Chapter 88 \nEdited: Shiro\n
Evaâs body had translucent chains wrapped around her body, which appeared from the ground.
The chains were screaming and wailing in a spooky tone.
âWhy must it be skeletons out of all thingsâŠ.â
The skeletons were connected to the chains. The lower half of the body is missing, and the body and head are covered with iron collars, which makes a rattling noise.
As if making fun of me, it opened its mouth and rattled its teeth, but it ainât that scary.
âAnd why are there so many of youâŠâŠ!â
Whatâs more, they are multiplying like crazy from beneath the ground, around Evaâs body.
Thereâs approximately 20âŠ.? Some have their heads sticking out of the ground, but they donât seem to be coming out any further.
âGive up that body of yours and be captivated by us. Oh brothers, arise, be released, and feast.â
The skeletons floating around Eva rush towards me.
Forming a stance, I thought, will I be able to even inflict damage to them?
âLetâs punch and find out!!â
Itâs the same situation with the Wicked Dragon.
We wonât know until I try to punch the other person.
I protrude a fist into one of the skeletons that rushed in first, and it was a direct hit into the skull.
[Aaââââ-Kihi kyaha.]
Receiving a direct hit from my first, its forehead shatteredââHowever, it soon laughed which was annoying to my ears, and immediately wrapped in pale flame and returned to its original state.
So physical attack has no effect.
It continued trying to bite me with its large mouth as I avoided the skeleton.
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The speed is decent, but the strength is weak, however it can repair itself.
Around Eva is a skeleton that is linked to chains like a serpentine coil, and several of them are holding her quietly to refrain from me closing in on her.
While being gazed at by the hollow skull, I felt a chill and knocked down the attacking skeleton with the sword.
âCome on, think, think brainâŠ..â
How can I save her from the skeleton and chains?
Is it alright to just remove them? Or should I try waking her up?
However, it seems like her consciousness has been taken over by that curse, so how am I supposed to wake her up?
I avoided the skeleton that tried to bite my arms by rolling down.
What are they in the first place?
My instincts tell me theyâre from the curse. Whatâs more, they hate the kingâ-probably referring to the Samaria royalty and the previous hero.
âWait just a minute, youâve mistaken me for the previous hero. The previous hero is a god of plague!!â
At the same time as I turned my upper body backwards, I kicked the skeletonâs torso that had passed over my head, then somersaulted as is. While doing that, the other skeletons attacked all at once.
They didnât feel a thing.
The healing punch didnât have any effect, but so does physical attack and healing magic. Even after breaking them, theyâll just repair and attack again immediately.
Even for me, I canât stall for long.
âIf you donât die in one punchâ-Then Iâll just have to break you into pieces!â
The other party is curseââSo it doesnât matter if I go serious like that time with the Wicked Dragon.
In addition, theyâre eating Evaâs body, no time to think.
I stopped avoiding it, jumped forward with the force of stepping through the stone pavement in the garden, and grasped the two skeleton heads like an eagle.\n
âEat myâŠ.masterâs specialty!â
I grab the heads of the skeleton and hit it against the stone pavement.
The skeleton scatters into particles with the sound of plates breaking.
Secret technique, Roseâs Iron ClawâŠ.No, I donât think Iâm at her level yet. But as a result of adding my own arrangements, it became such a technique.
âIâm coming for you next!!â
I continue grabbing the skeletons coming from the sides by swinging my arms around, and let momentum strike by plunging them to trees that are planted nearby.
Although the two skeletons from before seem to be gradually regenerating, theyâre taking much longer than before.
I continued crushing the three attacking skeletons in the same fashion.
Itâs easy now I found a way to deal with them.
âAlright, with this paceâŠ.hm?â
While crushing them, I looked at the remaining skeletons as my next target, but theyâre just floating around me.
Am I being surrounded? No, this isâŠ.The hostility I felt earlier diminished, and thereâs a different emotion filled.
I hesitate to say it, but when they heard me, they stopped moving as well.
âŠ..Are they really feeling fear?
âWell, it doesnât matter either way. Since youâre the ones attacking me without any hesitations, and I know youâre not the kind of guy who can speak.â
If you donât come over, Iâll go there instead.
I continued destroying the skeletons around Evaââ-
ââŠ..Wait a minute.â
The skeleton lurking around Eva isnât there?
Did I count wrongly? No, Iâve grasped the numbers during the battle.
Did it disappearâŠ..? Is it because Iâve defeated so many of them that it can no longer exist? However, the skeletons I crushed just before are slowly regenerating.
A few of the skeletons that were generated by the curse have disappearedââ-Itâs a trivial matter, but it canât be ignored.
Itâs possible that they might fly out and attack the people in the palace.
Considering that possibility, the moment I tried to rescue Eva, a white arm suddenly appeared from the ground and grabbed my leg.
It was two skeletons that appeared.
They grabbed my legs firmly with their thin arms and began to laugh.
Damnit! I didnât think they could attack through the ground from this distance. I knew that the curse was coming out of Evaâs feet, and I wasnât paying attention.
Shit! By immobilizing me, the other skeletons floating around started swarming inâŠ.!!
âThis isnât a surprise attack so much as it is a matter of skillâŠ..! But this much ainât enough to catch me!â
I stomp the hands that were holding my leg and remove the restraint.
However, the other skeleton that caught my arm while I was distracted, bite my arm.
A pressure-like pain runs from above my uniform.
ââ-Hero-samaâŠ..\nââ-It, it hurtsâŠâŠ
Itâs the same headache as beforeâŠâŠ.?!
Voices are flowing into my headâŠ.No way, was their aim to bite me from the get go?
This headache is making me lose my power to shake off the skeleton. The others who had been waiting were entwined around my body all at once, biting vigorously.
Several images and voices are forcibly projected to my head, making my view divided, and the voices jumbled up.
The bites werenât even that powerful.
Rather, itâs the scenes that Iâve never seen before are running through my headââWhich are making me nauseous.
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The fighting style from beforeâŠ..Couldnât win.
âNow what trouble did you get yourself into this time?! Seriously, always giving me trouble!!â
A bell-ringing voice came from above me, which was blinded by the moonlight.
Something stood on my shoulder.
The next moment, a purple pattern I was familiar with ran through my body.
The pattern spread throughout my body flung away the clinging skeletons.
At the same time, the headache disappeared as if it never happened.
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Shaking my head from side to side, I stood up and looked at the owl on my shoulderââAnd thanked her.
âUgh, haah, haahâŠ.Thanks, for savingâŠ.me..Neah.â
âWhy is this happening the moment I take my eyes off of you?! What kinda curse have you activated?!â
With her wings flapping around, I pointed to Eva and laughed bitterly as I explained the situation, before breathing a sigh of relief.
It wouldâve been the end for me if she didnât comeâŠ.
âI wanna explain right now, but at the momentâââ
Staring at the both of us, the skeleton screamed with its chains and teeths rattling even stronger than before, seemingly even angrier.
I wonder if the reason the Skeleton flew away from my body is due to Neahâs dispel?
âI see, so thatâs it.â
âDid you find a solution? Mind telling me immediately!!â
While striking a large amount of skeletons with my fist, I desperately pleaded to Neah who was quietly thinking on my shoulder. Whatâs more, why are you not moving while Iâm punching around like crazyâŠ.?!
âUsato, itâs easy to deal with this. I just need to put my magic that I used on Usato into that girl.â
ââŠ.Itâs just that easy?!â
âYeah, and those crappy corpses she summoned is using that girl as a medium. If we nullify her, weâre done.â
âMeaning those skeletons will disappear if you pull her intermediary from the curse?â
âThatâs right! So you do understand!â
Why am I being praised now?
I wonder if I looked stupid to her.\n\n
Evaâs pure white hair has changed from the pale white to a refreshing blue.
And the magic that Neah applied is still hanging.
Being confused by the sight, hoppity hop, Neah jumped off my shoulder and looked at Evaâs face.
âMaybe I stripped the guys who were sucking on this girlâs existenceâŠ.Maybe.â
âBut why the drastic changeâŠ..â
âHer hair was originally blue.â
So the curse made her hair pure white?
Does that mean she is free from the curse?
âIs she alright now?â
âWhy? Didnât you enshrine her curse?â
Neah, who was watching her condition, shook her head slowly.
âWhat Iâve applied is only resistance magic. Right now, she is resisting the curse, but if this can get rid of those guysâŠ.â
ââŠ..So this is just a makeshiftâŠ.?â
So it wonât end that easily?
After all, this is a curse that not even any books could find.
I finally grabbed the opponent by the tail, I wonât let it go anymore. Iâll absolutely break the curse and save Eva.
ââŠ.If only I can understand the true nature of this curse.â
âHmm? Neah, meaningââ-â
Trying to ask her if she knew about something, but she closed her mouth as Eiri in a nightwear jumped out of the house.
He wasnât his usual self.
âEiri-sanâŠ.This is.â
Oh no, wouldnât it be a misunderstanding seeing as though Iâve harmed Eva in this situation.
How do I explain this?
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Despite that, his legs came to a stop.
Looking at Evaâs face, he muttered so quickly and immediately rubbed his eyes.
ââŠ.I was watching what was happening through the window! I know that Usato-sama has saved the princess! Anyway! Please carry the princess into her bedroom!â
According to his instructions, I carried Eva and walked towards the houseâŠ.
ââŠ.Ah shit., The bonesâŠ.â
Looking at my shadow created from the moonlight, I thought the curse has spreaded to me.
However, my own shadow was normal, but more than half of Evaâs body had disappeared in her shadow.
The scarce shadow seemed to point to the rest of her life, and I couldnât help but realize that the situation was going through the worst.
The skeleton are good at mental attacks.
Usato canât prevent mental attacks that heâs not used toâŠ
This chapter is brought to you by Usato and Neah.
Similar to the combo with Amako, itâs the type where they look ahead of the opponentâs movement and win the battle.
With Neah, I feel that I can now incorporate magic into fighting through her.