577 – 7. Jealousy is my strength (77)
“When did you say I sold one eye?”
“You always do that.”
At first glance, the empty eyes gave the impression that the girl had lost all her emotions. But when I listened to the heat in that voice, I was able to realize it right away.
Seria is not emotionless.
On the contrary, there was only one emotion left, and it overpowered all other elements, so nothing was visible.
As if pouring white paint on a painting, it looks like white drawing paper.
I could have guessed the name of that feeling.
“I am by your side, but those eyes are always looking elsewhere. I understand. Senior Lee Ahn is a man in his prime, and when foxy b*tches cling to him and wag their tails, it’s inevitable that he’ll catch his eye. Like that, every day… Leave me.”
Suddenly.
The sound of grinding teeth resonated, and at the same time, a humming air wave burst out around Seria. Looking at it again, it was a terrifying amount of mana.
What the hell did you eat?
At this level, I had to do my best. Although I had the upper hand in technology and Aura power, the output itself was on a different level.
My body wasn’t normal again.
Thought so, I slowly began to raise my aura.
In the meantime, Seria’s anger continued.
“I, to me, is always senior Ian… Senior Ian is always looking at others, not me… Do you know how painful my heart was? Just shedding tears like an idiot, nothing changes no matter how much I wait!”
“Calm down, Seria.”
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I quietly tried to dissuade Seria, but of course Seria couldn’t listen to me.
Crime-colored flames rise again from Seria’s sword. The sight of him slowly getting into his posture reminded me of my juniors whom I had seen a long time ago.
The first Seria I saw.
Even then, Seria gave off such an overwhelming feeling. Even though she was only Dalian.
“At this rate, no no no no… I will live my whole life being taken away… Already, she’s already, she’s been robbed of everything by that b*tch? The family, the mother, and even Senior Ian! No more!”
She cried so violently that her voice trembled with anger and jealousy. A dark murderous intent lingered in Seria’s panic-stricken eyes.
I had a hunch.
This is the beginning.
“We have to get it back…… !”
While emitting a sound like her own scream, Seria took a step with her bloodshot eyes.
Her raised sword shows off her majestic figure. Her crimson aura mixed with the blue light of her ceria, and her purple pillars stood tall, connecting the earth and the sky.
“No matter what you do… Even if you kill someone!”
And one island.
The purple sword strikes like a castle wall.
The aura that could reach several meters or even tens of meters was enough to erase the distance between me and Seria.
Compared to that, the aura on my sword is dwarfed.
But it wasn’t impossible for me either.
Terrible.
My body was thrown out as if it were protruding from the cross section of time. No matter how fast the sword attack was, it couldn’t be faster than me running through the frozen time.
My swordplay, which ran at high speed, surged like thunder in front of Seria’s eyes. The world, which had not yet regained its color, remained the same without even a single change.
There is only one place to take advantage of this golden opportunity.
It was Seria’s shoulder.
Of course, the swordsman’s arm was as good as his life. If even one arm was incapacitated, there was no choice but to have a great problem handling the sword.
You can’t kill them anyway, so subdue them.
My judgment was correct after numerous actual battles. Seria was losing her sophistication as she had before, and because of that, even after she swung her sword, she was relatively exposed to many gaps.
She had her shoulders open, which she should never give up.
So, she didn’t know that if she used the time stop well, it might be possible to suppress it without difficulty.
Yeah, I should have.
Until my sword caught on Seria’s shoulder.
“Crazy…… !”
It was a burst of exclamation while facing the blue eyes that embraced the chest.
It was close. My body, which had already strained several times, could not maintain the stopped world for a long time, and because of that, time began to flow again at the last moment.
But even so, there would have been only a moment to spare.
Seria overcame this with her ridiculous durability and reaction speed. She had the strength to hold her blade just by closing her shoulder blades, but it was also formidable that her skin wasn’t ripped off.
A strong body worthy of the metaphor of ‘steel’.
Looking back, didn’t the hatchet I threw at the beginning also land an effective blow on the back of Seria’s hand?
There was no time for me to be immersed in reminiscence.
Seria, who grabbed her sword, tried to strike her stomach with her right foot. If she kicked me with the same muscle strength, no matter how much I was, it would be hard to avoid her slander.
Now even worrying was a luxury.
Kang, and her hatchet and feet collided in the air. The sound of a collision between arms and a human body is unbelievable.
The result was also the Middle Ages.
Me and Seria took a step back, and Seria released the power she had given to her shoulder blades to swing her sword again.
Catching the falling sword, one more sword.
This time it was a battle between blades and blades. The battle was so fast that even the flames and sounds were delayed.
Just once wasn’t enough.
Me and Seria exploded dozens of sword lights at once.
Kang, Kang, Kang, Kang, Kang, Kang, Kang!
Innumerable noises burst out as if tearing at nothing. Blue flames flowed down from the air like showers.
In the end of the game, where only the afterimages remained, I was the one who was pushed back.
I was still injured, and Seria’s body was stronger than ever. Of course, if it went into a power-to-power battle, I had no choice but to be pushed.
As I pushed her backwards with force, Seria pierced her every step, shining with her ferocious eyes.
“Not yet…… !”
A purple aura surges once more. Even if I jumped backwards, it was an expression of my will that I would never miss it.
It was definitely an outlier.
If I were a person who could only handle a sword.
Right before Seria completely burrowed into my arms, she began to see a glimpse of blood in her retinas.
The air is bleeding and drawing strange letters. There was only one technology with these characteristics, even on the whole continent.
Dragon blood characters.
Seria’s eyes widened, and that was the signal flare.
Boom!
A storm of heat and light swept through the area, accompanied by an explosion. I also couldn’t be free from the aftermath, so I had to fall behind, but it was rather what I hoped for.
The power of dragon blood characters is difficult to endure even with a strengthened body. It was to the point that even Seria, who had never been pushed back by her, stumbled and hit her backwards.
At least, it’s only a short amount of time.
To me, that was more desperate than ever.
I gritted my teeth and rotated magic power all over my body. Once again, the light went out of the world, and before I knew it, my body was sprinting through it, making a creaking sound.
Please, please reach…… !
But this time, too, it was narrowly short. Right before the blade cut through her thigh, Seria managed to get out of the stopped time and cut her blade away.
“Keugh…..!”
Perhaps it was because her posture collapsed once, but I couldn’t get my sword back properly.
Like that, the workshop went on for a long time.
I ran through the world I stopped, Seria counterattacked, and then I hit her backwards and ran.
Every time that happened, the time I could stop was getting shorter and shorter.
0.9 Seconds.
0.5 Seconds.
0.3 Seconds.
In the end, even an extremely short time of less than 0.1 Second.
My vision was blurry before I knew it. I was gasping for air, bending my upper body as if I was about to fall to the ground, and inhaling.
The wounds he got while fighting the blood relatives of the vampires held him back until the very end. It wasn’t a fatal wound, but the strange wound that couldn’t be healed even with the healing potion induced continuous bleeding.
In that case, it was inevitable that they would come.
Limit of physical strength.
When facing a monster that never gets tired, it was a death sentence.
However, even Seria was not safe.
“Whoops, aha… Ahahahaha, ahahahaha!”
The clothes were torn in places and there were scars on the body in places. Among them, there were parts that were lethal as a swordsman, such as arms and legs.
Even so, the gap between me and Seria was clear.
Seria stood upright on her two legs, and I was out of breath and could hardly move. Realizing this, Seria looked around her face and burst into laughter.
“Senior Ian, you are so kind… You had a chance to aim for my neck more clearly, didn’t you?”
I swallowed a blank laugh at those words.
Seria was right.
No matter how short the time to stop is, I wasn’t an idiot either. Of course, in that short period of time, he put in a lot of effort to somehow subdue Seria.
For example, risking your life to buy time at close range.
Of course, there were limitations. As long as I was holding the sword, I couldn’t avoid Seria’s guard, and as a result, no matter how close we got, there was always a gap between me and Seria.
Nevertheless, opportunities inevitably come. Even Seria hasn’t seen ‘her boundary’ yet, so isn’t the difference in skill between Seria and me obvious?
Even so, I couldn’t subdue Seria.
Why?
Because she wasn’t that strong.
How could I cut my beloved junior with my own hands?
A moment of hesitation was fatal in the game. The results of that were now revealed in the composition of Seria and me.
Seria seemed overjoyed that I couldn’t bear to cut her.
Because the eyes looking at me were so full of lust that they overflowed.
“Ah, you are kind. Be nice be kind… So, no one can beat it. I know, senior Ian… You really couldn’t choose, right?”
One step, two steps.
The girl began to walk lightly. I instinctively applied strength to the hand holding the sword, but then released it.
It’s useless.
After dozens or hundreds of workshops, I realized one fact. It was that Seria’s aura was intervening in reality.
Whether it’s magical powers or phenomena, they were physically torn in front of that aura. As if an amorphous existence became a solid.
Is this the aura trait Seria possesses?
There was a reason why the time stop was narrowly resolved. It was probably a problem caused by a clash between Seria’s aura and me.
There was no chance of winning in the composition I was rushing into like now.
At least, I wouldn’t know if I was in perfect condition.
Seria took another step through my silence.
“That’s why she couldn’t even beat that b*tch. Because he’s so kind… But don’t worry anymore. Senior.”
A dreamy voice.
I took a rough breath and staggered to get myself up.
Thinking is confusing. Memories are joined together, and unfamiliar landscapes keep coming up in front of my eyes.
It seemed that the medicinal effect was increasing.
But not yet, not yet.
“From now on, I will cut it for you. Senior Ian, so that only I can see… Kill and kill those intrusive females, and create a world just for the two of us. Yes? Senior Ian didn’t cut me because he wanted to, too, right?”
Huuu, I took a deep breath and only then did my vision clear up a bit.
The distance between me and Seria is just a few meters.
That was when Seria took another step forward.
Kang, doing it.
Only today, an unknown number of collision sounds rang out.