"When I came, the city lord said that she was nothing more than a woman. If necessary, we could kill her outright," said the man in azure armor.
"You don't really think our city lord is short one woman, do you? She's nothing but a dispensable existence. Trading someone like her for your peace—you should be laughing in your dreams," said the man in azure armor.
"Go back!" Nicovia shouted to the people around her.
"How about this? I'm in a good mood today, so I'll give you a chance," said the man in azure armor.
"Any one of you can step forward. If you can last three moves under my sword, I won't take your princess back today," said the man in azure armor.
"Go back, all of you! You're no match for him!" the princess shouted at the crowd.
Yet not a single one of those surrounding them backed down.
"I'll do it!" the man said, looking at the princess.
"Korfu!" The princess stared sternly at him. "I told you to go back right now. Didn't you hear me?"
"I'm sorry, princess," the man said to her. "Even if you make me go back now, I'll kill myself at the gates of our country."
"Come on, then. I've long heard of your strength," the man said to the one in azure armor.
"If you had truly heard of my strength, you wouldn't be this confident. You actually dare stand in my way—who gave you that courage?" said the man in azure armor.
"I, Gilwort, am the strongest man in this entire city," Gilwort said.
"Forget you as you are now. Even if any warrior from the Elzeran Continent came here, they still couldn't last three moves beneath my sword," Gilwort said.
"I won't lose! I stand on the