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Chapter 1 - The Knight Hikari

—----------- Hikari —------------

[Physique : 743]

[Mana : 712]

[Mind : 754]

[Defense : 735]

[Height : 4.5 metres ( 15ft )]

[Weight : around 2 tons (4400 lbs)]

[RazenHeir flames : 157]

—----------- Ria RazenHeir —------------

[Physique : 6]

[Mana : 25]

[Mind : 10]

[Defense : 10]

[Height : 1.3 metres (4.26 ft)]

[Weight : 50kg ( 110 lbs )]

[RazenHeir flames : 16]

White shirt, black pauldrons, ruby in the middle. Her scarlet red hair contrasted with her deep blue eyes and fair skin. A long red skirt complemented her hair.

Ria RazenHeir, the youngest scion of the RazenHeir house. A house renowned for their flame magic that ignites even cold steel and burns even when doused with sand.

Her mastercrafted revolver in her left hand, her silver rapier in her right. It was the limit of what her modest physique could bear, but it could nonetheless kill a man-eating ghoul.

She had just come of age. But with the Lord of the estate gone to war and her elder siblings off to the spire academy, she was left to tend to the functionary duties.

"What's my schedule?" She asked as she checked her outfit in the mirror.

"Breakfast with Marquess Kercelas. Lessons afterwards." Her maid, standing behind her, replied.

Ria stood up. Click! Her rapier clicked into its scabbard. She hoisted her revolver onto her belt.

"Very well. Let us depart."

She made her way through the mansion's halls. Her steed awaited her just beyond the front door.

The white mare was specially bred on the estate ranch and raised along side her.

A servant waited by it. Ria grabbed his hand and mounted the saddle.

"My escort. Are they late?" Ria looked around.

"Apologies, my lady. I will fetch the head guard."

A sudden loud thud on the stone pavement, followed by a gush of wind. Ria's horse briefly panicked, but the even-mannered beast did not throw her off.

"Good Morning, Lady Ria." A powerful, mid-high-pitched voice came from above.

Ria was taken aback. She turned around to see an impressive figure towering over her.

Black boots thicker than tree trunks, towering over her even while she was mounted.

Her Black wyvern-hide suit followed the contours of her toned, muscular body, as imposing as a battlement.

On her back, she hoisted a claymore wider than Ria's entire body and taller than the halls inside the RazenHeir mansion.

A belt fully slotted with daggers, each the size of a sword, wrapped around her upper abdomen.

Another belt slotted with a musket the size of a cannon and a sword the length of a spear.

Ria looked up and saw the most beautiful face she had ever seen.

Pinkish fair skin, not a hint of scars nor spots of any kind.

Red eyes sparkling like rubies.

Her lush, long hair draped down her back to her hips, its ruffled silver texture glinting in the sun.

Her piercing, cold expression.

"I'm your escort today." Her lips moved. Ria felt the force of each of the giantess's words.

Ria stood frozen in awe at the overwhelming presence that stood before her.

The firepower of a cannon battery.

Beauty that would bring men to their knees.

"Ah!.. uh! Yes. Ahem." Ria stuttered.

"Umm… What's your name?"

"Hikari"

"Ah! Hikari. Umm... you are… " Ria stuttered. She had never felt so flustered before.

"Oh! Um..! you are a bit too, how should I put it. Overly armed for the occasion." She finally put together a complete sentence.

"Overly armed?" Hikari's expression was unchanged.

Ria nudged her steed closer.

Examining the giantess knight from head to toe almost caused her to fall backwards off her horse. 

"Yes! Um... Perhaps just the short sword and the musket? We are certainly not off to slay a dragon. Maybe?.. "

Ria's tongue froze as she lifted her head and met Hikari's gaze.

Her ruby-red eyes exuded a killing aura sharper than her rapier.

"Apologies."

Hikari turned around, bent her knees, and leapt into the air.

The shock wave from her movements blew Ria's hair back, ruining the careful combing her maids had painstakingly done.

Moments later, she returned, creating another shock wave as she landed.

She looked cleaner.

Hair tied up in a ponytail.

Long sideburns tied up neatly, their ends resting on her chest.

Ruffled hair.

The giantess lacked a comb big enough to straighten it.

She wore a plain short-sleeved white cotton shirt and a grey skirt over her wyvernskin armour.

The black armour carved from the fire-breathing beast

"How do I look?"

Ria stared in awe at the giantess.

Powerful, elegant, strong, beautiful beyond measure.

Words could not describe the feeling of being in the presence of a living goddess.

"Presentable, I suppose."

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