Chapter 317: The Death of Kazumi Shimizu
[How is that possible!!]
A calm and cold voice exploded in the young girl’s heart like a thunderclap from the sky. The incredibly real metallic touch at the nape of her neck proved that what she was touching was a true entity, not some fantasy.
Whether it was the somewhat familiar tone or the words spoken, even though the young girl couldn’t turn around to see the person’s figure, she immediately realized that this person was Shun Muto, who had just destroyed her [Substitute Doll].
[He can just barge in even within my territory? Why didn’t I receive any feedback? Does he possess the ability to traverse space? But isn’t he just a swordsman?]
Questions arose in the young girl’s mind like bamboo shoots after a spring rain, but the blade, sharp enough to cut through her neck skin, made Kazumi stiffen in place, afraid to move.
“I’ll only ask once, where is Yuz now?”
But Shun Muto clearly didn’t want to give the young girl time to react or think. The blade pressed against her neck, squeezing inwards without warning. The large patch of rotten flesh exposed on the girl’s right neck was cut by the sword energy, scattering like disgusting minced meat.
“At… the altar… there…”
The sharp sword energy and terrifying pressure almost suffocated the young girl. The stinging pain on her neck awakened her survival instinct, not even giving her time to think. She forcefully raised her right hand, pointing towards the dark altar in the distance.
“Hm.”
Grabbing the girl’s sleeve like a dead pig, he smeared the minced meat on the blade onto Kazumi’s cloak with a look of disgust. Shun Muto didn’t even want to check what kind of ugly body was under the cloak of this black-robed monster.
Just as Yuz had told him the intel before, it was a black-robed monster with summoning abilities under Masashi Sakuraba.
However, besides this异空间 (different dimension), the opponent’s abilities were nothing to him. The priority now was to rescue Yuz, as his previous injuries had no time to be delayed.
Forcefully throwing the girl in his hand towards the distance, without caring about her life or death, Shun Muto retracted his long sword and walked towards the altar.
…
“Damn it…”
After an unknown amount of time, Kazumi finally recovered from the great terror.
The young girl could now empathize with the feelings of those silly villains in those funny dramas who answered every question, truly when you face power that makes you unable to resist and undisguised killing intent, the survival instinct in your body will force you to answer the other person’s questions.
In the face of an absolute power gap, it was so difficult to even make a slight resistance.
With that level of killing aura and energy pressure, Kazumi had no doubt that if she had made even the slightest wrong move, the cold light of the blade would have sliced off her head in the next second.
“He can even enter the territory, so Lei is definitely no match for him.”
Taking a forceful deep breath, the young girl forced herself to calm down. This was arguably the biggest crisis she had ever faced in her life. The [Blade Warrior], one of the Association’s strongest heroes, was currently in her territory.
Kazumi, who had exposed such an important secret, couldn’t imagine a reason for the opponent to not kill her after rescuing Yuz.
“There’s… no way to break through!!”
Her tender white hands were clenched so tightly that they almost bled, the young girl’s thinking ability was very fast, and the mind of an undead granted her computational ability comparable to a machine.
But precisely because of this, after countless analyses, the victory probability that Kazumi obtained was zero.
And the most terrifying thing was that the connection channel between the territory and the outside world that the young girl had perceived seemed to have been severed by some power. Although there was still a possibility of repair, it also proved that she didn’t even have the option to escape.
“Why… is it like this…”
Slumping powerlessly against the wall of the Great Graveyard, the young girl had no strength or desire to stand up anymore. After a crisp and clear sound of blades, the entire altar collapsed, proving that Lei had almost no power to fight back against Shun Muto.
And after the opponent completed his purpose, his death would follow.
A true, opportunity-less death.
A person’s will to survive is terrifying. Even though the young girl logically analyzed her winning chances, her brain spontaneously controlled all troops within the territory to enter combat status.
The ghouls hiding in the corner swarmed out and surrounded Kazumi. Skeleton soldiers clad in heavy armor marched out in an orderly fashion from the Great Graveyard. A dense flock of Corpse Crows filled the entire sky. Little Black, who had been too scared to move by Shun Muto’s aura, also turned out of Kazumi’s body and, somewhat madly, bared its teeth and roared in Shun Muto’s direction.
“No, I still have a chance. With the territory’s bonus and so many troops, it must be possible!”
The appearance of a large number of undead legions gradually gave Kazumi new confidence. After all, the opponent was only one person from beginning to end.
Moreover, he was already injured from fighting Masashi Sakuraba before, and he also had to carry an injured person. Relying on a war of attrition and environmental bonuses, as long as he didn’t get close without warning like just now, Kazumi felt she had a chance to win.
“I can do it, I can do it, I can do it!”
Like self-hypnosis without confidence, her trembling voice echoed obsessively from the young girl’s mouth. Terrifying Death Energy was mobilized by Kazumi’s strong desire to survive, and her subordinate soldiers seemed to have sensed their master’s emotions, their energy also being released without concealment at this moment. The accumulated malevolent aura outlined a giant black skull head in mid-air.
At the same time, Shun Muto, whom the young girl had been worried about, was leisurely walking on the wilderness outside the city walls. Under his intact right arm, he held a human-shaped object frozen into an ice stick.
He looked up at the various creatures gathered in the city and the black skull head in the sky. His eyebrows twitched slightly, but his eyes were silently observing the distance between himself and the city walls.
“This position should be about right, and the time is just right.”
Muttering indistinctly to himself, Shun Muto took the last drag of the cigarette, which was almost burning the mouthpiece, and spat the butt to the ground.
He slung the somewhat stiff Yuz over his shoulder and freed his right hand.
His nonchalant demeanor instantly changed. Surging sword intent erupted from him, integrating into the long sword in his right hand. A slash carrying immense sword momentum was swung from his hand, but it seemed to melt and dissipate into the air.
Then, as if he had foreseen it, he stepped forward, and a purple rift opened out of thin air in mid-air. Shun Muto, carrying Yuz, disappeared from this barren plain through it.
And the moment Shun Muto left, everything outside the visible range of the territory, from the city walls to the soldiers, to Kazumi herself, and even the flow of energy, all fell into a state of stillness at once.
Then…
It was cut into countless pieces in the air.
