I Became the Villain of a Romance Fantasy

53 – Morning Star (5)

To be honest, I was a little surprised.

It’s not that I’m surprised that I won the match against Noel. She was, to say the least, a genius, but not enough to exceed my time.

The difference in skill was clear and I knew I would win the match against her. Perhaps, Noel also raised his sword against me knowing that fact.

However, what surprised me was the sparring process that Noel and I went through.

I saw Noel’s dropped sword. The sword body was split in two, so it didn’t have the proper shape of the sword. It’s a scene I made up, but it’s still absurd.

I didn’t think that the sparring sword would break. Was it poor quality? That kind of thing couldn’t happen because my father was involved in the things that were delivered to Krause at the studio. Above all, if the sword was in poor condition, Noel, who had picked up the sword, would not have used it from the beginning.

In the end, it is said that I made it that way. does this make sense..?

It was true that he swung the sword with such an intention. I had no intention of overconfident in my skills here. I just did it because I could. However, after the sparring and thinking about it, this doesn’t make sense again.

It is true that there was progress with the sword in Merohim.

He was also able to fully understand this through sparring with Sir Gwen. So I can say it because I know exactly where I stand now. Her sword shouldn’t have broken in the first match.

The sword is like life to a swordsman. Therefore, minimizing sword damage is directly related to the skill of a swordsman.

It’s not that difficult to cut down a sparring sword, but if you give a sword to any knight here and ask me to do the same thing as before, even if it’s possible, I wonder if it’ll be difficult to do it within a single frame of mind.

If it was her skill that I had figured out, I would have been able to shed the sword without breaking it. If there was really nothing wrong with the sword, it was her own choice, so why on earth did Noel let the sword break?

Various questions continued to bite after question, but when I saw Noel standing in front of me with a bright smile in front of me, I couldn’t find the reason, but the fact that my action of breaking the sword was the answer she wanted I was able to spot it easily.

Noel’s blue eyes sparkled.

Her eyes, transformed like burning blue flames, contained a fighting spirit that she hadn’t shown before. I wondered if he was going to apply for sparring again, but contrary to my thoughts, what Noel said to me was nothing other than a thank you.

“Thank you. Prince Damian.”

It was a short word, but the voice that calmly resonated in my ears contained a sense of nobility befitting the status of a princess. The way he looked at me and his tone were all different, to the point where I wondered if he was the Noel Estelia I knew.

“This is the first time I’ve had such a fun sparring.”

What kind of fun could be found in that short sparring, which was only one sum.

But I could see that Noel’s words weren’t just formal greetings. Noel’s words contain the answer to what she wanted and what I fulfilled for her.

I looked at the little girl in front of me facing me. She was the princess of the empire, but her eyes met mine were those of a knight.

I never thought I’d say something like this…

I said this to Noel, who was about to leave the gymnasium.

“If you had so much fun, why don’t you do it again?”

At my answer, Noel stared blankly at me for a moment, then took a step forward, came closer, looked up at me slightly, and smiled softly.

She didn’t usually smile for everyone to see and hear, but this one little smile was the best I’d ever seen of her. Like the wind passing by for a moment, Noel’s face suddenly turned into the Noel Estelia everyone knew.

Noel turned away from me and smiled as well as before.

“Hee hee…later. I’ll practice a little more and then challenge myself.”

“You think you might break the sword again?”

“Hmm? hehehe. But next time I apply, I won’t back down so easily!! Maybe, I might keep applying until I win?”

“Then it won’t end.”

In my words, Noel said, ‘Maybe!’ He replied vigorously and continued his steps. I also handed the sword for sparring to the knight who was cleaning up and walked after her.

Come to think of it, I thought about the meeting between Elena and Noel, but I never thought about the meeting between me and Noel. Considering the contents of the novel, for Damien and for Noel, the two were bad for each other. I wonder if there is a person with whom Demian is a good friend.

Still, for me now, meeting Noel and her doesn’t seem like a bad start. The first button seems to have been sewn well, so please let this lead to Seon-yeon.

“uh?”

A strange voice came from Noel, who was walking ahead. Seeing her sudden stop, I also stopped and looked ahead.

A familiar white light was shining there.

How long have you been watching?

Elena. The sight of her that was always welcome to see came into my eyes. She sat next to Alphonse and watched me and Noel return. Noel looked at Elena with a bright face, perhaps glad to see a familiar face, but Elena wasn’t looking at her.

she was looking at me

Why? Her beautiful purple eyes, which were always warm, feel cold today.

***

When you experience a regression, sometimes you have a different but similar experience.

Such was the case with Noel and his meeting now. The two first met during the placement exam for the Knights Division of Bondi Estelia Academy. Although I, the Faculty of Magic, was not there, I had already heard about it several times from Noel.

At that time, the test for the Faculty of Engineering was a simple sparring between students.

It’s clear that fate must have disappeared, but I really don’t know why this happens.

When I arrived at the gymnasium, I saw Noel. Even though they were twins, they have the opposite vibe from Orcus. Seeing her bright smile, I was first glad to see a friend reunited after a long time.

But maybe it was because this was the second time. I didn’t feel the same way as when we first met. Of course, I already knew this would happen. Because there was a clear difference between parting in the first life and parting in the second life.

On top of the gymnasium, he and Noel stood sword to sword. Seeing this, I couldn’t help but bring out the memories of the past. Even though I knew better than anyone that a lot had changed from before, I couldn’t completely get away from the past.

“Ah, sister!”

“Hi Alphonse. Long time no see.”

Alphonse greeted me in a friendly voice, but I answered briefly and sat down to look at the gymnasium. I don’t even know what kind of emotions I’m looking at at the gym right now.

fear. No, I wasn’t afraid. To be honest, this would be more like curiosity. Is it really someone’s joke? As before the return, his first meeting with Noel was a sparring, and whether the same result will come out this time as in the previous life.

Of course, that doesn’t change anything, but this was the realm of curiosity to the last.

However, I was able to find one strange thing while watching the two of them stance. It wasn’t different, but his clothes were the problem. He was wearing the same clothes as this morning, but he could see knife cuts in places that weren’t there before. On the other hand, Noel’s clothes were clean. Feeling strange here, I asked Alphonse, who must have watched the couple fight.

“Alphonse. Has Damian ever had a sparring with someone before?”

“Yeah! One time with Sir Gwen. Oh, sister, you know what? You finally defeated Sir Gwen!!”

Alphonse answered my question with an excited face, but when I heard that answer, a shadow was cast on my face.

He knows who Sir Gwen is, even without an explanation. As the leader of Krause’s greatest strength, the Black Dragon Knights, isn’t he an outstanding knight who is talked about many times among those other than the Sword Master along with Sir Wilhelm? I had seen his skills before returning, but I couldn’t know if I didn’t know because he sparred with him every day here.

So far, he and Gwen’s record is undefeated. So, of course, I should be happy that he won, but I felt a little angry.

“I stopped the sparring with Sir Wilhelm this morning for some reason, but as soon as I returned to Sarham, Sir Gwen…”

“Who…sister?”

Taking a closer look, it wasn’t just the clothes that weren’t fine. In the past, it was a common occurrence to get scars all over the body whenever I competed with Sir Gwen, but today, like before, I couldn’t just ignore it. It’s been less than three days since he fell once in a sparring with Sir Wilhelm and got up again.

So this morning, sparring was not overdone.

With such thoughts in mind, the outcome of the Dalian was already put on the back burner. How is it? For me now, this is a more important issue.