(Thanks to the two book friends [Diving Staff] and [Kiss の一夏] for their tips, thank you for your support ^_^)

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Fein grabbed the young man's wrist and stood alone between the young man and the maid, separating the two.

In the middle of the night, Arroyo led Lilith through the crowd of onlookers and walked quickly to Finn's side, and the middle-aged proprietor, who had been behind the tavern counter a few seconds ago, also hurried over and helped the maid who was already sitting on the floor with weak legs.

“…… Let me go. The troublesome young man asked coldly.

As the words fell, he glared at Finn with extreme unhappiness, and met Finn's gaze.

"Raymond Sword Master, I didn't expect you to look so stunned before accepting the vampire's kissing ceremony." Finn looked at the young man in front of him and muttered to himself in his heart.

Finn knew the young man in front of him and remembered his name as Raymond.

From the current point of view, Raymond's identity is a wandering young swordsman.

However, if the plot of this life continues to develop according to the trajectory of the previous life, then Fein can predict that Raymond will definitely become a vampire sword master who has fought him several times in his previous life.

At the beginning of the incident, Finn just stood up and glanced at Raymond's face from a distance, and immediately recognized this guy he knew all too well.

Seeing that the boss had already helped the frightened maid aside, Finn then let go of his grip on Raymond's wrist.

Raymond withdrew his wrist, which was a little sore from Finn's grasp, stared at Finn with a look of wariness, and his right hand, which grabbed the hilt of the sword, unconsciously clenched a little harder.

"This guest, please take your breath." Seeing that the atmosphere was not quite right, the middle-aged owner of the Qingxiang Beiluo Tavern asked a waiter to take the frightened maid to rest, and then hurriedly walked over to persuade Raymond.

However, the boss received nothing more than Raymond's angry gaze and bad words.

Raymond glared at the boss and said, "This matter has nothing to do with you, get out of the way." ”

The boss was stunned by Raymond: "Guest, how can you say that?" ”

"It's useless, boss, you can't communicate with him like this." Fein glanced at Raymond and the middle-aged boss, then shrugged his shoulders and interjected, "If you want this kind of person to understand what you mean, you should do this- hey, friend, is it worth it to get angry and make trouble over a piece of broken copper and iron that only has the function of cutting people?" ”

As he spoke, he raised his eyebrows at the swordsman youth in front of him, and then pointed to the long-bladed arc-shaped sword in Raymond's hand.

Raymond's sword is not a straight longsword commonly found on the coast of the St. Fern Sea, but a long-edged arc sword from the Far East that closely resembles a real-world katana.

Fein knew Raymond's personality and temper, and knew that Raymond had been working part-time as a blacksmith since he began learning swordsmanship, and was a craftsman swordsman who loved swords and was good at making swords, so he deliberately said this sentence to provoke him.

For a while, Raymond looked at Finn for a moment, and then showed the reaction that Finn expected.

"You say my sword is broken and broken? How dare you insult my sword! The stunned green swordsman glared at Finn with great dissatisfaction, and roared angrily.

"A sword is just a tool compared to a man, isn't it?" Finn looked at Raymond with a smirk, "So, to do something to that lady-in-waiting for the sake of a sword, you and your sword are wrong from any point of view. ”

"You say I'm wrong with my sword? …… Well, you brought it on yourself. Raymond gritted his teeth, then raised his head and met Finn's eyes.

And then--

"Holy Warrior, bet on the dignity of this sword, I will duel with you!" The young swordsman raised his curved sword, pointed the tip of the sword straight at Finn, and announced loudly with a righteous expression on his face.

The surrounding drinkers were all startled when they heard him shout.

Finn was also stunned, and then—

"Huh?" He looked at Raymond suspiciously, "You want to ...... with me Duel? ”

"That's right!" Raymond confirmed in a firm tone, "If you're a man, accept my challenge with dignity!" ”

As the words fell, the young swordsman clenched the hilt of the curved sword with both hands, his legs slightly bent his knees, and he faced Finn in a fighting posture ready to swing his sword and slash people at any time.

Fein stared at the young swordsman in front of him with a serious and serious expression, and the corners of his eyes twitched unconsciously.

In his previous life, he had heard that before Raymond was transformed into a vampire by the queen of the blood clan, Cosette, with a kissing ceremony, he was a typical stunned young man with a second disease.

However, he didn't think of ......

This future Blood Sword Saint is actually the second middle school in his previous life at this time!

What "bet on the dignity of this sword", "if you are a man", "accept my challenge with dignity"......

Oh my God.

Raymond, are you really not ashamed at all when you say these things? - Fein couldn't help but complain in his heart.

You know, in his previous life, because he said "I want to be a partner of justice" on the world channel, this sentence was taken to the forum by other players in the game to play as a meme, and he was the first paladin in the whole server until the game was closed.

Perhaps, the reason why Raymond, who had become a vampire swordmaster in his previous life, did not want to mention the past when he was still a human being, in addition to the fact that he had joined the Dark Alliance, was that he didn't want to recall the scenes of his shame when he was young, right?

Well, maybe that's true.

But-

"I accept your challenge." Finn looked at Raymond, then took out the void pocket he had brought with him, and pulled out a curly bladed silver sword from it and held it in his hand.

The silver sword was the same weapon he had acquired from Antines' husband's relics in the Mottled Forest and used to kill Anderson Beast Pupil in the Wolf's Fang Stronghold.

Although the blade of this silver sword had been curled up long after he killed Anderson Beast Pupil, Finn was not currently short of money, so he had not been in a hurry to take this bladed sword to the pawnshop in Dawnwind City for the past few days and sell it.

"Before the duel, let's make some bets." Finn looked at Raymond with the silver sword with the curly blade in his hand, and a confident smile appeared on his face, "If I win, you can apologize to the boss and the maid who was frightened by you, and remember to pay for the meal by the way, is that okay?" ”

“…… No problem. Raymond glanced at the tavernkeeper who was standing aside, then looked back at Finn and nodded, "But, if I win, you must kneel before me and repent for your insult to my sword." ”

"Okay, I'm fine." Finn agreed calmly.

Like, he didn't think he was going to lose at all.

Seeing that Finn and Raymond both held their respective swords in their hands, the onlookers in the tavern hall immediately retreated in a circle.

Drinkers understand that it is fun to watch the excitement, but it is not fun to hurt yourself by mistake.

Finn faced Raymond with his silver sword in hand, and glanced sideways at Arroyo.

Arroyo hesitated for a moment, then understood, and took Lilith to step aside with the crowd to make room for Finn and Raymond to fight.

For a while, most of the drinkers of the fragrant shellfish were in the mood of watching the excitement and waiting for Finn and Raymond to stage a duel "performance" between swordsmen for them.

Seeing that the two were about to fight, the middle-aged owner of the tavern hurriedly pushed aside the crowd with an anxious face, ran out of the area around Finn and Raymond that was about to become a showdown venue, and then quietly asked a clerk to sneak out of the tavern and run to contact the patrol team in the town, hoping that those military men could come over in time to help stop this farce that happened in his shop.

He had been in the tavern business in Azur Harbor for a few years, and finally found out that the pirates of Redbeard Jackson had stopped harassing Port Town recently, but he didn't expect that two people would have a fight in his store today.

And say, this is a duel?

Fight your mother!

How can young people nowadays be so noisy?!

"Oh, Lachli, goddess of luck, please be a little kind of pampered to me, unfortunate poor man." After the middle-aged boss urged the clerk to leave the tavern, his brain suddenly hurt a lot.

If the two young men had smashed the valuables in his shop, he would have felt that he had been out of luck tonight.

……

Finn and Raymond held their weapons face to face, their eyes fixed on each other's movements, and a battle could break out between them at any moment.

In his previous life, Raymond was one of the very few Extreme Sword Masters who could raise his expertise to a level.

Later in the Demon War, Finn once infiltrated the northern shore of the St. Fern Sea, and had a one-on-one confrontation with the Bloodline Queen Cosette on the rooftop of her castle.

And the result of that duel was that Finn was unilaterally suppressed by the Blood Sword Saint Raymond, whose sword skills had been perfected, and finally was sent back to the resurrection point of the human town on the south coast by Raymond himself.

Of course, Raymond was an invincible vampire swordmaster in Finn's previous life, but at this time in this life, he was just a stunned young man with a high heart and a lack of strength.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of Raymond proposing a duel to him at this time, Fein also planned to teach the future sword master a good lesson, and by the way, correct some strange concepts in his mind, so that he would be coaxed and abducted to the undead realm on the northern shore of the St. Furren Sea by the cunning vampire queen of the Dark Alliance in the future, just like in his previous life.

To be on the safe side, he didn't want to wait until the cataclysm broke out in this life, and then have a headache to find a way to deal with this vampire sword master who could blow him up one-on-one in his previous life.

Besides, Raymond in this life doesn't have the momentum that a sword saint should have, no matter how you look at it, he is just a stunned swordsman.

With the experience of a legendary player against a half-swordsman, Finn didn't think he would lose to Raymond in any way.

"The greatsword you have on your back is your main weapon, right?" After a while, Raymond held the hilt of the curved sword in both hands, moved his eyes to look at the whistling blade hanging behind Fain's back, and frowned, "I don't need to use my main weapon, but take out a sword with a curly blade to fight...... Are you underestimating me? ”

"No, Mr. Swordsman, I didn't mean to underestimate you at all." Finn tilted his head and grinned, "I'm just scared that I'll accidentally become a murderer." ”

"You-?!"

Raymond felt his mouth almost crooked by Finn.

He knew that he had a bit of strength, but he was still far from being able to match those legendary sword masters.

But how dare this guy mock himself like this?

Can this be endured?!

"Arrogant paladin, I'll shut you up with my swordsmanship!" Raymond gritted his teeth and glared at Finn, then cursed angrily to vent his anger, and launched an attack on Finn with a single move.