Marianne and the Forbidden Codex: A Fire Emblem Three Houses story

Moonlight

The next day, they all met in the yard of the Riegan family mansion. Claude greeted everyone in a polite but animated manner. When he passed in front of Marianne, he only made the gesture of raising his thumb, while winking at her. The girl was clear about what he wanted to say and why he expressed it that way.

Just like the day before, Holst and Leonard began to train, while Marianne and Claude would play the training duo. Hilda, meanwhile, would stay to finish adjusting all the details to search for her companions from the House of the Golden Deer, as well as the largest number of troops that followed them.

Leonard and his training partner kept up the pace from yesterday, although today Leonard seemed calmer. Meanwhile, Marianne and Claude got ready to begin. Before the young heir could articulate a sentence to start the session, the light blue haired girl charged at him at full speed. While she wasn't overly strong, her speed, precision, and ability to elude her opponent were her forte, and Claude knew it. Despite this, he was able to notice that something was making her enhance those abilities like he had never seen before.

Claude was forced to back off several times. The speed that using an axe allowed him was far from the pace that she displayed using her rapier. Suddenly, the young heir stepped back and exchanged that axe for a mini-bow. They fought some more, while he fired a series of arrows that Marianne dodged or repelled with uncanny precision.

It was impossible for Claude to keep his distance. His defeat was inevitable: shortly after walking, the girl placed the point of her rapier near his neck, while her light blue hair swayed in an uproar from the vertiginous duel.

"Wow, Marianne..." Claude celebrated, dropping his gun so he could applaud his companion." I've never seen you fight like this. The professor would be surprised by such a display of fighting prowess."

"Thank you, Claude... I tried my best," she replied, putting down her weapon. "Excuse me if I overdid it."

It was inevitable for Leonard to watch out of the corner of his eye what was happening in parallel to his training with Holst. He hadn't actually seen her in battle, but from what he understood, her role was support. As he saw it now it seemed absurd to him; the girl was quite a warrior.

"Hey, attend to our fight, boy!" Holst exclaimed, approaching his sparring partner, delivering a blow to his belly that sent him flying.

Leonard was thrown about twenty feet before falling to the ground. It was left dirty by the ground and somewhat bruised by the fall. It's not that it was something extremely painful for him, because of what he had already experienced, but the biggest wound experienced at that moment was that of his ego. While Marianne had put up a brilliant fight, he was literally biting the dust.

Almost instantly after he fell, Marianne realized what had happened. She ran out without giving any prior signal to Claude to go attend to the young man.

"Are you okay Leonard?" she asked, taking the hands of his friend, who had turned to lie on his back.

"Ha! Yes, Marianne, it's more the surprise than the pain, believe me," he answered, while he laughed at the pain and the stupidity of the scene in his opinion.

"You must be more careful... Now I'm going to heal you," she added, with an expression of somewhat unwarranted concern at the situation in the young man's eyes.

Marianne was a somewhat "standard" warrior in several areas: her swordsmanship was good, but nothing compared to tough swordsmen like Felix or Petra. As for the use of white magic, she was a good healer, but she was a bit behind Mercedes or Linhardt.

To the surprise of Claude, who was watching the scene from a distance, the Healing spell used by Marianne this time far surpassed anything he had seen on her before. It could be said that she was perfectly on a level with the girl from the Blue Lions' house. The young heir approached his companions and said: