Editing Rune Soldier Louie:Volume1 Chapter5 (section)

===Part 4 – A slow man===

The room wasn’t that big, numerous magical treasures were scattered about the place, you could literally smell the ancient magic coming from them.

They were in the sorceress Ila’s room, only Louie and her were in it.

Both of them had just come back from the Temple of Mylee, they had something to eat, then went to Ila’s room.

“How are you going to do it?”

Ila said, while she has cleaning and moving stuff around the room. Meanwhile, Louie was just sitting down on a nearby chair.

“I’ll do what I can.”

Louie had to accept this challenge, he was obviously frustrated.

He had to duel a knight called Conrad from Ramliearth, a neighbouring kingdom.

Louie didn’t really want to fight Melissa’s fiancé, but he couldn’t back out at this point, he had to prevent Melissa from going back and marrying someone she doesn’t love.

“All for love, I have to fight him for the woman he loves. There’s no way getting around this.”

“Well, you could always kill Melissa.”

“Ila……”

A chill went down Louie’s spine, he didn’t know if Ila was joking or being serious.

“I could always run away from the fight.”

“That priestess was the one who decided for you, she only wants to take advantage of you.”

“Yes, she forced me into this.”

Both of them looked at each other, the feeling was mutual.

“But running’s not your style, surely you don’t want to give her to that knight?”

Ila coughed, to arouse the attention of Louie.

“Of course not.”

Louie immediately said.

“Well, you are a man, so you should defend your woman.”

Ila smiled gently.

“Whatever the reason, I’ve got to fight that guy.”

“How will you win?”

“Sometimes you’ve got to rely on luck. Also, that knight looks kind of weak, I really don’t know what he was thinking……”

“That knight……”

Ila murmured, something was troubling her.

She wanted to tell Louie what it was, but she reckoned he had enough things to deal with.

“If you’ve got luck on your side, then you might win.”

She then stared at Louie.

“Though, if the opposite happens, do you have any last words?”

Ila joked. But she wasn’t joking, she knew this was the likely outcome.

“There’s no need for that sort of thing.”

“You’re so boring, want to help me gather these magical treasures?”

Louie thought about this, was he boring? However, he didn’t want to ask that question to Ila.

“Well, I think I should practice some fencing first.”

“Fine, you do that while I do this.”

“What?”

“Do you have to ask, collecting magical treasures obviously.”

Ila had a serious look on her face.

Louie suddenly felt a moment of regret, he felt that he shouldn’t have asked that question.

Then, Louie left Ila’s room. He didn’t want to talk anymore.

Because he stayed up studying with Ila last night, he was tired, and went to sleep early. He wanted to deal with all his troubles tomorrow, not today.

He went fast asleep. Regardless of whatever studies he had the next day, he only concentrating on training.

After five days, Louie heard some rumours.

Five robbers broke into a hotel in Ohfun, and apparently a knight beat the whole lot of them.

The entire town was talking about this guy.

Louie and Conrad’s duel was tomorrow.