowed her eyes in a silent threat.

Bill turned a blind eye to their dissatisfaction:

"Even if you may get another blow from my cousin, I still want to say... With Melina's talent, it is such a waste to have her just sorting out documents and information in the Adventurer's Guild... It's like holding a sharpening iron. It’s like using a magic weapon of clay to chop firewood, and it’s like a waste of natural resources.”

"...So? Are you still plotting against Sister Melina?"

Valencia's eyes suddenly became dangerous:

"Cousin, you just swore an oath to the Sun Goddess. If you break this oath...you don't know what the consequences will be, right? And why do you know so much about Sister Melina's talents? Is it possible that you never Have you had thoughts about her a long time ago?"

"Of course I dare not break the oath I made to the Sun Goddess."

Realizing that the eyes of the Priestess who had just gently treated his injuries suddenly turned cold, Bill quickly clarified before revealing a wry smile:

"As for why I know Melina's talent... Cousin, you may not know that I have no interest in swordsmanship. My ideal is to be a manager who is good at clerical work."

"?"

A genius swordsman who can break through to the Pearl level at the age of 16 actually says he has no interest in swordsmanship?

Valencia was a little curious:

"So? Cousin, how did you end up abandoning literature and embracing martial arts?"

"...Because I also participated in that training, that training aimed at being the right-hand man of the heir of the family."

As Bill spoke, he glanced at Melina with a complicated expression:

“It was during that training that someone made me understand what a waste I was… In front of her talents and gifts that were as dazzling as the sun and the moon, I was just a grain of rice.

Only then did I realize that clerical work was not suitable for me at all... I could only reluctantly pick up the sword and force myself to practice swordsmanship well. "

"So that's how it is..."

Valencia probably understood Bill's mentality.

Bill should have placed all his dreams of a civilian job on Melina, hoping that Melina could assist Valenza and give full play to her talents.

As a result, Valencia gave up her position as heir, abducted Melina, and had no intention of letting Melina use her talents. Bill suddenly became anxious.

Although this matter actually has little to do with Bill, he is a standard emperor who is not anxious and eunuchs are anxious.

"so what?"

Valencia raised her eyebrows and asked:

"Cousin, what do you want?"

"It's nothing, I just want to tell you this."

Bill shook his head and bowed slightly to Valencia:

"I hope you can let Melina use her true talents one day, cousin Valencia... No, I should actually call you eldest lady... Even if you voluntarily give up your inheritance rights, you are still the only one in the family. As a direct bloodline, please forgive me for being disrespectful to you before."

After saying that, without waiting for Valensa to answer, Bill turned around and left.

The guards of the Badr family also quickly bowed to Valencia before going after Bill.

This time, it was Valencia who was stuck in place.

She stayed there for a while with a complicated expression, and then sighed with a wry smile:

"I didn't expect... I took Sister Melina and fled the family in a hurry for more than three years, but there is still someone willing to recognize me as the eldest lady?"

"This is the recognition you can get by yourself~~"

Tia held Valencia's hand and comforted her, then hesitated for a few seconds before saying:

"Actually, your family's current situation is quite bad. It's almost like describing it as a mob of demons... In comparison, your cousin Bill is already a pretty good person.

So if you really lost the duel just now, I can use this as an excuse to let our family intervene in your family's internal fighting and help you stabilize quickly. "

"Is this...the Badr family in a bad situation now?"

After all, that's where Valencia grew up, so there's no way she wouldn't care.

"more or less."

Tia shrugged and looked around again:

"Let's go... let's find a quieter place to have dinner. I'll talk to you carefully then."

It had been agreed long ago to have dinner with Melina on the day off, and Tia had naturally reserved a private room at the restaurant in advance.

Melina grew up with Valenza, and Tia was also Valenza's childhood sweetheart. The three of them have long been very familiar with each other.

But in front of Tia, Melina said nothing and refused to eat together. Instead, she stood beside Valenza like Enoli standing behind Tia, adhering to her duty as a maid.

Valencia tried to persuade her several times to no avail, so she had no choice but to give up.

Since Tia had made a reservation in advance and the chef had already prepared it, the meal was served very quickly. A dinner that was too sumptuous for the two girls was quickly put on the table.

Many of the dishes were Valencia's favorites in the past, and there were a few dishes she had never seen before. They should be new creations that have only appeared in the restaurant in the past two years.

Valencia first ate some familiar dishes to relieve her hunger, then tasted all the new dishes she had never seen before and made a few comments before finally speaking:

"Now can we talk about it? What is the current situation of the Bader family? Can you, Tia, give me a good review and my good impression before, cousin Bill, rob someone on the street?"

"...I haven't seen Melina's talent with my own eyes, so it's hard to judge, but if she is as powerful as Bill said, then I can probably understand why Bill is so impulsive."

Tia sighed:

"Because the Badr family has lost too much talent in the past two years and is in urgent need of some talented managers to stabilize the situation."

Chapter 29 The Current Situation of the Badr Family

"talent loss?"

Valencia bit her lip:

"How could this happen... is it because after that incident, our family's inherited treasure has been destroyed, so other families have taken action against us? Start by poaching?"

"No, it's not."

Tia shook her head:

"Although it is an inevitable trend for a big family that has lost its inheritance to decline, the big nobles are more or less concerned about their face and will not act so quickly.

Things like your family's have happened a lot in history... As a rule, people don't attack families that have lost their inheritance. They just restrict their development and slowly wait for two or three generations before this kind of family becomes Will automatically fade out of the top level and become an ordinary little noble.