Chapter 296 – #297 Go All Out
#297 Go all out
“Are you Pony, one of Slater’s executives?”
I crossed my arms and spoke to Po.
Making acting a part of my life, I knew he was Po, but I pretended not to know because I couldn’t show that I knew in front of Raonjena.
“Hmm.”
He crossed his arms and looked at me and Raonjena in turn. Then he turned his eyes and looked at Raon Jenna again.
“Why are you here?”
“What?”
He talked to Raonjena, not me.
No that fucker I called to talk to you, but you ignored me and talked to Raonjena?
But I wasn’t mad about it.
‘Do you remember Raonjena?’
It was because the nuance of his words was somehow saying that he knew Raonjena.
“You know me?”
“Everyone knows. Isn’t that the young nine-tailed fox that ran away 8 years ago?”
“…”
Surprisingly, he remembered Raonjena. Whereas the other guys couldn’t remember her, he remembered her face as soon as he saw her.
“Then you know why I’m here too?”
“Revenge. But isn’t it too soon?”
“What?”
“It’s only been 8 years since then. No matter how strong the nine-tailed fox is, it’s too early to take revenge on us in just 8 years.”
“So I brought reinforcements.”
At Po’s words, Raonjena proudly stood next to me and said.
‘Moved…!’
I was deeply moved by her appearance.
So, I brought reinforcements.
Doesn’t this mean that you are weak, but because I am there, you can take revenge!
It meant that the trust in me was great.
Of course, since Raonzenna was subordinate to me, it was only natural that she would absolutely trust and follow me.
However, there was a big difference between just knowing it and hearing it directly.
I know my girls love me, but sometimes I ask them if they love me and I get the answer.
That’s why I think it’s important to express it through words.
“Is that so? If so, I hope your revenge will be successful.”
“Huh?”
I was dumbfounded by Po’s support for Raonjena.
Does that guy think he has nothing to do with Raonjena’s revenge? Why do you say you want your revenge to succeed?
‘It could be confidence.’
Or it could be a mockery that came out of the confidence that Raonjena and I couldn’t kill ourselves no matter what.
“Meeeee-“
Poe pulled his goatskin over his hat. Unlike Five and Six, he took the form of a half-human, half-beast rather than a beast.
“Oh wow.”
When I saw the half-man, half-beast shape, I was immediately impressed.
He had the head of a horned goat and was bloated like someone who had been hit with steroids. Its legs were inverted, and its eyes, which looked like demons, glistened as if they were searching for us.
If I only saw this look, I wouldn’t have even made an impression.
The decisive reason why I was impressed was his behavior after becoming a half-man and half-beast.
“Oops!”
“No, how far does your fucking head go?”
Suddenly, the man’s head turned. At first he thought he was turning his head to look to the left, but his head spinning hardly ever stopped.
Poe’s gaze followed the left, backward, right, and finally back to where it was, heading back to me and Raonjena.
Me and Raon Jenna frowned at the movement as if her cervical vertebrae did not exist.
“What do you want to do? Do you want to fight first?”
“Huh.”
“Okay, then I’ll be blocking the thugs, so fight to your heart’s content.”
“Thank you, Steel Armor.”
Poe put on a bizarre performance, but we were not intimidated by it.
Raon Jenna ran to fight Po and her one-on-one, and I followed her Po and dealt with monster hunters, beasts wearing her goatskin, so that she could fight comfortably.
“Iku!”
“Kuk!”
“… Huh?”
I kicked a goat man, but he didn’t fly. He only took a few steps back, then he blocked my kick with his cane.
“Can you stop this?”
“How can a human being have this much power…”
I saw the guy who took only a few steps back after being hit by my kick, and he admired my strength. What is this?
‘Something feels strange?’
It didn’t seem that he was strong. As if he had bulked up. He was thick and strong, but he wasn’t strong enough to counteract my strength.
If so, you’ve blocked my powers in some other way…
‘Cane?’
I paid attention to the staff he was holding. It was a very thin staff made of wood that the elderly would use. All of the goat brutes, including Po, carried staffs.
However, no matter how ordinary a wand was, it was a different story if it was made from a by-product of a monster.
‘Let’s check.’
“Iku!”
I lunged at him again and swung his fist. Slowly so that the chlorine can react.
“Kuh! Heh!”
Are my expectations correct? The goat beastman swung his staff and blocked my fist. The speed was reduced, but the power was the same, so it should fly like a bowling pin hit by a bowling ball.
But he only took a few steps back despite my attacks.
‘Then.’
“What?!”
I sped up abruptly and took away his staff. The goat beastman, who had adapted to the slow speed, could not respond to the sudden increase in speed.
“Iku!”
“Keah!”
I took the staff and kicked it, and it flew backwards as I expected. I’m not sure of the principle or effect, but it was clear that the wooden staff reduced my strength.
“That’s interesting.”
“Ahhhhh!”
While I was looking at the staff with curious eyes, other goat beastmen swung their staffs and charged at me.
“Because they’re like shrewd guys.”
It was confirmed that without a cane, it is nothing.
Curiosity resolved!
Now there is no reason to procrastinate.
*****
“Haaaaagh!”
While Steel Armor was dealing with the Goat Beasts, Laonjenna was fighting Po.
Although they didn’t have superpowers to strengthen their bodies like Steel Armor, the nine-tailed foxes had considerably better physical abilities compared to other races.
Besides, she was still a young gumiho, and she was getting stronger day by day at a fast pace. Especially since she was subordinated to Steel Armor, her growth accelerated as if she had taken medicine.
Raon Jenna drove Poe brilliantly even without her spells.
“Kuhm!”
Poe blocked Raon Jenna’s fist with her cane and stepped back behind her, clearing her throat.
Unlike the goat beasts, who used clunky canes, perhaps because he was a captain, his was large and splendid. In particular, the wand was studded with jewels of various colors, which added to the splendor of the wand.
“Amsom Meee Ee-!”
Po, who had stepped back, lunged at Raon Jenna with a bizarre spirit and brandished her wand. Every time the cane is swung, Hong-Hong! There was a loud sound cutting through the air.
“Whoops!”
Raon Jenna twisted her body to avoid Poe’s wielding staff. The sound of cutting through the air was quite menacing, and it seemed that even one hit would make the body unwell.
‘It can’t be right.’
In the past, she would have believed in her innate resilience and fought honestly, even if she was hurt.
However, after becoming Steel Armor’s, her fighting style has changed significantly. She had steel armor because she hated being hurt.
“Twinkle twinkle meeeee!”
At that time, Po let out another bizarre spirit. Then, among the jewels embedded in the staff, the white jewel emitted a bright light like a flashbang.
“Aww!”
Raon Jenna, who had been watching Poe, was exposed to her light and she screamed and closed her eyes.
“Eagle Mee Ee Ee Ee-!”
Then, this time, a red jewel emitted light. Hot flames gushed out and flew towards Raonjena.
“Quit!”
Raon Jenna, feeling her air warmed up in an instant, instinctively rolled her body to her side, even with her eyes closed.
Quaang-!
The fireball that passed her Raon Jenna flew to a building in the village and exploded.
“Haaaaagh!”
She hadn’t recovered her sight yet, so she thought that if she stayed like this, she would be beaten. So, despite her blindness, she once summoned fox fire, one of the magic arts unique to the nine-tailed fox clan.
At first it was just one purple ball of fire, but each time she channeled her power, the fireball swelled from one to two, then from two to four, and 32 in an instant. 32 was the maximum she could summon.
“Kuhm!”
The 32 purple fireballs flew towards Po on their own, as if they had eyes. As she was about to use her next move, Poe fell behind her, drooling at her.
Eight years ago, he had the experience of hunting a nine-tailed fox with Zero, so he knew how dangerous that purple fireball was.
“Ssoksok meeeee!”
As Po exclaimed, the black jewel shimmered this time. Then, a black shield was created around Po, and the purple fireball summoned by Raonjena was absorbed into the shield and disappeared.
“To think that a nine-tailed fox who was still young had this level of ability. Did her vengeful spirit make her grow?”
Poe marveled at the power of Raon Jenna, who was stronger than she expected. He was smiling as if this situation was funny.
“Come, young nine-tailed fox! Your enemy is right in front of you!”
“Kuh! Die!”
Raon Jenna, who succeeded in restoring her eyesight by buying time with fox fire, ran back towards Po, biting her lip.
The hand-to-hand combat between the two began again.
But this time, the situation was different from before. If Raonjena had been overwhelming until just now, now an equal confrontation was unfolding. Poe had adapted to Raonjena’s strength and speed.
“Eh!”
“Oops!”
In addition, the magic of the wand, which unfolds with strange spirits in the middle, made Raonjena difficult. Raonjena was swept away by the water cannons emitted from the blue jewel and flew backwards.
“Wow!”
Raon Jenna, spitting out the water that came into her mouth, stood up from her seat.
‘I’m learning other spells from my mother!’
Unfortunately, the only witchcraft she learned was fox fire and poorly learned disguise. Her family tried to teach her other witchcraft, but Raon Jenna, who was very interested in her disguise, learned her other witchcraft roughly.
She obviously forgot how to use her.
While dealing with Po, who uses a variety of fighting styles using the jewels embedded in her staff, Raon Jenna regretted not having studied her sorcery diligently back then.
“What do you want to do? Do you want to keep fighting or should I fight?”
At that time, a lovely male voice sounded in her ear. The steel armor that subdued all the goat beasts before she knew it was her arm, and she was watching herself fight.
“… I’ll keep fighting.”
At his question, Raon Jenna clenched her fists and ignited her fighting spirit.
From the moment she decided to become Steel Armor’s, she thought it didn’t matter what her family’s revenge was.
But she didn’t mean to give up her revenge at all. As long as Steel Armor continued to help her, she wanted to take revenge with her own hands.
Just as she was about to lunge at her Poe again, Steel Armor spoke to her.
“Then, Raonjena, do your best. Even if you get hurt, I’ll treat you, so fight to your heart’s content. You’re the one who overpowered me for a while, right? That guy can’t be your opponent.”
“… Is it okay if I get hurt? Aren’t you going to get angry?”
“Of course it’s not okay. But I’d hate it even more if you lost just to make me feel better. So go all out.”
“… Huh. What is it? Then you fought carefully.”
When Steel Armor told her to do her best, Raon Jenna smiled. And this time, thinking she didn’t mind getting hurt, she ran at Po.
Is it because he lost his permission? Somehow, it seemed that my body had become very light.
Squeak-!
“… Can’t you feel it?”
Steel Armor, who was watching Raon Jenna’s fight, tilted her head at her bewildered face. She didn’t seem to know that her shadow had come up on her own body.
