CH 4.12

The moment I kicked the floor, Loki’s fingers that were gripping Onimatsuri’s neck tightened.

Loki is about 3 meters away.

A dull sound begins to emanate from Onimatsuri’s neck.

However, my sword can cut Loki’s arm off faster than him breaking her bone!

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I kick Onimatsuri toward Yui while applying healing magic to her using my foot.

The impact of the kick made Onimatsuri groan but I hope she’ll be able to bear it.

At the same time as Yui confirmed that Onimatsuri has been saved, I knocked off Loki’s fist which is aimed at my abdomen with the hilt of my sword.

I also targeted Loki’s neck with my sword but he easily avoided it with a step back.

「What’s this! You’re too fast! Moreover, I can’t feel any reaction of a fake divine object from you that humans often use! Are you really a living being! Who the hell are you?」

The smile on Loki’s face disappeared and the ring on the middle finger of his right hand emitted a dull, wretched light.

The light eventually converged and took the form of a sword.

Instead of holding it, it covered his hand and extended from his fingertips.

It reminds me of Gundam X’s beam rifle of Daughtress Neo, Green Seed’s Murakumo, and Gasoline Stand Mikami’s Hands of Glory.

Thinking about it, they are….

「Mediocre weapon that only looks flashy.」

Blue veins formed from Loki’s forehead as I said those unintentionally.

「Mediocre or not, can you still say same the same thing when you are cut by this!」

That’s not really for you but given how he’s angry, it’s good.

Angry people are usually easy to read.

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Loki swung down his sword of light.

He is fast because of his immaterial blade.

He seems to be quite skilled but I have the advantage when it comes to swordsmanship.

The moment I tried to block the sword with mine, a chill ran down my spine.

I raised my sword and forced my body to rotate to avoid the trajectory of Loki’s sword.

My sword, which was supposed to block it, passed through Loki’s sword.

Loki’s sword continued to swing down but thanks to me evading it beforehand, it only made a shallow cut on my shoulder.

「Hee……to think you can evade it in that situation. You have a good instinct. However….」

Loki pointed to my freshly cut wound.

I felt pain but the sleeve of my t-shirt was not cut. Only my flesh was affected.

「A weapon that only cuts living beings?」

「Not only that.」

A purple haze gushed out of the wound and it started corroding.

「Poison….no, curse.」

「You look young but you immediately recognize it. This is the power of the “Ring of Andvari”.」

Loki is already grinning as if he is sure he has won.

Even with the slightest scratch, the curse will corrode your whole body in a matter of minutes.

A very fast way to die.

Moreover, since it penetrates non-living things, you can’t protect yourself against it using shields or armor.

It’s a powerful weapon alright.

「Hnn!」

I concentrated my magic power on my shoulder, preventing the curse from further spreading to my entire body and blasted the already corroded flesh from the inside.

Pieces of flesh and blood splattered around.

The blood quickly stopped and the flesh lost was regenerated with healing magic.

The healer I was working with in another world would be able to heal it without cutting the flesh out but this is all I could do on my own.

「Seriously? I’ve seen some guys cut their arms off before but I’ve never seen them healing themselves at the same time. However, if I hit near your heart or brain, can you still do that?」

Loki swung down his sword at my head.

I evaded it sideways.

The sword changed its trajectory when it reached the height of my heart.

It was a tactic that took advantage of the sword’s masslessness.

However, once you know the nature of the word, there are ways to deal with it.

I concentrated my magic power in my left palm and repelled Loki’s sword.

「What!?」

It’s not actually surprising.

The fact that it cuts only flesh means that it is reacting to the magic power of living beings.

If that is the case, it stands to reason that if you generate a shield that’s similar to a living being, it won’t be able to penetrate it.

「I’ll show you one more weakness of that sword.」

I launched a high-speed triple slash.

The speed is invisible to human’s naked eyes.

If you are only at Loki’s level, you won’t be able to defend yourself.

Loki immediately moved back.

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Yes, that’s right. That sword can’t be used for defense.

Since the match was basically over when he wounded his opponent, he probably hasn’t experienced much trouble.

He was quite capable of evading that one though.

「What’s wrong? Is this the first time you fight against an opponent who’s better at you in terms of swordsmanship?」

「Damn…..Skirnir! Target the woman!」

Loki snapped his fingers and the man dressed like a courier was enveloped in darkness and transformed into a skinny young man.

Is that the true form of Skirnir?

「You’re a handful.」

Skirnir grumbled and lunged toward Yui.

Fast!

He moved a distance of around 10 meters in an instant and swung his double-edged longsword, which he had taken out of nowhere, at Yui.