Chapter 82

Now that the meeting with the queen has concluded, the preparations for the school festival are becoming more serious.

Let me explain the schedule for the school festival. In broad terms, it lasts for three days.

The first day only involves the preliminary martial arts tournament for the people of Solos, so it can hardly be called a school festival.

The second day, in addition to the preliminaries, serves as a pre-festival, with other events starting to take place.

The third day features the martial arts tournament finals, and all the events reach their peak, making it the climax of the festival.

I almost blurted out, "What about the post-festival?" but since the idea of a bonfire and folk dance was not well received, it was decided to hold a free dance party. The queen is scheduled to visit on the third day. Ideally, I would have preferred her to come on the first day when there are fewer people.

"And our demonstration will take place during the finals on the third day."

"Yes!"

I looked at Saffina to confirm, and she responded happily. We were in the middle of practicing tag team battles.

Today, the seniors were our opponents, and I felt we had a good match. However, the match was stopped midway, so there was no clear winner. I was worried that if I accidentally won, the loose-lipped senior, Karis, might spread some wild rumors again.

(Compared to the beginning, Saffina and I have become better at coordinating. But, there's still something lacking.)

"We definitely need a finishing move."

"A finishing move?"

Saffina repeated the words I had muttered while lost in thought during a break.

"Oh, a finishing move? That's quite a violent idea, Miss Mary."

Karis senior also showed interest and approached us. By the way, Alice senior has been reading a suspicious book and occasionally showing a face that ruins her beauty.

(Senior, please don't get any weird ideas.)

I ignored the suspicious Alice senior and looked at Saffina and Karis senior.

"Senior, do you have any good finishing moves for a tag team?"

My ideas are too far-fetched and lack practicality, and Saffina is not good at such creative thinking, so she hasn't come up with any good ideas yet. Therefore, I decided to ask the older seniors.

"Hmm, the strength of a tag team is the ability to attack in succession. However, even if two people attack recklessly, it might just be defended. Hmm..."

Karis senior folded his arms and began to think, and Saffina and I followed suit, groaning as we thought.

"If consecutive attacks won't work, how about simultaneous attacks?"

Alice senior, who had been reading a book, lifted her gaze and suggested this.

"Simultaneous attacks. That's a good idea. Simultaneous attacks with magic and sword, for example."

"It's quite difficult. If the timing is off even a little, it becomes just a series of attacks. Plus, the opponent will move, counterattack, and defend."

I snapped my fingers, and Karis senior gave a slightly difficult look, making the glimmer of hope I had seen fade.

(Hmm, to make the impact of magic and sword attacks on the opponent unavoidable... That sounds too convenient...)

I recalled my past life's memories, anime, and manga knowledge, and an image suddenly came to mind.

"Maybe we can do it."

"Hmm, that sounds very interesting."

Karis senior listened with great interest to my mutterings.

"From here on, it's just between us. Those who are connected to the opponents, please excuse yourselves."

I smiled and pulled Saffina away from Karis senior.

"You're being cold, Miss Mary. Well, it's to be expected. In that case, we'll take our leave. We have other things to do, you know."

Karis senior walked over to Alice senior with a bright smile. After a few minutes of conversation, Alice senior looked extremely displeased and returned to her book. Then, Karis senior, with a bright smile, took the book and left the room, with Alice senior hurriedly chasing after him.

"Now, Saffina, I have a question."

"Yes, what is it?"

"How many patterns are there for attacking a person?"

"Attacking patterns? Hmm..."

Saffina thought for a moment and lightly slashed the air with her sword.

"Eight directions of slashing, plus a thrust, making it about nine in total, I guess?"

"Right, so what would happen if you received almost all of them at once?"

"Huh? Nine directions at once? That would be impossible to avoid and would leave no room for defense."

"Exactly, that's what we'll do!"

I clenched my fist and declared it loudly.

(Well, I borrowed a sword technique from a certain manga. I might be able to do it alone, but if I did, I would stand out too much. We need to work together to pull it off.)

A few moments of silence.

"Wh-What? Can you really do that? I don't have enough arms!"

Saffina, shocked by my words, made a wild statement.

"Saffina, you used acceleration magic to perform a double attack during the undead incident, right? Can't we elevate that?"

"Using acceleration magic to make attacks simultaneous? It's not impossible, but it's still too difficult to do nine directions almost simultaneously."

"Can a double attack become a quadruple attack without magic?"

"Yes... theoretically. But, five more is a bit much."

"Don't worry. I'll cover the rest with my magic."

"Huh? Y-You mean, you're going to cast five consecutive sword magic attacks simultaneously?"

"Yes, that's right. Since Saffina is trying to do something unreasonable, I have to do something unreasonable too."

I spoke with confidence, and Saffina stared at me with a blank expression.

(Can I really do this? Just casting magic consecutively, anyone can do that, right?)

"Look, Saffina, you used magic consecutively during the martial arts tournament, right? So, it's fine. Just be careful not to run out of magic power."

"Yes, that's true."

"The key is that our four attacks and my five attacks must hit simultaneously. If they're off, they can be defended individually. So, I'll cast the sword magic, and Saffina will approach the opponent to synchronize the impact, creating a cross."

"I'll do my best!"

I was a bit worried about saying something unreasonable, but seeing Saffina's enthusiasm, I felt a bit more at ease.

"Let's call it the Nine Blade Cross!"

"Wow!"

Even though we haven't even created it yet, I named it, and Saffina's excitement rose, her cheeks flushing as she exclaimed.

"Alright, now that we've decided, let's start practicing!"

We began practicing individually.

"Alright, here we go."

I prepared to cast magic, with a target a few meters in front of me.

"Sonic Blade! Sonic Blade! Sonic Blade! Sonic Blade! Sonic Blade!"

In response to my powerful words, air blades flew toward the target at equal intervals.

"Amazing, Miss. Casting five magic spells at once is impressive."

Tutte, who was watching, praised me, but I had a difficult expression.

"That's not it. This is just consecutive magic. It's not what I imagined."

I had just cast magic five times, not five spells at once. I recalled a scene from a certain manga where a character cast flame magic from each of their five fingers simultaneously.

"Hehehe, these fingertips are filled with the cutting magic, Sonic Blade. One, two, three..."

I held out my right hand toward the target, with an evil smile like a demon lord, and raised my fingers one by one, imagining the magic accumulating on each fingertip.

"Yah!"

The Sonic Blades flew off in random directions halfway through.

"Are you okay, Miss!"

I lost control of the magic and fell on my butt, and Tutte rushed over in a panic.

"I'm fine, I'm fine."

I chuckled and waved my hand to stop Tutte.

(Ugh... This is difficult. It requires a solid image and a lot of concentration. If I get distracted even a little, they fly off in random directions. Ugh, I thought it would be easy, but I didn't expect mental strength to be so important.)

I, who usually give up easily, was about to lose heart after a few minutes.

"Saffina, about what we talked about earlier..."

I looked at Saffina, who was practicing alone, and was about to complain, but I was silenced by her serious and hardworking expression.

(You idiot, Mary. Just because you can't do it, you're ready to give up? No, you need to work hard, like Saffina.)

I lightly tapped my head to scold myself. Reflecting on it, I might have unconsciously avoided hard work because I could easily learn things with the cheat abilities given by God.

(Thinking about it, even when I was conserving power, I relied on Tutte and didn't try to work hard. No, no, I need to get serious.)

"First, I need to improve my concentration. I have to train it! Alright, let's do this!"

I shouted to boost my morale.

And I didn't realize that this magic, which I was using as a reference, was actually a fairly powerful spell in the world of that manga...

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