「Now then, I’m going to attack next, okay?」
Eleonora-neesan approaches me while smiling boldly. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
As far as the rules are concerned, there are no close-quarter attacks or twisting techniques around your opponent, so the fear of not knowing what she will do is escaping from inside me.
When I look in Eric’s direction wanting to ask for help, there is still an intense battle ongoing over there, and it’s really not a situation where I can expect to be helped.
The only thing I have left to survive is to use magic here.
So I take some distance from Eleonora-neesan by backstepping and preparing myself.
Then, Eleonora-neesan dash forward and shortened our distance, not letting me get away. Of course, I expected that to happen, and so I quickly cast Water magic.
Then I sent them toward the approaching Eleonora-neesan after I make five water balls in my surroundings.
As expected, even Eleonora-neesan was surprised at this, she stepped on the brake and take evasive action.
「You! You used magic!」
「I didn’t say we can’t use magic though」
「I knew it! Then I will use a wooden sword!」
「Wait a minute. This is a water-splashing game, you know? So how can you think of using a wooden sword!?」
This is a water-splashing game so trying to win using Water magic is still understandable. At any rate, using Water magic to manipulate water is the most efficient so of course, it’s natural for me to use them. However, I think a wooden sword - who has nothing to do with a water-splashing game - is a different matter altogether. I think a wooden sword is too unrelated to a water-splashing game. That’s a weapon you know, a weapon.
「I’m just using what I’m good at, just like you using what you’re good at!」
Eleonora-neesan wields the wooden sword on her hips while making such an absurd claim.
I can understand Eleonora-neesan’s complaint, but I can’t accept it.
To begin with, even though a close-quarters fight is prohibited, how can you make the opponent give up when you use something like a wooden sword?
No, when each of us is getting desperate then it’s also doubtful whether the rules can be kept or not.
In any case, it’s dangerous to let Eleonora-neesan approach me.
I cast Water magic, and make ten water balls float around me.
And then, I launched five of them toward Eleonora-neesan and the rest toward Luna-san.
「Luna! The attacks also went there!」
「……magic」
Noticing the approaching water balls due to Eleonora-neesan’s voice, Luna-san moves away from Eric as she takes a large distance from him. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
And then, the battle was interrupted and Eric quickly rushed toward me.
「Alfried!」
「We’ll first take Luna-san down. I will corner her with magic while you bring her down」
「Leave it to me!」
Perhaps my strategy was conveyed to Eric from only such a small exchange, he left from my side and wait for a chance to attack Luna-san.
「Hm, such slow-moving water balls will not be able to hit me」
Eleonora-neesan scornfully laughs as she easily avoids the five water balls that flew straight at her.
Oh my, do you think so Eleonora-neesan? In that case, I’m gonna change that perception of yours.
When I move my finger, the water balls being avoided by Eleonora-neesan changed their trajectory.
「*gasp*!! It’s chasing after me!」
Maybe she was surprised that the water balls are suddenly chasing her, Eleonora-neesan forcefully dash away from that place. And the water balls also increase their speed, chasing after her determinedly.
As expected from Eleonora-neesan, despite this being the sea, she runs at a speed comparable to when she’s on the ground.
I was confident in my magic control, but this is the first time I move them at such speed.
And due to that, the water balls look like they’re going to be left behind every time Eleonora-neesan changes her direction left and right, but I’m patient. It’s fine if it doesn’t hit her, as long as I can keep them stuck close behind her I can pressure her.
As the water balls are chasing after Eleonora-neesan, on the other side the rest of the water balls also continue to keep chasing Luna-san. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
「……can’t shake them off」
Luna-san doesn’t have the explosive speed and sharp turn like Eleonora-neesan, so she’s easy to chase after.
But, the water balls are being dodged as she moves just a little more flexibly and controls her body.
Well, it’s precisely because she’s Eleonora-neesan’s friend that her physical ability is abnormally high.
Of course, I can bring her down if I were to focus on only attacking Luna-san, but this is teamwork.
Eric is waiting for a chance to attack Luna-san so I’ll exhaust her while continuing to pressure her.
No matter how fast she can move, this is the sea after all so she will feel the wave’s resistance. So it must be exhausting if she kept moving around.
「Haaa!」
As I was thinking about such a thing about Luna-san, I saw Eleonora-neesan cutting the water balls that were chasing after her while running.
The water balls that were put together with magic power are falling but I immediately use my magic power to take control of them and recreate it right away. They then become water balls again and chase after Eleonora-neesan.
「Then I will aim for you!」
Perhaps she’s thinking of using the time lag before the water balls are recreated so she kicks the seawater.
A 'shell' that is much faster and with more mass compared to when she defeated Sylvio-niisan is flying toward me.
However, since it’s water then it’s easy to deal with. I wrap the flying seawater with my magic power.
Just doing that makes the seawater come under my control.
And then, I send it flying toward Eleonora-neesan as though to return it.
「Mou! So troublesome! This is because you are skillfully using your magic so pointlessly」
And then, Eleonora-neesan takes a considerable step back and evades it.
And I make the shell chase after her just like the water balls.
Yosh, I manage to make Eleonora-neesan busy now it’s Luna-san’s turn in this spare moment.
I create new water balls and send them flying toward Luna-san.
「……that’s weird. You normally can move them like this with such numbers」
I guess she thought that it is naturally tough to move five to ten magic like this, Luna-san says with a strained-seeming tone. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
And I launch the water balls toward her face as if showering her with them.
Fufufu, at first glance they are just harmless-looking water balls, but as long as they stick to the opponent’s face, they can make the opponents have difficulty in breathing.
This is still within the limit of the rules I established, and it is possible to surrender to this. Though whether or not I can hear the opponent surrender or not is not guaranteed.
「……kuuh」
Perhaps she understood my intention and dislike the fact that her face was being aimed, Luna-san dives underwater and escapes the water balls that comes flying toward her as though encircling her.
「Eric!」
「I know!」
Eric immediately replies when I call out.
Seeing through my planned tactics, Eric was lying in wait in front of Luna-san as she broke free from the encirclement.
「Eat this aneue!」
Eric strongly kicks up the seawater. Then, the water completely hit Luna-san’s face while she’s taking evasive action and can’t escape from it.
She lets out a small groan and falls over to the sea.
「I did it! I defeated my aneue, Alfried!」
「Idiot! Eric! Don’t let your guard down!」
Having a bad feeling about Eric when he raised a flag, I shout and warn him.
「Wha――buaah!?」
And then, seawater comes flying in and hit Eric directly in the face with an unstoppable speed.
Eric is blown away and hit the water's surface two, three times.
Fearfully looking toward the direction the water came flying from, I saw Eleonora-neesan with an after-swinging posture with her wooden sword. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
「As expected, using a wooden sword is better than kicking them with your feet」
What was that just now? Did she just use her wooden sword to scoop out the seawater and sent it flying? I don’t understand.
It was so fast and I didn’t have the time to take the seawater under my control with Water magic.....
Darn it, I guess she shook off from the pursuit of the water balls while I was preoccupied with Luna-san.
I was the one who let my guard down.
「This is bad, Eric. Stand up!?」
「................」
Even when I call out to him while looking at him, Eric only floats on the water.
It seems like this guy is already down. Sylvio-niisan and then Eric, were my allies so unreliable?
No, it’s just that Eleonora-neesan’s attack power was strange.....
「……cough, cough」
Perhaps water entered her nose because of Eric’s previous attack, Luna-san is coughing heavily.
She didn’t say that she surrender, but she probably wouldn’t be able to move immediately.
If that’s the case, what I should do now is to deal with neesan in front of me and beat her quickly. If I spend too much time dealing with her, then Luna-san will recover and it is likely that she will participate in the match.
I swiftly manipulate the seawater under Eleonora-neesan’s feet and form hands out of them.
I extend it to her legs trying to restrict her movements as it is, but perhaps she’s quick to catch on, Eleonora-neesan immediately starts running and heads toward me.
Nevertheless, I still continue to make hands of water in her direction of movement.
However, because the speed of Eleonora-neesan’s running is too fast, the hands of water can only grab at empty air. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
「Che, then how about this!」
Catching the nimbly moving opponent is restricted by the wide range.
So I raised the water surface in front of Eleonora-neesan.
The seawater where Eleonora-neesan is located is sent up high. In the previous snowball fight, I managed to obtain a victory by bringing our fight up high.
So I should be able to see my chance of winning if I drive her to a high place right now, just like back then.
Hahaha, rise up high into the sky along with the seawater.
Or so I thought, but Eleonora-neesan doesn’t soar up high in the sky.
As I stare at the water while wondering about it, I suddenly realized that there is a small shadow moving in the depths of the water.
「Nn?」
When I squint my eyes to make sure of what that is, the water suddenly split and I can hear the sound of wind *hyuun*.
My intuition’s alarm bell is sending me violent warning sounds, so I hurriedly jump out of the way from there as the place where I was got split open until the ground is exposed.
「Hiiii!」
The impact from that attack went past to the back for dozens of meters, and as if the seawater recalled it, the water start returning to how it was originally.
To me, this is the first time I saw the seawater being split in front of me like that you know.
「I can cut water anyway」
Eleonora-neesan says while smiling fearlessly as I was looking at that in blank amazement.
Despite being in a place overflowing with seawater and in a field where it’s advantageous for me, she’s really a monster that can’t be beaten.
While I’m shuddering at Eleonora-neesan’s irrational’s strength, I saw a large amount of water that was launched above falling all at once. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
Un? If I think about it, such an amount of water falling would be bad, right?
As I think about such a thing while staring blankly at the mass of water, a large amount of water fell in front of my eyes.
Gaining energy from such an altitude, not only did the seawater make a water splash like a detonating explosion, but it also caused a tsunami.
「Uooh! Dangerous!」
「Wa, wait what!?」
Teleport! ......can’t do! A lot of people will be able to see it if I use that here.
I won’t be able to make it in time even using Water magic to deal with this mass of water.
I - who was at a loss after judging the situation - and Eleonora-neesan - who doesn’t understand the phenomenon known as a tsunami - was confused and got swallowed by the waves――but that didn’t happen.
「E, eh?」
When I unconsciously opened my eyes a little, the tsunami in front of me stood still as if time had stopped.
Is it due to someone’s control of Water magic?
When I trace the magic power and turn around, I saw Elna-kaasan with an extremely amazed expression on her face.
「Haa.....playing a water-splashing game in the sea is fine, but you’re all going too far. You are about to spoil the lunch on the beach, you know」
「「I, I’m sorry」」
It was a scene where we finally get to see Elna-kaasan looking like a magician after a long time, but the last reason she said was really Elna-kaasan-ish.
「Now then, I’m going to attack next, okay?」
Eleonora-neesan approaches me while smiling boldly. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
As far as the rules are concerned, there are no close-quarter attacks or twisting techniques around your opponent, so the fear of not knowing what she will do is escaping from inside me.
When I look in Eric’s direction wanting to ask for help, there is still an intense battle ongoing over there, and it’s really not a situation where I can expect to be helped.
The only thing I have left to survive is to use magic here.
So I take some distance from Eleonora-neesan by backstepping and preparing myself.
Then, Eleonora-neesan dash forward and shortened our distance, not letting me get away. Of course, I expected that to happen, and so I quickly cast Water magic.
Then I sent them toward the approaching Eleonora-neesan after I make five water balls in my surroundings.
As expected, even Eleonora-neesan was surprised at this, she stepped on the brake and take evasive action.
「You! You used magic!」
「I didn’t say we can’t use magic though」
「I knew it! Then I will use a wooden sword!」
「Wait a minute. This is a water-splashing game, you know? So how can you think of using a wooden sword!?」
This is a water-splashing game so trying to win using Water magic is still understandable. At any rate, using Water magic to manipulate water is the most efficient so of course, it’s natural for me to use them. However, I think a wooden sword - who has nothing to do with a water-splashing game - is a different matter altogether. I think a wooden sword is too unrelated to a water-splashing game. That’s a weapon you know, a weapon.
「I’m just using what I’m good at, just like you using what you’re good at!」
Eleonora-neesan wields the wooden sword on her hips while making such an absurd claim.
I can understand Eleonora-neesan’s complaint, but I can’t accept it.
To begin with, even though a close-quarters fight is prohibited, how can you make the opponent give up when you use something like a wooden sword?
No, when each of us is getting desperate then it’s also doubtful whether the rules can be kept or not.
In any case, it’s dangerous to let Eleonora-neesan approach me.
I cast Water magic, and make ten water balls float around me.
And then, I launched five of them toward Eleonora-neesan and the rest toward Luna-san.
「Luna! The attacks also went there!」
「……magic」
Noticing the approaching water balls due to Eleonora-neesan’s voice, Luna-san moves away from Eric as she takes a large distance from him. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
And then, the battle was interrupted and Eric quickly rushed toward me.
「Alfried!」
「We’ll first take Luna-san down. I will corner her with magic while you bring her down」
「Leave it to me!」
Perhaps my strategy was conveyed to Eric from only such a small exchange, he left from my side and wait for a chance to attack Luna-san.
「Hm, such slow-moving water balls will not be able to hit me」
Eleonora-neesan scornfully laughs as she easily avoids the five water balls that flew straight at her.
Oh my, do you think so Eleonora-neesan? In that case, I’m gonna change that perception of yours.
When I move my finger, the water balls being avoided by Eleonora-neesan changed their trajectory.
「*gasp*!! It’s chasing after me!」
Maybe she was surprised that the water balls are suddenly chasing her, Eleonora-neesan forcefully dash away from that place. And the water balls also increase their speed, chasing after her determinedly.
As expected from Eleonora-neesan, despite this being the sea, she runs at a speed comparable to when she’s on the ground.
I was confident in my magic control, but this is the first time I move them at such speed.
And due to that, the water balls look like they’re going to be left behind every time Eleonora-neesan changes her direction left and right, but I’m patient. It’s fine if it doesn’t hit her, as long as I can keep them stuck close behind her I can pressure her.
As the water balls are chasing after Eleonora-neesan, on the other side the rest of the water balls also continue to keep chasing Luna-san. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
「……can’t shake them off」
Luna-san doesn’t have the explosive speed and sharp turn like Eleonora-neesan, so she’s easy to chase after.
But, the water balls are being dodged as she moves just a little more flexibly and controls her body.
Well, it’s precisely because she’s Eleonora-neesan’s friend that her physical ability is abnormally high.
Of course, I can bring her down if I were to focus on only attacking Luna-san, but this is teamwork.
Eric is waiting for a chance to attack Luna-san so I’ll exhaust her while continuing to pressure her.
No matter how fast she can move, this is the sea after all so she will feel the wave’s resistance. So it must be exhausting if she kept moving around.
「Haaa!」
As I was thinking about such a thing about Luna-san, I saw Eleonora-neesan cutting the water balls that were chasing after her while running.
The water balls that were put together with magic power are falling but I immediately use my magic power to take control of them and recreate it right away. They then become water balls again and chase after Eleonora-neesan.
「Then I will aim for you!」
Perhaps she’s thinking of using the time lag before the water balls are recreated so she kicks the seawater.
A 'shell' that is much faster and with more mass compared to when she defeated Sylvio-niisan is flying toward me.
However, since it’s water then it’s easy to deal with. I wrap the flying seawater with my magic power.
Just doing that makes the seawater come under my control.
And then, I send it flying toward Eleonora-neesan as though to return it.
「Mou! So troublesome! This is because you are skillfully using your magic so pointlessly」
And then, Eleonora-neesan takes a considerable step back and evades it.
And I make the shell chase after her just like the water balls.
Yosh, I manage to make Eleonora-neesan busy now it’s Luna-san’s turn in this spare moment.
I create new water balls and send them flying toward Luna-san.
「……that’s weird. You normally can move them like this with such numbers」
I guess she thought that it is naturally tough to move five to ten magic like this, Luna-san says with a strained-seeming tone. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
And I launch the water balls toward her face as if showering her with them.
Fufufu, at first glance they are just harmless-looking water balls, but as long as they stick to the opponent’s face, they can make the opponents have difficulty in breathing.
This is still within the limit of the rules I established, and it is possible to surrender to this. Though whether or not I can hear the opponent surrender or not is not guaranteed.
「……kuuh」
Perhaps she understood my intention and dislike the fact that her face was being aimed, Luna-san dives underwater and escapes the water balls that comes flying toward her as though encircling her.
「Eric!」
「I know!」
Eric immediately replies when I call out.
Seeing through my planned tactics, Eric was lying in wait in front of Luna-san as she broke free from the encirclement.
「Eat this aneue!」
Eric strongly kicks up the seawater. Then, the water completely hit Luna-san’s face while she’s taking evasive action and can’t escape from it.
She lets out a small groan and falls over to the sea.
「I did it! I defeated my aneue, Alfried!」
「Idiot! Eric! Don’t let your guard down!」
Having a bad feeling about Eric when he raised a flag, I shout and warn him.
「Wha――buaah!?」
And then, seawater comes flying in and hit Eric directly in the face with an unstoppable speed.
Eric is blown away and hit the water's surface two, three times.
Fearfully looking toward the direction the water came flying from, I saw Eleonora-neesan with an after-swinging posture with her wooden sword. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
「As expected, using a wooden sword is better than kicking them with your feet」
What was that just now? Did she just use her wooden sword to scoop out the seawater and sent it flying? I don’t understand.
It was so fast and I didn’t have the time to take the seawater under my control with Water magic.....
Darn it, I guess she shook off from the pursuit of the water balls while I was preoccupied with Luna-san.
I was the one who let my guard down.
「This is bad, Eric. Stand up!?」
「................」
Even when I call out to him while looking at him, Eric only floats on the water.
It seems like this guy is already down. Sylvio-niisan and then Eric, were my allies so unreliable?
No, it’s just that Eleonora-neesan’s attack power was strange.....
「……cough, cough」
Perhaps water entered her nose because of Eric’s previous attack, Luna-san is coughing heavily.
She didn’t say that she surrender, but she probably wouldn’t be able to move immediately.
If that’s the case, what I should do now is to deal with neesan in front of me and beat her quickly. If I spend too much time dealing with her, then Luna-san will recover and it is likely that she will participate in the match.
I swiftly manipulate the seawater under Eleonora-neesan’s feet and form hands out of them.
I extend it to her legs trying to restrict her movements as it is, but perhaps she’s quick to catch on, Eleonora-neesan immediately starts running and heads toward me.
Nevertheless, I still continue to make hands of water in her direction of movement.
However, because the speed of Eleonora-neesan’s running is too fast, the hands of water can only grab at empty air. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
「Che, then how about this!」
Catching the nimbly moving opponent is restricted by the wide range.
So I raised the water surface in front of Eleonora-neesan.
The seawater where Eleonora-neesan is located is sent up high. In the previous snowball fight, I managed to obtain a victory by bringing our fight up high.
So I should be able to see my chance of winning if I drive her to a high place right now, just like back then.
Hahaha, rise up high into the sky along with the seawater.
Or so I thought, but Eleonora-neesan doesn’t soar up high in the sky.
As I stare at the water while wondering about it, I suddenly realized that there is a small shadow moving in the depths of the water.
「Nn?」
When I squint my eyes to make sure of what that is, the water suddenly split and I can hear the sound of wind *hyuun*.
My intuition’s alarm bell is sending me violent warning sounds, so I hurriedly jump out of the way from there as the place where I was got split open until the ground is exposed.
「Hiiii!」
The impact from that attack went past to the back for dozens of meters, and as if the seawater recalled it, the water start returning to how it was originally.
To me, this is the first time I saw the seawater being split in front of me like that you know.
「I can cut water anyway」
Eleonora-neesan says while smiling fearlessly as I was looking at that in blank amazement.
Despite being in a place overflowing with seawater and in a field where it’s advantageous for me, she’s really a monster that can’t be beaten.
While I’m shuddering at Eleonora-neesan’s irrational’s strength, I saw a large amount of water that was launched above falling all at once. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
Un? If I think about it, such an amount of water falling would be bad, right?
As I think about such a thing while staring blankly at the mass of water, a large amount of water fell in front of my eyes.
Gaining energy from such an altitude, not only did the seawater make a water splash like a detonating explosion, but it also caused a tsunami.
「Uooh! Dangerous!」
「Wa, wait what!?」
Teleport! ......can’t do! A lot of people will be able to see it if I use that here.
I won’t be able to make it in time even using Water magic to deal with this mass of water.
I - who was at a loss after judging the situation - and Eleonora-neesan - who doesn’t understand the phenomenon known as a tsunami - was confused and got swallowed by the waves――but that didn’t happen.
「E, eh?」
When I unconsciously opened my eyes a little, the tsunami in front of me stood still as if time had stopped.
Is it due to someone’s control of Water magic?
When I trace the magic power and turn around, I saw Elna-kaasan with an extremely amazed expression on her face.
「Haa.....playing a water-splashing game in the sea is fine, but you’re all going too far. You are about to spoil the lunch on the beach, you know」
「「I, I’m sorry」」
It was a scene where we finally get to see Elna-kaasan looking like a magician after a long time, but the last reason she said was really Elna-kaasan-ish.
