He, who had not been moved enough to remember the word 「agitation」 since becoming an assassin feared by everyone and one of the organization’s top members, was disturbed by the presence of the semi-transparent girl for the first time in a long while. Even so, he continued to deliberately conceal his presence so that no one would notice him.
◇◇◇
Number Domain One’s surprise at that moment was beyond description. The girl who suddenly appeared before his eyes. She was clearly not human and emitted an unfathomable presence. Taking all this into account, he, a battle-hardened soldier, immediately sensed a huge gap between them.
As he thought about how to deal with this inhuman girl, he naturally began to wonder about her true identity.
「Could it be—」
And then something occurred to him.
「No way… is that possible…? No, but…」
The royalty of a far eastern country is said to be protected by a Divine Dragon, a dragon that has achieved divine status as its name suggests, and has escaped numerous attacks. Also, there is said to be a sacred tree called Yggdrasil in a certain elven country. He had heard that the citizens are protected by spirits born from that tree, who are considered Gods. Either way, these stories seemed dubious, but—
「Then this one is—」
Is the monstrous-looking girl before his eyes some kind of spirit or god that protects the Arcana royal family?
「Who are you!!」
With the girl’s light causing the Shadow Quantum duplicates to disappear, Knight Commander Ragna leaped out in front of Number Domain One again. He couldn’t tell friend from foe in the face of this mysterious girl.
「Sir Ragna… this person is… yes—my friend!」
Princess Puffy answered, carefully choosing each word.
「She is… Your Highness’s friend…?」
At this exchange, the semi-transparent girl showed an expression that seemed to say 「Can’t be helped,」 and tapped her chest twice with her hand to convey to Princess Puffy and the Knight Commander that 「Leave this to me.」 And that became the signal for the battle to begin.
「Shadow Prison.」
The shadow extending from Number Domain One, obeying his powerful words, stretched at a speed too fast for the eye to follow. It quickly reached the feet of the semi-transparent girl and rose up. The semi-transparent girl avoided it lightly. However, the shadow skillfully tracked the girl, moving flexibly with a 「nyoin」 sound. Then it immediately hardened, transforming into a spherical cage to restrain her.
「Compress.」
Furthermore, following Number Domain One’s words, the cage that imprisoned the semi-transparent girl reduced its volume in an instant—
「Troublesome, not even enough to slow me down, huh?」
The girl’s lightly swung fist cut through the shadow cage like a spoon rescuing pudding. Cut through it. Cut through it. As a result, the shadow cage could not maintain its form and disappeared as if dissolving into the air.
「It should have had a reasonable hardness, even if not as hard as mithril…」
His plan was that if he could defeat her, that would be good, and even if not, he could at least buy enough time to eliminate his target. Yet the girl was unharmed. Showing no disturbance. He couldn’t stop sweating in the face of the girl’s unfathomable power. He tried using Made in Dark once more, but it failed. He clicked his tongue and made up his mind.
「Armor.」
Following his utterance, shadow covered him. It eventually took the form of armor. It possessed formidable performance, obvious at a glance. But he knew that wouldn’t be enough against the girl. So—
「Darker Than Black.」
The shadow that had become his armor evolved into a deep darkness color reminiscent of a black hole that seems to absorb light.
Originally, his shadow armor—Darker Than Black—was the optimal technique for him. The shadow armor covering his body not only protects him from enemy attacks but also protects his own body from damage caused by movements beyond his limits.
He had aged considerably, and from the viewpoint of efficiency, it was simply that his current fighting style had become more effective by using assassination methods that were compatible with Made in Dark.
So when he goes all out—
「Switch.」
Simultaneously with the word, all the muscles in Number Domain One’s body writhed slightly. The phrase was meant to completely remove the limiter in the brain that restricts the body’s movements. Protecting the body with shadow armor and cutting the brain’s limiter with a special technique. That was his ultimate, strongest trump card—crude but absolute. From the beginning, hand-to-hand combat was what he excelled at most.
He lowered his stance. There was a sound of his extremely trained, high-density muscles being drawn tight from his body.
◇◇◇
The battle situation changed. But he continued to desperately conceal his presence. Only when all concerns are gone—
◇◇◇
Made in Dark, the Light-Concentrating Magical Night Vision Scope, Shadow Manipulation Techniques—all of them had been broken.
「Now that I’ve taken this form, I won’t be soft enough to just kill the target. Everyone here—I’ll kill you all.」
In the end, it’s proper to use his ultimate, greatest weapon—his trained body. For Number Domain One, this was a form in which he placed absolute trust, never having been defeated even once. He held his twin daggers at the ready and leaped at the girl with the speed of a drawn arrow, too fast for the eye to follow.
First was a thrust. It was a potentially fatal thrust, but he didn’t stop there. He wielded his two daggers freely. Thrusts mixed with slashes from high, middle, and low positions, ever-changing sword attacks—he continuously unleashed all kinds of consecutive attacks, aiming mostly at arterial weak points of the human body—then, after making it seem so, he aimed at ankles to reduce mobility, or hands to reduce attack power, skillfully varying his attacks without narrowing his target. And yet—
「Lady Destiny Lover… amazing…」
Princess Puffy let out a voice of admiration. Ragna Gladius, the Knight Commander, felt the same.
The semi-transparent girl danced around all the precise and cunning attacks of the experienced assassin, lightly tapping them away and easily deflecting them. The renowned assassin was being treated like a child.
And then the moment came. It was the instant when the assassin’s continued barrage, which had lasted for one or two minutes, began to lose momentum. Inadvertently, the assassin’s attack became a wide swing. The semi-transparent girl nimbly avoided it while simultaneously uppercutting his chin with her palm—and in the same motion, grabbed his head and slammed it to the ground. The assassin didn’t move an inch.
The semi-transparent girl folded her arms, showing an expression that seemed to say, 「I’ve defeated yet another unworthy opponent.」
Just as this ended, finally, the sound of someone running down the stairs at a tremendous pace could be heard. The semi-transparent girl smiled.
「Puffy!!」
Ichiro, who had just stepped into the secret passage where the fierce battle(?) had been unfolding, raised his voice unusually.
「Ichiro!」
He looked at Princess Puffy, the owner of the voice, and then at the assassin lying there. Next, recognizing the energetic Talisman Sena and Knight Commander Eris Papa, he let out a big sigh.
「Thank goodness… everyone is safe.」
The assassins who acted under the cover of darkness were troublesome. The secret passage he had hurried to had already been traversed by someone. Thinking of the worst-case scenario, he had been extremely worried. He let out a sigh of relief. The semi-transparent girl shuffled over next to him.
「Thank you, you really helped. I’m glad everyone’s safe.」
He spoke words of gratitude to the semi-transparent girl.
「Hmm, hmm, what? ‘Bend down’?」
He crouched down with an 「alright then,」 and the girl, stretching upward, reached out her hand and patted his head.
「Thank you. Though it’s hard to say I made it in time… What’s that? Hmm—」
He somehow understands the intentions of the talisman girl. Without minding the gazes around him, he continued the conversation(?).
「Puffy! Come over here for a bit.」
「Ah, yes…」
「What is it?」 Puffy asked as she walked over.
「She says ‘crouch down.’」
Although hesitating for a moment at Ichiro’s words, she quickly understood they were from Talisman Sena and crouched down. Then, as if to comfort her, the semi-transparent girl gently patted her head.
「Lady Destiny Lover…」
Puffy’s eyes moistened, and as if overcome with emotion, she covered her mouth with her palm.
「Earlier… thank you for protecting me.」
Talisman Sena shook her head as if to say, 「Don’t worry about it.」 And then she patted Ichiro’s back.
「What? ‘I’m leaving the rest to Ichiro’? Yeah, thanks. Leave the rest to me.」
Talisman Sena, satisfied with his words, nodded and transformed her body into particles of light.
「Lady Destiny Lover!!」
For some reason, misunderstanding the situation, Princess Puffy cried out. But he had something more important to do first.
「Condenser.」
A sword of condensed light magic appeared from two fingers of Ichiro’s right hand. When he lightly swung it, it cut through the air with a 「whoosh.」 Then, he pointed the tip of the light sword toward Puffy.
「Extend.」
As he uttered these powerful words, the light sword elongated, becoming longer than his height. He swung the now-elongated light sword on the spot.
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Chapter 288
◇◇◇
He, who had not been moved enough to remember the word 「agitation」 since becoming an assassin feared by everyone and one of the organization’s top members, was disturbed by the presence of the semi-transparent girl for the first time in a long while.
Even so, he continued to deliberately conceal his presence so that no one would notice him.
◇◇◇
Number Domain One’s surprise at that moment was beyond description.
The girl who suddenly appeared before his eyes. She was clearly not human and emitted an unfathomable presence. Taking all this into account, he, a battle-hardened soldier, immediately sensed a huge gap between them.
As he thought about how to deal with this inhuman girl, he naturally began to wonder about her true identity.
「Could it be—」
And then something occurred to him.
「No way… is that possible…? No, but…」
The royalty of a far eastern country is said to be protected by a Divine Dragon, a dragon that has achieved divine status as its name suggests, and has escaped numerous attacks.
Also, there is said to be a sacred tree called Yggdrasil in a certain elven country. He had heard that the citizens are protected by spirits born from that tree, who are considered Gods. Either way, these stories seemed dubious, but—
「Then this one is—」
Is the monstrous-looking girl before his eyes some kind of spirit or god that protects the Arcana royal family?
「Who are you!!」
With the girl’s light causing the Shadow Quantum duplicates to disappear, Knight Commander Ragna leaped out in front of Number Domain One again. He couldn’t tell friend from foe in the face of this mysterious girl.
「Sir Ragna… this person is… yes—my friend!」
Princess Puffy answered, carefully choosing each word.
「She is… Your Highness’s friend…?」
At this exchange, the semi-transparent girl showed an expression that seemed to say 「Can’t be helped,」 and tapped her chest twice with her hand to convey to Princess Puffy and the Knight Commander that 「Leave this to me.」
And that became the signal for the battle to begin.
「Shadow Prison.」
The shadow extending from Number Domain One, obeying his powerful words, stretched at a speed too fast for the eye to follow. It quickly reached the feet of the semi-transparent girl and rose up. The semi-transparent girl avoided it lightly. However, the shadow skillfully tracked the girl, moving flexibly with a 「nyoin」 sound. Then it immediately hardened, transforming into a spherical cage to restrain her.
「Compress.」
Furthermore, following Number Domain One’s words, the cage that imprisoned the semi-transparent girl reduced its volume in an instant—
「Troublesome, not even enough to slow me down, huh?」
The girl’s lightly swung fist cut through the shadow cage like a spoon rescuing pudding. Cut through it. Cut through it. As a result, the shadow cage could not maintain its form and disappeared as if dissolving into the air.
「It should have had a reasonable hardness, even if not as hard as mithril…」
His plan was that if he could defeat her, that would be good, and even if not, he could at least buy enough time to eliminate his target.
Yet the girl was unharmed. Showing no disturbance. He couldn’t stop sweating in the face of the girl’s unfathomable power. He tried using Made in Dark once more, but it failed. He clicked his tongue and made up his mind.
「Armor.」
Following his utterance, shadow covered him. It eventually took the form of armor. It possessed formidable performance, obvious at a glance. But he knew that wouldn’t be enough against the girl. So—
「Darker Than Black.」
The shadow that had become his armor evolved into a deep darkness color reminiscent of a black hole that seems to absorb light.
Originally, his shadow armor—Darker Than Black—was the optimal technique for him. The shadow armor covering his body not only protects him from enemy attacks but also protects his own body from damage caused by movements beyond his limits.
He had aged considerably, and from the viewpoint of efficiency, it was simply that his current fighting style had become more effective by using assassination methods that were compatible with Made in Dark.
So when he goes all out—
「Switch.」
Simultaneously with the word, all the muscles in Number Domain One’s body writhed slightly. The phrase was meant to completely remove the limiter in the brain that restricts the body’s movements.
Protecting the body with shadow armor and cutting the brain’s limiter with a special technique.
That was his ultimate, strongest trump card—crude but absolute. From the beginning, hand-to-hand combat was what he excelled at most.
He lowered his stance.
There was a sound of his extremely trained, high-density muscles being drawn tight from his body.
◇◇◇
The battle situation changed.
But he continued to desperately conceal his presence.
Only when all concerns are gone—
◇◇◇
Made in Dark, the Light-Concentrating Magical Night Vision Scope, Shadow Manipulation Techniques—all of them had been broken.
「Now that I’ve taken this form, I won’t be soft enough to just kill the target. Everyone here—I’ll kill you all.」
In the end, it’s proper to use his ultimate, greatest weapon—his trained body. For Number Domain One, this was a form in which he placed absolute trust, never having been defeated even once.
He held his twin daggers at the ready and leaped at the girl with the speed of a drawn arrow, too fast for the eye to follow.
First was a thrust. It was a potentially fatal thrust, but he didn’t stop there. He wielded his two daggers freely. Thrusts mixed with slashes from high, middle, and low positions, ever-changing sword attacks—he continuously unleashed all kinds of consecutive attacks, aiming mostly at arterial weak points of the human body—then, after making it seem so, he aimed at ankles to reduce mobility, or hands to reduce attack power, skillfully varying his attacks without narrowing his target.
And yet—
「Lady Destiny Lover… amazing…」
Princess Puffy let out a voice of admiration.
Ragna Gladius, the Knight Commander, felt the same.
The semi-transparent girl danced around all the precise and cunning attacks of the experienced assassin, lightly tapping them away and easily deflecting them. The renowned assassin was being treated like a child.
And then the moment came.
It was the instant when the assassin’s continued barrage, which had lasted for one or two minutes, began to lose momentum. Inadvertently, the assassin’s attack became a wide swing. The semi-transparent girl nimbly avoided it while simultaneously uppercutting his chin with her palm—and in the same motion, grabbed his head and slammed it to the ground. The assassin didn’t move an inch.
The semi-transparent girl folded her arms, showing an expression that seemed to say, 「I’ve defeated yet another unworthy opponent.」
Just as this ended, finally, the sound of someone running down the stairs at a tremendous pace could be heard. The semi-transparent girl smiled.
「Puffy!!」
Ichiro, who had just stepped into the secret passage where the fierce battle(?) had been unfolding, raised his voice unusually.
「Ichiro!」
He looked at Princess Puffy, the owner of the voice, and then at the assassin lying there. Next, recognizing the energetic Talisman Sena and Knight Commander Eris Papa, he let out a big sigh.
「Thank goodness… everyone is safe.」
The assassins who acted under the cover of darkness were troublesome. The secret passage he had hurried to had already been traversed by someone. Thinking of the worst-case scenario, he had been extremely worried. He let out a sigh of relief.
The semi-transparent girl shuffled over next to him.
「Thank you, you really helped. I’m glad everyone’s safe.」
He spoke words of gratitude to the semi-transparent girl.
「Hmm, hmm, what? ‘Bend down’?」
He crouched down with an 「alright then,」 and the girl, stretching upward, reached out her hand and patted his head.
「Thank you. Though it’s hard to say I made it in time… What’s that? Hmm—」
He somehow understands the intentions of the talisman girl. Without minding the gazes around him, he continued the conversation(?).
「Puffy! Come over here for a bit.」
「Ah, yes…」
「What is it?」 Puffy asked as she walked over.
「She says ‘crouch down.’」
Although hesitating for a moment at Ichiro’s words, she quickly understood they were from Talisman Sena and crouched down. Then, as if to comfort her, the semi-transparent girl gently patted her head.
「Lady Destiny Lover…」
Puffy’s eyes moistened, and as if overcome with emotion, she covered her mouth with her palm.
「Earlier… thank you for protecting me.」
Talisman Sena shook her head as if to say, 「Don’t worry about it.」
And then she patted Ichiro’s back.
「What? ‘I’m leaving the rest to Ichiro’? Yeah, thanks. Leave the rest to me.」
Talisman Sena, satisfied with his words, nodded and transformed her body into particles of light.
「Lady Destiny Lover!!」
For some reason, misunderstanding the situation, Princess Puffy cried out.
But he had something more important to do first.
「Condenser.」
A sword of condensed light magic appeared from two fingers of Ichiro’s right hand.
When he lightly swung it, it cut through the air with a 「whoosh.」
Then, he pointed the tip of the light sword toward Puffy.
「Extend.」
As he uttered these powerful words, the light sword elongated, becoming longer than his height. He swung the now-elongated light sword on the spot.
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