- ?Hell of Roses : Exploding Roses -

  *BOOM *BOOM *BOOM

  A series of explosions were heard from the roses. One rose alone had a powerful enough explosion with a loud enough explosion sound, let alone if dozens of roses exploded in succession. The students who were watching were shocked to see the explosions. Meanwhile, Princess Amelia was seen smiling with satisfaction seeing me trapped among the roses. Until finally the explosions from the roses stopped and made the arena filled with smoke from the explosions.

  "What's wrong, Rid? Have you fallen first? I thought you could have 'fun' more than this?," asked Princess Amelia.

  "Don't worry, I haven't fallen yet, Princess Amelia," I said from behind the smoke.

  - ?Flame Sword Art, Great Flame Slash -

  Without waiting for the smoke in the arena to clear, I launched a fire slash at Princess Amelia from behind the smoke. The fire slash was aimed at Princess Amelia. But Princess Amelia just smiled seeing that.

  - ?San Quentine Art : Hell Rose Slash -

  Princess Amelia also launched a slash towards my fire slash. A slash covered in blood-red roses and the slash hit my fire slash and made my fire slash disappear, as did Princess Amelia's own slash. And after that, the smoke surrounding the arena disappeared.

  "Thank God you haven't fallen Rid, because it would be a shame if you only 'had fun' for a while in my new rose garden," said Princess Amelia.

  "You seem very happy, huh, Princess? Even though earlier you said you wouldn't forgive me with an angry expression," I said.

  "I'm angry? Maybe you saw wrong, look at my expression, I've always been smiling," said Princess Amelia.

  Indeed, since Princess Amelia used the 'Hell of Roses' ?magic, she has always smiled. But the smile she showed was a scary smile.

  "You better move from that place soon, Rid. Because my roses will grow again," said Princess Amelia.

  And sure enough, the roses that had exploded and shattered began to grow again into roses that had not yet bloomed. Which means that if this rose blooms, it will explode again.

  Knowing that, I immediately moved and this time I moved directly towards Princess Amelia.

  "You are very kind to tell me about that, Princess Amelia," I said.

  But Princess Amelia just smiled without responding to my words. When I was moving towards Princess Amelia, suddenly something shot quickly and almost hit my head. But I realized that and immediately avoided it.

  "What is that?," I said confused.

  I looked around me to find what had attacked me earlier. And suddenly, something started to shoot back towards my head but I also avoided this. I looked around again and finally I realized something. The roses around me were all blooming, but they were all facing me. When I noticed one of the roses, suddenly one of its petals shot towards me. I who saw it immediately avoided it.

  "So something that tried to attack me was the petals of these roses?," I thought.

  "It seems like you've realized it, Rid," said Princess Amelia.

  - ?Hell of Roses : ?Invasion of Rose Petals -

  The roses began to launch their rose petals. From the beginning they only launched one by one rose petals towards me, this time they launched the rose petals all at once. I tried to avoid the shooting of the petals but wherever I moved, the roses kept shooting their petals at me.

  "Wherever I go, these roses always shoot their petals at me. It seems like I have to burn these roses even though they will grow again later. But this can prevent these roses from shooting me for a while," I thought.

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  - ?Flame Sword Art : Great Flame Slash'

  I launched a large fire slash towards the roses and the roses burned to the ground. After the roses burned, I didn't miss this opportunity to move back towards Princess Amelia.

  "Why are you in such a hurry, Rid? Let's have 'fun' again," said Princess Amelia.

  After saying that, suddenly a large rose stem appeared from the ground and tried to wrap around me. However, I quickly avoided it, but the rose stem continued to appear and tried to wrap around me. Until finally I was trapped and surrounded by the large rose stems. The stems twisted and prepared to attack me at any time. Moreover, the stems were also surrounded by sharp thorns. If I managed to get wrapped around by the stem, it would be over.

  - Hell of Roses : Torment of Rose Stems -

  The rose stems slowly began to attack me one by one. Then I slashed the trunks with my fire sword. Even though I kept slashing the rose stems, the cut rose stems immediately grew back. In addition to trying to attack me like a whip or trying to wrap around my body, the rose stems also shot their thorns at me, but I managed to avoid them. After getting tired of trying to attack me one by one, all the rose stems immediately attacked me at once. I who was in the middle of the rose stems was like a trapped mouse, at least that's what other people thought.

  - Flame Sword Art, Ring of Fire Slash -

  I launched a slash by spinning as if forming a circle. The rose stems surrounding me were burned to ashes, as were the roses. Seeing me who had successfully burned all the rose stems, Princess Amelia clapped her hands and smiled.

  *clap *clap *clap

  "Amazing, Rid. You even managed to get through 3 types of my rose hells. However......," said Princess Amelia.

  As Princess Amelia stopped talking, the unbloomed and bloomed roses and the large rose stems began to grow back around me.

  "..... This hell is not over even if you burn them all," said Princess Amelia.

  "Your technique is really troublesome, Princess Amelia. But I'm tired of this game of yours. I will end this soon," I said.

  "These roses will grow back if they are cut or burned, so the only way is to let the roses remain but at the same time restrain them from moving and attacking. It seems like I have to use 'that' magic, even though it will cause a commotion among the other students because I can use this magic besides Irene. This match made me realize that I was too arrogant and thought that I could finish all matches without using magic. It seems like I have to throw away my thoughts about that," I thought.

  "Do you want to end this game? It's not you who decides that, but I who decides it, Rid," said Princess Amelia.

  After Princess Amelia said that, the roses and their stems that were around me started to attack me. But I casually put one of my hands on the arena floor.

  "You are very strong that I had to use this magic, Princess Amelia. I don't regret entering this academy because I can fight strong people like you," I said.

  Before the attacks of the roses and their stems hit me, I activated my magic.

  - Ice Magic, Full Frost -

  The entire arena froze due to my magic, as did the roses in the arena and their stems that almost hit me.

  The students who were watching were surprised to see that. Irene was also surprised when she saw that I could use ice magic.

  Princess Amelia, who had been smiling until now, now lost her smile.

  "Ice magic? So you can use that magic too? But whatever magic you have, it won't be able to stop my roses," said Princess Amelia.

  Princess Amelia tried to move the frozen roses, but she couldn't.

  "Why won't my roses move? Even though they're frozen, they should be able to move and free themselves from the ice," said Princess Amelia in surprise.

  "It seems like you're also used to fighting ice magic users, but don't think my ice magic is the same as the ice magic users you've fought before. Now it's time to end this," I said.

  - Ice Skating -

  I darted towards Princess Amelia by skating on the ice arena. Meanwhile, Princess Amelia kept trying to move the frozen roses but couldn't. Before approaching Princess Amelia, I prepared to launch a technique

  - ?Ice Magic : ?Frozen Sword -

  I changed my sword from being a fire sword to a frozen ice sword. Irene who saw that was surprised.

  "That technique, don't tell me...," thought Irene.

  I've sparred against Irene many times and often faced her technique, so you could say I've learned her technique just by watching it.

  "Forgive me, Irene. I'll borrow your family's technique first," I said.

  Princess Amelia gradually became annoyed because the frozen roses did not move at all.

  "Tch, these roses are hopeless. I will defeat you with my rapier," said Princess Amelia.

  Princess Amelia also approached me. Then she launched an attack.

  - San Quentine Art : Hell Rose Slash -

  I also returned her attack.

  - San Lucia Art, Freezing Air Slash -

  Our weapons clashed and made the building in this academy shake quite hard. But this weapon clash did not last long, Princess Amelia's rapier began to freeze because of my attack. Princess Amelia was surprised to see that.

  "This is my victory, Princess Amelia," I said.

  I managed to win the weapon duel and sent Princess Amelia flying into the wall of the arena behind her.

  *BOOM

  A thud was heard as Princess Amelia hit the wall.

  Her frozen rapier slipped from her hand and fell to the floor of the arena and shattered into pieces. After launching the slash, I stared at the wall that Princess Amelia had hit.

  "Even though it was only for a moment, I had quite a bit of 'fun' in the hell you created, Princess Amelia," I said.

  -To be continued