CH 449

“Daaaahhhhhhh!”

“Why can’t you understand that it’s useless …… It looks like you want to show a dead body to that boyfriend of yours.”

“Well, you can think that all you want! ‘Lightning’!”

“…… It’s no use!”

Makina folded further as Fath was flung away.”

“It’s not over yet!”

“Gunu …… you cheeky ……!”

Sherida is annoyed by the fact that she repeatedly Rejects her, but doesn’t seem to be intimidated by her, and even though she’s firing off powerful magic at her, she still charges at her. 

“Damn you …… ”

“Ho-ho-ho, over here.”

Fath smiles and evades the spell, and immediately turns to attack, but is blocked by [Reject]. 

“…… If you’re waiting for me to get tired, that doesn’t make sense. The ten chief priests won’t run out of magic power so easily. “

“Is that so? But don’t worry, you’ll end here.”

“…… You little girl ……!”

Sherida gritted her teeth in frustration.

Fath looked at Makina and Sarge, who nodded and stood with Fath between them, while Sarge began hovering above them.

“…… I don’t know what you think you’re doing, but I can shoot magic from both hands at the same time, you know? !”

The first to attack was Sherida, who wanted to end this situation quickly. The fireballs she shoots out are precisely aimed at Makina and Fath.

“Master!”

“Mm! Prepare yourself, Makina!”

“Ah, yes, ……!”

“……? What does that mean? Just because you can dodge my fireball doesn’t mean your attack will hit–“

Sherida smiles wryly and puts up her [Reject] skill. Just as she was about to blow them away and follow up with her magic, a cold sweat broke out all over her body. 

“Kuh ……!”

“Not yet, Makina! Haaaaaaah!”

“……!? W-What the hell!?”

Makina’s and Fath’s fists grazed the back of Sherida’s head and in front of her eyes, while Fath’s fist grazed Makina’s cheek, causing a wound. Sherida panicked and tried to get out of the way, but Fath didn’t let her go using her body, and Makina raised her fist from the bottom up to counter Fath.　

“Taaaahhhhhhhhh.”

“R-, [Reject]! Y-You can’t …… Gofu ……!?”

Makina’s fist hit Sherida clean in the side of the head, causing her body to bend into a curve. And above her head, Fath’s fist was closing in.

“[Reject] ……! Kuh ……!”

“Tch!”

Fath’s attack was deflected, and Sherida rolls away from the scene. Fath collides with Makina and falls to the ground.

Sarge’s fireball rains down on Sherida, who stands, coughing. 

“Geho …… S-Something like this! [Reject]!”

“…… What? You can’t be telling me that you’ve figured out what my skill does ……!?”

She raises one of her eyebrows in an expression that it’s impossible and screams, while Fath smirks and speaks up. 

“Your [Reject] is indeed a perfect defensive skill. I can only say that it’s a brilliant skill, since It can even repel Makina’s Kaiser Knuckle, let alone my techniques.”

“……”

“However, skill is a skill. It doesn’t seem to be perfect and flawless. Well, if you can reject everything, you can probably take over a town by yourself.”

As Fath spoke, Sherida’s face grew grim in contrast.

“…… What are you trying to say?”

Ho-ho-ho, Makina’s blow has made it certain just now. The ability of your skill is that …… “You can reject attacks and malice directed at you”, isn’t that right? The attack I just launched was not on you, but on Makina.”

“And I attacked my master.”

Makina responded to Fath, closing the distance little by little. With a cold sweat on her face, Sherida looked at Fath and opened her mouth..

“You’re absolutely right …… How did you notice? It’s nearly impossible to notice this trait …… so how ……!”

“For a moment, just a moment. You dodged the magic that Makina used at you, didn’t you? That’s when I realized, that you can’t return an attack that isn’t meant for you.”

Fath thrusts her fist into the air, and Sherida shouts with a blue face.

“Oh, that time!? So you’re saying that’s all it took for you to see through it ……!?”

“…… We martial artists look for that one “moment. In melee combat, a moment can be the difference between victory and failure.”

“So–“

Makina and Fath kicked the ground while talking.

“It’s a shame, but you lost because you were too proud of your skills. As was the case with Aiatsubus …… A non-warrior is not allowed to enter the battlefield ……!!”

The “Thunderbolt” approaches Sherida with a look of anger that she has probably never shown since she met Lars and the others. Makina also approached, and they both clenched their fists and swung.

“Master, I will not go easy on you, okay! [Kaiser Knuckle]!”

“Ahahahahaha! Of course! …… Avoid it, Makina! If you die, Lars will kill me! First Secret Technique, “Instant Lightning Fist”!”

Fath, in a tone appropriate to her age, unleashes her secret technique with a look of sincere joy on her face. 

“[Reject] [Reject] [Rejec–]”

Sherida, unable to move due to the spirit of the other, desperately uses her skill, but Makina and Fath don’t see Sherida.

“Guhhhhh! …… Daaah!”

“Haha! As expected of the disciple that I accepted!”

–The moment the two techniques explodes in front of Sherida’s eyes …… At that moment, Sarge intervenes.

The lightning bent by the Auto Protection and the impact of the Kaiser Knuckles hit Sherida!

“Gyaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!? Impossible ……!? How can I lose …… I can …… [Reject] anything–“

The fainting Sherida’s robe was torn to shreds, and she was knocked unconscious and slammed into a nearby house, where she lay on the ground.

“…… After all, you can only target the cracks in people’s hearts. You’re be better off crawling around like that.”

“You underestimated me and Master’s fists, and that’s why you lost. You can’t hear us now, though.”

Makina and Fath laughed as they bumped their fists together.