Sophia and Darphy-dono were glaring at each other as they squared off.
Neither Sophia nor Darphy-dono were using mock weapons, but rather, real weapons. As one would expect, Freesia-san grew pale upon seeing her children drawing their swords to fight each other.
Believing that Sophia wouldn’t cause him great harm, our companions watched without worry.
Sophia held her sword in one hand as she eyed her opponent’s blade, unmoving. Darphy-dono readied his long sword and and round shield, gradually shortening their distance.
The first to move was Darphy-dono.
When Darphy-dono swung his longsword diagonally and Sophia easily brushed it off with one hand, his body drifted. He hurriedly jumped backwards, but Sophia remained still without pursuing him.
「Kuh! Don’t look down on me!」
Darphy-dono shortened the distance in one leap, and swung at Sophia with a side sweep that was difficult to avoid. Sophia handled this so easily, as if it was nothing.
Darphy-dono’s sword fighting was likely the orthodox style of knights. It looks to be the type of swordsmanship for interpersonal fights. On the other hand, since Sophia was also trained in this sword style since she was a knight of Yggurle Kingdom, but perhaps as a result of fighting multitudes of monsters with me, and because she sparred with us, she had refined it into her own original style.
「The little brother is being treated like a child.」
「It’s inevitable. There is a 4-fold gap between their levels, so the difference in their status is too vast to bridge with skills.」
「Even Sophia’s sword skills are higher than his, though.」
Even to Akane’s untrained eyes, the gap in Sophia and Darphy-dono’s strength was still overwhelming. She could tell they were absolutely safe.
Similarly, Freesia-san, who watched her own children fight with swords, was relieved when she figured that the worst would not happen.
On the other hand, Dante-san, a knight, was frozen in shock by Sophia’s strength.
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(Shit! Why! Why won’t it hit!? Wasn’t she a useless person kept in a slave shop for 50 years!?
Darphy’s sword continued to swing at and miss Sophia without even landing a graze.
Ever since he joined the Chivalric Order, he had been compared to his elder sister Sophia. The sister that was a genius who excelled not only with the sword, but also spears and magic. The younger brother should do his best to get even a little bit closer to her……
Every time, his hatred for Sophia continued to accumulate.
Darphy strived to train as desperately as he could. As the Sylphide family’s heir, he worked hard to not bring shame to the house.
(How about this?)
Despite Darphy swinging the sword with intent to kill, they were simply parried or avoided no matter where he attacked.
(Why! What is it, this gap!?)
Unlike Darphy who works as a knight in the royal capital, Sophia who fought repeatedly in monster nests and dungeons, and against Triaria Kngdom and Divine Empire of Sydnia, had become the continent’s strongest.
(Kuh, then I’ll do this!)
Darphy tried to fire Wind Blades using Spirit Magic, yet the Spirits would not respond.
(Wha, why!? The Spirits aren’t doing what I tell them to!)
As flustered as Darphy was, there was no way that a low ranking Wind Spirit would help him use magic to injure Sophia who is favored by the Great Wind Spirit, Sylph.