Chapter 173 (2/2)

The giant centipede heaves its head up and starts to acc.u.mulate red light in its mouth. Yes, it is finally coming! Somehow I have smoothly achieved my goal!

O~ O~ it is getting angry, it’s getting angry. Ma, this is it, it should be like this. Anyone would be angry if they were whistled at right after their attack was evaded. That would most likely include me too, I would chase them to the bottom of the cliff in a rage.

I rise in alt.i.tude and at the same time I slow down a little bit. I hang around the top of the giant centipede’s tail.

The giant centipede catches sight of me with its eyes, and claps its jaw in excitement. It is coming, it is coming.

Immediately it fires the centipede beam. You will not make it in time if you try to evade it from the moment you see the beam. From the moment the giant centipede takes aim, you have to move away. It must be subconsciously evaded.

If it is this close in distance. It will be easy to cut off from the giant centipede’s line of sight. It is not like the time when I was running away, this time I can fully focus on evading the centipede beam. Even if I am able to safely evade it, five seconds is my limit.

“GICHICHICHICHICHICHICHICHICHICHICHICHICHICHICHII !”

I move my tail in the air to s.h.i.+ft my centre of gravity, I use my wing and tilt my body to move towards the left. This way, I will have moved out of the line of sight of the giant centipede. Immediately to my right, the centipede beam is fired off.

I can feel an intense heat in my body. Even if it did not hit, this thing is already at the level of a biological weapon. To evade the centipede beam I fly to the right in a semicircular pattern. The centipede beam is following me.

Compared to a normal distance, it is easier to evade at a close distance. Nonetheless, with my strength, this is my limit for evading.

“GUuGAa !”

I breath out [[Plague Breath]] to cover my surroundings with a sinister miasma.[2] Now the giant centipede has lost sight of me. However, something like this will clear up quickly.

I rapidly descend and land near the rear end of the giant centipede. I strike the tail of the giant centipede with both my claws, put my strength into my jaw and bite it. After bracing my legs on the ground, I kick off while smacking my tail on the ground.

“GUuoOOOO !”

Making sure my wings are spread, I shoot [[Kamaitachi]] directly below me. The giant centipede’s back lifts forcefully.

In the midst of the miasma, I can see the giant centipede. It is like a ma.s.s of light.

I lift the body of the large centipede over to the place where the centipede beam pa.s.ses by.

As expected of the giant centipede. That centipede beam, if you take it on yourself, there will be nothing left. The sh.e.l.l that you are proud of will be shattered. After that, it will be sufficient to just attack the part where the sh.e.l.l has shattered.

With this, I finally can properly damage you. Finally, I can feel like we stand on the same level. From here onwards it seems like there will be a fierce battle.

‘Jutto’ A short sound rang out. It seems like the body of the giant centipede is. .h.i.t by the centipede beam.

“GICHIYAaaaaaaaaaaAAaaaaaAaaaaaa !”

Together with the loud screech, the giant centipede’s body moves greatly. Tras.h.i.+ng heavily back and forth away from my mouth, my jaw seems to nearly fall off. It is a close call, my fangs which are holding on to it are almost pulled off. This giant centipede b.a.s.t.a.r.d is flailing all over the place. At this rate my entire head will be pummeled.

Because I cannot see due to the miasma in my surroundings, I am not sure what happened. In conclusion, I wonder how much damage the centipede beam had dealt to the giant centipede’s body.

It seems like the giant centipede’s tail has been thrown to the ground, I pull my fangs from the sh.e.l.l. I kick on the tail of the giant centipede to jump to the ground. Using my tail to reduce the impact  and then following up with [[Roll]]. At the same time as my body involuntarily reacts to the skill, I run away to gain distance from the giant centipede.

Right after I left, the gigantic body of the centipede crumbles behind me.

“KICHIa, a aAAaaa !!”

The giant centipede makes a scream-like sound. This time the sound is much louder. Well, but, that sound, isn’t it far away?

Eh, wait a second? Is there something weird? What happened?

I raise my head to look for the head of the giant centipede. Towards the front where the dust has cleared, I can see the giant centipede with one third of its lower body now gone, rampaging around with an overturned body. Dark green body fluids flow out from the amputated area. A large number of legs are wriggling violently.

It’s movements look painful and it seems to be suffering. It looks like a drowning person struggling to grab onto something. At this moment, the giant centipede’s legs all look like the hands of a person. I shake my head to get rid of that creepy image.

Apparently, it seems that the centipede beam strategy has worked better than I had imagined. It did not just crush the sh.e.l.l, it cut its upper body and lower body into two. Just how much offensive power does it have? At the same time, I am really glad it did not hit me.

[1] Raw: それに後の作戦のことを考えれば、なんとかこの位置関係で凌ぎたい。

[2] Google-sensei’s alternative tl: “Cover your surroundings with vicious mockery.”

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