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Volume 3 Chapter 42

Wind Spirit King Sylph

I climbed the arena.

The opponent of the final round came over. It was the butler that welcomed us to the castle.

I had thought at first that the strongest person in this country was the Elf King, followed by his butlers. It was due to enormous magic power they held, as if they had spent a considerable amount of time training.

It might be more of a struggle than when I fought the general.

「You know, I was already taking care of Tina-sama since she was a child.」

The butler who faced me began to speak.

「So I must confess that I have no intention of marrying Lady Tina even if I win.」

「What? Then why did you enter the competition in the first place?」

「That is because I didn’t think Lady Tina had any intention of marrying anyone yet, as it is not possible for her to find a man to marry within three days of her return. And it is unlikely that Lady Tina would be attracted to the wayward sons of stuck-up noblemen in the first place.」

…Oh?

This elf might actually be a really nice guy.

But I’m a nobleman’s son, too, though.

I don’t want you guys to be together.

「At first, I was thinking that when I won, I would put the matter of marriage on hold, and when Lady Tina could find someone she wanted to tie the knot with, I would give the right to that person.」

「Really now?」

「In our earlier match, it seemed like Lady Tina was rooting for you wholeheartedly, where the winner would become her husband. You are in love with Lady Tina, aren’t you?」

「That’s right.」

「I see. Lady Tina seems to want you to be with her too.」

「Are you going to forfeit then?」

「Fu Fu Fu, no way. My role is to make Tina-sama happy. Which is why I will make sure that you are the one who can protect her from now on.」

「I’ve defeated the general of this country and you don’t think that’s enough?」

「You’re not considered as strong as the first general you beat. Lady Tina could kill that one instantly.」

Come on, that’s a bad way to talk about your own country’s general. I’m sure you know that…

「What I want from you is more power than Tina, to protect her. Defeating me won’t prove such a thing, but at least I can rest assured that I can trust Lady Tina with my life.」

「So you mean, if I beat you, you’ll recognize me?」

「Well, it’s not just about me. What do you think the nobles of this country would say? It’s one thing to get them to admit it.」

「Okay, thank you for telling me.」

「I’m curious about you, you know, you’ve made it this far in spite of being human, and I wanted to talk to you.」

The elf referee climbed up to stadium.

The match began.

「I won’t go easy on you, alright?」

「That is fine, so will I.」

In an instant, I formed my magic.

「Fire Lance!」

I create a fire knight and have it attack, but the fire knight exploded before it could run.

「If you use the same move three times, countermeasures will be eventually.」

The butler shot a wind magic arrow into the air and detonated the flame knight.

「Right.」

The butler raised the magic bow and pulled it.

Arrows flew at high speeds.

I generated a magical barrier on its trajectory to slow down the arrow and managed to avoid it. But was significantly faster than the arrows that Rifa fired.

「You dodged it well. Good, I don’t want it to end that fast.」

「Watch your back, Fire Lance!」

I fired a thousand rounds of fire lances.

「!?」

The butler turned himself around and avoided the fire lance. The spear of fire struck a magical barrier that formed a dome around the arena… and obliterated it.

Screams of surprise could be heard from the nobles in the hall.

「Wha, what is with that magic power!?」

「You made the right move in avoiding it. That attack just now contained a thousand rounds worth of fire lance.」

「A thousand!?」

「But what good is it if you can avoid it? …Soow about this? Firelance!」

I created a thousand spears of fire in the air.

「What!?」

The butler was astonished by the number of fire lances that had filled the sky. The tips of the spears of fire all pointed at the butler.

「I don’t think it’s possible to avoid them if there’s this many of them. Oh and by the way, each one of them is as powerful as the other.」

「What the hell are you!?」

「One of Tina’s potential fiancées. So, what are you going to do? If you don’t surrender, I’m going to shoot you.」

「Are you crazy? There’s no way I can win this. Referee! I give up.」

「Thank you. I’m not going to need this anymore, but…」

I pointed the tip of his spear of fire at the sky and launched it directly into the sky at high speed.

「Sho, the victor, Haruto-Vie-Silvereigh, the boy of the human race!」

The referee pronounced victory.

Almost simultaneously with the pronouncement, I detonated all the fire lances that were launched.

The fire lances spread out in the sky above, scattering multicolored fire.

I thought that the butler would surrender if I showed him this magic, so I had built magic into the spears beforehand that would color them when they explode.

It’s a firework to celebrate my victory.

「Tina, come on!」

「Yes!」

Tina came over here as she ran up to the stadium.

「I won! Now, shall Alheim accept the marriage of Tina with me as a country?」

Holding Tina’s shoulders, I asked the nobles and royalty sitting in the audience.

「Mi, there’s no way the country would approve!」

「Yes, no human will be allowed to be united with Lady Tina!」

The nobles and ministers reacted.

「Listen up, everyone. I asked the Spirit King of the Wind to recognize the winner of this tournament as Tina’s companion and grant them both his blessing. The sylphs accepted. Are you all going to turn it against me?」

The Elf King seems to stand up for me.

「Well, the human must be playing a cowardly game!」

「He’s probably letting his friends cast auxiliary magic on him! There’s no way a human race could use magic like that!」

「Certainly! It’s not fair! This game should be annulled!」

They’re going to accuse me of cheating, and the match itself is going to be nullified.

It was expected.

((That person is not cheating))

A voice echoed throughout the hall.

「This, this voice!」

「What? There’s a voice in my head.」

The elves all seem to hear it, too.

The wind swirled in the center of the arena.

(Hey, how many hundreds of years has it been since I showed myself in this country? Some of you might not recognize me so let me introduce myself to everyone. I’m Sylph the Wind Spirit King.)

「Master Sylph!」

The Elf King had come up and kneeled in front of the sylph before I even realized it.

(I’ve met you before, haven’t I? )

「I’m the king now. It’s been a long time. I didn’t expect you to manifest yourself.」

(That’s why I got the leaves of the world tree with the promise of blessing the winner. I’ve already blessed those two. To even think of canceling it… maybe you’re all going against me?)

「!!?」

The wind that flowed through the hall turned cold.

The killing intent of the Spirit King made the nobles and ministers tremble.

「Oh, it doesn’t matter now! The Royal House of Alheim blesses the marriage of Tina-Haribel and Hurt-Vi-Silvaray!」

(I thank you for understanding. Anyone else in the venue is just being unfair.)

A sylph flew into the audience and choked on the nobleman who had been making a lot of noise earlier.

(I will testify in the name of Wind Spirit King. Haruto is not cheating. He’s a true winner.」

Nobody argued against Sylph’s declaration.

(It seems that no one is complaining. Then the two will get married. Congrats!)

The sylph wind wrapped me and Tina in warmth.

In the center of that wind, Tina and I kissed each other.

An unwinnable battle

Three months have passed since I went to the hot springs with Tina.

Since then, I’ve started to take a bath with Tina at the mansion sometimes. There are times when Yoko and the others interrupt me, but….

School life is going pretty well.

All of our classes are getting excellent grades on regular tests, both in the real world and in the classroom.

There have been three battles, but we’ve been able to win all three and keep the classroom. There was never an act for me to get out of.

It’s time to fight and show Tina that I’m good at what I do. With that in mind, I was going to fight in the next match.

The representative of my opponent’s class and I would be fighting one on one.

The match would be decided by making my opponent admit defeat, knock him out, or drop him from the fighting table. Also, there is no limit to the amount of supportive magic from my classmates.

As for my opponent, the strongest class of seventh graders – in other words, the representative of the strongest class in this school is my opponent! That’s it.

The president of the school is apparently the student council president.

Even though he was just a student, he’s still a wizard as good as a teacher, and is rumored to be a Sage of the future.

Despite that, I can’t afford to lose.

The reason for this is because I wanted to show Tina how good I am, and because if I lose, he will take her away.

I don’t know what’s going on – but a few days ago, the student council president took a liking to Tina at first sight and asked the homeroom teacher in his class and urged her to be her class teacher.
In response, Tina said she would take on the homeroom case if she could beat me in the matchup.

In this way, it was decided that I and the student council president would fight.

──＊＊＊──
[Haruto – sama, I’m sorry. It’s my fault….]

On the day of the battle, while I was waiting in the waiting room, Tina apologized to me. Tina was a buyer’s reminder that she’d taken the liberty of letting me and the student council president fight each other. He was feeling terrible about it.

[You’ve already apologised to me a couple of times. Don’t worry, we’ll win, I promise.]

Saying that, I patted Tina’s head.

The other student council president was a man with a talent for magic, so much so that he had already been called the strongest in this school when he was in the fourth grade.

I was a little worried at first, but seeing Tina look so apologetic made me determined.

I’m going to win with everything I’ve got!

I kissed Tina and went to the fighting table.

──＊＊＊──

I met the student body president on the fighting table.

That’s a lot of magic power.

Although it’s less than Tina and the head of the school, he has more magic power than anyone else in our class. Furthermore, the process was very smooth.

Behind him, the student body president’s team, which was waiting outside the arena, also all had refined magic power.

Everyone outside the fighting table had already deployed a magic circle and prepared an auxiliary magic for the student council president.

The opponent was coming to win at all costs.

[I don’t have a grudge against you, but I’m here to get Tina-sensei. I’m sorry, but I’m going to have to hurt you.]

The student body president emitted a magical power that contained a killing intent that was unimaginable from his handsome and kind atmosphere.

I just waited in silence for the match to begin.

The teacher who acted as the referee went up to the fighting table and explained the rules.

The match has started ──

[Fire Lance!]

As soon as it started, I fired a fire lance worth a hundred rounds.

── But the student council president easily repelled my magic with his magically enhanced arm.

Despite the fact that there wasn’t a lot of magic put together as I placed the priority on speed, I didn’t think that he wouldn’t be able to block it with his hand at all.

[Oops, that was sudden. I was surprised by the power of Firelance, but I was desperate not to get a teacher.]

[I was surprised, too. I didn’t think it would be so easy to play.]

[It’s still considered the strongest in this school.]

[Well, I’ll take that title today.]

[That’s quite an interesting thing to say. Do you think you’ll still be strong after seeing this magic?]

The student council president raised his hand to the sky.

A huge summoning magic circle appeared.

[Come! Efreet!]

A fire spirit king wielding a spear of fire manifested.

[Seriously……..I was going to summon that guy too.]

[Hm? What, it’s Lord Haruto?]

[Efreet, do you know him?]

[Ah, one of my contractors.]

[Yes, I have a contract with Efreet as well.]

Unlike Undine, who has an exclusive contract, I heard that Efreet has a few contractors.

One of those several people is the student body president.

If he has a contract with more than one person, the command of the one he calls takes precedence. In this case, Efreet can attack me at the order of the student council president.

[I didn’t expect you to have a contract with Efreet too but it’s a pity, because this time I’m going to have you as my companion. You’re going to have to attack him.]

Efreet hit me with a flaming fist.

While avoiding the attack, I checked the movements of the student council president.

He was about to use his magic power to activate large-scale magic. With the assistance from his friends, it looks like it will be activated in a few dozen more seconds.

── It’s not good.

It’s probably impossible to avoid the magic power that’s put in that much magic. If you pile on defensive magic, I won’t receive any damage, but there’s a chance I’ll be blown out of the field.

If that happens, I’ll lose.

I glanced at the cheering section.

Tina was looking at me with an anxious expression on her face.

Seeing that, my hesitation was gone.

I can’t lose by any means.

Let’s stall the one who’ll get in my way first.

[Water Lance!]

Dozens of water spears appeared and were arranged in a weaving pattern. It became a water cage, trapping Efreet in it.

However, the opponent is the Spirit King of Fire.

[Lord Haruto, did you think you could stop me like this!]

The water cage was quickly destroyed.

But that was to be expected.

It bought me time to activate the next magic.

Undine would not be able to beat Efreet in a simple fist fight.

So I decided to call out an ally who seemed stronger than Undine.

[Come! Lightning Lance!]

A pillar of light fell from the sky above.

[Hmm, you called me up earlier than I expected. Now, what’s your first assignment?]

I summoned Mai and the others’ father, an old man with a glowing spear.

[Can you beat him?]

He pointed at Efreet.

Efreet was frozen.

The old man looked at the efreet and grinned.

[Easily.]’

Carrying a glowing spear, he approached the Efreet very close.

[Hi!]

Efreet let out a short scream and fled to the student council president with great speed.

[I’m sorry! I cannot fight him. I’ve bought time for the chanting, so you’ll have to deal with the rest.]

Saying that, Efreet disappeared.

[──Ha!? What!?]

The student body president doesn’t seem to understand the situation.

[He’s a sloppy bastard, leaving his contractor to fend for himself.]

[Hey, I don’t know what it is, but it’s over now! Meteora!]

The student president’s magic was complete.

The sky above darkened and a huge magic circle was drawn.

A huge meteorite appeared from there and fell towards me at high speed.

Isn’t this dangerous!?

It’s impossible to avoid.

It’s also impossible to catch it because of the mass it had.

I was trying to defend myself with defensive magic, when the old man stepped in front of me.

[Don’t worry, it’s just a matter of time before I do it.]

The old man has turned big.

He was so big that he could only get one foot on the 50 meter square fighting table.

And, he caught a meteorite with one hand…

He crushed it.

[──What!?]

The student council president is astonished.

It was natural, as I was also surprised.

The student council president was astonished and froze, and the old man bent down and gave him a deco-pin with his huge finger.

It was an absolutely strong deco-pin.

The student council president was blown away.

His friends outside the arena were also blown away by the wind pressure, and they all slammed into the wall of the arena together! (sighs)

No one got up.

[Well, that’s about it. I’m going home. Take care of Mai and Mei.]

The old man waved to Mai and Mei before disappearing.