The Hero’s Brother Is Bound To Be Depressed

90 – Awkwardness

The opponent for my next match was Lucia from the Faculty of Magic. I play the game in front of me in the round of 16 game in the morning, I know about his face.

At the time, I was focusing on other things, so I couldn’t properly watch Lucia fight.

At least the thing that remains in my memory. At the end, he shot his magic and knocked out his opponent.

When your opponent is thinking about using magic, and thinking about making a cover out of beanstalk. Lucia appeared on the pitch.

I made a puzzled expression when I saw a strangely shaped box floating in the air and putting it beside me.

There was nothing like that in Lucia’s first match? The Faculty of Magic is famous for using many artifacts. If so, did they bring a special artifact for this match?

I squinted my eyes and guessed the purpose of the box in my head.

“Hi, are you Ross? Chief of Combat Division.”

I reflexively nodded at the sudden greeting.

“Right.”

Where is my answer funny? Lucia smiled brightly and gave a meaningless answer.

“Thanks to that, I was able to become the chief. Thank you.”

“… ?”

Today was the first time I had heard the name Lucia, and it was the first time I had a conversation with her. It’s definitely not a relationship that deserves meaningless gratitude.

It wasn’t very pleasant for someone I hadn’t met before to pretend to know me.

“Isn’t it you or me?”

I scratched the back of my head when I saw Lucia smiling silently at my question. I could see for myself that my expression was shaking.

It felt a bit awkward to move on to a simple provocation. Was there any reason to make such a provocation in the first place?

―1St grade quarterfinals. Game 3 begins!

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No matter what our mood was, the host did his job. At the words of the moderator announcing the start of the game, I raised my spear of destruction toward Lucia.

Lucia’s relaxed expression as she pointed a cane at me made me feel like a villain who hid a secret number for some reason. I felt like a villain even more because of the meaningless words.

The countdown begins with the cheers of the crowd.

Soon, at the same time as the host shouted to announce the start of the game, Lucia swung her staff.

It moved here and there, as if disassembling an unknown box around it, then suddenly combined into a single mass.

As the mass revealed itself to be a gigantic mechanical golem, there was an excited roar from the cheering crowd that seemed to leave the arena.

The appearance of the gigantic mechanical golem instantly raised the atmosphere of the stadium to its peak. The screams echoing through the air made my skin sting.

I narrowed my eyes and carefully observed the golem that appeared in front of me. After all, this is the true identity of the awkward feeling.

There were several students in the Faculty of Magic who had a talent for golems or dolls, so summoning golems wasn’t that special. The golem in front of me was different.

Huge size, red light right in the center of the face. Features resembling a one-eyed giant and a cross-shaped hand on his left arm.

This was no ordinary golem. It was the guardian golem of the imperial palace that guards the underground passage of the imperial palace, which only appears in the second half of the novel.

So, I couldn’t help but wonder. Why does he have this?

This golem was created by a magician belonging to the imperial family. In other words, it is the property of the imperial family. Possessing this would be impossible unless you are a member of the imperial family….

“Were you from the royal family?”

At my question, Lucia made an expression as if asking what she was talking about. Certainly, judging from the gray hair unique to the imperial family, it seems that he is not of the imperial family.

Then the situation was even more incomprehensible. Is there any way for that guy to possess the golem? Which stupid royal family did you coax?

“Are you confused by the first look of the golem? If you surrender even now, I will not kindly attack you. Come on, say surrender.”

I burst out laughing at Lucia’s kind suggestion. The thought that a person could be so arrogant with just one golem came to my mind.

It’s not a troublesome magic, to surrender against one golem of such a gigantic size…. I asked scratching my head.

“Would you mind if this breaks?”

“What?”

Lucia twitched her lips as if she was dumbfounded by my words. It was a question I asked because I was genuinely worried, but what I got back was a cold response close to contempt.

“I heard rumors that he was crazy, but it seems to be true. “

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Not wanting to waste any more time, Lucia swung her wand, and a huge golem broke through the floor of the arena and came towards me.

Kung—! Thud-! Thud-!

Feeling the vibration of the floor, I drew out the power of destruction that was dormant in the window. The blade of the spear turned red, and a faint heartbeat spread from the tip of the spear.

-Ah, Ross! No motion at all! Did your body freeze at the gigantic size of the golem?

At the words of the moderator, I let out a blank laugh.

Where is that!

The golem approached me and threw out a huge fist. The bangs that covered the forehead fluttered in the wind with a huge bang sound.

Until then, the crowd screamed when they saw me standing still, but I just countered the approaching fist and stabbed the red spear of destruction.

With the [Destruction] Contained in that simple thrust, the disintegration that started from the golem’s arm quickly reached the inner core as if it were soaked in water. It was about 1 second at the longest.

The red light went out, and the arena fell silent for an instant as the golem collapsed as if its entire body were collapsing.

“Shouldn’t you have used magic instead? That would have been a bit difficult.”

The golem broke and debris poured down on top of Lucia, who was looking at me with a stupid expression. A few seconds after Lucia was summoned out of the arena due to the shock, the emcee finally came to her senses and shouted.

“Win, the winner is the head of the combat department! It’s Ross!”

The audience, who finally came to their senses at the emcee’s cry, grasped the situation and began pouring out tremendous cheers. I waved my hand lightly at the cheers of the crowd, who were screaming so loudly that I inadvertently worried that vocal cord nodules might be coming.

At my performance of smashing a giant golem with a single blow, the crowd went crazy as if they were going to storm into the arena. Probably the one who bet on me.

On the contrary, the gambling tickets bet on Lucia have now become useless paper. The papers flew out of the gamblers’ hands and onto the playing field.

Papers poured down like snow and hit the arena’s defenses, where they were instantly extinguished by flames.

As if a firecracker had exploded, the embers created by the fading gambling rights fell into the arena as if to light up the winner. Seeing this, the cheers of the crowd grew even louder.

Since this is my second match, for some reason, I have a shameless confidence. This time, he raised his spear high into the sky with a cool expression.

I was conscious of Luna, who was cheering me on somewhere.

My name resounded in the arena again because of my actions.

Did I still not understand the situation, or did I lose my sense of reality? She waved her hand with a light smile to Lucia, who looked at me with a dazed expression outside the arena, and she exited the arena.

That must be expensive, won’t your parents scold you?

***

Between a huge crowd. Roel, who came to cheer on her brother’s game, chanted Ross’ name eagerly along with the rest of the crowd.

“Ross, you are the best!!! To finish it in one blow, you are my little brother!”

“This is a window opener!”

As usual, when Flavia tackled her, Roel shook her head in anticipation.

“No, it’s a scam because the owner handles it well! I couldn’t do that either!”

“Really~?”

As Flavia looked at herself with her suspicious eyes, Roel slipped her head away and avoided her gaze.

“Well, it might be possible….”

Rosalyn, who was sitting in the back seat of the two talking, laughed and shouted at Ross as he left the arena.

“Good job Ross~!!!”

“Best Ross!”

Roel, who had been shouting after Rosalind, suddenly realized that Bella’s expression, like Ilya, who was sitting quietly next to her without saying anything was unusual.

“Are you okay, Bella? I have a bad expression. Are you sick?”

Roel asked in a worried voice, and she smiled as softly as Bella always did.

Just as Bella opened her mouth to answer, Flavia suddenly interrupted the conversation.

“Of course it has to be bad~ That expensive thing turned into scrap metal in one blow. Can you not feel sick to your stomach?”

“Huh? What are you talking about?”

At Flavia, who giggled, Roel turned her head away with her bewildered expression. However, Flavia covered her lips with her hand and smiled, as if she had no intention of answering her question.

“Huh~? No. Just looking at it~ Watching someone do something stupid and fail in one shot is so~ funny~ You don’t have to worry about Roel~”

Roel scratched the back of her head because he couldn’t understand her meaning.

When Roel, caught between Bella and Flavia in a strange atmosphere, looked at her, Bella got up from her seat with a cool look on her face.

“I feel bad…. I will wake up first.”

Roel hesitated, trying to get up from her seat to grab her Bella. Flavia pinched her side hard, preventing her from getting up.

“Why?”

“Leave it alone. He has to suffer.”

“Why are you doing this all of a sudden?”

“There is such a thing only between girls~ Don’t worry about it. By the way, should I give Ross a present? No. We should take this opportunity to match our Luna as a couple.”

Looking at Flavia giggling as if she were having fun, she still thought that she couldn’t understand the women’s fighting spirit. Roel finally let out her heavy sigh.