120 – Dite Chernobog
From the moment the fight started, gaps were constantly showing.
Dite’s attacks were obviously all sharp, but that was literally all about aiming for a sure blow at the right moment.
If she knew that, she could have avoided or blocked it somehow.
Still, the reason I haven’t been looking for an opening is simple.
Because I thought that the gap I was looking at must be that he was showing it on purpose.
“Did you think you could defeat me with just this much?”
In fact, the first few times I tried to get out, weren’t they all aimed at dieting?
But now I know.
“Avatara collapses here. I made you my companion!”
The gap that Diet is showing right now is really a weakness.
I couldn’t understand.
Dite couldn’t have been just this kind of skill.
The modifier “Strongest” Or “Worst disaster” Was attached to Rex, but that definitely did not mean that Dyt was weaker than Rex.
Dite was the pinnacle of skill that drove Sofia and Leon to the brink of defeat in the original work alone.
Didn’t the writer’s setting clearly say that Diet and Rex’s skills were in the middle ages?
To think that he couldn’t push me properly and even showed gaps.
Of course, this would be a good situation for me, but knowing the setting, I couldn’t help but question it.
“Huh!”
Neia and the pitch-black sword collide.
And it was only for a moment that the power struggle was equal.
Dyt stepped back from him as if his fingertips were tingling, and his shoulders flinched momentarily.
“… Anyway, I see what’s wrong with you.”
“You are quick to notice.”
Dait sneered, as if he had noticed it now, then removed the cloak he had been wearing and lifted his top slightly.
And what was revealed there.
“… What the heck.”
The upper body was stained black.
“In order to transplant the demon’s blood and magic path, I must neutralize them with my blood. It is a side effect of doing it too much.”
Saying so, Dait covered himself with his cloak again.
“But does that mean anything? You guys must have come to stop me. Then don’t worry about that and fight!”
Then he extended his sword towards me again.
… Okay. It doesn’t matter what situation he is in.
The important thing is to defeat Dite and return to Reina.
Thinking about that fact, I took a step again.
And from a certain moment, it was me who was being pushed back.
The reason was simple.
“Keuugh!”
The whole body started to go numb gradually.
It was proof that the body had reached its limits.
“Did you think I didn’t know? Obviously my body is in the worst condition right now. But the same goes for you.”
Stretch out Neia and poke the gap.
After lightly deflecting it, Dait dug in and took her left shoulder down with an elbow.
“… !”
I gritting my teeth and enduring the rushing pain, I stepped back and straightened my posture.
But the strength in Neia’s left arm, which was meant to hold her, was already beginning to fail.
“No, I can move about normally, but I have to say that the four of you, whose bodies have reached their limits, are in the worst condition.”
It was exactly as he said.
My body is in a state where Sofia forced me to move.
However, Dait could not display his original skills, and he was able to move enough to a certain extent.
The disadvantage was definitely on my side.
★
My vision is blurry.
Thoughts are not organized.
My arms were shaking violently, and my legs were so heavy that it was difficult to even take a step forward.
At some point, only the feeling of blood leaking from the pierced side held my spirit.
“Ike. Don’t teach me one The future does not change.”
Seeing me like that, Diet abruptly stopped attacking and opened her mouth.
“… That, what.”
“Even if I kill you here, the fact that Avatar will perish will never change. Destiny is decided.”
“Funny, that sounds. I already….”
“You changed the future and destiny? That would mean you saved Ray or Rogelia.”
Her head was messily tangled.
“But if you fall here right now, I intend to kill Ray or Rogelia.”
The moment I heard that, it was neatly organized.
“Then, the fate of Reina Rogelia dying because of Avatar will not change.”
“Don’t be funny.”
Even if I die, there’s no way I’ll just watch it.
Clean your teeth.
It sends all the mana that can be channeled through the body.
It’s okay even if I won’t be able to use magic in the future.
Because there is something more important than that.
“Don’t be ridiculous.”
I promised.
I will never die.
And.
“I promised to tell you my real name… !”
The tremors stop.
This must be an instant miracle.
This is your last chance to burn out the last embers.
「As you said, this will be the end. Do you want help?」
A voice is heard.
Shortly after being possessed by this world, I heard about it at Leon’s socialite debutante ball, and one day he suddenly appeared from a dream and gave me advice.
The voice of the ‘real’ Ike Axus.
But.
“I don’t need it.”
I don’t need your help because you didn’t trust or save Reina, so you left everything to someone else.
「… Okay. That’s enough.”
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Position yourself.
And remember.
The best and strongest blow I know.
Exactly what the ‘real’ Ike Axus showed at the prom, and Leon said he was impressed with.
But I quickly got it out of my head.
I am not a genius like them. I can’t reach the limit of technology with my talent.
All I can do is.
“Is that the last attack you show?”
A full-on, frontal slash.
“Then I will destroy it from the front too.”
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Put the weight on the slightly forward left foot.
“Come!”
And at the same time, I rushed towards Dite at full speed.
“Haaa!”
“Oohhhhh!”
With all the power it can contain, it hits Neia.
Dite grabbed the jet-black sword at a right angle and struck it upward.
“Haaa!”
“Oohhhhh!”
A fleeting collision.
The winner of the conflict.
“… Uh?”
My, it was a defeat.
With a crackling sound, a crack like a spider’s web ran from Neia’s side in an instant.
“My victory, Ike.”
Neia, who thought she would never break, split in half and at the same time, her broken half flew into the sky.
Since Neia, who was carrying her strength, broke, it was only natural that I would lose my balance.
Then Dait kicked me with her foot and pushed me away.
All I could see was falling backwards.
“Goodbye.”
It was Dyt’s jet-black sword that flew towards my heart.
And.
“… What?!”
The cross that appeared with pure white light bounced off Dyt’s sword.
‘Pendant?’
‘Yes. Rocket to be precise. Try opening it.’
What saved me was the rocket Reina gave me before participating in the dance competition held in Heros.
‘If I inject magic into it once, the A-class protection magic will be activated.’
You can’t change the future or destiny?
“I’m sorry, but here is proof that you can change.”
Dite collapsed just like me from a while ago.
I’m back to stance.
“This is the end.”
I took out the dagger Reina had given me, Diana, and stabbed it into Date’s chest.
★
“… Am I lost?”
Date stared at the ceiling quietly.
Beside him stood Ike, whose whole body was shaking non-stop.
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Perhaps because of the side effects caused by the beast’s blood, Diet felt no pain even though his chest was pierced.
But he knew for sure that the end was near.
“Dear Ike Axus. At first, I said I had nothing to say, but I just want to ask you one thing.”
Ike nodded quietly and looked at Diet.
“If I had returned to the past around the same time as you, if I had known of your existence and had a conversation with you a little earlier, do you think my future would have changed?”
At Diet’s question, Ike shook his head without hesitation.
“That can’t be. After all, you are a man who understands Avatar’s mess more than anyone else.”
“Kuh. Ha ha ha ha ha! Is it. Did you already see through!”
If it was Ike who was defeated in the final battle, Dyt would surely have started acting as an avatar again.
It didn’t matter that there were no officers to help him now.
Date was Avatar, and Avatar was DATE.
He must have lived alone as an avatar.
And Ike knew that better than anyone else.
“… This is true.”
In the previous world, Leon and Sophia did not understand Diet until the very end.
But this time, someone who understood his true nature was standing next to him.
“I really like the ending.”
“Is that so?”
“Yes. And the last question, Ike. Who is your boy
Because I am an avatar, I stood here. Then why are you guys standing here? I want to hear the answer.”
Ike thought for a moment about Dyt’s question, and then he slowly opened his mouth.
“I am Reina Rogelia’s….”
And before he could finish his answer, he fell unconscious.
But that alone was enough for Diet.
“Yes. Did you guys stand here for that reason until the end?”
What a fun guy, Diet sneered.
Then he quietly stood up and grabbed Ike by the back of his neck.
★
Raina was quietly waiting for Ike outside her door with her eyes closed.
And how much time had passed.
The huge door quietly opened and appeared.
“… Were you waiting here It was hard, but it went well.”
It was Dite, who grabbed Ike by the back of his neck with one hand and dragged him on the floor.
“Everyone, you….”
Ike’s whole body convulsed with blood continuously leaking from his side.
Dytt also had Diana stuck in her chest, but Raina didn’t notice that.
“What, did you… !”
Even though Reina was blinded by her anger and tried to cast her magic.
“Take him and treat him. I guess it’s not too late.”
I had to get Dyt to throw Ike roughly.
“… Yes?”
“… Yes? What is Avatar has collapsed, which means you won.”
With that last word, Diet went back into the room, and the door slowly closed.
And the door never opened again.
★
“Now, is it the end?”
Dite quietly gazed at the sky while sitting on the throne.
She still felt no pain, but she knew the end was right in front of her eyes.
“Well, there might be another chance. Then, let’s try to push ourselves a little harder.”
Well, even if that happens, I’m sure someone will come to stop it.
With those thoughts at the end, Date quietly closed his eyes.
★
Slowly, consciousness began to return.
What was your last memory?
I remember having a conversation with Dyt for sure.
That is. Avatar has collapsed, is the fight over?
I’m glad.
“… Whoops!”
At the same time as I thought that, I let out my breath and my consciousness awakened.
And what I saw when I opened my eyes.
“… Here is?”
I was so used to it, and now I’m not used to it, the white ceiling.
It was exactly the place I thought I would never see again.
“… Uh?”
And this time, it wasn’t a dream.