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Day 408
Today we spent a day leisurely in «Orzi Manu Deunas» exploring.　
Although I have looked at some, there are still many sightseeing spots to see as the has a long history.
It's not like we'll be able to see everything unless we go around for a few days. Looking at the ruins that the past [Sun King] made, and architectural style of the houses which have developed their own unique style, I will not get tired with just looking over part of it.
Since simply sightseeing is a waste, I will sometimes enjoy shopping while learning how to act in harsh environments such as deserts and gravel areas.
It is also surprisingly important to imagine what sort of situations can happen from the available items.　
While we were walking and examining various items, I heard lively cheers from one of the dozen private arena scattered around «Orzi-Manu Deunas».
In the stadium there are battles day-and-night that combines people's need for entertainment and their desire battle, but it seems they were getting more excited than usual, because a month from now there will be a battle festival between urban nations that is only held once every several years.
The place seemed similar to the «Battle Coliseum» in the previous kingdom, well this excitement can also be infectious.
As I was going into the biggest amphitheater in the near-by field a fight was just about to begin.
Two men were just confronting each other.　
On the one hand is a local man that received great cheers.
On the other, a slender kangaroo beast man, close to 3 meters tall.　
Both of the kangaroo beast man's hands are equipped with red cloth gauntlets, but they may have been crafted using special magic metals, their surroundings seem distorted with bongyari.　
If seemed to be a magic item whose flame-heat system's ability was dispersed around itself, as if it would burn the object when it lands a blow.　
He was dressed with a brown dirty turban on his head, the upper body exposed with bared short hair, and his lower body wore pants that were comfortably easy to move in.　
There is no real armor equipped, it is easy to see that importance attached to being as light as possible.　
It seems to be a fighting-style using only his fists, but he moved as if dancing, showing agile movements.
To that, it was a small armor piece the size of Chunki.
The clothing he was wearing is a real war armor with a lot of roundness and few useless decorations, the surface of which has an unusual color like wood grain.　
Perhaps the main material is a rare magical metal "Steel brush Dumbrux". It is a magical metal that is also used for the auroral [Cannon], but it is rugged and very dense, with a property that it is lighter than anything else.　
So it must be lighter than imagined when used for heavy armor.　
I also do not know the gender of the other warrior because they wore an armor that hides the body's line, with a total face helm with a long nose tang, but since it is a small solid body, I feel like they could be male.
Although they had a calm atmosphere like the surface of water, with a large sword and a small scale armor worn in proportion to the body at the waist, but their hand was persistently attached to the sword.　
Clothes and arms of a line similar to a woman warrior, perhaps they came from the east.
It seems that there are actually few people who wander around the world for martial arts training, so they must be of that kind.　
Whether armor warrior is a [Woman Warrior] or not, all know warrior is present, but a woman warrior is a also a manager in the kingdom, but she was not here.
Well, it probably will be different depending on the atmosphere, so I do not think I should care about that.　
Anyway, I wondered what would happen.
While I thought about it, the beast man rushed at high speed directly towards the armored warrior.
Being a kangaroo beast man, although it would not be said that he could only do so because he is a beast man, he kicked powerfully off the ground and delivered a continuous stream of attacks, unstoppable fists moving faster than the eyes could catch.　　
A high speed jab where the fist kept disappearing, a powerful straight to crush enemy, sharp hook to reap life, all in a flowing combination.　
With a unique step using his strong tail, you can watch attacks moving faster while piling on fists, it's interesting enough that the audience gets a boost in excitement.　
However, the beast man's attack did not seem to effect the armored warrior.
She avoided the attacks with minimum damage to her body and if she could not avoid them, she accepted the blow on a thick part of her armor such as the shoulder.
A violent spark and a blue dancing flame, but the majority of the power was swept away by the armor warrior, or was absorbed into the armor.　
Nevertheless, except for a slight shock of impact, there was not even a shake to her torso or her trained muscles, and as a result the attack by the beast male did not have much more of an effect.　
As I guessed, the beast man was attacking even more violently out of frustration, but it was a moment that decided who wins and loses.　
His stamina was consumed due to the continuous flow of attacks, and the attacking hand stops for a moment. I thought he was going to move backwards and leave a gap.
But at that moment, the armored warrior's aim changed course.　
A long sword was drawn at an unstoppable speed leaving a pale trajectory, pausing at the beast man's chin and cutting off his consciousness.
It seemed that he did not want to kill just because she was on a battlefield, but normally you would still die if a mass of metal hits at such a high speed.　
This time it ended only with faint mark because it was an attack aimed at the slightest weak spot in her opponent's technique, but there was no doubt that it would have ended earlier if she had quickly cut it without doing that.
I was wondering what's purpose was.
The beast man who had been attacking just a moment ago, crashed when the armored warrior delivered her sword stroke, with screams and cheers exploded in the amphitheater from the audience, resounding when they finally realized that the armor warrior won.
It was a very spectacular match.
The beast man also was not weak, It was unusually sunk by that fast attack, besides being lightweight, he was also capable of delivering a powerful single blow.
Once he got into his rhythm, he was able to push many opponents with his strength.　
However, this time the armored warrior was stronger.
Armor Warrior seemed to know this when clapping hands, so he smiled lightly.
Then his feeling was clearly not visible due to showing a blank face, but there seemed to have been some signs of strain.　
But, the warfare was redirected at once. There was no need for murder, even if the fighting spirit yearned to slice the neck.
The motivated dark kangaroo surely was not hard to see.　
It might have been a faster battle than I thought.
Is this not what I want in wandering the world, looking for a strong sword arm?　
Besides, it was a system that was created so we would only have to go out and find talented warriors locally.　
As it seems that the day is getting somewhat dark, I'm going to take a stroll later in the evening with a little demon.
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“四百八日目”
　今日はのんびりと≪オルジ・マヌ・ディウナス≫を観光する。
　幾つかは見てきたが、歴史が長いだけあってココにはまだまだ観光名所は多いのだ。
　数日で巡れるようなものではない。過去の【太陽王】が造った遺跡を見て見たり、独自の発展を遂げた建築様式の家屋やら、少し散策するだけでも見ていて飽きない。
　観光だけではもったいないので、たまに外に出て砂漠や礫地帯など過酷な環境でどう行動すべきか、なども学びながら買い物を楽しんでいく。
　並べられた商品から、どんな事が起こりうるのか想像するのは意外と重要なのだから。
　色々と調べながら歩いていると、≪オルジ・マヌ・ディウナス≫に十数は点在する私設の闘技場の一つから賑やかな歓声が聞こえてきた。
　闘技場では民の娯楽と戦闘欲求の発散などを兼ねた決闘が日夜行われているのだが、今から一ヵ月後には数年に一度執り行われる都市国家間の決闘祭が迫っているからか、普段以上に盛り上がっているらしい。
　以前王国で観戦した≪英勇武踏祭≫のようなものらしく、それならこの盛り上がりも納得できる。
　折角なので近場で最も大きな円形闘技場に行ってみると、丁度始まろうとしていたところだった。
　対峙しているのは二人の男だ。
　一方は現地人なのだろう、大きな声援を受けている。
　カンガルー系の細身の獣人男性で、身の丈は三メートル近くあるだろうか。
　その両手には真っ赤な手甲が装備されているのだが、特殊な魔法金属でも使っているのだろう、その周囲はボンヤリと歪んで見える。
　この辺りだと炎熱系の能力が秘められたマジックアイテムだろう。殴ると対象を炎上させるなど、ありそうなパターンだ。
　服装は茶色く汚れたターバンを頭に巻いて、上半身は短い体毛を晒した裸で、下半身はゆったりと動きやすいズボンをはいている。
　防具らしい防具は無く、身軽さを重視しているのがよく分かる。
　拳だけで戦うスタイルのようだが、まるで舞うように動き、俊敏な動きを見せていた。
　それに対するは、中鬼くらいの大きさの、小柄な甲冑武者だった。
　身に纏うのは丸みが多く無駄な飾りの少ない実戦的な甲冑であり、その表面はまるで木目のような変わった色合いをしている。
　恐らく主な素材は希少魔法金属“”だ。オーロの使う【魔砲】にも使われている魔法金属なのだが、頑丈でよくしなり、何より軽いという性質を持つ。
　だから分厚い甲冑の割には想像以上に軽いに違いない。
　また鼻の長い天狗のような総面を装着し、身体のラインが分からない甲冑を着ているので性別はよく分からないが、小柄ながらもがっしりとした体格なので男のような気がする。
　まるで水面のように落ち着いた雰囲気を纏っているが、腰には身体の割に大きな太刀と小太刀が佩かれ、太刀の方に手が添えられていた。
　女武者と似たような系統の衣服と武装。恐らく東方から流れてきたのだろう。
　武者修行として世界を放浪する者が少数ながら実際に居るらしいので、きっとその類に違いない。
　甲冑武者が【異邦人】かどうかは女武者が居れば判明するのだが、女武者は王国の王都で店長をしているのでココにはいない。
　まあ、雰囲気的に多分違うだろうから、そこまで気にしなくてもいいとは思うのだが。
　ともあれ、どうなるか。
　そう思いながら見ていると、甲冑武者の真正面から獣人男性が高速で突進した。
　カンガルー系の獣人だから、という事では決してないだろうが、獣人男性は力強く地面を蹴り、目にも止まらぬ拳の連続攻撃を繰り出した。
　拳が霞んで消える高速のジャブ、敵を打ち砕く力強いストレート、命を刈り取るような鋭いフック、流れるようなコンビネーション。
　強靭な尻尾も使った独特なステップで幾重にもフェイントを重ねながらの高速攻撃は見ていて面白く、観客も大いに沸き上がる。
　しかし、獣人男性の攻撃は甲冑武者には通用しなかった。
　最低限の身のこなしで攻撃を避け、避けきれない場合は肩など甲冑の分厚い部分で受け流す。
　激しい火花と青い炎が舞い散るが、甲冑武者によって威力の大半は流され、あるいは甲冑によって吸収される。
　それでも僅かに通る衝撃では強靭な体幹や鍛えられた筋肉を揺るがす事ができず、結果として獣人男性の攻撃は意味を成していなかった。
　それを理解しているのだろう、苛立つ獣人男性はより一層激しく攻撃していたが、勝敗を決したのは一瞬だった。
　流石に連続攻撃をした影響でスタミナを消耗し、攻撃の手が僅かに止まる。後退して間をあけようと思ったのかもしれない。
　しかしその瞬間、狙いすました甲冑武者の居合い。
　長い太刀が目にも止まらぬ速さで抜刀され、青白い軌跡を残し、獣人男性の顎先を掠めてその意識を断ち切った。
　峰打ちだったので殺す気はなかったようだが、それでも金属の塊が高速で当たれば普通は死ぬ。
　今回は繊細な技術によって僅かに脳震盪を起こす、そのギリギリを狙った攻撃だったからこそ気絶しただけに終わったが、そんな手間をかけずにさっさと切ればもっと早く終わっていたのは間違いない。
　何が目的なのだろうか、とは思いつつ。
　つい先程まで攻めていた獣人男性が崩れ落ち、甲冑武者が太刀を納刀したところで、ようやく甲冑武者が勝利した事に気が付いた観客の悲鳴と歓声が円形闘技場で爆発した。
　中々見ごたえのある試合だった。
　獣人男性も弱くはなかった。普通ならあの高速攻撃で沈んでいる。身軽なだけでなく、一撃一撃に威力もある。
　一度調子に乗られれば、そのまま押し切られる事も多いのだろう。
　ただ、今回は甲冑武者が強かっただけの事だ。
　拍手を送っていると甲冑武者がコチラを見たので、軽く笑みを浮かべてみる。
　すると顔は天狗のような総面のせいでハッキリとは見えないが、何やら引きつったような気配がした。
　しかし、すぐに戦意が向けられる。殺気こそないが、闘志の刃が首筋を撫でる。
　やる気に輝く黒い双眸は、きっと見間違いではないだろう。
　思ったよりも戦闘民族なのかもしれない。
　好敵手を求めて世界を放浪する類なのだろうか。
　しかも地元でやんちゃしすぎて外に出るしかなかった系の。
　何だか闇討ちされそうなので、ちょっと単鬼で夜道を出歩いてみようかな。
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