Chapter 134

Itai no wa Iya nanode Bōgyo-Ryoku ni Kyokufuri Shitai to Omoimasu 134

Defense Specialization and a Sword 2

A few days later, Kasumi walked over to where the sword was with a familiar air .

Which was no surprise, as by now Kasumi had challenged the sword over 50 times .

“…Alright, here we go . ”

Kasumi walked down the steps and opened the door to meet the sword once again .

“…”

Kasumi slowly unsheathed her blade . She reminded herself of what her next move would be, as she blocked the sword that came flying towards her .

The sounds of clashing metal rang in the dark room .

A HP bar hovered above the sword, and Kasumi paid attention to it as they fought .

“‘Leap’!”

Once the sword’s HP bar had diminished a little, Kasumi leaped forward .

In the next instant, the spot where Kasumi had been a second ago was pierced by numerous swords .

In other words, this sword would do specific actions once its HP reached a certain point .

And after witnessing it many times, it became easy for her to avoid them .

“‘First of the Blades . Kagerou’!”

She closed in again after having moved back . Kasumi slashed at the sword and then took one step to the right . This was because she knew that a sword would shoot out of the ground .

While fighting the sword, she circled it, slowly taking one step at a time .

As she moved, swords would thrust out from the ground where she had been, with only a second’s delay .

It would be fatal if she stopped for a second . Furthermore, the swords that sprouted from the ground would not disappear unless certain conditions were met, so she had to think about where she moved .

It had taken a long time for Kasumi to figure out how to move in this fight .

By the time she had made a full circle around it, the HP bar of the sword had dropped to the next level, and it moved to the next phase of the fight .

The swords in the ground disappeared, and now there was purple fire raining from the ceiling instead .

If Kasumi got hit by it, her AGI would become 0 for 10 seconds .

And the sword itself had now switched to flying at an incredible speed, which made it clear that having reduced AGI would make it impossible to dodge its attacks .

The part that had frustrated Kasumi the most until now, was this fire rain .

No matter what, she could not dodge it completely until the sword moved to the next phase .

And so Kasumi reexamined the skills she had and tried to think of a way to get through this part .

“‘Last of the Blades . Oborozuki . ’”

Her conclusion was that she had to kill before she was killed .

12 high-speed successive attacks hammered at the sword with ferocity .

It’s HP bar was dropping at a shocking rate, but still, Kasumi showed no pleasure on her face .

Those 12 attacks allowed her to skip 3 phases and jump straight to the final one .

The sword’s HP bars was at one millimeter now, but that was inevitable .

No matter how much HP you took, it would always have just a little remaining .

Kasumi’s trump card was Oborozuki, but it also halved her stats for a fixed period and made her other ‘Blade’ skills unusable .

And she had to enter the final phase in that situation .

Kasumi had not been able to pass this phase and had died dozens of times .

“…”

The sword teleported to the back of the room . Its body was now shining brighter than before .

A wall of fire stretched up to the ceiling as if surrounding her . The walls of fire created a straight path towards the sword .

It was 10 meters long . And 3 meters wide .

Kasumi would have to run through here and strike the final blow .

“Hah!”

She let out a short breath and ran on her now slower feet .

Not only were numerous swords flying towards her from the front, but the walls of fire were spouting flames from both directions .

If she stopped for even a second, swords would shoot from the ceiling .

The 10 meters looked short but seemed so long .

“Hahh!”

She blocked the flying blade with her sword, barely dodged others, and continued forward .

She had to dodge the fire no matter what, as it would take her AGI . She also had to avoid the swords from the ground, but the flying swords were a different matter .

As long as she had not been hit until this point, she could survive three hits now .

Kasumi was now halfway across, and she understood it through all of her senses .

“‘Super Acceleration’!”

She had been saving ‘Super Acceleration’ until now, and she used it here to try and get through this area where the attacks came harder .

Yesterday, Kasumi had taken a break from fighting it, and she had asked Sally and Shin to help her improve her skill in dodging flying swords .

Perhaps that had proved effective because she could now see the course of the swords more clearly .

Still, as she was much closer now, she did not have enough time to deal with them, and so she was hit .

“Go…!”

She felt the shock through her whole body as her left shoulder, stomach and left thigh was pierced .

The painful-looking red effect resembled fresh blood as it splashed .

But Kasumi did not stop .

She thrust out her right hand . The sword that she gripped touched the sword that was floating .

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In the same instant, the floating sword lost its brilliance, and it quietly fell to the floor . Then it slid into a sheath that had materialized .

The fire and blades in her body now disappeared . The room returned to its usual darkness .

“…”

Kasumi reached out a hand to the fallen sword and picked it up .

“Hehe… Hahaha! I did it! I did it! I finally did it!”

She could not hold back from expressing her happiness as she inspected the item .

‘Self-devouring Bewitched Sword . Yukari . ’

STR+ 30

Bewitched Sword

Self-repair

Bewitched Sword

Includes 5 skills that can be used at the cost of HP reduction, MP reduction, Temporary Status reduction, Constant Status reduction, and Physical restrictions respectively .

Self-repair

Its durability will recover when it’s sheathed .

“I guess I’ll try it out . Now, to go find some easy monsters to kill!”

Kasumi equipped the sword and left the room to go and search for some monsters to test her new sword on .

After walking for a while, she found an easy monster .

“Good, good . I think this one had a lot of HP . ”

As Kasumi pulled the sword out of the sheath, a purple smoke rose into the air .

“Oh…? Hmm?”

The smoke quickly drifted off with the wind, but Kasumi saw that something was clearly different .

It was her own clothes .

Below, she was in a traditional dark purple skirt, and above her chest and arms were bound in a light purple cloth . The bindings around her arms and the sword were letting off a purple smoke .

“…”

Kasumi quietly returned the sword to its sheath .

And then the purple smoke was sucked in, and her clothes returned to normal .

“I, I guess I’ll get used to it? But still…”

She couldn’t just ignore something this advanced .

Kasumi coughed and with slightly flushed cheeks, unsheathed the sword once again .

Kasumi decided to use the skill that cost you physical restrictions, as she was the least sure what that meant .

“‘Purple Phantom Blade’!”

With the help of the skill, Kasumi moved towards the monster at an accelerated speed .

Then she cut with the sword in her right hand .

She let go of the sword with her right hand, and it disappeared and reappeared in her left .

Then she gripped the sword and slashed again before it vanished and materialized in the other hand once again .

Starting from the right hand, she attacked from both sides . The monster was thrown back as she charged at it with 10 successive blows .

Finally, she let go of the blade and brought her hands together in front of her chest .

And threw 10 swords out .

The blades surrounded the monster in the air and stabbed into it all at once .

It was 20 attacks in all . A monster that merely had high HP could not survive it .

When the skill was finished, the blade returned to Kasumi’s right hand .

“Good…yes . ”

It would be perfect if it weren’t for the clothes . Kasumi thought as the purple smoke surrounded her again .

“Huh…oh, it’s gone now . I dropped the sword…?”

She reached out to pick it up, but then she noticed that her hand looked terribly small .

“Hmm…?”

Her skirt was kept up through system restrictions, but her bindings around her arms and chest were becoming loose . She was now only 120 cm tall .

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“What…oh, what?”

She tried picking up the sword, but she couldn’t handle it with just one hand .

She knew that it would be hard to swing even if she used both hands .

“This…”

As Kasumi tried to understand what was happening, a different monster came near her .

And the monster was not sensitive to her plight .

“Oh…! Hey, hey, wait! Look how cute I am! I think, anyway! Let me go! Ahh…ggg…”

Of course, it was not effective, and Kasumi was sent back to the town .

When she returned, her bindings were tightened again, but her body was still small .

Kasumi checked her status .

“10 minutes like this…”

She gave up and walked over to a step as she dragged her skirt . And there she sat quietly, eyes shut and ignoring the looks she was getting .