Chapter 46: Fake Out

I was busy now since I had a lot of things left to do: plan the wedding alongside Chloe, make sure Jonathan was secured to be captured in the dungeon, patrol around the perimeter of Camelot, fighting against the smaller (but increasingly stronger) army, and resting. Everyone congratulated us when they found out about the engagement while George said that he expected to be married before any of us. I really don't know what else someone could pile up onto me, but Shiro suddenly told me to meet him in the training area.

     "Hey Shiro, I'm really busy so I can't train just yet plus I have a lot of things to do. I have to plan a wedding, and my patrol shift is coming up." I looked at his eyes and he looked absolutely livid. He shot multiple spells towards me which I slashed right through only for them to explode on impact.

     "You hated everyone before and now suddenly everyone likes you. You even have the girl I love! Vicente, if I win this fight you have to call off the engagement and break up with her. You don't deserve her! If you win, I won't bother you and your marriage will go off without a hitch plus you'll have my 8th rank." Shiro was hitting me with multiple spells while I stood there and took them. Has he been holding this all in from the moment he heard that we were dating? I can't imagine what that was like for him to have to act nice, or as nice as he can be to me. He was probably right about me not deserving her, but that wasn't for him to decide on. I took a fighting stance and charged while firing a spell of my own. Shiro dispelled it, but it was only a distraction for my real attack, I hadn't completely figured out how I was able to not waste power but, this was the first battle where I would learn. Shiro had trouble blocking all of the attacks which let me get in a couple of slashes onto his body. His cloak wasn't too damaged from the war, but I could definitely feel that he was fatigued from all the mana usage which gave me the idea to try to paralyze him even though I didn't agree to his terms. Something tells me that he would have made me agree to those terms if I lost and he would follow them if lost.

     "Use skill: Paralysis Eyes. Use skill: Conqueror Style- Basic Vertical Slash." I wasted power again, but a little less than before. I continued on with the same skill until I figured out how to not waste power which took about 2 hours of fighting with Shiro. I changed over to normal swings to work on that which took 2 more hours of fighting to figure how to not waste power which took a whole lot of focus. Shiro had a lot of trouble with me when I completely figured it out and eventually I shattered his barrier and had my blade on his neck.

     "I win Shiro, your rank is mine and my marriage is safe. I'm sorry buddy, but I love Chloe and I will do my best to make her the happiest person on the planet." I could see something fall from his eyes that I didn't say anything about. I went on patrol while planning some things out for the wedding in my head, but it was cut short by Jonathan sneaking away from the castle. Someone had set him free which meant that there was someone who had betrayed Camelot or there was someone that infiltrated Camelot. I knocked him out since he wasn't in the best state and took him back to the dungeon. I informed King Arthur and Merlin, who looked into the future and could see only three people that it could be: the spy that was here during Day 1 of the war, a random outside person, or Mordred the nephew of King Arthur that had come to help. We looked at each other which made the situation seem real to me, but I was allowed to go back to my room to rest up. I knew that Mordred wasn't the best, I met him when he came, but I can't believe he would betray us. I was tasked with keeping tabs on the spy and Mordred to see what they were doing, Merlin said that I would need to figure out the traitor or capture the infiltrator. I needed to tail them and keep tabs which wasn't the best since I didn't want to tail them into the bath. Merlin didn't want to answer that question so I would just listen into whatever they would say while they bathed. I could only wonder why my life had taken this kind of turn, but I did as they asked of me. I was asked by Chloe about the wedding and spent my free time planning things out with her while I contemplated informing her. I did tell her since I didn't want secrets between us and when I told her, she seemed worried about me since I had gone through that. She told me that she loved me while saying that Shiro is someone that couldn't come between us. She also seemed a bit bad for Shiro, even I did and he was a douche to me a lot of the time, but the wedding was coming after this war. We had a lot to plan for the wedding if we wanted to have it after the war, so we had to plan right now. We went to war again against the forces, who now had another commander that looked strikingly like the Black Knight that I had fought last time I came here. We had a tough time against their power to absorb the strength of their fallen comrades which made it so they only decreased their numbers, but not their power.