Chapter 179: Aoba / The Life-Sucking Magic Sword (1/2)

Chapter 178: Aoba / Blood and Soul Chapter 180: Aoba / The Woman only Taiyou can kill

Translator: Reflet

「Haah……Haah……」

「She seems quite out of control」

Hera whispered, speaking a bit like it wasn’t her problem.

Taiyou agreed with that completely.

The girl in front of them, while staggering, somehow got up readying her dagger in her drooping hands. While letting out white heavy breathing from her mouth, she painfully made it move up and down.

To them, that appearance was the very definition of a「rampage」.

「It is like that one thing where you go mad under the moon at night」

(Although the enemy is the new moon…) thought Taiyou, swallowing his words.

There wasn’t anyone here who liked wordplay, and more importantly this was just not the time for that.

「First off……let’s stop her」

「Yeah-」

Taiyou and Aoba nodded at each other, and the next instant, the girl came flying at them.

It was a bound from kicking off the ground, with a force unimaginable from a young, one hundred thirty centimeter body.

「Uwaaaaaah！」

There were three rounds of flashes.

This was a slash with a flash superior to the one a moment ago. It increased the blood and soul (power) that the dagger had sucked from him.

「Too slow」

However, Taiyou was exuding composure.

Shifting his head into battle mode, still embracing Aoba, he dodged the blade that made groaning “hyun hyun” sounds.

The girl’s attack had certainly increased its speed and agileness, but was not as fast as Taiyou who had discarded perplexion and hesitation.

Taiyou had enough leisure to firmly see everything and dodge the flying successive slashes.

「Uwaaaaaah！」

Along with a conspicuous cry, she plunged forward to attack, rising against him.

As it was a large swing, the weak spots were also large. Taiyou dodged it with an L-shaped stance, dropping a karate chop on her wrist.

He tried to drop it on her dagger, but that did not happen.

「Gah――Aaaaah！」

The girl twisted her face at the pain. While screaming, she came swinging with her dagger, shaking him off.

He leaped back, dodging it.

（……Damn it）

The girl twisted her face at the pain. While enduring the pain in his chest of seeing her like that, he dodged an attack once more, slamming down a karate chop.

A strengthened chop……but with very much decreased power than usual.

She did not counterattack. The struck girl cowered on the spot.

Her braids dangled on the floor, and cold sweat emerged on her redly thumping nape.

Gripping the dagger tightly and not letting go, her wrist swelled up and dangled languidly.

「Natsuno-kun, the knife!」

「I know！」

If he could at least take away the dagger――Taiyou and Aoba’s perception was not mistaken.

The life-sucking dagger was the very thing that was maddening her and making her a current threat.

Which was why he tried to steal it, tried to take it away.

――But

「Wha――」

The light drew near. When Taiyou had tried to confiscate the dagger, the girl had swung the dagger sweeping sideways at him.

Reacting immediately, he leaped far back.

「――」

Afterward, the girl’s scream echoed.

A hoarse――voice that wasn’t even a voice.

That was because the scream that was enough to perturb Taiyou’s chest had spurred on the swelling wrist, forcing her to swing the dagger.

「That’s awful……」

「――ngh！」

Aoba groaned, and Taiyou grinded his teeth.

「Taiyou-chan, you must hurry and take the knife from her」

「I know, but tearing it from her while she’s clenching it that tightly is……」

「Her hand’s becoming white――if she does it too hard then her fingers seem like they might break」

「If it’s going to be like this――」

(First comes Tsubaki), he thought, turning in her direction.

「What are you grumbling about！Protect me！」

Scolded at by Tsubaki, as if it were part of a mechanism, the girl that had been moaning immediately faced Taiyou, lunging for him.

With the force of putting herself on the line, she swung the dagger at Taiyou.

He dodged, leaping back further.

「Damn it！」

Taiyou cursed.

「Taiyou-chan Taiyou-chan, I have a good idea」

「Good idea？」

「Yes indeed！」

Hera said, flying over and whispering into his ears.

「……Interesting」

Taiyou’s eyes glinted. Hera’s「good idea」seemed idiotic at first, but he thought it to be extremely effective.

At least to Taiyou as of now.

Looking at the girl, he reaffirmed the situation.

It was a quite possible-to-implement plan.

Returning his gaze from the girl to Aoba, he spoke apologetically.

「Sorry, Aoba」

「It’s fine, don’t worry about it」

Aoba said, smiling sweetly.

He started to feel supported.

「Alright……」