The Adrift Oath

Chapter X: So Much Despair

Yuna curled her fingers around the handle of her blade as she held it tightly next to her chest that was calmly rising up and down

Her blue eyes narrowed as she looked at the challenger that was in front of her dressed in a plated armor befitting of a knight while a two-hander was in his hands, around her were her troops that formed half a circle while the other half was formed by Aralian soldiers

Planting one foot forward in the mud, Yuna slowly approached the Knight who had both hands around the handle of his longsword with the tip of the blade pointed at Yuna

And then in the blink of a flash, he stepped forward and tried to slash Yuna with a rising diagonal slash that she evaded by dodging to the right

Letting out a sharp exhale Yuna immediately bashed against the Aralian with her shoulder to then suddenly thrust right at his chest with her blade that unfortunately for her was deflected by the knight grabbing the blade of his sword with one hand and guarding against the strike as he would with a spear

Locking eyes with each other, it only took a single second of peace before Yuna initiated another blow in the form of a slash from above that the Knight's longsword caught in a high guard

But that was exactly what she wanted as she then suddenly lowered her body to deliver a sideway kick right into his chest and before he could even think of retaliating Yuna dashed to drive her blade across his throat

And yet she gritted her teeth as the space between the helmet and the chest was covered by mail, completely deflecting the blow she delivered

With a grunt, the knight's counterattacked her failure with a downward strike that Yuna blocked by grabbing the tip of her blade and covering her head with her sword, and even then she felt the entirety of the blown on her weary hands

But as soon as that blow touched the surface of her curved sword, she flipped her blade to the side making it throw the knight's balance before she quickly swept the feet of the knight as he immediately fell on his back

His helmet fell off, revealing a silver-haired man while his red eyes eyed the Yuna that was standing over him, in one hand she had her own sword while in the other she held his from the blade

He couldn't even take a good look at her face that was hidden behind a face mask that resembled one of an Asian demon

And as he thought he was going to get killed by a masked warrior, Yuna tossed his blade at his side

"Go home Aralian" She said, her sharp and fearsome eyes locked with the beaten officer

"This is not worth it" And with those final words, Yuna walked back to her side as she sheathed her blade back into its scabbard, single-handedly winning the duel, and in turn, winning her side some time to prepare until the next attack

....

In a barely lit tent in the middle of a military encampment was a lonely Yuna that let out a sigh, she was sitting down on her bed with a sword laid down on her lap, sheathed in its blood-red scabbard

With a cautious gaze, she lifted the sword to eye level, grabbing the handle and the sheath with her other hand before slowly pulling the blade out of it, barely able to see her reflection on its surface from how void black the color of the blade was

Her eyes could then see the cloth that was hanged to cover the entrance of her tent move slightly, and it sure wasn't the wind

With a singular motion, she sheathed the sword back inside its scabbard as her eyes looked past the sword in her hand