The Heroines Are Obsessed with the Slit-Eyed Counterattack Character
BOOM!
Black lightning crashed down onto the spot where Megan stood.
Reacting with agile movements, Megan stepped away from the ground and countered the scorching hellfire raining toward him with mana.
After stepping back once, he dodged the charging lightning and swung his sword at the enemy.
Yet five 7-Star experts bound him—each one possessing the power to annihilate a small city.
Clearly Megan’s attack was lethal, but his foes defended with the skill of someone who seemed to have analyzed every facet of his fighting style.
Megan reluctantly admitted, If things stay like this, victory is impossible.
But he could not retreat.
“……”
Around him lay the lifeless bodies of students and faculty entangled in the chaos of Megan and the intruders’ fight.
If he fled, the remaining souls at Luin Academy would meet an uncertain end, and he could not bear to watch that.
He could not escape.
Megan clenched his eyes tight and poured mana into his blade.
Golden mana rapidly enveloped his sword.
“All of you, I assume, gathered here out of resentment and have committed this heinous act.”
His gaze locked onto everyone pouring endless hatred toward him.
“I will personally cut off your breaths!”
Releasing mana, he swung his sword.
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!
Megan Astorius’s golden strike rained down as divine punishment upon all those he recognized as evil.
The world was briefly bathed in light amid the deafening roar.
Megan had hoped this attack would reduce the enemy numbers significantly.
But the situation refused to unfold as he imagined.
“……”
The assassin’s arm was severed, five 6-Star experts lay dead, and the rest were not even counted.
Even though he had unleashed half his mana in that single strike, the damage inflicted was shockingly minimal.
“I never imagined you would be the type to panic either.”
Eva spoke with a wicked smile, staring at Megan as if drilling through him.
“We all gathered here with the sole purpose of destroying you. Would such humans really come without any preparations?”
Megan’s already dark face grew even more ominous.
Five 7-Star experts, each one knew his strengths and weaknesses as if reading from the palm of their hand.
“………”
Suddenly, the memory of that certain youth who had called him a hypocrite hours earlier flashed through his mind.
“……I see. Perhaps I was a hypocrite from the very beginning, just as you said.”
He had drawn his sword to save every human suffering under demon oppression, only to become the target of hatred from those very humans.
All of this was his karma.
“……Sorry, Shina. I should have been with you more as your older brother.”
Megan let out a bitter chuckle.
Then, with a bold laugh aimed at those tightening the noose around his neck, he declared:
“Come on! Let’s test which is stronger—the sword of my annihilation or the blade of your hatred!”
He was prepared to die.
At that moment.
“……Who the hell are you guys causing chaos in my home base.”
Mana gathered in the air, and soon a figure of ambiguous gender formed in its place.
“You? Or them? Hurry up and tell me.”
Merquin asked Megan with a nervous tone.
Megan recognized Merquin at once—the guardian spirit of Luin Academy, a high-rank spirit.
“These people are attacking Luin Academy.”
“Those bastards? They all look half-and-half, but why the hell are they causing a ruckus in my house?”
“They are 7-Star experts, one after another. Can you handle them?”
“……Much tougher than I thought. I can take one, but more than that might be impossible.”
Merquin hardened his expression, sensing the gravity of the situation.
One, many, or few—it mattered little to Megan.
Yet Megan’s face remained grim. Although Merquin’s arrival gave him a sliver of hope, the odds were still perilously close to zero.
Could he truly overcome four 7-Star experts and countless 6-Star and 5-Star foes?
He lacked full confidence.
“It’s all because of you. If you had understood your opponent even a little, this horrific tragedy would never have happened, right?”
Eva laughed mockingly as she arranged her mana around Megan.
“Repent for the agony tearing your body apart. For my husband……!”
At that instant.
“I was summoned.”
A deep voice echoed across the battlefield.
“……!”
The familiar voice made Eva’s body tremble faintly.
“How…?”
Everyone turned their heads toward the source of the voice, and a narrow gap no wider than a tunnel appeared before their eyes.
And from that pitch-black tunnel, a middle-aged man slowly stepped out.
“My runaway wife is here.”
Andres glared at Eva with a scowl.
“……Andres. How did you get here?”
“I left one son well taken care of. What a remarkable boy he is.”
“……You mean Shion?”
Andres gave a silent nod.
At that, Eva burst into uncontrollable laughter, her face twisting with mad glee.
“Ah… ahahahaha!!! I’m dying of laughter! The way you’re acting like a father without a clue—it’s too funny!”
“What’s so funny about that?”
“Look at yourself. You have no idea what kind of being your son is and you cherish him like this. I’m so curious. How would you react if you realized what kind of person Shion is……?”
“You’re already looking right now.”
“……What?”
Eva, still giggling like a lunatic, suddenly frowned and tilted her head.
“I know exactly what kind of being Shion is. I already know he’s not my real son. So what’s the issue?”
Andres stared at Eva and said:
“Whether he’s my real son or not, he thinks of me as his father, and I think of him as my son. In the end, Shion is my son. What about you? Look at you. Not only are you consumed with revenge and unable to think straight, but you’re treating the creation you birthed simply as a tool to carry out your purpose.”
Andres continued, shaking his head slightly.
“Disgusting, Emil.”
“………”
By now, only hatred toward Andres remained in Eva’s face.
“So, the almighty father came alone? If you die here, your son will be truly heartbroken.”
“Good. But even if I look like this, I have a heavy responsibility to bear and have no intention of dying easily.”
Adjusting his gauntlet, he shouted in a booming voice:
“All troops! Eliminate the traitors who dare challenge the precious heritage of the Praon Kingdom—the Luin Academy!!”
As if waiting for that very moment, countless soldiers poured out from the narrow tunnel.
Each one had reached the 5-Star to 4-Star realm.
With the soldiers of the Frelia family and a few academy professors acting as one, they charged at the 6-Star and 5-Star attackers.
The frontlines erupted into battle once more.
“We’ll finish the unfinished husband-and-wife quarrel here, Emil.”
“Hah, I hate clingy men.”
Naturally, Andres faced Eva.
BOOM!!
The leg muscles of the explosive Andres twitched, sending shockwaves bursting from the ground where he planted his foot.
In the blink of an eye, Andres was right in front of Eva.
His gauntlet infused with noble mana struck at her skull like lightning.
But Eva was no ordinary woman standing still.
Using her genius mind to predict every path Andres would take, she deftly used Blink magic to escape his range.
And blue lightning rained down upon his head.
HHHHAAAAA!!!
Andres roared, and mana blooming from his body shielded his flesh like a shield.
Then another rapid electric current struck at him.
Staring at that fatal attack that could end his life with a single moment of hesitation, Andres threw his fist with all his might.
BOOM!!!
The resulting wind pressure infused with mana scattered the current, and in the instant it would have slammed into Eva’s entire body, she again used Blink to put distance between them and saved her life.
A battle of consecutive natural disasters, Eva and Andres began a deadly waltz aimed at each other’s hearts.
How long did the fight continue? Eva’s breathing grew increasingly erratic.
“Our long-standing enmity seems to have reached its limit, Eva.”
Andres swung his fists fiercely.
Clenching his mana to form a barrier, Eva barely blocked his punch and kept her life.
Yet even in this dire situation, despair did not show on her face.
Eva smiled faintly and said:
“……Still such a foolish man.”
For a moment, the image of the Emil she once loved flashed before her, and unease stirred within Andres as he quickly turned his eyes to scan the surroundings.
Megan Astorius was facing a 7-Star mage and knight single-handedly.
Merquin, the guardian of Luin Academy, held her own against an equally formidable 7-Star archer.
At that moment, Andres’s spine suddenly chilled.
One person gone…?
He wondered briefly.
SHLACK!
A sharp dagger pierced his abdomen.