Chapter 38: Black Violet (2)

Spirit Absorption? Paralysis? These are really dangerous words…

This time is a dangerous magician .

Right now we are suckers coming along just begging to be parted from their money? (TL: 鴨がねぎを背負って来る)

That explains why this person lives in such a remote place . We should run away quickly .

Ah, Yui…I hurry to the nearby room .

“What’s wrong? Why do you look like that?”

“Damn it . We already ate the meal; the man here seems to be a dangerous magician . I overheard them talking about “souls” and “sacrifice” and giving us paralyzing medicine . We need to escape fast, can you more?”

“Ah, my…ah, my arm is numb…”

The paralysis is already setting in .

“Rollo, go outside and be prepared to fight at any moment . ”

“Nya . ”

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Rollo responds and then vigorously runs outside .

“Gu, so, sorry . Numbness…”

I should have been more careful .

“Mou, the medicine is already taking affect . ”

“…You, are you okay? I can move my mouth…but my arms are shaking, and there’s no strength in my legs…although this feels kind of funny…it must be a special narcotic…”

“I’m fine . I just move the food…I didn’t eat it . ”

“There’s no helping it now . ”

“Understood . Let’s leave here first . I’ll carry you . ”

I carry Yui .

“Kya!”

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“What is it lover? I’ll help . Don’t worry . ”

Yui nods and falls quiet .

“Oya…are you going somewhere?”

Crap, we were caught . I must deceive him .

“Ah, Yui wants to go outside for a little while, feel the wind, look at the stars…”

“Is that so, ha, I guess our lies are mutually transparent . I can’t let you leave like this . Theta . Block the exit . ”

“Yes . Master . ”

She came too . Theta is blocking the warehouse’s exit .

“Rollo!”

At my signal, Rollo springs on Theta .

“-W, what?”

The bald old man cries out behind me, but I’ll ignore him for now .

I hold onto Yui and rush outside . I run to where the popobumu is .

I put Yui of the popobumu’s saddle a bit roughly .

“Run ahead like this . ”

Then I should slap the popobumu’s rear .

“Wait . ”

Yui calls out .

Is she worried? But I must hurry .

“It’s all right . Believe in me . I will not let them kill you . I’m also worried about the forest, but that couple comes first . Hurry up and escape on the popobumu . I will call you back right away once I kill the couple . ”

“Wait, you absolutely can’t die . If you do I will kill you-”

I ignore Yui and slap the popobumu’s rear .

With her on top of the saddle the popobumu takes off and disappears into the darkness .

It shouldn’t go too far .

…It will return when I call for it .

Now, I will return .

I return to the shed where Rollo is fighting .

When I run up the short hill to the front of the hut Rollo and Theta are in the middle of an intense fight .

The jacket around Theta’s shoulder is torn and black blood is pouring from her right shoulder . But, her quick movements show that she isn’t bothered by the injury .

Seeing the figure receiving, I am rooted to the spot .

Theta’s arm transformed to a point like a sword . When the word arm collides intensely with Rollo’s feeler swords they make a hard sound as they are repelled and the collide again . They have each other in check . The purple flower ornament in Theta’s hair is shaking as she moves around .

Rollo shows a glimpse of the divine beast .

Powerful, throbbing limbs . Four claws scratch the ground and a cloud of dust rises .

Sharpened claws swing at Theta’s feet . Theta receives a big cut above her knee, but doesn’t seem to feel any pain . She quickly counter attacks with her sword arms and tarts running after Rollo . Rollo calms down and dexterously avoids Theta’s attack .

Theta runs after Rollo who runs away .

The fight shifts from the entrance of the hut into a large garden .

I can see the fight from the little light leaking out of the shed, since it is night outside, when the fight shifts to a dark place, I can no longer see the fighting figures of Theta and Rollo, I can only hear the sound of a bone sword colliding with a sword .

I activate <Night Vision> and ensure my vision .

The fight between Rollo and Theta seems to be equal .

There,

“What on earth are you?”

The bald man approaches shouting with a torch in his hand .

“No, what, you mean…”

“You ate a lot of the food with the special medicine in it . Yet you can still more easily…Are you not human?”

“Whaaaat?” (TL: Whaaaat? Pft, watch chu talkin’ ’bout man . )

Ma, he is right .

“Besides, that black beast injured my wife, Theta . ”

What? This old skin head in a robe…

His expression gradually changes .

Did too much blood rise to his head? And then did I anger him?

“Theta, that? Your wife…isn’t she just a doll?” (TL: That wasn’t a smart thing to say, Shuya . )

When the skin head man hears my provocation his face distorts and a blood vessel on his face pops out . It attracts attention to the unchanging mark on his forehead…he leans his head forward, and bares his teeth with a growing light of insanity .

“Aaaaah? What did you say!? My wife Theta, isn’t a doll!!”

He speaks in a rough voice while spitting saliva .

“Is that so . Then that means, Theta isn’t human . ”

“Joke later-”

The bald skin head man mutters angrily and throws his torch into the nearby garden .

A small light source is created in the darkness .

The light of the torch casts the bald man in creepy shadows .

The right hand of the bald man is held out, and touches a fingertip to a ring on his left hand . At that moment, the ring reacts .

The helmeted black skull ring shines, flickering between black and red as two strings appear from its eye sockets . The threads extend into the ground, and the ground it touches suddenly begins to melt? Before long the ground begins to make a sound like boiling lava and the air begins to fill with a black and red smoke .

What appears from the smoking ground is two skeletons, one of red bones and the other of black bones .

He summoned these guys, skeleton knights .

The skeletons are only made of bones, but their formed ribs are large and their forms look like a soldier or knight . They have a long sword that shines with a black luster in one hand and a shield in the other .

The two skeleton knights seem conscious .

Though their bones creak, they move to protect the skin head who summoned them .

-I look with magic observing eye .

They seem to have come from the ring .

The ring contains mana . The thread coming from the ring seems to be mana .

They are connected to the skeletons . There also seem to be rings that hold mana on his other fingers, shining faintly .

The bald man is wearing a lot of magic tool rings .

As I am looking a strong voice comes from behind the bone knights .

“…Bone knights, protect me and attack when you see a chance! I don’t care if his soul isn’t captured!”

As the bald skin head man issues out his order with a burning heart he appears before one of the bone knights, letting his robe billow .

He turns a hand to me and points . N, he’s storing mana in his hand? From a ring shaped like a beast a fireball is suddenly created .

-Swiftly .

I quickly drop down and the fire ball flies over my head . The fire ball hits the ground where I was and explodes . The darkness suddenly becomes bright .

That moment- A blade of mana comes from a different ring? But it flies . I hurry and swing down the black spear at the mana blade . The mana blade is broken by the black spear, divided-the wind blade goes to the left and right . A trace of a sword cut marks to ground to the left and right and a cloud of dust is kicked up .

Yes . I was able to cut the mana blade .

“What!? To move so fast, to see the wind blade in this dark night…you, after all you aren’t an ordinary person . Perhaps the guild?”

So it really was a wind blade .

Because it shines with magic observing eye I can still see it at night .

Besides, what guild?

“…No, I’m just a traveler . ”

Unlike the question that appeared in my heart, I answer normally .

“Fu, maa-”

Ue, another fire ball .

Like that, I continue avoiding flying fireballs and wind blades .

He shoots the magic continuously so I have to be careful .

They are endless . I move and knock down wind blades .

Since it has come to this should I use <Cerebral Demon Speed>? The bald man saw that I stopped moving, and thinking it is a chance, the corners of his mouth lift in a smile .

He holds up a different ring .

Then with a *pika* and a blinding light and intense pain runs through my body like my heart is freezing .

Ita- There’s a rumbling sound in my ears and the smell of burnt meat flesh reaches my nose .

I am also surrounded by smoke . There is a black scar spread from my stomach to my chest .

It buuurns, that guy, he used lightning this time . Too fast, all the rings on his hand seems to be magic rings .

Not needing an aria is too inconvenient .

Indeed, I can smell my flesh burning…

Making a crackling sound, some of the leather clothing has been burned to cinders, and part of my body seared black is visible .

But, despite how it looks, the condition of the burn was healed in an instant .

Only the black tiger leather jacket I received from Shisho is intact .

“I did it, I did it, I did it . Pitch black . ”

The bald man is hopping from foot to foot turning about in a dance . (TL: Okay, now he just seems sad and pathetic . )

His face is pale, and because his lips are discolored abnormally red, with the corners of his mouth pulled back he looks just like a clown .

This man is a crazy bald clown .

Without delay- I yell out .

In response the robe wearing man’s expression collapses and he lets out an ugly “Uiiiii!”

I will kill him with one blow .

I eagerly thrust out my black spear .

-A metallic sound .

My stab is blocked by a shield . The shield the black bone knight is using .

“-Ooh, quickly, bone knight!”

The bald man cries out as his expression shifts .

As he recovers he puts on a weird smile while he spits out saliva .

I smile back .

Decent reflexes- I move to the next action while thinking such praise . First, I activate <Magic Thought Guidance Hand> .

I make a fist with “distorted mana hand” and hit the red bone knight .

With the red bone knight unable to hold up its sword after the sudden blow from the mana fist it retreats .

I activate <chain> on my left hand at the same time- the chain first goes for the black bone knight that prevented my stab with its excellent reflexes .

The black bone knight cannot keep up with the chain’s speed .

The chain drills through the black bone knight’s jaw faster than a bullet, shattering it .

Like that, I change the trajectory to smash through the head of the black bone knight and then destroy the neck and spine one after the other .

On the other hand, the red bone knight struck by the big mana fist from <Magic Thought Guidance Hand> has an indent in its chest, touching one knee it is downed .

Big mana fist . It is strong .

The red bone knight with the caved in chest somehow rises, and approaches while holding its shield .

I send the Kukri sword to such a red bone knight .

But, since the red bone knight was injured so much already, I turn it into training and hold the kukri sword with <Magic Thought Guidance Hand> .

I swing I move the kukri sword over to the red bone knight with a shaky sword attack .

The red bone knight holds up its shield and it turns into a defensive fight .

Now then . Without overlooking the gab in its defense I point the black spear at its lower body and fire of <Thrust>!

The twisting black blade penetrates through the thick foot bone, destroying it . -Next I destroy the thigh bone . Then I destroy the back bone followed by the sternum .

The red bone knight immediately collapses . Its knees give out and it falls to the ground .

Furthermore, the chain that destroyed the black bone knight goes around and around to the red bone knight and penetrates its head . (TL: This is what I wanted to see the chain do . I feel really satisfied . )

I crush the bones into pieces .

The kukri sword, together with the chain and spear smash all of the red bone knight’s bones with synchronized attacks .

Finally, the bones pieces are crush and strewn about .

After having beaten the bone knights in only several seconds the bald man raises a frightened voice, and with a dumfounded expression his teeth chatter .

That face, I am going to punch it .

I ran at such a bald man .

Leading with my left shoulder, I hold the black spear in my right hand and deliver a shoulder tackle with a shout .

“Hiia . ”

As expected, the bald man is a magician . Raising a ring with a scream he releases a fireball to counter attack .

While advancing I use <Thrust> to break through the middle of the fire ball with the black spear .

I dispel the fireball by destroying its core with thrusting .

To the bald man, from the fireball he just released, my left shoulder appears .

-It is over with this .

Once again, taking strong steps, I <thrust> at the chest of the bald man .

That moment, “-Master,” Theta leaps in from the side to the bald man .

The sound of meat tearing echoes out, and together through Theta’s back, I go through the heart of the bald man .

The two skewered people fall down like marionettes with their string cut .

“Ma, st, er…”

“Shi, shi, Theta…gufu . ”

He is trying to talk but blood over flows from his mouth .

“…So . Zoru . D, dear…it’s enough . ”

Then, the purple flower next to Theta’s ear falls next to Zoru’s face .

“This violet?”

“Gua, th, that’s right . A purple flower…eh, w, well, remember, Theta?”

The Zoru that is spitting up blood opens his eyes wide when he sees the face of his wife, Theta .

“Oh well…fufu, maybe this is the whim of god?”

“It’s you . It’s you…Theta . Her beauty is one that doesn’t fade away like a purple flower…” (TL: I really pity these two . )

“Zoru always says that, you gave me the violet…” (TL: They should also be really dead, not having their final words . )

Are you serious?

I sneak around and look at Theta’s face .

Then, the face of Theta which had looked like a doll face had turned into the face of a really beautiful woman .

Ooh, that’s amazing .

Theta has had her chest penetrate by the black spear, yet she is smiling without showing any signs of pain, looking over her husband Zoru affectionately .

From the wound in her chest, black blood flows out unceasingly .

The black blood pours down the black spear then over Zoru’s robe and mixes with his in the mud, at last the black blood even ran down the affectionate eyes .

Theta’s black tears mix together the tears on Zoru’s cheeks, the darkening tears flow over his cheeks, along the ground, and finally dyes the fallen violet black . (TL: Oh . )

“…Theta . I wanted…gu . ”

Blood pours out of Zoru’s mouth again .

“Zoru . ”

Theta shakes her head to Zoru’s words .

To bring her body closer to her husband’s, she pushes herself along the black spear stuck in her chest, so that they may hug while each other’s blood pools .

When Zoru is hugged by Theta, and evil spirit slips out, and his insane expression changes to a gentle one .

“Zoru . Remember how we always strolled along the riverside of the Haym?”

“Ah…I remember well . ”

“Fufu, me too . …my last moments are good . ”

Theta drops her neck, and closes her eyes weakly .

As blood flows from Zoru’s mouth, he blinks gently, and looks at me .

“Theta . -There is…more…traveling . ”

Patching together those words…he dies with his eyes still open .

He died…

Rollo also seems to have noticed and turns her red eyes questioningly .

After a short moment, while trudging along feeling empty, she rubs face head against by head, back and forth .

Ah, Yui…

Taking care of Rollo under my feet, I return to the place where I separated from Yui .

Whistling, I look for the popobumu .

I whistle over and over again and search .

Then the popobumu returns while snorting “bubobubo”

“Yui! Are you all right?”

“…I’m okay . My body is numb and I can’t move…but you’re all right . ”

“N? Were you worried about me?”

“Baka…if you’re like that, should I kill you?”

Again, she says something like that .

She needs punishment, I sentence her to a bottom massage . (TL: No, stahp, my feelings aren’t ready . )

“Kya, he, hentai!”

“Hahaha, when you say something like that, aren’t you supposed to say I can never be a bride?”

Her face turns beet-red .

“Yui, your body shivers when I hold you . ”

“Aan . Baka . ”

It might be a result of the battle ending, but I repeatedly rub and massage Yui’s buttock . Pulling myself together, I ask about how she is feeling .

“Which remind me, Yui’s important swords . I left them here . I made sure to recover them . ”

“Un…”

“Well then, take a rest, I’ll take care of the bodies in the garden . ”

“Understood . ”

I take all of the valuable rings from the corpse’s fingers .

There was no ring with the water attribute, but there was a ring with the darkness attribute .

I will test this ring later .

I dig a hole in the ground, and make a simple grave for Zoru and Theta .

I put a ring on the gravestone, and place the violet dyed black with blood as an offering .

Even though I killed you…

Seeing these two at the end affect my heart some .

I go to my knees, and pray Japanese style .