I’m Here to End This Fight - Chapter 372



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Episode 372. Face (6)

While Yuri was inwardly cursing Wolru.

visor-!

The man in black armor drew his sword and quickly stood in front of the Archduke.

His face was filled with confusion.

‘What, this?!’

I had no idea that an unidentified man was hiding there.

How long have you been hiding there?

And what if the author saw everything that happened here?

What if you saw something you absolutely should not see?

‘Okay, we have to catch it!’

I couldn’t just send the author away like this.

No, I couldn’t leave him alive.

As the Archduke’s subordinate began to emit a murderous aura toward him, Yuri raised his hand.

“for a moment!”

At the sudden shout, not only the Archduke but also the man who was radiating murderous intent paused for a moment.

Without missing a beat, Yuri continued speaking quickly.

“Let’s solve this through dialogue!”

The Archduke looked interested at Yuri’s shout.

“Huh? Are you talking about conversation?”

“Yes, conversation! What a peaceful word, isn’t it?”

“Let’s try that conversation.”

“Well then, before we talk, tell that old man to put the knife away.”

When the man in black uniform did not move despite Yuri’s request, the Archduke lightly waved his hand.

“Marco, put it in.”

“But Your Highness.”

“Are you going to make me say it twice?”

“…sorry.”

Marco put his sword away only after receiving the Archduke’s warning.

At this, Yuri smiled and said.

“Wow. What a peaceful atmosphere, isn’t it?”

“Is that so? So what are you trying to say?”

“What I want to say is… … .”

At the Archduke’s question, Yuri’s expression, which had been trailing off, became considerably more serious and thoughtful.

Just when I thought he was going to say something important.

“Let’s pretend we didn’t see it.”

“… … ?”

“I’ll pretend I didn’t see anything, so let’s part ways here, okay?”

“… … .”

“How is it? It’s easy, right?”

The expressions of the two people standing on opposite sides of Yuri’s story changed strangely.

Those faces make you wonder what on earth they are doing.

Then the Archduke asked with a slight smile in his voice.

“So, what you’re saying is… you want me to just let you go like this?”

“That’s right. You can communicate well.”

“hmm…….”

“Hey, what’s there to worry about? Let’s just get along well with each other, okay?”

The Archduke’s eyes became slightly harsh at the seemingly coercive tone of voice.

But that was only for a moment.

The Archduke, whose eyes immediately widened, opened his mouth.

“Since you said conversation, I have something I want to ask you too.”

“do.”

“Who are you?”

“Me?”

Yuri smiled faintly, pointing to her own face with her index finger.

“A good traveler who was taking a walk to help with digestion after overeating in the evening?”

“A walk at this hour? And in such an abandoned house?”

“I like walking around haunted houses at night.”

“What a noble hobby.”

“Wow, I never thought I’d meet someone who understands my hobby in a place like this. Well then, I’ll consider this an amicable agreement and take my leave now.”

The Archduke immediately called out to Yuri, who was about to leave without even thinking about hearing the other person’s answer.

“Wait a minute, I have one more question.”

“… You seem to really enjoy conversation.”

The Archduke smiled faintly as he looked at the shaky glass.

“I like pleasant conversations.”

“So what is it you want to ask?”

“If you tell me to let you go and pretend not to see it… doesn’t that mean you did see something?”

“Well… I guess so?”

“What did you see?”

Normally, this question would not be answered properly.

Or you can just pretend you didn’t see it.

But Yuri answered as if it was no big deal.

“Strange magic.”

The Archduke’s smile was filled with life at Yuri’s short answer.

“Blood sucking?”

As the words continued, the smile gradually disappeared.

“By stealing the blood of others, you increase your vitality and mana… … .”

In the end, the smile disappeared without a trace, and only a heavy murderous feeling remained.

Yuri continued speaking, whether she knew this or not.

“Well, it was a bizarre magic in many ways, but it didn’t seem to be very efficient. It only gave me that much life and mana from eating a person.”

Yuri stopped talking there.

There was a chill in his eyes as he looked at the Archduke.

“How many people have you eaten to get to that point?”

Is this a soliloquy or a question?

Or is it a reprimand?

The words Yuri spoke made the Archduke’s body swell with life energy.

“… I saw more than I expected.”

“Because I have pretty good eyesight?”

“this…….”

The Archduke smiled faintly.

“But what can I do? Unfortunately, I will never see the world with those good eyes again.”

The suppressed murderous intent from the Archduke’s entire body burst out and surged towards Yuri like a tidal wave.

And the start of the attack was a man named Marco who put away his sword at the Archduke’s order.

“bout!”

Marco drew his sword again and rushed at me like lightning.

Yuri faces this.

Break-!

He immediately started running away from that place.

‘There’s no need to fight, right?’

I continued to look at this person called the Archduke, killing time with the conversation from earlier.

I was able to draw a definite conclusion with him.

‘That kid is definitely a 7th-dan certified swordsman.’

It was clear that he was also seeing the end of the 7th Dan rank, just like himself.

‘And that bizarre magic trick.’

I couldn’t even guess what kind of variables that would create.

So, for Yuri, who could only use 30% of her usual strength, it was best to avoid fighting.

So Yuri ran away without looking back.

“Stop!”

Marco chased after Yuri, screaming in a predictable manner.

Of course, there was no way Yuri would stop, and there was no way she would be caught.

‘Papa, it’s fast!’

Marco looked puzzled as he saw Yuri’s back getting further and further away, even though he was clearly doing his best to keep up.

A moment when it really feels like I’m going to lose him.

Swish-!

A black shadow quickly passed by Marco.

And then it started to catch up with Yuri at a terrifying speed.

‘Your Highness!’

The one chasing Yuri is the Archduke.

Marco wasn’t the only one surprised by this.

‘What the heck, you little punk?!’

Yuri was also bewildered by the black shadow chasing her closely behind.

‘It’s fast?!’

I thought that even if I couldn’t use my full strength, I would be able to escape from them.

It was a season where the Redner family’s magic and thundercloud were enough to be confident.

But what Yuri hadn’t assumed was that the Archduke’s magic was also of an extraordinary level.

Shaaaak-!

The Archduke approaches, transformed into a dark red fog, and it is unclear whether he is running or flying.

The speed was close to 70% of the speed at which Yuri, in good condition, threw it.

Among the riders of the cradle, there was no one who could even keep up with the 50% speed, let alone the 70% level.

At least in the early days of the Cradle, Teresia and Arin were able to compete with Yuri in terms of speed, but at some point, an unbridgeable gap opened up.

In other words, Yuri’s speed from the cradle is unparalleled.

So it was no wonder that he was surprised to see the Archduke following him in an instant.

‘Is this what it felt like?’

You started first and now you’re being caught up like this.

Yuri could now understand a little bit the feelings of those who had been fooled by her speed.

Yuri, who is reflecting on herself at such an untimely time.

Of course, I had no intention of getting caught.

‘If we continue like this, we’ll get caught up.’

His eyes sparkled, and he quickly climbed over the wall and entered the city center, then ran quickly through the maze-like alleys.

Yuri disappeared in an instant, swallowed up in a dark alley.

He quickly moved through the alleys, and smiled in satisfaction at the Archduke’s aura gradually moving away from him.

‘Did you leave me alone?’

How much time has passed like that?

The moment Yuri emerged from the alley and appeared at a deserted riverside.

wickedness-!

A crimson holy sword flies in as if it had been waiting for Yuri to come out of the alley.

‘what?!’

As soon as Yuri sensed this, she instinctively unfurled her holy sword.

At the same time, Yuri was embarrassed.

‘Damn, slow down!’

The body’s reactions and mana’s sensitivity were slower than usual.

The aftereffects of John’s meditation retreat were not limited to mere physical pain.

The gap between the physical and spiritual body.

That was delaying Yuri’s mana sensitivity and reactions.

Of course, it was only about 0.1 to 0.5 seconds, but for Yuri, who was living in fleeting moments, this was a fatal flaw.

Because of that, the holy sword of glass unfolded a little late.

He was pushed back by the force.

Kwakang-!

Zuggeuk-!

A glass that bounced a couple of times on the dirt floor.

He quickly regained his balance and stood up, then quickly struck back at the flying holy sword, smiling bitterly to himself.

bang-!

‘It’s not that I couldn’t catch up, but rather that I overtook them?’

It seems that the opponent knew the geography of this city well.

It’s obvious that he knew he would get out like this and took a shortcut to get ahead of me.

It seemed to Yuri that it would not be easy to shake off the interest.

Quagga River-!

Two holy swords, one golden and one crimson, clashed, creating a huge explosion in the middle of the night.

Every time, Yuri’s new form would sway, and the Archduke’s eyes would flash with surprise upon seeing this.

“You, who are you really? How can you have such power at such a young age?”

The face of the opponent looks so young.

The Archduke, who was looking at Yuri, was suspicious of a realm that was beyond his supposed age.

“Have you crossed the line too?”

“Fuck, I’m dying from exhaustion, what the hell are you talking about!”

Yuri’s eyes, which had suddenly become irritated, lit up slightly.

He realized that it was a moment when he had to choose.

‘We have to see the outcome.’

If we continue like this, we will just be dragged around by the other person.

You’ll have to catch them off guard and break the flow in one go.

‘Madmen are a bunch.’

With his body and spirit unstable, the madman who resonated the two mana cores was a dangerous threat.

‘then…….’

All that’s left is the devil.

At that moment, Yuri was looking for an opportunity to exploit her opponent’s weakness.

Chuuruk-!

Rather, it was Yuri who was caught off guard first.

“Let’s end it here.”

The Archduke’s eyes glowed red and his energy grew even stronger.

Then, not only was his new body engulfed in a crimson fog, but it also swallowed up the glass.

And this surprisingly confused all of Yuri’s senses.

‘Ugh!’

A feeling of all your senses becoming jumbled in an instant.

Jin: Yuri, who had been spreading her territory as well as the upper: area, turned pale with the rising feeling of nausea.

‘What the heck?!’

Eyes wide open in shock at a sudden situation.

But I couldn’t just sit there and be surprised.

This was because incredible sword strikes were pouring down, hidden in the red fog.

Pfft pfft-.

A situation where you can’t even properly gauge direction due to your senses being in disarray.

Still, Yuri was avoiding the sharp attacks as much as possible.

Instead of avoiding life-threatening fatal injuries, you give up your arms and legs little by little.

This was a response that even surprised the Grand Duke.

‘You’re holding out like that in the midst of bloodshed?!’

Since he knew well the power of the blood mist, he knew better than anyone else how great the author’s struggle while trapped within it was.

but.

‘That’s it.’

Now it really has to end.

I could hear the commotion and feel the presence of people approaching.

We need to wrap things up before things get any more complicated.

And the Archduke’s psychology was directly reflected in his next attack.

Ssuk-.

A crimson holy sword completely hidden in a crimson blood mist.

In an environment of the same color, a blood-red snake with its aura hidden secretly approached Yuri.

As soon as it entered a certain radius, it exposed its fangs and aimed directly at Yuri’s heart.

Sugar!

‘Huh!’

Yuri was terrified.

At the same time, I had a gut feeling.

It was already too late to dodge or block the snake-like attack that suddenly emerged from the red fog.

‘Ah, shit.’

So he looked at the face of the Archduke beyond the crimson holy sword flying towards his heart.

“You, I have carefully observed your face.”

Kwajeok-.

And with those words, Yuri, who was hit by the crimson holy sword, was hit so hard that she was thrown out of the blood mist.

with a plop-!

It fell straight into a nearby river.

“… … .”

The Archduke stared blankly at the river water that had swallowed the glass, then turned his gaze to his own hands.

“hmm…….”

He clearly saw his holy sword hit his opponent.

However, what bothers me is that the feeling when the Holy Sword hits is strangely strange.

‘Did he really live?’

But the Archduke soon shook his head.

“No way.”

If you survive being hit in the heart with a holy sword, you are not human in the first place.

It’s just a ‘monster’.

While the Archduke was trying to shake off the strange feeling, his subordinate Marco approached.

“Your Highness, people are gathering. You must hurry. If anyone happens to see you… … .”

“I know.”

A person who has never left his family lineage.

It would be no good for someone to find out that he was in a place like this.

“Let’s check his body tomorrow.”

“All right.”

The moment the Grand Duke, who had given orders to his subordinates, was about to leave the place.

“hmm?”

He was able to find the sword that had fallen where he had performed the blood feat.

‘Come to think of it, that guy had two swords?’

One of them was still hanging on his waist, its link apparently torn off during the struggle in the bloody mist.

The Grand Duke picked up the sword left behind by the unidentified man and leisurely left the place.

***

“so…….”

The moment the Archduke’s holy sword hit his chest.

Yuri used the magic he had prepared to kill the power of the holy sword, and then trusted in the crystal armor and became strong.

He made his opponent believe that he had been struck by the Holy Sword and performed the Sadong Great Law in the river.

After fighting once, I didn’t think the situation would change much if we fought again, so I decided to take care of my health first.

“… Well, that’s what happened.”

Yuri concluded the previous night’s circumstances like that.

The expressions of those present grew heavy as they listened to his long story.

I was wondering how I ended up getting involved with the Archduke of the Iscario family, but it turns out it’s even more serious than I thought.

Arin asked with a tired expression.

“That, that dirty secret you were talking about… No way?!”

“That’s right, I learned a strange magic that allowed me to absorb human lifeblood.”

“If that is true, then perhaps the secret of the Iscario family’s immortality is… … .”

“It must be stealing human blood.”

Yuri witnesses the secret of the Iscario family that no one knew about.

That would make sense enough for Archduke Blair to try to kill Yuri.

At this, Gunther let out a small sigh.

“So now, what do you plan to do?”

Given Yuri’s personality, there was no way she would back down like this.

Especially since even the Sword of the Unbreakable Sword might be in Blair’s hands, how could he possibly back down?

So Gunther’s question meant, ‘How are you going to fight Blair and get the sword from now on?’

Yuri answered with shining eyes.

“First, I need you to do something.”