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    Chapter 62: The Sun and the Moon

    The Sun and the Moon

    Scarl, who took off his coat and laid it on the ground for Io, who wasn’t responding, placed her down. Io, unconscious, groped around as if she were a child who had her blanket stolen.

    ‘…Seriously.’

    Scarl thought it was harder to tear his gaze away from Io, who was covering her chest and unconscious, than it was to cut through the rampaging shadows.

    Her mana was sucked dry to the point where she lost consciousness in an instant, so it’s no wonder she’s passed out and mumbling in her sleep…

    “Mmm, Scarl. That’s… That tickles.”

    Io, who was making strange noises as the coat he covered her with began to wrap around her body, was too much to bear.

    He was distracted by her absurd behavior for a moment, then he faced the shadows that were attacking again.

    “He’s here!”

    “Our enemy is here!”

    “Catch him! Catch Scarl!”

    “Io! Io!”

    ‘The compatibility isn’t good. No matter how many times I cut them down, they’ll just keep coming back.’

    Thanks to Io’s sudden action, about 30% of his total mana was restored. Thanks to that, Scarl had some leeway.

    The reason he had hesitated to use his skills until now was because his inherited skills were mostly one-hit kill techniques. In the game, Flare and the boss monster would engage in a battle of attrition for hours, which ordinary users wouldn’t understand and would greatly diminish the fun.

    ‘If I use that skill, I can get out of here, but…’

    Just because he broke through from the inside doesn’t mean he can deal with the guy waiting outside unscathed.

    Since this is real life, where retries are impossible, shouldn’t he approach it with every possibility in mind? But even in his distorted sense of time, Scarl judged that the train carrying Luna and Flare would arrive soon.

    ‘Soon.’

    He left behind the answer of the guy who wouldn’t hear him and declared to the sky.

    “I will end this situation. Samigina.”

    The counterattack was about to begin.

    Ignoring the rushing shadows, he raised his stance high.

    Like a legendary Hero who raised his sword to confront the sky, Scarl took a salute towards the void.

    It might have looked ridiculous at first glance, but if you faced Scarl’s serious face, those thoughts would melt away like snow.

    Along with that, a storm of mana began to rage, riding on Scarl’s suddenly changing momentum.

    “Kill him! Kill him!”

    “Stop him! Stop him with your bodies!”

    “Charge!”

    The blue mana was wild, tearing apart the approaching shadows and forming a large barrier to protect Scarl and Io.

    At the center of it, Scarl’s sword tip pointed towards the sky, and a vortex of mana protruding from the storm swirled up along the sword tip.

    The atmosphere of the world changed.

    Samigina, who had been observing from the outside, began to feel impatient. Outside, the Heroes Luna and Flare were approaching the barrier, and inside, Scarl, who had been running away to buy time, was preparing a big one.

    It was a moment of crisis, but the demon’s judgment was quick.

    He thought that the two Heroes were easy to deal with, but he judged that there was something unpleasant about Scarl, who was aiming at him accurately, so Samigina ordered the shadows to deal with Scarl.

    The shadows, who instantly lost their reason, disregarded their lives and rushed into the storm.

    Clang! Clang!

    Kuaaaaaaa!!

    Bang! Bang bang! Bang bang bang!

    The great storm ground the shadows like the blades of a mixer, but the indiscriminate bombing of the shadows that began to explode on their own quickly dulled its edge.

    Scarl, who appeared from within the vanished wind barrier, stood with a sword burning with a blue light that was almost blinding.

    [That’s it.]

    Samigina sent self-destructing shadows towards Scarl, who was aiming the tip of his sword directly at him.

    “Charge!”

    “Lead the way!”

    “No! I’m scared!”

    “Save me! Save me! I don’t want to die!”

    “Charge! Charge!”

    “Uaaaaaa!!”

    “I don’t know! I’m going!”

    Ignoring the actions of the shadows whose mouths and bodies were moving separately, the shadows approached Scarl, who had been closing his eyes.

    The moment they got close enough to see each other’s faces clearly.

    Scarl lowered the hand that was holding the sword and dropped the blue sword to the ground.

    The shadows that were approaching from the front were pushed back by the enormous wind pressure or began to be crushed into the ground.

    “Heavenly Evasion—”

    As if responding to Scarl’s call, the storm that had formed on the sword cried out.

    Kagagagagagagang—!

    The blade marks that formed on the skin of the storm began to interlock and tangle with each other, making a loud metallic sound.

    It emitted a thunderous sound that seemed to annihilate everything in its path.

    Ddddddddddd!!

    The sound of tearing apart the enemy like a hail of machine gun bullets was heard, and the shadows that had been pushed back around them began to be pulled in by something Scarl had created.

    Samigina began to send more shadows, just like the one he had neutralized a moment ago.

    However, an uneasiness crept in as the momentum of Scarl’s sword, with its extreme sharpness that left no trace, did not diminish at all.

    “Indomitable—”

    Pajijik— Pajik! Pajijik— Pajik!

    The blue mana took on lightning properties and began to turn yellow.

    Along with that, the storm of mana, which was rotating even faster, continued to grow in size and began to annihilate everything on the ground.

    “Heavenfall”

    No sooner had Scarl’s words fallen than the storm of mana that had been crawling on the ground reversed its course.

    Like a living creature, it began to shoot up into the sky, curving from the ground to the sky.

    And then the sky split.

    Thanks to their quick arrival, Luna and Flare were able to reach the barrier quickly.

    Thanks to their encounter at the imperial family’s banquet, the head of the Haimon family couldn’t fail to recognize Luna and Flare.

    “Where is Scarl?”

    No sooner had Luna’s words fallen than the head of the Haimon family pointed to the opaque barrier and shouted.

    “Hero Luna, Hero Flare! My daughter and Baron Scarl are inside!”

    “I understand.”

    “Sister, we have to break it from the outside.”

    The two people holding up their weapons looked somehow familiar, unlike the first graders at the academy.

    The head of the Haimon family, who had a hint of anxiety about the young ladies who were younger than his daughter, could only clasp his hands and ask for help at their skillful appearance.

    “Please. Save my daughter!”

    “Of course.”

    “It’ll be okay. There’s someone more amazing than us inside.”

    That was the end of the conversation.

    “First, take everyone to the city.”

    “This place will turn into a battlefield from now on. You might get hurt if you’re nearby, so hurry.”

    The head of the Haimon family bowed his head, forgetting the age difference, at the two people’s serious words.

    “Thank you. Thank you! Please take care of my daughter.”

    “Oh, come on. I told you I would, mister.”

    “Please go quickly. We can start when you leave.”

    Luna and Flare left those words behind and headed towards the place where the dream forest unfolded.

    “Hmm.”

    “How did you break it before?”

    “Just. Like this with the demon sword.”

    Even Flare didn’t have a special solution.

    In the first playthrough, Flare desperately knocked on the barrier to save her sister who was trapped inside.

    She didn’t neutralize it with a special method, but only succeeded after a long series of attempts.

    [Aaaaaaa!]

    A scream was heard as she stabbed the weak part of the barrier with her sword.

    “What is that sound?”

    Flare answered Luna’s question by stabbing the sword again.

    “Samigina’s scream. This barrier itself is his body. But I don’t know how many places like this there are, or how many more times I have to stab it.”

    “What? I understand.”

    Luna also joined in, stabbing the barrier here and there with her holy sword.

    [Aaaak! You crazy bitches!! Is that what’s important right now!!]

    “Release the barrier. That’s the only way you can live.”

    [Do you think I’ll release it if you do this?! What kind of bastards are trapped inside! I’d rather die than let that happen! I’ll annihilate them all from the inside!]

    The two repeatedly stabbed the sword and checked the safety of Scarl and Io inside.

    “Then die. Just die.”

    “It looks like Scarl is still okay.”

    [Ha! How persistent! But that’s about to end!]

    A scream was heard by the two people who were working hard to find the weak point of the barrier.

    [Kuaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak!!]

    That was definitely not something the two of them had created.

    At the eerie scream, Flare and Luna stepped back at the same time and began to draw out the maximum output they could each muster.

    A tremendous wave of power began to spread from the center of the barrier to Haimon Castle.

    The two expected Samigina to attack from the inside.

    “That’s amazing.”

    “Yeah. He’s coming.”

    Kugugugugugung—!!

    With a sound that shook the earth, cracks began to appear in one part of the barrier, like the shell of an egg being broken.

    Smash!!

    With the sound of breaking, the barrier shattered and the figure of the person they wanted to see the most appeared from within.

    The two, who were preparing to fight, were momentarily stunned.

    “Huh?”

    “S, Scarl?”

    Scarl, who was holding the half-naked Io, met the two people’s eyes.

    “…”

    “…”

    Scarl, who had been holding his head up proudly at Luna and Flare’s narrowed eyes, lowered his head slightly.

    ‘Why does it feel like I’ve been caught cheating?’

    Not that it was true, but that’s how the situation felt.

    [You bastards!! How dare you!!]


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