The Chosen One Was Me, Not You

136 – {Semi-Finals} 2

{Semi-Finals}

‘Yuria, don’t worry about anything and just focus on the match.’

Lilia noticed that Theodore had left, but she watched him leave for a moment without saying anything.

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Yuria carefully dealt with the long spear pointed at her.

Every time her sword collided with her spear, she felt that her opponent’s spear deftly deflected her own attack, using her spin to counterattack.

To be honest, the spear’s efficiency in making irregular attacks while gently spilling the opponent’s attacks was much better than that of the sword.

‘It’s hard to predict, but not impossible.’

Yuria, who had exchanged workshops several times, felt that she was more capable than she thought.

Sirious’s calm and subtle spearmanship, which has been refined and developed over a long period of time, had many unpredictable attacks.

However, even if it was an unfamiliar weapon she had little experience with, she had no reason not to predict it.

Even just by looking at the movement of the opponent’s hand, she was able to quickly respond to the attack method.

‘And it’s not enough compared to Theo’s spearmanship.’

On top of that, Yuria already had experience dealing with far superior spearmanship than Sirius.

The confrontation was of course her defeat, but thanks to the confrontation with Theodore, she was able to learn many ways to deal with spearmanship.

“You seem to have experience dealing with spears.”

Swinging his spear, Sirius spoke up.

As a 3rd year student, he talked to Yuria, her 2nd year student, in half-speaking terms, but since she was a student at the academy, Yuria took it for granted.

“Yes, of course.”

Even at Jeiha Academy, there was a Spearmanship department, and Yuria had quite a bit of experience sparring with students from the Spearmanship department there.

Most of them followed the chauvinistic type with a different direction from Sirius, and it wasn’t that there were some who used irregular spearmanship like Sirius, but their skills were far inferior to Sirius.

On the other hand, in the case of Theodore, even the head of the spearmanship department was overwhelmingly defeated, and he excelled not only in swordsmanship but also in spearmanship in various fields.

‘If it was Theo, he would have used my attack back and tried to knock the sword out of my hand.’

But Sirius’ skill wasn’t that great.

If he could master the spearmanship he is currently learning to a higher level, such a skill would not be impossible.

But that literally meant that he would be able to reach it someday, not now.

‘Opportunity.’

Yuria’s sword quickly found a loophole in Sirius and used his spear with a superior skill to use the opponent’s skill in reverse to try to knock the spear out of the opponent’s hand.

She tried to make his spear fall by possessing both the weak adhesive property of her sword and the anti-elasticity that returns the opponent’s shock.

But as if Sirius was also looking for an opportunity, he reversed the pressure to knock Yuria’s sword off her hand.

However, Yuria was preparing for this situation as well.

“No?!”

Yuria, who had pushed her spear aside as much as possible using the anti-elasticity that made it freeze, could be seen grabbing her spear with her bare hands.

Unlike a sword, a spear had a wooden body, so it aimed for that gap.

However, because the spirit of her spear had risen, even though she was protecting her hand by wrapping it around her qi, a slight pain was transmitted to Yuria’s hand as well.

But it was worth it for her victory.

Before Sirius hurriedly threw her fist, Yuria aimed her sword in front of Sirius’ face, holding the spear as far away as possible with one hand.

“Oops…my defeat.”

After Sirius admitted defeat, Yuria let go of his spear and pulled herself behind him.

Her palms were red and swollen, and she seemed to need immediate medical attention.

“Yes! The winner of this matchup is Ms. Yuria Arsane! An international student from Jayha Academy has advanced to the finals!”

When Yuria Arsane’s advance to the finals was confirmed, the crowd cheered.

However, Yuria realized that among her audience, she could not see Theodore she had seen before, and she was busy looking around her audience, wondering if she had misremembered.

But she didn’t see Theodore, though she could see her family or her friend Ashley.

‘Is there something urgent?’

Yuria didn’t think that Theodore would be absent during her own match for no reason. She

She was sure she was sure she would have something important that much.

“It was a good match.”

After greeting Serious Carter, Yuria hurriedly came downstairs to her arena.

Then, she expressed her refusal to the healing wizards who were about to come to heal her with the words, “It’s okay,” And hurried out. She

When she came out, before long Theodore appeared in front of her.

“Yuria, congratulations on reaching the finals.”

“Yes, thank you.”

Yuria responded with a smile to Theodore who first congratulated her on her victory.

“Theo, it looks like you’ve been away for a while. Did something urgent happen?”

“Yeah. There was. But since I’ve solved it, give me a hand.”

Théodore already knew what had happened even if he hadn’t seen the match in person.

It was clear that she had saved videos of her matches as well as other people’s matches, but instead of mentioning it, Yuria just politely held out her hand.

When Theodore looked at her palm, which was slightly bleeding, and used healing magic lightly, Yuria immediately felt the pain in her palm disappear.

“Thank you for treating me today.”

After thanking her for her treatment, Yuria asked.

“By the way, Theo, if there was an urgent matter, what happened?”

Yuria wondered what was so urgent that Theodore was away.

And at her question, Theodore gently caressed her hand and said,

“I just let you play the match uninterrupted.”

“Are you interfering?”

When Yuria said that her match was almost interrupted, she instantly thought of the Britannia Empire, but she quickly eliminated them from the list of candidates.

Even if you think about it with common sense, there was no benefit to the Britannian Empire by doing so.

If he eliminated himself in an unjust way or interfered with the match, a rift would open between him and Theodore, and that would only result in a disadvantage that was incomparable to the benefit the Britannia Empire would gain from winning the tournament.

“Are those Helminto or something monsters involved?”

“That’s true. I guess the purpose was just confusion.”

The Helmintos at the top were currently hiding from Theodore’s sight.

That means that the Helminto monsters that appeared just now must have been the hideous monsters that attacked the Duke of Skyroad, as seen in Theodore’s memory.

“If those monsters showed up in the middle of town… it would have been a lot of chaos.”

“To be exact, it was a step before that. It must have been a scheme to parasitize people by planting eggs.”

Then it was a terrible thing.

Helmintho is a parasitic monster that parasitizes the human body, kills the human host, steals the body, and transforms the human body into a hideous monster.

It was scary to imagine what would happen if they planted eggs in people’s bodies on a large scale and hatched them.

Fortunately, the fact that these parasites do not work for those who use qi or magic, and that they can easily deal with Helminto inside the body when they are eggs or newly hatched chicks using qi or magic, is a sign that they have not reproduced on a large scale. Had a deterrent effect.

“Are all the eggs solved?”

“Yes. There were some people who got the eggs planted there, but most of them wouldn’t even know they were infected and would just cough a little.”

Yuria was relieved at Theodore’s words.

At the same time, I also wondered if this terrible fact should be publicized.

“Theo, can we keep this a secret?”

“It’s going to be tough. But if tomorrow’s finals are over, then it’s better to go and take action. The other side will want to put it up as a symbol of working with the Chosen One to prevent the apocalypse.”

“…I guess so.”

Yuria agreed with Theodore’s words.

If it was the Britannian Empire, they would want to make the response to Helminto look like they are fighting the end together with Theodore.

And as Theodore, it was easier for the Britannia Empire to cooperate, so he would adapt that much to their actions.

“So prepare for the finals tomorrow. Don’t forget your promise to show yourself winning.”

“Don’t worry. I won’t forget that promise.”

She made a promise to the emperor of the Arkan Empire, but also promised to win with Theodore.

Yuria had no intention of breaking that promise.

Only one match left!

She was going to win that match as well and win this tournament.