Comrade Killer

Once I was close enough to have him in Vendettatein’s range again, he finally moved his gaze back to look at me again.

And just when I thought that he’d take the same stance as before with the rapier, he sheathed the sword and took a different stance with his bare fists.

“Right now, I want to kill the woman behind you a lot more than you! But if you’re gonna get in my way, I’ll have to kill——“

Before he could finish his sentence, one their members from below finally ran reached here and burst into the room from behind us.

He was probably the closest to this room, so he ended up coming here first all by himself.

I didn’t want to get caught between the two here, so I decided to quickly turn and take care of this guys first but…….

It was Milworc who made a move before even I could.

Milworc dashed around me, taking a slightly longer route, to the door, and then grabbed the member that had just arrived——-and then slammed him into the ground.

He was smacked head first into the ground with such great force that with dull bursting sound, his head cracked open, and his own blood completely soaked his black robe as he lay there lifeless.

Unable to even understand what the hell just happened, I ended up frozen on the spot.

Since my own attack had been interrupted, I lost my concentration for a moment, but I quickly shook my head and then quickly moved to position myself between Milworc and Mielle once again, and retook my sword stance.

“I literally just said that I hate people interfering in my fights, and still each and every one of these fucking idiots keep doing it anyway!………hey, don’t you agree it’s annoying too?”

“………..”

“What the hell, at least give me answer will ya? That’s why, just let me get rid of the woman behind you first! I can’t have a fun fight like this after all!”

“I suppose I should say this but, you’re gonna have to kill me first before you can get to her.”

It seemed like he accepted my warning at face value, as he began to crack his blood-soaked fingers menacingly as he began to walk directly towards me.

……….once again, I affirmed my belief that Klaus was equally fucking insane to take a madman like him into his party.

No wonder the king was so against having a guy like this in the [Sword God]’s party, and now it made sense why Charlotte was so ready to help me take down Klaus, after he went out of his way to disobey the king to have him in his party regardless of the warnings.

They must have come to the conclusion that rather than protect the treasure of the country, the [Sword God]……..letting [Under Eye], no, the poison called Milworc walk around freely was a much bigger and unforgivable problem for the country.

I couldn’t even imagine just what kind of person Klaus had become by now but, if he really was able to subdue this Milworc, he really must have become a monster himself as well.

I was already feeling a bit gloom knowing that I have to face that very Klaus soon after in a deathmatch but, before all that I need to deal with Milworc in front of me first and foremost.

“Chris, you have to kill that man okay!? If you let him pass by, and kill me, I will never ever forgive you!!”

Hearing Mielle’s screams, who was obviously much more threatened by his words and actions, I simply gave a silent thumbs up in response.

His utterly insane actions did sap my spirits a bit but, thanks to that I did get a quick look at how he fights with his bare hands as well.

Dagger, then rapier, compared to those, I thought bare handed would be a much weaker fighting style but, just from his movements just now, I could tell that he just possessed enough raw strength to make it work.

But, it wasn’t that he was trained in some martial arts style or something like that. It was simply his natural-born ‘raw strength’ and nothing more.

Judging from how he was able to break open that guy’s head with a single move, it was cler that Milworc was excellent at using the full abilities of his body. He could draw strength from his entire body into his hand, and then release it all without even a little bit of waste.

Honestly, using bare fists might be a more flexible fighting style for someone like him than use a rapier, plus judging from his movements, it was clear that this was definitely his strongest and preferred fighting style as well.

I’m sure he’ll have a lot of different moves and attacks to launch at me now, so I have to use the lack of range of his barehanded attacks to my advantage.

Once my method for fighting Milworc was decided, I began to fasten my steps towards him.

The distance between us quickly shortened, and seeing Milworc take a stance with his fists——I took the initiative and activated [Sticky string manipulation].

A huge amount of strings burst out covering the room, and my first gambit had been set up.

For a moment, Milworc looked cautiously at the sudden release of all the strings but, he quickly realized that it was nothing more than a string with strong adhesive properties so he decided to ignore it and continued walking towards me.

Now, all I have to do is activate [Hardening] on the strings as soon as the battle starts and that alone will greatly limit his movements but………I still have more traps to set up.

I activated [Effect Spread], and then began gathering [Venom] inside my mouth.

It wasn’t a very strong poison but it could still cause numbness and spasms, and could even cause breathing problems as well.

The moment he enters my range, I can swallow the Venom and he’ll have no choice but to get affected by it due to [Effect Spread] as well.

My only worry was that I might affect Mielle as well but, if she happens to be within range, while I would feel sorry for her, but unfortunately she’ll have to deal with it.

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Apologizing to Mielle inside my head, my second gambit was also set up to go.

As for my last gambit, I was simply going to use [Black Mist] again even though he so easily dealt with it.

The distance between us continued to shorten and then the moment he entered the range of [Effect Spread]——–I activated [Black Mist].

And once again, the entire room was covered in pitch black darkness instantly.

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