Chapter 118 (2/2)

That’s why the preparations I had made were the reward of running away with a sword that could cut with a touch.

Instead of safety, revenge, is the best result for me.

「Because of the technique I stole from you, and my slight loss to you, I was able to escape from the first world alive. We might be different, but I have to say thanks, and…」

「Wha?」

「I’ll kill you instantly.」

Clank! The sound of breaking metal.

That was the result of preparations I made during the fight.

The sword I swung out broke the white sword in half.

「…wha?!」

After, clank, clink, clakn, and three more were broken.

In the fight, those white sword always swung at the same point, and as opposed to the unbroken sword I held, their bodies had lost strength after they had taken damage hit after hit.

「It can’t be!」

「But it is!」

Leaving the surprised Nonorik alone, the stopped white blades were now used by me.

I broke two more by my spirit blade, and another I kicked down and broke on the ground.

From all the accumulated damage, his character changed from confusion to an inability to control where the white swords were going.

「Aggh!」

「Too late!」

Many short swords came to attack, however, there was no attack that came, nor was there any threat.

Instead, the short swords simply floated, as I went to attack the floating swords in the air.

I threw the sword to my other hand, and brought across my shoulder.

I swung my sword in a large scissor-like double swing, and three swords were transformed into flying shards.

「Now die!」

「Who’s going to die?!」

Thwomp, I landed on the ground, and knocked away the swords that were now attacking me, why running closer towards Nonorik.

「You have four left! I’m going to cut your head off!」

After being attacked by a storm of swords, I ran as quick as I could towards Nonorik.

However, he let fly two swords from the four he had left.

「Don’t get excited yet!!」

Two white swords swung at me.

I was focused on cutting down Nonorik so much I couldn’t defend, as the two swords struck my left forearm and my ear.

「Damn! But you’re out of moves now!」

I threw up both hands from the spirit sword after letting the 【Verdant Crystal-Green Sword ]heal the cut on my arm, and like that, grabbed the hilts of the white swords and smashed them on the ground.

「Ahhg! Just die! Stupid!」

「You’re the idiot, you pervert!」

I grabbed the spirit blade before it hit the ground, and ran at him again low to the ground, almost like a crawl.

As I got closer, I didn’t wait for Nonorik to flee, as the two remaining swords came at me in attack.

These two swords clashed against me again, and their loud clanging pierced my ears.

「Dammit! I can’t break these two!」

「Of course now, these ones have much more force in them.」

Those were the first swords he used when he began this fight.

These swords, which were probably specially made to be used in his hands, even though they looked the same were made much better than the other swords he used.

These were the swords I expected to fight against him with in the beginning, but they weren’t so fragile that one could break them in a fight.

However, if you were to fight back the enemy even if he held these two swords, there was only one thing you could do at the end.

There was no doubt it was only about the timing.

「hmph!」

「haaaaahhhh!!」

So the dual-wielding sword fight had begun.

Nonorik’s face lost its previous happy composure.

In matching with my fierce, beast like technique, here and there a dagger would fly at me. However, because I was using the Over Limit, there was nothing Nonorik could hope for from doing so.

Those two swords and the flying daggers wasn’t enough, and Nonorik was being pushed back.

「Hah!」

「Aghhh!」

Within a bit, the weakened Nonorik was close enough that I could swing at his neck.

Nonorik stopped just enough for me to take a strike, but before I was blown back.

「Ugh!」

It felt like a direct hit, as I got up and went at Nonorik again.

Again, Nonorik had a smile form on his face.

「—Fly away」

This was Nororik’s hidden, true technique.

The first time he used it I was fooled by it. But this time my reaction had just enough,

「Wait!? Why?!」

「Did you think that you were the only one using a transparency ruse, Nonorik? 」

This time Nonorik’s face showed a look of true surprise, as I jumped back and tossed something.

To an outsider, nothing could be seen, but there was proof that both a solid thing was struck, as a small firework went off.

That was Nonorik’s invisible sword and the small firework I had made behind my back to reveal it.

The invisible sword lost its strength, and was now visible.

This was Nonorik’s final finishing move.

Even with the sword covered with white, it couldn’t be hidden as your trump card if you could see it.

「Sorry, as you said, I know a few tricks. A transparent finishing move, isn’t a finishing move, Nonorik.」

「Aggh!」

I jumped on the foothold of that stopped sword and there was no way he could move fast enough to stop me.

Then, I stabbed the 【Beginning Spirit Blade]through his throat as he looked at me in surprise.

He had the look that he could feel his cells being split one by one.

With that moment feeling almost like time had stopped, all of the swords he controlled suddenly fell to the floor.

Clunk, the sounds of the swords in his hands, hitting the floor.

「Phew, man, it almost feels like a trainee finally beating his master. No, this wasn’t a fair fight, so there’s really nothing refreshing about it.」

「…」

Nonorik looked at me vaguely.

However, since he could do no more, they light in his eyes faded, and turned to a hollow stare.

「…yeah, I guess there’s nothing to be happy about in killing you.」

I turned to leave the place and go back to where I was before.

「I guess Fegner’s dead too by now. Poisoned to death by mercury, never did that in the old world, but there’s no resistance to that. Just bad luck, well, I guess my life’s not very lucky either. I kind of wanted to take a shot an Fegner too.」

I remembered what Fegner looked like before I fought Nonorik, and I knew that with the time spent fighting here, there was no way he could have survived the poison.

There are many different types of poisons, and there are some that are like the dimethyl mercury that was used.

There aren’t a lot that come from there.

It makes you weak. There are a lot that make you sluggish and tired.

「Ah, I’m getting drunk on magic from all this. I’m tired now, I just want to go home and sleep.」

My wounds that weren’t healed still ached, and I was too tired to heal them.

They weren’t fatal, so who cares.

I sighed and walked with a body full of wounds.

The MP potion that I forced down was more bitter than usual, and my numb mouth now felt the strong taste.

In this world of shadows, the sun had yet to rise.