The Crown Prince Who Raises Alt Characters

#Chapter 110 Magic Sword Forte (12) - Multiple Choice People often misunderstand, but originally, a sword is a dangerous object even without a blade. Whether it's in its sheath or struck with the flat of the blade, when a heavy chunk of metal hits someone's head, that alone is enough for a person to cross to the afterlife. Therefore, if the opponent had been an ordinary person, Fina would have hesitated this way and that before swinging her sword. No matter how important holidays are, she couldn't kill someone over that, could she? (Some overworked office workers might have different opinions.) But the young man was not an ordinary person. A strong individual who had originally decent skills and even borrowed demonic power on top of that. Therefore, Fina could beat up the young man without any hesitation whatsoever. Thwack! Thwaaack! Thwaaaack! "Gah! Urgh! Agh! Agh!" The young man couldn't come to his senses. Getting hit in both eyes right from the start was fatal. Right after reflexively crouching from the pain felt in his face, the back of his head was struck down, and when he fell to the ground, a full swing came into his side. The young man screamed and tried somehow to escape from Fina, but each time Fina stuck to him like a ghost and continuously beat him up. 'Why, how...!?' In the young man's heart, bewilderment and questions welled up. The young man originally had skills at around the threshold of 4th rank. After contracting with Divana, that power became even stronger, to the point where he could even form Sword Force. In fact, the young man was currently wearing armor made of aura around his body, and this was powerful defense that could easily deflect ordinary slashing attacks. But what on earth was this current situation? Why was the armor having no effect? Could it be that Magic Sword could ignore even aura-based defense? The young man's thoughts were wrong. It was true that Forte was a master sword capable of ignoring most defenses, but even so, it wasn't powerful enough to pierce through aura while in its scabbard. Therefore, the reason the young man was being helplessly beaten was simple. The defense he thought was perfect was actually not perfect. That was all. 《The versatility of aura is truly a terrifying power. Since it can grant physical force to mana itself, how much more so.》 《The most common usage is to overlay it on weapons to produce destructive power beyond limits or wrap it around the skin's surface to use like armor, but this is merely the basics.》 《You can extend a weapon's range by shooting aura out long, or form it into orb shapes to fire like projectiles. Even when overlaying on weapons, you can compress aura only on the blade to maximize power, or concentrate aura only on parts being attacked to increase defense - there's no end when you dig deep.》 《And such techniques and ingenuity are acquired by steadily building up one's own training. If one just suddenly gains the power called 'aura' without such a process... they'd end up like the young man right before us.》 《Ah, the aura on his shins has come loose. A kick with the toes should do it.》 'Yes, Sir Magic Sword!' The girl, bewitched by the evil magic sword's whispers, swung her leg with all her might, and a scream spread from the young man's mouth. 《Hey! Hey! Why are you just taking it so helplessly! First create distance! Use spells to keep her in check! Your side is open right now! No, there you shouldn't use the sword but your fist- Argh!!》 And Divana, watching this scene, felt like her insides would burst and she'd die. If Fina had shown an overwhelming power battle using the magic sword's power like she had in the dungeon, Divana would have accepted it too. That would just be losing due to inferior specs. But Fina was hardly borrowing the magic sword's power right now. Even though the young man's specs themselves were superior, he was just being one-sidedly beaten up. Divana agonized. If she revealed her true form directly here, it would be possible to reverse the situation. However, in that case the faculty would learn of her existence, and this would be an enormous hindrance to future operation execution. But if she just stayed still, that would mean her contractor would become unable to recover at Fina's hands. With a face that looked like she couldn't kill a single bug, wasn't her skill at beating people up at a level that could rival any professional? Divana, who had been deep in thought for a while, finally made a decision. 《Ah, seriously...! Hey, listen carefully! From now on you are—》 Whether that decision was the right one could only be known later. *** "I, I was blinded by greed!" The young man, whose face had become so bumpy all over that his original handsome looks were nowhere to be found, suddenly bowed his head. He slowly began to confess why he had done such a thing, and though his pronunciation was slurred here and there, there was no major problem understanding the content. As a swordsman, he had coveted the magic sword's power too much. He felt like he had momentarily lost his mind. He would make sure this never happened again. He was truly sorry. That was all. "Hmm." At Fina's appearance of scratching her cheek as if troubled, Divana clenched her fist tightly. 《I knew it, this was right! She's the Hero's descendant after all! If you had killed someone or something that would be different, but she wouldn't just kill you for attempting theft once!》 'I, I see.' The young man inwardly had doubts about whether Fina was really such an innocent and righteous person, but he didn't bother to refute Divana's assertion. Rather than get beaten up more for no reason, he too wanted to end the fight this way. Fortunately for the young man, there was no incident where an enraged Fina told him not to talk nonsense and suddenly took his head off. Meanwhile, Divana continued to passionately speak. 《Since it's come to this, go thoroughly in the direction of exploiting sympathy! You were suffering too much from family pressure! In such a situation, when you saw great power before your eyes, you unknowingly succumbed to temptation! Like this!》 It had become impossible to take psychological advantage beside the devastated Fina and lead her. However, Divana instructed a strategy that they could conversely guide behavior in the direction of stirring up sympathy, and the young man faithfully followed this. A knight family with its own deep history. However, descendants whose abilities were not so outstanding compared to their great ancestor's reputation. In the midst of this, a boy who revealed outstanding talent and the enormous pressure from his father and family elders toward such a son. A boy—no, now a young man who had grown up—who had done his best to meet the expectations of those around him, but realized that his talent had been merely a childhood flash and felt impatience. The young man's detailed complaints were truly overflowing with pathos and authenticity—and that was because most of the story was true. If you just changed the part about 'stealing the sword because he wanted power' to 'made a contract with a demon,' it was the young man's life story itself. "I see...." Fina's eyes were filled with sympathy. The young man and Divana, sensing the operation's success, unconsciously clenched their fists. And then Fina declared. "Then, let's work harder together in dungeons from now on!" Time stopped for a moment. At least in the minds of the young man and Divana, it did. "A-actually, when I was with everyone, I had loosened my schedule a bit. Sir Magic Sword also gave permission saying 'sometimes you must know how to fight together with comrades,' but I had no idea you were having such worries in your heart...." The young man doubted his ears. What did she just babble? Loosened what how? "I'll try a little harder too! Let's work hard together!" The two didn't know it, but this was Fina's great goodwill. She, who essentially didn't much like things like training or fighting, had decided to burn with motivation out of sympathy for the young man's past. "I-I'm grateful for your words, but I'm afraid I lack the ability to keep up with Miss Fina's schedule." The young man spoke with a trembling voice, his complexion having turned deathly pale. It was a desperate struggle for survival. And toward such a young man, Fina smiled brightly. "Ah, it's okay! Sir Magic Sword says he knows a solution!" "A solution... you say?" "Could you lend me that jewel you're wearing around your neck for a moment?" The young man's body trembled with a start. What Fina had pointed out was none other than the accessory where Divana was hiding her body. 'Wh-what should we do?' Divana answered reluctantly. 《Just hand it over for now.》 'Won't it be dangerous?' 《This is just a vessel anyway. Even if it gets destroyed, it's no big deal to me.》 Prepared to immediately jump out of the accessory and subdue Fina if necessary, Divana got ready. The young man also understood Divana's feelings and carefully handed the accessory to Fina. Fina wrapped it around her sword's handle, then left it in the darkness under the tree where no artificial lighting reached at all. The young man asked. "If I may ask, what are you doing right now?" Fina answered. "I don't really know either!" "......?" *** When she was first left in the tree's shade, Divana didn't notice Fina's intention at all. She muttered from within the Domain inside the accessory. "She really seems like a mentally strange girl." "They say that insults poured out by an enemy should usually be taken as compliments, so that must be the highest praise." "?!" At the voice heard from behind her, Divana turned her head in shock. There stood a man. The man, as if made of gathered shadows, had facial features and clothing that couldn't be properly discerned. His suspicious appearance was one thing, but above all, the fact that an 'outsider' had invaded her own space raised Divana's wariness to the utmost. "You, what are you? How did you get in here?" "Don't ask trivial things. It's an obvious story anyway and it's not important right now either." When the man raised his right arm, a sword appeared in his grasp. Realizing that the sword's form was exactly the same as Fina's sword, Divana finally realized the man's identity. "Then, you're the Magic Sword? It wasn't just the ramblings of a madwoman?" "Fortunately you're not completely clueless. Now then—" The man, Forte, declared. "Choose. Death, or cooperation."