I Became the Academy’s Female Delinquent Chapter 34. Fenrir (2)

*Thwoom!*

Using Gungnir to support herself, Elsie rose and lifted her head.

‘It’s shallow.’

She saw a long gash stretching from Fenrir’s shoulder blade to his flank.

The vibrating blade of Gungnir must have inflicted considerable damage as it tore through him.

Yet, the black wolf, bleeding as he was, remained unbroken.

It was truly astonishing resilience.

‘In contrast…’

Elsie touched the torn waist of her school uniform.

Red blood seeped out, staining her small hand.

It was a wound she’d sustained while evading Fenrir’s attack.

‘To counterattack even after being directly hit by Gungnir’s charge…’

Even at the cost of injury, he had opened his jaws, trying to swallow her whole.

If she hadn’t quickly leaped away, she would have been trapped inside the giant wolf’s mouth.

But the reason Fenrir chose to swallow rather than bite, his most powerful attack, was—

“Are you really planning to capture me?”

Was he trying to subdue and take her away as that suspicious man with glasses wanted?

[To react and avoid that, you would have been cut in half if you failed.]

Even though she was only lightly grazed on the waist by Fenrir’s sharp molars during the evasion, the wound was this severe.

The Fenrir of this world was definitely more dangerous than the Fenrir Elsie knew. Overwhelmingly so.

‘Fenrir’s weak point is the roof of his upper jaw. If I’m swallowed, I’ll have a chance to counterattack from the inside, but…’

If his only goal was to take her away, that goal would be achieved the moment she was swallowed.

There was a possibility that she would be captured before she could escape from Fenrir’s mouth.

There was no need to risk attacking his weak point while facing such danger.

‘He’s strong enough to make the game version feel like a joke, but it’s not like there’s no way to win.’

*Swish!*

Doyun’s sword strike intervened between Elsie and Fenrir, who were facing off.

Fenrir, having created distance and evaded with a burst of speed using his limbs, turned his head at the presence he felt from behind.

As if waiting for him to retreat in that direction, Thrud lowered her stance and clenched her fist.

*Crackle! *

Járngreipr began to emit lightning.

Fist of the Heart!

The lightning-covered fist struck Fenrir.

*_Thwaang!_*

Fenrir’s massive body flew away, scorched by the lightning.

“Elsie, are you okay?!”

Doyun rushed to Elsie, who was bleeding from her waist, and gritted his teeth.

Seeing Elsie bleeding made his heart ache.

“Don’t let your guard down! There’s no way that bastard would be taken down by that!”

The forest in the direction Fenrir had flown vibrated.

Trees were uprooted and began to decorate the sky.

Doyun felt an ominous sign at Elsie’s warning.

Immediately, he deployed Gram’s energy at maximum output.

He charged forward, using the crimson energy emitted from the sword as a propellant.

“Gungnir, activate – load!”

Elsie also took a stance to throw Gungnir.

“Thrud, be careful-!!!”

Simultaneously with the shout, she threw Gungnir.

Reacting to its owner’s urgent mind, Gungnir accelerated rapidly with its own propulsion as it was thrown.

It flew towards the direction where Thrud was standing.

At that moment, a huge black mass burst out of the trees at an incredible speed.

It was Fenrir, moving so fast that he almost looked like an afterimage.

Before the countless trees that had flown into the sky could fall back down, he reached Thrud with tremendous acceleration.

*Whoosh!!!*

If Han Doyun hadn’t set off in advance,

If Elsie hadn’t thrown it in advance,

It would have been difficult to react to such instantaneous acceleration.

Fenrir’s eyes widened at the sight of Gungnir and Doyun flying straight towards him.

The thrown Gungnir was destined to hit its target, as if it were a predetermined outcome.

*Thwak!!*

Thanks to Fenrir twisting his body to avoid Gungnir, he was prevented from biting and swallowing Thrud.

But the fearsome black wolf swung his front paw even as he was attacked by Gungnir.

Almost simultaneously, Doyun’s Gram and Balmung were swung to stop it.

However, Fenrir did not care that he was stabbed by Gungnir and wounded by Doyun’s sword.

He attacked with tenacious persistence.

Before Thrud could even react, the wolf’s huge claws tore her apart.

Red blood soared into the sky.

Elsie’s eyes widened.

“Super-vibrating shockwave! Detonate!!!”

The moment Gungnir dug deeply into Fenrir’s body, the pre-charged super-vibrating shockwave detonated simultaneously with the activation signal.

“Thrud!!!”

Exalted Acceleration!

A silver radiance washed over Elsie, and she vanished in an instant.

She wasn’t ready to use Exalted Acceleration again.

If she ignored that and used it, she would suffer severe physical strain.

The price for using the skill while ignoring the cooldown was harsh.

A high-temperature physical burden began to take its toll immediately.

But there was no faster way to reach Thrud.

Blood gushed from Elsie’s wound, accelerating the bleeding.

But she didn’t stop. She couldn’t stop.

*Flash!*

“T, Thrud!!!”

Her body felt as hot as if it were burning.

Her senses were so dulled that she couldn’t even feel the blood flowing down her legs.

Elsie was able to reach Thrud, who was covered in blood.

Her clothes were torn, and Thrud, severely wounded, lay limply on the ground.

“Thrud?”

Thrud didn’t respond.

Her blood spread over her disheveled pink hair.

Doyun, who had been swept away with Fenrir by the super-vibrating shockwave, ran over in a disheveled state.

Elsie felt dizzy and her ears rang.

She couldn’t hear Doyun’s shouts very well.

She just saw Thrud, bleeding and collapsed before her eyes.

It was as if,

She was dead.

Her mind reeled.

The senses in her body, which had been screaming from the reckless use of Exalted Acceleration, dulled.

And at some point, her vision went dark as if it had been blacked out.

***

A dark space.

The black-haired Elsie she had seen in her dream before was looking at Elsie.

“I warned you before. It’s too much for you to use me at your current level.”

The black-haired Elsie warned her with a serious expression.

“You have a goal, right? Even if you don’t die, your lifespan could be shortened.”

“I don’t care.”

“Is it because of your friend? The first thing you need to take care of for your wish is your body. Even if you hate that wolf…”

*Whoosh!*

Elsie snatched the black Elsie’s wrist.

“I’m not… such a heartless, cruel person. Endure this? I can’t do that. Never.”

The black Elsie’s eyes narrowed.

“Your body is overheated because of Exalted Acceleration used while ignoring the cooldown. And the wound has opened, causing bleeding.”

On top of that, she was maintaining the divine Gungnir summon.

Her body wasn’t trained enough to withstand it.

If she risked everything and transformed—

*Flash-!*

***

“Elsie!!! Wake up!!!”

Elsie’s focus returned to Doyun’s shouts as he shook her shoulders.

The surrounding noise, which had only been ringing in her ears, became clear.

*_Crack-!!_*

The blood-soaked Fenrir was striking down on the barrier of the magic sword Gram that Doyun had deployed.

[Groaaar!!]

The frenzied Fenrir forgot his purpose and unleashed attacks with the intent to kill.

*Crack!*

Cracks began to appear on the blade of Gram, which was deploying the barrier at the maximum output Doyun could currently produce.

Then, the wolf, with its mouth open, bit into the barrier.

Fenrir’s overwhelming bite force was destroying Gram at an incredible rate.

“Thrud is still okay! She’s just unconscious! We have to get out of here!”

Elsie stared blankly at Doyun’s light brown eyes.

Then, she looked down at the unconscious, wounded Thrud.

Finally, at the hateful black wolf, Fenrir.

*Throb!*

Her heart beat loudly.

Elsie reached out and summoned Gungnir.

*_Whooshㅡ!_*

Gungnir, which had been flying somewhere in the forest, returned to Elsie at an incredible speed.

*Clang!*

Elsie, holding Gungnir, began to glare at Fenrir, who was biting into the barrier with his mouth open, as if she would kill him.

“Take Thrud and get out of here.”

“Elsie! You’re not in your right mind either! Your body is unbelievably hot! And this amount of bleeding—”

Doyun guessed that it was definitely a side effect of misusing her abilities.

Continuing to fight in that state was suicidal.

“I said go first! How are we all going to escape from this bastard together!”

“I can’t let you die!”

Doyun shouted as if in despair.

“I’d rather buy you time! Elsie, you take Thrud and run away!”

He had consumed a considerable amount of energy because he had deployed Gram’s barrier at maximum output.

But he couldn’t leave Elsie behind. Elsie—

“Who said I’m going to die? I’m not doing this to buy time.”

Gram was now starting to crack significantly, and it wouldn’t be surprising if the barrier was destroyed at any moment.

Elsie slowly turned her head towards Doyun.

“I’m going to beat the crap out of this bastard before I leave.”

It was the moment she bitterly realized her own immaturity.

The game was just a game after all.

Even if she was at the peak in that small world, that’s all it was.

The excuse that she couldn’t exert her full power because her body wasn’t perfect was just that, an excuse.

‘At some point, I defined my own limits and trapped my thoughts there.’

This place isn’t a world where limits are set. If something is lacking, she just needs to become stronger.

Elsie took a step out of her unconsciously drawn line of limitation.

If she can’t use Sigrdrífa Transformation—

“I’ll just beat it without using it!”

At the same time as Gungnir is activated, she focuses the surrounding light into her eyes.

Intense light began to gather at the tip of the activated Gungnir as well.

Elsie’s eyes, which absorbed the sunlight and made the surroundings almost like evening, turned towards Fenrir’s maw, which was trying to devour the barrier.

Fenrir’s weak point is the roof of its upper jaw.

Elsie’s lips curled up at the sight of it practically begging her to aim for its weak point.

“Energy Blast!”

And at the same time, Heat Ray Emission!

The two skills, merged into a single beam, were fired with the force to sublimate the wolf’s maw.

*_Kwaaaaah—!!!_*

“Go now! I’ll never forgive you if you let Thrud die!”

Elsie shouted to Doyun. And she leaped after Fenrir, whose face was burning as it flew away.

There’s no way that mythologically powerful Jötunn would fall after being attacked at its weak point once.

“It would be nice if you backed down… but there’s no way!”

Fenrir, spewing smoke from its mouth, rolled on the ground, breaking trees.

But it soon regained its posture and charged at Elsie, spewing flames from its eyes and nose.

Is that what Fenrir, running wild as described in mythology, would look like?

It was monstrously durable and strong.

An opponent that was difficult even with a three-person collaboration.

That’s what she was prepared for.

The moment Fenrir, having rapidly accelerated, opened its maw and rushed in.

**Valkyrie Divine Artifact Summon: Belt of Strength, Megingjörð!**

_**Gooong—!**_

Summoning the Belt of Strength,

She shoves the enormous golden explosion that occurs simultaneously with the summoning into Fenrir’s maw.

Elsie didn’t stop there.

Riding on the self-propelled Gungnir, she flies and catches up to Fenrir.

Then, she slammed a Pure Strike, amplified 20 times by Megingjörð, into the wolf’s jaw.

*Paang!*

The tenacious and strong Fenrir also retaliated, swinging its forepaw despite being attacked.

Elsie, using the floating Gungnir as a support, jumped and narrowly avoided Fenrir’s claws.

Elsie leaped over Fenrir’s head like that.

She immediately flicked her finger to activate Gungnir, which was still under Fenrir’s jaw.

“Ultra-Vibration Shockwave!”

*Paaang!*

The wolf’s huge head, pushed back by the shockwave, soared upwards.

And at the same time, with a flashing light, a second Pure Strike crashed down on Fenrir’s head.

*Paaak!!!*

It was so powerful that its head was buried in the ground.

Elsie was about to prepare the final blow to feed the terribly tough wolf.

She summons Gungnir, preparing the strongest thing she can currently slam into it.

“Bloo… Haaah!”

But Elsie, reaching her limit, gasped roughly.

Not missing that moment of delay, Fenrir’s tail swung.

*Peong!*

Elsie, hit by the tail and rolling on the ground, raised her heated body.

“It’s really tenacious! More than in mythology!”

Poohak! The wound widened further, and blood burst out.

She was already bleeding heavily due to the side effects of the Divine artifact.

On top of that, the use of Megingjörð was putting additional strain on her body.

That’s why she had to end it quickly.

She vaguely realizes.

‘It’s still too much for me.’

An unwillingness to admit it welled up.

“Haa-”

Elsie supported herself with Gungnir and raised her body.

She was worried about whether Thrud was safe.

She had to defeat that bastard quickly and go see.

She felt impatient.

Whether it knew Elsie’s feelings or not, Fenrir, covered in cuts, tears, and burns, raised its body.

“You’re tough, so tough. I have to become stronger because of bastards like you.”

Elsie straightened Gungnir and lowered her stance.

Thanks to her body being overheated from the side effects, she was starting to feel the pain in her waist that she hadn’t noticed.

But she didn’t care.

Gungnir vibrated, and Megingjörð emitted destructive sparks.

She was already operating two Divine artifacts with her strained body.

Because the output was also increased, her energy was precarious.

That’s why Elsie prepared a special move for the final battle that consumed stamina instead of energy.

**”Blóðörn.”**

Reddish golden particles rose behind Elsie’s back like wings.

Just as she was about to deploy the technique—

*Chwaarrrrr—!*

A chain with a bluish light flew in.

Chain of restraint, Leyding.

Numerous chains wrapped around and bound Fenrir.

Elsie’s eyes widened.

“Elsie!”

Turning her head, Reginleif, bleeding from her head, was running towards her.

The moment she saw that, an old memory flashed through Elsie’s mind.

A world where games and mythology were intertwined, and Reginleif’s ability.

If she was there, she might be able to subdue Fenrir quickly enough to feel empty.