Volume 1, Chapter 123 – Run!

Volume 1, Chapter 123 - Run!

Translator: Silva

By the time those three or four samurai fell to the ground, Lily had already got onto the suspension bridge with her fastest speed.

“What?!” Dijon witnessed this scene half a beat slower since he was engaging in a fierce battle with the Demon Hound. He became dumbfounded momentarily, “Crimson-colored Blade Maiden Spirit Power... looks beautiful and delicate but has enough power to knock down a few High-Tier Samurai. That’s... that’s a Blade Maiden! That woman is a Blade Maiden!!”

Dijon glared at Lily with a scowl.

“That woman is a Blade Maiden! She’s the assailant! She’s the one who killed Motoshige and Akira!!”

At this moment, everything finally clicked in Dijon’s head.

“Kagami Lily——!!! Don’t think that you can run from me!” Dijon’s Spirit Power intensified and his clothes began to flutter hysterically.

However, Lily had already gotten to the other side of the suspension bridge. She stopped on the other side of the river valley and turned around to look at all the stunned samurai as well as the dying Demon Hound before cutting the suspension bridge.

Looking at the antiquated suspension bridge falling down the river valley, Dijon felt half of his heart had been ripped apart, “T- that ????!”

After cutting off the bridge, Lily’s speed accelerated again as she rushed into the gloomy mountain woods.

“M- Miss Kagami...” Nagahide, Kimura, and Kanzaki looked at Lily’s sudden outbreak with a stupefied expression. She knocked down three or four High-Tier Samurai who were a lot stronger than them and ran away after snatching the tamahagane. It was hard to imagine she was the same Miss Kagami they had admired.

“Arwoooooooooooo—!!!” Taking advantage of the gaps that opened up from the shock of the sudden occurrence, the Demon Hound suddenly took a leap and jump past Dijon. It landed beside the river valley and took yet another leap towards the other side of the valley, with its full strength this time.

However, it started to fall just a few meters short from reaching the opposite side.

“Craaaaash—!” but it still managed to cling to the cliff with its powerful claws. With a violent push from its rear limbs, it finally managed to climb up the opposite valley. It stood on its four limbs unsteadily, but still, the Demon Hound chased after Lily, leaving a trail of blood behind.

Dijon and his group could only watch at the edge of the valley. Even if he was extremely powerful, he still couldn’t jump across the river valley in one breath.

He was half doubting earlier, but now he could be certain that Lily was indeed the murderer!

Moreover, that Demon Hound was on the verge of dying anyway. What would it need a treasure for? Perhaps it might not even let her go even if she dropped the treasure. Though it could increase her speed a little, she still wouldn’t be faster than the Demon Hound!

Without any notice, two Specter Wolves jumped out from the bushes in front and pounced at Lily.

“Move aside!” Lily waved Seiwa Tamashi and easily achieved a double kill! However, they did manage to slow down Lily some. Soon, she could already feel the hot breath of the Demon Hound coming from her back. Just a casual bite from the great demon could easily surpass a hundred thousand kan of force, that was more than enough to kill her several times over!

How did it turn out like this? She endured it for so long and finally found a chance to escape, would she end up being bitten to death by the Demon Hound?

No! That can’t be happening! Senior sister... It’s all or nothing!

Lily recklessly threw herself under the cliff. She rolled on the steep incline and her clothes were in complete shambles. She pressed against the tamahagane and the mirror to prevent them from falling out. And of course, she didn’t forget to cover her body in Spirit Armor. The only harm she’d received was a dizzy spell from her head spinning.

For how long she had been rolling, nobody could accurately answer that, but she had fallen to the valley floor at least a thousand feet from the top. She might have protected her body with Spirit Armor, but Lily’s whole body still ached on top of the dizziness.

Lily found herself in a cold and gloomy valley filled to the brim with bones.

She had fallen on a solid piece of ice-cold slab. When she thought she had finally averted the crisis and was about to push her weary body up...

“Drip... drip...”

Lily felt a warm sticky liquid dripping on her bare thigh. A chill involuntarily traveled up her spine. And along with the thick stench of blood, she could feel a hot breath hitting her back.

Turning her head around, she saw it; the Demon Hound’s blood-red eyes staring straight at her with its face in close proximity to her. Its face was full of scars and its fang that was even longer than her arm was giving off a bone-chilling light.

At her back was a thousand feet tall precipice. She fell into a dead-end while looking almost half-naked. And before her was a huge Demon Hound who completely obstructed the narrow valley. She had nowhere to run!

Even so, Lily gathered her courage and intended to fight back, even if her opponent may be a High Ranked demon that’s several tens of times stronger than her!

“Come!” Tightly gripping her Seiwa Tamashi, Lily harnessed the Blade Maiden Spirit Power.

“I advise you not to swing that sword. Otherwise, I will really bite you to death.” The Demon Hound actually opened its bloodstained mouth and spit out human language. It sounded really deep and distant, yet contained a little of the beast’s wild nature.