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"So let's get started. "Anytime, Alphonse."

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　Brother Ars went out into the garden, sword at the ready.

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　He looked at me and said.

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　...... is amazing.

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　I can feel a kind of pressure from Brother Ars just by looking at him like this.

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　And the quality of his magical power is totally different from others.

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　In the House of Lords, there are teachers and other adults in addition to students.

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　Of course, these people are also from the aristocracy and their magical power is much higher than normal.

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　But even compared to such people, Brother Ars's magical power is clearly different.

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　I can't say, but his magic power is distinctly different from those people.

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　I usually don't feel it so much, but just looking at him standing there with his sword pointed at me, his black magic power is terrifying.

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　I guess you could say it's awe-inspiring.

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　I gulp.

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　But don't be frightened.

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　Brother Ars is still standing there with his sword at the ready.

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　And he's not a master swordsman.

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　He might have a chance to take advantage of my sword because it's my own style that I've learned from actual battles.

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　I took a breath, calmed down, and cut into Mr. Ars.

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　He quickly shifted his weight and moved his body forward.

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　It's one of the techniques in the Lubitsch family's magic called "Kenjutsu" (swordsmanship).

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　Instead of walking with your feet up, you move your body forward without changing the center of gravity of your waist, so that your opponent will not be able to detect your movement.

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　An opponent who is facing you head-on will think that you have moved instantaneously and approached him.

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"Whoa! You startled me."

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　I swung my sword at him as I entered his attack range.

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　I swung from above, the move I'd been practicing the most.

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　Kabuto Warashi.

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　I swung the sword with a smoothness I could not have imagined before.

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　The sword glided from top to bottom as if in a fluid motion.

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　If he succeeds in this [Kabuto Warashi], he can cut through even armor and slice his opponent.

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　But Ars dodges the sword with a shout.

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　Looking at his face, he seemed surprised.

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　He probably didn't expect me to be able to perform such a sword fight.

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　But it didn't end here.

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　The sword goes down to the bottom and immediately moves on to the next attack.

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　He used "Tsubame-gaeshi.

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　He changes the trajectory of the sword to a diagonal leap from the lower left.

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　However, he does not use force to change the trajectory.

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　By making the magic flow through the muscles of each part of his body, he assists his body's movement, and the sword leaps up smoothly and effortlessly, as if the swallow that flew down to just above the ground were to fly up at once.

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　The body, which has avoided the attack just now, makes the attack reach the target faster than the body can recover from the evasive action.

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　I thought that my sword had reached his body.

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"Oops!

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　But he avoids it in the nick of time.

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　My sword really did cut through the air just a hair short of the target.

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　I had intended to hit him completely in the air, but he had lost it.

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　The moment I sense that the attack has failed, I let the magic in my body flow even more.

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　This time, I let more magic flow into my eyes and brain to see if my opponent would counterattack.

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　The fact that he just barely dodged my sword meant that he would have time to move on to the next attack.

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　For this reason, I need to observe even the magic power of Ars's body, to determine his next attack.

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　Then, Ars's eyes lit up.

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　In a moment in the middle of the battle, our eyes meet.

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　And at that moment, I couldn't move.

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　It was magic.

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　Ars-san's black, heavy magic power slammed into me as our eyes met.

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　I think my body must have shrunk as it sensed the overwhelming pressure of that magic power.

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　I couldn't move as if I was in a bind.

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　The next moment I realized that the game was decided.

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　The body of my brother Ars, who should have been right in front of me, disappeared from my sight.

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　He had already moved behind me and was holding his sword against my neck.

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　I did not know what had happened.

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　I did not know what kind of movement he had made to stand behind me.

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　I don't know how he put the sword to my neck.

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　All I knew was that I had lost.

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"Yes. I win."

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"I lost! What, the last one?　I couldn't move my body."

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I just stared at him and he got scared. I guess my spirit won out."

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"I don't think that's the kind of spirit you're talking about. ......"

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"Hmm?　Huh?　Didn't my brother Byte teach me that before?　He said it's all about spirit in a fight."

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"Oh, I might have been told that before. But Ai said that we should learn more skill than spirit.

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"That sounds like Ai. But it's important to have spirit, too. Just by shouting and striking the opponent with your magic power at the moment of attack, you can make the opponent immobilized. Well, it's just like a small trick in actual battle, but this kind of thing is more important than you might think.

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"I see. I see. Then I'll practice Kiai too.

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"Yeah, that's a good idea. You can always practice putting the magic in your voice and hitting them with it, Alphonse. In most cases, that will make them shrink back and listen to what you have to say. You're getting stronger. I'm surprised at you, brother."

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"Really?　Is he getting stronger?"

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"I'm strong. Definitely strong. Strong enough to make me and my brother Bite look like a bunch of snot when we were your age. Wow, that's great. Even with what the Eye taught you, you did your best, Alphonse."

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　I'm glad.

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　Brother Ars praised me.

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　That alone makes me extremely happy.

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　I couldn't wait to be recognized for all the hard work I had done.

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　I was so happy about that that I repeated the mock battle with Ars many times after that.

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