CHAPTER 39: CHAPTER 38 - HARD CHOICE DUEL

I really don’t know what’s going on at the moment.

After chatting with Elaina and escorting her to the female knight’s military tent, I had to experience a disaster where I had been challenged to a duel.

Generally, this is one of the main events within the Royal Academy.

A duel that upholds honor between Knight and other Knight.

That is, if I take classes and subjects about knighthood that are full of respect.

For now, I am just commoners who wants to answer a challenge from a female knight who serves as the Captain of the Female Knights.

By taking the sword thrown by her, I have avoided the situation where I would be considered a coward.

In this perverted and lewd eroge world, refusing a duel challenge from a woman is a cowardly act that will lower the respect status of the main character, who controlled by the player.

I could have refused the Female Knight Captain’s duel challenge. However, that would have resulted in a negative respect rating. As an NPC who can’t see the main character system controlled by the player, I needed to be careful not to gain negative respect.

It’s the same as me being lower than a human who has become a slave whose freedom has been taken away.

Between being a slave who ran away from answering a woman’s challenge to a duel or being a man who accepted a woman’s challenge, better to accept it. Even if I lost, it wouldn’t tarnish my dignity with a reduced respect status.

My hands immediately weighed the sword thrown towards me.

Somehow, this feels lighter than I imagined.

As an NPC who does not influence the main story of this world, I seem to be much weaker without using firearms.

Tap...

Tap...

After walking into the center of the fighting arena, my eyes were immediately filled with the sight of the naked bodies of the female knights who seemed to be completely naked on purpose to distract me while dueling with the Female Knight Captain.

"Good spirit, young man. Answering my invitation to a duel is the right move as a true man!" said the Female Knight Captain while shaking her large breasts that were much larger than the other women who were completely naked around me.

"I know my breasts are too big compared to my subordinates, please don’t lower their self-esteem as women just by the size of their breasts," continued the Female Knight Captain, who seemed to be able to read my mind easily.

"Honestly, I don’t think so," I replied as I positioned my body in front of her.

"Really? Usually, man agree with me on this one."

"I disagree. Whether it’s big breasts or small breasts, they’re all the same in my eyes. As long as she’s still a woman, then she deserves love and affection from a man like me."

"Pfffttt... call yourself a man after winning against me," said the Female Knight Captain, who suddenly took another sword in her left hand.

"..." Seeing the Female Knight Captain using dual swords, it left me speechless.

"Um, isn’t it a bit cheating to add another weapon before the duel even begins?" I asked, noticing the strangeness of this impending duel.

"What’s so strange? I’ve been a dual-sword user since the beginning. Using weapons in both my right and left hands is a natural thing because I’m an expert in this," said the Female Knight Captain while smiling mischievously at me, as if she was playing with me, who didn’t know anything about this.

"Well, as a doctor’s assistant, may I use the weapon I frequently use?" I asked the Knight Captain, shifting my sword from my right hand to my left.

"Scalpel?" the Female Knight Captain replied quickly.

With the mocking words of the Female Knight Captain, several of the naked female knights also laughed.

The laughter from their voices seemed to be demeaning my dignity as a man, and it seemed they were used to doing things like this to every innocent man.

Bullying the weak is indeed fun, especially with their quite skilled ability to bully a poor man who falls into their trap.

As the female knights around me burst out laughing, a voice coming from Elaina caught everyone’s attention.

Brruukkk...

Beside the dueling arena, Elaina had prepared several emergency stretchers ready to be transported to the medical tent.

"Elaina, what are you doing?"

"Preparing first aid for someone, who about to lose a duel?" the Female Knight Captain said mockingly at me.

Elaina didn’t answer the question and just smiled.

"I’m just preparing for the worst," Elaina replied with a smile at me.

Elaina’s reply made the other naked female knights around me smile and burst out laughing again.

"Pffttt... that’s so funny, Elaina. It’s so rare for you to be able to joke around like that."

"Alright, little man, I’ll give you a difficulty rating for the duel we’ll be having. Do you have any suggestions for a duel you’d like to have?" the Female Knight Captain asked me.

A rule regarding dueling was given to me.

This was a golden opportunity for me as I was in need of extra money to survive in the Royal Capital and enroll in the Royal Academy.

"Hmm... how about a duel to the death? The loser gets everything?" I said, causing the surrounding area to fall silent.

"..."

"..."

"..."

After a moment of silence, the Female Knight Captain in front of me felt sorry for me.

"It’s a shame, because you will die in this duel..."

"I have some future savings that I will use for marriage, you can have them if I get killed..." continued the Female Knight Captain while lowering her head.

"That’s good, I’ll be grateful for your death later..." I replied while raising my sword in my left hand.

Srrusshh...

As my left hand raised the sword aimed at her, the preparations for the duel to the death were complete. According to the mutually agreed-upon rules, I would receive all of her savings upon her death.

"What a poor man..."

"I feel sorry for him..."

"Can this duel to the death be stopped? I feel like this young man is handsome enough to be a male entertainer in a nightlife center..."

Several comments that hurt my pride soon followed, until one of the naked female knights stepped into the middle of the dueling arena.

"It seems both parties have agreed on the type of duel that will be held. I’m not sure if this is against the law or not, but there are certainly many witnesses here. Whatever happens, I will prevent either of you from killing the other," said the female knight who was naked and acting as if she were the judge in this duel.

"..." I fell silent and prepared the sword in my left hand in a defensive position.

"On the count of three, the duel will begin..."

"One..."

"Two..."

Before the third count started, the Female Knight Captain suddenly ran fast towards me and made me reflexively throw the sword in my left hand towards her.

"Three..."

After the count of three ended, a rigged duel began.

Without waiting for the count of three, the Female Knight Captain immediately sped towards me.

Whether it was the difference in level or strength between us, the speed of her body that shot towards me was faster than the movement of a short-distance runner on Earth.

My body suddenly felt a rapid adrenaline rush, which brought my brain into focus. My eyes began to see time slowing down, and my hand immediately pulled-out Hoshino.

Cttiikk...

Srraakk...

With fast speed and my focused eyes, I managed to lower the safety pin on Hoshino and pull the slide back, ready to fire at any time.

In a split second, I fired a random shot at the Female Knight Captain who was running fast towards me.

BAAANNGG!!

BAAANNGG!!

BAAANNGG!!

Several shots were fired at the naked body of Female Knight Captain.

Without wearing the thick armor that female knights often wear to fight monsters, it was a beautiful dream of a 9mm caliber bullet flying towards her.

Splaasshh!!

Spllasshh!!

Spllasshh!!

With a series of shots coming out of the end of Hoshino’s barrel, it managed to hit the body of the Female Knight Captain, who was completely naked.

Luckily, it happened after the count of three was finished, so this was a valid result of a duel witnessed by the female knights surrounding me.

Buugghhh...

Before the Female Knight Captain could make her sword attack on me, her completely naked body was on the ground with three gunshot wounds that riddled her body.

Praanngg...

Trraangg...

The two swords that the Female Knight Captain was holding fell beside her body, which was lying on the ground.

Her back showed the exit path of the three bullets that had managed to penetrate her, with her face still staring at the ground and still alive, she tried to get up to continue the duel that was taking place.

BAAANNGG!!

BAAANNGG!!

BAAANNGG!!

Out of respect for the duel, I fired a few bullets into her back.

She, who had fallen to the ground, groaned in pain after feeling the heat of the 9mm bullet that had just been fired from Hoshino’s barrel.

"Cough! Cough!"

The Female Knight Captain vomited blood from her mouth and tried to turn her body to show her face to me.

"W-Wait..."

"Y-You’re not serious about having a duel to the death, are you?"

"Cough! Cough!"

With blood pouring from her naked body and struggling to get up after receiving six bullets that pierced her body, the Female Knight Captain seemed to want to say something to me.

"I-I give up—"

BAAANNGG!!

Before the Female Knight Captain could finish her sentence, I aimed the tip of Hoshino’s barrel at her head and fired a shot that went straight through her head.

Spllaasshh!!

Blood spatter from the female knight captain immediately spread to the female knight who was judging this honorable duel.

Buugghhh...

Without consciousness and with a rapid death, the body of the Female Knight Captain collapsed on the ground.

Her head with a hole in it was a perfect sign of death for her.

"I win..."

"Thank you for your savings that you want to use for your wedding."

"It’s mine now..."

BAAANNGG!!

BAAANNGG!!

BAAANNGG!!

Aiming the tip of Hoshino’s barrel at her head and making sure the Female Knight Captain was truly dead, I smiled with satisfaction at this duel.

The sound of gunfire coming from Hoshino and the naked female knights seemed to have caught the attention of some people.

Especially with the presence of Doctor Portia and Yua Mikami, who know the sound of gunshots coming from Hoshino.

The shot that confirmed the death of the Female Knight Captain, it shattered the back of her head and nearly ruined her beautiful face.