130 – Deferred duel
Happiness.
When was the last time you felt that emotion?
It is clear that I have never felt that way since I was excommunicated. A cold smile formed on the assassin king’s lips. Cooler than the cool moonlight.
“Yes, you look very happy.”
It seems that Reina’s sharpness has become dull because of that happiness. Will this do her good or bad?
“I mean, I got into the nihilist. My current position is the raid leader of the black raid.”
The leader of the raid is one of only four high positions within the nihilists.
She was recognized for her skills to the extent that she stepped up to the position. It was a natural result since it was an assassination skill that could take the life of a great nobleman.
To be honest, I am not interested in their ideal of the end of mana. She entered the nihilist simply because she wanted her power. She lost her friends, her hometown, and her light for power. Still, she couldn’t give up her power.
“I see, clothes… !”
“Don’t you hate me? I am trying to kill you, who abandoned your hometown for me.”
It can be said that it is a sample of the saying that grace is repaid with enemies. Ingratitude is also oily. No matter how dark-haired a beast can be, it can be so shameless. The Assassination King was surprised at his shamelessness.
The assassin king, whose body was dyed in the moonlight through the stained glass, walked toward Reina one after another. Reina’s life is sharply aligned. A fight seems inevitable.
“You gave up everything for me. By the way, I’m even asking for your life.”
“Originally…. Because he was greedy… !”
I couldn’t find the slightest trace of her hatred in Reina’s voice.
“I didn’t hate that kind of clothes… !”
At her words, the assassin king’s fist clenched. Blood flowed from his bitten lips.
“I mean, I don’t thank you at all. That you wrapped around me Rather, it is just hateful.”
“Are you mad because I did something presumptuous? ?”
To blame!
The assassin king’s footsteps stopped. I can’t confirm it because I’ve lost his sight, but my expression must be distorted like a demon right now. There are things in the world that you can know without seeing.
The closed mouth does not open easily. All kinds of complicated emotions created a huge torrent and left me speechless. What should I say to that nice guy?
“Don’t you want to know why I touched the taboo?”
“Isn’t that what you wanted?” ?”
“Yes. I wanted power. To surpass you.”
Izumi Reina.
The owner of brilliant and dazzling talent.
She was a girl who had everything the assassin king didn’t have, but wanted. She is a great teacher, wonderful talent, and a warm family.
Reina was the only one who reached out to her helpless self and held out her hand. She was the person she ‘should have been’. A human with all her own ideals.
It was nothing to touch her taboo if she could jump her. For to surpass her was to exceed her own ideals.
The Assassination King glared at Rayna with her invisible eyes. The emotion engraved in her cloudy eyes was straight anger.
“Your kindness was disgusting. I couldn’t stand it because I was disgusted to play a good boy using poor village orphans as ornaments.”
“I didn’t mean to…” !”
I know. Reina Izumi is not such a calculating child. She doesn’t have a cold heart, she doesn’t have a smart brain.
She never once felt her nauseated. Rather, the cause of her nausea is she herself. To herself she can’t help but be jealous of a friend like that. Even now, even at this moment, she was envious of Reina Izumi for her brilliant talent.
‘That…. It should have been mine.’
She raised her head.
“Reina Izumi. Raise your weapon. Let’s finish the duel at the Jade Waterfall.”
A dagger was in the Assassination King’s hand. It was a dagger as sharp as her ferocious spirit she exuded. The blue spirits emanating from the blade seemed to cut through the air. It is an S-class item, the ‘Sword of Death’.
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“Miss Saki…. Do you remember the promise we made at that waterfall? ?”
Reina opened her mouth to mention the real name of the Assassination King.
“Promise?”
“The winning side decided to do the losing side’s favor. Clothes… !”
Come to think of it, she made that promise.
A duel at the Jade Falls.
It was something she, having learned her taboo, half-forced to go beyond her own ideals. She thought that if she defeated Reina, who had descended from her master, her burning inferiority complex would at least be relieved.
The duel at that time ended incomplete due to the intrusion of the village chaser. However, the fire of the duel was not extinguished. That unquenchable fire has continued to this day.
“Yes. I still remember that childish promise. However, this is a life or death decision where one side dies. Does such a promise have any meaning?”
“Clothes are meaningful to me… !”
“Okay. The loser granting the winner a request. My request is fixed.”
Vivid colors returned to the hazy eyes of the Assassin King. At the same time, an exhilarating life spreads everywhere like a thunderbolt.
Sahon’s sword reflected the moonlight and looked like a sculpture carved by a craftsman. Along with beauty, there is an aura of heartless death. The weapons that have taken so many human lives so far contained evil karma.
“Please die gracefully.”
Sasat-!
The assassin king’s body disappeared. It is a high-speed movement that cannot be followed with normal moving vision. It was an absurd speed that was shown without using Haste.
Reina closed her eyes. Saki’s style has not changed since then. The taboo that she has in her hands is ‘Sake at the speed of light’ that moves like a thunderbolt.
A forbidden secret technique that grants movement beyond cognition at the cost of life. Saki handled that dangerous taboo like her own limbs.
‘But, I don’t get hit too… !’
Moves mana with willpower. She felt the tension in her fingertips. Saki’s armament is an S-class item, the Sahon’s Sword.
However, his own armament does not run on him either. An S-class item she had learned from her master, ‘Golden Spirit Temple (琴令絲)’, was her armament.
Five invisible threads were released from Reina’s fingertips. If the opponent is attacking at a speed that can’t catch up, it’s time to build an impenetrable boundary and deny access.
It was a tactic that Reina came in handy during the duel at the Jade Falls. The duel was dug up by the village chasers, but it was Reina who seized the victory in the duel.
Reina’s forbidden spirits wrap around her like a spider’s web. The spider’s web, made of golden spirit thread thinner than half of her hair, was completely invisible to the criminal’s eyes. However, the rigidity of the house is not pushed by the steel castle.
Even a flexible human would have to sacrifice a limb or two to break through this web. Even if Saki endures such damage with her spleen heart, losing her limbs takes away her greatest strength: mobility.
“You haven’t changed! Just like back then!”
Saki did not use the unsophisticated tactic of breaking through head-on. Even ten years ago, Saki was struggling with that tactic and was unable to launch an effective attack. He was frustrated by the fact that he couldn’t cross the talent wall even after he got his hands on the taboo.
But now it’s different. She has grown She succeeded in many murders under the name of the Assassination King, and she became incomparably different from before. Of course, the solution to Reina’s tactics was also completed in the evening.
“The house you built. I will thoroughly destroy it.”
Raina’s web is like a carefully constructed castle wall. At first glance, it looks like a light net made by weaving thin threads, but that structure in which each thread is intricately entangled has the property of perfectly dispersing local impact and counteracting it.
If you take a light look at that area and try to cut it off with a sharp attack, you will be eaten by the spider’s web and your body will be disassembled into dozens of pieces. Of course, more than 90% of the humans who deal with that spider web probably don’t even know it exists.
However, there is no perfect technology in this world. Reina’s skills are like that too. Even the strongest skills studied by the master have gaps. And Saki studied that gap for decades.
‘The durability of a spider’s web doesn’t simply depend on the strength of the golden mage. More importantly, the structure of that spider web.’
There are a total of 104 ‘pillars’, thirteen strands in all directions, which act as shock absorbers. Breaking down those 104 ‘pillars’ is the key to breaking down the spider web.
“Precision strike.”
Saki used a skill to inject power into the dagger. The effect of precision strikes increases power and critical strike rate.
In addition to the basic critical hit effect of the Soul Sword, precision strike attacks can draw 100% critical hits.
“Knife shot.”
52 Knives that spawn in the air.
In exchange for the skill, a large amount of life force was consumed. Originally, it is a skill that consumes mana, but after receiving the nihilist’s secret, he uses the skill in exchange for vitality instead of mana.
A tinnitus like the cry of a cicada rings in the ears and the world spins around. Tinnitus and dizziness are representative side effects of life force exhaustion. But the Assassin King didn’t care. It’s cheap enough to take down Reina at this price.
Fifty-two knives break the ‘pillars’ of the spider’s web. Reina hurriedly repaired the collapsed spot with the sharpness of the knife aiming at the vital spot. However, the taboo that Saki got at the cost of giving up everything is ‘speed’. In her speed battle, Reina is no match for her. No, she shouldn’t be.
“Reconstruction is late.”
The number of knives fired in succession is 63.
Including the recently repaired ‘pillar’, cut off all the pillars that formed the spider’s web. It was the moment when Saki’s iron fortress, made up of golden spirits, collapsed.
“It’s strong clothes… !”
“Yes, I am stronger. You still seem to be the same then.”
“Well, the clothes… ! Will it be so… ?”
Reina said with a smile of repentance.