Chapter 24 (2/2)

“!? You, imbecile . Did you think you could extinguish the golem’s hellfires with simple water!?”

“Once again, right back at you . ”

Once the splash of water settled again, the golem in the hole looked to have most of its flames put out .

“I knew you’d use Demon’s Fire . ”

“What, no, holy water!?”

Normal water would do nothing to the curse inducing hellfires of the golem, but holy water, water that’d been blessed by the church, was a different matter entirely .

This golem, by the nature of its creation, had many undead traits . Thus, its accursed flames would undoubtedly be doused when exposed to holy water .

I jumped down in the pit, and pierced the slow, only slightly flame-coated golem, in its core .

“GAHHH, urgh, ahh, I, can still!!”

Even under the extreme pain from her MP being drained away after the destruction of the core, Yumis didn’t stop gathering the mana . And even as the golem returned to dust, it obeyed Yumis’ commands and prevented my escape for an instant .

“DIE, DAMNED HEROOO!!”

Yumis released her spell squeezing out the last of her strength .

“You’re making me repeat myself, Yumis . ”

This too was one of the possibilities I kept in mind .

I filled【Absorber’s Edge] with mana and threw it to the wall opposite to me .

At the same time, A ceiling of wind that Yumis had created, blocked the exit to the pit .

“I knew from the start that you’d use Demon’s Fire, and,”

I snickered and then held my breath .

The moment 【Absorber’s Edge] hit, all the water in the pit decomposed, creating huge volumes of oxygen and hydrogen . If all this exploded, I’d be fucked sideways .

“Since your old memories are there, you’d also use the low cost Trinity Blast to finish me off ―――― O Water, amass into my sword . ”

“TRINITY BLAST!!”

A tiny surge of electricity, and then, flames erupted . But this was no explosion of the three elements, water, wind and fire . Simply flames .

And those flames also instantly ended, ending the spell unclimactically .

“Fuhaah!? No, the fire, but why…!?”

“AHAHAHAHAHAHA!! Paaathetic Yuuumisss, your knowledge, your power, none of those were earned, all stolen . That’s why you’ll always be third rate, you monkey faced bitch!”

Yumis had learned that decomposing water into oxygen and hydrogen gas and setting fire to it would cause a massive explosion . But she didn’t at all know why this happened .

She just knew that there were two things called oxygen and hydrogen that came out of the water and were easy to explode .

She had no clue as to how the explosion was caused by the simultaneous combustion of the two elements . She didn’t understand why I had separated the mixed atoms of oxygen and hydrogen into oxygen gas and hydrogen gas using 【Absorber’s Edge] .

If she set fire to that, the only part that’d explode would be the thin, top layer where the two gasses were still mixed . Since the gasses were split, the rest of it would quickly burn away without exploding .

I jumped out of the pit,【Soulblade of Origin]in hand, and rushed towards Yumis .

“Kh, I haven’t-!”

“No, you have, you lost!!”

I took out a pair of mana sealing hand shackles they make slaves wear .

I bound her hands in those shackles faster than she could notice, and after tripping her with a sweep of my leg, I stabbed my soulblade into the now fallen Yumis’ hands from the back .

“Ghaa!! Ghh, aahhhh!!!”

I twisted and tilted the soulblade to spice up the pain .

“Kuhaha!! Take that, and that, and some more, hurts doesn’t it? I’m pretty good at this aren’t I? It’s all thanks to you, every one of you . I’m so damn HAPPY I can see that distorted expression on you . Everything, everything I LEARNED, it’s all for you, you people who betrayed me, heey, do you FEEL it? ALL the emotions I’m feeling right now?”

“Guh, uhu, a-ahhh!!”

Her palms, her heels, her elbows, her knees, I carefully put cuts on Yumis’ body so as to keep her bleeding to a minimum .

“It was a fun fight, really . You were so damn predictable, I almost messed up trying to hold back the giggles you know? I knew you’d make that golem as soon as I turned your troops into garbage . Hurt’s right? I recall you’re the type that doesn’t get happy MP drunk, but grumpy MP drunk . It hurt when I broke those cores didn’t it? You can’t hide it from me . ”

“Guh, uuhhh, haaah, haah . ”

“Oops, my bad . They’ll get mad if I start snacking without them . Okay Yumis, be strong now, alright?”

“Uguahh!! gu, u, ahh . ”

Many of her tendons now cut, Yumis could only lay limply on the dirt as I crushed her hands underfoot . I think I broke a few bones, let me do this little bit, please? Just a bit, a little tiny bit . My feet were grinding on their own .

And please, please don’t break, don’t you break yet, alright?

“That should be it for setting the table . Get ready for the main event . Yumis . I’m begging you . Don’t be easy to break . ”

“Urgghh!”

I grip hard on Yumis’ head from under the chin .

“It’s high time we piss on and set fire to that pride of yours . We’ll do this in order, one by one, we’ll destroy each and every one of your dreams . ”

The corners of my lips rose crookedly under all the unbearable emotions .