vol 2 chapter 4 – I Took An Arrow In The Knee.

Plate armour, metal armour that covers the whole body. It’s the kind of armour you’d find in a rich man’s western home.

It is an expensive piece of armour that boasts overwhelming defensive power. It is a piece of armour that only knights and other members of the noble class can possess.

Why is there plate armour plate armour in such a small rural village?. If it’s just iron, it may be physically manageable, which has risen as you level up… But here is the fantasy world.

Mithril should also represent magic metal. The sheet metal armour plate armour in front of me had a dull, glowing black colour that I had never seen…

Was a man wearing sheet metal armour plate armour while making a noise smaller than I imagined?

The Knight? It’s a good idea to have a good idea of what you’re looking for. If he had been equipped with a tower shield, he could have been a wall tank like in MMORPGs, but he seems to be a knight.

Why a knight in the middle of nowhere? I thought about it, but I couldn’t help but think about it. There’s a knight right in front of you, sword at the ready.

This is not the same as the vigilantes in the countryside. I’m sure you’ll be able to understand why.

There is no gap in the appearance of holding a longsword. Unpleasant sweat flowed on my back.

Plate armour has high defensive power but is heavy, if possible I would like to bring it to endurance battle and take away physical strength, but this is an enemy land.

I don’t know when reinforcements will come. If you hit an arrow while fighting a knight, it will have the worst ending…

A short-term decisive battle is desirable. However, is it possible to have a short-term decisive battle with bare hands against a knight wearing plate armour plate armour?.

It seems that the Knight has no intention of setting himself up. I can’t move with my sword in my eyes.

Calm down and concentrate.

“Oh!”

He takes a karate breath to calm his heart rate. The distinctive sound of his breathing spooked the villagers, but the Knight didn’t move an inch.

The first thing to do is to observe. I went back to basics and decided to observe my opponent.

When I saw the Knight’s posture, I felt a little uncomfortable… I haven’t mastered swordsmanship, but the basics of martial arts are the same. What is this vague discomfort ….

It’s the position of the centre of gravity. I had a meniscus injury a long time ago. After a lengthy rehabilitation, I managed to get back to my old self. It’s still not perfect, and it still hurts a lot when it gets cold.

This Knight’s centre of gravity is similar to mine when I broke my knee. He may have retired from knighthood because of his injury.

It’s still a nuisance, but there’s a little bit of hope. The knee plays a vital role in both attack and defence.

They kick the ground. They transfer power from the feet to the upper body. They are absorbing the impact of an opponent’s attack. To make sudden changes of direction. Whether you are attacking or defending, you use the spring in your knee for everything.

Many athletes retire with broken knees. Many athletes retire with broken knees because they can no longer perform as well as they used to.

I’m sure this Knight is not perfect either. If we can exploit that, we can win, and there is hope for us.

But the knee, the knee, yeah, it’s a classic, isn’t it? You know, I got an arrow in my knee. ……

“Buh-hah.”

I remembered the template in the nervous tension. The Adventurer’s Guild advisor reminds me of a strong template in the past but received an arrow on my knee, and I think of a sloppy older man’s face in my brain and blow out.

Poke through that gap, a sharp thrust is projected toward the neck. I avoided it at the last minute, but the skin of my neck was thinly cut, and blood flowed.

At the same time, I was jumping into the other party’s pocket. There was a slight sharpness because the knee spring did not work.

If it had been a thrust from the full strength of the body, it would have pierced my throat and killed me.

The Knight was in the house in his armour and did not see me fight. He may have been watching me and thrust with the widest range of attack.

Even if he fights back, he can’t break the sheet metal armour plate armour’s defences with his bare hands. I’m sure you’ll agree.

Dive into the Knight’s pocket at once. The Knight was not particularly upset and was alert to the gaps in his armour, such as his knees, sides, and neck…

Even if you attack the place where the Knight is wary, you will only receive a painful counterattack… But my aim is not there.

While switching to the southpaw, turn back toward the opponent’s left foot… Catch the ankle of the left foot with both hands while rolling backwards with a colon.

Pulling your leg forward, push back his right knee with your left foot, and push his stomach with your right foot.

The left foot is scooped up, the right foot’s knee is cupped, and the stomach is pushed backwards with the foot. The Knight lost his balance after being hit in several places and was knocked down with a thud.

I scooped up the toe of his left foot and tucked it under his left armpit, squeezing his heel with my clutching arm.

The heel hold was complete. It’s called a heel hold, but it’s a knee hold. This Knight has a bad right knee, and now I’m going to destroy his left knee.

As a wise old man once said: “If you do a joint, you break it. If you master a joint, you break it immediately. As he squeezed his heels together, the sound of ligaments being destroyed came from his knee.

“Gya ah ah ah.”

No matter how strong the armour is, it does not increase the strength of the joints… I was worried whether the heel hold from complicated entry, which has no skill, unlike karate, would be decided well… I struggled a little, but the physical strengthening of the benefits of levelling up did a good job…

Wary of a counterattack with his longsword, he broke his knee and then quickly moved away. However, the Knight seemed to be in too much pain for that.

It’s not like the pain goes away when you’re up a level. It’s a bit pathetic that he did this to himself because he knows how desperate the Knight is now that his safe knee has been destroyed.

Falling sideways, holding the knee and turning behind the Knight who was moaning in pain, turning his arm around his neck. The neck is protected by armour, and it is not possible to strangle the neck with techniques such as naked tightening…

But it is possible to attack the joints of the neck.

With the arm turned under the neck, squeeze the Knight’s chin and turn it upwards… The Knight tried to resist, but he locked his arms around his torso…

With the Knight’s chin raised, twist it up with his shoulders. It’s like using your back muscles instead of your arms to twist it diagonally upwards…

The power disappeared from the Knight’s body with a clicking sound. I knew it as knowledge, but the day will come when I will break my neck and kill him…

You can’t just break a neck bone and die. It’s not a quick death, though it will result in paralysis. There is no hobby in tormenting someone who has no grudge against you.

It is necessary to twist and break them at once with a strong force, like severing a nerve. If you try to do it with your arms, it won’t work. You have to use your whole body, being aware of your back muscles.

The villagers looked at despair on their faces as their Knight, their last defence line, was killed.

“I have no use for anyone but the chief. If you don’t want to be involved in this, stay at home and be quiet.”

As soon as I said this, the villagers ran back to their houses like spiders.

“Hey, chief.”

“Hey, chief,” I said, “you can’t touch me, I’m the lord’s parent.”

There was a cracking sound, like a branch snapping.

“Oh, no!”

“Don’t say a word.”

The mayor’s screams echoed through the village as his fingers were broken.

“You! You’ve done this to me, you bastard!”

The village chief’s screams echoed through the village.

“You still don’t understand, chief, I told you not to say anything else.”

“I told you not to say anything.”

Three more times, the finger snaps.

“Oh my God, why? I did what you said.”

The village mayor said, messing up his face with tears.

“I told you not to say anything else, just nod if you understand. When did I tell you to speak?”

“Gimme!”

The chief, his face red with anger and humiliation, nodded his head.

“I want the money for the hobgoblins I killed, the materials, the equipment and the compensation for me. It’s my right.”

The chief said nothing.

“Oh, well, you’re welcome to speak, Mr Mayor, but you can only say “yes” or “I understand.”

“Yes, I understand.”

“I know you’re a bad person and you don’t keep your money anywhere but where you can see it. Take me to your house.”

After a few moments of silence, the chief nodded his head in agreement.

At the chief’s house, he received a bag of coins, which he believed to be the currency of this world or country. They were probably copper, silver and gold coins.

At first, the chief hid the gold coins. When I whispered to him, “If you break all your fingers, you will still have ten toes. When I whispered this to him, he simply brought it from his hiding place.

He also gave me some clothes that I could wear and other things that I would need for the journey.

Then I took the chief to the town square.

“Chief, this is the end of the compensation for the hobgoblins.”

The chief looked relieved.

“He looked relieved: “Now I’ll have to pay for trying to kill me.”

The chief’s face turned pale from relief.

“I feel sorry for you that you had to kill me in front of my family, so I’ll settle it here.”

“Don’t be silly! You’ve killed my son, you’ve ruined my village, you’ve taken my money and it’s still not enough!”

I glared at the chief and said.

“I glared at the chief and said: “You started this, chief. You took the hobgoblin from me. You tried to kill me.”

“My son had nothing to do with it!”

“It was your son who attacked me. I told you it was self-defence. We could have talked about it afterwards: ……. You’re the one who wanted to kill each other.”

“Why? Why should I be killed?”

“You want to kill people and not the other way around. Give it up.”

“No, I don’t want to die. I don’t want to die, I don’t want to die. If she doesn’t heal you, the others are useless. Come on, villagers, help me. I’m not going to die here. Come on, someone! Somebody come and save me!”

No matter how hard the chief shouted, none of the villagers came to his aid.

“No one came to help him. Thanks to me, this village has grown. It is thanks to me that this village has grown, and it is thanks to me that you useless people are still alive, you bastards! Bastards! I’ll curse you! I’ll make sure you go to hell!”

The chief glared at me with eyes full of madness. I’m not sure what to make of it, but I’m sure it’s worth it. I slowly approached the chief of the village.

“Hell? I’m sorry, but I’m an atheist and I don’t believe in hell. What? I’ve actually met God, so there is a God, right? Well, there’s no way that that annoying God would be able to manage hell. So, I guess I don’t believe in hell after all.”

“What are you talking about, you madman? After all, you are a madman!”

I didn’t want to hear any more from the chief, so I swung my sword at his head. I’ll let you die the same way my son did. You and your son will live happily together in the hell you believe in.

There was no sign of the villagers coming out of their houses. I washed off the blood and mud in the well and put on the clothes that the chief had given me as compensation.

For the first time in my life, I wore something other than animal fur. He had probably spent over a year in furs and a waistcoat. It looks like linen, but I don’t know if they have linen in this world.

It’s not soft to the touch and a bit crumbly, but that’s no problem. Hello, civilization, goodbye wildlife. I’m sitting in front of the well, impressed, but I don’t have time for that now.

I went to the clinic where the village girl was. I took a deep breath in front of the clinic and knocked on the door. The door opened, and the village girl appeared.

“I’m ready for you, goblin.”

“Don’t you want to hear the result of my discussion with the village chief?”

“I heard the chief’s voice. ……”

“Right. ……”

Do you hate me for killing the villagers? The words were almost at the top of my throat. I swallowed the words.

“I’ll carry your bags, take as much as you can carry.”

“Are you sure? Don’t you have your own luggage, goblin?”

“We’ve got a base in the woods, but we’ve only got provisions.”

“Well, then, I’m sorry, but you’ll have to do.”

It would be good money to sell the villagers’ weapons and armour who fought against me.. Knight’s sheet metal armour plate armour.

It looks bulky, and above all, it feels different from being uprooted to that extent… I don’t think the villagers were just completely involved.

They didn’t stop me from getting killed, or their idiot sons from doing terrible things to the village girls. Maybe I was in a position where I couldn’t stop them.

But from my perspective and the point of view of the village girl, I was reluctant to agree with them and let them die. Unlike the village girl, I don’t see it as a favour.

I don’t actively want to kill them, but I want them to be a little bit unhappy. That’s what I think. My heart is smaller than a plastic bottle cap.

Still, I think it’s different from taking root. Selling knight equipment will cost villagers as much money to move to another village or town…

You may have a hard time as a stranger, but you may be able to make a living. The reality may not be so easy, but we don’t know that much.

It may be irresponsible, but that’s fine. This is not Japan. I have no family to bother me, no friends to care for me.

I’ve killed a man. If I think about it seriously, it might break my heart, so I decided not to think about it too much.

I’m going to be me and live in this world as I want to. That’s what I’ve decided.

As I was thinking about this, the village girl seemed to have finished choosing what she wanted me to carry.

“Hey, village girl.”

“Yes, Mr. Goblin?”

“I’ve got a lot of stuff to carry.”

“Yes, good luck with that.”

She’s got a good heart, after all.

Glossary

Breathing

A breathing technique unique to karate, with a characteristic breathing sound.

It is said to regulate the flow of chi.

The wild man’s interpretation is that it is a way of breathing to regulate the breath, release tension and get oxygen efficiently.

Heel Hold or Heel Hook

A type of ankle joint.

It is a dangerous technique that can easily be used to injure an athlete.

It is banned in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and many other sports and fighting organizations.

Naked choke or naked choke

This is a technique in which the arm is placed around the opponent’s neck, and the choke is applied.

There are many variations, such as choking the trachea or the carotid artery.

The basic technique is to choke the carotid artery to stop the blood flow to the brain and deprive consciousness.

It does not directly cut off the blood flow to the brain by squeezing the carotid artery but uses a biological response called the carotid sinus reflex.

The explanation is too long to go into here, so if you are interested, please search.