I Can’t Run Away From the Girl Who Saved Me

190 – The Demon King (3)

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As I recited the spell, I was overcome with a dizzying feeling.

This was because the spell I had memorized was an advanced magic that I had never successfully performed in my life.

At this moment, when it was clear that a single momentary mistake would lead to death, the decision to use advanced magic that had never been successful before was a foolish gamble with a low probability of success.

Of course, there was the reason that he had become impatient because of Sylvia who had been counting numbers all of a sudden, and the reason that the restraint magic that had come to his mind in the urgency of the situation was the only thing he could do, but no matter what the reason, there was no doubt that it was an absolutely unacceptable mistake.

It was the most surprising moment of my life.

Sylvia had already hit the ground and was flying up, and the mana gathered at my fingertips had already begun to create magic.

thud,

I heard just one loud heartbeat, like a pounding in my ear.

thud,

No, maybe because I was so surprised, it felt like time was passing slowly.

I saw Sylvia’s movements that I would never have been able to follow with my eyes under normal circumstances.

Sylvia’s body had already reached the Demon King’s nose.

I wanted to warn you.

My magic is doomed, run away now.

I wanted to shout that out to Sylvia.

But, unfortunately, my lips and tongue were too slow to keep up with my thoughts.

No, my current state is probably strange to begin with.

It must not have been even a second since Sylvia jumped up.

I wanted to close my eyes tightly, but my eyelids were very slow to open.

It was as if this one moment had been divided into eternity and stuffed into a single file.

For a very long time, an eternal second passed by slowly, as if it were a curse to witness the mistakes I had made and their consequences.

“…!”

The marble floor the Demon King was standing on changed into a squishy texture for a moment, and soon it swallowed up the Demon King’s gaunt ankles like a slimy swamp.

The squishy floor instantly rose into the air and covered the entire lower half of the Demon King’s body, then as if nothing had happened, it hardened and returned to its original pure white marble.

The Demon King was frozen in place by the marble covering his lower body.

“…ah.”

Countless near-death crises have come to me.

All sorts of misfortunes poured down as if they were trying to bring me to my knees in despair again and again.

And then there was Sylvia’s training, which was extremely difficult.

All the experiences of the past that had tormented me terribly must have brought me great pain that could be compared to hell.

But maybe it was because of that time of suffering that burned hotter than hell.

I succeeded in performing advanced magic that I would never have been able to do before.

Time accelerates again.

My vision lost sight of Sylvia again.

But unlike me, I have no doubt that her skills are perfect, beyond even the slightest possibility of flaws.

I will cut down the Demon King’s head at a speed that is invisible to my eyes.

As expected, Sylvia was already standing far behind the Demon King, in a pose that seemed to be swinging a sword.

She shouted reflexively.

“Well done, Maria!”

Sylvia made a momentary, “Oh no!” expression, then smiled faintly, as if embarrassed.

I didn’t scold her.

Instead, he just stared blankly at Sylvia’s smile…

“haha,”

I just laughed lightly.

If Sylvia, who knows Sister Maria’s magic better than anyone else, felt that my magic was even a little similar to Sister Maria’s, then there would be nothing I would be more proud of.

The image of myself as a child, looking at the back of my older sister Maria, who was closest to me but also so far away, with a bitter smile, overcome by feelings of inferiority and defeat, flashed before my eyes.

No matter how hard I tried, the gap between me and my older sister kept widening.

Sylvia’s little mistake was enough compensation for me as a child, when I was desperately studying magic, struggling to overcome the gap between my great older sister and her genius, no matter how hard I struggled.

If I could have narrowed that gap by just one step, I could be sure that the time would have been meaningful.

“I really did it…”

Was that why?

Was it because I was so happy that I couldn’t look straight at my surroundings?

Or maybe it was because of his infinite trust in Sylvia’s abilities.

I didn’t notice for a moment.

The fact that the Demon King was standing there perfectly still.

“Ash! Not yet! The Demon King!”

I looked at the Demon King in confusion at Pia’s urgent voice.

The Demon King was still caught in my magic, but he was standing intact without a single scratch.

Sylvia also seemed to have realized belatedly that the Demon King had not fallen.

Sylvia looked back and forth between her sword and the Demon King.

Her sword was clearly covered in sticky, yellow residue.

The liquid looked like the liquid that was dripping from the cocoon.

Although he had managed to cut down the Demon King, it seemed that it didn’t do much damage to him.

It was such an outrageous mistake for her.

I was so distracted by the fact that I accidentally called Maria’s name that I didn’t even notice the enemy falling.

However, Sylvia was a strong person who took action before being consumed by regret and self-reproach.

Sylvia ran straight towards the Demon King once again.

“…”

Every time Sylvia’s sword flashed, the Demon King’s body was helplessly cut and torn.

But not a single piece of flesh fell from the Demon King’s body.

“…”

I observed the Demon King’s appearance carefully.

Sylvia’s sword kept slicing through the Demon King’s body, but the Demon King’s body was stuck again as soon as the sword was removed.

Even to me, who had seen the undying power and strength of the Demon King many times while living with Sister Sylvia and Alice, the appearance I saw from the Demon King now was extremely strange.

Sylvia felt as if all the attacks that could kill her were disappearing before they could even reach her, while Alice felt as if her wounds were being healed at the same time as she was being injured by the overwhelming power of the divine power.

The Demon King’s appearance was a little different from those things.

It was more like a piece of clay that had been split in half and was glued back together.

Sylvia, who had been swinging her sword continuously, seemed to have grown tired and jumped back, moving far away from the Demon King.

I blasted a giant fireball at the Demon King.

Pia used wind magic to focus the rising flames towards the Demon King.

However, the Demon King’s figure, glimpsed through the blazing flames, still appeared to be unharmed.

“… Damn it. What the hell is that?”

I spat out a curse and thought of the next spell.

As soon as the flames went out, I poured out cold magic to freeze the Demon King’s body.

As soon as the Demon King’s body froze, Sylvia ran over and tried to break the Demon King’s flesh.

But still, the Demon King was standing still.

“… Okay, this is it. Try to endure it all.”

I circulated and gathered the mana flowing through my blood vessels.

And then I started to recall all the magic I knew from my memory.

“I can do it now.”

“Okay, I’ll help you, Ash.”

“Let’s go, Pia. Let’s do it all.”

A thick bolt of lightning shook and struck the Demon King’s body.

The Demon King was fine.

The wind, sharp as a blade, cut the Demon King’s body in two.

Still, the Demon King stood.

The Demon King was illuminated by the intense light of divinity.

The Demon King didn’t care.

The scythe of emptiness pierced the Demon King’s body.

The Demon King sent the sickles flying as if he were a ghost.

“Fuck!”

All offensive magic was useless.

It almost felt like it didn’t exist under the same laws of physics as we do.

Witnessing such an incomprehensible phenomenon as its bizarre appearance, I could once again feel a cold fear running down my spine.

And what further fueled that feeling of fear was the sight of the Demon King standing still without any reaction while being attacked like this.

“I told you to fall down!”

I tightened the marble grip that held the Demon King’s lower body and tried to crush his legs.

The Demon King’s upper body was severed from the waist down and fell to the floor, rolling.

“Ah! Now!”

Sylvia shouted.

I shot my magic straight to the ceiling, causing a huge piece of debris to fall on top of the fallen Demon King’s head.

Large pieces of debris rained down on the Demon King’s head with a loud noise.

The gochi floating in the air was crushed to the ground by debris.

As a huge cloud of dust rose, I turned my head and shut my eyes tightly.

“No, not yet.”

Sylvia spoke before the dust had even settled.

Sure enough, in the slowly clearing dust, the Demon King was standing there, free from my magic that had been holding his leg.

But still, the monster didn’t move an inch.

“Is it spirit wine?”

I looked at Pia and asked.

Pia shook her head and said.

“I can’t feel the power of the spirit.”

“… Then what is that… And why are you just sitting there?”

Sylvia and I both stopped attacking and glared at the Demon King.

The Demon King still had no intention of moving.

Only the unpleasant eyeballs at the end of the long face were constantly twitching and observing the surroundings.

“No attack is effective.”

Sylvia muttered slowly.

It seemed like he was trying to sort out the situation.

“No swords, no magic, and even crushing them with rubble won’t help.”

“…Does that mean there is no way?”

“I don’t know.”

“late…”

“It was a cut back then. I don’t think I should think about it based on the standards of that time.”

I closed my eyes and let out a trembling breath as I heard Sylvia’s soft voice.

The elation of having successfully performed advanced magic had long since subsided.

Despair began to envelop me.

failure.

I felt like those two words were gradually filling my heart and mind.

Could it be because I kept spitting out magical chants without stopping in such a thick atmosphere?

It felt terribly stinging from my lungs to my throat.

It felt like the smell of death was rising up my throat.

I swallowed hard and clenched my fists.

no,

You can’t give up.

There must be a way.

I tried to force myself to think of hopeful words and to pull up my will, which was slowly creeping in.

At that moment, Sylvia chuckled.

“Oh, shit.”

“Sylvia?”

“Ash, stay here for a moment and don’t move.”

As she said this, Sylvia slowly took a breath while holding the sword in her hand.

The blade, which had been glowing black from the blood of countless monsters and humans, began to glow with a pure white light from the bridge of its nose.

It was a light so familiar to me.

“ah…”

Sylvia bent down and ran forward like an arrow being shot.

A white flash of light flew towards the Demon King’s neck.

“…!”

The Demon King, or rather that strange monster, reacted for the first time.

A sound that sounded like the screams of dozens of different animals all rolled into one.

Letting out a horrible roar that was difficult to describe, the monster twisted its disgusting body in a strange direction to avoid Sylvia’s sword.

Sylvia spun around in the air and landed beautifully on the floor, then got up and laughed out loud.

“Fucking Alice.”

“… ah,”

“That useless b*tch is only there when you really need her.”

Divine power.

It seems that divine power is that monster’s only weakness.

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