Chapter 105: Complete Mastery of Himself!
"So the Harem King is already preparing to make a move on his next target?"
Edelweiss spoke with a "kind" expression on her face.
Right now, she was seriously considering whether she should cut the man in front of her down with one strike.
Wasn't cheating usually something people did behind someone's back? This was the first time she had seen someone openly discuss taking another girl's body right in front of the person he had confessed to.
Even after learning that different times and places had different values, and that another world even had people like the Amazoness with bizarre views, Edelweiss still cared about it a great deal.
"That was obviously a joke!"
"Do you dare say you weren't even a little tempted?"
Edelweiss sharply caught the instant Shiro's pupils contracted when she said that. She puffed out her cheeks and declared,
"I've decided. I'm adding one more test. After you leave, I'm going traveling too. When you find me again, I'll give you the right to challenge me."
Although she called it an additional test, Edelweiss had actually already planned to leave once she learned Shiro was preparing to go. She had rested for nearly a year, and that was more or less enough.
If she stayed on the sword peak, she would have to face endless challengers again. Rather than that, she might as well travel, relax, and study the new desserts being made in different countries.
Making Shiro find her was merely taking advantage of the flow.
Besides, compared to that, Edelweiss had something more important to do right now.
"Before you leave, there is one final assignment you must complete."
"One final assignment?"
Edelweiss's words piqued Shiro's interest. He had thought she had run out of ideas and was making him cut vegetables every day for training, but apparently, she had still prepared one final task.
Edelweiss nodded and said,
"Do you remember the contract you made with me a year ago? The contract back then required you to repel the people at the foot of the mountain every day. When you made that oath, you committed a fatal mistake. You forgot to limit the time."
Back then, Shiro had agreed to repel the enemies at the foot of the mountain for Edelweiss every day. In other words, if he left the sword peak for more than a day and did not return, [Testament] would view it as a breach of contract.
And breaking the oath meant—
[Testament] would mercilessly tear Shiro's heart apart.
"This is your final assignment. Use your ability to precisely cut away the magic power I have wrapped around your heart without harming your heart itself. If you cannot even do that, then challenging me is nothing more than a fantasy."
Edelweiss's eyes at this moment were the same as when she fought Shiro.
Clear, cold, and indifferent.
That made Shiro understand that she was serious.
At this moment, she would not take his life into consideration. The relationship between the two of them was now only that of challenger and challenged.
If he failed the challenge, he would die.
His heart began beating fiercely from tension.
Shiro understood that the more violently his heart beat, the harder this challenge would become. But knowing that fact only made him even more nervous.
It had become a complete dead end.
He began mobilizing his magic power, trying to wrap it around the pure white magic power near his heart.
Thump, thump, thump—
As his heart beat, it easily carried the pure white magic power and broke through the encirclement.
If Shiro wanted to cut away that white magic power without harming his own heart, he had to synchronize his magic power with the beating of his heart.
This was also what Edelweiss had been teaching him all along.
Complete control over body and magic power.
When a person became nervous, their body stiffened. That was unavoidable.
If he wanted to completely escape that situation, then no matter what happened, he could not allow himself to become nervous in battle.
In other words, to completely master his body, he first had to master his heart.
And the successful example of that was right in front of him.
After understanding this point, Shiro sat cross-legged on the sofa and took a deep breath. Then he began trying to imitate Edelweiss's mental state during battle.
In battle, she would not offer excessive pity because of an opponent's appearance or tragic past. Once she judged someone to be an enemy, she would swing the sword in her hand without hesitation.
Her clear, rippleless eyes gazed at Shiro. Seeing that he understood her meaning, Edelweiss's face filled with a faint warmth, and the curve of her lips became as perfect as a crescent moon.
If the previous Shiro had seen Edelweiss's smile, his concentration would definitely have collapsed.
But now, his eyes began turning the same as Edelweiss's had been before.
Cold, quiet, and indifferent.
As if even a stone thrown into them would not create a single ripple.
Thump, thump— Thump, thump—
The speed of his heartbeat slowed down.
Shiro once again tried to mobilize his magic power and make it beat together with his heart.
Thump— Thump—
Thump—
Now.
Grasping the instant his heart and magic power synchronized, Shiro activated his ability on the magic power surrounding his heart.
The pain of his heart being destroyed did not come.
His body remained as healthy and powerful as usual.
That meant the pure white magic power that had originally wrapped around his heart had been successfully shattered.
At this moment, Shiro's heart, magic power, and body had successfully become one.
…
After passing through security and getting off the plane, Shiro arrived at a League branch.
Before enrolling in Hagun Academy, he needed to undergo a specialized knight rank test at the League and use it as his exam result. Moreover, this kind of record needed to be updated every few years.
His last test had been five years ago, so the data from back then could no longer be used.
The League's testing methods were still the same old ones. In short, they used magic power to shape clay into various forms to test magic control and the like.
However, for Shiro, who had specifically trained on the sword peak, these things were child's play.
After the test ended, Shiro looked at the Blazer rank sent to his phone.
[Name: Torajirou Shiro]
[Blazer Rank: A]
[Defense: A]
[Magic Capacity: A]
[Magic Control: A]
[Physical Ability: A]
[Luck: A]
It was an undisputed five-A panel.
In fact, if A had not been the highest rank, both Shiro's physical ability and magic capacity could have reached S.
He still remembered the way those testers looked at him after seeing his magic power and physical ability. Their eyes seemed to say they wanted to dissect him on the spot.
In this world where magic power decided everything, having high magic power meant standing above others. A good example was the second princess of the Vermillion Empire, who was famous throughout the world for possessing the greatest magic capacity.
Now, that world record had been broken.
Aside from the magic power that had naturally grown after becoming a Desperado, Shiro also had the magic power raised through adventurer training. He had used Falna to launch a dimensional attack against a world where one's magic value was fixed unless they broke through into the realm of Desperado.
And beyond magic capacity, even his body was several times stronger than that of an ordinary Blazer.
The people from the League looked at Shiro as if they were looking at some evolved new human.
Holding the admission notice that Saikyo Nene had personally guaranteed for him, Shiro finally arrived at this famous academy.
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