“Sorry! Please make sure to die with this if you can!”
“Hey, you dog…!”
I immediately reached out toward the eccentric while cursing, but he vanished again using his Warp magic.
It’s scary to confront him directly, so he’s putting me in a situation where I have no choice but to die like this.
My body shook in the fierce wind that returned. If I fell to the ground in this state, I could really die.
‘I have to find a way somehow.’
I temporarily set aside Sen’s misunderstanding and racked my brain to think of a way to survive.
But no matter how much I thought, there was no way to live.
Am I really dying in such a meaningless way?
I cut off the Dragon God’s wings, and I was just a bit more away from stopping the end of the world!
Even if I stop time, the impact of falling would remain the same. Flailing about desperately, I found myself in a situation where there was no way out.
A Wyvern rose from the ground like a savior.
Dodging the vicious interference from the Chokugen Faction and the pirates’ bombardments, it flew straight toward me, and I couldn’t help but exclaim.
“Yaaaah!”
I didn’t know its name, so I just called out whatever came to mind, but it responded as if it knew I was calling.
It was brief, but the sense of brotherhood established while facing the Dragon God was not just for Jane. Our Wyvern had also become my steadfast comrade.
I grabbed the safety line attached to the approaching creature and pulled. The moment I grasped its reins, I felt alive.
“Really the best! Thank you so much!”
I patted its head wildly. I noticed that the Chokugen Faction had caused injuries to prevent me from being saved, and a Dagger was stuck somewhere.
“I’ll go and get revenge for this.”
Being a smart creature, it responded with a strong roar as if to say, “Got it.” We thought of heading back to the ground first to deal with the eccentric.
But then I spotted a massive shadow looming beneath the pirate ships that were bombarding us.
The pirates, engrossed in their shelling, didn’t notice it, and even the Pirate Lord was cackling and threatening us to surrender from the bow.
“Whale?”
At first, I thought it was some whale.
But it didn’t seem like a whale would come this far.
Kiiiiing!
The Wyvern, noticing what it was, began to tremble.
For some reason, I started to watch closely, and only then did I realize what shape that giant shadow was taking.
“A dragon?”
Kraaaaah!
As I uttered the words, Shakallim showed up, smashing two pirate ships to pieces. The pirates were thrown into chaos at his arrival.
“The sword that had been stuck in your eye is out now.”
I didn’t know who among the pirates pulled the sword out, or if Shakallim regained his sanity on his own, but he began to wreak havoc on the pirate ships as if denying his defeat.
“You could swim, huh?”
Thinking about how Shakallim swam over here since he didn’t have wings made him feel really lizard-like.
*
“Huff! Huff!”
Sen stood there, holding a Dagger she gripped in reverse.
A frontal confrontation with an assassin was always the worst-case scenario to avoid, but surprisingly, I remembered that Sen often found herself in such situations.
And those experiences were now making her stronger.
It was a literal expression, and if anything, Sen was holding on without dying because of it.
“You’ve really… grown.”
The leader honestly admired as he watched Sen deflect his sword. With this level of skill, she could take on a high-ranking member of the Chokugen Faction.
“Don’t act like we grew up together.”
The girl who had just been blushing like a young maiden vanished, replaced by Sen, whose cold eyes were fixed on the leader like a blade.
With her legs braced, she tried to hold her ground.
She had to create a path for the Wyvern to reach Daniel, so she was pushing herself pretty hard.
Since she was the only one who could fight immediately, she had to protect both Eve and Jane on her own, making her hands feel scarce.
Fortunately, Eve could use a bit of magic, and based on Jane’s experience as the Dragoness, she was casting support spells.
But the opponent was the Chokugen Faction.
And they were the elite among the elite, led by their commander.
While the Wyvern raced to save Daniel McLean, she was pressuring the three of them without letting up.
Enduring this much was proof that Sen’s capabilities had grown that much.
“I raised you. I picked up the child abandoned by their parents and fed and housed you, making you act like a human. And now, you dare bite the hand that fed you?”
“Don’t talk nonsense about being human. You just used people to make a sword.”
“You’re just a trash left to die, and now that you have a bit of self-awareness, you act all high and mighty!”
The commander’s sword flew toward her again.
Gritting her teeth, Sen countered the commander’s sword once more.
She had fought the commander several times before.
At that time, if she couldn’t last a minute in a one-on-one duel with the commander, she would be expelled at that moment.
The memory of her stubbornly enduring back then resurfaced. She managed to survive by enduring the commander’s ruthless sword and running away.
Kaang!
Now, she was seriously facing off against him.
If there was even a slight opening, she was ready to take him down, but the commander was still vigilant, not letting a moment of carelessness slip as he watched Sen’s eyes, which hadn’t lost their light.
“Whoaah!”
“Those idiots!”
Screams from Eve and Jane came from behind.
Eve screamed as she blocked a descending sword with a thick book, and Jane, running away from the Chokugen Faction, cried out in despair as she tripped over the corpses of elders.
As the Chokugen Faction bared their teeth, the elders immediately knelt and surrendered.
Their cries were desperate pleas for mercy.
But the Chokugen Faction, with no plans to leave witnesses behind, found the necks they needed to cut falling right into their laps, so the elders died with a blank stare.
‘I need to help…!’
As Sen’s movements became frantic, realizing Eve and Jane were in danger, the commander didn’t miss that and swung his sword down fiercely.
Kwang!
In the sudden onslaught, Sen lost grip of both swords. If she had tried to endure, her arms would have surely broken from the force.
“Ugh!”
She rolled along the ground, swept onto the sandy beach. As she tried to get back to her original position, the distance between her and Eve and Jane widened, but…
The commander stood before Sen, a bitter smile on his face.
“No matter how you fly and escape from my cage, the swordsmanship, techniques, and habits you use all stem from me. You’ve underestimated your master.”
At that moment.
The sound of waves, drowned until now by the bombardment, swallowed the cannon fire and then devoured the pirate ships.
Shwaaaa!
A massive wave surged.
“Huh?”
The wave was sweeping over the beach like a cup overflowing with water, and at the same time, the roar of a dragon filled the sky.
“Obububub!”
Sen and the commander, who were near the shore, got swept away. However, as assassins who had already trained in underwater skills, both managed to gather themselves after the waves passed and charged at each other.
Sen pulled out the Dagger that she had hidden under her boots and swung it.
The commander’s lips curled into a bitter smirk.
“See? I taught you to hide your weapon until the very last moment.”
Kaang!
The Dagger whirled through the air like a spinning top.
Before Sen could even swing her Dagger, the commander had already knocked it aside.
“Farewell, my child.”
The sword was meant to pierce her heart, but…
Tang!
An unusual sound echoed across the island.
The commander’s sword, which had not hesitated, lost power and staggered, falling to the ground.
The commander stepped back, clutching the area around his heart where a hole had been made.
“Pistol…?”
“It was used by the Pirate Officer Jesant.”
A Pistol Balester.
This weapon, which consumed the user’s Mana to create bullets, was a gift Daniel had given to Sen, claiming he couldn’t use it.
“Did you hide it in your chest? Haha, I thought the little brat had grown a bit.”
Seeing Sen’s chest a bit puffed up, he thought she had grown, but that was not the case.
Sen had been keeping the Pistol hidden in her chest all along.
“Until the very last moment, one must hide the weapon.”
“You damn brat. In the end, you bite your master.”
As she looked down at the kneeling commander, Sen muttered while pulling the trigger.
“I’m already a married woman. Where do you get off calling me your master?”
Bang!
With a slight smirk, Sen quietly put the Balester back in her chest.
“Hehe, a married woman.”
Feeling it wasn’t a bad sound, she couldn’t help but smile, but…
“Uwaaaaah!”
“Eve! Come with me!”
Hearing the screams of the two from afar, Sen quickly wiped the smile off her face and headed in their direction.
