Chapter 47 - 047 : Trade

Arthur vanishes from where he is standing

Clang!!

He reappears with his sword lock with Lye twin swords, Regulus this time didn't act as a spectator like before and swinging his arm.

But before he completed his motion Arthur already vanishes and he felt a force blow him on the back, Regulus send flying for several meters before he can stabilize his body and what he sees is Arthur with lightning arc around his body standing with a foot hanging in the air.

Lye who leave because by Arthur uses his speed and thrust his sword to Arthur from behind but before he can land a hit successfully, ice pillars appear instantly below his body and knock him to the sky.

Arthur didn't waste this opportunity and slashing his sword from multiple sides to Lye, but the outcome didn't as bright as his expectations.

Lye didn't just eat the name and memories of his victims, but he is also can use his victim's memories and experiences except for their divine protection so he has very high battle capabilities.

Lye blocks all of Arthur attack and uses strange movements to disengage with Arthur.

Arthur feels a dangerous thing coming his way and choose to vanish from there, this time Regulus use a scattered rock and pebbles on the ground as a projectile but not even one successfully hit Arthur.

"Bravery! Strength! Love! When I imagine how is your taste makes me really hungry! You're the most beautiful delicacy in this world!"

Lye seems like indulge in his own fantasy

"Darting back and forth irritates me to death, you. Not running away, makes you truly a man, did you think I'd say so? You and I can't compare at all" Regulus seems annoyed with how Arthur fight but Arthur didn't care about it and just ready to make a move anytime.

But from the previous exchange he calculated, he can't defeat them if he just uses his own ability.

When Arthur sees Lye move and makes a rapid dash to his way Arthur prepare his sword.

The two of them once again lock in close combat battle where Arthur superior in term of strength and speed, and Lye more superior in term of combat technique.

"Come on already! Strive after something for once, how about obediently dying here?"

Regulus clicked his tongue impatiently.

"Then how about you just disappear from here?"

Arthur once again kicked Lye at the back of his head and send him flying but before he can move, Arthur feels a pain in his back so he uses hiraishin and moves to faraway place.

"It's really annoying seeing you beaten pathetically, Lye" Regulus voice is heard from where Arthur stood before.

"You also can't split him like your intentions, right?"

Arthur uses his ice magic and freezing the wound to stop it from bleeding.

"So you use your authority to make a sneak attack to me... well that's my mistake for showing my back to the enemy. Daiguren Hyōrinmaru, Tensō Jurin"

Several square kilometers from where Arthur standing wheater is changing at a fast pace.

Arthur causes an icy wind to blow and thunder clouds to gather overhead that crackle with lightning.

When Regulus and Lye took aback by the strange phenomenon, Arthur didn't waste any more time and appear in front of them and slash Lye left hand freezing it and shattered it forcefully.

Arthur didn't hesitate and stab his left eye before he must retreat because there is Regulus who uses his ability this time to slash Arthur left shoulder.

"Aaah!!! How dare you! Aaah!!!

The madness and resentment around Ley deepened, he moves instantly and appear in front of Arthur and use his palm strike Arthur in his ċhėst.

Arthur sends flying with blood coming out from his mouth, even if Arthur use a lot of system point to enhance his body and internal organ he still can't receive all of that strike power without damage.

"I must end this battle now"

Arthur speaks with blood still flowing from his mouth, the previous attack is bypassing his body and aim at his internal organ so there is still blood that comes out.

"For someone who has one of his foot in the grave, you're surely full of yourself"

Regulus talk leisurely with Lye beside him with eyes full of anger staring to Arthur.

"You must be satisfied he just cut one of your hand and gouge your left eyes, now you can feast on him"

"You're right, I will tear his neck, drink his blood, I will have good feast now"

"You wish... Gōkei"

When the two of them have a conversation and feel sure about their victory, they didn't know scattered sword petals on the ground is moving slowly and surrounded them.

When they realized it, it's already too late.

Or, that's how must it work.

Lye, lying on top of his own pool of blood with dismembered bodies and uncountable slash wounds covering his body.

But Regulus standing there is fine with just many wound on his body but didn't as bad as Lye.

Seeing this Arthur decide to retreat when Regulus appears in front of him and puncture his heart, but before Regulus successfully killed Arthur he vanishes from there leaving Arthur with a large wound on his ċhėst and his nearly exposed heart.

Arthur collapses on the ground and uses his ice magic to seal the wound.

This is his first time suffering a very serious injury, when he is in that forest there is a time he is also injured so this is not his first time, but the previous injury is not same with the current one.

"Nearly get killed... what's up with this world... it's very different from what I see in the anime..."

He suffered this much just for killing one of the witch-cult archbishops, and this is not the end because their target is Emilia.

"I must come back now"

Arthur murmuring and tries to get up when he laid his eyes on the corpse of Lye he once again uses his sword petals and turns Lyle's body into mincemeat before freezing and shatter it, erase the remaining of his body into ice dust.

When Arthur arrives in the mansion, Crusch seems to have arguments with Ludwig.

"Master said all of you can't participate in this battle, you must know it already, you all just become a burden"

"We can't leave him alone there! At least we can help him even if it's just a little!"

This time Julius is the one who voice out his opinion and Wilhelm agree with him but didn't say a single word and just clench his sword hilt.

"Everyone seems very lively here"

A carefree voice is heard when the situation start to escalate, when they see the source of the voice, the high tension before it disappeared.

"You success defeat them? Are you fine?"

Crusch question is the same with what everyone wants to know so there are no other people who said anything and just wait for Arthur answer.

"Well I can say it was a victory because I slew the shortie one and drive away the other one"

Many people have a relief expression on their face, that's because they feel save now.

The sight of someone who can accept the Crusch attack as if nothing to him as the enemy is very frightening for them.

But there is one person who didn't share the same feelings with them.

Rem, she wants to approach Arthur when there are five people blocking her from taking another step.

Charles uses his full body armor complete with his shield and asks standing in front of Arthur and blocking her way.

This is the first time for everyone here seeing Arthur's other spirits.

"I'm sorry for the inconvenience, but for now we need to go." Cecilia didn't care about anyone here and decide to end the conversation now

"No! Arthur-sama! You must have injury right! You can't get better treatment than here! There is master Felix here! He is the greatest healer you can find!"

Cecilia, stop her foot when she heard what Rem said but Arthur's voice is heard again.

"What are you talking about Rem? Wound? Injury? Do you see one in my body? Don't speak anything you didn't know Rem, I need to pursue the other one so I will go now" Arthur turn his back to Rem but it seems Rem didn't intend to give up, her intuition told her, Arthur not in his best condition.

"You're Arthur-sama spirit, right? How can you let him suffer from injury? You must let master Felix here to heal his injury!" Rem direct her voice to Cecilia who has a hard expression on her face before she clenches her teeth and facing Arthur.

"I'm sorry, master, I think what this lady said is correct. We need to treat your injury as fast as possible"

"What a bad maid you're, Rem"

With a weak voice, that's the last word Arthur said before he lost consciousness and his body is caught by Charles.

"Felix!" Crusch seems very panic with this turn of events and calls Felix name with a high voice.