Today, the Golden Sword Competition will be held right after Prince Ken's engagement. The event was held in front of the palace and was witnessed by the people of the kingdom of Horathomi.
Prince Ken is already standing in front of the palace with the king and queen, waiting for princess Alice to leave the palace.
Prince Ken is eagerly awaiting the princess's arrival. In fact, she even imagined her beauty in a dress.
"Please welcome. Princess Alice of Horathomi."
Everyone cheered and applauded as princess Alice waved her hand and smiled.
However, Prince Ken saw Princess Alice's smile fade. He immediately followed princess Alice's gaze.
"Jerry," inner princess Alice. "I knew that he will come."
Jerry looked at princess Alice in disbelief. The shock left him completely motionless.
"Jerry, you must be perturbed because of the princess 'beauty, right?"
"I'm gonna go. I have to practice."
Jerry's lying. It actually hurts him to know that the one he trusts is lying.
***
Princess Alice slowly walked up to Jerry at the practice place. With just a few steps left, princess Alice stopped.
Jerry, who realized a person's arrival, immediately interrupted his activities. When she learned that it was princess Alice, she bowed, saluted.
"What is Princess Alice doing here?" Jerry asked politely.
Princess Alice was slightly surprised. Jerry really thought of her as someone else.
"I'm sorry for not telling you the truth," Princess Alice lamented.
"Oh, it's all right, Princess," Jerry said. However, with a flat facial expression.
"Are you angry?"
"I have no right to be angry with the princess," Jerry said coldly.
"It's not my wish," princess Alice tried to explain.
"It has nothing to do with me, Princess," says Jerry, smiling forcefully.
"Stop calling me that. You can call me Lisa as you always do when no one is around us," princess Alice said with a big smile.
"I can't, Princess Alice," said Jerry in his formal language.
"Keep your decency, Jerry. It was an order," Princess Alice get annoyed. Jerry was shocked.
The princess couldn't stand Jerry being so cold. Would Jerry treat her differently just because she's a princess?
***
Jerry was trying to hold his skull between the would-be troops. Last night, he woke up from a constant nightmare. That kept her from shutting her eyes until the sun came up.
"Jerry, are you sleeping?" said a trainer teaching theories about war, especially technique with the sword.
Jerry jumped the gun. "Ss-- sorry, Mr. Kazuo," Jerry said, trying to widen his eyes.
Mr. Kazuo just shook his head. After that, he resumed the lesson that had been delayed.
"Hey!" Jirou greeted Jerry aloud.
"My goodness!" Jerry looked up at his head with wistful eyes. Jirou and Ichiro jumped back spontaneously.
"What's wrong with your eyes?" asked Ichiro.
"I couldn't sleep last night."
"Why? Did you have a nightmare?"
"What a horrible dream."
"What are you dreaming about? Tell us about it."
Jerry then described himself as being suddenly put in the dungeon. In his dream, he was decapitated by the king in cold blood.
***
Prince Ken and princess Alice had tea together in the palace garden.
Prince Ken noticed princess Alice, who had been watching her for a while, only looked back at him.
"Princess Alice, don't you like me?" asked Prince Ken.
Princess Alice was surprised. Prince Ken is indeed famous for his forthright attitude. However, little did he know that prince Ken had no problem asking him that way.
"Ah, that's not it." Princess Alice replied unkindly.
"Be honest. I won't scold you."
Even princess Alice didn't want to waste her chance. "Prince Ken, I am doing this at the behest of mother and father."
"Very well," said prince Ken with a smile.
After Prince Ken answered that, Prince Ken stood up at once.
"Are you going to break our engagement?" asked princess Alice, looking up.
Prince Ken smirk. "Of course not." Prince Ken walks and grabs the hand of princess Alice. "I like you," said Prince Ken.
Prince Ken kissed the back of princess Alice's hand with a bow. Then he smiled at princess Alice, who seemed surprised by prince Ken's treatment.
***
The Golden Sword Competition is back in session. This time, Jerry had made sure he would never be that careless again.
"Prince Ken is my strongest opponent, right?"
"Yes."
"Wait? What?"
"You're really gonna fight it?"
"Surrender in the time of prince Ken. He's a man without mercy."
Jerry's not responding. He was soon poised at the arena because of his turn.
"His ambition is high. He couldn't care less about his own life."
"If he dies because of this match, I won't recognize him as a friend."
"Don't overdo it."
Jerry's ready to play. The opponent before him is almost his posture.
Shortly after giving their greetings, they started the fight. The battle goes on very strongly. Jerry was constantly going at it, but his opponent was too frisky.
"What can make?" jerry's inner self.
Jerry ran hard at his opponent. His opponent was ready to cut his head off, but failed because jerry suddenly turned backwards.
Jleb!
"Done!" jerry murmured.
BRUK!
His opponent was instantly paralyzed.
Again and again, the audience was stunned by jerry's actions. This time, however, jerry left the arena with a confident smile.
***
In the days that followed, jerry put up a good fight. So many spectators are cheering him on. Some even brought with them a sign with their name on it.
"Jerry is the dark horse."
"Jerry is unpredictable."
"Jerry is the sword master."
That's some writing on the sign. Jirou and ichiro thus became proud of their friend.
The king and queen always come to see this golden sword competition. They both sat on a throne reserved for the organizer.
"Isn't that the young man you took from the dining hall outside the palace?" asked the queen.
"True."
"You never pick the wrong person."
"Of course. For the prosperity of the kingdom of dear horathomi.
The semifinal round is about to begin. There's only four left. One of them is prince Ken.
Prince Ken is by far his biggest opponent. Still, it doesn't take away his courage.
"The match begins!"
Jerry's using the same technique as before. Around the opponent's body, then stab him in the back. This time, however, his opponent was quite familiar with the attack that jerry made.
Jerry keeps trying to attack his opponent. Not easy in this semi-final round. Of course his opponent is much stronger than before.
"Bad. I was starting to tire out," jerry murmured out of breath.
On the other hand, prince Ken was watching the match in the bleachers. He smiled at jerry's tenacity.
"You're tough enough. I can't underestimate you," prince Ken's inner self. Suddenly his eyes widened when he saw what jerry was doing.
Jerry closed his eyes. It was so dark all of a sudden. Jerry's opponent began to feel a chill from there. And so are the spectators who are now tense. A moment later, Jerry opened his eyes.
WUSSSH!
The wind was heard. A force of the spirit had suddenly hit the body of jerry's opponent very hard. Right through his opponent's heart.
Jerry's opponent held his heart straight through with his eyes wide open. Before long, fresh blood came out of his mouth and he crashed to the ground.
Jerry stood still, the king and queen stood up, and the spectators gaped to their horror.
"The power of the Evil?" prince Ken, who was instantly shocked.
To be continued....