1Summary/Disclaimer: Time for another chapter of Swordsman and Slayer. Enjoy the 900-word chapter. I don't own SAO, Reki Kawahara and a few others do.
the duel between Clement and Alice was becoming intense.
Alice deflected a slash from Clement as he went for another blade lock.
"You know it takes a lot of training to learn how to use the blade lock technique, right?" Alice asked as she knocked Clement to the ground.
While Clement was starting to grow closer to the level 50… or was it higher? Alice forgot when she had maxed out her character.
None of Clement's hits damaged her armor before the repair runes within it would kick in and fix it.
Alice knew Clement was aware she couldn't be defeated by him in combat. She could easily knock him down and out without all the higher ranked gear on her character.
Clement was starting to grow annoyed though since the duels would end with him only receiving a measly 25XP while the next level was several thousand.
Alice found it adorable that he was becoming frustrated enough to frail angerly at her which only led to her defending. Alice would then knock his health and armor to nothing with one hit which caused him more anger.
Alice watched as Clement growled in annoyance and rushed her, slashing away which Alice allowed to chip away at her armor.
Another repair rune activated and healed it as Alice smirked. She reached out with her free hand and grabbed at Clement.
"NO!" Alice lifted him off the ground with one hand and looked amused at the swordsmen.
"You done yet or do you want to have another temper tantrum? "She questioned as she flung him to the ground. she watched as his avatar was forced to collapse from lack of health before she walked over.
She pushed him to the ground and sat on him as Clement let out a growl of frustration.
"You know getting hissy isn't going to do anything. You went from being all confident to…" He cut her off which caused her to roll her eyes.
"You literally always do all the hard work, how am I supposed to enjoy the game if I have to deal with you doing all the combat?" Clement questioned, his sword laid away from him.
He hated Alice being vastly superior to him in combat. She could wipe out almost any enemy in one or 2 hits. The bosses were the only enemies able to challenge her and even those would fall given a short while.
"I'm training you, dork. You forget that you're my partner? The event coming up requires 2 people, your starting to get close to my level, you know." Alice allowed Clement to climb to his feet while he looked at her.
He had no real reason to be cranky, but he kept getting annoyed every time he and her went to a raid.
Then again? He had a reason to be annoyed, Alice had put all of her time into mastering her character and making sure she'd be ready for any fights coming up. he hadn't and it annoyed him with no end in sight that was support for someone else at the moment.
"C'mon, your only allowed on partner in your circle at the moment and that's permanent, I chose you, remember?" She asked.
Clement sighed, grabbed his blade and looked at Alice before shaking his head.
"Fine, I know when it's stupid to argue. I'll do that, but I'm just sick of being your support. I always get to be your support and it's becoming annoying; you know?" He looked away with annoyance.
Alice sighed and bent down next to her friend and partner; she patted his head which made him even more annoyed but only caused him to gently shrugged at her hand.
"I know what's going on, and I get your mad. I was low level before and I struggled to do everything. I couldn't enjoy the perks; I didn't know what to do to get the xp I needed to get to the next rank. I know what it's like and I'm going to help you… I just don't need your stupid crap about not being able to keep up in combat with me, ok? You don't have to keep up with me, I have a rune that gives all the xp to you since I'm maxed out. I'll fight and your help me by taking care of the cannon fodder enemies, deal? You need to be able to focus on the picture, you're not going to be able to catch up if you keep focusing on the little things." Alice stated.
Clement sighed, looked at her and then nodded before looking away. Alice bonked his head enough to make him lose a hard chunk of it and grunt in pain before looking at her as she smirked and playfully looked away.
Clement could only sigh and hum as the duo looked at the sky above.
Author Notes
Phew, another chapter done! I'm sorry for it being short, but I don't know if I'm going to update this story much more. I want to thank the person who enjoys Clement, I am going to try and improve his character down the road. Next chapter will show Clement and Alice meeting up again in real life and will be in 4 weeks or so if I do it. until then, Lighting Wolf out!
Ps: I am maybe making a Yu-Gi-Oh story and Ino is on Sunday or so.
