Otome Game no Heroine de Saikyou Survival [WN] - Chapter 136.2

The steel blade thread was released from Grave again.

Grave, as you said, I was trying to compete with you. I have become a dog who risked my life for the royal family. But that was not true. I released the poison to ensure your death. And to drive myself into a corner.

“–[Iron Rose]–“

My peach-colored hair turned a scorching gray-iron color, and the residue of light that scattered from my entire body fluttered like silver wings, as if to show my fighting spirit.

I leapt and dodged at three times the speed of a normal person, but I still couldn’t avoid the invisible steel threads that sliced through my shoulder.

“I’ve already seen that trick!”

At that moment, I felt as if the magic power being released from Grave’s prosthetic hand had spread. Perhaps the steel blade threads that had been released in a straight line were divided into several parts and released from all sides as if encircling the hand.

But Grave…that was different as well.

Combat Skill [Iron Rose] was not such a simple technique. The fact that I could not avoid the steel-blade thread, and the fact that you thought you could kill me with it, were all because I could not master Iron Rose.

When I fought the master of the Assassin’s Guild in the East Forest, I reproduced the movement of Iron Rose’s magic power myself for a moment, seeking to be as swift as when I was using [Iron Rose].

As a result, I suffered severe damage to my legs, but I thought that I could use that action to control my Combat Skill.

[Aria (Alicia)][Race: Human Female][Rank 4]

[Magic: 163/300][Strength: 144/250]

[Strength: 10 (22)][Endurance: 10 (22)][Agility: 17 (36)][Dexterity: 9 (10)]

[Total Combat Power: 1339 (Special With Physical Enhancements: 2520)]

[Combat Skill: Iron Rose /Limit 163 Second].

I put all my strength into my legs to avoid it, relying on the killing power of the approaching blade, but I still got shallow cuts on my arms and sides.

I needed to be serious. Push myself to the limit. If I lose, I will die. Then who will save Elena? It was not enough. I had to be faster. Eyes on the prize. Concentrate. The power to fight was already inside me.

A small amount of magic contained in the steel blade threads. The killing intent to kill me. And the magic power of my blood, which was stuck to it after cutting me so many times, was approaching from all directions, showing me for a moment more than a dozen steel blades.

I ripped off the muffler that was in the way covering my mouth, inhaled deeply with every poison around me to give it my full strength, and shouted the words in the spirit language.

“!”

[Aria (Alicia)][Race: Human Female][Rank 4]

[Magic: 159/320][Strength: 113/250]

[Strength: 10 (14)]8down[Endurance: 10 (14)]8down

[Agility: 17 (52)]16Up[Dexterity: 9 (10)

[Total Combat Power: 1428 (Special With Physical Enhancements: 2520)]

[Combat Skill: Iron Rose /Limit 79 Second].

At that moment, just like at the time of the battle in the forest, everything in my field of vision turned gray, and I saw a momentary trajectory of a blade through the slowly flowing landscape like viscous liquid, and I avoided it and approached Grave, and as I passed him, I slashed his throat with my black knife as he slowly widened his eyes.

As I realized that my whole body was screaming in the splattering blood, I deactivated [Iron Rose] and slid down to land, my eyes met Grave’s eyes, which were looking back at me with an astonished face, dark red eyes.

“…Ggh,”

Blood flooded Grave’s mouth instead of words as he tried to speak.

“Kofu…”

I, who had inhaled the poison, also spit out blood, and without wiping it off, I held up a black knife.

There was no difference between your ‘way of life’ and mine. But in your last moments, you clung to life, feeling death instead of living, while I lived and clawed to overcome death.

“”…””

We stared at each other, motionless, as Grave’s right arm brought the point of his sword to the ground without power, and the prosthetic hand on his left arm remained motionless, as if it had lost its function.

Still, I held up my knife as if on guard, and met Grave’s eyes with a cold gaze that glowed with a ghastly light.

“I will watch over you until you die.”

“…”

I won’t let my guard down for a second. My words brought either anger or despair to Grave’s mind. The blood from his neck drained the life out of Grave, just like the first time I killed the bandit chief, and I kept my knife ready as I stared at him until his life was all gone.

“Grave, I still find it hard to understand you, after all.”

[Aria (Alicia)][Race: Human Female][Rank 4]

[Magic: 121/320]20Up [Strength: 75/250].

[Strength: 10 (14)][Endurance: 10 (14)][Agility: 17 (24)][Dexterity: 9]

[Dagger Art Lv.4][Taijutsu Lv.4][Throwing Lv.4]

[Archery Lv.2][Defense Lv.4][Manipulation Lv.4]

[Light Magic Lv.3][Dark Magic Lv.4][Non-Attribute Magic Lv.4]

[Life Magic x 6][Magic Control Lv.5]1Up[Intimidate Lv.4]

[Concealment Lv.4][Night Vision Lv.2][Detection Lv.4]

[Poison Resistance Lv.3][Abnormal Status Resistance Lv.1]

[Simple Appraisal][Total Combat Power: 1428

[Total Combat Power: 1428 (With Physical Enhancements: 1774)]89Up