## Chapter 255 – Counterattack (6)
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The preparations for battle were complete.
With the knowledge that the enemy could attack, a surprise attack was meaningless.
Especially for a group with so many people.
But the scene reflected in the silver eyes was nothing short of a massacre.
“Kkeuaaak!!”
“Behind!! No!! Ne… next to…!! Eeo-eoeok!!”
The enemy, who seemed to appear right in front, was already running up the walls or sliding between the legs of their allies, passing by.
Contrary to the eyewitness accounts, they were showing a rapid pace, appearing from anywhere, front, back, left, or right.
The female beastmen’s combat, utilizing their unique animalistic senses to target their opponents, was so one-sided that it could only be called a hunt.
Some would engage in hand-to-hand combat, raising their tails like whips to beat their enemies unconscious, while others would burrow into the enemy’s arms, stabbing and clawing with sharp claws until their opponents lost their will.
The carnivorous females could be considered stylish, but some herbivorous females, lacking natural weapons, were simply throwing enemies around with brute force or causing fractures to countless men with body slams.
Prime examples were the female cows and female deer beastmen.
Using the handles… no, the horns on their heads, they charged, pushing ten men at once like a runaway dump truck, resembling destructive tanks.
“Kyaeung…!!”
Of course, there were also females who occasionally allowed the enemy to attack.
A cat beastman female, pushed back by a sudden coordinated attack and stabbed in the chest with a sword, was startled but got up as if nothing had happened, baring her fangs at the man who stabbed her.
Her chest, protected by the blue Nemea, showed no red marks, let alone a stab wound.
“Kyaoooong!!!!”
“Kkeuaaaaaak!!”
After the man realized that his sword was useless against her and dropped it in surprise, only screams of despair echoed through the streets.
It was as if they were seeing fierce, powerful beastmen males, not weak and gentle females.
Who would have thought that these were the alluring females who breathed sweet breaths every night, bewitching men and sucking their life force?
The beastman females, displaying formidable combat power, were like one-man armies, exploiting the enemy’s weaknesses and retiring them one by one.
Amidst all this, there was one woman at their center.
‘So, this is how it was…
I didn’t even expect it…’
The blue-haired woman, capturing everyone’s attention, was wielding a sword and fighting the enemies, unlike the other beastman females who used parts of their bodies such as claws, hands, or horns.
In fact, it seemed that she was playing a finishing role because the other beastman females were fighting so well, but Deborah already knew that her abilities were also extraordinary.
Such overwhelming force, making numbers meaningless, allowed her to deduce how they had crushed Hohenbier in such a short time.
No matter how many there were, a bunch of small fries couldn’t stop them.
That meant it was time for her to step in.
“Stop.”
As Deborah, having thrown off her cloak, stepped out of the alley and came forward, everyone’s gaze turned to her.
“Hieek!! De… Deborah…!!”
Unlike the beastman females who had question marks in their eyes, the men who were being beaten, already knowing who she was, ran away in a hurry.
She had inadvertently bought time for the men to escape, and she began to turn her gaze towards the blue-haired woman with a displeased expression.
“Suspect in the Proden County monster terror incident…
And as a current offender in the group violence case against the Scarve, Hohenbier, and Stangkaph Cartels.
And the unidentified, unknown blue-haired woman and her gang.
I’m arresting you all.”
“Proden… wait… Deborah…?”
Judging by that knowing reaction, it seemed she had guessed correctly.
“Vivian-nim!! The inside is all cleared!!”
In the meantime, the sight of someone with blonde hair kicking down the doors of what appeared to be Stangkaph’s hideout, smashing them as they came out, was also revealed.
Moreover, the blonde-haired woman’s complexion darkened more than expected when she saw her face.
“That… blonde…!!”
“That ridiculously strong woman…!!”
‘She wasn’t here earlier?’
Was it a feint from the start?
Whether she had struck from behind while Vivian was breaking through from the front, even the blonde-haired human woman who suddenly appeared from the hideout, which should have been the rear, was there.
Moreover, after hearing the name ‘Vivian,’ a tickling memory began to surface in her head.
Anyway, whatever else happened, the blue-haired and blonde-haired combo, which could no longer be denied, had appeared to the world.
“E… eeeek……!! N… no…
Who is it…? I don’t know……?
Whee-whee-whee~”
‘It’s all obvious…?’
At her pretending not to know, the blue-haired woman, Vivian, let out a small sigh.
“Haa…… Forget it, go finish up.
I’ll take care of this side.”
“But……!!”
“I’ll retreat if I feel like I’m being pushed back.
So, take care of the Henias first.”
“A… alright… then…!!”
“I won’t let a single one go!!
Stay put…!! Keuk!!”
As Lanié, talking with Vivian, showed signs of trying to escape with the beastman females, Deborah quickly drew her sword.
However, Deborah, who let out a small groan at the heavy blow that struck her, had no choice but to focus on Vivian, who was approaching her and pressing her with her sword.
“Such strong power…
At this rate, in terms of strength…
It’s similar to Polcinella…”
There were certainly many female swordsmen in this world, but there were not many such unique existences.
Most female swordsmen could only reach their physical limits through training, so they tended to use delicate and relatively less strength-intensive rapiers, and those who fought with brute force were rare.
That was enough to kill monsters by piercing their weaknesses.
There was also sufficient demand for rapiers, but from the start, rapiers could not be perfectly the same as heavy greatswords.
If one could properly and quickly wield a greatsword, it was so powerful that it could be called a superior version of a rapier.
The most representative example of success was her classmate from her school days, and the object of her usual training imitation.
‘The frontline bitch’ Polcinella.
“Who are you… really……? What are you trying to do…!!”
Deborah asked Vivian, who had such strong power that reminded her of her, but no answer came back.
The shallowness of Vivian’s strength, which was relatively easily obtained, was easily revealed.
As Deborah, who had grasped the opponent’s attack power with a single exchange, began to drive Vivian, the sword path gradually became dizzy.
For Vivian, it was becoming difficult to even check Deborah’s sword, let alone answer her question.
Before she knew it, it was extending from her waist, and soon it was striking her head.
Even so, the sword speed, reminiscent of afterimages, was such that she would have quickly knelt if she didn’t have advanced dynamic vision.
If it weren’t for Nemea, she would have been covered in small sword wounds all over her body, but fortunately, Nemea was still doing its job, as it had been when dealing with the cartel thugs earlier.
But no matter how much she trusted Enic’s Nemea, she couldn’t guarantee what would happen if she took that powerful sword strike head-on without any defense.
Vivian, who was busy focusing on defense and receiving the opponent’s sword as much as possible, was trying her best to read the opponent’s sword.
After growing up to some extent as a noble young lady, she began to learn swordsmanship as a refinement, and she was a second-year student who had professionally learned swordsmanship in the swordsmanship department.
But it was inevitable that following swordsmanship trained in actual combat was difficult for her.
‘Fast… too fast…!!
The attack is so precise… it’s hard to keep up…!!’
Vivian was not pushed back by Deborah in terms of strength.
Thanks to Enic’s mucus, which provides excellent healing power, she was investing all her remaining time in training.
But it was a natural principle that simply becoming stronger did not improve one’s skills.
Deborah’s sword, like when facing Anne, was very faithful to the basics, but had power and speed trained enough to face her.
Deborah, who attacked Vivian with an overpowering force that felt efficient as if a precisely made mechanical clockwork was turning, but not simply focused on efficiency, was showing an explosive impact that made the thugs from the back alleys tremble.
Deborah also seemed to know that fact, and she was trying her best not to let go of the advantage she had once seized, completely driving Vivian.
‘Ugh… how did I do it last time…?’
Deborah’s powerful attacks were so strong that it was fortunate that Vivian’s surprise attack had worked when escaping from Proden County.
The fact that Deborah recognized her as a stronger-than-expected opponent was the only factor that occasionally made Deborah cautious and hesitate to deliver the final blow.
“Hyahap…!!”
“Heuaaaat!!”
The moment the eyes of the two women met each other.
In that instant when they both thought that they had to end it quickly in some way.
Their swords, which had disregarded even the minimum defense, were aimed at each other’s vitals.
The very moment when the two women’s swords, knowing that their vitals were completely exposed, crossed each other, trying to stab the other first.
“I wondered who was making such a fuss…
It’s Deborah and the rumored Slaughtering Succubus.”
A single old spear shaft, inserted between the crossed swords of the two, blocked both of their sword strikes at the same time.
“Who are you……?”
The man, holding the spear with one hand and twirling his elegant mustache with the other, with his eyebrows raised, was dressed in a neat uniform that made him look like a gentleman himself.
Behind him, a group of a dozen people, standing far away, were watching this place, each taking a comfortable posture.
Seeing him, Vivian couldn’t help but roughly realize what kind of person he was, as Deborah’s eyes were burning fiercely.
‘The Cartel’s……’
“’Mediator’ Parlocchino……
You dare to come before me on your own two feet,
I’m arresting you too, just like this woman.
You know the charges without me having to say them.”
“A chivalrous person should not be easily caught by investigators.
So, I hope you can bear with that part?
I’ve only come to restore the lost balance?”
Whether this should be called guts or slyness.
“I also have business with the woman who is disrupting your balance……”
The face of the man responding to Deborah in a leisurely voice had the same calm and eerie smile as when he brought down Terra.
