episode_0459

-Whoaaah!!

“Gyaaah?!”

Ethan suddenly smiled, put his hand under the nape of my neck, and ripped the clothes I was wearing.

Not only was the button on his clothes snapped, but a piece of fabric was literally torn vertically, the size of his hand.

“What, what are you doing, you fucking punk!!”

“Release You’re being too disobedient, so I’m going to educate you again.”

“Education is fucking shit!! This crazy bastard…!!”

Ethan roughly threw away the piece of my sky blue robe he was holding and reached out to me once again.

His actions clearly crossed the line, and in the end, I had no choice but to prepare a magic spell.

‘I really wanted to say it out loud…!’

In this situation, I had no choice but to use force. Ethan had clearly crossed the line first.

Even though this was indoors and somewhere inside the Blackwood Manor, in the current situation, the only thing I could do to deal with Ethan was magic.

‘It doesn’t look like he’s holding a sword right now. I have to subdue him without getting hurt too much.’

With that thought in mind, he was about to fire the vision arrow he had created in his right hand towards his thigh.

-Password.

“… … Huh?”

My vision arrow disappeared from my hands just before completion, disintegrating into shards of magical power.

‘Did I memorize the order wrong?’

Since it was a spell I habitually recited, there shouldn’t have been anything wrong with it.

With that in mind, this time he created a magic circle with both hands at the same time. One created an energy bolt, and the other created a vision arrow.

This time, I thought my magic was absolutely not wrong, but at the moment when it was about to take the form of complete magical power again… .

-Password. Saaak… .

“Huh, huh?!”

This time too, just before it was activated, it disappeared into pieces of magical power.

“This, this fucking thing, what the…?”

“Why are you so surprised? It’s not like it’s the first time I’ve seen dismantling.”

“… Deconstruction?”

“How many techniques did I learn to bring you back? You forgot them after I hit you last time?”

… Ethan uses disintegration magic?

I was momentarily confused by the confusing information that came in again. I calmly analyzed the current situation where I couldn’t use magic.

I couldn’t waste time on attacks that wouldn’t work. Even if Ethan was naked, there was no way I could win physically if I couldn’t use magic.

‘My dagger… there’s no way I’d leave it behind.’

The four daggers that he always carried with him seemed to have already been confiscated, so he had no choice but to make makeshift weapons to fight.

-Jiying.

“… … .”

A silver blade created by the Vision Blade appeared on the back of his hand, and he swung the blade towards Ethan’s forearm.

I was a little reluctant to go after Ethan’s arm as a swordsman, but now was not the time to be lenient. If I let him use that hand freely, my magic would continue to be blocked by his disintegration technique.

I was about to cut off Ethan’s lower left arm, thinking that cutting off his arm would be the safest way to subdue him, when his right hand blocked my vision blade.

-Chae-ae-aeng!

“What the?!”

I didn’t realize what was happening for a moment. I just felt like my vision blade was blocked by something like a stick.

And as expected, Ethan was holding a dagger in his hand. Judging by the blackwood symbol engraved on it… it was probably the dagger he had given me as a gift.

“Really. It’s the same reaction as when I was first captured. Since magic doesn’t work, I can see him immediately making a vision blade and aiming at my arm.”

“… … .”

“I’m not really surprised anymore. This is also a skill I learned from my father thanks to you, Release.”

… I thought he came in without any special equipment, but it turned out that his equipment was hidden under his clothes.

It wasn’t surprising that he was able to learn dagger techniques, considering he also used dismemberment techniques. With Harold around, it would probably be easier to learn than dismemberment techniques.

And maybe there were a few more swords hidden inside those clothes besides the one I had. After all, there were at least four daggers confiscated from me.

“Fuck… .”

-Jiying.

With the thought of somehow blocking it, he created a vision blade from his left arm and swung it at Ethan’s arm again.

Even the difficult dismantling technique was used so skillfully by Ethan. Since he was originally a swordsman, it would only make sense that he would be good at dagger fighting as well.

We must never forget that this boy is the son of Archmage Thanasia and Sword Master Harold. Never.

-Chae-ae-aeng!

“Tsk… !”

-Chae-Ang, Chae-Aeng!

“Ugh, aaah!!”

As expected, Ethan takes out another dagger from his bosom and blocks the vision blade on the other side.

I don’t know what kind of growth I’ve achieved over the past year, but as I’ve been sharing swords, a sinister feeling has begun to slowly creep into my head.

… I have a feeling that I might not be able to win against Ethan, let alone hurt him even a little.

-Chae-ae-aeng!!

“Calm down, Lilith. There’s nothing strange about it. It’s just what we’ve always done.”

“Always doing this, Jiraaal… !!”

“And Lilith didn’t like it at first, but she’s been liking it lately. About three days ago, Lilith was the one who brought up the topic of going for a walk.”

“Stop talking nonsense, you piece of shit…!! Who, who likes that kind of stuff…!!”

“There’s no need to be shy, Lilith. I can fully embrace Lilith’s slightly different walls than the average woman’s.”

“Eeee!!”

“… I also like that kind of release in the first place.”

-Chaeaeaaeng!!

I swung my vision blade with the intention of shutting Ethan’s mouth from spouting out nonsense that didn’t make sense.

I’ve given up on not aiming for the weak points or anything like that. Right now, even if I fight Ethan with all my might, it’s hard to even inflict a single wound on him.

I swung my vision blade, determined to block it somehow, even if it meant aiming for a vital point.

-Chae-aeng! Chae-aeng!

“Follow me!!!”

“… Phew. Looks like you’re finally getting serious, Lilith. ”

Ethan smiles as if he had hoped for it, even though I was determined to take his life.

I wonder if I can continue to smile so calmly even after being stabbed in the face. With that thought in mind, I swung the vision blades in both hands even more sharply.

Even though Ethan was the son of the Sword Master, his main weapon was ultimately a longsword, not a dagger.

Even I, who had been swinging only daggers for almost 6 years, had my moments of shame.

Besides, Ethan has only been focusing on defending himself with his sword since earlier and hasn’t attempted to attack me directly.

‘I guess he doesn’t want to hurt the woman who will become his sex slave.’

That complacency will soon be my chance to win against Ethan.

As long as I have enough magic left, I can maintain the Vision Blade. And my maximum magic power was so dirty that it was comparable to that of the next Archmage, Agnes.

That moment when I exchanged swords with Ethan for almost several minutes with that thought in mind.

-Chaeaeaaeng!!

“Khuuuk… ?!”

Ethan’s left dagger touched my right wrist and flew through the sky, landing behind me.

‘… Now is the time!’

It was a moment when I lost my weapon, so my defense was also reduced by half. No matter how much I thought about it, it was impossible to block the vision blades in both my hands at the same time with just one dagger.

‘If you stab the blade into an empty space, you’ll have no choice but to move your body to dodge. If you take advantage of that gap and cut off just the arm, you should be able to subdue it somehow.’

With that thought in mind, he blocked Ethan’s remaining sword with the blade on his left wrist, and swung the vision blade in his right hand towards his neck, whose defenses had been slackened.

“… … .”

-Ugh.

‘… This, this crazy kid, what the fuck…!!!’

Ethan, who had no intention of blocking my flying blade, instead thrust his head in, and at the same time, a feeling of bewilderment welled up in my head.

‘Fuck, no!!’

It was too late to turn my arm now. My hand had already been accelerated, so I couldn’t change its trajectory just by turning my wrist, and even if I dodged, it would have pierced my jaw or shoulder, which would have been fatal either way.

However, it was absolutely unacceptable to cut off Ethan’s head like that, so he eventually released the vision blade from his right hand and put it away.

-Jiying.

“… Yeah, Release. There’s no way Release can kill me.”

‘Oops…!!’

Realizing too late that he had fallen into a trap, he once again created a vision blade on his wrist, but Ethan could not miss the opening created by the temporary disappearance of the weapon.

-Thump!

“Okay, wait a minute…!”

-Clang!!

“What the heck… !!”

Ethan quickly subdues both of my wrists and wraps them tightly with the chains of his chain of obedience.

After a ten-minute battle, it was not me but Ethan who succeeded in subduing his opponent first. And he did so with red blood flowing from the back of his neck as the Vision Blade slashed at him.

“As expected, I knew you’d put your sword down there if it was a release.”

“You fucking punk!! Are you crazy?! What if you stick your neck in there!! I almost got screwed!!!”

“But we’re still alive. Thanks to Lilith putting the blade away.”

“Don’t be a fucking idiot, you idiot!! What would have happened if I had actually tried to kill you!!”

“Really? Then just die.”

“… … What?”

For a moment, I felt taken aback by Ethan’s spine-chilling remark.

His subsequent absurd remarks were enough to increasingly embarrass me.

“If Lilith really hates me enough to kill me… I don’t really care if I die. If I die by the hands of such a Lilith, it wouldn’t be so bad.”

“What the hell are you talking about, fucking… .”

“But the fact that you didn’t kill me like this means you don’t hate me that much, right? Even though you chained me up and forcibly locked me in a cage, and treated me like a pet.”

“… … .”

“Do you think you’ll listen to me now? Or do you still want to rebel?”

Ethan asks if she wants to do more, still in a calm voice, even though bright red blood is flowing from his neck.

Contrary to his relaxed expression, my spine felt chills as if I could feel each and every drop of cold sweat.

Because I never really intended to kill Ethan in the first place.

Because it was absolutely unacceptable for me to kill the person I had already fallen in love with with my own hands.

It was a little scary now that he was trying to talk to me so nonchalantly, even though he almost caused this with my own hands.

“As I said earlier, if Lilith really hates me so much that she wants to kill me, then I don’t mind killing her. But if not… This time, I want you to do as I say.”

“… … .”

“Will you listen now, Lilith?”

“… F**k, f**k… .”

… In the end, it was a fight that could not be won from the start.

Because physically and mentally, I could never kill Ethan right now.