“i-chan, don’t tell … you used Reagent X!?”
It was very sa that Goma’s narcotic that i-chan had once inhaled raw, causing her to rampage. It’s not currently on the level of a drug, but it’s a plainly hazardous substance nonetheless. Currently, she had an aura very similar to back then, when she absolutely slaughtered all those Goma and kind of tried to devour as well.
She makes one powerless step forward like a wandering Zombie. A second, and third step. As she walks, she drips blood from her arms that had suffered severe cuts.
A fourth. As she makes that step, she raises her face.
And there, the usual gentle features were nowhere to be found. Eyebrows pushed together, the middle of her forehead was creased with absolute rage. Her pupils glazed in brilliant crimson, they looked like they belonged to a demon.(oni)
Taking in one large breath, the Berserker roars.
“GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!”
“GOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!”
For a third ti, she and the Armor Bear clash.
Her gushing crimson aura leaves behind afterimages as i-chan accelerates. With speeds I didn’t think possible for human beings, she instantly closes the distance with enough force to leave the ground in her wake caved in in the shape of her shoes.
“UAAH!?”
Realizing that I was sitting in her path, I quickly rolled to the side and made way. But by the ti I finished making those idiotic evasive maneuvers, she’d gotten to a much higher altitude than . Jumping high, she made it all the way up to the biped-standing Armor Bear’s face (so an upward jump of 4 ters?). Making that inhuman jump, she landed her heavy soles right on the bear’s nose.
“FUGAHH!”
Must be the first ti soone less than half its height kicked it smack dab in the face. The Armor Bear’s massive fra actually tilted.
But only a bit. Quickly swinging its head back around, the Armor Bear used one of its legs to brace its stance. It then swung an arm in a fierce counter.
“Hmph, HAAAA!! ”
After a sharp breath, her cry reverberates. Dodging the large swing with a swoop under, i-chan again lets her body fly, and with fists made in both hands, she pumls the Armor Bear’s gut in rapid fire. I seriously wondered whether I was seeing things, but the mont of impact, that stomach covered in incredibly tough skin, seed to undulate.
“Goa!? GUAAAAAA!!”
Unbelievably, human fists were dealing damage to an Armor Bear. There was the fact that she was targeting the area wounded by Pain Return, but still, what level of sheer force do you need in those fists to push back a beast 4 ters in size.
As fresh blood spewed from its recently made wound, the Armor Bear cries out in pain.
“YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!”
Continues i-chan’s barrage. As if the previous one-sided beating was completely turned on its head, the storming fists made a punching bag out of the Armor Bear, battering it rcilessly.
All that blood spattering everywhere, is it i-chan’s or from the Armor Bear? Even with her arms bloodied red, her aura only gained in intensity, venting like fire. Hit repeatedly, the solid steel armor warped, cracked, and widened even more at its opening.
“Gah, oaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!”
However, the tough bodied Armor Bear won’t go down just yet. Being in mortal combat this such of a fearso human, as if to display its creed as a monster, the Armor Bear unleashes a powerful counter with its claws.
Versus that, i-chan swings back a fist, poising to unleash her most supre straight. Like an arrow launching from its bow, a great, a powerful punch is let loose.
For a second, it looked as if, her scorching aura all gathered around that very tightly gripped fist, twisting sharply into a point like a raging tornado.
“— Pile Bunker(Armor Splitter)[1]”
That fist spiraling crimson broke past the Armor Bear’s chest. Bare human hands had penetrated a bosom of solid steel. Should be damn impossible, but right now I’m genuinely looking at i-chan’s right arm pierced into the center of the Armor Bear.
“Gho, HaAAaa…”
She pulls out her arm. A gaping hole, as if made with a large drill, appeared in the shell covering its chest. From there, clumps of blood began exiting like a waterspout, and finally, the great Armor Bear fell.
Its mouth still open after the cry of anguish, the Armor Bear ceased movent. Now letting out an unending slew of blood from its chest, the beast kept soaking in a sea of that sa blood.
“Haa… Haah… Did it, I… Beat it, Kotarou-kun”
Arms drenched in red, i-chan who was dirtied in her enemy’s blood, looked to and smiled. It was that very sa, her usual, utterly gentle, beautiful smile. And held in that right hand, glistening bright crimson even while covered in blood, was a large crystal— the Armor Bear’s core.
Then, as if her strings were cut, she collapsed.
“i-chan!!”
Damn, her stamina, mana, both of those must be at their limits. She defeated the Armor Bear without receiving any fatal wounds, but since she had to use that drug, there’s a chance she’ll incur deadly levels of exhaustion. And though I had attempted to alleviate the drug’s effects sowhat by mixing in the blueflower antidote in Reagent X, but we had no idea how effective it’d be.
“Shit, I’ll get more antidote and… No, I gotta do patch up her arms first”
Beside i-chan who’s fainted and lying on the ground, I turned over my bag and hurriedly prepared to treat her. Though I say treat, I’m only washing her wounds and applying ds on it. It’s just like the ti when I found her in that fateful fairy square.
First I’ll use the remaining water in the plastic bottle to wash, to the best degree I can, her arms that look like they’ve been dipped in a barrel of blood. Just as I guessed, i-chan forewent using Ointnt A to heal them and went straight for the Reagent X. It’s all thanks to that choice she made that I got out of receiving the Armor Bear’s deadly finisher. A so called point of divergence in my fate if you will.
Thank you. I can’t thank you enough. Just look at these arms, these horrible wounds. Luckily it didn’t get to her tendons, or cut deep enough to show bone, but the amount of bleeding was insane. To kill the Armor Bear bare-fisted in this state… Perhaps i-chan has already left the domain of humanity.
But that doesn’t change the fact that she needs imdiate treatnt. I’m thinking that with her Berserker skill #2, Blood Boost, she won’t die from blood loss even after losing a fair portion. She’s supposed to have shed a ton of blood, but her complexion still looks alright.
Her life isn’t in danger, is what I’d like to think.
I prayed to God. I’m not sure if it’s appropriate to pray to Ruinhilde-sama, the God of curse, but even so, I prayed devoutly, while treating i-chan’s wounds.
“Haah… W-with this she’ll be…”
Alright, I wan’t to hope. At this ti, I saw that i-chan was breathing gently in her sleep. Breathing, pulse, both look good. And her arms, with all that Ointnt A I laid on, I’m sure I can leave the rest to her Blessed Body.
But I’ll be fully relieved when we’ve relocated to a fairy square. If we’re attacked by monsters as we are now, we’re done for. With alone, I can take on one Zombie at most. If they co by the hordes, or if there’s even one Goar, that’s an instant ga over.
“GOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!”
That roar hitting my ears caused all my thoughts to freeze.
No, just NO, impossible. This, isn’t damn fair. As thoughts that attempted to escape reality appeared inside , so did dreaded beast.
A second Armor Bear. Like the one over there with the gaping hole had, this one also entered slowly from a passage.
“A, u, aa…”
Our eyes et. It paid not the slightest glance at its dead friend, and looked straight at . A pair of humans all covered in blood.
It’s over, I can’t, think of anything.
I could run. Yes I could, but my feet don’t seem to feel like moving.
Running away, and dying sowhere else alone… But then, dying here together with i-chan seems a bit nicer.
Together? No, the hell are you thinking mate. I’ve got myself the greatest curse ever. It can take anything down with if it’s a 1v1.
“Fuh, hah, haa… Y-yeah… Not an issue… i-chan, this ti, it’s my turn to protect you”
I’ll take down this 2nd one with Pain Return and die. i-chan might just wake up right after. If it’s her, she can go through the dungeon herself. She can survive.
And, she’ll get out of this dungeon, get to the kingdom, and then, it could take a while, but if she can make it back ho to our world… then this life of mine, might have so worth yet.
Dying to protect a girl, it’s glorious. For a man, it’s damn well the greatest way to die.
“Haah… Haa… Hah, Hi-hihaha…”
Levels of despair and tension skyrocketing, I leak a weird laugh. My heart’s been beating annoyingly loud for the past while.
The hell, fuck this noise, least you can do is let look cool when I die. You know, like, See ya sweetheart, don’t miss too much.
But man, if I know it’d end like this, I should’ve risked getting beat down, and rubbed i-chan’s tits at least once.
Those vulgar and stupid thoughts are the only ones running through my mind, nothing like that revolving lantern effect I hear so much about. Just goes to show, once a useless chump, always one.
“Fufuh, ahahaha… Bite , then die bitch”
A fierce roar pierces into my ears. The Armor Bear bore its fangs, running towards , a sole helpless prey—
“Lux Sagitta!”
White light shone. Pure white, powerful light that could almost blind you. Oh man, I’m like, dead now right? No pain? That’s great, I can rest in piece.
“UAAAAAAAAA!! Hot, TOO HOT!?”
I’m alive, I realized when I felt the afterburn hot enough to roast, and started rolling around yelling like a dumbass.
“Are you guys alright? Don’t die yet!”
“So this is that Armor Bear. Looks strong”
“Waah, this bear-san, looks kinda super tough”
“G-good luck, girls!”
Upbeat voices of girls go around. I’m not deluded enough to this these are from a bunch of playful angels from heaven. I’m alive. And I’m still in this hell we call the dungeon.
“Help! We can’t fight anymore!”
There isn’t one speck left of the wishing for a nice peaceful death. Joy. The utter happy emotion I’m feeling to be alive is driving my soul towards survival. I legit don’t want to die, and almost can’t believe I was planning a ans of suicide just now.
Whatever pain, whatever disgrace I face, I really, I just want to keep staying alive.
“Gauh! GOAAAH!!”
The Armor Bear made a ferocious roar at the new humans that appeared… but seeming to realize that it’s disadvantaged, it turned around and headed back into the passage it ca from.
“Haah… Haah… Yes, YES… we’re saved”
In so much relief that I’d faint, I saw a real angel smiling.
“It’s a relief you’re alright, Momokawa-kun”
That smile from Souma Sakura, was simply, beautiful. Ah, if you smile at like that, I’ll darn be heartstruck.
But right now, my heart’s so full of happy that I’m alive, that I can’t add in any love or any of that jazz. Look, I’m a simple dude: I see big tits, I’m all in.
Starting off with those rather rude first thoughts, I thus t Souma Sakura, and her rry bunch.
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[1] Fucccking キターー（゜∀゜）－－！ …Eh? Why am I so excited? Well you’d genuinely have to read Kuro no Maou to find out ;P . Well for those who are going TL;DR, it’s basically MC’s deux ex machina move. The Spirit Ball = Genki Dama, in DBZ terms if you will.
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