Chapter 60 part 1
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Translator: “Kousei”
The representatives who would be participating in the Magic Tournament, including myself, were training together every day.
Vaje, who was basically always free, showed up every day, and Liu Yu, busy with her priestess and imperial princess duties, came every three days. Ryu Kitsu, who should have been busy as the Water Dragon Emperor, participated in the training as often as Liu Yu did.
When we first started this special training, we had decided on the combinations of Vaje with Phenia, Liu Yu with Nell, Ryu Kitsu with Christina and Lenia. But as the training went on, we started to change it up, and now we were in completely different pairings than from when we started.
From outside the double barriers made from four crystal balls on pedestals borrowed from the Magic Academy, as well as the four Barrier Golems that I made, I watched the training with Fatima and Irina, as if we were simply enjoying a picnic.
The three of us were completely relaxed, and even though I would be representing Galois Magic Academy in the tournament, I was really relaxed.
Sitting on top of the picnic sheet we had laid out on top of the grass, we sipped freshly brewed tea and savored some apple pie. It was truly a blissful moment.
My mind was completely at ease, which Fatima could tell just from looking at me from my side, and she asked me a question with an amiable smile on her face.
「Hey, hey, Dran. Is it okay for you not to join in the special training? Everyone’s working hard, aren’t they?」
Fatima was correct. The other three representatives who would be participating in the Magic Tournament were still engaged in fierce battle inside of the barrier, so intense, it could no longer be called just training.
「Fumu, it’s true that in this situation, it looks like I’m the only one who is slacking off, but if I join in, then the barrier will most likely break.
If Ryu Kitsu is my opponent, then I would have to use more power than I would in the final round against Lenia.
And if the barrier breaks, the terrain of Galois would change in an instant, and we might cause damage to the city walls or burn down parts of the urban area」
「Hmm, until recently, I wouldn’t have believed you, but now I’m afraid I’m convinced」
Of course Fatima would change her mind after seeing how I’ve been rampaging lately, and now she seemed to honestly believe my words.
As was the case in the qualifying finals against Lenia, it seemed I couldn’t control myself as well as I think I can, so if I join the training over there, it would definitely be overkill.
Right now, aside from me, Fatima, and Irina, the others were all training inside the barriers, but the combination now was Ryu Kitsu versus everyone else.
Not just Phenia and Nell, who would be participating in the tournament, but also Vaje and Liu Yu joined the fight, and now they were all fighting against Ryu Kitsu all at once, in an attempt to land a blow on her.
If Ryu Kitsu, who boasted a power equal to that of the famous Water Dragon Emperor Ryoukichi, was their opponent, it was obvious that even all of us at once, except for me of course, still could not land a hit.
If Lenia couldn’t loosen the seal on her soul a little more, it would be difficult for her to take on someone of the same class as a Dragon Emperor.
Even in its current state after I had done some tuning on it, she was still no match for Dramina, who was not here at the moment.
It hadn’t been that long since I parted ways with her, but I felt like I missed her quite a lot. I wonder, did Dramina safely make it back to her hometown?
Ryu Kitsu responded absolutely calmly to this situation where she was being challenged by their violence in numbers. This sparked the fighting spirit in Nell, who hated losing, in Lenia, who had always seen Ryu Kitsu as an enemy, as well as in her own daughter Liu Yu, and in the usually calm Christina too.
「It seems this will be good exercise for Ryu Kitsu. Even with Christina and the others challenging her all together, this is still nothing more than a “good exercise” for her… Though I guess that goes without saying」
「Hmm, I thought Nell and Christina were strong, but the world sure is big, isn’t it?
I never thought there could have been someone out there as beautiful as Christina, yet much stronger than her too, not to mention it being an Ancient Dragon」
「I-I-I feel the same way too. To think there was someone other than Dran who could make Lenia use her full power in a fight…」
「Fumu, this special training will be a valuable experience」
「Ryu Kitsu, s-s-she is ridiculously strong. So a True Drago– no, a real Dragonkin is so strong.
Dran, do you think you could win against Ryu Kitsu? Even Lenia is being beaten so easily」
「I’d rather not say anything for sure. But, let’s just say, during the preliminaries with Lenia, I never fought seriously once that whole time」
「Whaaat!? Even though Lenia was fighting so desperately back then?」
「I didn’t fight seriously, but I did use all the power I could that was allowed in that situation. In this case, you could say that I was rudely holding back against someone who was fighting me with all of her strength, and for that, I cannot argue against you」
Irina lost her words, and continued to look back and forth between me and Ryu Kitsu, who was still in the middle of training. Right now in her mind, she might be debating whether I was really a human being or not.
Fatima stopped nibbling on her madeleine cookies to ask me a question, while I was also stuffing my face with cookies.
「Hey, hey, Dran」
「What’s up?」
Mmm. The madeleines were delicious.
「Sorry to ask the same question again, but is it really okay not to do special training too?」
Irina, who was staring at my face, agreed with Fatima. This was probably something she’d been thinking about as well, deep inside her heart.
「Um, or do you just want to eat snacks with us and observe from here?」
Fumu… I guess it can’t be helped that it looks like I’m not really doing anything.
Basically, what I was doing was strengthening and maintaining the barriers from the outside, and I was hiding the contents of the special training from the eyes of anyone other than us, who might try to peek using magic vision or something like that.
I wasn’t training with Lenia and Christina as originally planned, and instead left most of the training to Ryu Kitsu.
However, looking back on it now, this seemed to be a good stimulus for Ryu Kitsu, and Christina, Lenia, Nell, and Phenia were all eager to land a hit on Ryu Kitsu.
Even if I were to join in now, I would only put a damper on their current enthusiasm and passion.
「Everyone over there has already forgotten about me. If it looks like they’re pushing themselves too hard, I’ll step in to stop them」
「Really? Maybe Dran can do that, but I hope Nell and the others don’t complain about it」
And like always, today’s special training also continued until nearly evening fell.
*
After the special training sessions for the Dran and the other representatives of the Magic Tournament, which were usually held after school or on holidays, it was part of the girls’ daily routine to go to the bath house that Dran had built on the Magic Academy grounds.
Since Dran has a tendency to not stop until something is fully finished, the layout of the bath house spread to the fullest extent of land permitted by the site, and there was also a private bath house for Dran to use that was built next to the women’s bath house.
Ryu Kitsu, Liu Yu, and Vaje were from outside the Magic Academy, but since they had invitations from Dran and the others, who were students of the school, they could enter after going through an entry procedure at the front office.
That is how Ryu Kitsu and the others were able to make it into the Magic Academy, but we did have to make up a little anecdote about their journey, from arriving in Galois then coming to the Magic Academy.
Originally, even Christina alone was enough to make people become stunned with ecstasy the moment they recognize her beauty, with some of them even fainting on the spot.
Now there was Ryu Kitsu with us, who possessed a beauty equal or superior to Christina’s, and she was of an overwhelmingly higher rank than others as a living being.
There shouldn’t be any problems with this.
When they arrived at the road leading into Galois, people who recognized Dran and his group filled up the side of the road one after another. And when they entered Galois, people would move out of the way, parting to create a natural path, and all eyes would be drawn to Christina and Ryu Kitsu, and they would all sigh in delight incessantly.
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