Chapter 118 (1/2)
「Hyaaa! Ha! Ahah hah hah!!」
「Hmph! Rah! Take this!」
Swords were crossed there in singing, echoing clangs.
In that short time, how many instances of our swords clashing have occurred?
The sharp sounds of swords clinking were uncountable, and I could feel my sword skill becoming slower and rustier.
Unlike my perfect rank due to my perfect status, unless I trained in my sword technique, I’d get rusty.
I didn’t feel the danger in this world like I did in the previous one. Because of that my sword technique atrophied away without me knowing.
「「Ugh!!」」
Then, CLANG! The air shook with the echo of something broken, as we both slid back suddenly, gaining distance from one another.
「Ah…I had trust in my sword technique…but. But, seems you’re better than me..」
As Nonorik said, neither of us had a fatal wound, but the amount of cuts I had left on him was more than mine.
And most of those were in the latter part as defensive slashes.
「The amount and difference in our wounds are different, I see.」
The four years I spent fighting in the first world wasn’t for nothing. Those that I fought before fending off the magical monsters had a much different experience and ability.
I had improved my ability by fighting on the edge of death, and had a technique rank of SSS and reaction speed of SS.
With that supporting me, the technique that I used to let blood up until now lowered my status, but still was above Nonorik’s fighting ability.
「And, it seems you guard your face too much.」
「Yes, yes, you’re a savage too, Kai-chan. Trying to cut up a beautiful face like mine.」
「I told you, stop calling me that disgusting name.」
「No wayyyyy. Heh heh, Let me have some fun, you ready for the real fight?」
Nonorik fell into a low posture.
A wild heat mixed with the color of shadows.
「Seems I’ll lose with two, so how about four?!」
Nonorik stabbed the two white swords down into the ground.
He opened his tool bag, and took out another two swords with the same design.
(What?! More?!)
Nonorik had the swords in his hands, and the swords in the ground began floating in the air.
Nonorik’s four swords swayed in the air under his control.
「You want to give up now? You’re happy with less wounds, right? Here I go!」
「Tch!」
Breaking through the wind, the four swords whooshed through the air. The two in the air seemed to strike in different tempo with the two he held in his hands.
(Dammit, I should have just killed him before it got to this, this isn’t going to be easy!)
「Dammit!」
Since the white swords in the air weren’t as fast or strong as the ones in his hand, I could knock them away strongly.
「Hah hah hah hah, woooow! You could defend against them. So you’ve seen my way of fighting before? If you didn’t, you wouldn’t be able to react against my skill!」
「I don’t know anything about it, idiot!」
「Geez, those insults again. If it goes on like this, I’ll have you say the same thing when I’m whipping you on my bed!」
There was no way to escape this sword fight, so I changed position and struck out to get away from defending. I moved so he wouldn’t have my back to strike, and knocked away the swords one by one.
I still had a bit of space, but the situation was getting worse.
(Before this gets any worse, I have to strike! Wha?)
「Agh! Tch!」
As I was thinking pointlessly, I was late in reacting to a second sword that came at me as I dodged the first one.
I knocked it away, but since I wasn’t able to at first, there was a wound cut in to my shoulder near my neck that was more than just a scratch.
「Hmm…I guess you’re still not scared when I add two more swords huh? But, that face of yours looks pretty erotic to me right now.」
「Bastard…」
His four swords were now six, but there was no way his fighting was going to get better.
Just having more swords just meant I had to dodge more, I just had to control myself to avoid the extra swords.
However, now I had less space to move in.
If I didn’t focus on defense, I don’t know what will happen to me.
(Tch, dammit, why this all the sudden?)
There was one way that I could crush him now.
But there was no way to use it now. I’m saving it to crush Grond with.
If I use it, in exchange for the power I spend, my ability to fight Grond will become less.
I can’t let that happen.
(There is a way, just a bit more, a bit more…)
He used these six swords before he shows me his real skill.
However…
「Well, then how about six swords more? —I’ll slice you to pieces!」
Nonorik let the six swords drop onto the ground. Then, he pulled out six smaller daggers of the same type, and turned the bag inside out and dumped more from the bag onto the ground.
There were over 100 daggers on the ground, and they surrounded me in the air as they were well ordered by Nonorik.
「…『Rumble White』.」
Those swords in the air attacked me, cutting through the air.
Several of the daggers surrounding me flew at me.
「『Over Limit!』」
I pulled out the 【Verdant Crystal-Green Sword ]from behind my back without hesitation.
As the magic flowed into my shoulder and healed my cut, I used my trump card I that had used in the Yumis fight.
At that moment, 12 knives and swords came at me at once.
A louder metal clang than the one before, without any interruption, no, echoing in a way to cut off previous echoes, it created a large angry sound like a beast.
(Damn, this guy is a nuisance!)
『Rumble White』
I don’t know the details, but it was a unique skill or a telekinetic skill outside magic.
The special skill was the use of 12 swords or dagger, and that Nonorik could make them fly at you when he was fighting with all his might.
(I took care of two of them coming at my neck to the right with a punch, used my sword on the right to knock away three daggers and two swords, and on the left took three steps back to… )
Even so, my reaction time allowed my body to respond.
I moved in the way my body needed to.
「Damn! You’re hanging in there, but how long can you move like that?!」
「Shut up.」
The Over Limit was getting me to move well.
And while using the sword, I could also use my magic.
「What, are you tired already? Are you going to get cut because you can’t get away?」
「Agh! Ugh!」
Fwip, fwip, my skin was cut a little, but it burned.
The adrenalin in my mind sharpened my senses and killed the pain.
Concentrate, concentrate, concentrate.
In order to move as I thought, I had to focus on all of my nerves.
(Here it comes!)
Then, the response I was waiting for finally reverberated in my hands.
Nonorik had let his look of control slide, and now realized he wasn’t so superior anymore.
Because of that, he wasn’t attacking with all his strength to kill me like he did before – it was proof.
「Hah hah, there’s one more thing I wanted to tell you, Nonorik.」
「What? Is there something you noticed about me?」
….but, because of this I didn’t need to use my trump card after all.
The necessary groundwork had already been done.