Chapter 102
“How weak… Too weak”
“Haa…haa…”
Elka supported her weight by stabbing her sword into the ground .
Breathing heavily, sweat ran on her forehead .
“Not even one of your attacks is working against me while I haven’t exercised my abilities . If you receive my attacks, it’ll be over in one hit . I’m letting you dodge them now, but how long will you hold out I wonder?”
“Kuh…Aah”
Elka grasped her sword tightly from her excessive regret .
Even in this situation where danger to her life was drawing near, she could not completely concentrate .
Whatever she tried, Setsu’s figure floated inside her head .
( …If I die like this, will I be able to go to Master Setsu’s side, I wonder)
Her thoughts fell in a dark direction .
Even if Elka were to be defeated here, her other allies would be able to take down this sacred sword, who took on the appearance of a boy .
Even if Elka were to die, the final results would not change .
“I was unable to… defeat my enemy, right?”
Finally, Elka gave up on thinking .
She chose to die here and release anything and everything .
When she let go of all her strength, the figures of Yuuhi clad in black flames floated in Elka’s mind .
(What I thought in my last moments is my apprentice’s completely changed appearance… this isn’t like me)
She tried to laugh at herself on her own, and opened her mouth――That moment .
“――――No that’s wrong”
In whispers, Elka so muttered .
“Yuuhi is right”
Elka pulled out her sword from the ground .
She brushed off the dirt off the sword by swinging it left and right, and then raised her face .
“I… didn’t accept the fact that Master Setsu had died”
Tears ran along her face .
She did not want to accept it, she did not want to admit it .
Setsu is alive, that was what she wanted to think .
“Nothing but monologues since a while ago, you’re getting creepy~ . What happened?”
“ … You’re all irresistibly detestable”
Cold air began to drift about at Elka’s feet .
“Yuuhi fully accepted Master Setsu’s death . That’s why she has been that angry”
The atmospheric temperature dropped in her surroundings .
Frost began to descend on the soil and tree leaves .
“It was a simple thing once I have completely accepted it”
In Elka’s eyes burned a light that had not dwelled in there until now .
That would be, her intent to kill .
A cold, then hot emotion .
“Detestable… The god of creation is, and you are, detestable”
“… Hey, you’ve got good eyes now haven’t you”
Elka’s heart was completely wrapped around in the hatred she had suppressed .
She wants to kill the boy in front of her eyes, Leviathan .
She wants to kill the ringleader of all, god of creation Creasyl, with her hands .
Her feelings of hatred which lost its destination before she was aware of, discovered where they had to go .
“――I’ll kill you”
“Just try!”
Elka kicked the ground .
Leviathan moved to ready his sword .
“Too late”
“Huh-!?”
Elka caught and held the arm that was holding Leviathan’s sword .
And then Elka violently thrust her own sword onto Leviathan’s thigh .
“What are you doing――――”
“Stop crying”
“Gi-”
Elka twisted her sword .
Naturally, blood began to overflow from Leviathan’s thigh .
She appears to have struck the bones as well, from the fact she felt something hard from her sword .
Unimaginable pain assailed Leviathan .
Leviathan, who raised soundless screams from that, was completely petrified in that place .
“Hah-!”
Elka pulled on Leviathan’s arm .
Elka drove a jumping knee kick to Leviathan’s face as he fell over .
The force of the pull and kick combined, and sounds of bones breaking came from Leviathan’s face .
“Gyahi-… Y- you”
“I won’t let you go”
Leviathan’s body was once again pulled .
Elka never released his hand .
“Hah!”
Releasing her hand from the sword thrust in Leviathan’s thigh, Elka drove a fist in his face .
Sounds came of flesh being smashed .
“Not yet… Not yeet!”
“Don’t make fun of――”
Ice covered Elca’s fist .
That raised her destructive power .
Her hand that held Leviathan’s arm were both covered in ice .
In order to never let him escape .
“AaaaaaAAaaaAah!”
Elka raised a warcry .
And simultaneously, surging waves of fists was driven into Leviathan .
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“There!”
Glain cut down the sacred sword in front of him with one stroke .
“Phew, we’re almost done with this I guess”
“Good job”
Those many sacred swords were cleanly swept away by Glain .
There were at least no sacred swords in his visible range .
“So what’s left is to wait for everyone to solve the barrier for us, isn’t it”
“ …Elka, I wonder if she’s alright”
“…”
Glain was made short on his words from Tia’s impulsive question
However, that too was an instant .
He immediately showed a smile and opened his mouth .
“Elka would be fine, you see . After all, the strongest among us is Elka”
“――Now that you mention, that’s how it’s been”
Tia muttered as if she had recalled .
Before, she had often conducted sham battles with Elka .
The scores of that was,
“Had 169 fights, 0 wins, 152 losses and 17 draws for me”
“It’s somewhat the same for me too . Ah, come to think of it, do you remember?”
Glain, while mentioning that, shed cold sweat .
Seeing that, Tia guessed what he wanted to say .
“Tia, she had that impression when she was with Mr Setsu, but originally she was――”
“――a damned total S”
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“Come on, please make more sound”
(This, this girl…!)
The storm of fists did not stop .
Leviathan’s body was fairly sturdy from a sacred sword’s standpoint .
Him still keeping his consciousness and enduring it was proof of that .
However, although one might say he did not bear any fatal wounds, damage was accumulating .
His arm was sealed and, due to being struck without a pause, he could only raise his body .
He still had his right arm, but he overused it in his guarding and so it had already become tattered .
In this inescapable situation, all Leviathan could do was merely enduring it .
The timing for Elka’s hand to stop from fatigue and finishing her attack .
He could do nothing but bet on that timing .
Naturally, Elka understood that .
Receiving a severe counterattack if she were to stop her attacking hand was obvious .
Therefore she continued pushing out her fist .
The damage would seem to be scarce, but they were not ineffective .
However, this would not lead her to defeating him .
She would not win at this rate .
(That… doesn’t matter to me though)
――already, had Elka’s objective been changed inside her .
What Elka seeked now, was to warp the facial expressions of the god of creation and the sacred swords, including Leviathan, through pain .
Currently, the face of Leviathan, who continued to be hit without being able to do anything, was warped awfully .
Seeing that expression, a pleasant feeling rose through Elka’s spines .
(This feeling, I had forgotten about it for a long time)
Her expression slackened and slackened .
Elka became conscious of the fact her face came to look like a child who discovered an unbreakable toy .
Except, now she wanted to break the demon in boy’s appearance――
“Would you――cut it ouut!”
“Gh!”
That time when it seemed like he would be completely sealed, Leviathan roared .
Elka reflexively dissolved the ice and pulled the sword that was pierced in his thigh .
The next instant, dark red flames wrapped up Leviathan .
“Aaah, hot! Hot! That’s why I hate it! Using this power that is!”
“…”
The dark red flames swirled around Leviathan .
If Elka did not escape like that, then she too would be swallowed by that flame .
(No wait… that flame is burning the person who invoked it himself?)
A pained leviathan’s voice was heard .
A flame that could make even the sturdy Leviathan raise a scream .
If Elka had received it, then she may likely be reduced to ashes in an instant .
“ <Envy Flare(Purgatory emotions)>, I won’t forgive you anymore”
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