204 – Three Strike Kills
Things got pretty embarrassing.
‘I never thought Joan would appear here…’
I want to ask why you’re here, but if I do, I’ll be self-confessing, so I just suppressed the words that were about to come out of my mouth.
I don’t know what he was thinking, but I had no choice but to jump out in fright at the threat of revealing my identity if I didn’t show up right away.
You found the link between Lupine and Raven?
How did Joanne who was dumbfounded?
It is a fact that even the world’s Juliet does not know. Although she has her feelings of suspicion towards Lupine, she can be sure that she has not found any contact with the phantom thief.
Just a mere coincidence? An unfounded delusion?
No, her attitude was too confident for that.
Whatever it is, the priority is to get out of this situation right now.
I have no choice but to put the question aside for a while.
It’s been a long time since I met Sherlock up close. The fact that she resembled an acquaintance was second only to her, and she also maintained her outstanding beauty enough to admire her inside.
Hmm. Excluding the characteristics of the job, if you simply look at the person, wouldn’t it be the closest to my ideal type?
Of course, in this situation, it’s just useless thinking.
“Are you going to fight me? I’m not bragging, but I and the Enforcers all won, too?”
It could be said that this is the fruit of diligently robbing jewels all along, but my skills have already improved to the point where I can easily win against quite a few opponents. In particular, the combat experience against the Reaper in the fantasy world was very helpful.
Now, I think I can beat Gina, the strongest freshman, without difficulty.
In that case, of course, Sherlock wouldn’t be able to compete with me either. If she’s Sharon, no matter how much she hides her skills, she’ll be weaker than Gina.
“It’s still too early to be conceited.”
Sherlock took out her pistol calmly and without a hint of fear.
Looks like you really intend to fight. Then I have no choice but to deal with it.
I don’t think you need to do your best, just adjust it appropriately.
Bang!!
The muzzle fired and bullets flew towards me.
As soon as I let it go lightly without feeling any sense of danger, the bullet defied the laws of physics and reversed its path and fired at me again.
This pattern was already expected. Because I almost got hit last time.
At that time, I thought I was really going to die, so I was stunned.
I whipped the card and cut the bullet in half. At the same time, light emanated from the flying card and magic was activated.
The heart, a card pattern, was carved into the ground and began to block the surrounding space like a barrier.
“Huh?”
Sherlock calmly examines the situation and Joanne panics.
I looked at the two and said with a mean laugh.
“Don’t worry. It won’t hurt.”
On the contrary, it is a fairly unusual magic. This is the first time I’ve actually used it, but does it work well?
As the pink curtain grew thicker, the magical effect gradually got stronger.
Then, soon after, Joanne’s condition began to deteriorate.
She was in a daze for a moment as if she had been stunned, but at some point, vivid hearts appeared in her eyes.
“Sher, Sherlock… My heart is suddenly stuffy.”
Oh my God. Are there any more exciting sights like this one?
If I had popcorn, I would have chewed it right away and looked around.
Actually, Joanne didn’t seem too different from usual, so she just did it, and the real highlight was Sherlock’s reaction. My heart pounded, appreciating what Sherlock would look like.
“Stop playing nonsense.”
“… Um. A little disappointing.”
I did it by chance, but I never thought it would be okay. I would applaud him if he had endured with transcendental mental strength, but it seemed that the magic had no effect at all.
As you can guess, the heart magic I used has an enchanting effect.
However, it is not omnipotent. Because the activation conditions are so difficult, it is quite difficult magic to use in practice.
It is impossible to make the caster fall in love with me.
Can only be used when there are two people in the heart curtain other than the caster. In other words, there is no effect from more than 3 people.
Besides, using magic doesn’t blindly fall in love.
The exact effect is to amplify each other’s liking. In other words, if you don’t have a crush on the other person from the beginning, it won’t work at all.
Even the longer you stay inside the heart, the stronger the effect, but the heart barrier only looks like a barrier and cannot block your movement, so just step out and you’re done.
In a word, it is full of flaws and is nothing more than magic that can be used just for fun.
If it were easy to manipulate people’s emotions in the first place, that would be even more strange.
“Hmm.”
Joanne is enthralled, as expected, but Sherlock is perfectly fine.
I wondered if it was because I didn’t like him at all, but that’s probably not the case. Not only a rational crush, but a person-to-person crush is sufficient as an amplification condition.
Rather than that, I think it’s because of those shining eyes. It’s like watching her eyes go back to green even though she wants to have pink hearts engraved on her eyes.
“I can’t help it.”
Canceled the spell. This was the level of a horse-eating hippo, so it had no effect, so it was a waste to keep it going.
“… Huh? What was it? Something really ticked me off.”
As soon as the heart disappears, it returns to its original state and Joanne tilts her head.
As much as she wanted to properly appreciate the two women’s forbidden love, she felt regret.
“You’d better fight seriously.”
Sherlock said that while glaring at me with green eyes.
Then, a unique pattern flashed from my eyes, and the same pattern was engraved as a green mark right in the center of my body.
“What?”
This is a magic I’ve never seen before.
Feeling a little uneasy, Sherlock pointed her pistol at me once again.
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Bang!
She fires a single bullet this time as well.
She threw the card thinking that she should just block the same way as before.
“…Eh?”
The card passed through the bullet and got stuck on the ground.
I panicked and hurriedly pulled out another means of defense.
The situation was the same even when I took out not only cards, but hats, capes, pigeons, and all sorts of other things.
The bullets flew furiously at me, passing through everything as if it were a hologram.
I tried to avoid it myself as a last resort, but as before, it was persistently following me to see if it had a guided missile function.
It was only then that I realized the seriousness of the situation and blocked the trajectory with my palms to minimize damage.
However, the bullet passed through my arm and rushed toward the pattern engraved on my chest as if I could not tolerate even that.
Suwoong-.
“…What is it?”
I blinked in bewilderment. Even after taking her bullet, she made sure nothing was wrong and stared at Sherlock as if asking for an explanation, and she kindly replied.
“Three deadly kills. Just two more hits from now on and you’ll die.”
Are you serious? From what I’m saying, I don’t think I’m joking.
“If you get hit three times, you will surely die instantly. I didn’t want to kill anyone either, so I didn’t write it in the meantime. I won’t watch it this time.”
“hahahaha. This is a little dangerous.”
“Raven. Surrender meekly even now.”
I never thought such magic tricks existed.
At first glance, you might think it’s a bit mysterious. Ordinary people die with just one bullet. Magic that requires three shots to die feels like zero efficiency.
However, if the effect is an ‘instant kill’ that inevitably dies, the story is different. In this world where all kinds of monsters are rampant, it was an amazing ability to kill the enemy with just three shots.
There’s not even a way to block bullets. If you try to block it, everything will pass through, and if you try to avoid it, it will follow you all the way to the end of the judo road.
Calm down. Let’s think calmly.
There is no way that such overwhelming performance magic has no downsides. Even with the heart magic I used right now, wasn’t there a very difficult condition attached?
There will definitely be a breakup law. You just have to find it.
“I still haven’t figured out the situation.”
Bang!!
Sherlock pulled the trigger on her once more.
If you get hit by that, you only have one chance left. Looking at it, Sherlock doesn’t seem to have any intention of killing me, but she doesn’t know that. She couldn’t risk her life at the mercy of her enemies.
I have to find a way. But···.
Time is too short. Bullets were flying at me right away, but there was no time to be immersed in leisurely planning.
If only I had been given at least a moment’s time to think of a breakthrough.
‘Wait.’
If that’s the case, there is a way.
This is not a fundamental solution to the situation, but at least I couldn’t think of a better way to buy time.
I stared at the bullet and took out the hand mirror I had brought for emergencies just in case.
‘I wasn’t going to go back until I heard from Vivian…!!’
Now was not the time to weigh the situation.
Clutching the hand mirror tightly, I gently closed my eyes and thought of the mirror world where Hayangi would be.
‘Please!’
When I opened my eyes again after a while.
I was moving to the plaza in front of the midnight clock tower.