Otome Game no Heroine de Saikyou Survival [WN] - Chapter 136.1

Seriously Aiming for a Kill

“Serious…? Then, I shall show you what it’s like for me to aim for the kill.”

Grave heard my words, and the edge of his mouth slightly raised. Was he amused by the fact that he could really fight me, or was he confident in himself? 

I deactivated [Iron Rose], pulled out two ceramic bottles from the pouch on my waist, and tossed one of them at Grave’s feet.

“Nuh?”

As soon as I threw it, Grave stepped back, and the ceramic bottle fell to the floor, breaking and spreading a thick liquid on the floor.

“…What the heck are you doing, Aria?”

“…”

Grave showed me a quizzical look as I stopped even reinforcing myself and splashed the light green liquid, which was neither water nor oil and did not even have a scent.

Without answering his question, I threw another ceramic bottle on top of the liquid, and the liquid that spilled from the second broken bottle combined with the first and began to give off a strange odor.

“This is…!”

Grave, who understood instantly that it was a ‘poison’, moved further away while holding his mouth.

“Aria, you are…”

“Grave…. I will be serious about ‘killing’ you, as you have asked.”

What I used was a ‘corrosive poison’ that I applied to my arrows when I was sniping the orc-soldier. It is a two-part solvent that, when mixed, turned into a deadly poison that killed even a Rank 4 Orc Soldier instantly with just a small amount applied to the tip of the arrow.

The reason it was a two-part solvent was that it began to vaporize the moment it was mixed, and its gaseous form also became a poison that affected the human body. The odor was so bad that if it were to be used indoors, it would be noticed and targets would run away, but in this situation, it was no problem.

Even when mixing just a few drops of this poison, I had to cover my mouth with a cloth and take great care to minimize the effects. But if all the remaining solvents were mixed to form a poison–

“Even the size of this room would be filled with vaporized poison in a matter of minutes. Even I, who know the ingredients of the poison, have a tolerance to it, and have covered my mouth with a scarf soaked in the antivenom solvent, would die in a quarter of an hour. How long can you withstand it? You can’t be that careless enough thinking that the poison won’t work, right?”

“…”

Grave stared at me with a sharp gaze, silently trying to determine my true intentions. I pointed behind my back over my shoulder towards a certain place.

“The exit is there. If you want to survive, defeat me. If you take too long, even if you kill me, your lungs will rot.”

Grave, with a hand towel rolled up over his mouth, quietly held up his one-handed sword as the corrosive poison rotted the stone floor in the dark room, the only sound being the sound of the poison evaporating.

“You are crazy… Your spirit, not your strength or skill, is your ‘true potential’?”

“Don’t put me together with you.”

I just picked the most efficient means of killing you.

*Clank!!!! 

We kick the floor at the same time, my black dagger and Grave’s sword igniting sparks as we clashed after closing the distance instantly, while looking like we were trying to dodge poisonous smoke.

The difference in skill level and physique pushed me over the edge. I throw my knife like a trickster without losing my stance, and Grave stopped for a moment as he tried to catch up with me.

Thirty minutes before death. If I let him go, he will use [Treatment] on himself and chase after me. I have to kill him.

“Tsk.”

Grave also decided that time would be wasted in a clash of blades, so he scowled and moved away from me and deployed his armored left prosthetic arm toward me.

“I guess I overestimated you, Aria, that no matter how powerful you are, you would turn out to be a royal dog who wants to go head-to-head with me. I guess you never got to where I am after all.”

An invisible blade, a steel blade thread, was released from the gimmick of his prosthetic hand.

“–[Magic Shield]–“

I used [Magic Shield] while dodging to the side. This shield, crystallized from particles of light, has a slight physical defense, but it was limited to substances that are imbued with strong magic power, such as the human body and weapons used by higher-ranked individuals.

*Crack! 

“Kuh!”

I heard an auditory hallucination of Magic Shield cracking, as the threads of steel that reacted with Magic Shield’s magic and broke through it damaged my arms and legs. But I also learned something by using Magic Shield, even though I went to the trouble of deactivating Iron Rose, which consumes more magic power.

Even the steel threads were not as flexible as my spider threads, and the range he could manipulate them with his manipulative threads was limited. To release it at high speed without a weight like my pendulum, the Steel Blade Thread would have to be shot out by flexing it like a spring. And, having received it with the Magic Shield, I also understood the amount of magic power that the steel-bladed threads contained.

The smell of putrid poison became thicker, and I began to feel a slight pain in my eyes and throat. The more physical exertion and the more air inhaled into the lungs, the more it would shorten our lives.

Grave felt it too, holding his mouth with his sleeve to make his breathing ragged, and pointing his left arm toward me.

“This is the end, Aria!”