Sword and scythe clashed, creating an unpleasant metallic sound. Flame of anger were burning fiercely inside me. The reason for this is the enemy in front of me.
“Gugegege!”
“I’ve never forgotten that day!”
I tightened my grip in anger. However, my state of hostility continues.
“Why Tokyo!? Why me and Shigeru-san!?”
The guy in front of me just keeps laughing, the corners of his mouth turning up sharply. It seems like he doesn’t intend to answer my questions.
“I already know you’re a demon! I’ll make you talk no matter what!”
I activated all of my enhancement skills. In the next moment, the competition between us was broken.
My sword pushed back the scythe. Judging that he was at a disadvantage, he quickly moved backwards. I followed suit and fired a horizontal slash.
Shiiiiiiiiiiing.
With a high-pitched sound, the sword was repelled by the scythe. He uses the recoil to spin in mid-air. He also aimed at my neck with the same momentum.
“Fuu!”
I instantly arched my body, and the enemy’s blade sliced through the air. I managed to dodge it with a thin sliver of paper.
“……Gugegege, you’re good.”
“Are you finally ready to speak? Tell me, who are you?”
The small shinigami lazily puts the scythe on his shoulder.
I raised my vigilance one more level while holding my sword.
“There’s no way I can tell you. If you want to know, kill me. Gugegege.”
“Then I’ll do that!”
I approached him with instantaneous acceleration. I unleashed a slash attack in anger, but he deftly deflects the attack with his scythe each time. Although there was no decisive blow, I was pushing the battle.
I can win. Everything is different from the time I was killed. Now is the time to avenge Shigeru-san and Kanzaki. I’ll clear the grudge of being killed in the previous life here.
The angrier I am, the higher the sword speed and sword pressure. Unable to handle the attack, the Shinigami had cuts on his body.
“What’s wrong!? Looks like you can’t even make a move!”
“You’ll have to push me further before you say that, human.”
He then disappears before my eyes. Immediately afterwards, the danger prediction skill sounded the alarm, and the danger detection skill alerted an attack coming from behind me. I parried it with my sword, but the impact that I could not escape knocked me to the ground.
“Stealth skill huh. You’ve done it.”
I stood up and brushed the dust off my clothes. The shinigami also descended softly and landed his feet on the top of the tree.
“Your sturdy. Is it because you’re resistant to impact…… Or, was it nullified?”
“If you want to know, answer my question. Who are you?”
“Don’t tell me what to do. I don’t care about that either. More than that, fight harder!”
The shinigami, got close to me in an instant and he immediately wields his large scythe. I avoided it by taking a back step. I also quickly released a dragon slash flash across his side.
“Gugegege! You can’t hit me!”
A yellow-green light emitted from the blade of my sword, mowing down the trees in the straight line in an instant. However, he ducked down and dodged the attack. He smiles and puts his left hand forward.
“Cross Explosion!”
Green flames emanating from two directions intersect towards me. At that moment, the ultra-high heat and shock wave blew away an area about a kilometer square and scorched the ground. As expected from an unidentified demon.
“You’re using magic that I’ve never seen before.”
“I don’t think you can do it at this level.”
Shaking off one of my hands, the flames surrounding me disappeared. In front of the black robe, no magic can hurt me. When the Shinigami realized that I was unharmed, his attitude changed abruptly.
“That robe…… Change of plan. I’m going to kill you now.”
“That’s if you can do it. If you think I was serious before, you’re greatly mistaken.”
Right after saying that, I activated Dragon Transformation and Superhuman Transformation. The powerful energy surged within me, forming a purple aura that enveloped my entire body. I can say this with confidence, there is no one who can beat Shinichi Tanaka in this state.
“Let me start by cutting off your limbs and immobilize you!”
I kicked the ground and jumped forward. In less than a second, I swung the bull king sword at the enemy in front of me. First, I will get rid of that right arm. However, the shinigami easily blocked the powerful sword attack with his scythe.
“Gugegege!!! Are you serious? Don’t make me laugh!”
“Uh!? My attack…..?!”
A light flashed through my field of vision. The next second, I felt an intense pain. The impact sent my body far backwards. I shattered dozens of trees before finally slamming into a large tree that stopped me from moving. The intense pain that I hadn’t felt for a long time brought my consciousness back to reality.
What happened? Why do I feel pain? Isn’t it possible to nullify the impact?
A number of questions run through my head. Then blood leaked out of my mouth. It looks like some of my ribs were damaged and I had a rupture on my internal organs.
“Tsk, you’re a human after all. You really believed that nullification skill was invincible.”
He swooped down in front of me. I stood up with the help of my sword as a cane.
“What do you mean……?”
“Gugege. From the way you look, you don’t know about it. I’m referring to the skill that cancels nullification.”
“W-what……?”
I was so surprised that I was at loss for words. I didn’t think there was such a skill that can cancel it. If that’s the case, then both slash and impact nullification are useless skills in front of this guy. I need to fundamentally rethink of a way to fight.
“Still, that’s far from the reason why you could overwhelm the strengthened me to this extent. You… you’re not just a demon, are you?”
“That can’t be true. I’m a demon that can be found anywhere in this world. It’s just that I’m ridiculously strong. Gugegegege.”
I want to say don’t bullshit me.
Even the vampire, who was relatively high ranked among the demons, did not have a chance to fight in front of me. No matter how I look at it, his strength is extraordinary. It has reached a level that he can no longer be called a mere demon.
A moment later, the self-regeneration skill completes my physical repair. I raised my sword to indicate the continuation of the battle.
“You have self-regeneration huh. Seems like it’s going to take a lot of time to kill you.”
“That’s something you can only say after you’ve cornered me. Demon.”
“What are you—!?”
Countless spider silks stretched out from the ground, restraining and binding him. I immediately activated the Eye of Stone (Improved) and releases a petrifying beam from the eye on my forehead.
“Not go—!? Aaaaaaaaaa!!!”
“You let your guard down. While we were talking, I was burrowing the threads into the ground. As for the petrification, it was a gamble, but it seems to have worked.”
The body of the shinigami is petrified. Finally, the scythe slipped from his hand and it fell to the ground.
“I wanted to capture you and ask you a question, but I couldn’t do that huh. Anyways, I think I can still get some information with my analysis skill.”
The information of the shinigami displayed in front of me shocked me even more.
| 【Analysis Result: Zazi: Ordered by the main god, Gohma, to eliminate the Six Key Sacred Beasts. Rarity: SL, Overall Ability: SL】 |
| 【Status】 Name: Zazi Race: Second-class Angel Magic Attributes: Fire, Light, Holy Magic: – Skills: Analysis (Intermediate), Scythe (Intermediate), Disguise (Intermediate), Stealth+ (Beginner), Danger Detection (Intermediate), Enemy Search+ (Intermediate), Limit Breakthrough (Intermediate), Awakening (Intermediate), Nullification Cancellation, Ultra-Speed Flight (Intermediate), Universal Adaptation, Intimidation (Intermediate), Leadership (Intermediate), Great Slash (Intermediate) Evolution: Conditions are not met < Evolution Condition: Analysis (Beginner), Limit Breakthrough the Limits (Special), Awakening (Special), Virtuous Spirit> |
……Second-class angel? He’s not a demon?
I checked the race column many times, but there is no change in the character display. It clearly says Angel.
What the hell was I fighting? Can someone tell me?
“You can see it huh. My status.”
Speaking those words, the body of the guy who should have been petrified, cracks. Fragments spilled out, and a dazzling light leaked through the gaps. The explosive wind that came from inside blew away the stones that covered him. Gusts of wind send dust flying and it even shake the entire forest.
Something manifested in this world. I knew this instinctively.
He calmly picked up his scythe. Then, the thin metal covering the surface of the weapon peeled off, revealing a distinctive holographic pattern from underneath.
“I didn’t expect to expose myself so soon. I have to change my plans drastically then.”
“I-impossible…… you …… you’re really an angel!”
A white short-haired Caucasian male with a pair of pure white wings and a fearless face. His body is dressed in white and he is equipped with a silver armor that seems to be a work of art. He is truly an angel. The appearance as imagined is divinely beautiful in itself. There is a sacred aura around him as well. Even if I don’t like it, his image tells me that there is an imposing and noble superior here.
“By order of the Lord God, I will exterminate the sacred beasts, but before I do so, I must punish you.”
“Punish? What sin am I guilty of?”
“The sin of attacking me, a servant of God. And your greatest sin is possessing a sacred artifact. In accordance with the laws established by the Divine Clan, I will return you to the stream of samsara.”
I don’t understand it at all. The guy I thought was a demon was actually an angel and his purpose was to kill the sacred beasts. What’s more, he is saying that I have committed a sin and that he will return me to the flow of samsara.
There is so much information that I don’t really understand that my head hurts.
“Die obediently!”
“Uh! I refuse!”
The scythe swung in an instant, and I reflexively rolled on the ground to dodge it. The large tree behind me was cut and it fell with a thud. His appearance has changed but his abilities don’t seem to have changed much.
Then I can fight.
The only thing that bothers me is his weapon. Perhaps that scythe is made of adamantite. On the other hand, what I got is the Bull King’s sword. Considering the intensity, this is a tough situation.
“Explosive Sword Dance!”
“Great Slash!”
Our skills clashed with each other. The resulting roar and shockwave shook the forest.
“Why is an angel attacking sacred beasts and humans? Does it have something to do with your appearance in Tokyo?”
“I don’t know what you are trying to say.”
“Why do you want to hide the fact that you are an angel by pretending to be a demon? What exactly are the sacred beasts? Why did I reincarnate in this world?”
“……A monkey that talks a lot huh. As expected, human beings are unnecessary.”
Between the crossed scythe and sword, I continue to question Zazi. But he doesn’t want to answer anything. He only looks at me expressionlessly, with disgust and contempt.
In order to break out of this frustrating situation, I must first defeat Zazi. I activated growth promotion and plant manipulation while we are fighting. I interfered with the surrounding vegetation. The roots of the trees begin to grow rapidly, wriggling and entwining Zazi’s arms and legs. Plant manipulation skills are originally designed to be remotely controlled in this way. Breeding is not actually its main ability.
“Huh? What is this!? Damn it!”
“It looks like you thought you had figured out what I’m capable of. Naive.”
One after another, the plants became denser and they enveloped the angel’s body. This will give me some time. I activated the Full Division skill to create another version of myself. The main body, me, hides using stealth and my clone flies into the sky.
Immediately afterwards, the plants were torn apart and he appeared.
“Did you really think you could kill me like this, you filthy human!? I’ll make you suffer to death and then plunge you into the vortex of samsara!”
Oblivious to me in stealth state lurking in front of him, he flew off, pursuing my clone. In the sky, the battle resumes again, and my clone with the Bull King’s sword slashes to the ground. In the meantime, I prepare for the biggest attack. The scorching heat moves from my abdomen to the chest and I repeatedly compress it in place. What I am about to release is the wide-area, high-power skill, Emperor Dragon’s Breath. With this, which can be called a strategic skill, he shouldn’t be able to escape unscathed.
“Eye of Stone!”
My clone casts a paralyzing eye at him. Unlike the petrification beam, it is an invisible attack. For a moment, he stops. Instantly, my clone released a purple electric light with the magic jewel.
“Gugaaaaa!?”
He screams at the scorching lightning strike. It’s a great opportunity. Now is the moment to shoot the biggest attack.
“A human is trying to kill me!? Who are you kidddding!!!”
Zazi released a glowing aura and blew away the lightning strike. The paralysis is also lifted and the target moved away from where I was aiming.
Damn! I’m almost at the limit of how much I can hold my breath. Somehow, we need to stop him from moving. That’s what I conveyed to my clone.
“Ugh!?”
The next moment, Zazi bent his body into a crook and spat out gastric juice. It is my son, Pero, who sinks his fist into Zazi’s solar plexus.
“Freya-san!”
“I understand!”
Pero falls to the ground. Behind him, there was Freya with countless spears floating in the air. The spears that were shot at high speed hit Zazi’s body like an arrow and pierces his shoulder and sides.
“Liz!”
“I know.”
Liz, who descended from directly above, dexterously twisted her body in the air and threw a series of shurikens. As it is pierced into the body of the enemy, it exploded as it may have been fused with gunpowder.
“Rival!”
“Finally my turn! Flame Burst!!”
Liz lands in the dark cloud and leaves the area. Erna appears and unleashes her magical power. An outrageously sized huge fireball hit Zazi. The explosion of flames stirred up the wind and caused black smoke to rise.
“Silva-sama!”
“Oooh! This is my thanks for cutting off my arm!”
From directly under the enemy, the sacred beast Silva burst out of the ground. A hard, huge fist struck Zazi’s charred body and a crunching sound was heard as he was launched into the sky far above.
It’s now or never. This is the last and biggest opportunity. I exhaled all my energy into the sky. The thick flash of light blows away the clouds, and after a few seconds, it causes a storm on the ground. It’s twice as powerful as the breath that the sacred beast Doran once spat out.
“Fuu……”
I exhaled and sat down on the ground. My throat is hot and I can’t get any strength into my body. Dragon breath is a powerful skill, but it’s a double-edged sword that can drain all my vitality if I get it wrong. From now on, it is better not to use it unless it is super necessary.
Suddenly, I noticed a black mass falling from the sky. It fell to ground with a thud. The wings, which were once beautiful, were in a miserable state to look at. Pink flesh was exposed from under the charred skin. And half of his body had disappeared cleanly. For the time being, I need to check whether he is alive or dead.
The heartbeat had ceased, and the white, cloudy eyes had dilated pupils. He’s dead. In Zazi’s terms, he returned to the flow of samsara.
“I took my revenge…… but the mystery has deepened.”
I lay down on the ground. In the end, I couldn’t hear what I wanted to hear. On the contrary, I was focused on winning.
There is no one who can beat the current Shinichi Tanaka. It was just plain arrogance and ignorance. There is still someone far above me. I have to pull myself together.
I just looked up at the sky, unable to soak in the afterglow of our victory.
This is translated by Yume Neiji. Kindly read at yumeineijiworks.wordpress.com.
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