Chapter 612 – 612. Monsters of Reason (3)
Outskirts of Mograf.
Eun-hyeon, who dared to step deep into the forest far from the frontier, stared at Siete on the other side, holding the red moon and blue moon in both hands.
Likewise, Shiete, who holds the mistletoe in her hand, also stares at Eun-hyeon.
Perhaps because of the chilly wind, Siete, who had finished drinking a bottle of wine, did not look drunk at all.
The reason why the air between the two people who just stared at each other without saying a word was chilly was probably not just because it was evening when the sun was starting to set.
“…”
The silence was so calm and bloody that Erin, one of those quietly watching from a distance, swallowed her saliva in nervousness.
It was the same with Cha Han-seong, who was nervous without knowing who would move first and take the first attack.
Of the three, only Riod was staring at Eunhyeon and Siete facing each other with a calm face.
Soon a change occurred between the two.
It was Eun-hyeon who disappeared first, carrying a weak whirlwind behind her back.
In an instant, she appeared before Siete and brandished her sword.
Among the two swords, red and blue, the blade of the red moon pointed directly at Siete’s neck.
Kaaang!
“Ah… !”
Erin’s startled voice, which she knew only about her swordsmanship, reached Eunhyeon and Siete’s ears.
That’s surprising.
Right now, Eun-hyeon really swung her sword with all her heart, with the momentum to cut Siete’s throat.
It was only natural that Eun-hyeon and Siete’s relationship be astonished to Erin, who only knew that she was a priest just like her relationship with Eun-hyeon.
However, the two have already killed and died hundreds of times through trials in the divine world.
Although death could have truly been met with a single blow here, beyond that relationship, the two could no longer compete in swordsmanship as before.
The relationship between the two could no longer be seen as an ordinary student-teacher relationship.
Now there is only a confrontation between prosecutors and prosecutors.
Siete stopped Eun-hyeon’s blade rushing into her throat and laughed.
“Under.”
Without hesitation, the sword strike that cut his throat was clean and fast, without any superfluities.
Even to the point where he actually lived against himself.
Eunhyun’s attack did not end there.
Rather, as if to indicate that this is the beginning, the blade of Cheongwol comes in from the other side, aiming for Siete’s side.
Siete immediately cleared the blocked red moon and immediately swung his sword to block the blue moon’s blade from the other side.
Eun-hyeon, who expected to be blocked, immediately took a stance and continued to attack.
Maximizing the advantage of the dual wield style, the raging series of blows from both sides left only afterimages, and the blows were so fast and fierce that it was difficult to see with the naked eye.
However, in an extremely short moment, as if time had been compressed to the limit, not a single attack hit Siete out of dozens of rage series.
However, Siete felt joy in Eun-hyeon’s sincere attitude.
It is the natural duty of a teacher to answer the heart of a disciple who is doing his best as if he knew that this would of course be prevented.
Eventually, finding a gap where the series of attacks continued, Siete, who was smiling with joy, launched a counterattack.
Kaaang!
“Kuk!”
In the middle of the raging attack that made her forget breathing, Siete cut forward without missing the slightest gap and closed the distance with Eun-hyeon.
Then, just as Eun-hyeon aimed at her own neck without hesitation, Siete also swung the mistletoe at Eun-hyeon’s neck.
‘Block it.’
This was Siete’s test.
Eun-hyeon stared straight into her eyes at the blade of Siete as it rushed toward her own neck.
‘See.’
It’s not just what you see.
Feel and recall
The sharpness of the blade cutting through the wind and gradually approaching his neck.
Also, during the trials Jupiter gave her, Eunhyeon had been decapitated dozens of times by this blade.
‘I can respond.’
After dozens of deaths, Eunhyeon was able to counter this attack.
Indeed, the valuable experiences gained through death were by no means meaningless.
Eun-hyeon moved his hand, grasped the red moon in reverse, lifted it up, and cut off the blade of the sword flying towards his neck.
Kaaang!
In a very brief moment when Siete’s mistletoe bounced into the air and her posture was disturbed, Eun-hyeon swung her blue moon and aimed at her arm holding her sword, but Siete immediately pulled her back and killed her in an instant. It was out of range of Eunhyun’s sword.
As soon as Cheongwol cut through the air, not Siete, by a narrow margin, the gap between the two widened again.
This time, it was Siete who rushed to close the distance.
The mistletoe’s pure white sword came in to attack Eunhyeon’s vitals without any hesitation.
It seemed as if the space was distorted as the wind rose and roared around the two people who blocked, counterattacked, and defended the attack.
In the aftermath of her bloody magic that began to sweep the surroundings, Erin gradually trembled her body and put on an uneasy expression.
“No, I have to dry it… !”
What Eunhyeon and Siete were currently doing was not a sparring of swordsmanship.
A bloody murder battle that pierces each other’s lives with blades.
Erin couldn’t contain her nervousness that was growing in her chest.
As the bloody battle continues like this, I can’t stop imagining what will happen if Eun-hyeon goes wrong.
Erin stepped forward unwittingly and she tried to wedge herself between Eunhyun and Siete.
“Stay still.”
Then Riod stopped her by grabbing Erin by the shoulder.
“But, Mr. Leod… !”
“Look closely at that guy’s face.”
Riod calmly watched the fight between Eunhyeon and Siete.
Even while continuing the killing battle that could take each other’s lives right away, Eunhyeon and Siete were laughing at each other.
“Why… ?”
It was an incomprehensible feeling to Erin.
A series of precarious tightrope walks that could lead to fatal injuries if done wrong.
It was impossible for Erin to feel the joy and enjoyment of that fight.
Erin learned a lot of skills from Eunhyeon and acquired many fighting skills based on them. She has built up her skills enough to win a position as a gold tier adventurer, but she doesn’t like fighting itself that much.
She told Erin that her fights were just a means to get what she wanted, and she wasn’t a battle fanatic who enjoyed fighting itself.
That’s why I couldn’t understand the feelings between the teacher and the teacher who were fighting for their lives.
Although she could not read the emotions of Eun-hyeon, who was protected by the goddess’ protection, Erin could read the emotions of Siete, another person who was enjoying the fight itself.
Joy, joy, cheers.
And grandeur, affection.
Siete, without hesitation, fiercely attacked her Eun-hyeon’s vital point, but she blocked it and was delighted to see Eun-hyeon hit her vital point with a counterattack.
While attacking to take the other person’s life, she is blocked and counterattacked, but her emotions are positively inspired.
It was as if her trust in her Eunhyeon would ward off her own attack, of course.
Erin was confused by the mixture of really contradictory emotions.
“That’s not a fight we can get into.”
Riod, who was resolutely declaring, was clearly seeing the fierce swordsmanship of the two in his eyes.
“…”
Erin, as Eunhyeon’s disciple and as her wife, was very dissatisfied with the situation in which this fight continued, but the only thing she thought of was herself.
‘But this isn’t it.’
If Illyana or Eleanor were here, she would surely have stopped this fight in a fit of rage.
Erin tried to stand her ground again and step forward, but her second stop prevented her from putting her actions into action.
[Shinsu child. You don’t have to.]
‘… Belldandy?’
[I know very well how Shinsoo Ai cares about her child, but you don’t have to stop that.]
‘Why… Are you Hyun-i might get hurt… !’
Among Eun-hyeon’s wives including herself, the one who cares for and values Eun-hyeon more than her wives is Belldandi.
Erin couldn’t understand why such a Belldandy could choose to stand by the sidelines in this fight.
Belldandi couldn’t help but smile wryly at her Erin’s question.
[How come I don’t know that. But…]
She continued her speech as she stared at her own child, unable to stop it.
[It has become ‘normal’ for a child, so there is nothing you can do about it.]
If she had to stop it, she should have stopped Eun-hyeon from undergoing the ordeal to become a god from Jupiter in the divine world.
In that ordeal, Eun-hyeon, who had already experienced dozens or hundreds of deaths from Siete, could lose her life with a single strike, and that fight itself became commonplace.
Even if this wasn’t an ordeal, even if it was a reality where they had to risk their lives only once, Belldandi knew very well that the two would never stop walking on that precarious tightrope.
[Don’t worry too much. If it becomes too much, I will step out.]
‘… Yes. Is that right?’
[Whoops, then.]
Erin had no choice but to take a step back at Belldandi’s words.
“… Great.”
While Erin was being persuaded by Belldandi, Cha Hanseong was busy chasing the two of them with her own two eyes.
Admiration was mixed on Cha Han-seong’s face as he felt the feast of bloody swordsmanship they show, which is hard to even properly recognize, and the essence of the skill contained within.
It is said that he has an extraordinary ability to learn by looking at the skills of others, but Cha Han-sung immediately recognized that the skills of the two people who are currently fighting to the death are not at the level that he can acquire.
Kaaang!
Why can I attack like that, why can I defend like that?
Attack, defense, and even counterattack, the flow of airborne and continuous skills was so fast that it was impossible to read it.
It’s as if the body holding the sword is moving on its own without going through a thought in the head.
As the three swords held by the two collided, sparks and metal reverberations spread continuously, overwhelming the forest.
Cha Han-seong, who felt the tangled magic of the two being scattered through the air, felt goosebumps all over his body.
“How…”
Cha Hanseong muttered involuntarily.
How can I become strong like those two?
Even though he had both eyes on his swordsmanship, he couldn’t see the answer.
Eunhyeon and Siete are on a different level.
To Cha Han-seong, who was learning Riod’s swordsmanship, his swordsmanship was like the road ahead of him.
However, Eunhyeon and Siete’s swordsmanship has a clear destination, but the path is not presented, and it exists in an area that they cannot reach.
“Genius…”
The word genius is the only way to describe them.
“… It’s not like a genius.”
“Yes?”
Soon, with a low voice, Liode denied Cha Hansung’s muttering.
“It is true that he exists in a realm that is different from you and me, as you think. But that guy… It’s not like a genius.”
Riod muttered like that, trying to figure out how Eunhyeon managed to catch up with his teacher, Siete, and the weight of the time and effort wasted.
Erin and Cha Hanseong asked questioningly as they saw Riod clenching his teeth tightly and tightening his fists while crossing his arms.
“Uh, Mr. Leod?”
“… Captain?”
Liod’s face, which usually showed a calm expression without showing emotional agitation, was distorted little by little.
Erin read Liod’s feelings and was surprised.
Joy, pride, longing.
And a little bit of jealousy.
“Are you going this far away again? A monstrous fellow.”
Chasing him alone is daunting, but Rio de’s wish to stand shoulder to shoulder with his friend on an equal footing seems unlikely to come true.
