Chapter 25

I took a step back and sunk into my shadow, her rapier completely missed me. I reappeared behind one of the assassin's shadows soon after and took his heart with 'Edge Of Nightfall.' I quickly beheaded the third assassin.

"First Form, Hazy Moon."

My sword surpassed the speed of sound and tore through the man's body, the man's head fell off but his body was sliced into into hundreds of pieces, his blood splattered everywhere. The speed of sound wasn't that fast after a certain point. But for whatever reason these assassins weren't too strong.

My guess was that either the spacial ability made the user and her allies weaker depending on the amount of people within the barrier. Or maybe they underestimated me? Regardless of that, I also believe it to have a limit on the amount of people in it.

Or else we'd be fighting a lot more people. Finally, I was left with only one person, Catherine.

"Man~ I want to know, how many people did you have to throw away or kill to reach that level of apathy? You tore through my men like they were paper, and you don't seem to care."

"Pfft-"

I started laughing, both Angelica and Catherine looked at me strangely.

"Hahahahahaha,AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA."

"How many people I've killed you ask? What kinda dumb ass question is that? Tell me you sorry excuse for an assassin, do you think I count each and every pebble I kick away?"

She started smiling once again.

"Kukuku... AHAHAHAHAHA, SO... YOU'RE THE SAME TYPE OF CRAZY AS I AM HUH? IN THAT CASE WHY DON'T WE FIGHT TO OUR HEARTS CONTENT?! BUT FIRST, I'll take care of her..."

She dashed forward and rushed at Angelica who was on the floor, shaking. I dashed forward and did a sideways corkscrew spin before kicking her in the liver.

She was sent flying, she also cut my arm a few times before landing with a series of acrobatic moves.

"Your moves, their duller than they were before, 'Catherine.' I've also realised something, those three weren't really there to help you kill us, but to maintain this world. Isn't that right?"

"So you noticed huh? Yeah, my ability Is fairly limited, the more enemies in this world the weaker I get. And it costs more Mana if there are more enemies, so that's why I had those three there to help fuel this place, they were too weak to do anything else anyways. But still, why did you lie earlier?"

"Lie about what?"

I didn't know what she was talking about, I only laughed earlier to scare her a bit and unnerve her but she's batshit crazy so that just backfired. But how on earth did she know I wasn't crazy?

"If you were really as apathetic as I thought you to be then you'd have let her die but you even let yourself get hurt. I think that in actuality, you're just pretending to be a monster, and that you're just a child who simply doesn't know how to express themselves. In short, I'm saying that you care about that child but you don't know how to tell her, so you've resolved yourself to be someone who protects her and her happiness."

'What in Gods name is this fucktard on about? Well whatever, I guess it works I my favour.'

I look towards Angelica who seems like she's just recieved a biblical revelation of sorts.

'Does she think... I like her? How...?'

I was confused but I ignored it, sensing that Catherine was going to use a spell. I changed what I saw and used my Mana based vision, I watched as green particles danced and flowed to her sword. Sharpening it, the tip had a slightly extended point. But I could tell that it was extremely sharp, it also looked like it could explode.

My instincts told me that she was going to hit me with an attack and make that tip explode. She was going to make my body tear up from the inside out.

My situation wasn't too good, my left arm was riddled with holes and I had to protect Angelica as well. I started flowing dark attribute Mana into my arm and used it as a brace, my bones had been punctured along with my muscles.

I took a deep breath as I watched Mana circulate throughout her body. She dashed forward, I barely dodged as I sank to knees. I jumped up and flipped backwards, as I did so I created three black kunai and threw them. They whizzed past her but one hit her leg, she winced in pain and pulled it out.

She then dissapeared from my sight, everything went black. It took me a moment to realise, but it wasn't her who had dissapeared.

But my sight.

I felt something drip down my face, I put my finger up to my eyes and put the liquid in my mouth.

"Blood?-"

'Tsk, these eyes must have reached their limits. Then again, I have been using them continuously since the start of this fight.'

Breaking me out of my thoughts I heard a scream.

"REINHARDT- SHE'S CHARGING AT YOU!"

Angelica screamed, I was somewhat impressed, I expected someone her age to simply stay quiet and wallow in their despair. Normally people aren't exposed to fights like this, so I expected her to be traumatised. But that wasn't important right now, we could deal with her mental health later.

I felt a gust of wind nearby me, I felt a stream of wind around me. I raised my left arm forward, then it disappeared. No, it didn't dissapear it exploded, I forced my eyes open and saw that my left arm was gone. Shredded bits of flesh and bone were on the floor. She repeatedly stabbed me with her rapier causing multiple holes to appear on my body.

But, it wasn't all bad. The tip of wind on her rapier wasn't there. I made my sword dissappear as I forced Mana into my left shoulder, or what was left of it, and started using mana to hasten the healing process to slow down the speed at which I lost blood. I started to dodge her attacks by using my other senses, I could feel gusts of wind from her attacks grazing my bones. Literally, I had exposed bones from her earlier attack.

I jumped and spun 540° and landed a kick on her arm. I heard it crack and I heard her skid along the floor.

I moved infront of where Angelica was, I knew where she was because I had memorised her location since I had to fight with protecting her in mind. I raised my right arm and faced the left side of my body back and got into a fighting stance.

I had enough Mana to release my Draconic Intent, but the thing with it was that if the enemy was ready for it then it wasnt as effective, that went for killing intent as well, but that wasn't because of the ability itself but because they were ready for it. That meant that if I were strong enough I could make an entire army break down from my Draconic Intent.

You might be curious as to what happens to the enemies body, since Draconic Intent is more like an AOE attack than anything else. Well, simply put, it would still harm them if they were ready, however if they were relative to me or stronger then no damage would be taken.

I could feel blood pouring out from right arm, my left leg and even my chest.

'I'm not sure how much longer I can last, I've hastened the healing process by flowing Mana directly into my cells, it's a technique made by me, so she won't expect it. But it'll exhaust me, I've already expended a lot of my stamina, if I didn't have to fight while protecting her this would be a lot easier.'

This would be a lot easier if she wasn't here... I 'looked' at her, and for one dark moment, I thought of killing her.