A Certain Boy Of A Valkyrie Academy (Honkai Impact 3 Fanfic) Volume 1

Chapter 40: A Spar with Rita

Glynne disappear in a flashed leaving only a boom sound and a dust cloud. However, Rita was able to follow his movements and swipe her weapon downwards to her right.

Clang~ the sound of metal echoed in the battlefield as the boy appears holding both of his daggers up to avoid the blade from reaching him.

"Oh my, I didn't think you could move that fast now." Rita said while a smile formed on her face. She added a bit of strength on her grip on her heavy looking scythe. The boy's hands begun to shake as he struggles to hold it up.

"Tsk" Glynne click his tongue. A contest of strength is clearly something he would lose at. He quickly redirected the scythe's blade to the side using the white knife and tried to attack the maid with the other.

The boy widened his eyes when another sound of metal clashing was heard again. This time, Rita parried his knife with the tip of the handle. "Might want to watch out for this."

Glynne's eyes was able to see the scythe moving towards his head. His reflexes kick in a nick of time and dodges by leaning his head backwards. It's like a slow motion, his eyes observed the sharp blade passing above as it is just a few inches away from connecting.

Continuing to lean and basically do a backflip, he kick the ground and took some distance between him and Rita. The boy felt a sweat running down his forehead as the attack was awfully close for comfort. If the maid didn't gave a heads up, he felt like his head would be cut off. Glynne once again drop down into his stance and sharpened his senses. He is closely observing the maid as she is only standing in the middle of the arena without any care.

"Hm, I thought you gonna show me something?" Rita questioned seeing how the boy isn't coming after that few exchange. She let out a giggle as if to mock the boy's actions.

Glynne can't help but have a wry smile. He isn't gonna fall for that trick as he knows he can't just carelessly approach the maid just like before. However if he didn't move now, this would mean that he is giving Rita a turn to attack. This clearly spells danger for him, as such he begun running, not towards the maid, but around her.

There! — Glynne spotted an opportunity and disappeared while leaving a BOOM sound. Then he reappeared on Rita's left side and attempted to stabbed her.

Rita did a step back to dodge and the boy flew in front of her. However, Glynne quickly planted his feet on the ground and spun around to do a roundhouse kick. As usual though, it still didn't hit.

"You know, you should be careful when unleashing heavy attacks." Rita said as she grabbed the boy's leg and toss him to the side.

Glynne was able to to recover his stance on time and uses both of his feet and knives to stop from further sliding on the ground. He raise the black knife over his head and threw it towards Rita.

The speed and power behind the throw wasn't really that impressive. As it was mentioned before, he was not the guy who is proficient in handling knives for battle. Rita was able to deduct this as only just a decoy. However she still choose to fall for it as she deflected it using the flat side of the blade. Of course, this has manage to block her line of sight.

As she was expecting, another sound of something exploding can be heard while this happened. When she finally removed the scythe on her way, Glynne was nowhere to be seen.

"Up, huh" Rita muttered as she concluded basing on how the dust cloud was formed. She look up to see the boy has jump to the air. "What are you doing, did you develop some wings perhaps?" she mocks him while also confused why he did that. Being midair is just basically saying you're free to attack me since the boy cannot really dodge or block effectively.

However the maid was surprised when Glynne started positioning himself as if there is a platform on the air. His eyes are directly staring at her while he curved up and positioned his feet behind him. His actions was like him getting ready to pounce at her. No... It is just like that.

A burst of honkai energy came out from his feet and launched him towards Rita in high speed. She was surprised at what happened but seeing how the boy is only going into a straight line, it was not hard predict his next step. Or so she thought.

Glynne was smirking as he saw the maid getting ready to intercept him. He swipe his arm to the left and let out another small burst of energy. It was a successful as his flight path had deviated a bit to the right.

The scythe's blade passed through his left almost hitting him by a paper-thin margin. He did a somersault as his feet skid along the ground. Stabbing his dagger and using it as a pivot, He quickly repositioned himself to take another leap. This time his aim was the handkerchief tied on Rita's right wrist. Honkai energy once again gathered on his legs.

However he was surprised when Rita turned around and met his eyes mid-flight. On her face was that of a satisfaction as the smile of hers are somehow sending shivers on his spine.

"Ugh!" all the air in his lungs was forcefully came out as the maid decided to met him by striking him using her knee on his stomach. Considering with how fast Glynne was moving, it was lucky how he didn't cough up blood due to Rita calculating and not putting too much force to avoid doing a lot of damage.

It still enough to make people unconscious though. As Glynne's sight are becoming hazy, he gritted his teeth and let go of his weapons. It was his last ditch effort, he took Rita off-guard as he grabbed both of her arms and bring her along down to the ground.

"It's my win.... " Glynne muttered, looking at Rita who is on top of him.  It was not soon that he lose consciousness letting go of his grip on her wrist which is where the handkerchief was tied to.

"Silly boy... " Rita let out a sign of defeat as she seems also happy at the boy's satisfied face.

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"Mnn" Glynne groaned as he slowly opened his eyes. He got up while holding his head as his mind seems to be a bit hazy. He tries looking around to see a familiar looking white room.

"Oh, you woke up" He didn't even need to look who just came in. From the voice alone, he could already tell who it is. "Are you feeling anything sore?" she asked as she put a plate of bunny shaped apple slices on his bedside.

Glynne rubbed his stomach area to check if it still hurt. So far so good, nothing seems to be of concern. He was lucky that it isn't like last time when he was also sent into the clinic due to a certain someone kicking him in the same area.

"I see, looks like my calculations are still on point." The maid said, seemingly proud of her feat. She picked one of the sliced apple and tried feeding it at the boy.

"Still though, isn't necessary to knock me out?" Glynne retorted as he pushed away her hand. He then grabbed another one from the plate and put it in his mouth. This action seems to displeased the person in front of him.

"It cannot be help, it is not like I could stop you and point my blade at your neck." Rita replied. She picked up the plate and put it away from the boy's reach. Once again, she tries feeding the boy it the apple slice on her hand.

"Fair point." Glynne nodded as he agrees with her argument. His mouth now refused to open as the maid is beginning to force the apple in his mouth. He tries holding back her hands as he moves away his face. However, the maid is physically stronger as she pin him down and forced him to surrender.

Glynne has a sweat running down his forehead. He slowly opened his mouth as the maid put the apple slice inside. Seeing the boy chewing the food she feed him, her lips curved into sweet smile.

Unfortunately for him though, that was not the last one. There are still some slices left on the plate. Glynne shoulders slumped down in defeat. Despite winning against her in the sparring match, he can't seem enjoy that sweet taste of victory because he now being forced to give up and let Rita pamper him.

But like seriously though, ain't that basically a reward?!

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Ahem, I really am bad at fight choreography.... I should have paid attention to a lot of action sequences whenever I watched or read....

Anyway, Thanks for reading!!