Otome Game no Heroine de Saikyou Survival [WN] - Chapter 32.2

In an attempt to stop her, I threw a string “blade” at her, but the Female Thief did not even dodge, and the blade bounced off her cheek.

I didn’t know what kind of magic it was, but I started to move so that I wouldn’t be targeted, and at the same time, the Female Thief’s magic was completed.

“–[Stone Bullet]–“

“Tsk!!!”

Several pebbles were released from the ground and aimed at me.

I jumped to avoid them with my arms crossed to protect my head, but several pebbles still hit my body and rolled me to the ground.

“Kuh…”

“You’re a child, but you’re so tolerant… hmmm…”

Body wounds and physical strength values were two different things. Even if one’s physical strength was depleted, one would only faint and not be able to move, but would also not die immediately. On the other hand, even if one’s physical strength was full, a stab to the heart would still kill a person.

[Stone Bullet] was a blunt attack, so as long as I could defend my vital points, I wouldn’t be seriously damaged. Even so, it was difficult to avoid such a large number of stones or pebbles, and with such consecutive attacks, the next one might probably be fatal.

It was no longer a matter of buying time. None of my attacks would work, and my opponent could easily kill me with daggers or magic.

“Have you run out of wacky stuff already? You fought well for a child, but you are a nuisance, and I will kill you for sure.”

“…”

I had one more trump card. But it did not yet meet the conditions to be used.

Even for ordinary attacks, the Female Thief used magic armor.

My knowledge did not have much on the magic armor, but still, from what I could gather, it either disappeared after a certain amount of accumulated damage, or reduced the damage to a single attack for a certain amount of time.

Which was it for this earth armor? Probably the former, since it was earth-based. The fact that she said that it was a secret technique, I guessed she was not sure if she could use it again with level 3 magic.

So, I hoped that the magic could not be used again, and continued to chip away at the magic armor while enduring the pain all over my body.

“Haha, futile futility, ah!”

Both the knife and the blade of the thread that the Female Thief said was a pendulum were played by her skin. Perhaps because I was only aiming at places where I could see her skin, the Female Thief intentionally took the blade with her face and laughed at me.

The Female Thief lunged straight at me, unguarded. Since my weapons didn’t work, I would try to surpass it with Taijutsu, but my damaged body couldn’t move as it should, and the Female Thief’s dagger slashed my shoulder.

“Ahh… Aaaaaaah!”

An intense pain hit me from that shallow wound. When I involuntarily screamed out from the pain, the Female Thief’s face distorted into ecstasy.

“Oh…she finally chirped. But don’t worry. It’s not a poison that will kill you right away, but… this poison is very painful, isn’t it?”

“…Ugh…”

The wound itself was not deep, but a moan escaped because of the intense pain.

Her muscles twitched from the intense pain, and she couldn’t even breathe properly. If I were just a child, I would either cry out or would have already fainted, but I couldn’t faint here.

…A little more…

The Female Thief looked down at me, laughing, and kicked me away, who was unable to move properly.

Rolling on the ground, biting my lip as I glared at the woman, trying my best to not let out a scream, the Female Thief shuddered for some reason and suddenly stomped me as I fell on my back, her face filled with an immense ecstasy.

“Oh my goodness… Maid-chan… I want to torment you… I would like to make you cry more. I have to kill you, but I don’t have time…”

“…”

“Oh, your face is so beautiful! Let me hear more of your voice!”

The Female Thief shouted as she raised her arms and thrusted her poisoned dagger deep into my abdomen.

“Aaaaahhhh!!!”

“Yes, cry and cry some more! Show me more of your distorted face in pain! Don’t you feel pain? Isn’t it painful? Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!”

It hurt… It hurt… It hurt… but I couldn’t lose my mind here. I was finally… ready.

So, I was going to give it back to her.

“…[Shadow Pain].”

As my Dark Magic was activated, the Female Thief looked at me for a moment, and the next moment, her face contorted into an ugly expression as an extreme screech escaped her mouth, like a pig at a slaughterhouse.

“Hiiiiii!!! Aaaaahhhh!!! Aaaaaaahhh!!!”

Perhaps because she was a magician-type Thief who did little physical combat, that’s why she did not seem to have much tolerance for pain.

The Female Thief, who had been dominating the situation, was now rolling on the ground and screaming like a madwoman.

Illusion-type magic could only reproduce what it knew.

For example, [Shadow Noise] created a sound that I knew, and [Feel] reproduced the feeling of my skin.

[Shadow Pain], which I used, was a dark magic that created the illusion of pain by shooting the “pain” I knew into the opponent’s body with magical power. 

However, to use it, I needed to know the standard “pain” at the very limit of which I would not die.

It inflicted pain but did no physical damage. The composition was not much different from [Feel], but it consumed over 20 Magic Power to reproduce the pain, so it could not be used in rapid succession.

Still, I was hoping for an effect that would stop the opponent’s movement for a few seconds.

But the intense pain, which was not her own pain, and she didn’t even know where it hurt, confused the Female Thief’s mind and had the effect of causing her nerves, tricked by the pain, to start convulsing.

“…,”

I stood up with all the strength I could muster in my shaking legs, enduring the same pain.

Not that my spirit was strong. Even though I was feeling the same pain, the glimmer of hope that I finally saw lifted my spirit and gave me enough strength to endure the pain.

“Hiii, gaaaah, no, stop…don’t come…move already…gah.”

The woman, perhaps recovering from her confusion little by little, tried to crawl away from me as she let out a broken scream.

But her spasming body was slower than mine, as if it had no strength, backing down as if it was being stabbed in the stomach and dragging itself along.

I would settle the matter before the Female Thief’s nerves became accustomed to the “illusion” of pain.

But the Female Thief’s body was still covered in magical armor, and blades and blows could not do any damage, but…

“Hii!”

I wrapped the thread around the Female Thief’s neck as she tried to back away. I wound the thread around her neck again and again as if to fix it in place, and when I put my knee against her neck and pulled the thread with all my might, blood gushed out from the wound in its stomach where it had been stabbed.

“Hi…no, stop…help.”

“No. You shall die.”

I also exerted the last of my strength and pulled the strings with my body reinforcement and the use of my knees as a lever.

“Aaaggaaggaa!”

“–!”

Even a soft-bodied person had limits. As I put all my strength into the thread, the Female Thief tried to endure with the force of her neck while convulsing.

I used my level 2 magic control to pull the strings with my all-out physical strength, and the neck of the opposing Female Thief began to twist, and little by little–

*Pachin….

With a sound like a dead branch wrapped in a wet rag being snapped, her head was twisted.

“”…””

The face of the Female Thief, twitching with fear, stared at me, unable to process what happened. The light of life that had been shining in her eyes quietly sank into the darkness, leaving the expressionless me, reflected in her eyes.