Chapter 251: Irijina vs Métier
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(Irijina point of view)

"You are outnumbered and surrounded. But we won't let you leave here with your life since you had seen our secret weapon, the undead." The man with spectacle, Sir Alatt that Lord Hiro put his full trust, points his sword towards the men. 

"Not yet! Something like this won’t end us warriors of Avignon!" A big man with large muscles come forward. Another one who looks older walks beside him. 

The muscular man stands boldly in front of his party which has been torn apart, unafraid getting attacked.

"What’s wrong, did you guys drop your balls somewhere? Are the men from church really that weak!?"

"Watch your mouth, Metier!" The templar guy barks at his comrade who has insulted him.

"The Light of Avignon...... it was said that the God of War gifted it to the first ruler of Avignon." The man who seems to be underling of Métier raises his voice.

"The God of War is watching over us. I can’t die an unsightly death." Métier bellows.

I guess “The Light of Avignon” is the name of the sword Métier is holding.

There is a faint blue glow radiating from his sword – impossible for a weapon made of steel – which reminds me of my heirloom spear.

At that moment, an arrow flies in a straight line directly at Métier who is leading the charge, almost as if to restore spirit of intimated Hyuutia men.

"It hit!"

Hanabi exclaims in reaction.

"My Lord!"

"No need to worry!"

Métier roars and leaps, straight towards the arrow.

"I won’t be defeated by a toy like this!"

He twists his body in midair and slams the butt of his sword against the speeding arrow.

Unable to withstand the blow, the oversized arrow snapped in half and the pieces fall to the bottom of the cliff.

That sight leaves both ally and enemy speechless.

Métier sucks in a deep breath.

"This is Avignon!!!"

"Uooooooh!!"

His underling roars in response to the man’s yell.

"Sir Métier, your opponent is me, Irijina Wolls!"

"What, a woman?"

"Doesn't matter, strong fighter is a strong fighter, regardless of her gender." Métier stops his pursuit and faces me with beaming smiles.

He seems unable to cope with the speed of my spear movement and retreats three steps. 

Perhaps judging it to be a bad idea to collide head-on with the skirmishers, Métier falls back slightly to form a defensive stance with his shield pushed out.

Loud metallic clashes resounded as we slam into each other and then...... the large man is pushed back.

"If you’d like, I can drill your ass just like I do with my wife!" Dirty minded man, he provokes me to disturb my attention.

"Can you still boast after this?" 

I yell and swing my spear with all my might at the enemy, using all the pent-up frustration from today as an additional boost in power.

"Ooh! Impressive!"

Even so, the mam does not waver. He comes at me with his sword without a moment’s delay.

"It really feels good to fight in person!"

I parry the man’s sword attack and meet the man’s shield with a front kick.

Most men would be sent flying after that, but this man only loses balance slightly before quickly readying his sword again.

"This much is nothing!"

When I block his sword with the handle of my spear, the man swings his shield at me almost as if he throws it, and then slashes at my thigh.

Those aren’t the movements of a mere soldier. Métier has the strength to be called heroes in other nations.

"Then how about this!?"

I evade his sword by a hair’s breadth and swing my spear down towards his head.

The man brings his shield up to block, but is unable to do so completely and falls to his knees.

"The finishing blow!"

"Not yet!"

I don’t have time to take a breather.

I avoid the man’s sword and punch him in the face, yet he still doesn’t stop attacking even after blood drips down from his nose.

"A man of Avignon won’t be defeated until his heart stops!"

"Eeei, how irritating!"

Because the enemy is so resilient, none of the our soldiers has advanced except for Hanabi and Mirai who engage Métier's underling. They are being pushed around but somehow putting up a fight.

"Seei!"

Mirai skillfully finds an opening to stab the enemy soldier in the side of his body, but he doesn’t fall down.

"Why......"

"A weak attack like that won’t penetrate my muscles!"

Hanabi dodges the downward swing from the man’s sword, then hops backward and throws a few knives at the man in succession.

The enemy deflects the knives aimed at his vitals, and even though a few knives stabbed the man’s shoulder and stomach, they weren’t deep enough to stop him from moving.

To deliver the final blow, Mirai rushes in from the side and lops the man’s head off, and the enemy soldier finally collapses.

"Haa...... Haa......"

"Uoooooh!"

And then, Métier comes rushing at me from the front with his shields held up.

He must want to catch me off guarded, I respond by swinging my spear powerfully.

My spear slams into the shields, sending the man and his shield flying, while I also get pushed back.

We quickly pick up our weapons, and face off against each other with our weapons.

"Let’s go."

"Come at me anytime."

I am the first one to move as I kick the ground hard and charge at him.

Métier similarly does the same not even a split second later and the two heirloom weapons clash when the two of us reach the middle ground of our battlefield.

There is a high-pitched metallic sound and sparks fly from the collision of the two weapons.

"Guo!"

My spear is pushed back from the impact.

It almost flies out of my hand, so this guy has quite the ridiculous strength.

He is also repelled by the impact but it looks like he moves a shorter distance than I do.

"It didn’t break eh? That’s a nice sword."

"As is yours."

I put all my strength into my spear and his sword isn’t even chipped.

As I thought, that sword isn’t any ordinary sword.

In other words, just a slight touch from it would send arms flying.

"Mmuuh!"

"Hmph!"

Standing still, the two of us face off in an intense duel between long spear and a sword. 

His downward strike is parried to the side, my thrust is sidestepped, and then the counter swing is evaded with a twist of my body.

The soldiers watching on the perimeter don’t do any heckling. Both ally and enemy stood side-by-side and watch the fight unfold before their eyes.

"There!"

Métier freezes for a second when he steps on a small rock.

I don’t miss that chance to slash at his shoulder, but he intercepts with this shield.

He angles his shield to make my spear glance off to the side, then bashes my face with his shield.

"Irijina-san!"

I hear the girls' voices.

"Fuhaha, shields aren’t bad weapons. Blocking isn’t the only thing they’re good for. But I regret hurting such beautiful face."

I wipe the blood dripping from my nose, luckily it is not broken. I am sturdy after all.

"That woke me up just now."

I face Métier and take a big thrust at him with my spear.

He evades my attack, then bends down to slice my body in half with a horizontal slash.

I wrench my body to the side and avoid the slash, then I spin around once before taking a swing at his neck.

He instinctively reacts by bringing his shield up to block, however he isn’t able to deflect my attack this time.

With a sharp clang, the thick metal shield is bisected and both sections fall to the ground.

Métier lets the sliced shield fall out of his hand and wields his sword with both hands.

I remain stationary with the purpose of resting my body for a while. On the other side, Métier doesn't attack as he becomes cautious after losing his shield.

I inhale my breath. When he was with a shield, I was forced to attack my raw strength combined with precision but even I am stronger than average men, as a woman, I am far weaker than strong man like Métier. 

Now, as he has lost his shield, I can use my strong point that is speed and skill.

"Iyaaaa!"

I leap gracefully and launch countless thrusts at him. Half of them hit him but he withstand the pain and make a heavy horizontal swing.

I use my agility to leap to his back and stab his neck.

Métier falls to his knee and manages to turn his head to behind before collapsing to the ground.

"Irijina-san wins!" Hanabi yells and I responds with a battle cry.

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