The Thousand Year Dynasty
05. Rafa Actions I

"Don't joke you, Aks" Jean looks unacceptable with Aksa's words like he's making fun of Rafa.

"I'm not kidding. We're gonna have a match practice. You guys who are fighters against the royal bookkeeper girl who just lost one hand..." Aksa immediately stopped his words. "It doesn't sound right" he said himself.

"Stop your jokes, Mr. Aksa" This time Cedrik said.

"A minute, a minute. Now we just ask Rafa directly" Aksa calmed the people who started to sound noisy talking to each other.

"How about Raf, do you feel like you're going to lose against those fighters?" Aksa asked Rafa. Which makes people fall silent to listen to the answer.

"I feel like I can beat them" Rafa replied confidently. There were voices of some people who looked proud of Rafa's words.

"You heard what he said, right? Rafa is confident. Do you pity him, because he's disabled?" Aksa's remarks immediately triggered many responses. And make the atmosphere back noisy.

"While we do not view Miss Rafa as a handicapped person, she is not a fighter" Jean said quickly.

"Oh, really? Try Raf, tell me are you not a fighter?" Aksa asked Rafa again.

"Indeed not" said Rafa quickly. Which immediately triggered another commotion from the others.

"But..." Rafa spoke again, which made everyone stop talking and listen to him. "I've been practicing shooting guns with my left hand. And I think I'm getting a little bit proficient.

"Also after the assault of the Urbar royal Champions yesterday, Mr. Aksa started training me how to defend myself using a gun. Although not intensively, but the point is conveyed clearly. What do you call it, Mr Aksa?" Rafa dissected his explanation by asking Aksa a question.

"I call it Gun-Fu" Aksa replied with his arrogant face.

"I have also added what I have received from Mr. Aksa, with other abilities that I have. So in simple terms, I'm ready to fight you guys, the fighters" Rafa concluded then with confidence.

"You heard it yourself, didn't you? This girl's confidence. After all, this is just a match practice. If Rafa feels guilty, he will give up" Aksa added.

"All right then. I'm going to fight him" Axel suddenly came forward to surprise the others.

"What the fuck are you, Ax?" Shuri was heard not to accept Axel's behavior.

"Miss Rafa has tried her hardest. It would be very insulting if we didn't fight him just because he was a girl who lost an arm" Axel replied as he walked forward towards Rafa.

"Thank you, Mr. Axel" Rafa gave a small nod.

"alright. Because we already have an opponent, we will just start" Aksa with Axel and Rafa walked towards the middle of the field.

Seen others began to form a circular fence keeping their distance from the field.

"Training this match does not limit how to fight, but it is forbidden to issue attacks aimed at killing. The sword that master Axel used was made of wood and the bullets in Rafa's gun were only made of rubber. So it won't hurt more than a bruise. If you feel inadequate, give up immediately. Remember this is not a real duel. So do you two understand?" Aksa gave an explanation of the rules of the match practice.

"Understand" said Axel and Rafa almost simultaneously.

Then the two of them retreated to keep their distance, while Aksa stayed away.

"alright. Started" cried Aksa then after he was already next to Nata and Lucia quite far from the fighting area.

Axel and Rafa look to be judging, Axel looks very careful. He did not want to underestimate Rafa. Because he knew, Rafa was near Aksa almost every day. He believes at least Rafa must have absorbed strange knowledge from Aksa that could be useful to defeat him.

"I won't hesitate, Mr. Axel. I will fight in earnest" Rafa said.

"I also intend not to make it easy for you, Miss Rafa" said Axel later.

And after that look Rafa began to pull the gun at the waist with his left hand and started shooting it towards Axel.

Seeing this Axel immediately moved to the side nimbly trying to avoid bullets from Rafa's shot. While Rafa is no less agile, continue to pursue the figure of Axel.

Because it is not profitable to keep a distance against long-range weapon users, Axel immediately ran closer to Rafa while still trying to avoid fire from Rafa.

Deftly Rafa took out his empty bullet container with one hand, then inserted a new bullet container that he had prepared in his right waist.

All Rafa needed to do was push the bullet container that was in the right position into the handle of his gun.

But Axel had swung his wooden sword towards Rafa when the girl tried to change the bullet container. And Rafa deftly held the sword with his iron arm.

Seeing that his sword had been deflected, Axel immediately mounted the horses to perform a second slash. He drew his sword inside, then prepared to do a left-hand slash of Rafa's unprotected body.

Instead of dodging behind Rafa instead stepped forward towards Axel. He pointed his gun at Axel's left arm that crossed in front of the chest because it was about to slash toward the left. And then pull the trigger.

This surprised Axel. The pain from the rubber bullet hit made his left arm lose power and cancel the slash earlier.

Axel instinctively stepped back to keep his distance. But Rafa still continued to advance by pointing his gun towards Axel's right thigh and shooting his bullet. After that he continued to do the same action towards Axel's stomach. The bullet from Rafa's weapon stung Axel's thighs and stomach like a jungle goat ram.

And when Rafa was about to point his gun to Axel's face, Axel swiftly stabbed toward Rafa's stomach with his right hand.

Rafa never straightened his arm when aiming and shooting. He had to get very close to Axel to shoot his weapon.

And therefore Rafa will not have time to retreat to avoid the Axel prick. The only option is to avoid the opportunity.

And deftly Rafa turned his body to the right, then with the handle of his gun Rafa hit the top of his iron arm hard.

It sounded like an iron peg coming off, the small stick on the back side of his iron arm, suddenly like it was being pushed down rapidly. And now there was a magic wand at the end of Rafa's iron arm.

Axel in the body position carried out the stabbing attack earlier, unaware of Rafa's magic wand.

Now Rafa, who is on the left side of Axel, immediately pointed his gun to Axel's face while chanting something.

Seeing this Axel immediately dodged by pulling his body back. Then quickly the land behind Axel curved down due to the magic that rafa previously cast.

Although not too deep, but can still make Axel lose balance because it landed on the ground that is not the same height.

Rafa quickly pushed his body towards Axel, for the man to fall. Then immediately return to something.

Axel who was pushed back earlier managed to hold his body with his right leg. But shortly after, a scrap of soil appeared to quickly cover and lock the movement of Axel's right leg. It was Rafa's earth magic.

Seeing that his right leg was locked, Axel immediately moved his sword into his left hand and pulled his left leg backward so that he could slash towards Rafa who was on his left side.

But as Rafa had expected that Axel would pull his left foot, Rafa immediately kicked Axel's left foot to the side in. To make Axel fall in a sitting position on his knees with one leg.

But swiftly kneeling with one leg, Axel shakes his wooden sword with both hands to the upper left. To the position Rafa is in. With the hope that Rafa will avoid retreating and he has a chance to destroy the piece of land that locks his right leg.

But instead of dodging, Rafa instead came forward and fended off Axel's sword with his magic wand. And then pointed the gun right in front of Axel's face.

Everyone held their breath seeing that quick and tense fight.

Axel seemed to drop his wooden sword and then slowly raised both hands up. "I gave up" he said later.

Immediately the crowd cheered and applauded for Rafa and the amazing fight that Axel and Rafa showed.

"What was that?" Jean seemed to be in disbelief at what she had just seen.

"That was Miss Rafa?" Shuri also looked in disbelief.

"What are you doing Miss Rafa, Aks?" Lucia asked worriedly.

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