The Reincarnators
chapter 4: training with the duke knight

The morning had arrived at the elinstein residence, kazuto got up from the bed prepared by duke theodor and went towards the field to do his routine training, which he did, he himself had spoken to the duke this morning if he was going to leave immediately and asked kazuto to stay until lunch, the Duke himself gave kazuto permission to do the exercises he used to do in the morning along with the knights, starting with a warm-up and then light exercises such as push-ups 100 times, sit up 100, squad 100 times, then after that surround the field 5 times, it is a training session that is usually done by kstaria at the residence of elinstein.

And after they finished training, they gathered on the field to do match practice, kazuto also took part in the match practice because kazuto also took their training so that he was in the middle of the arena competing with one of the knights who seemed to show his displeasure with the presence kazuto had since followed their training and pointed his spear at him, trying to get something out of him.

"I heard from the captain that if you saved the young lady of carnatia from the goblin attack, I was honestly impressed that the village boy who had just come out of the village could go this far, until you get the attention of the duke himself, but listen this world is not a place for weak people, if you are not strong enough then you will be devoured do you understand that, you understand that, maybe you're lucky to win, but what about tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, are you sure you won't die of your helplessness," he said he intended to provoke Kazuto with his sharp and insulting words, but Kazuto remained silent and did nothing until the referee gave a premonition to begin with.

"Still not giving a reply well, well anyway in this place I intend to show you where you should be," it was clear that when the referee of their fight gave a sign by lowering his hand to start the fight, kazuto then ran towards the knight quickly carrying the thin sword in his hand and attacked the knight who was doing battle training with him.

At that time the knight tried to thrust his spear into the left abdomen of the kazuto before he managed to approach it, but Kazuto used his sword to move the direction of his attack, then give a slash to the knight but in an instant the knight immediately took his spear and resisted the kazuto attack that made their weapons hit each other and when they stared at each other for some time the second until they jumped backwards took some distance to start the next attack.

Whereas in other knight spots, or those who watched the game were quite impressed because there was a 13-year-old boy who had quite great combat experience, "his movements were definitely not amateur movements, he said, he made the redith get a hard time, coupled with his calm nature towards the agent and provocation was indeed worthy of praise," said one of the knights who sat down and saw the fight together with a white-haired man with a short hairstyle and mustache who joined his beard who was wearing white armor and robes, "what do you think, captain, ?" tanyakanya.

"Honestly speaking, if the one he was fighting was another knight then it was likely that he would have a bit of difficulty, reth was the type of person who liked to belittle others, not only that he also hated commoners because it was different from him who came from the viscount family, he also hated commoners, therefore he cannot accept the fact that a village boy without any status gets special treatment from the duke himself" the captain said, duke theodor was a very great man because not only was he a famous magician but he was one of the nobles who managed to obtain the title of duke at such a young age, which made many people admire him.

Not only among the nobles but also the commoners, because of his generous nature and always helping and protecting them from danger, getting the duke's attention was very easy, but arousing his interest was very difficult, because of that, Redith may be upset that he is not necessarily angry because the boy out of nowhere not only gets the attention of the duke but also gets his interest to tell him to stay temporarily in his house, whereas he himself had done various things to gain his interest just to be ignored by her.

Then the knight chief looked back at their fight and saw with interest the kazuto sword moves that did not take any style, he had seen many sword fighters in his life as well as their fighting style, he had seen, and he himself can tell that kazuto fighting style is the fighting style that is obtained after the fight many times and at this time, this man knew that Kazuto could not win against the redith because even though the redith had a bad attitude but he had the strength and position to support it, it was a bad one, then when that reedith was enough with the kazuto resistance and put his spear in front of him and made the horses that when it was the spear he was holding suddenly flowed by a kind of dark blue aura.

Seeing that the knight's head stood up from his seat and walked leisurely towards them with his sword which he was about to take out of his sword sheath, "eat you," the redith shouted that launched a spear attack that was coated with aura but in the instant the attack was thrown in the other direction, the redith and kazuto saw the person who moved the projection from the attack, and in that instant, they saw the person who moved the projection from the attack, he was the head knight who put back his sword and walked towards the redith with an extremely intimidating aura.

"Redith, it's a friendly sparring exercise, not a show to kill each other, which part don't you understand, ?" Asked the head knight who made the edith afraid, he could tolerate kazuto because he was just a young boy who had just taken their training, he said, but what he can't tolerate is the attitude of the redith who tries to hurt kazuto and make elinstein's surname tainted because of his demeanor, after all this was done he had to immediately talk to the duke regarding the redith attitude to his guests.

"I'm sorry for my men's mistakes, I'll make sure to discipline them" said the chief knight, who was surprised at what Kazuto did, he raised his sword towards the knight's head and intended to train a match against him in exchange for his fight against the redith, and since from the beginning this was a redith mistake that was subordinate to him then the knight chief had no choice but to accept his challenge, and he raised his sword as a sign if he accepted his challenge.

At that time the kazuto went forward and then gave a consecutive attack to the knight's head but he easily used only one hand to resist the attack while the other hand was on his back, clearly feeling not threatened by kazuto and indirectly showing the difference between them, "young man you're pretty good, but that's still not enough" he said that pressing the sword belonging to Kazuto that made him pushed so as to make himself lose balance.

After kazuto regained his footing he again attacked the knight's head only to be pushed back with a pressure stronger than before, but the kazuto continued to attack from all directions but easily the knight's head stopped / blocking his attacks perfectly thus making kazuto retreat, but Kazuto still insisted on fighting because even though this was just a battle drill this was also an opportunity for him to fight one-on-one against the knight leader in the residence of a duke.

"You're pretty good, I have to admit, the attack and the speed you have is hard for a kid your age to achieve, but to be able to beat an opponent like me you need more than that," he said that at that time he pointed his sword towards the ugliness Kazuto with some injuries on his body as it continued to fall.

"The good work of the young man" he said, turning his gaze toward the other knights, "what are you doing, quickly call the doctor," shouted the head of the knight who made the others run immediately towards the doctor in the duke's residence,

"B-well," then they ran as hard as they could to the pharmacy room and took the doctor there and took him to the field to see the state of Kazuto.

"How are things, Doc, ?" Ask one of the knights there, "hm, this is just a symptom of running out of nowhere, it's not a serious thing he just forced himself," he said, trying to comfort the other knights, he recalled that if the young lady of carnatia often ran out of mana due to her practice in controlling magic, therefore he knew if the kazuto were in the same state, maybe about 2-3 hours he would wake up, "chief knight hector can you please explain what happened, ?" Ask the doctor who is curious about how kazuto can be this kind of malleability.

"Well, I'll explain" said he, who began to explain the beginning of their run to where they did the sparring exercises where the doctor had a hypothesis about what makes kazuto exhausted.

"It seems I've understood what happened to this child" said the doctor, who was scratching his head.

"Then what is it, ?" Ask one of the curious knights.

"He's still not used to using magic," he explained briefly, "initially I assumed that he was exhausted from running out of mana but what if the problem was not that but something else, therefore I asked about the incident that made all this happen and I finally got it, this child is still just entering the door to the world of magic, she said, it was not a rare thing that most magicians when first using magic would be careless and make various kinds of mistakes one of which was to use their mana excessively just as it happened to him," he explained that after that asked the knights to take him to the pharmacy room where the doctor would watch over him.

'The amount of magic he has, I didn't say this to them because I'm still not sure, but the number is at least equivalent to /more than what young lady because this duke is interested in him,' he thought that looking at Kazuto who was lying on the bed with a peaceful face.

A few hours after that kazuto started to open his eyes, then all he saw was a white roof, "oh you're up," he said, drawing closer to Kazuto, he had long wavy blonde hair, with her sea-blue eyes covered with glasses, "my name is olivia, the duke elinstein's residence doctor is happy to meet you kazuto yuki," he said.

"It's nice to meet you" said he who tried to lower his head but was immediately restrained by olivia.

"Don't do that" said Olivia, who then checked her eyes for hazuto, "wait a minute for kazuto" she said, after which her blue eyes turned green, then after that it returned to its usual eye color and nodded its head if the kazuto had fully recovered.

"Alright, you've recovered completely, but next time don't push yourself too much" said kazuto's olivia, "by the way what magic did you use, ?"olivia asked that made Kazuto confused because he only studied swordsmanship and the reason why he came to the capital early was to study magic.

"It's like you didn't realize it, okay, I'll tell you, '" said Olivia, who told me about what happened during the match practice she had with the knight's head, then on that day the duke told kazuto to stay another day to recover after what happened, kazuto himself could only comply because the master of this house had helped him and it would be impolite to refuse his offer.