Volume 5 Chapter 20 The Villainous Guildmaster of the Poor Land
I'm about to fight Amou, the Transcendent, for the last time.
Me and Vivre, the demon dragon, who's like an errand boy for the Hero Party, went to his castle on the moon.
The Demon King's super regeneration power.
Amou's magic makes it happen.
So, to beat the Demon King, I have to kill Amou.
Even when I used my secret, the power to stop time, he didn't die.
He just stood there, after I used a move that should kill him in one hit.
"WHAT'S wrong, ACT? You're getting WEAKER, aren't you?"
I switched to fighting up close.
I can't beat him with a big attack.
So I'll chip away at him with small ones.
I have a knife in my hand.
"[IMAGINE Breaker]. How did you FIND such a RARE Sacred ARTIFACT?"
The Imagine Breaker.
It looks like a normal black knife.
But it's shaped like a wavy flamberge.
It stops powers.
No matter how strong the enemy is, if this knife stabs them, their power won't work.
Amou has a lot of magic, and special powers.
As long as he has them, I can't win.
But with this knife...
I use the Eye of the Time King to see Amou's moves, and stab him with the knife when he attacks, then hurt his body when he's weak.
"I SEE, I see... The EYE of the TIME KING is better than my MOVES, an S-CLASS Appraisal EYE. You HIT me with the IMAGINE BREAKER, and then you HURT my body while my POWERS are gone. I can't HEAL the damage during that TIME, can I?"
But this plan has a problem.
I can only hurt him a little bit at a time.
And... I have to get close to him to use the knife.
I use Appraisal to predict his approach.
I see the future where he throws a right straight and try to stab him with my destruction sword from the side...
"MR. ACT! DODGE!"
A tip from Vivre.
I quickly crouch down.
Whoosh!
A ridiculously fast kick just grazes my hair.
Just when I thought I was safe, the onslaught begins.
The ability didn't cancel out the Imagine Breaker, so he attacks me in perfect form.
It's an attack so fast it breaks the sound barrier.
And he slams out a thousand hits in the blink of an eye.
I knew the attack was coming, but I couldn't dodge it.
I could only brace myself and take his powerful blows.
Eventually, his front kick lands dead center in my solar plexus.
Boom!
With a massive impact, I am thrown back.
"WOW, you barely DODGED that by flying BACKWARDS. Impressive... but..."
"GAH!"
Blood spills from my mouth.
I thought I'd dulled the force of the attack, but this damage...?
"Bringing out the IMAGINE BREAKER was a SMART choice. Good STRATEGY. But when your TACTICS are locked in, it means I can READ your win PATTERNS, right?"
"...A DECOY?"
"EXACTLY. You can PREDICT my movements, and you NEED to land a HIT with the DESTRUCTION sword. From THERE, I'll READ your moves and COUNTER."
"...You make it SOUND easy."
I'm accelerating time, moving at speeds no normal eye can follow.
Yet he's not just keeping up; he's countering my strategy against me.
...I feel an enormous wall right in front of me.
This is... Transcendent.
"So? Have you FINALLY realized it's RECKLESS to challenge ME?"
Amou doesn't break his cool demeanor.
Even after taking my ultimate technique, he remains unfazed, easily countering my precious destruction sword strategy.
"You might be UNBEATABLE on the GROUND. But in the HEAVENLY realm where REAL monsters RESIDE, your power is PITIFULLY small."
Snap, Amou snaps his fingers.
The Imagine Breaker I held shatters into pieces.
...What did he do?
What was done to me?
Nah... that stuff doesn't even matter anymore.
"Alright, so GAME over NOW, huh? What do you DO? Want to USE your last CRAZY move, even if it MEANS blowing YOURSELF up?"
...Is it all over then?
"Well, SEE ya then, BYE-BYE!"
Amou points his left hand at me.
Black flames burst out, and I get erased in a blink...
"Giving UP'S still too SOON, you know, MASTER."
Suddenly, my sight clears.
Standing in front of me is Frederica, the silver-haired maid.
Only her right arm is Fenrir-forming.
"WHAT are you...?"
"Don't come RUNNING when your MASTER'S in trouble, what's the POINT of being a SERVANT then?"
Frederica is quietly smiling.
Behind her, Vivre is sagging down.
That guy, he brought this girl here, huh?
"I TOLD you to WAIT on the GROUND, didn't I?"
"Oh, did you FORGET? I am just a USELESS dog who doesn't FOLLOW the master's ORDERS."
...Oh yeah, that's right.
Come to think of it, she's that kind of girl.
This girl here.
"MASTER, my BELOVED, please don't CARRY everything ALONE. Let me CARRY some of it TOO."
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