67 Episode 66 Promotion Exam 3






Goblins, there are four of them.
"Oh, I can see it. You're a genius at detecting things. I'm jealous!

 Mr. Warrior speaks up and holds his axe.
 The others also have their own weapons.

''For now, let's just call it a free battle, so let's each of us fight one at a time.
That's true. It would be difficult to get this many people to cooperate with each other all of a sudden.

 Racine nodded at Warrior's words.
 The four goblins are a dagger, a sword, an axe, and a spear.
 It's just a similar formation to the equipment we have here.

''What should we do? Do you fight to a weapon? Or do you want to take some advantage?
"We're dealing with goblins, right? I'm not going to lose against a goblin with a spear.

 Mr. Racine smiled triumphantly.
 Then Mr. Warrior clenched his fist in defeat.

'I don't have a problem with that either! What about Sif!
'I'll be fine too. I've killed similar goblins many times.
Okay. And how about Relius?
That's all right. I'll take care of it.

 I point my hand to the hilt of my sword.
 I'm sure you'll be able to find a way to make it work.

"So, we'll just have to fight each other.

 Mr. Warrior shouts happily and then starts to run.
 Mr. Racine and Mr. Cifu follow, and I alert my surroundings before running late.

''Chiyu-san. I'll be the one to alert the surroundings, but Chiyu-san, please do the same.''
Oh, I see what I'm doing! I'll do my best!

 Chiyu-san, who tightly regrasped her staff, desperately turned her gaze to her surroundings.
 She doesn't seem to have lost her nervousness yet, but she's also an adventurer enough to accept this request.
 It should be fine.

 The goblins were about to swarm Racine-san, who rushed in first.
 That's when Warrior-san intervened and swung her axe through the air.

 The goblin holding the axe catches it, but Mr. Warrior blows it away with his axe.
 A tremendous amount of power.
 Mr. Warrior follows it with a belligerent smile.

 The goblin with the dagger and the goblin with the sword both attacked Warrior, but Sheikh intervened.

 I, too, can't afford to lose.
 I throw the knife at the sword goblin.

 After taking one look at the pierced knife, the goblin lunges at me with the tip of his sword pointed at me.
 Now we can each fight each other.
 I dodge the sword goblin's attacks while keeping an eye on my surroundings.

 The swords being swung out all seemed to be slow.
 .........this much is no problem to dodge.
 After dodging everything, I swung my sword out of the way.

 I sliced the goblin's head clean off with my sword.
 
 With this sword I'm using now, I can cut through this level of goblin skin without a problem.

 The others - they still seemed to be struggling.
 ........I was a bit surprised, but maybe this was a normal F-rank, I don't know.

 I hadn't fought with any other adventurers at all until now.......
 Besides, whether it was Mea-san or Linial-san, they were high ranked adventurers.

 I wasn't sure if I would cover them or not, but now it's time for each of them to fight.
 I would have cooperated with them if they were in great danger, but that wasn't the case.

 Mr. Warrior slammed his axe down in succession, blowing his opponent's axe away and cutting that goblin in two.
 Mr. Sheikh repeatedly took advantage of the goblin's gap and swung his dagger through the goblin's gap, taking the goblin's back completely and thrusting his dagger into its neck.

 Mr. Racine swings his spear through the air. The goblin attacked as well, but Racine-san was better at his craft. He caught the goblin's arm and pierced his throat in that frightened moment.

 Chiyu-san gasped and looked around.
 This is the end of the battle.
 There are no demons approaching around, and it doesn't look like they'll be lured in by the smell of blood, either.
 While I was keeping an eye on my surroundings, Warrior-san was the first to come running over.

''Oh, weren't you abnormally fast at taking you down!
I was certainly faster than you all, but...
'Blacksmith, what is it? Blacksmiths were so powerful! I heard that I'm not a fighter by profession!
'No, it's not. I can fight reasonably well.
He's so strong, in fact, he's so strong! I'm a fighter, okay? He says he's much stronger than me, a warrior!

 People wouldn't even know what a blacksmith could actually do until they knew what a blacksmith could do.
 So it should be possible to fool them with 'It's a blacksmith's ability' to some extent.

 As if to match Waria-san's words, Sifu-san also nodded.
 He too was looking at me as if he was surprised.

''His sword swing was so fast........ That, even my eyes could barely follow it.''
''...Really? Blacksmiths can fight a lot better than you might think.
It's more than I thought. It's...

 Racine, who had reassembled her spear, also turned her eyes wide open to us.

''It's true. I was wondering if I should just quickly beat him and help him out...but that's not the case at all. I'm sorry, I made the mistake of thinking you were a blacksmith.
'No, don't worry about it. I'm just glad to prove that I'm not pulling my weight either.
Yes. In fact, aren't you the strongest of all of us?

 At Racine's words, Warrior puffs out her cheeks in disgust.

"I'm not going to let you down, either!
'The Warriors wasted a lot of time, didn't they? You need to move a little more compactly, don't you?
Ugh!
'Yes. Warrior has a lot of big swings, and there was a point where her body was being pulled by the axe.
Oh, no! You people are just as good as-- No, I don't know, I don't look around!

 Mr. Warrior, holding his head, then stirred in frustration.
 The three of us laughed, and then Mr. Racine sighed with a sigh.

''I'd rather have my partner dragging me down than you, but I'm sorry about that.

 Racine pointed at Chiyu with a biting thumb.

''Report to everyone when the demon gets close........! Report to everyone when the demon is close........!

 There was Chiyu-san, still holding her staff and desperately wary of her surroundings.