The immortal black snake just wants to live simply

"...Stop talking nonsense and come on."

Zofia collapsed.

"How should I put it? It's a fate to meet you every time I compete~ You lost again."

"Damn it, just wait for me..."

Zofia fell again.

"I have to say, this is really a surprising fate... This is the first time you have met me on the field, [The Whipblade Knight Under One Person]?"

"..."

Zofia, who fell to the ground again, looked at the blond Fedia man with a familiar smile on his face, and his fists hardened.

This is the closest she has come to entering the triennial Knights Championship again and winning the championship.

Top sixteen!

But I didn't expect that this guy would always be matched up with me every time no matter how big or small the match was.

In the selection stage of the knight competition season, except for the knights and grand knights who directly participate in the special tournament, a personal points system is adopted.This stage theoretically allows anyone to sign up to participate, whether they are members of the Knights, independent knights without titles, or infected people.

In other words, even if Zofia loses to Arthur, if she has enough points, she can still be promoted to the next stage of the competition.

Then I changed the venue and lost to this guy with a playful smile.

'This guy is too strong. '

Zofia, who fell to the ground, looked at Arthur's hand that he extended to her again, and slapped it away angrily.

"I can stand up on my own without your help."

Zofia put her hands on the ground and stood up unsteadily.

After fighting in the knightly competition for so long, Zofia has learned how to protect herself.

After all, knight competition is just a stadium, not a battlefield.

The spirit of sacrifice that Zofia learned from her family cannot be said to be useless, but it would seem a bit too pedantic to use it in knight competition.

You only have one life on the battlefield, but as one of the signatures of knightly competition, the Whipblade Knight will not only participate in one game.

Compared with overdrafting your body to win a game, and keeping a low profile, training hard, and regrouping, the latter is definitely more cost-effective.

However, she still rejected the 'help' from sponsors and companies and insisted on participating in the battle openly.

Even except for Arthur, no one is willing to respond to him in the same way.

Since the first knight tournament she participated in, her unwillingness to lose to Arthur prompted her to relentlessly improve her physical fitness and sword skills.

As time went by, her strength grew faster and faster, and the Pegasus blood in her body gradually awakened, and she was even able to occasionally fight with the returning ranger Ma Enna.

But alas...she always met Arthur in the middle of the game.

And then lost.

This is her second time participating in the Knight Championship...and reaching the top [-] is her best result so far.

Looking at the people in the surrounding audience holding up [warm congratulations to the Whipblade Knight for losing to the Laughing Knight with both hands] and [Together!Together! 】【This situation will be difficult to end without marriage】and other strange signs, Zofia only felt a headache.

This is a life forced by Arthur and some of his fans.

The first time he lost to Arthur was just an ordinary duel in the eyes of the audience.

Losing to Arthur for the second time, Zofia's fans will only lament their idol's bad luck.

He lost to Arthur for the third time. Regarding this coincidence, some good people began to make plans, trying to make some fun out of this fate.The reporters from the Red Wine News also began to add fuel to the fire and stir up the heat.

After the [-]th time... it became a topic that people who eat melon talk about.

No one doubts the fairness of the Cavaliers athletics draw.

Who can stand up to the business federations that control the power of public opinion?

What's more, every time Zofia rushed all the way before meeting Arthur, she could even defeat the dark horse and the veteran knight.

Zofia, who has the blood of the gods and good education, and is also working hard herself, naturally has this strength, and there is no need to be Arthur's stepping stone.

It's not worth it.

But as soon as she met Arthur, the former champion of the knightly competition, and the Laughing Knight who debuted almost at the same time as Whipblade but was at the peak of his debut, she felt frustrated.

Zofia is really tired. She has gained enough wealth through the knight competition and does not want the knight competition to affect her life.

She came up with the idea of ​​​​retirement.

After all, although she was used to the existence of knight competition, she never liked it.

Unlike Arthur Pendragon, she can accept flowers and crowds so naturally, enjoy the fanatical emotions of fans, and endure the trouble of being caught by unscrupulous reporters in her private life.

After all, she was not as adaptable to the life of a competitive knight as Arthur.

……

'why is it you again? '

Arthur looked at Zofia who slapped her hand away and was not offended.

After all, as a 'destined' opponent, these four years have allowed Arthur to have a deeper understanding of this side branch of the Linguang family, the Whipblade Knight Zofia.

This blond Kuranta woman with a good family background is a bit domineering, but she is not essentially bad.

After the initial battle, he also came to express his gratitude to his former subordinates...but he seemed to be dissatisfied with himself for being so contemptuous of traditional chivalry, but he did not show it.

But this is too strange.

Of course, Arthur had intervened in the order of participation in the knight competition, in order to avoid some bad scandals... There is no way, as an excellent idol, it is normal to have many female fans~ You can't lose the big for the small.

And the [boss] of the Capte Group even personally issued a request that Zofia should not always confront Arthur.

The bad impact on Arthur's reputation is immeasurable!

It does work, but not much.

After all, according to the rules of the knight competition, at the stage of the special competition, as both of them advance, the two sides will definitely encounter each other.

It's not like they haven't tried to arrange strong opponents for Zofia. Those dark horses and veteran knights came just to defeat Zofia midway.

But they were all defeated by Zofia.

Not only that, it also greatly enriched Zofia's combat experience and awareness.

As for the more powerful knights, the sponsors and companies behind them are not willing to compromise for the benefit of the Capte Group.

Therefore, the 'fate' between [Laughing Knight] and [Whipblade Knight] came into being.

They could only delay the order of fighting Zofia, but they could not prevent Zofia from fighting Arthur again.

……

"...I'm retiring."

"why?"

"..."

"Tired? Finally realized that the so-called aboveboardness is just a selling point in the eyes of the audience, and it is just a marketing tool in the eyes of the Chamber of Commerce? No one cares about the true spirit of chivalry at all?"

"...Arthur, you are really difficult to get along with in private."

"Haha, it hurts a lot~ Then I will take the championship trophy to the top [-] award ceremony and laugh at it... I mean congratulations to you, after all, you are also [the whip blade under one person] Knight] [The Laughing Knight’s eternal defeat]~ I will definitely attend your curtain call~”

"shut up!"

In the rest area under the arena, the Whipblade Knight was once again angered by the Laughing Knight.

After every duel in the past four years, the two always behaved like this.

Chapter 173 Black Snake: I still want to be a competitive knight after being so quiet!

"Haha, how about it? It's very honorable to have a knight who has won the knight's competition championship twice in a row come to your curtain call ceremony. Isn't it particularly honorable?"

"...Arthur, there are reporters there."

"Ahem... Miss Zofia, I am honored to be invited to attend your award ceremony. In the past four years, we have been both opponents and friends. I have learned a lot from fighting with you, and many battles can be called A classic. If there is still a chance, let us sharpen each other and promote each other next time..."

"puff!"

"...This joke is not funny."

"You just don't like people making fun of you. You have such double standards sometimes."

"Haha, shouldn't it be clear to the Whipblade Knight who has been thinking about how to deal with me every day for four years? The Laughing Knight is hypocritical and has double standards, but so what? I just need to maintain my good public image. "

"So you implement the infected knight system and invest a large amount of bonuses into charity foundations, just to maintain your own image?"

"After all, as an idol, you must have a unique shining point~ Just like the Whipblade Knight's signature is the Whipblade, in addition to smiles and joy, the Laughing Knight also has a kind heart... Haha!"

"..."

Zofia hates this guy who always smiles playfully.

Both on the field and in private.

This guy always has such a sunny... such a dazzling smile on his face.

Even though I was discussing the recent scandal between the two of them with him very seriously, this guy always had an irritating smile on his face.

Zofia occasionally thinks darkly in her heart:

'If you hit him in the face with a whip, he will definitely not be able to laugh. '

After all, his contemptuous and indifferent attitude made Zofia feel very angry.

Chilling!

Zofia is still a young girl!

What's with that nonchalant look on your face?

But Arthur really didn't care.

Because he suddenly discovered that in addition to the so-called 'boyfriend fans', there are also fans like 'cp fans'.

Moreover, the number of fans actually slightly exceeds that of 'boyfriend fans'.

So it doesn't matter to Arthur who pursues the number of fans.

"Goodbye~my eternal defeated general~"

"……goodbye."

Looking at the familiar, false and hearty smile of the blond Fidia, Zofia felt a little reluctant for some reason.

'...What on earth was I thinking? '

'Damn it, I must have been affected by the rumors published by those unscrupulous reporters. '

……

Zofia retired.

No matter how much she and Arthur's cp fans refused to accept it, or even went to the organizer of the knight competition to protest, they could not change the fact that the Whipblade Knight retired.

At the same time, the second-generation works about [Crazy Laughter and Whipblade] in the knight peripheral souvenir shop were sold out by those heartbroken CP fans.

After all, that might be the last issue.

Weird short CP-oriented novels such as [Eternal Rival, Eternal Friend], [The Overbearing Whip Blade’s Extraordinary Moves] and [The Laughing Knight Can’t Smile] were all sold out.

Although Arthur and Zofia have been working together to crack down on these works, there is a market wherever there is consumption.

It is difficult to completely eliminate the circulation of these works, and Arthur and Zofia cannot be too ruthless.

The main reason is that the sponsors behind the two cannot be too ruthless.

After all, fans are still very important to competitive knights.

But now it's different.

With the wealth accumulated over the years and the freedom from the constraints of her identity as a competitive knight, Zofia, who can be said to have returned home in glory to a certain extent, can uproot those "gray industries" without any scruples.

She was annoyed by the rumors.

First of all, she and Arthur were innocent, and at best they could only be regarded as opponents who fought against each other frequently.