redhairedknight | Mission 3 [Voice, eventually Action]

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Mission 3 [Voice, eventually Action]

Adell, I'm ready to spar if you are. Just tell me where you want to do this.

If anyone else is in the mood for training, I'd be happy to help if you don't mind fighting someone who uses swords. I need any opportunity I can get to become stronger, and I'm sure many people here feel would likely feel the same.

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[Recognizing him from the journal, Erza walks over.]

Hello, Hugo. Glad you could make it.

I'm sorry if I took a while.

Are you Erza, then?

Yes. And I'm not concerned with how long you took to get here; you never said how long it would take, and as long as you arrived at all, that's okay.

All right.

Do you have any conditions to follow?

I don't have any conditions. I prefer to go all out, even in sparring, which is why I can't do much of it back home. All I need to know is whether you would prefer that we keep going until forfeit or knock-out.

Knock-out sounds a little too extreme. Forfeiture is probably better.

I'm okay with either option.

[A sword appears in Erza's hand, and she points it at Hugo in a dramatic gesture.]

Are you ready to begin?

[He pulls out his knife and nods.] Ready.

[Running at Hugo, Erza slashes her sword at him once she is within range.]

[Hugo quickly jumps back away from her range, knife drawn in front of him in case she strikes a second time quickly. One thing he learned from fighting knights was that they can be very fearsome when they attack, after all.]

[Wanting to keep this fair, Erza chose to stick with one sword rather than summon a second. To be honest, she wondered if Hugo would be able to fight her evenly, let alone hurt her, with nothing but a knife.

Erza quickly moved towards Hugo, swinging her sword vertically this time.]

[That one was harder to dodge, and Hugo instead uses his knife to block it, quickly moving out of the way and parrying it. If he accomplishes that very well, he'll move in and try to strike at your chest, Erza.]

[The parry was successful, but not knowing whether the knife was enchanted to bypass armour (or something similar) or not, and not wanting to find out first-hand (she had fought enough magic-negating opponents back home, she didn't want to do too much of that here as well), Erza summoned a second sword to block the knife.]

That catches Hugo by surprise, and he moves away quickly, obviously startled.]

[Noticing the surprise on Hugo's face, she decides to explain.]

I probably should have mentioned this before; my magic is the ability to summon swords and armour for me to use. It's not as flashy as breathing fire or something like that, but it gets the job done. Do you have any special abilities?

[He frowns a little at that, still not that comfortable with swords and the likes, though he has mostly moved on from it.]

I can use fire magic. [Which is underestimating it, but then he didn't want to use his rune in a sparring session after all.]

Well, don't be afraid to use that as well. I work with a mage who has power over fire, and he tries to challenge me to fights all the time. I'm sure I'll be able to handle whatever you can throw at me.

Are you sure?

Trust me, I'll be fine.

All right then. Shall we continue?

Yes, let's.

[Running at Hugo, Erza swings one of her swords, keeping the other at her side.]

[Hugo quickly counters with his knife, locking the blades together temporarily as he tries to push her back.

[Erza pushes back with her one sword, while swinging the other at Hugo's waist.]

[That made him react unconsciously, and his arm quickly blazed with a large flame, trying to surprise Erza enough to stop that swing while taking a quick step back, dislodging the hold.]

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