“Oh…! Kee-hee, oh my, how intriguing…!”
But as I slowly turned my hand over and moved my finger, he quickly gave a ferocious smile.
C’mere. Neither of us wants to pussyfoot this fight.
You want a spectacle? Then let’s make this as entertaining as possible.
He replenished his Thunder magic.
Somehow I have to—
“Mylene…Mylene…Mylene! Ohh, my dear, you are truly a star!”
Just as I thought. Victor wants a big climax.
With a crack of thunder Victor rematerialized, his fist flying before my eyes. I crouched down and moved my arms up to block his fist. At the same time, I pulled my free arm backward at the hip like I was getting ready to shoot an arrow.
“Ryahh!”
“Gaff!”
I launched my fist into his exposed abdomen. The shock of the impact shook the scenery.
I think he feels pain… Even though he’s similar to Pearlman, there are a lot of differences.
If I’m right, he may have an iron will hiding beneath that pretentious facade. He ought to be rolling around on the floor in pain by now.
Victor surged with magic. I side-jumped, sensing danger, and a wall of lightning shot at me, stopping just an inch away from my eyes.
“Hack-hack! Peh! You’ve got great reflexes, my dear…!” Victor coughed up blood, a twisted smile in his eyes.
Yeah, this guy’s fucking insane. It must be hell just to stay standing, yet he managed a magic counterattack.
I could easily hit him right now, but he would probably make fun of my hair.
Looks like that lit a fire in his belly… The smile vanished from Victor’s face.
I think playtime is over now.
Victor’s body filled with purple lightning. I sharpened my focus, following his gaze—to the right!
“Oof?! Gragh!” I gasped in pain.
With a snap, a blast of lightning had hit me from the opposite direction. It felt like burning needles were coursing through my entire body. I almost blacked out for a moment, but my rage kept me on my feet.
You motherfucking sneak. You feinted…!
“Kee-hee! Guess your sharp reflexes backfired.”
Here’s a radical theory—no matter how fast your opponent is, at the end of the day, a one-on-one fight is nothing more than a battle of wits.
And if I was right, we were in bitch-slapping territory. I couldn’t let this asshole win.
“Hmph—are you immortal?!” Victor gasped in shock as I rushed him, punching through my pain.
I didn’t blame him for being shocked. What I was doing wasn’t good for him.
From what I could tell, Victor could not activate his teleportation in rapid succession. That was never the way that fighting style was built.
A Thunder attack at lightning speed was lethal. Nobody was supposed to dodge or survive it, so you never even had to consider a second attack.
The light cutting attacks he’d used on me at first could be fired in a small radius to a certain extent. But if you unleashed a big finishing blow, you would use up all your charge.
And he could recharge his powers in a short amount of time. However—
“Stop beating around the bush, you! You’re being redundant!”
—if I could survive, the gap in his defenses just after his attack would be too great for me to ignore.
Victor’s eyes opened wide in horror. They were surely locked onto my fist, which was zooming straight for him. My fist pounded into his cheek, distorting his chiseled jaw. A wave rippled through his cheek, sending his teeth flying. In that compact span of time, I watched the effects of my attack as my fist eagerly followed through.
“Oof—grafffaw?!”
Victor’s body flew comically fast. He smashed against the auditorium wall, cracking it. Most guys wouldn’t have survived that—
“Mmf—phew…nngh! Not yet…I’m not ready for it to end…!”
But of course he got back up.
Still, I finally got to smash his face in—what a relief.
Now I just needed to end the fight.
I glared silently at him. Victor opened his eyes wide and smiled again.
“Ahh…how beautiful!”
His arms flopped as he raised them. He shook his body, filling it with magic. He was like a balloon about to burst. The magic filled him beyond capacity, shooting ominous red streaks of lightning through his veins.
And after overloaded himself with magic, Victor burst out of sight.
“Hahhh!!!”
A split second later, he reappeared right in front of me. With an ecstatic scream, he launched his fist at me, riding on the momentum.
He’s insanely fast…I can’t dodge him!
But my arm flew! As his fist connected sharply with my cheek, I echoed his punch with my own. We both swayed from the impact of the jabs. I took a big step backward, and Victor followed suit.
“Fucking die!!!”
“Nngh—ahh!”
I recovered a split second faster and landed my gut punch before he could.
Victor folded in two. I raised my leg high to kick his head as it fell forward.
But my shoe cut through thin air. Victor rematerialized far away in my periphery. He had teleported.
But I knew that hadn’t set him up for a fresh attack. Victor had charged his body with magic beyond capacity a moment ago.
In other words, he still had a charge!
The very next instant, he grabbed my raised leg. I let the momentum lift me off the ground. Then he slammed me onto the ground as if I were a tree branch in a storm.
“Gah—ah!”
I barely managed to shield my head, but the impact against my back crushed my lungs, knocking the wind out of me.
But my pain lasted only a moment before he lifted me off the ground again.
I can’t take another hit like that!