episode_0357

After witnessing Ethan’s injury, Lilith awakens with anger and continues the battle with her younger brother Occam, a sword expert.

Ethan was also injured and was continuing his battle with his older brother Occam, an Ax Expert.

… It was so close to a one-sided massacre that it would be difficult to call it a battle, so it would be more accurate to say it was a flight and chase rather than a battle.

-Crack, crack!

“Hoo, hoo, hoo… .”

“If you look like a girl, what’s the use of being so quick to run away?!”

A battle on an empty grassland with no trees, rocks or buildings to hide in.

The battle between Ethan and Ockham was rather one-sided to be called a battle between two experts, and as time went by, the situation was becoming more and more unfavorable to Ethan.

‘Damn it. At least, if it weren’t for this injury I suffered a while ago… .’

If I hadn’t tried to block the ax with my sword and lost one of my arms, I would have had a good chance of winning.

From the beginning, I had to take advantage of the fact that my steps were a little faster and fight slowly, increasing the distance. Instead of hastily putting yourself within the reach of his axe.

The reason he didn’t do that in the first battle was partly because Ethan couldn’t estimate his opponent’s skills, but also because he saw the possibility of problems if he used the tactic of repeatedly attacking and running away.

An enemy that must be dealt with only by oneself and Lilith, without the help of others.

He was worried that if he ran away, the full force of one expert would be concentrated on Lilith, so he deliberately stayed in his position and started the battle, but it was after he had already lost one of his arms that he realized that it was a wrong decision.

-thud! thud! thud!

“Hehehe, yes! Let’s see how long you can run away like a rabbit!”

“… … Damn it.”

At least no matter how much he looked at the eyes of the man following him, he only seemed to be interested in himself, not Lilith.

Ethan had often heard that among the nobles who were too picky with women, there were people who lusted for sodomy, but he had never thought that a bandit living near a village on the outskirts would have such a taste.

… If he had known in advance, he would have used the same fighting style as Lilith, running away little by little and fighting. Although it was already too late to have such regrets.

-Pow!

“Sigh, haaa… .”

“Ha, anyway, it looks so pretty that all it does is show off its ability to run away. ha ha ha… .”

-Clink.

“Haa, haaa, turn it off… .”

Ethan, who lost his right arm, played tag for quite a long time and focused only on making time in any way possible.

However, there was no way that Ethan, who had allowed Ockham to attack him even when his body was intact, could have dealt with him while he was critically injured, and in the end, his escape, which was moving while his body was unbalanced, resulted in the blade of Ockham’s ax being hit on Ethan’s other forearm. This was a hit.

-Phew!

“Ahhhh… !!”

“Once again, cut it like a lizard and run away. I don’t know if it’s possible.”

“Off, hmm… .”

-dump.

The pain coming from the effects of the painkillers that were almost over, the consciousness gradually fading due to too much blood being lost.

Ethan, who collapsed in his seat with his legs no longer moving due to fatigue, quietly recalled a woman in his head.

‘What happened to the release? .’

If the other twin brother is this strong, I don’t think even Lilith will be safe.

Ethan hoped that he could at least escape safely. It would have been better for at least one of them to live than for both of them to die in this nameless plain.

And to Ethan, the more important person between him and Lilith was of course Lilith, so he hoped in his heart that she would be safe somehow.

‘If I had known it would be like this, I think it would have been better to move the camp a little closer to the warrior party.’

If he had done that, at least he and Lilith wouldn’t have had to deal with these dangerous guys.

Ethan could not help but feel resentful of his own judgment, as he had put Lilith in danger just because he was annoyed by the hero.

-Tup!

“Keep, keke!”

“Hehe, it will hurt less if you stay calm. If possible, I’d rather hit a living guy than a dead guy.”

“Off, keuhm, keuh… !!”

… Damn it.

It would have been a little bit of comfort if I had been able to at least face a proper death.

For Ethan, being humiliated by a bandit with such dirty hobbies was an end worse than death.

‘Really, nothing happens until the end… .’

Still, the moment he closed his eyes and tried to ignore reality, hoping that Lilith would have run away even a little further while he was wasting time like this.

-Chrrr!!

“Keep, wow?!”

-Surrrr… .

The sound of chains tangling and someone’s painful groan reached Ethan’s ears, and it wasn’t long before he realized that it was Occam’s moan, who had been strangling his neck just moments before.

-Chuck!

“, sigh… !! Keck… !!”

-Chrrr!!

“Keueueueueu… !! Kahaha… !!!”

“… … .”

The sight of Ockham being strangled by magical chains is completely opposite to the moment before when he was strangling himself.

Ockham let out a painful groan as the magical chains dug deeper and deeper, and the whites of Ockham’s eyes rolled around in front of him, and he fell to the floor. Appearing behind the fallen large figure was a maid who was all too familiar to Ethan.

“… … .”

“… Lily, s?”

-Sigh.

Lilith looks down at Occam’s fallen body with maddened eyes, like the eyes of a werewolf looking at the moon.

She lifted the huge ax that Occam had been holding with all her might with both hands, and lifted it towards the nape of Occam’s neck as he lay on the floor… .

-Whoosh!

“… … .”

-Whoosh! Sigh! Sigh!

“… … .”

Again and again. Lilith struck the corpse of the bandit vice-leader who had already lost his life several times.

-Pow!

“… Ha, ha, ha.”

In the end, it was Lilith who put down the ax only after completely separating the thick head from her body, so Ethan could not even easily talk to Lilith and could only stare blankly at her.

“Safe… Looks like we couldn’t lose, Master Ethan.”

“… Sorry, Lilith.”

“No, it was my fault. I should have provided support a little quicker.”

“… … .”

There was more than enough.

Not only did Lilith face the Expert like herself, but unlike herself, she came to support him after a confident victory.

Even though she said she had become the bait, she was no less than a hero who had caught two experts on her own.

“… Still.”

“… … .”

“… Wow, I’m really glad you’re alive.”

-Kkook.

“… … .”

“Heup, sob… . Ugh… .”

Lilith, sitting on the floor, is held in her arms, pouring out her intense emotions.

When she saved Lilith from McHeart, did she feel similar emotions as she does now?

Ethan quietly thought that since they owed each other their lives, they really had no choice but to take responsibility now.

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『Lilith has become level 31!』

『Lilith has become level 32!』

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It’s three o’clock in the morning. After all battles are over.

The restless group that awakened the sweet sleep was somehow subdued, but the scars left by the battle were too deep.

A gruesome battle in which someone cut their finger, someone’s knee was broken, and someone even cut off their own arm.

However, for the warrior party, even such an injury was a blessing because Serista, a saint of faith, was their ally.

“… Almighty Goddess Aurelia, please grant miracles of healing and blessings to this person!”

-Woah!

As soon as the saint’s spell was fully memorized, a mysterious light enveloped Prince Blackwood’s right shoulder.

Ethan bit his lower lip and suppressed a moan from the bitter pain of the divine power that forcibly helped the body regenerate.

“Keueup, inhale… ! Hmm… !!”

And there was one maid who was holding one of his arms and quietly looking at Ethan with a very distraught expression.

“… Please be patient, Master Ethan.”

Lilith, who has cleansed one of the master’s arms she is holding with clean magic, but has not yet purified her own maid uniform, which is actually covered in the blood of a dozen people, quietly holds Ethan’s arm as much as possible so that it can stick to its original state, and holds the saint’s hand. All I could do was wait for the recovery spell.

… It took about a few minutes for Celista’s divine power to fully penetrate the injured area.

“Heo-eok, heo-eok, heo-eok… .”

Ethan, who had managed to regain his arm through pain that literally cut through his bones, let out the heavy breath he had been holding in for so long.