Chapter 36 (1/2)

The Ladykiller

Ria didn’t think about something like how to win.

She knew she was going to win. Her objective was how to give as disgraceful a defeat as possible.

Since coming to this world and becoming royalty, she’d done the opposite of repressing it.

Ria was a s.a.d.i.s.t.

The sword flashes were all either dodged or parried.

Exchanges like these even lasted for a few minutes.

Already, looking at the girl in front of her on the street, s.h.i.+zuna no longer thought her a weak Ojou-san.

Despite continuing to regard herself like so until now, why hadn’t she considered there being someone else like her?

Even the surrounding spectators, though s.h.i.+zuna was one-sidedly attacking, they had noticed Ria hadn’t been scratched by her even once.

There were too many people’s eyes watching.

If this was a one on one duel in the wilderness, it would have been fine for her to call it a draw.

But with this many people watching, she, who had introduced herself with her nickname, could not afford to appear unsightly.

Something like her pride and vanity were one thing.

Another was her trump card, her magic sword.

“Warp.”

With that word, the sword multiplied.

“Ah, that’s the G[]rian Sword!” [1]

Serge, who’d been watching, shouted forcefully.

“You know it!? Serge!”

Carlos asked in voice of true admiration.

“That sword, or rather that bladed whip, is a hard weapon to handle. But with magic weapons, they can just move properly by being handled by a person’s magical power!”

“A whip blade huh. Certainly, if it wasn’t moved with magical power, it would be a lot to handle.”

Lulu’s tsukkomi was terribly calm.

s.h.i.+zuna’s sword disconnected into segments, the blades attached to the whip attacking Ria from all sides.

However, Ria’s impression was a single word.

“Ridiculous.”

She forcefully stuck the blade closest to her. She loaded it with plenty magical power.

Then, interfering with the magical power used to manipulate the whip, Ria created an opening between the blades for her to attack.

Evasion, martial arts, combined with her flexibility and movement skills, she was able to easily evade.

The bladed whip returned back into its original form as a long sword. Unnaturally, Ria just shrugged her shoulders.

She just wouldn’t do something like that. Kill when it’s time to kill. Don’t needlessly torment someone. Ria was that kind of person.

However, when the opponent was a beautiful woman, furthermore a beautiful girl, it was a different story altogether.

Strong-minded and tsun beautiful girls were Ria’s favorites, after all.

And so, that bad habit of teasing kids one liked, was in Ria.

“What? You’re already finished?”

As for why Ria gave such a cheap provocation, it was so she could still hide her trump card. It was also Serge’s advice.

As expected, even though s.h.i.+zuna’s face distorted, her mouth turned into a smile.

“No way, I wouldn’t use my trump card so easily.”

She held up her sword. She was obviously tempering her magical power.

Then, she spoke a word with power.

“Blaze!”

The red light of the sword strengthened, producing flames.

Serge’s Identify had found the magic sword’s name, it was called the [Blazing Snake Sword].

The flames produced caused the damage that opponents sustained from it to be hard to recover from. Moreover, being able to move like a snake, it was a strong magic sword.

However, that was it.

Ria had the Gift of Heat Resistance. Moreover, by frequently practicing fire magic on their journey, it had increased to level nine.

Even with Lulu’s strongest fire magic, she wouldn’t be burned at all. The strength of the gift went to that extent. A magic sword of fire would likely have no effect on Ria.

However, Ria’s Gift didn’t work on the leather armor and clothes she wore.

“Warp.”

The whip of fire attacked Ria exactly like a snake. Meanwhile, Ria sheathed her katana for now.

She didn’t want to risk the flame’s heat damaging the katana.

The whip’s tip approached Ria’s body. She grabbed it out of the air bare-handed.

In addition to Heat Resistance, she had the Strong Body Skill. Speaking in a more specific status change, it gave her an extremely high stamina.

Though the portion of armor that covered her wrist heated up, it was manufactured with what she got in Shashmeer, produced from the skin of the Hydra. There would be no problems even if it were at the level of a Fireball.

Grabbing the whip, she pulled the blades in one by one. Each time the distance shortened, the color of shock and panic appeared on s.h.i.+zuna’s face.

(It’s good, that expression.)

Ria was smiling.

The two were at a hand’s reach away from each other. s.h.i.+zuna tried to somehow take back her sword, but it was impossible against Ria’s magical power.

“Well, what’ll you do now?”

Ria asked in a crooning tone that felt as though she’d wanted to sing.

“Monster…”

s.h.i.+zuna muttered in a hoa.r.s.e voice.

“That’s rude. You’re just weak.”

Those words inflamed the dwindling embers of s.h.i.+zuna’s fighting spirit yet again.

She directly hit Ria’s body with her supple leg’s kick.

Daringly, Ria took it head on and didn’t evade.

It was no good no matter what she did, perfectly crus.h.i.+ng her confidence. It went to the extent that Ria didn’t appear injured in the least.