CH 5.33

I leaned forward and held my sword with my left hand.

「Want to continue? You still have the damage from your battle with Susanoo, right? The magic circuits in your whole body are in shambles. No matter how strong you are, you can’t do it especially with that right arm of yours. Well, it’s already extraordinary that a human could fight against Susanoo much more be the last one standing.」

Kagutsuchi gripped the flames lit in his hands and both took the form of a sword.

This bastard blabber so much.

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I slashed the sword to his side.

Kagutsuchi received it with his flame sword.

He was not so bad but a few steps behind Susanoo.

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However, to my annoyance, the flames were flowing through the sword, crawling toward my hand.

I swung the sword lightly to extinguish the clinging flame.

「My flame burns through anything. With just a swing….no, I really shouldn’t think of you as a normal human. However, you see what I mean, right? Isn’t it too difficult with only one hand? And I’m sure it’s not your dominant hand.」

It seems like he’s not bad at judging strength.

The hardest part was that Susanoo’s blow had drained almost all of my magic power in addition to fighting against two swords with just one hand.

If I could use both of my hands or had a little more magic power, I would have had plenty of options.

「Look then.」

I glanced at Yui, and then readied myself again.

My right hand can move but only barely.

It would take another minute before I could use it properly.

「What the! It moved? That’s an amazing recovery speed. However, I won’t let you stall for time.」

Kagutsuchi lunged at me that made me take a few steps back while holding my sword with both hands.

Kagutsuchi did not bother and closed the gap between us.

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At the edge of my vision, I saw Yui move and her steps were suspiciously slow.

She picked up the gun lying in the corner of the room and held it.

「Now, gun!」

Kagutsuchi ignores Yui and slashes at me.

—bang!

The bullet fired with a bang and hit me in the right shoulder.

「Do you know how to aim—what!?」

Centered on the bullet that hit my right shoulder, a healing spell unfolded.

With the synergistic effect of the magic I casted myself, my right arm was healed enough to be used.

Nice one, Yui! You understood what I mean with just a glance.

My right shoulder was sore though!

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I slashed away both of the flame swords with my sword.

With the same momentum, I sliced him in two from the top of his head.

Kagutsuchi’s body, which had been split into two, began to disappear as flames.

It was a flame substitution technique.

However, before the flames began to fade, I turned around.

「I can see you!」

Kagutsuchi appears behind me and this time, I cut him in half in his torso.

I know from the movement of magic that it will be extinguished as flames too.

I immediately raised my sword upward.

「Guaaa!」

I pierced the sword through Kagutsuchi’s chest and I knocked him to the floor.

Kagutsuchi pulls himself out of my sword and rolls across the floor to the entrance of the kagura hall to distance himself from me.

「S-strong….what in the world are you…..in this case, I would at least give Susanoo the final blow—」

Kagutsuchi stood up, forcibly sealing the wound on his chest with flames.

I immediately tried to follow up but a familiar face appeared right behind Kagutsuchi.

「Why….are you here? Oniichan?」

Futaba!?