Arifureta Vol 2 Chapter 6 (2/2)

“H-Hey, what’s wrong?”

This situation is not time for such a thing, what is she doing? The scorpion was going to recover soon. His wounds had healed. Preparations were needed to get him combat ready. Yue didn’t care about that and placed her hand on his neck.

“Hajime, please believe.”

Yue kissed Hajime’s nape after she said that.

“Tsu!?”

No, not a kiss. He was bit. Hajime felt pain at his neck. There was a discomforting feeling as he felt power being extracted from him. At that feeling, he tried to shake free, but he remember that Yue introduced herself as a vampire. She was sucking his blood. Saying “please believe” while said vampire sucked your blood was scary, even if he did not like it he couldn’t just run away and complain about it.

Hajime just gave a wry smile and supported Yue by embracing her. For a moment, Yue trembled but soon she buried her face into his nape and hugged back more tightly. Maybe it was just his imagination but he thought she was delighted.

“Kyishaa!!”

The roar of the scorpion echoed. It had recovered from the “flash grenade”. Ground waves formed again; it seemed to know where they were. Probably this was its Special Magic, the ability to manipulate surrounding terrain.

“But that’s my forte.”

Hajime put his right hand on the ground and trans.m.u.ted. A stone wall 3 m tall formed around Yue and Hajime.

The conical splinters struck at Hajime from all around but his defensive wall stopped them. Each time the splinters. .h.i.t the wall was broken, but soon Hajime would make a new wall to replace it. As far as scale and strength, the scorpion was better than Hajime. However, Hajime was faster than the scorpion. It seemed that 3m was the limit of his range, the thorns were not able to fly, so it acted as Hajime’s defense.

Hajime was concentrating on defending with his trans.m.u.tation, and Yue finally released her mouth from his neck. She licked her lips with a delirious expression. He felt fascinated though she had a childish figure. Her skin that was previously haggard completely disappeared and now her skin was glossy like white porcelain. Colored returned to her cheeks, and it looked dreamy rose red. Crimson eyes emitted a warm light. Her thin-small hands caressed Hajime’s cheeks.

“…Gochisousama.”

She slowly rose her hand towards the scorpion.

One word was muttered.

“”Azure Sky””

A pillar of bluish-white flame 6-7 m in diameter formed overhead of the scorpion.

Just from being around it the scorpion screamed as it was being burned and retreated. However, this Vampire Princess of the Abyss wouldn’t allow it. A beautiful finger extended gracefully like a baton. The pillar of flame carried out its conductor’s instruction without fail. It pursued the escaping scorpion then…a direct hit.

“Gu-ugyiyiaaaa!”

A never heard before scream escaped from the scorpion. Agony filled the scream. The pillar exploded into a flash of light and everything was blinded by it. Hajime just looked at the sublime magic in utter amazement while he protected his eyes with his arms.

Soon, the flames disappeared and the magic was finished. There in the center was the figure of the scorpion in an anguish pose with its outer sh.e.l.l melted from the flames. The outer sh.e.l.l that didn’t even melt at 3000 degree celsius, the same sh.e.l.l that didn’t crack when fired upon by a rail gun. Should he praised Yue, who had defeated such a monster so easily? Or should he praise the durability of the scorpion who took such an attack and was still intact? He was in a dilemma.

Hajime heard a sound that pulled him away from the astounding sight. Yue was sitting down while breathing heavily. She seemed to have depleted her magic reserve.

“Yue, are you alright?”

“…Superlative…Tiring.”

“Haha, you could do it! You saved us. I’ll take care of the rest. Take a break.”

“Go for it.”

Hajime shook his hand and used “Flicker” to shorten the distance. The scorpion was still alive. While the outer sh.e.l.l was melted, it roared with anger, and aimed a buckshot at the approaching Hajime.

A “flash grenade” was quickly thrown by Hajime. He fired a shot from Donner before the needle could be fired. The “flash grenade” is shot through by the bullet, which wasn’t accelerated by electromagnetism, and exploded. Familiar with the experience, the scorpion gloomily searched for Hajime in the area painted with light.

No matter how much it look, it couldn’t find Hajime. The scorpion was perplexed at losing Hajime’s sign. Then Hajime landed on its back.

“Kishua?”

An astonished voice raised out of the scorpion. It was wondering how a sign that disappear suddenly appear on its back. When the “flash grenade” went off, Hajime had used his “Hide Presence” to cut off his sign and arrive at the scorpion’s back.

Hajime was burnt a little as the outer sh.e.l.l of the scorpion was still red hot. He didn’t care about that. Donner was pressed against any thin area on the sh.e.l.l and emptied its chambers. The armor’s original durability had already been lost. In response to the zero distance shooting from a railgun, that absolute s.h.i.+eld crumbled.

The scorpion lashed out its two tails without any care if it hit itself, but Hajime moved faster than it.

“I’ll still eat you.”

Hajime took out grenades from his pouch and forced them down the holes he had created with Donner. Sticking his arm into these holes he left the beast a party gift. Doing this caused his arm to be burnt but he didn’t care.

Before he could be attacked by the scorpion, he evacuated with “Flicker”. The scorpion turned towards Hajime to attack again.

However, its time was up.

Goba!

A m.u.f.fled sound of an explosion coursed through the area and at the same time the scorpion trembled. Hajime and scorpion was facing each without each moving, and the silence between them continued.

Slowly, the scorpion started to slope. It flopped onto the ground with a thud.

Hajime approached the unmoving scorpion. He placed Donner into the beast mouth and fire it 3 times to make sure;when he was satisfied he nodded to himself. For sure its dead. This is the policy he came up with these days.

Looking back, there was Yue sitting there staring at Hajime with an expressionless face but her eyes was somehow joyful. He did not know when his journey through the dungeon will end, but he seemed to have acquired a reliable partner.

Pandora’s box was said to have contained disaster and a handful of hope. Apparently, this metaphor he made before he entered the room, had hit the mark. Hajime walked to Yue while he thought of this.

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