Chapter 38
Translator: True Detective
Chapter 38. Returning to Heaven
Aura wavering like a whirlpool from Derac's sword.
This moment when fragments of black Aura form a river and whip up.
Derac looked at Elise with two bloodshot eyes.
“Elise Blaze….”
Derac's voice breaking off in pieces.
That voice was quite bizarre, but Elise raised her blade without caring.
She only finishes preparing to kill the opponent in front of her eyes.
“Are you done talking.”
“Right…. Well then. Shall we end this sickening fight….”
Saying so, Derac immediately took a stance to bound forward.
“This moment that might be the last. I want to refrain from dirty tricks. The reason I held a dirty sword was also due to that sickening story.”
As soon as the words ended.
Bang—!
Derac's figure sprinted forward.
“Elise Blazeeeeeee!!!”
His figure stretches like taffy and shoots towards Elise.
At the same time, the blade of black Aura draws a horizontal line.
The moment Derac's eyes become sharp to take Elise's neck right away.
“Right. If so.”
Elise also smiled softly and spoke.
“I will stop selling stories too.”
That moment, Derac felt the scent of flowers mixed in the smell of the wind blowing from Elise.
Along with that.
Bang—!
“Twenty-Four Plum Blossom Sword.”
Along with Elise's figure embedding itself in front of Derac as if folding space.
The 4th Form of the Twenty-Four Plum Blossom Sword, Sword Flower. The blade of Plum Blooming Profitable Guidance bounded out.
A single sharp red line heads towards the nape of Derac's neck, and.
At that time when the blades of the two people overlap.
Kwaaaaaaaaaaaaaang————!!!
Along with a massive sound of piercing air.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
The shockwaves of the two people ring in succession and begin to answer the sound of piercing air.
Grind—!
Along with that, Derac's teeth were clenched tightly.
To swing his full power towards this goddamn bitch rushing at him emitting a red eye light in front of his eyes.
Kang—!
They move.
Blades flutter and stretch out ceaselessly.
In this fierce battle situation where the Sword Qi and Aura of the two people collide, causing rough sparks, and fragments scatter.
The two eyes of Elise and Derac met.
[Goddamn bastard/bitch.]
The opinions of the two people coincided in a split second, but the gazes of the two people that matched for an instant immediately cross and bind each other's openings.
Kill. I will kill somehow!
Even while dozens of exchanges go back and forth intactly like that.
Between the two people, only a rough fierce battle goes back and forth, but an effective hit did not easily erupt.
In such a situation.
Grind—!
Along with Elise's teeth clenching tightly.
Bang—!
Elise's foot is directly embedded in front of Derac.
At that time when she steps a heavy stomp.
Elise's Sword Qi, which was scattering in all directions like fragments, flashed as if resonating like plum blossom petals.
‘Plum blossoms. Bloom in profusion and bloom in profusion in front of everyone's eyes—.’
Reveal your appearance.
Twenty-Four Plum Blossom Sword, 13th Form. Disturbance. The move of Plum Blossoms Gradually blooms as if spreading from Elise's sword and erupts.
Bang!
Derac's stance twists for an instant.
Along with that, Elise's blade, intactly aiming for that opening, shoots towards the twisted place.
Bang!
Derac's sword body blocks it, but.
Another twisted place occurs.
Bang!
In succession.
Bang!
In succession!
Bang!!!
In succession!!!
Generally.
An equal balance can tilt to one side in an instant due to a single strike.
At that time when Derac is immediately pushed back and Elise gradually takes the advantage.
“I!”
Elise's shadow that was spreading out along with that single word scattered.
Following that, Derac's strange scream deflects the momentum Elise cast.
“Do you think I lived until now to lose to something like this!”
Bang!
Derac's speed and power.
At the same time everything becomes faster, his eyes accompanied by burst capillaries look at Elise harboring murderous intent.
Bang!
“I died that day! That day my family killed by you Empire bastards died!!!”
Bang!
“Since that day, I went crazy to kill even one more of you bastards!”
Bang!
“Do you think I, who did that, would die at this moment!!!”
Kwaaaaaaaaaaaang!!!
Sizzleeeeeee———!!!
Elise immediately retreating backward dragging her feet on the ground.
Meanwhile, Derac's two eyeballs that made her retreat had murderous intent flowing stickily, no different from the eyes of a wild beast.
“I will kill! I will kill you, Elise Blaze!!! After you, I will beat all humans of the Empire to death!!! I will console the souls of me and my family!!!”
“…You are a crazy bastard.”
“Shut your trap! I will cut off even one more head of the Empire bastards and drink their blood!”
That moment.
Something more than Aura slowly began to reveal its appearance from Derac's sword.
‘…What is that. That?’
While Elise wondered, Derac also seemed to feel the change happening in his body.
“Kuhehe. Kuhehehehe!!! Have I finally grasped 7 stars! Let's see, let's see! Let's see if I can kill you with this!”
A voice truly full of desperation and madness.
Should I call it a strange scream or an appeal of a human.
While collapsing, Derac was looking at Elise holding 7 stars in his hand.
Meanwhile, only then did Elise guess Derac's state.
‘…Is it Qi Deviation. Well, his conviction is twisted, so there's no way he wouldn't suffer Qi Deviation.’
Tsk.
He seems to have mistaken Qi Deviation for enlightenment.
In the midst of that, a slight enlightenment really accompanied it, so he is manifesting an Aura Blade, Sword Aura, albeit clumsily.
Is that so….
Ptoo—.
Elise spat out dead blood and repeated inwardly.
It became a little easier.
Now it's a fight of time.
Against the half-baked 7th Rank in front of my eyes….
I had to endure or win.
“Let's do it. Derac.”
“Kuhehe! Right. Elise Blaze. I can finally see the sight of your head flying in the sky!”
The figures of the two people collided as if exploding.
***
The two swordsmen continuing the fight in the middle of the snow mountain and frozen earth.
The appearance of black blood slowly dyeing the scenery of the frozen earth pursued a beauty of its own, but.
“Hoo—. Hoo—.”
“Heo-eok—. Heo-eok—.”
Such scenery didn't even enter the eyes of the two swordsmen.
Just watching for the opponent in front of their eyes to reveal an opening even a little.
Elise and Derac suffered injuries stickily, but their two eyes at least were emitting eye light.
A brief silence.
And the one who broke that silence was Derac.
“Kuhehe…. Kuheh…. Puhup!”
It was not the sound of laughter.
Derac spewed black blood from his mouth.
“…Goddamn it. The blood….”
While Derac's brows narrowed, Elise spoke lowly.
“Why don't you just stop.”
“Kuhehe. Elise Blaze. You are saying something ridiculous, just telling me to die.”
“No. That's not it.”
Elise spoke while spitting dead blood.
“That. Is not heading to the 7th Rank, but a kind of mana runaway.”
Mana runaway.
It was the term for Qi Deviation in this world.
“You. You'll die at that rate. Even if you win against me, you'll die.”
“Kuhehe…. Is that so….”
Derac unable to deny.
Gag—!
Derac, continuing to spit out dead blood, also realized his situation.
I die.
He realized that the shadow named death was casting a shade on his life.
The moment Derac's silence lengthened.
“Right…. But you see. Elise Blaze….”
Derac's two eyes, which had dropped his head slightly, flash and come up.
“Even if I die. There is a conviction I must follow.
“I'm sorry, but that conviction is shattered to pieces, so a mana runaway is happening right now.”
“Kuhehe!”
Derac laughed revealing his blood-stained teeth.
“Even that fragmented conviction is my conviction. Elise Blaze.”
“…Is that so.”
Elise nodded.
Even if it is twisted, that is also himself.
Elise firmly gripped the handle of her sword and spoke lowly.
“I will answer that conviction.”
Elise prepared lowly.
“Twenty-Four Plum Blossom Sword.”
On the frozen earth where snow flowers bloomed.
The red flowers softly reveal their appearances and bloom a flower garden.
The scent of those flowers scatters and scatters, reaching her dream and hometown in that faraway place.
Come.
Plum blossoms.
“24th Form. Ten Thousand Scents. Plum Blossoms Scent of Ten Thousand Li.”
That moment, Derac felt it.
That Elise's momentum is unusual.
And his guess was not wrong.
Her state was unusual.
From her sword, Rina, fragments of Sword Qi began to bloom and scatter.
Blooming. Blooming. Soaring up.
A massive air current of Sword Qi began to flow centering on her.
“Go.”
Along with her voice ringing lowly, a slash casts towards Derac who leaped out feeling an unusual sign.
——! ——! ——! ——! ——!
Shockwaves erupt in succession.
Derac, entangled in Elise's slash and facing numerous attacks before he knew it.
In that chaotic air current, Derac realized.
That the Aura Blade forged by his fragmented conviction is slowly cracking.
‘Goddamn it.’
I have to end it immediately.
I had to push through the fragments of Sword Qi scattering in front of my eyes and cut Elise's neck.
Bang—!
Derac shooting immediately stepping a heavy stomp on the ground.
Along with that, Elise's Sword Qi fragments attack Derac but.
Kang! Kang! Kang!
Derac striking away the slashes while moving his sword in succession.
However, he had to slowly feel something strange.
‘It doesn't… stop?’
The slashes did not stop.
No matter how much he deflected the slashes, these wicked bright red slashes showed no sign of ending.
“What!”
The moment Derac was astonished.
Elise's mouth opened.
“Flutter. Plum blossoms.”
Beyond ten thousand li. Crossing and crossing worlds.
Hoping this scent can reach that faraway Murim.
And Elise began to approach Derac.
“…Do not come.”
Derac ended up stepping back even while being cut by the slashes.
“I said do not approach…. me!!!”
Derac's words had no choice but to stop at talking to himself.
Before he knew it. Because numerous plum blossoms had bloomed around him and were binding Derac.
This is exactly the final move of the Twenty-Four Plum Blossom Sword.
Covering the entire world with plum blossoms and their scent.
24th Form, Ten Thousand Scents. The move of Plum Blossoms Scent of Ten Thousand Li.
Derac was looking at the fragments of Sword Qi covering even the sky before he knew it.
“What. On earth is this…!”
Thud—!
Eventually, Derac, who sat down as if collapsing on the spot, looked at Elise who had approached before he knew it.
And right then.
Puhuuup——!
Derac's Qi Deviation, which he had been holding back until now, properly erupted.
Bleurgh! Bleuruegh!
Derac immediately shoving his head down and vomiting blood.
Looking at such him, Elise was only looking lowly.
“Derac.”
At that time, Elise's mouth opened.
“I don't know what your story is. Nor do I have the intention to hear what your story is. Only. What I will show you is.”
Elise's sword begins to move.
“Now it's my plum blossoms. That only I know.”
That moment.
Derac, who stopped vomiting blood, saw.
Falling slowly.
Falling blossoms slowly.
In this full bloom of ten thousand flowers where falling fragments of Sword Qi fall like petals.
“…Ah.”
Derac.
Derac merely watched.
The fragments of flowers fluttering and falling connecting heaven and earth.
In the moment those fragments connect and cover the world.
Derac.
Derac….
As if feeling something, his expression hardened for an instant.
“…Ah ah.”
Beauty is felt.
Because the fragments of petals fluttering from far away to this close are beautiful.
Because even the thoughts and worries he possessed suddenly melted into that beauty for an instant.
Because it felt like even he would fall into the beautiful scenery those flowers express.
The warrior of the frozen earth saw flowers blooming in the snow of the snowfield for the first time.
Because the appearance of those flowers was beautiful.
Because the scent of those flowers was beautiful.
Because the flight of those flowers was beautiful.
“…Ah ah ah.”
Derac felt all the thoughts that had suffocated him until now being liberated.
And in the middle of that scenery, Elise was there.
“Derac.”
“…Elise Blaze.”
“The end of life, in the scenery of these flowers, lay down your thoughts even for a moment. Go peacefully at the end at least.”
Clack—.
“Farewell. Derac.”
The moment Elise's blade was shot towards Derac.
“…Thank you.”
Slice—!
Derac's neck flew in the empty air, but.
The expression embedded on his face was a peaceful appearance having completely laid something down.
His grudge too.
His conviction too.
His thoughts too.
The scent of plum blossoms that approached before he knew it blew them far away and granted him rest.
Who on the battlefield wouldn't have a story.
Derac's story far away too.
And his soul fluttered far away towards the sky too.