Ch.171Frill (7)

Burning Slash.

At that moment, I decided on the naming. Burning Strike. A name that makes a man’s heart race.

Even if I couldn’t use magic, with this, I could deal fire attribute damage.

“Owwwwww!! Hot!!!”

Giovanni rolled on the ground, groaning. He was even shedding tears and snot. Hehehe. No room to maintain composure?

“Damn it…!!”

Giovanni immediately tried to get up and reattach his body.

Keeeeek-!

His half-burned body stuck back together right away. However, the cross-section didn’t attach cleanly. The melted parts couldn’t be restored.

“Giovanni. I’ll turn you into konjac smoothie.”

I said with a smile.

“Damn it…..such intense heat…..!!”

Giovanni picked up his sword in panic.

“Die!!!”

I immediately jumped high. I planned to cleanly split his head vertically.

“Ha!!! But what’s changed?!!! You’re still just a swordsman!!! Without taking damage from slashes, you’re ultimately just half-baked!!”

Giovanni jumped high, using the elasticity of his konjac-like body.

Whirrrrr-!!

Simultaneously, Giovanni drew the sword from his back with both hands.

“Die!!! I’ll kill you before you even touch the ground!!!”

Giovanni spun his body like a top and rushed toward me.

However, that settled the match.

His konjac-like body is immune to slashes. But… his weapon isn’t, right?

“Hnnnngh!!!”

As I enveloped my entire body in a burning stance, I charged up a flash strike.

“Your swordsmanship is… pathetic!!”

What’s fun about assuming you can’t be cut? Using cheat keys reduces the fun of the game!!

A long line appeared on his sword, marking its weakness.

Clang-!!!!!!! Clatter-!!

With one clash of swords, Giovanni’s weapon shattered into pieces.

“Guhack?!!”

Giovanni seemed surprised by this.

“You rely too much on your ability.”

Because he assumes he can’t be cut, his actual sword skill can’t improve.

“Burning Slash… Combo!!!!”

I swung my sword at Giovanni in succession.

Swoooooosh-!!

As the sword wind swept through, intense heat blazed from all directions.

“Gyaaaaaaah!!!!”

Giovanni’s body began to be cut into pieces.

Sizzzzzzle-!!!

But it wasn’t just being cut. Giovanni’s entire body began to melt like jelly.

“You’re… weaker than Gerruck.”

I muttered the name of the strongest opponent I’d ever faced.

“What the hell is a Gerruck… you weeb!!”

Giovanni shouted with his dying breath.

“You don’t need to know.”

And I raised my sword high. This would be the final strike.

“W-wait!!! Let’s make a deal!!! You’re strong for a mortal!!! Join our Pink Beard Corps!!! Someone like you could secure a position!”

Realizing that taking this hit would kill him, Giovanni desperately tried to persuade me.

“If it were Gerruck….. he wouldn’t have said such things. He would have accepted death with dignity!!!”

I unleashed a sword strike condensed with heat.

“I keep asking!! What the hell is a Gerruck!!! You bastard!!!”

Those were Giovanni’s last words.

“Kyeeeeeek!!!!!!”

I immediately swung my sword with great force.

Swoooooosh-!!

The heat-infused sword strike cleanly split Giovanni’s head and passed through.

Sizzzzzzzzle-!!!

“Gyaaaaaaah!!!!!”

Giovanni’s entire body burned up and quickly turned into smoothie.

Sizzle-!!

With that, Giovanni met his death.

“Phew…….”

Right after, I landed on the ground.

Sizzle-!!

The heat surrounding Tomato also cooled down quickly. Now I had a rough grasp of this new technique.

“The duration isn’t very long, huh.”

Since I temporarily raised the temperature using friction heat, its sustainability was low.

“Plus… the durability took a hit.”

The blade was slightly bent. Tomato was such a fine sword that it held up, but an ordinary sword would have become scrap metal without mercy.

I resolved to refrain from using this unless absolutely necessary.

“So… I defeated Giovanni… what should I do now?”

I had separated from Umi, Tiger, and Tina.

Honestly, Tina and Tiger seemed like they could fight well on their own. The problem was… Umi.

‘Umi… is weak.’

That was just a fact. Being a healer, her combat ability was quite low.

“Let’s go save Umi!!”

I could see Umi struggling. I can’t let our precious Umi make a sad face. I immediately ran toward her.

Well, if I meet Tiger or Tina on the way, I’ll help them too.

———-

At that time, Tiger was continuing her fight with a man called Lizard.

“I’ll show you the power of the otherworld’s greatest psycho-robo tamer..”

As Lizard snapped his fingers, the lizard sitting on his shoulder grew in size.

Thud-!!

And Lizard immediately mounted the lizard.

Swoooosh-!!

Materializing a huge spear in his hand was just a bonus.

“Now!!! Let me show you the pinnacle of cavalry combat!!”

Lizard said with a smile.

“Hmph. Cavalry combat?”

Tiger grinned, then similarly mounted Fenrir.

“Don’t underestimate an Earth biker gang. Whether it’s a motorcycle or a psycho-robo, I’m confident in riding.”

Tiger said with a smile.

“Then show me. The power of whatever biker gang you mentioned!!”

Lizard immediately charged toward Tiger.

“Hyaaaah!!”

Tiger immediately kicked Fenrir’s sides and charged forward.

Clop-clop-! Clop-clop-!!

The giant lizard and wolf ran side by side, continuing a life-or-death race.

Clang-!! Clang-!! Claaang-!

Tiger’s baseball bat and Lizard’s spear clashed.

It was a fierce exchange with neither side giving an inch.

“You’re… quite good!!”

Lizard clicked his tongue.

“Hey. Don’t bite your tongue while talking.”

Tiger continued her attack with a smile.

But… their strengths were evenly matched.

‘Tch. It’s dangerous if this becomes a prolonged battle.’

Time-wise, Tiger’s side was at a disadvantage.

Clang-!!

As their weapons clashed once more, Tiger tightly hugged Fenrir’s neck.

“Ugh…!!”

“Ha!!! Seems you’ve realized the difficulty of cavalry combat!! You’ll fall off soon!!”

Lizard seized the opportunity to push Tiger back.

However, Tiger had something up her sleeve.

“Sorry, but you’ve lost.”

Tiger said with a smirk.

“What do you……”

“In our party, you know. We have an unstoppable 8-ton truck.”

Tiger said.

“8-ton truck…..?”

Babababam-!!

At that moment, Lizard turned his head. He felt an overwhelming killing intent.

‘Is, is it Giovanni?’

The magnitude of the killing intent made him mistake it for Giovanni’s arrival.

But it wasn’t. What was approaching Lizard was a single mortal.

There was a clear-eyed madman running toward them, swinging his sword wildly!! Yes, it was Arigiri Shota.

“That guy is….!!”

Lizard’s face showed shock. Wait. Wasn’t he supposed to be fighting Giovanni? What happened to Giovanni? A thousand thoughts raced through his mind.

“Tiger!!! Good to see you!!”

Arigiri Shota immediately jumped high.

Clang-!!

A clear sound of something being cut rang out.

Simultaneously, Lizard’s vision flipped.

Lizard discovered a headless corpse riding the lizard… It was his own body. In the blink of an eye, Arigiri Shota had severed Lizard’s head.

“Insane…..!”

Lizard finally realized his head had been cut off.

Even as a person from the otherworld, one couldn’t survive with their head cut off. Unless in special cases.

“What kind of bastard is he…..!”

Those were Lizard’s last words. With that, Lizard breathed his last.

———-

“Tiger!! Are you okay?”

I immediately patted Tiger’s body, checking for injuries.

“Tiger…!! How many hits did you take!! Your chest is so swollen!!”

I exclaimed loudly while fondling Tiger’s chest.

“Hahahahaha! Shota! What are you saying! I’ve always had big breasts!”

Tiger laughed brightly. Yes. The fact that she could take the joke meant she had some composure. Her body must be fine.

“By the way, what happened to your opponent? Shota?”

Tiger asked me. As if she didn’t know.

“I killed him. The only one left is the person Umi is facing. Let’s hurry and save her.”

I said to Tiger.

“Right! We can’t let Umi get hurt!”

Tiger nodded.

“Grrrr!!”

Tiger grabbed Fenrir’s neck fur like reins.

“Shota. Want to ride?”

Tiger said with a smile.

“Hell yeah, that sounds fun!!”

I immediately climbed onto Fenrir.

“I knew this guy would like it. Hehehe.”

Tiger chuckled and immediately kicked the wolf’s belly.

“Grrrrrr!!”

Fenrir immediately dashed through the clone factory.

——–

At that time, from Umi’s perspective.

“You’re… beautiful. Are there many beauties on Earth?”

The alluring beauty said with a smile.

“Really?! Beautiful? Hehehe.”

Weak to compliments, Umi immediately blushed.

“Yes. I’d like to add you to my collection. I’ll properly sedate you with drugs… and make you into a beautiful specimen. That’s… my hobby as Mist.”

Saying that, the beauty scratched her skin with her fingernails.

Sizzzzzzle-!

At that moment, pink vapor erupted from her skin.

“Ugh…!!”

Umi staggered momentarily.

“Cough!”

She even coughed up a bit of blood.

“Poison…!”

It felt like her health was being depleted in real-time.

“Yes. The pain will only last a moment.”

Mist smiled and sprayed poison gas in all directions.

However, Umi wasn’t so easy to deal with.

“Healing Wind!!”

Umi immediately summoned her psycho-robo and cast a healing spell on herself.

Pirororong-!!

Umi’s body began to recover over time. It was a DoT healing technique.

“So you’re enduring with healing. But… that’s just a temporary measure. Let’s see how long you can last.”

Mist sprayed more poison gas.

“Idiot. My goal isn’t to win.”

Umi said with a smile.

“My goal is to hold you off until my companions arrive.”

Umi boldly declared her intention to endure.

“What…..!”

“Let’s see which is stronger, your DoT damage or my DoT healing.”

Umi applied all sorts of buffs and DoT healing techniques to her body.

“You persistent woman!!!”

Mist immediately exhaled more poison.