"Elder Sister, I want to have a match with you!" ［Eliza］

  "Eh?" ［Elise］

  At Eliza's sudden request, everyone was made to stop drinking their smoothies and the dire of their eyes immediately nded on the former. It was so sudden, none of the people present knew how to react to it.

  Well, all of them except Fritz. He just tinued drinking his smoothie, seemingly knowledgeable about what her little daughter wao request of Elise. After all, he was the one who had been with Eliza the most.

  "Eh? Liz, what are you talking about?" ［Elise］

  "I want to have a march with you!" ［Eliza］

  "No, no, I uood that part. What I'm asking is why?" ［Elise］

  "I just want to test how much I've grown by fighting with you!" ［Eliza］

  "Eh?" ［Elise］

  With Liz's vague expnation, Elise became even more puzzled about what was going on in her younger sister's head. Having no other choices left, she asked their father for an answer with simple eye tact.

  "Hm? Didn't Grey and Yuna tell you? They also trained Liz to know how to fight wheayed at our mansion back at Moterno." ［Fritz］

  When Fritz said those, Elise's eyes immediately shifted to Grey and Yuna. Not just Elise's, but Eine and Eleanora's eyes also shifted to them. Their faces were asking the two for firmation.

  "Ah... Did we fet to tell you?" ［Grey］

  """Yes, you did!"""

  In unison, the three's voices rang throughout Grey and Yuna's ear.s It was so loud that they thought their eardrums were going to burst. Especially for Yuna who had sensitive ears, the ill tinued ringing in her ears.

  Even though they had talked about many topics about Eliza, Grey and Yuna only mentiohat she went along with them while they were adventuring and expl. They didn't go into further details as almost every day was the same.

  There were a few moments where Grey and Yuiohey tutored Eliza, but the other party only thought it was regarding magic theories only. After all, who would think that someoually trained a young girl against monsters.

  If there was oopic about Eliza that they focused on, it would be Eliza's ess when she was with them. Especially the girls, the moment they arrive at that topic, they would be talking for quite a long time without break.

  Another reason was the girls' love for sweet things, whehey talked about Eliza eating desserts, they would only stay at the topic of Eliza for a short while before ging it pletely to sweets-reted things.

  "Wait! So that means!" ［Elise］

  "Ah!" ［Eine］

  "Eh?" ［Eliza］

  A sudden realization hit Elise and Ei the same time, and for reasons unknown to the others, they rushed towards Eliza and checked up on her dition. Her arms, her hands, her legs, her face, they checked her up with worried eyes.

  Being a little ticklish, Eliza couldn't help herself but ugh when Elise and Eine ied her body. It was the plete opposite to the tere pletely worried for her wellbeing.

  "Liz, you weren't hurt, are you?" ［Elise］

  "They didn't make you do anything harsh, did they?" ［Eine］

  "You don't have any wounds, right? Right?!" ［Elise］

  "You're still getting the right amount of sleep are you?" ［Eine］

  Eliza tried to resist the two of them, all the while ughing from feeling tickled, but they were too much for her to handle alone. She really looked like a doll, being pyed by her older sister and cousin.

  While that was happening, four of the others were fused why they suddenly acted that way, while the other two didn't even pay attention. Those twalvin and Elnart who just tinued drinking their smoothies and then pyed with the familiars who had e over.

  "Umm... Elise, Eine, what are you doing to Liz?" ［Eleanora］

  "We're cheg up on her dition if she's fine. After all, it was Grey and Yuna who trained her!" ［Elise］

  "That's right! Yuna is a terrifying demon when she's on teacher mode!" ［Eine］

  "Urk!" ［Yuna］

  Yuna's face cramped when she heard Eine and Elise's statements. It was as if she was betrayed by her best friends. Well, they are amongst her best friends so her rea wasn't too far off.

  She and Grey couldn't argue with what Elise and Eine said siny normal person would ht die with their training regime. Not only from the training itself, but also with the sequences after the training.

  Of course, everything was mostly Grey's fault. After all, it was because of the way he trained Yuna that the tter also became a spartan-like teacher wheeaches others. She was totally influenced by her teacher and boyfriend.

  "Hehe... Elder Sister and hehe... Elder Sister Eine, please ehehe... stop! It's really unfortable hehe... and ticklish!" ［Eliza］

  ""S... Sorry..."" ［Elise and Eine］

  After Eliza's short outburst, everyone came back to their senses and calmed down. Elise and Eine in particur were dowed by what Eliza said, while Galvin and Elnart still tinued with their smoothies.

  A little crestfallen, Elise and Ei go of Eliza auro their garden table to tiheir breakfast. Their breakfast meals had almost gone cold so they hurried up in finishing them.

  "But still, to think that our little Liz had been trained by Yuna and Grey... It really shocks me..." ［Eine］

  "That means that Liz had already learned how to fight monsters..." ［Elise］

  Slowly finishing their breakfast, Elise and Eialked about how they felt with Eliza being trained by their current instructors. As for the mother, Eleanora, she asked Fritz about the details.

  "Then, Elder Sister, does that mean you agree to have a match with me?" ［Eliza］

  "Uuu... Fine. But I'll decide the rules, okay?" ［Elise］

  "Thank you, Elder Sister!" ［Eliza］

  With aed smile, Eliza dashed towards Elise and gave her a tight hug, and as the one on the receiving end, Elise's mood improved drastically as a smile sprouted on her face.

  As the parents of the two sweet girls in front of everyone, Eleanora and Fritz 't help themselves but smile as well along with their daughters. Although they haven't been with each other for a few months, they were still as close as ever.

  After Elise agreed on having a match, she and Eine quickly fiheir breakfast, and a few moments ter, everyone headed to a wide space so that the two of them could move freely. It was the training ground behind the mansion.

  Of course, Grey didn't fet to store the juices and smoothies back to his "Iory". After all, with the effects of his ability, he could make sure that they remain chilled for the others to finish them ter.

  Although the training ground in the back was much smaller than the ones in the Royal Academy, it was still very wide. About as wide as a basketball court ba Earth, enough for Elise and Eliza to fight without restraints of space.

  As Elise often stores her trusty sword ba the Royal Academy, she only used a on iron sword she found in the knight's armory. To make things fair, Eliza is also going to use the same kind of sword.

  Their ons both at their disposal, the two sisters positiohemselves in the open spad readied themselves for the signal. Their cousin, Eied as the referee for the match

  The rules Elise made were as follows; first, they only fight ihe training ground. Sed, super destructive spells and arts are prohibited. Third, blows towards the vitals are prohibited. And stly, no using of auras.

  In order to win, the oppo must surrender or be rendered uo fight. Breaking of the rules will also result in the oppo's victory. It was the usual rules for sparring matches.

  While Elise may be older, the gap between her and her younger sister's wasn't that big. Elise' bat power sat at 63 while Eliza's is at 58, both were F-rankers who easily outcss the best athletes ba Earth.

  As for who has the adva was hard to tell. While Elise was stronger by about 30%, Eliza has more experien fighting against people and could crush people strohahe match could go in any dire at any moment.

  Lastly, in order to ehat the other ses of the training ground stay safe, Grey erected a barrier around the fighting area. It also served as a safety precaution so that none of the spectatets hurt.

  "Are the both of you ready?" ［Eine］

  "Yes." ［Elise］

  "Un!" ［Eliza］

  "Then... Fight!" ［Eine］

  With Eine's signal, like Eliza's previous match with Grey, Eliza took the initiative and dashed towards Elise in order to nd the first blow. She was so quick that even Grey and Yuna were surprised by her growth.

  Elise, who hasn't seen her little sister fight, was taken aback by how quickly Eliza approached her, but ihan a sed, she was able tain her posure. It was what to be expected from one of year 2's top students.

  Eliza brandished her sword left and right, trying to crack open Elise's guard at every moment, but Elise receiving the blows parried them perfectly. She was gauging how strong her oppo was.

  Seeing that attag directly ointless, Eliza halted her assault and stepped away a few meters back. She didn't let Elise catch up to her and when she was in position...

  ??Heavy Ssh!?? ［Eliza］

  ... she struck the ground with her sword, makihen debris fly in every dire. Luckily, the debris weren't on the level where they could break Grey's barrier, or rather, no magic below the advanced level could destroy it.

  When the debris were on the level of her shoulders, Eliza swung her sword with the ft fag the debris and hit them with great power, making them fire rapidly like bullets towards Elise.

  With her quick reflexes, Elise immediately erected a wall with earth magi front of her, blog all the bullet-like projectiles ing her way, but on the down side, it also made her lose vision of her oppo.

  Eliza didn't let her rest. After she fired those debris towards Elise, she ran towards her dire and leaped over the wall, and with both her hands gripping her sword, she attempted to nd a devastating blow to Elise.

  ??Heavy Ssh!?? ［Eliza］

  Rather than parrying Eliza's sword, Elise chose to dodge the attastead, making debris scatter all over the training ground once again after Eliza's heavy attack hit the ground, leaving behind a small crater.

  After seeing Eliza's attack, Elise calmly breathed in air with her eyes closed. When she opened her eyes, a dangerous glint fshed from it. She had finished gauging her younger sister's strength.

  Elsie had finally gotten serious. Now, she khe full extent of Eliza's power and knew full well that it would be dangerous if she let her guard down. It was the reason Elise was amongst the top students

  Without a single warning, the two dashed towards each other and when they were at each other's range, sounds of swords g whie another echoed throughout the whole training ground.

  With each of their blows pag enough power to break walls as if they were twigs, the two tinued g with each other as bursts of winds explode in the viity every time their swords csh.

  "??Heavy Sー" ［Eliza］

  Eliza tried to use an art but before she could even finish exeg it, Elise interrupted her by parrying her sword at the hilt, interrupting the flow of mana. Thankfully, Eliza knew how to hahose mana flow interruptions, otherwise, things would have gone south for her.

  Moreover, as Eliza was hit from below, her arms had been deflected upwards, leaving her guard open. Elise saw it as the opportunity to strike and finish things ond for all.

  "You're wide open!" ［Elise］

  "Tsk! ??Gust??!" ［Eliza］

  But Eliza didn't let Elise do what she wahe moment she noticed she was at a disadva direbat, she casted "Gust" to push Elise away and give her time to create some distaween them.

  Although Elise was not pushed too far, being subjected t winds, she was forced to guard her eyes from the wind with her arms crossed, allowing Eliza to escape the danger.

  ??S Edge!?? ［Eliza］

  Following her "Gust", Eliza quickly executed an art and u towards her older sister. Elise, on the receiving end, quickly tered it by ereg another wall usih magic.

  Learning from Eliza's previous attack, after she erected the wall Elise quickly backed off, wary that Eliza might jump on her once again. But of course, Eliza was also smart to not use the same method twice.

  So far, Eliza's fighting performance has bee and she has been fighting on equal grounds with her older sister who was strohan her, but there was only one problem.

  "Huff... Huff... Huff..." ［Eliza］

  Because of using spells and arts oer another in such a short amount of time, the fatigue from rapid mana exhaustion started kig in. In spite of that, the fmes of determination in Eliza's eyes still kept on burning.

  Taking that opportunity, Elise quickly demolished the wall she had previously erected and started charging towards her sister again all the while keeping wat Eliza's hand movements in order to predict her move.

  Eliza was about to swing her sword, waiting for Elise to enter her range, when out of nowhere, a wall emerged suddenly from the ground, blog her vision from her older sister.

  Elise then leaped to the top of the earthen pilr and shortly after she stepped foot there, she leaped once again, making her high up into the air. She was like a deadly butterfly ready to strike.

  ??Cross Edge!?? ［Elise］

  Like a meteor crashing into the earth, Elise's attack came crashing towards Eliza with great speed and power parable to that of a heavy electric pole crashing to the ground, powerful enough to crush cars with ease.

  With the attaly a few seds away hitting her, Eliza quickly propelled herself away with wind magic, making her dodge the attack. Although she was safe, she was only a hair's breadth from danger.

  "Tch! ??Heavy Ssh??! ??Heavy Ssh??! ??Heavy Ssh??!" ［Eliza］

  Oer another, Eliza struck the ground with her sword making debris and dust fly all over the pce. It was as if she had gone mad and was taking out her frustration towards the ground.

  ??Gust!??［Eliza］

  When she was satisfied, Eliza then scattered the dust even more with a wind spell, creating a smokes, and disabling Elise from knowing of her position. The same could be said for the others who were spectating.

  "Please hold on a moment, I'll just ent the barrier so that we could see them clearly." ［Grey］

  "Ah, thank you. That would really be helpful." ［Fritz］

  "That would be greatly appreciated." ［Eleanora］

  "Don't mention it." ［Grey］

  With quick work from afar, Grey quickly ented the barrier to filter out the dust and only show Elise and Eine who were currently g. It was still a little blurry but it served its purpose.

  By the time Grey finished enting the barrier, Elise had already erected yet another wall, and the reason for that was her than Liz who was attag her relentlessly

  "??Water Bde??! ??Water Bde??! ??Water Bde??!" ［Eliza］

  From the left, from the right, from all dires, spells were fired oer another in an attempt to hit Elise, but with reflexes as good as hers, the tter was able to block them with ease.

  "Huff.. Huff... Huff..." ［Elise］

  The only problem was that Elise had also started to suffer from the fatigue brought by rapid mana exhaustion. It was because she kept ereg earthen walls oer ao block Eliza's attacks.

  By the time the cloud of dust settled, there was already a maze of earthen walls formed ihe training ground, and behind one of those walls, Eliza was lying in wait for an opportunity to attack Elise, all while rec her stamina.

  Although it would be better for Elise to demolish the walls, she didn't have enough mana to do so. She must serve as much mana as possible or else it would be a disadvantage for her.

  Both of them were already worn out but her of them wao surrehe only way for them to wich was either to exhaust the oppo's mana or er them. They were all out of other options.

  Trying to serve her stamina, Elise started navigating the maze in search of Eliza, and while she was doing it, she was being mindful of her movements so that she wouldn't make any unnecessary hat would give away her position.

  Although there were dozens of walls already erected, the spectators were still able to see what was happening from the rge gaps between them. Eine had also been running around to get a better view at things.

  When Elise was about to enter a crossroad, she suddenly halted her movements and with a swing of her sword, she cut up one of the walls on her right, revealing Eliza aiting behind it.

  "Found you." ［Elise］

  "Tch! ??Gust??!" ［Eliza］

  The moment she saw her older sister, Eliza quickly wideheir distah one another with a wind spell. She was trying to avoid direbat, but Elise had already learnt of her tricks.

  "Don't even think about it!" ［Elise］

  Seeing Eliza escape, Elise quickly chased after her. They took left turns, right turns, and they even leaped over walls. To make it short, Elise has been chasing Eliza for a siderable amount of time.

  Driven by impatience, Elise theed a high wall in front of Eliza, making her uo tinue. Eliza was about to take a turn, but before she could even try, Elise had already enclosed the two of them in a small area.

  With nowhere left to run, Eliza has no other choice but to face her older sister. She was already exhausted, but the same could be said for Elise. Once again, their swords started g fiercely once again.

  With every metalliging noise eg through the training ground, sparks and bursts of wind would always apany it. It was a very intetle betweewo sisters.

  Eliza swiftly raised her sword with strong passion burning in her eyes. With every ounce of strength she got left, she gripped her sword and tried to deliver the finishing blow, or so it seemed like it.

  When Elise tried to parry Eliza's strike from above, the tter suddenly docked and shifted the trajectory of her sword. It was the same trick she used against Grey before, a feint.

  ??S Edge!?? ［Eliza］

  Following the feint, Eliza's real attack came rushing from down below towards Elise's torso, but before it could hit her, Elise also shifted the trajectory of her sword, parrying it at the st moments.

  But sihe attack had just been fired and was still trated with Eliza's remaining mana and strength, cracks started running throughout Elise's sword, and a few moments ter, it shattered into smithereens.

  Even then, Elise didn't let that shake her. She quickly let go of the broken sword and with swift movements she lowered her body and swept Eliza's feet off the ground with a simple low kick.

  She then hit Liz's wrist from below with her hand, making her younger sister lose grip of her sword, and with skillful movements, she stole Liz's sword from her in just a matter of seds.

  By the time Liz fell to the ground, Elise was already pointing her own sword at her. It was the end of the match. Elise anting heavily as she was doing so, but she has bee victorious.

  "It's over." ［Elise］

  CHAPTER 87 END