The Demon Prince goes to the Academy - Chapter 374

Chapter 374

Reinhardt became stronger in his own way.

I became stronger by bumping into and enduring dangerous things.

That’s Reinhardt’s way.

That method couldn’t work for Cliffman either.

but.

Does it really not work?

Ellen is worried.

Cliff’s talent.

Think about ‘combat’.

It is a talent in a very comprehensive sense of what is called combat.

Talent to win the battle.

That includes any weapon used.

However, Cliffman continues to fall down on Reinhardt.

Cliff’s talent.

What is it?

-Pacan!

The training sword that Reinhardt wielded was broken by Cliffman’s training sword.

However, rather, Reinhardt, who was on the side where the training sword was broken, pulled his body back greatly to avoid Cliffman’s training sword, and at the same time grabbed him by the collar and threw him over.

-thud!

“Keugh!”

Even when his sword is broken, Reinhardt is ahead due to his reaction speed.

Seeing only Cliff who stumbled up, Ellen spoke to the two.

“stop.”

“Okay, get some rest now. Not just today… … .”

“no. more… … .”

When Cliffman said he could do more, Ellen glared at Cliffman.

“You can’t be like this.”

Ellen sweeps up the broken training sword pieces with a broom and puts them away. Then, he took the training sword from Cliffman’s hand and hung it on the stand.

“You have to do it differently.”

“differently… … ?”

Ellen looks at Reinhardt.

“Reinhardt.”

“… … uh?”

Reinhardt didn’t know what Ellen was thinking.

“Can you bring your sister?”

“what? Maybe senior Olivia?”

“huh.”

“No, why is that senior all of a sudden?”

“I want her to help me a little.”

Olivia’s help.

Reinhardt seemed to think for a moment, then nodded.

“okay. I’ll try to talk.”

Cliffman was dumbfounded, and Ellen leaned against the window of the gymnasium with her arms crossed, waiting for Olivia to come.

how long did you wait

-Suddenly

“… … Why are you looking for me?”

Olivia Ranze was called by Reinhardt and came reluctantly, but showed signs of not liking it. But Ellen didn’t look particularly hostile.

Ellen knows.

Since sharing the secret last time, Olivia’s hostility feels like a mask.

It’s not that strong animosity.

Knowing that neither of them could ever threaten or hold any ill will, they had no choice but to accept each other to some degree even though they didn’t like each other.

“I need your help, sister.”

“what? my help?”

Olivia narrowed her brows as if she was even more offended by those words.

“Why should I help you?”

“It’s not me who helps, it’s him.”

What Ellen was pointing at was Cliffman.

Cliffman suddenly looked startled when Olivia Ranze, a fifth-year student he didn’t know very well but was notorious for, looked at him.

Although immunity has developed in many areas, it is still difficult to deal with someone who is not close to Cliff.

Ellen goes to the center of the gymnasium and looks at Cliff without the training sword.

– Kurleung!

Ellen, who had strengthened her magical power, looked at Cliffman with haunting eyes.

“With unnie’s skills, if I think I’m going to kill him, I can stop him before that, right?”

“uh… … . what?”

Olivia was dumbfounded because it was also a statement that honestly admitted that you were far superior to me.

“Can you do it?”

“I guess I can… … . No, what if you suddenly call me and ask me to do something like that? Why should I do that!”

“ah.”

And Reinhardt exclaimed as if he noticed something.

Cliffman was still dazed, as if he had no idea what was going on.

Ellen Artorius gazes at Cliff in the blue flame of magical power enhancement.

“You could really die from now on.”

“uh… … . uh?”

“I am not kidding.”

battle.

It’s not about sparring.

I’m talking about a real fight.

Ellen knew that Cliffman’s talent would manifest in practice.

“Are you going to do it anyway?”

Cliffman finally realized what Ellen was talking about.

It’s not about overpowering your opponent and ending it. Only when life is really at stake, there must be that much urgency, but your talent will truly shine.

In a real life-and-death battle, one’s talents exert real power.

That’s why I brought Olivia.

It is because he possesses divine power strong enough to intervene in a crisis situation to stop Ellen and to heal Cliff if he is injured.

Cliffman stares into Ellen’s calm eyes.

Olivia sighed at what Reinhardt had whispered and nodded saying she understood.

Cliffman swallows and looks at Ellen.

He’s not a joke guy.

He said he would do it with real killing momentum, and since there is a safety device, he will fight with the momentum to really kill himself.

“I will.”

Cliffman takes a stand.

No further conversation is necessary.

Ellen steps on the advance.

-thud!

Cliffman didn’t even see Ellen approaching.

– Pleasant!

“big… … omg!”

-bang!

Only Cliff, who had been hit with a heavy blow to the abdomen, collapsed in an instant, rolling several times on the floor of the gymnasium.

“ugh… … ugh… … . Wow! Whoops!”

Without even getting up properly, red blood flowed from Cliffman’s mouth.

“this… … . That crazy bitch!”

Olivia’s complexion turned white, and she quickly approached Cliffman and cast divine magic on him.

“her… … . her. Heo-eok… … . omg… … .”

Without Olivia in time, it was a blow that would have killed Cliffman with a ruptured intestine. Cliffman’s pain had recovered, but his complexion was white and he was trembling.

Cliffman couldn’t even speak, and it was Olivia who was rather angry.

“hey! Are you crazy! What if I really die!”

However, Ellen’s expression was calm.

“If you can’t do it, stop. I have no intention of forcing it.”

Ellen said that to Cliffman with a cool expression.

“If you say continue instead, I won’t be kidding.”

If it is a talent that can be displayed only by risking one’s life, wouldn’t it be possible to display even half of it when half of one’s life is staked?

Cliffman wants to be strong.

As a result, it is the same way as Reinhardt.

fight for one’s life Reinhardt became stronger at the end.

If he wants to follow the process, even Cliffman has to fight a battle that could lead to his death.

Fight, not sparring.

Ellen had already shown that she had no intention of looking after the situation at all.

That made the last doubt in Cliffman’s mind disappear.

Cliffman stands up slowly.

“Thank you… … . senior. I will do that anyway.”

“hey… … . what are you Why are you doing this?”

Whether or not Olivia is lost, Cliffman is desperate in his own way.

I decided to face the Demon King. I decided to help Riana’s revenge.

I can’t back down when I promise to awaken my talent that I didn’t even know about.

“Let’s Ellen.”

“okay.”

“no… … . Reinhardt, why are you doing this?”

Olivia came closer to Reinhardt, and Reinhardt muttered something to comfort Olivia as if to watch for the moment.

If it was a training sword, it would have been pierced through the abdomen and died.

Ellen’s fist is a minimal control device.

Cliffman’s battle of talent doesn’t even matter what weapon he uses.

Ellen is objectively stronger than Reinhardt.

Even to Reinhardt, Cliffman was defeated in a matter of seconds, and Cliffman didn’t even see Ellen’s charge just now.

Olivia can recover it, but if Olivia doesn’t react or gets hit in the wrong place, she could die right away.

What Ellen is trying to convey is that tension.

If you do it wrong, you really die.

So, if there is something like your own power that you don’t even know about, bring it out.

The one who clung to Reinhardt all day because he wanted to become stronger was Cliffman himself.

Fighting too violent for Ellen is scary, so I can’t say that I want to quit.

Cliffman gritted his teeth and looked at Ellen.

“Goes.”

Ellen advances with another warning.

-thud!

I still couldn’t follow him.

You can’t avoid what you can’t see.

Unless you deliberately miss it, that’s impossible.

– Jjaeong!

Ellen’s fist was blocked by the white protective field formed around Cliffman’s chest.

Again, Cliffman did not respond. What blocked Ellen’s fist was Olivia’s urgently activated holy magic.

“… … Do you really want to kill me?”

The voice of Olivia who blocked the attack by a narrow margin.

“… … Wasn’t this a trend to be avoided?”

Cliffman couldn’t escape.

‘no.’

However, Ellen saw Cliffman twist slightly just before the protective field formed.

Without the protective field, the attack would have been allowed anyway.

‘I was trying to avoid something invisible.’

But Cliffman certainly did make an attempt to avoid precisely what the senses couldn’t tell.

I don’t know if it’s driven by instinct or what.

Cliffman’s talent couldn’t reach victory, but he did show a move to reach victory.

Olivia looked at Ellen and Cliffman and sighed helplessly.

“You are so out of shape. come out.”

“… … .”

Olivia didn’t know the details, but she knew what the first year kids were up to.

Ellen is so fast and strong. If he had the momentum to kill, he might really kill Cliff before Olivia could react.

“Reinhardt, you do it.”

“To be treated appropriately… … . It looks like a dog.”

Reinhardt scratches the back of her head and grabs Ellen by the shoulder and pulls her back.

Someone Olivia can deal with in emergencies and who could be a very big threat to Cliffman if she goes out of her heart.

Ellen is out of weight class.

“Because I’m not saying anything wrong.”

So in the end, there was only Reinhardt.

Do your best, Cliffman continued.

But that’s not to say I’m going to kill you.

Reinhardt will be ready to kill from now on. Rather, I would do it with more power than Ellen. Because you will have faith that Olivia will do something for you.

But Cliffman can’t believe that.

Only when you think that you will die if you do something wrong, you can realize your true talent.

– Kurleung!

Reinhardt’s body was enveloped in blue magic once again.

Strengthen one’s own body by self-suggestion.

Fighting with the momentum to kill the opponent, which is different from doing one’s best.

Cliffman didn’t know, but Reinhardt had quite a bit of that experience. There are things that only those who have gone through such a real battle can have.

“Let’s see where.”

live.

Cliffman was now feeling alive from Reinhardt.

The vague belief that Olivia would protect him disappeared with just one kill.

With the feeling that someone is holding your breath.

Reinhardt rushed into Cliffman.

Not as fast as Ellen.

However, it is true that the speed is difficult to sense.

shoulder movement.

Only the width of the stride is visible.

Cliffman instinctively grasps where Reinhardt is aiming through that trajectory.

Axis left foot.

Retraction of the right shoulder.

I realized that my right arm would move soon.

The body, not the head, realizes that the trajectory is aiming for the face.

If Olivia couldn’t react when the magically enhanced fist landed on her face.

die for real

can’t react

That’s right.

-Shhh!

but.

“… … .”

At that moment, Cliffman dodged the fist with a nod of the head and was digging into Reinhardt’s arms.

In the bizarre sensations that the body itself, not the head, reacts to.

– Pleasant!

“… … .”

Cliffman’s uppercut while avoiding the hook hit Reinhardt’s chin precisely.

Cliffman’s strength and physique are not normal.

And the chin is a vital point.

Under normal circumstances, the fight should end here.

“oh.”

However, Reinhardt, who was slapped in the jaw, was grinning.

As if I couldn’t feel any blow.

“Are you sure it’s different?”

The difference between power and intensity.

– Pleasant!

“Cuck!”

As if he couldn’t overcome it, Reinhardt put his knee on Cliffman’s abdomen and slashed it.

It reacted, and even countered it, but it couldn’t break through the protection of magical power enhancement.

Reinhardt calmly touches his chin as he watches only Cliff who jumps out and rolls on the floor.

“Huh… … . omg… … .”

“Try some more.”

Reinhardt grinned as he watched Cliffman gasp.

“If you do it, it seems like something will happen.”

The words are really only for Cliff.

Because of his facial expressions, actions, and way of speaking, he looked like a third-rate villain.

* * *

Olivia was right in thinking that it would be better with Reinhardt and not Ellen.

Ellen was too fast and too strong, and even with Cliffman’s talent, the wall was too high.

Of course, it is true that Reinhardt is relatively weak compared to Ellen, but Reinhardt was able to bring out Cliffman’s talent more technically.

– Perok! Perpuck! thud!

It is also true that it is impossible to get Reinhardt’s fist, which has raised all his abilities, and the difference in overall weight class is very large.

However, Cliffman could not receive it, so he was avoiding Reinhardt’s attack by dodging and letting it go, and poking into loopholes.

Although he was pushed back by receiving what he should not be able to see and eventually allowed a fatal blow and Olivia recovered, Cliffman was clearly different from before.

Both Olivia and Ellen were watching their fight.

“… … I don’t know. Does he move better than when he was with you?”

“I think so.”

Both of them felt to some extent that Cliffman had better movement against Reinhardt than against Ellen.

A talent for fighting.

It is a talent that demonstrates real strength in situations of crisis and actual combat.

Cliffman’s talent was clearly being exercised in a sense of crisis.

Ellen seemed to know why Cliffman’s talent was displayed more strongly in the fight against Reinhardt.

It’s hard to read Ellen’s emotions in her expression.

But now, Reinhardt radiates hostility and even feels alive.

The reason why I have to say this and that is simple.

Ellen doesn’t have much expression and her impression is subtly fierce.

So, it is difficult to feel a sense of crisis from Ellen’s calm appearance when you actually face each other. It’s just that it’s so lethal that a fierce guy can’t predict it.

But Reinhardt has a dirty impression.

If they face each other in a fight, they give off an aura that seems like they’re going to destroy any opponent.

So, apart from his actual skills, Reinhardt exuded the spirit of ‘Where to take a chance’, and Ellen didn’t have anything like that.

In fact, it is Reinhardt, not Ellen, who creates more tension when facing each other.

On top of that, Ellen gave up at one point even before the battles came and went, and Reinhardt had a bloody momentum, and as the battles went back and forth, there was a time when he gradually realized that Cliffman was cornered.

– Pleasant!

“ugh… … Ugh!”

blast furnace.

In many ways, Reinhardt was the best opponent to draw out Cliffman’s power. Reinhardt looks down as Olivia restores the fallen Cliffman.

“Even if you show your talent, isn’t it still a long way at this level?”

One more sip there.

At Reinhardt’s provocation, only Cliff stands up again with his teeth clenched. Reinhardt smiled at Cliffman.

“Am I still watching too much?”

“… … .”

Ellen knows why Reinhardt is doing that.

In addition to the sense of crisis, it is to bring out the desire to win by provoking Cliff.

“Even if you look at it, I think it would be a bit difficult at this level.”

Know.

I know why Reinhardt is like that.

I’m not doing that for nothing.

“Try using more force.”

I know

I don’t like it too much

“Reinhardt… … . I knew it, but it’s really bad.”

Olivia muttered blankly whether she was feeling it in real time as well.

-thud!

When Cliffman rushed in and swung his fist into the pit of the stomach, Reinhardt lightly dodged and tripped Cliffman’s hamstrings.

Reinhardt lifts his foot toward Cliffman’s head, who has fallen to the floor.

Reinhardt, who is wearing a cool smile, tries to trample on Cliffman’s face.

If you’ve done your best, your head will break.

-thud!

Reinhardt immediately slammed his leg down, and Cliffman managed to roll over and get back into his stance as if bouncing back up.

It was true that he was provoking it like scratching, but Reinhardt’s hands were ruthless.

Looking at Cliff, who escaped and rose again, Reinhardt laughed coldly.

I would like to think that the murderous intent and madness boiling in that smile were smoke, but no matter how I look at it, it wasn’t smoke.

“why.”

Reinhardt smiled at Cliffman.

“The Demon King is right in front of you.”

“Think of it that way.”

Cliffman didn’t know what the true meaning of those words was, but he felt goosebumps all over his body.

“Are you still going to do something like this?”

I don’t know what the real demon king is.

But would he do this even if the demon king was in front of him?

It rolls on the floor and avoids it somehow, but its own attack doesn’t work.

If the one in front of me was the demon king, I might not even be able to have a conversation like this. He may die before he has time to avoid the first sum.

Will I die without being able to wriggle?

The one in front of me is not the Demon King. It is clear that the Demon King is a very fearful, evil and powerful being different from Reinhardt.

“Let’s try image training.”

however.

Reinhardt had a smile that looked evil no matter how he looked at it.

“I am the Demon King.”

whispered to Cliffman.

i am the devil

Cliffman doesn’t know what the power of those words is. However, as soon as Cliffman hears Reinhardt’s words, he feels something like a hallucination.

It felt like what was in front of me was not Reinhardt, but some incomprehensible and powerful being.

-Gulp

Cliffman’s whole body was covered with cold sweat.

As if he had been subjected to some kind of evil magic.

As if he had been hypnotized by Reinhardt.

Reinhardt feels like something completely different. Cliffman surrenders himself to any suggestion or hypnosis.

The one in front of me is the Demon King.

I can’t deal with it though.

can’t win though.

decided to fight together.

If you decide to fight together, you must be able to stand by your side. I can’t be pushed to the side because I’m getting in the way of a real fight.

he is weak

If you are weak, you have to bet big against the strong.

What should I do if the one in front of me is truly the Demon King?

Even risking one’s life, one arm. Or even one leg.

Or even one finger if you can’t do that.

If that is also impossible, you will have to pay at least one scratch.

Even if he, the weak, could do just that much against the demon king, it would be a great feat. The demon lord would be strong, so even if he did that much, he would be doing something heroic.

-Shhh!

He deflected Reinhardt’s right fist with his left arm and aimed for a counter, but Reinhardt avoided it with one jaw movement and then opened the distance again.

Even this much is good enough.

Since his own fists could not pierce Reinhardt’s magical power enhancement, at this moment when he was able to somehow deflect unpredictable movements and aim at counters, he was no different from having already grown up.

Enough of this.

This is the best of the weak.

All you can do is avoid Reinhardt’s attack.

Against the Demon King, it is enough to risk one’s life and inflict even one scratch.

I doubt if even that is possible.

indeed.

Is that enough?

“… … .”

did that happen?

Cliffman gritted his teeth and stared at Reinhardt, who was looking for a gap with a cool smile.

Is it okay to be an underdog?

can’t it be okay

Their talents in battle.

The purpose of the talent is not combat.

to win the battle.

winning the fight.

The true name of this talent is not in the fight itself.

The true name of this talent is victory.

to fight and win.

is to overcome

There’s no way you can be satisfied with scratches.

You can’t be satisfied with just avoiding it.

The purpose of battle is victory.

There is no such thing as a battle to lose.

Then, only when victory is brought, the talent named combat lives up to its name.

“Goes.”

Reinhardt approaches. With a completely different look from before, he jumps in while stepping on a fierce advance as if he is really going to break it.

An instinctive warning that this is dangerous hits Cliffman’s head.

You won’t be able to defeat the Demon King.

You won’t be able to win against Reinhardt either.

Even so, one’s talent must be worthy of the name.

You have to make the impossible possible.

I had to do what I couldn’t do.

There is only one thing to do.

Victory.

For the single purpose of winning, Cliffman must satisfy several preconditions.

One must avoid the invisible enemy’s attack.

-Shhh!

Cliffman let go of Reinhardt’s outstretched fist with a slight twist of his shoulder.

But the attack continues. The trajectory of the flying low kick, changing staffs, was unavoidable.

avoided the invisible.

But the inevitable offensive is coming.

if so then two.

Normally, you have to receive attacks that you would have to hit and run away from.

– Perok!

The thigh, hit by Reinhardt’s low kick, remained firmly in place.

Cliff, who was supposed to bounce off as if he didn’t think he would survive, opened up a gap for Reinhardt when he didn’t bounce back.

Opportunity comes.

I avoided invisible things and withstood attacks that I couldn’t resist.

If so, then three.

If the true value of one’s talent is to win an unwinnable battle.

It can pierce the defense of the opponent’s magical power enhancement that can pierce things that were impossible to pierce until now.

You need a powerful shot.

Just like the superpower of self-suggestion.

The cause may be different, but the effect must be the same.

A name that makes the impossible possible.

talent to win.

battle.

It is different from causation, but it must bring about the same miracle, just as autosuggestion has brought about miracles.

Autosuggestion makes many things possible.

The gift of combat should make only one possible.

It is a relatively narrow condition that makes victory possible.

Since it has narrow conditions, it should have a more powerful output.

– Kurleung!

Everyone’s eyes widened as they watched the blue flames exploding from Cliffman’s body.

“!”

Blue magic power surged from Cliffman’s body.

– Jjaeong!

“Keugh!”

Reinhardt, who had been hit by Cliffman’s punch, bounced back.

-thud!

“uh… … . uh?”

Olivia’s expression, as if she didn’t know what I saw.

“… … .”

Elem’s calm attitude, as if he somehow knew this would happen.

“… … X feet.”

Reinhardt’s single-sounding twinkle mixed with very complicated emotions, muttering while staring blankly at the gymnasium ceiling.

Reinhardt knew it would end up like this, but he had a very complicated expression because it really turned out like this.

and.

“big… … omg!”

Even Cliffman’s planned hemoptysis.

that day.

The priest’s office on duty received one more patient.