《Among the tear soaked flowers》chapter 14 a duel
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Chapter 14
‘’- inner thoughts
???-speaking aloud
Jevraths Pov
All the pieces were in place for my plan all I had to do now was wait until the opportune time to carry out the first step. Hopefully wouldn’t have to wait too long for this as my ambitions are something that will take a life time to complete but first I need control. The young female noble I had used to satisfy my lust killed herself she never left a note according to the investigators but little did they know she had but it was currently in my possession
It’s been a few weeks since I found out that the whore sitra was pregnant, her commoner husband refused to leave her side at any time apparently because he felt that he should protect the mother of his child after hearing this I had a begrudging respect for him as not anyone would protect their child in that way but that didn’t matter when the time comes will destroy him.
Also his sister got enrolled to the academy as well after she gained some earth magic most of the males here lusted after her me included but unlike them I was going to have her, after all who could say no to a man as powerful as me and even if she didn’t spread her legs for me I have other ways of making her mine.
Yuki’s Pov
It’s been three weeks since I got here and I love t mainly for the fact that I can be with Onii-san again even if he won’t leave Sitra’s side, just couldn’t understand what he saw in her sure she was pretty and was carrying his child but I would do the same for him if he asked me to. After I had arrived her I learned that such things as magic was in this world and that me, onii-san and my teacher were the only humans here, speaking of the teacher she apparently has woken up yet since we got here but I didn’t care she tormented onii-san when he was on earth.
Our daily routine was really simple I would wake up and go next door to On-san room to wake him up as well as sitra, after that we would go grab some food and head to the classes we had that day at lunch I would try to make Onii-san see me as a woman but he never did , I guess this was a side effect of him being raised alongside me. I had made a few friends here most of which were already friends with Sitra and Onii-san but two people I didn’t really get on well with
were Sitra’s sisters.
Every time that I would try to get Onii-san away from Sitra so that I could talk to him about my feelings they would interrupt and make sure that he stayed with sitra, it was beginning to get really vexing the more that they did it.
Yuki-‘’ will you just let me talk to my onii-san alone!!’’ . I screamed at cinrea as I was trying to get past them.
Cinrea-‘’ for the last time no we can’t let you do that ‘’ she said as I was pushed back backwards.
Yuki-‘’ why ,why can’t you I just want to tell him how I feel can’t you just let me do that at least just once’’ I sad to them as I was trying to hold back a wave of tears.
Cinrea-‘’ please can you just wait for a while until the child is born, we have never seen our sister this happy before and we don’t want her to become unhappy and since we don’t know how she will react to what your brother does when he finds out what you think of him’’ she said to me as I fell to the ground lightly sobbing over the fact that I wanted to tell him how I felt but I didn’t want to destroy someone else’s happiness as a cost of doing it.
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Yuki-‘’fine just until the child is born, speaking of witch how exactly does a dragonkin give birth as from what me and my
Onii-san know from stories about dragons is that they lay eggs but dragonkin seem more humanoid so do they give birth like a dragon or a human?’’. I replied to her as she helped me up from the ground.
Cinrea-‘’ well they give birth like a mammal as in the child matures inside the body of the mother but there have been some cases of the mother laying and egg and the child being born from it but they are few and far between, the mother is usually pregnant for around 5 to six months before giving birth so by that time hopefully Nee-san will have completed her education.’’ she answers me as we begin to walk towards the combat classes we had today, unfortunately I wasn’t in the same class as Onii-san for this subject but we would all usually meet up during any spare time we had. The class we had was rather simple, we had to spilt up into groups of three or four and try to obtain the arm sashes that were given to us by the teacher from the other groups and whoever had the most by the end of the class would win. Obviously me and the sisters would be in a groups considering how I didn’t trust anyone else at this school yet as the male all seemed to be staring at me with lecherous intentions and the females just refused to talk to me in the slightest.
The class went rather well up until near the end. Me and cinrea were making short work of any one who got close to us with our weapons her with her cesti and me with the axes I held while Tabitha used her magic and halberd to keep ant one at a distance from her while she slung spells at them. We didn’t come top of the class but we didn’t lose our armbands either. As we were putting our weapons away I felt something grip my buttocks and I turn around and hit the offender with a roundhouse. The person who did such a thing was a blond man with a large part of his face missing as if something had melted the flesh around his cheek, I personally didn’t know who this was but what he did to me was unforgivable.
Yuki-‘’ what the fuck was that for you scum’’ I yelled at him as most of the people near us looked at where the commotion was coming from.
???-‘’ oh it rather simple, you see all I was doing was checking to see how firm the ass of my latest harem member was and now why don’t we head to me room’’ he said to me as he got up and put his lips close to my ear’’ I promise you will enjoy it’’ his had was on my leg slowly moving up trying to get in between them toward the place that I had promised to myself was only for onii-san. I kneed him as hard as I possibly could in the nuts and walked away from him as I tried to stop myself from coming out in Goosebumps. I felt a hand on my shoulder I turned and saw him there again, just as I was about to say something he came up and shoved his tongue inside me mouth, I kept trying to push him off me but someone else was behind me so I couldn’t get an room to move my arms so there wasn’t any power in my shoving.
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After a minute he stopped as I fell to the ground he whispered into my ear’’ I’ll be back for the rest of your firsts soon’’ and walked off I blacked out and can’t remember what happened after that .
Eoin’s pov
I sat in a room full of blackened furniture some of which was still on fire, after hearing about what that piece of scum Jevrath had done to my sister I lost control of some of the magic I was experimenting with.
‘That mother fucker I going to die, but it going to be a slow painful death’
Cinrea and Tabitha had come in the training room I was in and told me what happened to her I was apparently the first person they told about it, they had left her in mine and sitra’s room where sitra and her friends were talking about something that I wasn’t allowed to hear.
Eoin-‘’where is the fucker’’ I asked trying to hold back the rage if felt slowing coming out of my body again.
Tabitha-‘’ cafeteria… maybe’’ she said in a very low voice
Hearing this I grabbed my naginata and stormed towards it. It didn’t take me to long to reach there as no one even tried to stop me after seeing the look of pure anger glued to my face, I quickly spotted the fucker sitting near the back with a groups of other people some of which female but most male. I started to channel some of me lightning magic into the naginata to try and coat it in a sheath of electric to emulate how a power weapon from a Warhammer game would work, I had been practising this non-stop over the last week as was at appoint where I felt it could be used in actual combat.
As soon as the magic was around the entire weapon I fed more in to the bottom of the shaft of the weapon so that if thrown the speed of it would increase and after doing that I threw it.
Jevrath’s pov
I was having a rather nice lunch with a group of female who were from the demon kingdom, we were talking about how the current expedition into the wild continent was going but as usual we didn’t have our hopes up, considering that every single one that in the past had failed to even make it 10miles into the landmass.
As I was about to take a drink of the wine I was having I heard the sound of lighting and felt something take me right ear away from my head, I looked to the side to see a green and white wooden shaft sticking out of the wall just inches from my head, the pain from my ear being gone was something that I could ignore but the weapon being thrown at me was not, I reached for the shaft but a small bolt of lightning came off it and shocked me forcing my had back.
I turned around to see the commoner walking towards me with lighting coming off his body, to a normal person this might have been intimidating but to me it was part of my plan.
Commoner-‘’ you scum you dare touch my sister!’’ he yelled at me as one f the female around me held a cloth up to my ear to staunch the bleeding.
Jevrath-‘’ why would I touch a dirty commoners sister? Don’t you know anything’’ I said ti him in order to get his anger to increase, at this point he appeared to have gave up on talking and jumped at me as his fist got cover in lightning but he was stopped by a well time block with a shield from my ever trusty servant daners
Daners-‘’ my name is daners von wartooth, and in retaliation of you wounding my liege lord and attempting to assault him I will have to ask you for a duel, if you choose to refuse this duel I have the right to kill you where you stand or arrest you’’. he said to him with a voice full if confidence.
Commoner-‘’ fine so be it when do you want to do this’’ he said as his voice overflowed with killing intent.
Daners-‘’ an hour from now in front of the second training field’’ at this me and my group got up and left the room as the commoner grabbed the polearm and yanked it from the wall he impaled it into, during this time the entire room was silent but when we left the room many people began to spread the word about eh duel to those who hadn’t heard.
‘good the first step is complete’
Eoin’s pov
I pulled the naginata out of the wall and head to mine and Sitra’s room to see if Yuki was awake yet. I open the door to see sitra and her friends still talking , they looked over at me and saw the look of anger on my face.
Sitra-‘’ darling what wrong ‘’ she asked me as she walked up to and pulled me into her arms.
Eoin-‘’ that piece of shit jevrath forced himself onto my sister and now apparently me trying to kill him in retaliation had led to one of his servant demanding a duel of me in the next hour’’ I spat out these word as sitra listened to me and started to play with my hair.
Sitra-‘’ what scum but don’t worry I’m sure you will win this duel, now come get some sleep until the time you need to leave’’ she said to me and led me over to the bed and got on it and pulled me onto it to I noticed that Yuki was on the bed too still asleep from the shock she had received I fell asleep rather quickly as my body was rather tired from the energy that I had expended after hearing what jevrath had done.
After what felt like a few minutes I awoke from the felling of my body being shook, I opened my eyes to see sitra standing there motioning to the door indicating that we had to leave now to get to the duel
It didn’t take long for us to arrive there to a massive crowd, I could hear people making bets over who would win most were geared towards my opponent but I couldn’t care less I just wanted this over with.
I walked to the middle of the crowd were haners was a s stood there with my weapon in my hands. I looked at him in his full plate armour, not a single bit of flesh was showing even his tail had armour on it he had a crest of a dragon around a sword emblazed on the shiel he was holding while he held a longsword in his right hand.
He looked at me and motioned for me to come closer, I walked over to him and he looked me straight in the eyes.
Haners-‘’ this duel is too the death although I think it shall be over quickly, considering the level of my opponent now we shall take a ten foot space between us and start on the count of three.
Hanners’s Pov
I will win this duel for milord jevrath even if it kills me I shall take the commoner with me. As soon as we had the distance between us and waited the army officer that was in charge of security in the school began to count down from three.
Once he said begin I charged at my opponent and slashed toward him but it was caught by the shaft of his weapon, not being deterred I proceeded to try and smash him in the chest with the shield I was carrying, as my shield connected with his chest I was sure that I could feel a few of his ribs break from the impact forcing him back, he charged toward me after levelling his pole arm and thrust it toward my chest I moved my shield to block the trust but something surprising happened the blade that I was sure couldn’t pierce through my shield came through it a took my entire hand with it, I grunted in pain not wanting to give him the satisfaction of my screams.
I threw my shield away as it was only going to hurt my arm even more if I tried to block and attack and decided to use my earth magic to create some stone spears to hurl at him. As volley after volley of spears made of stone flew towards him as he tried to get closer to me he kept dodging them but he was only able to avoid most of them as every once in a while as the broken ribs he had stopped him from moving to his full mobility eventually he was getting closer to me but he was also getting hit more I launched on larger stone spear at him hoping to finish him but he used his pole arms shaft to block if but unfortunately for him it could not block all of it as the shaft splintered under the force and the spear changed direction and hit him in the shoulder stopping his felt arm from being used but he helf the bladed end of the pole arm in the right hand, I swung my sword towards him but he just moved slightly to the right and the impaled his blade into my side and then tripped me to the ground.
I had to use the only spell I knew that would kill him even if it meant killing myself.
Daners-‘’oh soul that defines the dark I beseech you come to me a take my flesh on payment of the death of my enemies souls- Souls destruction’’
Maeve’s Pov
The young one is in trouble, I have to help him the spell that his opponent used will destroy his soul
Using a large portion of the power I have I used a spell that would protect his souls and teleport him to safety, hopefully this will be enough to save him.
Authors note
high there and thanks for reading, now a couple of thing to mention first the character of the teacher still hasnt been made( the one that came with Yuki) and i would love it it the readers made this character second im not to confident at wringi fight scenes so ant tips on how to that are really helpfull anf finnally there is one refercein this chapter i wonder if you can find it
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Sword System Academia
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