Chapter 63: Lightning strikes
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Hanayuki is swallowed whole by the train demon. The two girls, Ninym and Shaymi, are left with pure shock. Both their knees dropped down to the floor. They would like to help Hanayuki. The question was how?
An attempt to rescue was literal suicide. To both girls who had less experience in fighting high-level monsters. It's reasonable that their bodies are all petrified for the moment.
“I already ate her! The evil incarnate is killed by me… Gyahahahaha!”
The loud laugh of the demon echoed through the train.
“Does that mean you’re letting us go?”
Asked Specter.
“Are you stupid? Why would you trust a demon's word? I’ll make everyone here kill each other and only the last one will go and survive.”
“No way that is true either… The train incident stories specified that the adventurers and knights who tried to kill this demon all disappeared to nothingness. Just like what he did to Hanayuki, he's likely to eat all of us.”
Four-eyes said.
“Bingo! You’re smart, like your appearance… I'm confused about how in the world I’m unable to see you as human… You can’t fool my eyes. You’re basically an imitation of your real self who is having tea 100 miles away from here.”
The train demon pointed out Four-eyes magic.
The man simply smiled in response. The other adventurers on his side are all surprised.
“Not just myself… I am bringing some others with me… My goal is to get the demon king's eye for my studies. I don’t have any intention of helping a revolutionary group. I’ll change the world my way.”
Speaking of others… The other three silent adventurers with him are all reanimated bodies. Adventurers have the exceptional magical power to be used by the controller. The train demon realized this and manifested hands that grabbed the four adventurers toward a giant mouth. The sharp teeth crushed the bodies, chewing them to pieces.
The man who is a hundred miles away has his tea. He felt a sting in his hand. Saying…
“My toys are destroyed before I can do anything… steal. It's a shame I lost my opportunity to steal the demon king's eyes. I should stay calm and enjoy my sweet tea.”
Back to the train.
The scared girl put her hand on her head, paranoid.
“There is no way out… I want to get married… I don’t want to die here.”
“Pull yourself together, Timen… We’ll get out of here alive.”
“T-This is your fault in your always pulling me into dangerous situations. I never wanted to become an adventurer in the first place. You’re just using me ever since. Just say that you look down on me because I’m not good looking like you or talented at social conversation.”
“That has nothing to do with this… Stop blaming me… We’re friends.”
“Friends my ass! You always get an 80% share in every mission! Stop acting like goody-two-shoes… You’re a rotten b***h inside.”
The two girls who were supposed to be friends fight each other. Behind them, the girl named Hima pulled her saber and sliced Timen's (Scared girl) head.
“Noisy monsters! Everyone is a monster! I’m the only human… I must kill all the monsters.”
Hima said and turned her blade to her comrade Colt. Thrusting her saber skewering his heart out from his body.
“Hima… I always love you…”
Colt's last words.
“I don’t love you.”
Behind them a wand pointed toward their bodies and huge flames were blasted, burning their targets.
“They all burned… I burned evil heretics… All of them are burned… Heretics.”
Nina's mind is also consumed by insanity. Nina started walking toward the 5th train car and going to the 6th train car. Her eyes fixed on the petrified bodies of Shaymi and Ninym.
When she raised her magic wand,
Her head was chopped down by an ax. Her brain blew away from her head. Her body drops headless. Nina’s blood-stained Ninym’s clothes and the side of her face.
The party member she respected was killed by another party member she trusted.
Seth had already woken up after Fouryes had disappeared from the train. The sleeping spell was undone. Seth was ready to m******e everyone inside the train.
Walking insane and his ax brandished. He goes to cut down the two girls. Before he was able to swing his ax down. A hand pops up from the floor. Holding Seth’s body.
The hand creates a lightning shock, electrocuting Seth and paralyzing him.
“That lightning…”
From the floor, Hanayuki rises with exploding lightning power. The adventurers who were still alive were immediately covered with a thick barrier.
Hanayuki claps her hands together, a massive bolt of lightning filling the entirety of the train. The looping mechanism was just a result of dimensional magic. The magic can be undone when superior magic is chanted inside the dimension.
Hanayuki experienced this when she destroyed the bell’s dimensional magic before.
“Supreme lightning discharge!”
The magic restricting them from going broke and the demon, not protected by the barrier, was damaged heavily by the lightning magic.
“This is insane. You should have said this earlier… Now, I could cast my magic inside this train without any worries.”
Leona curled her fist.
“Dynamic punch!”
The train cars got caught in an explosion. The long train was cut off. The force caused by the explosion made the people inside fly away to the grasslands nearby.
There is no way to save the dead, but at least everyone who is still breathing survived.
The burning sensation from the flames made the demon train scream in agony.
“Hots! Hots! I’m buuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrnnnnnnnnnnnnniiiiing!”
The train engine stopped working. Making the train get slower and slower. The demon king's eye hasn’t been retrieved yet. Hanayuki immediately ran at lightning speed, hopping to the head of the train.
Going to the head of the train, Yana is already there waiting for her with the demon king's eye already on her hand.
“I’ll kill you.”
“What are you planning to do?”
“I’ll kill you.”
“There is no point in this. Your ability can’t cut me down.”
“That is true, but I can do something to strengthen myself. If it means selling my soul to a demon to acquire the power to kill you. I’ll do it.”
Yana, without hesitation, swallowed the demon king's eye. After consumption, her body is transformed into something horrifying and alien. Body of swords without a face. Just a huge mouth filled with sharp sword-like teeth.
She’d transformed herself into a demon so that she could defeat Hanayuki.
Hanayuki’s restriction was not to kill humans. Demons and monsters are an exception. Second, Hanayuki knew that Yana was already at the point of no return. Her blind rage had already destroyed her inside.
Hanayuki conjures a light sword and goes into a combat stance the same as Yana.
A one-strike duel.
At lightning-fast speed. Both girls passed by each other. Hanayuki’s body, despite the lightning speed, got cut and her blood was sprayed out on her chest.
But for Yana… Yana’s entire body was cut in half. From head to toe.
Hanayuki used her conjured lighting sword as a bluff. Intercepting Yana’s sword. The real weapon she used to cut down Yana was the sharp dagger she got in a weapon shop in the demon capital.
Unable to notice her second sword, Yana could not avoid her death.
“I hope you meet the one you love in another life.”
Hanayuki muttered.
The head of the train shifted multiple arms and multiple giant faces all directly facing Hanayuki.
“I’ll kill you! I’ll kill you!”
The fight is far from over.
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