episode_0242

Being pushed back by Pyeong Cheon Daeseong’s strength.

“Keuk!!”

Clang!!!

I couldn’t keep being pushed back, so I exploded my power for a moment and pushed back Pyeong Cheon Daeseong.

Barely escaping the situation of being pushed back, I confront Pyeong Cheon Daeseong for a moment.

Judging by the situation, Cheongryong and Hyunmu seem to have headed towards Baekho. So, what I have to face is….

“As expected, it’s a waste to just kill you with that power.”

“….”

Tongpung Daeseong and Pyeong Cheon Daeseong, two people.

Even one would be a difficult situation, but with two people aiming for me, my head started to ache.

“You probably heard the story from Tamiel, but the source of the Youma’s power is the power of the faction. The more your faction grows, the stronger your power becomes. That’s why Youma are given the alias ‘Night Parade of One Hundred Demons’.”

“Well, I’ve heard it. So what?”

“It’s the same offer as before. Become my subordinate. If it’s you, I’ll let you maintain your consciousness like Cheongryong. If your power is added, I will surely…. be able to reach the strength I aim for.”

The strength he aims for.

To achieve that, he is even making Pyeong Cheon Daeseong, whom he calls ‘Sister,’ his subordinate, taking away her will and controlling her as he pleases?

Actually, I don’t really care either way….

“I refuse.”

“…It can’t be helped. Then I will ‘suppress’ you and make your power mine.”

The wind blows.

It was just a fleeting moment, but I felt a gentle breeze.

It was only a moment for that to turn into a raging storm.

“Gentle Breeze Slash!”

Kwaaaaagaak!!!

A storm of Youma power rages.

A violent storm of Youma power that overturns everything.

I surrounded the holy sword with strong energy.

“Sword King Secret Technique”

A powerful sword energy that cuts through even a mountain that the storm can’t touch.

“Mountain Split!”

The sword energy easily split even the raging storm of Youma power and aimed for Tongpung Daeseong.

But there was a silver flash that exquisitely split the sword energy.

“I really have to do something about you, Mino!!”

“….”

Pyeong Cheon Daeseong’s fighting style is extremely simple.

Approach, swing.

The reason why Pyeong Cheon Daeseong cannot be stopped despite being so simple is because she is overwhelmingly strong in her simplicity.

But conversely, there are no variables.

If you grasp her pattern, you can foresee her movements one step ahead.

No matter how fast the movement is, if you can foresee the movement, you can respond, and if you can respond, you can kill.

“So I’ll say it just once. If you don’t come to your senses now, there will be no marriage.”

“Hahaha, no matter how much Sister has longed for a husband for a long time, there’s no way she can come to her senses with just one word….”

“…Ugh…, eugh….”

“”….””

Honestly, even though I said it, I didn’t think it would work.

But it’s working?….

With just one word that she wouldn’t get married, Pyeong Cheon Daeseong, who had been moving blankly like a doll until now, suddenly seemed to be in pain, furrowing her brow and trembling, having deeply planted her palm-leaf fan into the ground.

And Tongpung Daeseong, perhaps not expecting this situation, was looking at Pyeong Cheon Daeseong with an absurd expression.

“Hu, sband….”

“Are you coming to your senses?”

“Only…, to not…, lose…, control…, of my body….”

It seems that the limit is to come to her senses so that she is not controlled again.

Still, it’s a relief that she’s not moving.

1:1 and 1:2 are very different.

“Good. Then stay there without losing your mind. I’ll cut off that guy’s head right away.”

“…This is quite…, Sister’s unexpectedness is something I can’t even dare to predict.”

“Don’t worry. I’ll make it so you don’t have to predict it anymore.”

“Well, I wonder about that.”

He flicks his finger.

Then, Youkai, who I don’t know when they appeared, started appearing like mushrooms after rain.

Was it because they were hidden by Pyeong Cheon Daeseong’s energy? Or were they hidden by Tongpung Daeseong’s energy?

Either way….

“Do you think you can stop me with just this?”

“Objectively speaking, it would be difficult to stop you. But it seems like it would be enough to hold you back.”

“I’ll just kill them before they hold me back.”

Sword energy is gathering on the holy sword.

I prepared a single strike to cut down all those guys for real.

Of course, Tongpung Daeseong also notices this and gathers his strength.

At the same time, he doesn’t forget to instruct the surrounding Youkai to interfere with me.

“I’ll cut them all down.”

“If you can.”

In a touch-and-go situation, a sudden variable occurred.

“Give back my family!!!”

“!!”

“Tamamo?!”

Perhaps she had erased her presence and was hiding in the group that was creating the Youma power, Tamamo, who suddenly appeared from that group, gathered Youma power in the form of long fingernails and rushed towards Tongpung Daeseong.

But that power was too weak.

No, in fact, from an objective standpoint, her power was not weak.

She could probably easily overwhelm Baekryeon or Seollin, and could also subdue Baekho or Jujak.

But it was not to the extent that she could play an active role in the battle between me and Tongpung Daeseong.

“I didn’t think you would come back….”

“I tried to run away! I wanted to run away!! But!!! There’s no way I could run away!!! These children are…, subordinates and family who have been with me for a long time!!! My family is being controlled by you as you please, and is walking towards death!!! I can’t just stand by and watch!!!!”

Unlike her, who put on a pretentious smile in Baekmyeonseong, she reaches out her hand towards Tongpung Daeseong with a desperate expression filled with anger and sadness.

“Indeed, I think I know how you feel well enough. But…. You’re not thinking you can beat me now when you couldn’t even beat me with your ‘original power’ in the first place, right?”

“!”

Tongpung Daeseong gestured lightly.

Then, some of the Youma power he had prepared heads towards Tamamo like a whip.

Paaaaat!!

“?!”

“This is?…. Leviyah?”

At that moment, a bright light and divine power spread out from the direction where the children were.

What did Leviyah do? Just as I was thinking that, a system window appeared in front of me.

[system : You have entered the 『Divine Magic – Sanctuary』.]

[system : All stats are increased within the Sanctuary.]

[system : The recovery speed of all health/mana is increased within the Sanctuary.]

[system : The power of weapons in the ‘Holy Sword’ category is increased within the Sanctuary.]

Is this Leviyah’s blessing?

On a wide area?

But it seems that the effect is not just that.

Tongpung Daeseong’s Youma power, which was raging like a storm, was slightly shaved off.

And that was the same for Tamamo’s Youma power, but….

Kwang!!!

“!”

Perhaps because of the weakened Youma power due to the effect of Leviyah’s『Sanctuary』, Tamamo was not bounced back.

Rather, she stubbornly endures and breaks through the Youma power’s wind and grabs Tongpung Daeseong.

Tongpung Daeseong, perhaps surprised by her actions, looks at Tamamo with slightly widened eyes, and she looks at me with an expression filled with firm determination and shouts.

“Keueueueup!!!…. Warrior!! Now’s the time!!….”

“…Eirai!!”

What I had originally prepared was ‘Mountain Split’.

If it’s this sword energy that cuts widely horizontally, I’ll be able to cut down all the Youkai rushing at me.

But if I used it now, Tamamo would definitely be cut.

I’m wondering if it matters if I cut down one Youkai I just met now, but….

“…Ocean Split!!!”

It doesn’t feel good to just cut down a girl who is rushing into this death ground to protect her ‘family’.

Kwaaaang!!!

That’s why I urgently change the path of the sword energy into a sword energy that pierces everything.

The power would have weakened due to the recoil of urgently changing the already completed path of the sword energy.

But Leviyah’s 『Sanctuary』compensated for the insufficient power.

The piercing sword energy that is advancing with certain power accurately aims for Tongpung Daeseong.

“Keueuk!!!”

Tongpung Daeseong also urgently gathers his Youma power.

Tongpung Daeseong, who barely gathered the Youma power that kept scattering due to the『Sanctuary』, blocks my sword energy.

Peoeok!!!

“Kuaaak!!!”

“Tch!!! Was the power insufficient!!”

But no matter how much I strengthen the power with『Sanctuary』, the sword energy deployed with an unstable path of the sword energy can’t help but lack detail.

Tongpung Daeseong avoided instant death by sacrificing his right arm.

And what is given to me, who failed to attack, is the onslaught of countless Youkai.

“Kyaat!!”

“Keueuk…. Haa…, haa…. Yes, originally I was going to keep you alive as a scarecrow, but…. since the situation has become like this, I don’t need a scarecrow.”

“!”

Leaving his right arm dripping with blood, Tongpung Daeseong flicked his finger with his left hand.

“Keueueueueup~!!!!!!”

Tamamo clutches her heart.

Is it a curse?

Even in the situation where countless Youkai are rushing at me, each and every one of those scenes clearly comes into my eyes.

In that short but long-feeling situation, Tamamo was definitely looking at me even while twisting her body in pain.

Earnestly,

Affectionately,

And desperately,

‘Help, me.’

Tamamo says, mouthing the words.

The voice didn’t reach me, but I could understand the meaning.

“…Tamiel!!!”

Without even realizing it, I instinctively put her name in my mouth.

That sly her would have definitely prepared some kind of trap.

And that would definitely be a means to suppress this damnably annoying number of ‘Youkai’.

Uuuung!!

A strange magic brushes past me.

Something different from the magic I’ve felt so far is spreading in all directions.

Kiiiing!!!

Following that, I feel a sensation like ‘a lock is being locked’.

“….”

“….”

I and Tongpung Daeseong both looked around silently.

The Youkai who were rushing at me, and Tamamo, who was twisting in pain, all ‘stopped’.

As if time had stopped.

“…As expected, that witch was a considerable variable.”

“I think so too.”

How did I suppress such a monster?

No, thinking about it again, it wasn’t suppression, but she herself gave up.

By cutting off all the chains that were binding her, she let go of everything she held in her hands.

But there is something that remains even after letting go of everything.

Knowledge of magic that she has studied for a long time.

When I take out all that knowledge to compensate for my lack of power, I even feel like I’ve become stronger than before.

“…Haa. Now the traffic is finally sorted out.”

“….”

“Let’s do it quickly since there’s no time.”

“…Good.”

At some point, the blood had stopped from Tongpung Daeseong’s right arm.

And he grabs a long staff in his left hand.

“Earth Split!”

“Wind Hole!”

Each other’s techniques collide.