Bijo to Kenja to Majin no Ken

068 Authentic

Confronting Bernardo distorts his nigga and lips.

When I saw it, I sweated from my forehead without knowing it.

A flowing sweat propagates through his cheeks, flowing down his chin and falling to the ground.

The struggle from here on forward is unacceptable.

What I'm looking for is a very simple thing to do: make sure Bernardo hits the crystal sword (Agato) in his right hand.

However, the difficulty of that simple thing is extremely high in this case.

And what made it even more difficult was the existence of “conditions” that had to be met in order to hit the attack.

The first condition concerns his battle transition (Battlegate).

Bernardo is quite dodgy. Hitting an attack can be difficult, but even if he releases an attack that can't be avoided enough, he could be avoided using a battle transition (Battlegate) just before he hits.

That means if you don't seal the battle transition (Battlegate), you won't be able to hit him eventually.

However, a cooling period (cool-time) exists for the battle transition (Battlegate). Once used, you cannot continue to use Combat Transfer (Battlegate) until the time equivalent to the cooling period (cool-time) has elapsed. If so, it would be effective to go for the attack, aiming at that cooling period (cool-time).

The timing of Bernardo's use of Battlegate is two main things: when he launches an attack from himself, and when he falls into a crisis (pinch) and has to avoid it in Battlegate.

The former is very difficult to read when to use it. It is the latter that is relatively easy to read the timing.

But more than my ultimate goal is to hit him, it means "striking Bernardo two times in a row that's hard to avoid." This means that after releasing an attack that you have to avoid in a battle transition (Battlegate), you will actually hit the attack by the end of the cooling period (cool-time) -.

I don't even want to think about how challenging that is, in the sense that I've fought him so far.

The second is his fake (fake).

The Crystal Sword (Agato) that Bernardo is good at is just a fake (fake) I created with phantom magic.

He doesn't seem to realize the sword he has is a fake (fake). You wouldn't even understand that not even realizing it's a fake (fake) means that Crystal Sword (Agato) has the ability (or chips) to essentially hit a Special Strike, or that it's an aggressive sword.

I mean, he doesn't attack me with a crystal sword (Agate) to such an extent that he just needs to scratch me, and he's likely to attack me “properly” by swinging his sword through it.

“Swinging through properly" means Bernardo's ability to freely switch his speed at the expense of his attack power is likely to bring him down on the offensive side. Thus, Bernardo's speed of action is likely to drop at the moment of the attack.

Bernardo's adherence to the Crystal Sword (Agato) also works positively. Perhaps he can't help but try and see what the Crystal Sword (Agate) is capable of. That means his attack is likely to be launched with a hand with a crystal sword (Agate).

Even though Bernardo is a knife, he uses two swords. I can naturally fight in my favor if I can squeeze the direction of a definite attack rather than a situation where I can't predict which attack is coming from left or right.

You just have to be careful that crystal swords (niceties) with empty contents are shattered in an instant if you take them with a sword.

If what you assume is real crumbles, you might be able to draw Bernardo's momentary alarm.

But it's really a one-time opportunity.

If he misses it, Bernardo must go back to the knife and find himself in a situation where he can't get away with it, such as "launching two attacks in a row that are difficult to avoid”.

With these two conditions in mind, I start fighting Bernardo.

If we don't try a short-term showdown, it gradually increases the likelihood that he will notice a fake (fake).

I thought the struggle would get tougher and tougher as time passed.

In that very short period of time, I have to make the perfect opportunity “two in a row”.

The unusually high hurdles set up are driving me down mentally.

However, on the other hand, I felt a sense of exhilaration that could not be said of this situation.

If it was a high hurdle, I wanted to go over there.

- No, I'll make sure to look over this hurdle.

I moved around beside Bernardo, holding on to a grin that would inadvertently be zero (spilled).

And I'm gonna pack a little distance from him.

I have less time left, but the effects of the acceleration (haste) that I have hung on me continue. I approached Bernardo at more than double my usual rate of action.

Bernardo sees that he can avoid my attacks at any time, etc., and he hasn't moved at all from the spot.

As I packed the distance further, I developed a dark fog (mist) phantom magic between him and myself. As soon as the fog covered my figure and hid it.

"Huh."

Turns out Bernardo laughed with his nose. I said it wouldn't do any good, like thick mist.

When I broke through the fog (mist) that I had unfolded, I was slashed by Bernardo.

If he takes my attack with a crystal sword, the crystal sword will shatter and I will have difficulty creating an opportunity to strike after this.

But the only time he's been attacked with his own weapon in a battle like this is once Roberto's breakthrough (Chargespike). I don't take all other attacks, I avoid them.

In other words, Bernardo may affirm that he will avoid all attacks he considers avoidable without taking them.

As I assumed, Bernardo avoided my attack.

Evaded the attack, I predict a counterattack from him and put a thick mist (mist) in front of me in the guise of a rushed wind.

"Smart -!!"

Bernardo said so, breaking through the thick fog (mist) as it was and waving the crystal sword (nicer stuff) through his thoughts. As you can imagine, the attack is clearly slower than previous agile behavior. It was seen that they were attacking “firmly”, giving priority to attack power over speed.

Once again, with a rushed look, I move to the rear of Bernardo with a battle transfer (Battlegate).

So far, I haven't found out my act.

Bernardo seemed to expect me to move behind him in a battle transition (Battlegate).

He couldn't look back and waved his crystal sword at me.

I couldn't dare to cut my body in two by that crystal sword - it just seemed like it was a phantom I had created that turned into two.

The phantom is unresponsive and dissolves in the air so that it is scratched off by a crystal sword (a varnish).

"Chip - imitate the unblocked -!"

From the speed of Bernardo's reaction, it wasn't strange to look closely at me and realize that it was a phantom.

But Bernardo has been subjected to "Condition: Loss of Awareness" by Grace's curse bullet (Gund). That was driving my behavior.

I hide myself in secret (Invisible) after leaving my phantom behind.

As I went straight back into the rear of Bernardo, I peered into the gap.

Bernardo can't see me. He can't figure out where I am, and he's in a position with a crystal sword on the spot.

When I turned completely behind him, he showed up again and jumped.

"To that extent -!"

The slaughter that was unleashed as I turned around with my voice makes me truly two again.

There was no longer a verse in which he foresaw that it would be a phantom to strike him from behind.

I hid myself in secrecy (Invisible) right after I unleashed my phantom and walked out behind Bernardo again.

I felt Bernardo's gaze turned towards me.

That's just a flash, to the point where you don't know if you realize it or not.

But I kept saying the same thing over and over again - "I was inviting it".

I'm going back to Bernardo, just like I did earlier.

He didn't show any particular behavior and didn't try to move off the spot.

I turn completely behind Bernardo so that I can see the same behavior again.

And he showed up and hit him on the back “plainly”.

――

Unlike earlier, Bernardo only tries to look back on his body (Hanmi).

He didn't show a bluff avoiding attacks from the rear, and he was chasing me for hiding himself in secret (Invisible).

Bernardo, wielding a crystal sword (a nickname) toward you, speaks up with skill.

"Yes, the same thing happened again and again -!!"

But the words didn't last until the end.

Bernardo's wielded crystal sword (Nice Thing) did capture me hiding myself in secrecy (Invisible).

The problem is that my figure disappeared to dissolve in the air.

"Be-!?"

“Hidden Me” is nothing but a covert (Invisible) walk over a phantom that looks like me.

I mean - the one who was about to slash me from behind him was the “real” me.

I wave the crystal sword (the real thing) in my right hand and try to pierce Bernardo.

Bernardo, who was not prepared to avoid an attack with a half-body condition, was unable to avoid it successfully.

"Chi -!!"

With the sound of tongue beating, Bernardo's figure scratches off. Battlegate!

I no longer have to look back. Bernardo is transferring to my back.

I was convinced of it and tried to unleash the slaughter without looking back.

"- It's late!!

I hear him, and Bernardo's blow hits me from the back.

A well-swung attack is a few steps slower than his fastest attack speed.

Still, that blow had reached my body before my slaughter could reach him.

――

Kashan!! and a flashy sound echoed around him, and Bernardo opened his eyes to the extreme due to the sound and the discomfort of what he had in his hands. The crystal sword (the nickname) is shattered and splashed, as if the glass workmanship were shattered.

I expected that to happen, and I wasn't trying to avoid Bernardo's attack at all. For what I didn't avoid, my slaughter is a futile move to pierce his body.

He must have decided he couldn't avoid an imminent attack shortly afterwards.

Bernardo deployed a firewall between me and him. This is the first magic Bernardo has ever shown. Actually, he may have been good at flame attribute magic. A flame wall (firewall) deployed too close to me filled the front of my eyes with flames.

I don't want to go through it, I break through the flame wall (firewall) and approach Bernardo.

And I opened my eyes only for a moment to what was ahead of me when I broke through the flame wall (firewall).

There's Grace.

Grace looks at me trying to strike and makes a stunned look.

The eyes of the cut were wide open. Her left hand sticks out meaningfully to stop the attack.

- But I, without any hesitation (hesitation), stuck a crystal sword (Agate) in front of Grace.

A crystal sword (a real thing) pierces Grace's chest deeply, and she gives a distressed (kung fu) look.

She broke her knee and collapsed to the spot.

"Hey, why - why don't you hesitate -!?"

From Grace, who was stabbed with a crystal sword (Agato), the voice of an unsuitable man is uttered.

Immediately afterwards, "Transform" unraveled, and the grace in front of him instantly turned into Bernardo's figure.

Bernardo had not only magic, but the ability to change his appearance.

He has used his abilities at the end of this critical attack.

Perhaps if I could pull out my hesitation and buy him a moment of time, he would have had a chance.

But what made him unhappy was that I could see the "status" indication on Grace's side, which was transformed.

Its state (status) indication says the name "Bernardo".

I - I couldn't have hesitated.

Shattered crystal swords (niceties) are already devoid of traces.

The crystal sword (the real thing) pierced Bernardo's chest activates his "collapse” skills and crumbles his body to pieces.

I shrugged a little at Bernardo, giving him the look that I didn't understand why.

"I can see the real thing."

- It's just that. "

Bernardo couldn't even lift the terminal demon, and after collapsing like black coal (soot), he dissolved into the ambient air.

"Kay -!"

"Sir, you did it -!"

I can hear Celestia and Roberto cheering up.

Everyone came running down to me to see Bernardo disappear. Roberto ran with the impetus that seemed to hold him, so I avoided him in a hurry.

Everyone uniformly called me "Good Fight" and "Labour".

Besides, I can't help but laugh. Every voice I could hear was bright.

In doing so, Sylvia threw me a question, just like she thought.

"- Kay, is it possible that the demon man of today will be resurrected?

Everyone who hears it will be quiet once.

I can't say for sure, but I didn't think there was any chance Bernardo would come back.

"- Probably not.

He seemed to know something about the Demon's weapon from before he came to this world (Florence).

In the past, the only demons that have survived have been the Black Fairy (Kurt) and the Great Haunted King (Gino).

Gino was originally a wind that didn't understand the importance of the demon's weapon, if you think back to the content of the conversation with Kurt.

It is likely that Kurt was the one who passed the information on to the present demon (Bernardo).

If Kurt told you, the demon now (Bernardo) is a Reese demon. There's no reason for Kurt to pass on information in favor of the Overts.

The Reese do not have the power of "reincarnation".

So there will be no resurrection. "

When I run out, Sylvia strokes her chest down like she's relieved.

As I breathed, my plump chest was up and down. Looking at the highlighted clothes (tunic) in the valley makes me want to stroke down my breasts that aren't my own either.

But - I can't let it get any easier here.

Anyway, we didn't achieve what we came here for.

"All right - then, we'll destroy the portal."

To my voice, everyone looks up at the metastasis gate in front of me.

"But - how do we destroy it?

On this scale. It's impossible to destroy it by hand, even if you destroy it by magic for quite some time. "

Celestia asked me.

But I didn't have to get lost, and I had a clear and definitive way to destroy it.

It's easy.

I have a weapon in my hand that “collapses” the subject with a single blow.

When I told everyone to stay away enough from the scene, I stood in front of the transfer gate.

Honestly, I don't know where to tap - but I'm going to stick the Crystal Sword (Agate) at the gap between the magic formations in the front.

A few moments later, he heard a sound echoing in his belly called Gogogo.

"- What!?

"-!! It collapses!

Celestia and Grace's voice echoes.

The metastasis gate began to collapse once and for all as the crystal sword (Agato) was penetrated.

The collapsed magic formations and stone decorations are crushed to a size that returns to the sand more and more, and drifts beneath my feet.

Even the sand that builds up beneath my feet was further subdivided after a while.

At the end of the day everything blends into the air and disappears as if there was nothing.

I thought, "Demon Sword" was a really horrible weapon.

I don't think I've ever been able to pull out all the abilities that a demon's weapon possesses.

But even if you fail to bring out all your abilities (one or the other), it is clear that the Demon's weapon is a disequilibrium for struggles and strife that exist in this world (balance breaker).

When I made sure the transfer gate completely collapsed, I went back under my people and offered Grace the Crystal Sword (Agate).

Grace squeals something at the crystal sword (Agato) she receives from me. Then the crystal sword (Agato) disappeared so that it was clear to the air.

- Let's go back to Salita.

Everyone snorted quietly in my voice.

It's hard to immediately assess how what I've accomplished today is going to work in the future.

But beyond this struggle, I thought there must be the outcome I wanted.

When I open the gate, I urge everyone to move first.

That's when Grace and I got eyes on each other.

"-Kay."

"-Come on, let's go."

I try to tell Grace something, and I urge her to move.

Grace glanced at me and then dived into the opening (gate) hole.

- Bernardo said to me, "What is this weapon?"

I have Grace's face in my head at the time.