Chapter 124: Amelia vs Sif

Honestly, the magician category matches were worse than the warrior category.
Chant aria, release.
Chant aria, release.
That’s all.
Every single one of them didn’t do any decent moving. They activate the barrier tool that they brought in advance, chant arias, and release it; everything else the same. If your spell’s power is strong and it manages to pass through your opponent, it is practically your win. The one who received the spell will not be able to properly concentrate, and since the aria won’t be able to finish properly, that person will just sluggishly escape.
I felt like I was watching a speed-talking contest. Seeing this, I can tell that Sif was pretty competent the first time she participated in my lecture.
This is an academy that gathers the excelling warriors and magicians, right? Please try to be more decent, like, seriously.

Like, both Tomoe and Mio laughed out loud.
At the first match, they went silent; at the next one, they couldn’t hold it in and bursted out, then, they held their stomach and laughed. As the matches continued, they even made eyes as if questioning the sanity of the participants.

“Uhm, Waka. This is a fight where magicians compete with each other, right?” (Tomoe)

“… Most of the kids look like they are somewhat serious-desu wa. They are doing it seriously, right?” (Mio)

“It looks serious. It doesn’t even amount to a show, but the surrounding guests are really happy and cheering” (Makoto)

My head hurts. In other words, it’s not that this year is especially bad, but that this is the average level each year. I don’t want to believe that there’s a person wanting to employ anyone of them after looking at this. If it were me, I would have failed every one of them after 5 minutes of beginning.

“Could it be… Waka’s students will also be like that?” (Tomoe)

“I can’t bear to look at it. It is so bad that I even forgot the taste of what I am eating for a second” (Mio)

Even if they are people in charge of providing firepower from the back, this is just…
The sound itself is flashy, but it feels like I am watching a command-style battle. The warrior category is at least better than this. This is just spectating batteries.
In terms of what’s fixed and manual procedure, I thought this kind of things would be criticized. Well, there’s the plus that it provides stability in quality though.

“Oh~, they moved!” (Tomoe)

“Finally, it seems we will be able to watch a decent magician fight-desu wa” (Mio)

The fight of the two began.
Amelia and Sif. Sadly, the winner is already settled. With this stage and rules, and also thinking about the capacity as a magician from the two; even if a miracle occurs, Amelia has no chance of winning. In the first place, that girl hasn’t brought her main weapon which is the bow. Because aside from the staff that magicians use as intermediary, they can’t bring any other weapon.
Also, Sif’s power is purely in a whole different level. If Rembrandt-san were to come and see it, he would be relieved and be able to continue spectating without worries.
The grounds turned silent in an instant. Well, no surprise there. They thought those two would activate their barriers, but Sif suddenly pointed her staff at Amelia, and Amelia faced Sif and charged.
Sif’s staff is not the one she brought from home, but a thin wooden staff that screams ‘I am a practice staff’. At least it does have a jewel at the tip that serves to control magic power (not that good though).
I think that Amelia’s charge is a good decision. If you think about it even for a little, it is obvious that you can’t beat Sif in a normal fight. The specialty of Sif is firepower. She can also do support in the battlefield by using the earth spirit, but normally she uses the fire element, which she is more compatible with. The fire element has a lot of attack methods for single targets and area of effects to begin with, but in the present where she can combine it with the earth spirit magic, that firepower is something to watch out for.
I can say for sure that the one who increased its single-attack firepower the most in my lecture is Sif. Things like magma, I honestly feel like that’s cheating. The first time I saw a lava bullet, I even thought it was a meteor.
Amelia grasped that the aria of Sif was of fire element, so she charged, and that’s why it’s praiseworthy. If she closes the distance, restrictions to the firepower of Sif will appear. If the firepower is too high, there’s the chance that she will get dragged into it as well, so those kind of spells would be out, and, this may not happen normally in magician fights, but thinking about Amelia’s disposition, she is at an advantage in close combat. If this were earth element, the choice of waiting and seeing is not bad either.
Sif shoots out a standard-type arrow that’s clad in red light. Well, instead of an arrow, it is more of a bullet. The speed in which the aria was finished was so short that it couldn’t be compared to the matches until now. A big commotion occurs in the audience. Me thinking that this is still slow would most likely be strange for them.
Seeing her opponent finishing her spell, the running Amelia makes a brake and whispers a: ‘What’s going on?’ She makes a step to the left, and once again, the staff of Amelia who’s approaching Sif, shines a pale light. She finished her aria by the time she moved to the left huh. That Amelia, was she this fast in arias? It may have been in the spur of the moment… Could it be, Amelia can also use the maneuver aria of Izumo? He gave it a cool name and was treasuring it, but in other words, it is a combination of aria reduction and part-by-part aria.
I thought the fire arrow that was going straight would surely be avoided, but in the moment Amelia stopped her steps, Sif matched that and changed the direction of her spell. The steered attack magic that Sif showed only once. So she mastered it huh. Impressive. That single move threw Amelia into a disadvantage.
Cheers erupt once again.
Even though it’s only been one minute since the match began, the developments are coming fast.
A spell with a decent amount of power hits Amelia!
No, she evaded it!
Pushing out her pale shining staff to the front, she changed the trajectory of the arrow. I remember that I have shown that move a number of times when fighting with Shiki. The one I did was cladding magic power to my fists and crushing the light-shaped spear with brute strength though. What Amelia did was not that kind of rough method. She pushed out her staff to a point that just barely touched the arrow and made a small explosion with the faint light to change the arrow’s trajectory. What a skilled girl. It may be because she is someone that endows various type of magic to her arrows which made her able to think up this kind of method, but it is truly fearsome.
No matter how much steering potential it has, when you have to make your own magic pursue the target that’s approaching you, the danger to the magician itself increases in an instant. There’s still some distance between them, but this is an unfavorable development for Sif.
There’s some sort of conversation between the accelerating Amelia and Sif. Maybe they are complimenting each other’s strenuous efforts? Those two get along unexpectedly well after all.
Amelia’s expression distorts. And then, for some reason, she stops her feet and looks at her back. What happened?
It was in an instant.
The arrow that Amelia deflected exploded close to her back. So Sif thought of the ending properly huh. And she announced it in that conversation just now. Or maybe it was a sign to make it blow.
There’s quite the distance between us, so, as expected, I am unable to tell what the content of their conversation was. I can’t lip read after all.
The blast from her back and the arrow’s fragments attack Amelia. She probably judged it impossible to evade, she deploys a barrier. Yeah, she is properly training. It was smooth. Amelia may not be that good at complex spells, but in exchange, she is really proficient at basic spells. I remember her asking me ‘What’s the point of praising me for that? What’s impressive about it?’ Strong points might be something that, unexpectedly, the person itself doesn’t notice.
Even so, Amelia was blown away, and to create distance, Sif runs away, no, she closed the distance?!
Amelia’s doll shoulders the damage and a part of it breaks. It didn’t break apart completely, but the left shoulder has been destroyed in totality. It determines that it was quite the damage.
With a thrust, Sif hits the stage once. The stone paving that’s spread out in the stage changed its shape and it’s reformed into a giant hand. Amelia, who still hasn’t corrected her stance yet, was seized and all futile resistance was stopped.
Being grabbed by the stone hand and lifted up to about two meters in height, Sif points her staff at Amelia and stops. The fighting eyes of the grabbed Amelia were being directed at Sif, but after some time, she closes those eyes and turns her head upwards. It is settled.

“Well, well, this was a good fight. A short decisive fight where both fighters knew each other’s ability. Inside those confined rules, Sif was in the advantage, but in terms of real combat, who knows what would happen. What an interesting pair” (Tomoe)

Tomoe makes a satisfied face. Well, it may have been the backlash of all the fights till now, but as a fight between magicians, this was good. It was a short way to the conclusion that took less than 3 minutes, but the two of them did well. It seems Tomoe was able to feel the competency of Amelia in real combat at this state where she is prohibited to use some skills. And in truth, not only can she do attack magic, she can also endow support and barrier spells to her arrows and increase the variety of tactics in a party.

“She is still taking time in her arias, but at least compared to the guys till now, she is a lot better-desu wa ne” (Mio)

Mio is bitter. *In her case, the sensation of aria separation that was used in the offensive and defensive just now, was in basis different*. Well, that’s the same for me who’s used to it. <こいつの場合、今の攻防で使われたようなのは詠唱無しでぶっ放すから感覚が根本的に違うよな>
A defeat declaration leaked out from Amelia’s mouth. Along with the signal ending the fight, big cheers rained to the girls. With the match just now, there seem to be none who were booing Amelia. From the outside, it looked like even though she is a magician, she charged and showed that she was able to deflect the magic, but in the end, she was blasted and lost. Moreover, in 2-3 minutes. Will she feel down when looking back at it later? Well, I feel like Shiki will be able to comfort her to some extent, so it should be fine to leave it be. I wouldn’t want to be hated for intruding on her after all.
The rock hand liberates her and puts her down on the stage. The hand that has accomplished his job returns to being a part of the stage. Spirit magic has short arias to begin with, so if you are able to use it, you will have an easy advantage. And in truth, almost all the people that are able to use spirit magic have won and advanced. By the way, our Amelia can easily win against the other spirit users. Regarding Sif… in the magician category, she will probably win easily.
While watching over those two walking down the stage, I couldn’t help but pity Izumo who’s going to be fighting Sif next.

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The guest seats were beginning to fall silent.
Just like in the first round’s last match of the warrior category.
Amelia Hopelace and Sif Rembrandt’s match. This is the reason.
Kuku… kukuku. Those prior warrior kids as well; counting those 4, all 6 of them are Makoto-kun’s students. Just how much does he intent to entertain me?
As the master of the Adventurer Guild, I am watching the tournament in the guest seats. For the most important event that just takes three days, scouts come here from many countries. This is also a chance for the students to appeal for a place of employment.
… Well, even if I watch, it won’t be interesting. It is also because of the fighting style of the hyumans, it is a truly boring tournament. In the first place, having dolls substitute the damage makes the tension dilute. Every year, every year, it is practically torture. My work as a master is also a harsh one. No, it was. This year, thanks to Makoto-kun, it is truly fun.
When talking about employment, at Makoto-kun’s world, there’s a fierce war called job-hunting, and it is an act where they have to show their own strengths and abilities to the nation and company. A fight where humans like Makoto-kun clash in a serious battle. There’s no doubt that it would be more fun to watch than this stupid show here. That’s something I have earnestly wished to see even if only once. The humans that taught me this haven’t participated in that fight yet, and before they participated, they ended up in this world. They sincerely talked about how glad they were, so it must be quite the harsh and serious fight.

The first round of the warrior category where it is a ‘can you push your attack, can you defend against it?’ In that fight, the defending boy was truly good.
There was the advantage that it was an opponent he already knew, but he was able to defend for 10 whole minutes the attacks of the boy that was clearly talented. The most he had were small cracks in several places of the doll, but in terms of a fight, it was the win of that defending kid. In the middle of it, it turned into some sort of dance performance where they confirmed each other’s ability. It’s been a while since I have watched a fight of swordsmen.
The next fight of warriors was a match where speed and handling stood out. The dagger boy tried to bring the fight to close range, and the spear girl handled him in a way that she could open the distance. <This is between Yuno and Daena. And yes, there’s no chapter of this fight, I checked> Just that, the spear-wielding girl didn’t go in the defensive, which is the difference between the previous battle. The difference between the distance of a spear and a dagger, it was a fight to see which one controlled that space, but it was pretty enjoyable. The highlight was the moment the handling was overwhelmed and the spear distance became dagger distance. The girl changed the way she held her spear in an instant and rotated the spear to escape from the predicament. At that time, I unconsciously leaked out a gasp. It was an amazing way of thinking and ability. In terms of handling, the boy was better, but it seems the instantaneous strength of the legs was better on the girl, so she created distance again and the battle of distance continued. By changing the way of holding the spear, one can adjust the length. It may sound easy when just saying it, but it was impressive that she was able to put it in practice.
In the middle of it, maybe he grasped the attack patterns, the boy’s handling got better and began to push the girl. It was a difficult turn, but at the end, that girl used her own spear as a bait by letting it go and changing to bare-handed fight. I am surprised a girl of that age can fight that well. But of course, it was a gamble where she had to enter the area of the dagger. And in truth, the boy countered the kick that came from his back and got the better of the spear girl. Well, it was a good fight that made me gasp at the end. <Daena won>
And then, this time.
It was a fight between girls, but a girl suddenly charged in and the other girl begins doing an aria for attack magic. The fight began with an unconventional development. The set pattern of using a barrier and then unleashing your best magic was broken. An unprecedented start.
The one who ran had speed that could be comparable to that of the warrior category. Even so, the one who was doing the attack magic aria was able to finish it by the time half of that distance was closed. Fast. Too bad I wasn’t able to hear the aria and the language clearly from the guests’ seats where I was, but it was obvious that the aria itself was arranged, and it was a speed where she was aware to a certain extent the power of the spell and its success rate. Splendid. Students that have not even experienced real combat properly are able to reach the way of thinking that only a few adventurers are able to reach, moreover, able to apply it in battle. I don’t want to see pretty robed magicians lined up and chanting the same aria in the battlefield.
It seems what was shot was a fire arrow that you can see anywhere. The speed was also normal. It’s enough to give a passing score in a test.
When the running girl confirmed the activation of that spell, she soon stopped her straight path and changed into a charge to the left. There wasn’t much waste of movement in her steps. She may be the type that can do many things skillfully. In that case, she would have to fight against a pure magician. I thought it would be something truly difficult.
The fire arrow was not the normal kind that I thought it was. Matching the change of direction, the arrow changed directions as well. I was surprised, truly surprised. To think that she would include a pursuing trait. But the surprise didn’t end there. The girl that was supposed to be in a desperate situation had her staff shine a pale blue light. I didn’t notice it at all. On top of that, she matched the trajectory of the arrow and pushed out her staff, then released the light to explode and was able to defend against it. And then, she tried to resume her approach.
There, a conversation was exchanged between the two. The arrow once again pursued, and it suddenly exploded at the back of the running girl. In this fight, this was the first thunderous sound that resonated in the grounds. The power was decent. Iya~, truly impressive.
The girl that was blown away by the blast had her doll damaged heavily. Maybe fragments hit her, the girl that activated the explosion approached the girl that had her posture broken and finished a short aria. Spirit magic huh. Having that much ability in attack magic, and to sum it up, a spirit magician huh. There’s no doubt that she is the most complete participant of today.
Being grabbed by a stone hand, she declared her defeat and the match ends. And so, it connects to the silence that’s currently occurring.

“… Counting the warrior category fights a while ago, this is truly discomforting”

“R-Really! Persisting in only the handling of the fight, a fight where it looked like there was no intention to win from the very beginning and only focusing on defending. And in the magician fight just now, there was one that can’t even use magic properly and a magician that struggles by using petty tricks. To think that I would witness such a fighting manner, just what is the academy thinking?!”

“The student that won is the ill reputed Rembrandt daughter. Even though she is not even a noble, she lives in the noble’s dormitory, a wannabe. She must have bought a tool that reduces the length of arias with her gold”

When I thought they finally opened their mouths, they began criticizing those splendid fights between the students. With those words as the fuse, more criticism came from others. Those are… the nobles of Limia. How stupid. Are they throwing the excuses that they thought up among them and their own henchmen? Including the bias in this tournament and the importance they put in weapons, these pigs truly have no saving. If they yield to gold and authority intervention, ‘he’<the founder>, who wished to make an independent education facility, will lose his footing, and yet, why is it that hyumans don’t follow the true nature of things, but instead put more importance in their greed and what brings benefits for themselves?
This time, it seems the one who did several secret movements was Limia’s Hopelace. That was the reason why the Limia nobles were making so much noise. Makoto-kun, just how were you able to get in trouble with another household that’s so far away? Even if their second son is attending here, this is a huge academy. There aren’t many chances of meeting.
But the flow of these conversations are truly unpleasant. The kids that finally gave color to this spectating, let’s protect their honor for a bit.

“Please stop, it is unsightly”

“Stop it, bunch of idiots”

Eh? I was beaten to the punch.
Princess Lily and… Limia’s King? This is quite the unusual pair giving their opinion. When the noisy bunch were directed these words, the people related to Limia and Gritonia fall silent. Most of the people complaining were Limia nobles, so the criticism to the students soon stopped.

“Their fights were truly magnificent. For people that have levels over 90, they showed strength fit for that number, and trying a new way of fighting is something important. The usual way of fighting that can be seen every year like the ones the other students showed, it would only be destroyed the moment they oppose the demon race. I feel that they are promising kids that can hold the future of us hyumans. They should be praised, and in no way should be looked down upon” (Lily)

After their utterance, the princess and king look at each other and didn’t say anything else, but when the king nods once, the princess begins to talk. And in response, the Limia nobles asked.

“But princess, that kind of fighting style is vulgar and cowardly. In no way is it a fighting style a soldier and knight should…”

“Then, what about our country’s hero-sama that repels the demons by capitalizing maneuverability in the sky? Is that fighting style also cowardly? Are the knights and soldiers that had their lives saved also cowardly? The foundation of your words itself are wrong. Including the match of just now, they thought properly and are increasing their own strengths, that’s it. That’s not vulgar nor shameful, and not to mention, cowardly by no means. Why is it that you can’t understand that, no matter if it’s slowly, the empire’s army is learning a certain new way of fighting, and that’s the same that’s happening here?” (Lily)

“?!! Princess, what you said-“

“Is related to secret intel? How stupid. The kingdom that is fighting alongside us, the empire, have already learned how much of a threat the demon race is with our own bodies. If we are changing tactics to cope with them, it shouldn’t be secret intel, but information that all hyumans should be sharing. You and the people that were making stupid talks as well, revise your way of thinking. Limia King, I am sorry for disturbing you when you spoke” (Lily)

Saying things you don’t actually feel. If the arrival of the hero were a bit faster, maybe those words of the princess just now would actually be from the bottom of her heart. Ah, but he is no good huh. If the perfect hero of Limia would have met the wild group of the wasteland… Well, Princess Lily is already in a spot she can’t come back from. It’s already too late.
In times, the madmen’s words sound more upright than any other. Just like hers just now.

“No, I was thinking almost the same thing. Don’t mind it. Listen well, formality and tradition won’t reduce the number of casualties in the battlefield. We can’t protect both. Don’t mistake the things we really have to protect and the things we don’t have to protect. The three matches you repudiated, were all matches that stirred my heart. I unconsciously thought of the fighting style of our country’s hero-dono. The utterance of you bastards can be taken as insults to our hero-dono. They were truly unpleasant words. An insult to the hero-dono that is exposing herself to danger in the vanguard. Even if you are nobles in our country, no matter how much time passes, don’t go changing pride for arrogance”

There were no objections to the king’s words huh. The Limia nobles have all turned stiff.
Nevertheless, what an unexpected speech. The church related people and the people from Lorel that were listening also looked surprised.
From what I remember, he himself should be the old type of king that sticks to pride. He did look like he was extravagant. That perfect hero, it seems she also changed a bit the way the king thinks.
Well, I don’t think she would be able to make him have doubts of the monarchy system, but seriously, can’t underestimate that hero’s influence. Is the ideal she is aiming for a democracy government? Most of the humans that fall to these world believe that this is the best type of government after all. I don’t understand why they have that way of thinking. Maybe they receive that kind of education. Let’s try asking Makoto-kun next time.
Well then, it turned silent.
I should say something as well or it will give a bad impression to Makoto-kun. In his case, I can’t predict with whom or what he is connected with after all. In this time where the tournament has begun, I am busy most of the time, so there will be less chances for me to help him.

“… It may be rude of me to say my part after the king and the princess, but I also want to say it. I can’t help praise the way they fought as splendid. I am of course a devout follower of the Goddess, but the power and technique they showed, and also the magic; people that use to their utmost every strength they have and improve it, for me, I even think that they would be able to easily defeat people that have only received the blessing of the Goddess. If those kind of people were to receive the blessing of the Goddess on top of that, they might be able to show a fight that would put the demons in the dust. But well, in my case, I would want them to be the next era of adventurers and play an active role in it though” (Root)

“… I don’t consider that Falz-dono is denying the Goddess at all. I can tell that those words are purely from your expectations of them. Just like what you said, if they were to obtain the blessing of the Goddess, they would be able to increase that power even more. I am sure of it. This is my first time seeing students fight in this kind of way, so I am unable to evaluate them right this instant though”

The archbishop of the church that is close to the Limia King provides some cover for me, while advocating for the students and basically taking a position of being in favor.
When I follow the gaze of him, there’s the Rotsgard Bishop. I see. He is asking the reason why they didn’t know the existence of those students huh. They have been appointing new people a lot lately, so that responsibility should go to the previous bishop that’s already dead. That woman, so misfortunate. She will probably get scolded. And, that said bishop was eliminated in Makoto-kun’s place. Well, the previous bishop was the one who dealt with the management of ‘that organization’ in Rotsgard. It seems the other related party Brait-sensei that was in the academy was eliminated as well.
Even if they haven’t gone to the light yet, it would still create sparks, so I think that Makoto-kun is doing pretty well in his commitment to dealing with troubles.

“It seems the second round will be beginning soon. I am also looking forward to lunch, but I am truly looking forward to the tournament as well” (Root)

I say some light words to disperse the heavy atmosphere. As expected, I want to spectate comfortably. More so because I know that it will be worth the watch.
If possible, I wanted to sit together with Makoto-kun in the general seats and enjoy the show, but well, that’s impossible.
Fufufu, at this rate, I can expect a lot from the third round as well.
If the students in this academy learn, even if a bit, from the fights just now and get their mindsets reformed, the founder of the academy would definitely be happy.
I remember the face of my past friend and narrow my eyes in nostalgia.

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205 thoughts on “Chapter 124: Amelia vs Sif”

  2. It was interesting. Surprised Yuno lost to be honest. But i guess the author wanted to throw in a surprise in the results.

  3. Seeing the king and princess taking the same stand in an argument was weird, but not uncalled for. That aside, I thought Amelia didn’t have a last name. What the hell for kinda juicy info is that dragon bastard keeping???

  4. Not me, I have been craving Makoto to fight for a long time, or a training chapter. Haven’t gotten any of it, instead I got served a tournament with only his students fighting. Speed reading commence

  6. 3 things this chapter:

    1. Amelia what’s your relation with those Hopelace bastards?
    2. My opinion on Lily went up several levels after she put those arrogant nobles in their place along with 3 other important figures (cause she was near rock-bottom already although the trash hero owns that place). Maybe she’s not so bad after all. I love grey characters.
    3. Root definitely knows the founder of he academy on a personal level who’s already long gone. I feel bad for him.

    2. To quote the chapter:

      In times, the madmen’s words sound more upright than any other.

      She’s beyond salvation at this point, but she could have been saved if either Hibiki or Makoto had arrived in Gritonia instead of Tomoki as well as arriving significantly earlier. Unfortunately, a weak-willed person like Tomoki had no potential of saving her, but as it was mentioned he might have come too late even if there had been any potential.

      As for Amelia’s background, it’ll come up in the future.

  8. This amount of text is overwhelming… If someone read all of it, could they please give me a summary…no, that would disrespect the hard work of the author and translator…I-I need to read it…

    1. I know this is 4 months ago, but for someone just starting to read this chapter and share the same opinion:
      1. Sif and Amelia fight. Sif won.
      2. Offscreen Yuno and Daena fight. Close one, but Daena won.
      3. The lamia’s noble that related to the guy Makoto “almost killed” earlier making a scene, claiming makoto’s disciples didn’t fight the traditional way, despite being much better and effective. Obviously a ploy to discredit Makoto.
      4. Lamia’s King, Root, and surprisingly Lily and Archbishop shut them down.

    1. Imagine expressing your opinion and immediately being cracked down on by some of the highest ranking people in the world. That’s harsh man

  10. See the at least public reaction of the big fish is good, now I would like to see their inner thought about them and the fact that they are the students of Raidou, specially in the case of Lily.

  12. “at Makoto-kun’s world, there’s a fierce war called job-hunting”
    Why did I just get a sudden image of people in the reception room for an interview just fighting and strangling each other to death?

        1. Have you tried recieving it like an offering? *hick* I mean you’re an undead.. So receiving offerings of food and drinks like we mexicans give to our dead would work wouldn’t it?

  16. Umm. Reigokai, I’m wondering about how you feel about others talking about any projects or stories they have on their sites while on the comment section of your posts. I’m wondering if I could. Although I’m not sure how to make a link to it, even if I get permission.

    1. Nope, I don’t mind at all. As long as the story has resemblance to this kind of stories and it fits the taste of the people here, I don’t mind links.

      Of course, spamming it in all the places and posting several in succession is a no, no.

      I consider them as recommendations. So feel free to post them.

  17. Just a heads up, it seems Alphapolis have been enforcing a new rule that all the WN that have been published by them will be deleted from syousetsu’s site and further release will be published from their own site instead of syousetsu. The author itself have been stating he will still be updating his syousetsu account until August, after that he will move to Alpha’s site ._____.

        1. Well, lets see what alphapolis does first. Hope they don’t begin charging, or at least don’t make it region-locked.
          Not accepting currency other than yen can be a big blow.

      4. Probably the author will keep updating his story, it’s just he’s moving his site from syousetsu to alphapolis+deleting his syousetsu’s contents. The problem is we don’t know yet wether Alphapolis will make it free to read or as Rei-san said charging for it or even worse region-locked. If it’s still free then no problem at all, we only have to go to Alphapolis’ site to read it.

        It’s just if Rei-san doesn’t aware of this it’ll be problematic since the author won’t update via syousetsu anymore, he will run out of chapter to translate while waiting for new chapters which won’t come out at all (though it will be probably still a long time to go since there’s more than 100 chapters before the latest one). I also have to check which of my bookmarked WN that’s affiliated with Alpha so I don’t wait in vain lol.

  18. its all that shit goddess fault. those hyumans never needed to think how to fight, and always won with the raw power of the blessings/curses from that bug. and more, since she(it) praises beauty, they probably fought with that in mind – better a beaultiful war than a smart one.
    and now, after she took a 10 year nap, they’re all paying the price; the demons got that strategy is better than mere and pure power, and grew stronger.
    i bet that if makoto had been sent to a hyuman kingdom, and had beat some sense in those nobles, the war wouldn’t be so troblesome, after all, the others heros are just like the hyumans, think the raw power of the blessings will save the day … my god, you have to be soooo stupid; why would someone have the trouble to summon a being from another world, if they are going to fight like the ones already here?! — well, maybe not anymore, since after the beating from the machamp guy (four-armed-demon) at the fort….
    i’m cheering that makoto will retake the land of his parents, and start a new kingdom, a smart one, and he already have 7 generals hauhuauah.

    1. yeah makoto should start his own kingdom though he already has with only demi hyumans also who are this 7 generals are you talking about? tomoe, mio, and shiki right so who are the other 4?

    2. Except Makoto is the embodiment of power, stronger than nearly everything out there due to Tsukuyomi’s OP blessing. If he were a human nations hero, wouldn’t he just reinforce the belief in power by presence alone?

      Better for him to be an outsider.

  21. Shouldn’t the title of this chapter be 「こちら来賓席のルトです」 and not “Amelia vs Sif”.

    The “Amelia vs Sif” part or “アベリア対シフ。” is actually the first sentence of the chapter, not the title itself.

  22. I wonder how much Limia’s king knows about what’s going on.

    Does he know details of Hibiki’s time in Tsige, like how Kuzunoha sold them weapons and helped them with contacts to other adventurers.

    Does he know his trash nobles are targeting the owner of Kuzunoha.

    Also Lorel’s views on seeing one of the wise being targeted by the country that “kidnapped” their priestess.

    1. Considering one of his sons is traveling with Hibiki he probably got a fairly complete report on what happened in Tsige. The King does not seem to be an idiot so he either knows and thinks its in bad taste or he now suspects and will look into it further after the fights, just like Root is planning.

  24. Is it just me to think that this battle tournament is not really exciting?
    Oh well, I’m gonna waiting the conflict that will occur

    Thanks 4 d’chapter Rei-dono

  26. Makoto’s students are acting less like hyumans and more like humans. Using maneuverability and mental flexibility that would been in our video game playstyles, instead of the supposed flashy, turn-based movements of the students. Like mobs 😛

  28. I wonder y yuno lost it seems she was quite good to begin with. but sif lol being the only one not tired after the trainning win was expected.

    1. The way I read it, Yuno lost because the other student had the edge with how all the rules were skewed plus the restrictions Makoto put on all the students. Against anyone else (not Makoto’s student) she’d wipe the floor with them.

  29. So…

    How much money are we betting on the dolls beings tampered with at some point?

    Do we believe it will in the final bouts of the single matches or during the team fights?

    1. Pretty sure it’s certain that the dolls will be tampered with, the only questions are when, how, and what Makoto’s response will be. If it’s a tampering that gets the kids severely injured, I’m willing to bet that Makoto’s gonna put up a green light on the Hopelace family and have them wiped out. And that’s if he doesn’t completely snap and turn Rotsgard into a crater.

      2. Makoto has already decided on a place to vent his annoyance, at this point its a question of if that one spot will be enough to calm him down or if he will need to wipe a couple more spots before he is satisfied.

      3. Oh, I am sure it’ll be something like this! Last chapter, Makoto pretty much said that was his limit, right? Even Tomoe was frightened there for a moment… after everything done to his students, there will definitely be retribution!

      4. You missed one of the ways that the dolls could be tampered with. The amount of damage the dolls take determine the winners in the matchs. If I wanted to make sure someone loses I would try and alter the amount of damage transmited to the doll, not to cause the person to be injured, but to have the doll take more damage then it should have. Fighter takes 5 hps worth of damage, doll reflects damage equal to 10 hps of dmg, or more.

        No need to try and injure his students, just cause them to lose by having their doll explode if one of the other contestants sneezes on them.

  31. Wait… Amelia HOPELACE?!? Those bastards tried to kill one of their own?!? … Just kill them all already, Makoto, they don’t deserve to live.
    “Noble” scum.

    1. Makoto told before that they used poison for stomach and diarrea maybe she was that one and asasins for the others or she ending chosing his friends against his family and they pissed off tried to kill her as well.

  32. Wait… Amelia HOPELACE?!? Those bastards tried to kill one of their own?!? … Just kill them all already, Makoto, they don’t deserve to live.

  34. It would be funny to read a PoV from Lily after the tournament when she is thinking that she should recruit Makotos students to be dominated by her hero and then made into pawns.

    Then she learns that they are Makotos students and she can’t really touch them without Tomoe targeting her.

    Then she remembers Roots warning and realizes, if students that Makoto has trained for 1 day a week for around a year are that strong, how strong would his main forces be that are trained continually…

    Then she would pale at the realization…

  38. I’m sure all the countries and organisations will try to poach Makoto’s students to their side, only to be dissappointed since they want to join the Kuzunoha. Maybe most of them.

    But that king though, he’s quite the wise king knowing his priorities. Please let him live long, the princess can go die for all I care.

    And we all know the fate of the young masters who go against the MC of the novel, just because they want to save face. (Hint: chinese xianxia novel…if only they can see Mt Tai lol)

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    2. Hey! Don’t insult dogs! At least most of them can hunt. Except for those demonic little dogs like chihuahuas and pomeranians. Even dachshunds were bred for hunting badgers.

  48. Hmm, I was hoping to hear some more reactions from the general crowd. Did they all think like the nobles did?

      1. Those NPCs are the reason our hero is “The Devil” now. In a story focused on a guy being completely out of the norm, it’s useful to see what the norm is every once in a while, and especially useful when they clash.

  50. Thanks for the chapter!

    Damn, just how incompetent are these people!?

    The “Bug” really screwed up their normal evolution by emphasizing the beauty and elegance of the forms over efficiency…

    Also I can’t wait for the team battles, if any, I mean think about it they could probably rekt whole team single handly, I expect many forfeit XD

    1. they are not incompetent.

      It is their world’s common sense. Just like how “Our” wars were conducted ages ago. As an example, there are the French and I think it was the Brit’s Civil war, I forgot. Where they stand silly and fire at one another, after the other without the thought of evading.

      Their methods were undeveloped like that. It’s not incompetence. If they learned the Art of War from a reincarnated/transferred person, things would be different. They act like this is a military practice, this being the Academy and all. Like what Root said, there is no tension due to the dolls.

      I doubt even the lower tier of Adventurers are these bad.

      1. Similar to how in Overlord’s world, if a knight and an adventurer of similar levels and equipment were to fight, the adventurer would win every time because the knight would refuse to “fight dirty” the way a commoner would fight. To us, that would seem incompetent and inefficient. But that’s “the noble’s common sense”.

      2. The incompetence comes from not noticing the superior strategy.

        Also the volley fire used in old time was the result of how inaccurate guns of the time were, they literally needed a rotation firing configuration to hit anything through large amount of bullets flying in the general direction of the enemy.

        Aboriginals used guerilla tactics because the bow and arrow allowed such practice as did their deeper knowledge of the woods.

        But when the trappers saw how well the guerilla worked they adopted it and used it to weaken standing, volley firing armies and that form of combat slowly died down.

        Which brings us back to the incompetence part, they know how all magician fight in static “won before it started” configurations and still can’t see the worth of the strategy used here, the severe lack of imagination on the real combat application of the strategy is what’s appalling.

      3. You should have made it clear as to what, or who, is incompetent then. Instead of leaving it vague.

        Also, the only people who were mentioned ridiculing Makoto’s students were the Limia nobles (and maybe a few handful). You do realize that those type of nobles, who only gets coerced, are a poor choice for basis. Even Lily had a favourable impression of Makoto’s students. What do Nobles like “that” know about real combat? there should also be the speculation that it was purposely implanted by the Hopelace househould.

        though, I have to make sth clear. I am not into defending their race, but assuming that it was the hyuman race’s general opinion, just from a few rotten nobles, would further incite misunderstanding so I thought of reacting to the “incompetent part. Which at that time looked like it was directed at the hit-and-defend style.

        If you got offended by my response, can’t really help you with that mate.

      4. Offended?

        I was just further explaining what I meant by incompetent, I don’t usually like a comment I find offensive you know XD

  51. “Please try to be more decent, like, seriously.”

    I laughed hard on this. It’s pretty ironic to see Makoto join the criticizing club, having seen the simple fighting style of the students. I’m pretty sure he was being criticized for the same thing as well. Though, by all means, he wasn’t as bad as these secluded nobles/students(though, the fact that that world’s common sense is to blame). He at least have been more animated than what he have witnessed here.

    It just really cracked me up to see how he criticized them simpletons. So how does it feel to be on this side of the spectrum. lmao

    Anyway. For someone who have seen his students all, and restricted their movements prior to the tournament itsrlf, it makes my blood boil in anticipation and joy to see how those important “figures” react when they learn it wasn’t even half of their truest ability that was showcased this time. Though I assume it won’t happen in this tournament, because of the restriction Makoto instructed.

    About Root’s POV.
    I’m still unclear whether he had known or not, that there were strings pulled. I could care less. I prefer this line up after all. It would have been boring fighting fodders afterall.

    Even Daena and Yuno’s fight was summed up by him. Thank god. I thought for a second the Author would disregard it.

    Cheers for the splendid chapter~
    It was truly worth the wait.

    1. Root has shown that s/he is smart and has a great deal of experience, it probably just took one glance at the matching sheet to know that it had been fixed. Combined with the starter weapons they were forced to use and the way the nobles started badmouthing them it would have been trivial to put it all together. If Root had not figured it out after glancing at the pairings the anouncement about limiting the people over 90 would have been a dead givaway.

    1. What’s interesting is that having Makotos students fight each other early was the best way to show off their skills. In the following rounds it will become obvious just how OP they are compared to the normal students when the curb stomp the lot of them, even with trash weapons. If they had fought each other after several rounds of stomping normies it would not have had the same impact.

    1. Didn’t Makoto warn his students about the possible interference from the Hopelace (main) family?

      Well, Amelia is probalby from a branch family.
      If she was from the main family, the nobles from Limia wouldn’t have insulted her fight.

    3. I think it might be better to say that Root figured out that Lilly was crazy/a liar a while back, and now views all of her actions through that lens of understanding? That was certainly a very un-lily like speech she gave, what with that whole “share information and band together” thing, if nothing else.

      1. Root knows Lily is a slave to revenge and consumed by it. Lily is similar to that captain in Moby Dick who wants to kill the whale. It made him mad and destroyed everything near including himself just to enact gis revenge.

  63. Thanks for the chapter!

    Nicely done! And they were not even going at full strength. Time to kick that noble’s arse!

  66. Looking at the raw links on the TOC page, it seems that they have different chapters or something. Does anyone now what the differences are in this arc? Using google translate makes it comparing gibberish to gibberish.

    2. I’ve tried to warn people from trying that. It’s hard to comprehend the incoherent clumps of text. Took me a while to be able to do so. Hence how Spoiler-san was born. As for your question, these are removed chapters. You have to click the link with the Wayback Machine to find these. And trust me, you can never seem to click on the one you want to read, so you have to manually click the “previous” button to find what you’re looking for.

      3. Thank you for that Raymond. Makes it easier to read while offline. Normally when I try and grab chapters from that site it ends up in vertical writting which I have trouble reading and can’t easily drop into a translator for the keywords that I don’t know at first glance.

      1. That school is for students with and without noble status but i doubt she batray Makoto and Shiki, maybe she is a distant member of the idiot i doubt she be his sister or something.

      3. What I meant was that with the pride of the nobles in this world, there’s no way any would bear the shame of accepting a scholarship. Even if they were only distant members of a branch family. We don’t know if only nobles have family names in this world, while most people don’t mention family names, Sophia who is a traitor has one, and nobody seems curious about Raidou’s, which if he was the heir of a merchant company he would definitely have one.

    3. She is probably from a branch family.
      She has the surname, but the main family probably treats her as a trash and commoner.

      I wonder how they will rect when she completly destroys the Second Son.

    3. Can I ask a favor? Can you tell me how to put links to my own WordPress posts in the comment sections? I already asked Rei-senpai for permission.

  70. Dammit Root, I’m not interested in your opinion, I’m interested in further battles! 😠

    …though I suppose the further confirmation of how much he knows, including that Lily-hime is completely off the freaking rails, is rather interesting in itself. I kinda see him as the penultimate boss before the bug herself, ya know…? 😓

    Thanks for the chapter, as always, Reigo-san! 😃

      2. Yeah, but that’s Lily’s unique skill, not something root would probably be on guard for. tho I guess with his/her network, he/she coulda already known about it and took precautions.

      4. it’s not lily who sense tomoe’s aura before. i forgot her name, but it’s the dragon tamer who sense it

        #still learning english

      6. It was not Lily that felt dragon in Tomoe it was the other follower of Tomoki that was there at the time, Moira or something like that.

      9. oh~ I thot Lily was the princess AND the dragon tamer, I thot that was her power. too many minor characters in these novels to keep track of them all -_-, especially when im reading like 30+ series simultaneously.

    2. I’m actually anxious to wait until Makoto forms a contract with root. Then after the contract done and Root becomes a girl again, would be a interest setup but…………I doubt that would happen lol

      1. I don’t think hes going to form a contract with root. and if he does, doesn’t mean that root will become a girl. Shiki didn’t after all. Tho root would probably retain his/her gender swapping powers if a contract is formed.

      2. Root can change gender easy at least that is what he told before there is no need for a contract. Bisides the contract dont change gender Mio and Tomoe where female and Root originally it is a man.

      3. Root wanted a contract with Makoto, he only said that it would be impossible to stick close to him like Tomoe or Mio do, in fact Root wants Makoto’s baby.

  71. Hmmm… So that corrupt guy made it so that ALL of Makoto’s students would fight each other in the first rounds? well… guess that just means we know who the winners are early. The team battle should be amusing!

    1. They wanted to avoid the most of his students end in the finals. I want to see the team fights is gonna be funny how Makoto students team bullying the hopelace boy team.

  73. How long does this arc still take? I personally find this tournament and stuff really boring…Too much talking and stuff.

    I want to see Makato and other kick some ass already or smthing!

    1. looks like only 3 or 4 chapters really. Since its mostly probably going to be summaries of how Makoto’s students rekt’d the normies, its less a tournament arc, and more of a show Makoto’s value and watch as all the major powers try and buy/bribe/threaten/enlist/persuade/ect… the promising new talents into joining them. and how they will all (I believe) reject their offers so they can continue theur “studies”

    2. I know what you mean. I usually don’t like them also, but Im enjoying reading about the reactions of everyone to the new mini-OP students. at least its not like Word with their 30+ chapter tournament (-_-‘)

      Just enjoy reading how Makoto’s students are going to butt stomp the lot of the student body and Makoto’s popularity will rise again!

    3. This arc is pretty big, honestly tournament part is kinda boring than other part. This arc is like 5% tournament and other stuff as per arc title go. Still like 45-50 chapter to go.

    4. Argh….! Just stop complaining and read. There are no story where the MC has to fight 24/7 you know. This type of setting is far better than constant fighting of the Makoto. To be honest, I don’t even want to see Makoto fight at all, after he met with the lvl 900 adventurer. His choice making in that fight was absurdly annoying and a waste of time.

  74. Oh wow. I didn’t expect the nobles to trashtalk(how silly of me) but it’s good to know that the leaders at least know something valuable when they see it.

    You know there’s a problem when someone excitedly comments “Oh, they moved!”

    Finally, I didn’t realize Root knew the academy’s founder too. He probably has a lot of stories we’ll never touch on actually.

    2. I think what the author did here is amazing. Take any LN school tournament fight. Then move the view to the spectator. He sees it very clearly, and maintains the plot twists as to a degree, but also furthers the MC in personality, mentality, and “feel”. Was it as exciting as first person? No. But it was much more interesting as a story telling element.

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