Chapter Chapter 83: (2/2)

Even if, supposedly skilled magicians or battlemages could activate their magic regardless of what they actually said, and if even more skilled, could omit the chant entirely, and activate magic solely with their willpower!

But what kind of keyword was [Can pride fill your belly?] for such a large-scale spell!

“Just this much…!”

I barely cleared away the frosty winds, when I saw a sword of fire flying towards my face.

“Are you actually trying to kill me?”

That wasn’t a magic attack.

That was the fire sword, Lævateinn she’d been wielding this entire time, and she threw it at my face!

“Aegis!”

“Surtr!”

The moment I quickly summoned the goddess’s shield to block the Lævateinn toss, a giant shadow appeared above my head.

“You asshole owneeeerrrr!”

Unlike his appearance, the giant that was falling with his entire body wreathed in fire gave me the impression of a moth diving into flames.

“Don’t make me laugh!”

I clutched onto Aegis with my right hand, and threw my spear high into the sky with my left.

“Kuuwughh!”

The fire giant screamed as he was pierced by a spear coated in spear aura.

And at the same time, I could feel the power of Lævateinn weaken on the opposite side of my shield.

“This is the end!”

No matter how fast she could resummon, the fire giant was out of commission for the forseeable future.

And since she’d also throw Lævateinn, right now she was empty-handed!

If I could land this attack then I could finish her off in a single…

“Mm. this is the end.”

“Uhk!”

But before that, a powerful electric shock spread through my entire body!

“Wh… what?”

With movements that made me doubt her status as a magician, she closed the distance between us and fired off lightning magic at point-blank range.

“And again.”

“Krrrghh!”

-A, Aris!

Rumours had it that apparently there were apparently battlemages trained and specializing in assassination, was this what it felt like to fight one of them.

She threw Lævateinn to make me lift up my shield and cover my own line of sight, and summoned her fire giant to make me look upwards.

While my attention was diverted, she moved into my blind spot and hit me with lightning magic at point blank range.

And even after that she didn’t let her guard down, and kept on using lightning magic again and again.

“Kghhh…”

The most common reason to use lightning magic, was to induce paralysis!

My entire body was electrocuted, making it hard for me to even swing my spear properly!

“How long can you hold out, I wonder?”

“Uuhhhht!”

I can’t lose. This is the final.

For the sake of Yugrasia’s total victory, I cannot lose here…

“You’ve held out pretty well, but this is the end.”

“Guaaaahhhhk!”

A powerful electric shock crashed into my body, strong enough to even make me, who was familiar with pain, scream out loud.

And.

“Uwuuu…”

When I opened my closed eyes, what I saw was a white ceiling.

“I lost?”

An indescribable emotion flooded through my entire body.

-Aris… it’s okay.

“Hrk…”

I wanted to cry. We all thought that Yugrasia’s total victory was all but a given, but I was the one to create that stain on our records.

And in the event worth the most points out of the first three days as well.

That, was far, far too infuriating.

“I could have won. She was strong compared to anyone from any academy! But I still had no reason to lose!”

-But it didn’t mean that you could definitely win, either.

“Yes, I know. But that’s what’s making me angrier! I… I worked so hard for half a year, I struggled and flailed and screamed to survive! But I still lost!”

How long, how hard did I work, to avoid the silver devil?

But I still lost.

“It’s not fair. It’s infuriating. It’s the first time that losing made me this angry! To the point where I understand… what it means to want to win, even if you have to sell your soul to the devil!”

I was angry, so, so angry.

I… said something I should never, ever have said.

-A, Aris! You can’t say such things!

The goddess shouted in a panic, but it was already too late.

“Those words, I heard ’em loud ‘n clear!”

“N, no!”

The voice that came into my ears was that of a certain unforgettable devil’s.

“Ya don’t have ta turn me down. Owner said that if I went rite about nao then unni’d be saying things like that, and he was rite!”

When I turned my head, what came into my view was the silver devil, coming closer to me one step at a time with a bright smile on her face.

“Aris, is your body feeli… huh?”

And behind me, the door opened and the person I saw, was my bestie!

“S, Siir… help…”

“I’ll see myself out.”

Siir’s eyes met mine once, then the silver devil’s eyes once, and then she speedily left the room.”

“S, Siir? Siir!”

I desperately called for Siir, but no reply came back.

No, on the contrary, someone closed the door quickly enough for it to slam shut

“Hello? Is there anyone there? Siir? Siir! Please! Is there anyone out there? I saw you behind Siir! Is it you, pres? Or someone else from the student council? Please take me away from here!”

“Heeheehiih! Unni-ya, no matter how ya beg or pwead, no one’th gonna come! Let’s spend some swee~eet wuvin’ time, just the two of us!”

“N, noooooooo!”

“Ya said ya wanted to win even if ya sold ya soul to tha’ devil!”

“This, this wasn’t what I wanteeeeeeddd!”

And so, as I felt the touch of the silver devil’s fists for the first time in a while.

I could swear to myself again, that I would never, ever lose again.

Although for a completely different reason compared to the beginning!