221 Lightning Strike (2/2)

Iroha’s foot missed him, but she pursued Seiji with an icy smile on her face.

Seiji attempted to block and dodge her attacks to the best of his ability.

In the dark amusement park, their figures kept appearing and disappearing, and the loud sounds of objects crashing echoed throughout the otherwise silent night.

Moments later, the tall boy’s figure was sent flying by a massive flurry of blows, and he crashed into the ground at a high speed, his momentum sending him rolling towards the remains of the merry-go-round.

He forcefully adjusted himself and managed to stand up before he crashed into the merry-go-round, mitigating the remaining force of his momentum.

There was the taste of blood in his mouth. He spat some of it out.

‘It’s alright… I’m not seriously injured.’ Seiji wiped his mouth.

”For your remaining points, I suppose I can give you at least a 10 out of 100,” said Iroha coldly. ”That’s all that you’re worthy of, Seigo Harano. Now get the hell out of here. You’re unworthy to return to the Haruta family. Just use that weedy alias of yours to keep living like a weed.”

Iroha turned around to leave when she finished speaking.

Seiji spoke up as he watched her back. ”Didn’t you want to confirm what I was thinking?”

”That won’t be necessary. I’m sure that you’ll just say some disgusting words like ‘I know I was wrong; I’ve changed myself now, so please allow me to return home. I’ll work hard from now on.’” Iroha cackled in amusement at her own thoughts. ”I don’t want these words to dirty my ears, nor will I allow these words to sully Milady’s ears.”

Seiji furrowed his brows. ”You’re not willing to tell her even one sentence from me?”

”I don’t want to~ Forget one sentence—I won’t even tell her half a word from you.” Iroha smiled coldly as she walked away. ”I’m still someone who takes my work seriously, though. If you had shown me enough strength, even if I hate you, I’d listen to you. But you don’t have such strength.” She flashed a taunting thumbs-down gesture at him.

”Game over, you’ve already lost, garbage,” she said mockingly.

Seiji clenched his fists. ”Yui Haruta made a mistake when she sent you here.”

Iroha, who had just retracted her gesture, stopped in her tracks at this.

”You’re disrespectful, you contradict yourself, and you do as you please… if I were your master, I definitely wouldn’t want to see such a subordinate.”

”Shut up,” Iroha snapped.

Seiji continued, undaunted. ”You say you hate me, but what is it about me that you hate? How is your ugly, willful attitude any different from the garbage me in the past?” There was a short, cold chuckle; this time it came from Seiji.

”I said, shut up! Do you really want to die!?” Iroha’s words were laced with icy malevolence.

”The only difference is that you’re a beautiful girl, while I used to be fat. Willful beauties are always easily forgiven, how nice~ In the end, you just look beautiful on the outside, if it wasn’t for that, Yui Haruta would probably treat you the same way as me, and…”

*BOOM!!*

This loud sound was caused by Iroha’s sudden footstep.

The angry girl was now filled with murderous intentions, and she instantly rushed back towards Seiji, unleashing a full-force attack!

‘I was waiting for you to do that.’

[Bullet Time] activate!

[Light From the Brink] activate!

[Lightning Strike] activate continuously!!

He had three minutes.

Thanks to Hoshi Amami’s reward card’s first ability, [Light From the Brink], Seiji could use all his abilities at no cost for three minutes, and he had limitless stamina and Mana during this time, so he could maintain [Bullet Time] continuously while also using his fastest technique, [Lightning Strike]!

Iroha Hasegawa was one of Yui Haruta’s Spirit-branded Retainers.

Would she be able to block this?

In just an instant.

Iroha who was just about to send Seiji flying with her punch witnessed the light.

Before she could even react to this, her instincts automatically compelled her to respond by casting a barrier spell.

The light was blocked by her barrier.

But the very next instant, even more lights appeared, shattering her barrier!

Her punch had only reached halfway to Seiji.

Her punch was quite fast.

But in comparison to the light rushing towards her, her speed seemed like the darkness that was fated to be conquered by the light.

Iroha was unable to retract her punch.

She didn’t even have time to think about what was going on.

That was because all of this happened instantaneously.

The light broke through her defense, and one ray directly landed on her body.

That light was actually a fist.

*Smack!*