Do you practice in the house?

I wouldn't do that. It's just a game. It's rock-paper-scissors pong.

　Brother Silvio, who came into my room, smiled briskly, "Right?

''If you can swing that sharply for fun, you should get serious about your training.

　Next to me as I get up, sister Elinora is saying something like that, but I'm through.

'It's a long name, but you can pretty much imagine it. The winner of the rock-paper-scissors is going to hit me with this stick and the loser is going to wear a bowl?

　Brother Silvio touched the handmade stick and bowl with interest.

　He understood me just by hearing my name.

'Yes, that's right. You should only aim at the head, you know. Do you want to try?

　Yes, if Brother Silvio and I fight here, we should be able to bring it up to Sister Elinora and Brother Silvio next.

　I've already pulled Elinora's head off, so I'm satisfied.

　All that's left to do is to manage to get them to fight first and then run away while they're fighting.

　That way, we can disappear naturally without anyone being suspicious.

　Confronting sister Elinora is not going to be a tricky thing.

　You're bound to get hit over and over again on the head with a stick. And that too with all your might.

　It was very convenient for me that Brother Silvio came at that time.

''Yeah, fine. Let's do it.



　That's why me and brother Silvio had to face off.

　We sit facing each other in the same way as before.

　Elinora sister is standing diagonally behind me for some reason.

''Speaking of which, where is this game going to end?''

　Now, let's get started, and then Brother Silvio's most important question was asked.

　When you think about it, I was playing this game without deciding on the conditions for victory.

　In other words, the game will continue until we both come to our senses.

　The confrontation between me and Elinora's sister, who had clobbered her head, couldn't have ended in a few times.

　If Brother Silvio hadn't walked by, it would have been done dozens of times until Sister Elinora was satisfied.

　What a close call. I am truly grateful to Master Silvio.

'Yes, I do. If you hit your opponent on the head three times, you win. There's no ducking.''

Yeah, okay.

I don't know what he's talking about, he just ducked. If we duck, I'll hit you instead of Silvio, okay?

　Sister Elinora, standing diagonally behind me, a towel in her hand, snaps like a whip. It looks like she's going to pull me from behind at any moment.

　I see, this sister is watching to make sure I don't duck.

　The sound of the towel ringing diagonally behind me is very frightening.

　I'm sure that if it hits you, it will be a painful clang or a thud.

Then I'm going to go, okay?

　I let out a signal, terrified from behind.

''Jahnke, pop!''

　I goofed.

　Brother Silvio, Choki.

　Okay, that's a first.

　Just like with sister Elinora, she pulled the stick back with a psychic as soon as she started moving.

　And with a flowing motion, she tried to swing the stick at brother Silvio's head.......but brother Silvio was already in a defensive stance with the bowl over his head.

''Wha, what!?''

　I stopped moving my body and shouted in surprise at the situation I hadn't expected.

　Ha, this guy is fast. You're covering the bowl like a turtle.

''........Is Silviobaria still alive and well?

You're right. Am I under the gun?

　You can make it in time if you're sister Elinora. You can tell that much just by shaking it up a bit.

'No, I just covered the bowl.

　Brother Silvio removes the bowl from his head with a bitter smile.

　I made a motion to raise the stick to test it, and he put it back on with uncanny speed.

''Hey, isn't that kind of no?''

　Brother Silvio glanced at his blue eyes and said in frustration.

　'You're a clam?

'Sorry, sorry, that was too fast, I just wanted to see what it was like. I won't do it again.

You don't want to do this because it's a surprise, okay?

　I put the stick on the floor and Brother Silvio resumed when he put the bowl on the floor.

''Ta-da, poppin'!''

　Me, Gu.

　Brother Silvio, par.

　This is bad, considering the speed of Brother Silvio's earlier defense, the speed at which he strikes me might be quite fast.

　I immediately reach for the bowl and bring it to my own head.

　If it's as fast as it was earlier, I wouldn't be surprised if the stick is almost there.

　I closed my eyes and frantically covered my head with the bowl.

　Did I make it in time?　Just as you think that, there's a passkey sound and a light smack in the bowl.

'What are you doing, Silvio? I would have had enough time to swing over and smack you now, okay?

　As soon as I opened my eyes, I heard Elinora sister's frustrated voice.

　Do you really want to see me get yanked that badly.......

''No, I still shook it pretty compactly, you know?

Swing it like this, like this!

　Elinora sister, as if to show you a sample, roll up the towel and wave it around.

'Huh?　Like this?

No!

　Imitating that, Brother Silvio also waved his stick, but apparently there was something different about it.

　Apparently, Brother Silvio seems to specialize only in defense. As expected of Silvio Barrier.

　Probably, this game........will be a long one.

　Will my strength run out and my defenses are breached first, or will I have to break through the Silvio Barrier first?

　In that case, I'm at a disadvantage.

　There's no way I'm going to be beaten by Brother Silvio, but if I lose, I might end up getting detention.

　Then the next opponent would be Sister Elinora........

　If you win, you will have the right to object to this. The loser will not be given such a right.

　In other words, this fight is not allowed to be lost.

'All right, I'll try to be as conscious as I can. I'll try to be as conscious as I can.

　While I was thinking about it, it seems that some sort of practice over there was over.

　Brother Silvio put his stick on the floor with a slightly tired look on his face.

''Alright, let's move on then, okay?''

"Boom, boom, boom!

　Me, par.

　Brother Silvio, Gu.

　Okay, now I'm going to take a shot.

　If the sharp Elinora sister sees me, she might be suspicious, but it can't be helped.

　I do the cheat of activating a psychic at a slightly distant position and pick up the stick.

　-- but brother Silvio was already covered with the bowl at that time.

''Nunn!　What's going on here?

　This is a cheat!　You can't beat him!

Didn't the stick move by itself just now?

　Behind me, sister Elinora bent down and made a quizzical noise.

　I tried to hide it by covering it with my hands as best I could, but her timing was so fast that she was suspicious.

　It might have looked to Sister Elinora's eyes as if the stick was being pulled back just before her hand reached it.

　We can go through it now.

　Father Nord and Mother Erna would notice it.

　I took that much risk and increased my speed, but my opponent was defending himself even faster than that.

''This!　This!

'Hahaha, I'm only going to hit you once.

　I slap him with a posse in frustration, but the other side knows that, too, and makes a conciliatory voice.

　I hate Brother Silvio's calm voice.

　It's time to stop pulling the sticks in this direction.

　This time, I'll attack from a different direction.

　In the resumed rock-paper-scissors game, I lost two in a row, but I managed to defend both of them.

Ja-jan-ken, knock, knock!

　I'm Choki.

　Brother Silvio, par.

　Finally, my offensive. I reach for the stick, and at the same time, I activate my psychic.

　This time the target is not a stick, but a bowl.

　I subtly move the bowl, which Brother Silvio is about to grab, and I move the bowl.

　Perhaps because the bowl has shifted, the bowl escapes from Brother Silvio's fingers.

　And then I slam the stick into Brother Silvio's head, which is now full of gaps.......!

　A good Spaaaaang echoes through the room.

'Lucky!'

　By saying this, you can give the impression that Brother Silvio has made a bon miss.

''I missed grabbing the bowl. Or rather, it's a plain pain........''

　Brother Silvio rubs his head while laughing haha. My conscience didn't hurt a little bit, but my life is on the line, so it can't be helped.

　This time Elinora sister didn't seem to be particularly suspicious.

　It's probably because of the atmosphere we're creating and the relatively common phenomenon of failing to grab the bowl.

　In fact, wooden bowls are more difficult to grab.

　I don't want to be suspicious of using psychics in succession, so I'm going to take my time and play the game.

　More than a dozen offensive and defensive attacks went on without my attacks without using psychic being able to break through the Silvio Barrier and without Brother Silvio being able to break through my defense.

　Elinora sister, who was numb to it, made just the right suggestion.

''Hey you two, it's a bit long. Let the next one to attack win.

Okay.

　Me and brother Silvio look at each other and nod, as if we both know that we're not going to get anywhere.

　It's not good that the Silvio barrier is too strong.

　But, well, it's been dozens of times since Brother Silvio failed to grab the bowl.

　Is it about time?

　It will break your concentration, and the proclamation that the first one to hit it will be the winner will increase the tension.

　There's also the possibility that you might fail to grab a good enough bowl.

　I'm not very good at moving my body, especially when it comes to my brother Silvio.

　Now is the time to kill him!

"Boom, boom, boom!

　Me, par.

　Brother Silvio, goo.

　I activate my psychic on the bowl just like before.

　My magic causes the bowl to shift slightly. This causes Brother Silvio's fingers to hit the bowl as if to push it into the bowl and escape far away.

''Shit!''

'f*ck you!　Brother Silvio!

　Just when I was sure of my victory, a voice suddenly came down.

''If you think it's so noisy, what are you even doing with your magic?

　It was Nord's dad, who had heard our commotion and had come to check on us.

"...oh.

"...magic?

　I freeze in my raised position and two piercing glances.

　Then Silvio and Elinora turn their gazes to Nord-Dad, wondering what's going on.

　Hey, Father Nord, don't say anything that doesn't need to be said...!

Hmm?　I could feel the magic from Al.

　Oh, oh!　That's why this is already the Dragon Slayer. Even when I was a baby, you seemed to notice if I let the magic flow. What is it?　Does it feel like a top-notch adventurer or strongman can understand it?

'If I thought something was wrong earlier, you were using magic!　I'm sure it was Al's fault that the stick was moving on its own earlier!

　Hearing Father Nord's words, sister Elinora turned around and stepped on the floor with a dunce, exasperated.

　I can clearly see that the trembling caused by her anger has spread to her reddish-brown ponytail.

　After all, I pulled her away from the beginning with the help of magic.

'So is that why the bowl was moving like it was escaping from my fingers earlier?

　Brother Silvio was actually wondering about it, too, and he turned his gaze to look at me intently.

　Alfried is doomed.

　For now, I wordlessly hit Brother Silvio on the head with a stick and became the winner.

I've won. Next time you'll play brother Silvio and sister Elinora. I'm going to go to the bathroom........

Wait, Al.

　I said, and was just about to leave the room when he grabbed me by the shoulder.

　I don't need to tell you who I'm dealing with.

　I'd like to get far away from the transfer........

　I'm sure my next opponent will be forced to become sister Elinora and get beaten up anyway.

　As I was thinking about that with distant eyes, Elinora sister grinned and said something outrageous.

I've got an idea. You're going to have a fight with your father next time.

...eh...

Hmm?




　........Dragon Slayer was incredibly strong.