East Meet West

103- Profit and Loss

I walked onto the fighting stage and at the same time a Lamia came up. Then she must be my opponent.

I used [Observation] skill on my opponent.

‘ding’

‘Mid-level Demi-Monster stage.’

A strong opponent, which means a good opponent for practice, but the only thing that lacks is Agility due to snake body and that means if I am unable to win, I can use my high Agility to overwhelm the opponent. But from the looks of it, my opponent is extremely nervous.

“Now...Now how can this work? If my opponent is nervous then I will not be able to have a proper fight and due to that, if I don’t get a job or skill, then that would be disappointing.”

I thought inwardly. So, to prevent that, I need to calm my opponent. So, as a starter, I said

“Hello, my name is Orochi. What’s yours?”

Hearing my question, my opponent was surprised and but she still replied,

“My name is Amy.”

“Nice name. Don’t be nervous, just focus on our fight and you will get used to it in no time.”

“Thankss..”

While I was trying to calm my opponent, the instructor shouted

“Begin”

As soon as the sound fell, my opponent rushed towards me with the spear. Her speed was good but in my eyes it was slow, her speed was almost equal to when my ‘Agility’ stat was at 300.

But this is good, which means that we will have a prolonged fight and this should be able to prove my speculation.

‘clanck’

‘clanck’

Then my sword and Amy’s spear clashed against each other. I could have easily escaped her blow with my speed but it would not prove my speculation, so I decided to face her head on.

In the beginning, Amy made many mistakes but I gave her some tips and she was soon able to correct them.

Amy quickly adapted and her nervousness was all gone.

Like this, whenever Amy attacked, I defended with my sword and when I attacked, she defended. And we continued exchanging blows / moves and our fight continued for 5-6 minutes.

The surrounding spectators started cheering for us,

“This fight is so good.”

“Yes, they have been fighting for almost 5-6 minutes.”

“Yeah, just look at Amy’s opponent, he is not putting any effort into the fight.”

“And he is also giving tips and pointers to Amy, in the middle of the fight.”

“Amy sure is talented, she quickly adapted to the battle and every second she is improving.”

“I envy Amy, she got such a good opponent.”

“Yeah, I also want to fight him and maybe he will give me some pointers.”

“By the way, does anyone know who he is?”

“I heard that he saved Miss. Armelia from some humans and to show gratitude our chief is helping him to cure his poison.”

“What!?!? He is poisoned? And he is still able to fight Amy without any difficulty? How strong he must be then?”

“Hey, I have decided after this fight, I will ask him to be my partner.”

“Huh? Joke. I heard Miss. Emily call him ‘Brother-in-law', which means that something is going on between him and Miss. Armelia. Look at you and loot at Miss. Armelia. Do you think you have a chance?”

“Yeah, dream on.”

“Whatever, it doesn’t hurt to give it try.”

“True”

“If he can't be my partner then I’ll request him for a ‘one night stand’.”

“Yeah, even I don’t mind being just a sex friend with him.”

Due to my ‘Sense’ stats being high, I was able to hear everything and I almost tripped when I heard all this.

But to be honest, I was ok with that idea. I will not shun away from this type of things, unlike other characters from novels where they act like all good guys.

And if possible, I don’t want to be bound by any relations. Like that, I will be able to live a life without much worry and care. Because if I am bound by relations, then I will have to protect them and they will be my weakness. And in this world having a weakness is a thing that I cannot afford.

I want to live a free and unfettered life.

Yeah, this might contradict my goal of ‘having a harem’, but I never said anything about traveling and carrying them around wherever I go, as most characters from the novels do.

In my opinion, that would be a burden and nothing else.

Like, a character in the novel is traveling with his women to some cities or transcending from lower world to higher world, then they get separated due to some reason like some powerful guy has seen talent in one of the women so he takes her away to make her his disciple or there was a problem with transcending and they get separated. Then the character has to search for his women and get stronger and face many problems.

Or a character has traveled to someplace leaving his loved ones at home and when he returns, his loved ones are in danger or something has happened to them. Then he has to face many enemies and problems.

And for me, all this is a hassle. So, ‘free and unfettered’ life is the best.

“Brother-in-law, you can do it.”

Wait, what? What is Emily saying?

“Brother-in-law, you can win the match.”

Oh ok, I misunderstood Emily. I thought that she was giving me a ‘green signal’ or ‘go signal’ for the ‘One night stand’. But she was just cheering me for the match.

“Orochi, you can win the match.”

Ignoring all the talks from the audience. I focused on the match. Like this Another minute passed and just when I was thinking if my speculation was wrong or if there is something I missed, the system notification rang.

‘ding’

‘Host has unlocked a new job- Swordsmanship [Level 1]'

Swordsmanship [Level 1]: [Proficiency: 0.00%]

This job is activated when the host uses a sword.

The host’s learning ability of any sword technique is increased by 5 % and the attack power of any technique used by the host is increased by 5%. (Note: Host is advised to increase [Intelligence] stat for increasing efficiency of this function.)

And all stats are increased by 1% when this job is active.

‘This job does not have any skill currently, but the host can learn and unlock new skills in the future.’

‘This job can level up after the [Proficiency] bar reaches 100%. To increase [Proficiency] bar by using swords.’

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While I was momentarily distracted due to the system’s notification it created a flaw, Amy who was giving her 100% effort, realized and captured my flaw, and she aimed for my hand that was holding the weapon. Just when I came back to my senses, but it was already late and I was not able to gather enough strength to hold the weapon and Amy hit my wrist and I dropped the sword. Amy then quickly pointed the spearhead towards my neck. All of this happened in a fraction of a second.

“Number 251 loses and Number 262 wins.”

Instructor shouted.

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