Though Misha, Miu, Az, or Sera did not see it, Miss Rin and the employee lady saw it clearly.

Alex’s shot was perfect.

The completely calculated shot was going to hit the target that was moving so fast even they could not see it completely.

Yet, right at the moment the shot was going to hit the disk, an arrow that was infused with the power of winds flew up at an even greater speed and hit the arrow that had almost reached the target.

The moment this arrow hit the other arrow, its direction changed, and after throwing the other arrow off, the arrow hit the target at a perfect angle and destroyed the disk.

“You’re a cheater!”

Alex saw it as well, so she could not help but shout at him with a completely frustrated look.

She knew he was a bastard that would do anything to win, but cheating like that, using a spell to enhance the speed, and to go as far as blocking her own arrow with his was complete cheating!

“How can you do that!”

“With my hands?”

She smacked his back, then started punching his hand saying it was unfair.

She had almost won!

“Well, you lose. That’s the result~.”

At the end of the day, his tricks aside, there was no way she was going to win against him in this particular competition anyway.

Even if she did hit this last disk, there was no way she would have hit it better than him.

And she knew that already.

“Hmph! You even missed three arrows on purpose!”

“That’s what I’m saying. You had no chance in the first place.”

Unlike her who had hit all the arrows, he intentionally missed three of them and yet at the end, he had the same score as hers.

And it was only possible because of the way his arrows had hit those targets.

“Brother Elio! Sister Alex~!”

Misha came running when they were done with their little competition and along with her, the little friends came as well.

“Miu!”

“Muuuuuuu!”

It seemed like they liked what the two of them did.

Az even made arrows of water with its magic.

Even Miu was smiling joyfully after seeing her master win the battle.

[{ You are amazing, master. }]

Sera was amazed. Genuinely amazed.

[{ Your control over the winds and arrows from the start, the stance, the way you used the sky to your advantage… I’m amazed how you managed to ‘see’ that color difference and use the contrast as a reference.

That’s not something one can learn… }]

“Of course it is something one can learn. One can learn anything Sera. Learning is a contentious process that goes on from inception to the decay of our mind.

It’s something I can do a little more easily because of the way I see things, but it does not mean no one can learn what I just did.”

[{ I shall remember that… }]

Sera was lost for words since among the rest of them, aside from Alex, she was the only person that understood what Elio did to understand the speed, and trajectory of the disks in a much better way than Alex’s experienced sensory recognition.

Instead of just seeing or hearing and calculating the velocity and direction of the disks, he used the background, the sky as a contract and ‘saw’ every every moment of the disk before calculating the way it was going to move.

It was not simple, it was not something just anyone can do.

One needed a complete understanding of their surroundings, a sense of movement and directions- ‘flow’ in simple terms- and a unique mind that could slow down the naturally moving objects.

“You two… are amazing.”

Miss Rin wanted to say something more than that, but she could not say anymore.

She was mesmerized when she saw the two of them.

She knew the others had not noticed it, but the way the two of them were smiling, the way the two were enjoying this little competition of theirs was exactly something that could be defined as a competition.

Experience tales with empire

They were genuinely competing against one another for the better score while still enjoying themselves.

Which was rare. Pretty rare as she knew.

“Misha… your brother cheated…”

Elio was worried since he was doing this in the game for the first time, but he found this quite doable.

The real archery practice that he had done with his mother- his teacher- was pretty difficult as well. So, this was a fun activity…

Still, even with this level, he considered his skills mediocre.

“Hmm? Brother Elio cheated?”

Alex was crying, at least she was acting as if she was crying. And her effective acting worked in the innocent girl.

“Brother Elio?!” She shouted at him with an angry expression, something she did not want herself.

But she had no choice since he made his big sister cry like that.

“Misha… She’s just acting. And it’s not like I cheated.

The last disk was a deciding factor. That’s why there was only one of them.”

If there was only one red disk to begin with, how could he cheat when he was the one to hit it ultimately?

“Hmm?”

Misha was confused.

She looked up at Alex who was still acting with that broken look, and then she looked up at Elio who seemed to be the one saying the truth.

She looked at her mom who was enjoying her confused look, and she knew she was not going to get any hints or answers from the little slime and gecko who were already running around the exciting hall.

“Misha…”

Alex was taking things too far. The little girl genuinely seemed to be facing a crisis.

The way she was looking up at everyone there for answers or hints on what to do in this situation was an adorable thing…

“Ptfff.”

And, even the one who had hidden her presence all this while could not help but chuckle at her miserable, adorable expression.

“Hmm?”

“Who…?”

But, since she made that unwanted noise, she had ended up revealing herself to the rest of them.

“…?! Hall master?!”

Elio and others had not seen her before so they did not recognise her even though they were surprised by her sudden appearance in that place.

But, even if they did not know who she was, one of her characteristics was something every single one of them recognised instantly.

“Wow…”

“Mommy! Look! An elf!”

She had long pointed ears.

Distinct ears that only three species possessed in the junction of Origins.

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