I Parry Everything: What Do You Mean I'm the Strongest? I'm Not Even an Adventurer Yet!

This is the tale of a man who had mastered how to “parry.” “I have no talent at all…” At the age of 12, a young boy named Noru had decided to train himself in the mountains after being rejected by the capital’s official training centers for being “talentless.” He believed that, with enough hard work and effort, he could one day become like the protagonists that populate his childhood stories. Full of determination, he would practice every day with his makeshift wooden sword, endlessly repeating the only sword technique he knew—“parry.” The hours turned into days, the days turned into months,…