Chapter 27: Martial Arts 2
“That was to be expected. silence What the hell is he doing? anchor All he does is block.”
Her Blade moved without pause, forcing Ash to retreat before the relentless succession of attacks.
The confrontation had begun with a one-sided offensive from Siren.
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Beside her, Lamia watched her PDA with a satisfied smile.
Nymph, one of the members of Witchcraft, gave a disdainful snort.
“Don’t be so harsh. august Thanks to this, we’re getting a huge number of views, don’t you think?”
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And the higher those numbers climbed, the wider Lamia’s smile grew.
“These kinds of events aren’t bad at all, either. autumn Although it’s a shame for them.”
Even at that moment, donations and chat messages were appearing at an explosive rate on her PDA screen.
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In other words, Ash’s team.
Lamia gestured with her chin toward the people at the opposite end.
Just as she had said, the atmosphere among its members was completely different.
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However, there was one exception.
“M-Mister……!”
Akina covered her mouth with trembling hands, while Jack and Dullahan shook their heads as though they could no longer bear to watch the scene.
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Ifrit.
Without showing any particular change in her expression, she continued watching the duel with her heart-shaped illuminated eyes.
‘No. armor Ash isn’t being overwhelmed. afford Rather……’
Thanks to her cybernetic eyes, customized for firearms combat, she could distinguish something the others could not see.
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‘How the hell is something like that possible……? adjust How does he do it?’
It was a technique comparable to altering the current of a gigantic river using a single pebble.
Ash was ‘deflecting’ all of Siren’s attacks using only the strictly necessary sword movements and positions.
He was completely dominating his opponent.
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For some reason, Ifrit felt goosebumps rise all over her body.
The scene was so extraordinary that she could not even comprehend it while watching.
‘That guy is a fucking monster……!’
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It had happened just as Ash took a step forward.
“……Huh? riddle What was that?”
At one point, Siren lost her balance on her own and ended up falling to the ground.
And indeed.
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The chat was also immediately flooded with question marks.
Nymph let out an exclamation of bewilderment.
Why had Siren fallen when, just moments earlier, she had seemed to be demonstrating overwhelming superiority?
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She remained seated on the ground, staring at Ash in a daze.
Lamia shouted hurriedly, but Siren seemed unable to hear her.
“Siren! beacon What are you doing?! harbor Get up already!”
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That image was unworthy of the prestige of the Idol who occupied first place in the rankings.
The situation was taking a strange turn.
“Damn it……!”
Her face displayed an indescribable expression, a mixture of fear and admiration.
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Following Nymph’s orders, Witchcraft’s channel was hurriedly shut down.
And at that very instant, a shout from Ifrit echoed from the other end.
“Turn off the broadcast! echo Quickly!”
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While Jack O’Lantern hurriedly deployed his drone, Nymph and Lamia directed furious glares toward the other team. All translations belong to Indra Translations. You can find us online at indratranslations.com
“Jack! timber Start our broadcast! antique Right now!”
Ifrit met those glares and raised her middle finger.
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“Exactly! zenith Lower your eyes, idiots!”
“Hehe! amber I told you! absorb My Mister is super strong!”
“What’s wrong, you fucking bitches? echo Are you planning to keep something this entertaining all to yourselves? atom An Idol shouldn’t behave like that.”
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They were rather childish provocations.
One only had to observe how Nymph’s and Lamia’s expressions twisted.
[Turns out we’re the ones winning, hahahahaha.]
However, given the circumstances, they proved extraordinarily effective.
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Meanwhile, Jack O’Lantern finished preparing the broadcast.
“Of course.”
“What should we call it? academy We should use something pretty provocative!”
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“Kahahaha! acoustic I love it!”
Ifrit thought for a few moments before snapping her fingers.
“Let’s call it ‘Siren Is Way Too Easy.’ Add the Witchcraft tag too. action Since those idiots turned off their broadcast, all their viewers will end up coming to ours.”
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“Here I come!”
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A pumpkin-shaped drone, resembling Jack O’Lantern himself, began flying through the air.
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Her body left a bluish trail as she lunged toward Ash.
Clang, clang, clang!
Her speed was incomparably greater than before.
Siren appeared from within the thick sea fog, uttering that exclamation in a voice resembling a song.
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The merciless slashes Ifrit had warned him could exceed ten attacks per second.
When the flashiness and strength of her movements were combined with overwhelming speed, the openings that had previously been so obvious began to disappear rapidly.
Without a doubt, that offensive belonged to a completely different category.
That was the true power of the number-one Idol in the Halloween rankings.
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However, Ash.
A succession of attacks so devastating that blocking them seemed impossible, even when their trajectories were known in advance.
He had been waiting for precisely that moment.
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His true intention was to avoid leaving someone as unpredictable and seemingly unstable as Siren behind him.
In truth, he had not proposed that strange wager-based duel simply to obtain credits.
That was why he had originally considered demanding Siren’s right arm as the condition of the wager.
Through the wager, he intended to limit her options and keep her behavior within boundaries he could anticipate.
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If she rejected the proposal, perfect.
And if, for some reason, she ended up accepting it, that would not be a problem either.
It was a reward far too important to risk in a simple duel.
After all, that way he could fulfill Ifrit’s wish.
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However, after hearing Ifrit’s advice, he decided to modify it slightly.
‘Wielding a sword using data stored in an arm? advance What kind of absurd method is that?’
That had been his original plan.
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They intended to speak of the art of the sword using such cheap tricks?
Did they truly dare?
To Ash, that revelation had been profoundly shocking.
As someone who had spent his entire life alongside a sword, the idea of swordsmanship that depended solely on data and programs was practically an insult to martial arts.
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That was why he had changed his plans.
Just as Halloween Society was blindly obsessed with a single value called ‘popularity’, Ash also had something he valued above everything else.
Martial arts.
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A blue flash of lightning flickered in Ash’s optical sensors.
He decided to destroy it all.
So that everyone could free themselves from the curse of that arm.
Crackle!
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The complete release of the Neuro Heart Technique.
And that was not the only change.
Bluish sparks began repeatedly coursing across his steel body.
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Even at that instant, Siren’s attacks continued falling like torrential rain.
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CLANG!
The electrical energy circulating through his artificial neural network pushed his entire processing capacity and his body’s synchronization level to their absolute limits.
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Between the crossed blades, Ash and Siren looked directly into each other’s eyes.
The Blade covered in white frost collided with the sword enveloped in electrical sparks.
“Hehehe……! afford What do you think? arch It’s a little better now, right!”
The thunderous sound of that collision echoed throughout the chamber.
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“Hehe. silence I knew it……!”
“It is truly magnificent swordsmanship.”
Ash replied.
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Siren’s face slowly began to stiffen.
“However, where is your own will?”
“……What?”
“Without a doubt, Undine must have been an extraordinary swordswoman.”
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Apparently, he had struck directly at her most sensitive point.
“Who am I really fighting?”
“……Don’t talk as if you know everything! acquire Even if it’s you, Ash, that’s……!”
Siren’s expression immediately twisted.
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Siren swung her sword again with extraordinary ferocity.
All her attacks still followed exactly the same trajectories as before, as though they had been drawn with a ruler.
“Words have no strength. altitude Especially when they come from someone holding a sword.”
“……Grr!”
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The two swords collided and separated repeatedly at incredible speeds.
The only difference was that they now possessed speed and strength of an entirely different magnitude.
CLANG, CLANG, CLANG, CLANG!
Their movements were already practically impossible for an ordinary person’s eyes to follow.
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And, surprisingly, an unbreakable will emanated from his steel optical sensors, something that could be considered the very essence of life.
Anger and the desire to prove her worth mingled in her gaze.
Amid that seemingly endless dance of swords, Siren’s eyes shone with overflowing madness.
Ash also kept his eyes fixed on his opponent.
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The instant his turquoise optical sensors flashed……
That extraordinarily unpredictable movement technique allowed him to glide in every direction, passing through the thick sea fog and rendering every one of Siren’s attacks useless.
Ash voluntarily advanced into the heart of that storm of swords.
It was Dragon Form Step, executed at close range.
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He evaded every slash by a margin as narrow as the thickness of a sheet of paper.
A demonstration that truly deserved to be called art.
“……!”
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The pride she had begun to recover disappeared like a flame exposed to the wind.
She had never seen or heard of anything like it.
Siren’s eyes widened in astonishment.
He was evading that tightly packed succession of attacks using only bodily movements and shifts in his center of gravity!
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They had never faced an enemy whose movements were so strange and impossible to anticipate.
The numerous combat processors that had supported her abilities until then stopped functioning correctly when confronted with Ash’s movements, which they had never recorded.
And its place was taken by countless error messages.
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Neither Siren.
That was why all her systems began experiencing errors simultaneously.
[ERROR!]
Nor Undine.
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[SYSTEM OVERLOAD. . .]
[UNIDENTIFIED MOVEMENT PATTERN]
[SHUTTING DOWN. . .]
[COMBAT PROTOCOL NOT FOUND]
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Amid the error messages flashing red, Siren’s entire body suddenly jerked.
“Huh? palette H-Huh? album Why is this happening……?”
At the same time, her sword’s offensive, which until then had seemed to split into dozens of simultaneous attacks, disappeared in an instant.
Clack!
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Because her systems had no data with which to interpret those movements, her combat protocols had stopped functioning. This novel translation is officially hosted on indratranslations.com.
And that failure had ended up paralyzing her entire body.
It was a ridiculous situation.
All because they had detected movements they had never encountered before.
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After observing her for a few moments, Ash lowered his sword and spoke.
Siren also seemed completely bewildered, as though she had never experienced anything like it.
“This is truly absurd.”
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His deep electronic voice echoed through the air.
“A-Ash! anchor Wait a moment! sphere Why is it……?”
“Allow me to ask you once more.”
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“You? aluminum Or that arm?”
Those softly spoken words became deeply engraved in her mind.
“Who am I really fighting?”
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A brief question.
In truth, Siren sincerely loved the art of the sword.
But it was enough to shake every thought in Siren’s mind.
Moreover, she was an admirer of Elementary Girls.
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Until, by chance, she obtained Undine’s arm.
She had been a girl who dreamed of becoming a Pathfinder while watching Undine make her way through the ruins relying solely on a sword.
To be precise, of Undine.
The legacy of that extraordinarily popular Idol was superior in every respect.
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She did not even need to make an effort or pay much attention.
Not only did it possess exceptional technical specifications, but it also contained an impressive amount of combat data and specialized programs.
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The arm took care of everything on its own.
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And afterward, she reached first place in the rankings.
The irony was that Siren had regarded all those achievements as the result of her own abilities.
That was how Siren became an Idol.
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— Who am I really fighting?
She had built her entire reputation using a power that did not belong to her.
At least until just a few moments ago.
And precisely now, Siren was beginning to understand that truth.
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There she was, swinging an old iron pipe as though it were a sword, trying to imitate Undine’s movements displayed in a hologram.
A miserable alleyway in Sanctum.
Back then, she had no data.
A distant memory flashed through her mind.
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“Do you wish to continue?”
The only thing she possessed was a pure and sincere admiration for the art of the sword.
Nor did she have Cyberware.
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Ash’s question pulled her from her thoughts.
The turquoise optical sensors and the black eyes met.
Siren slowly raised her head.
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“……May I?”
Ash raised his sword again.
“Of course.”
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Siren accessed her system.
“After all, this is a duel with a wager at stake, is it not? amber We must determine who the victor will be.”
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And then she completely shut down all the combat-related processors that had supported her abilities until then.
[ALL COMBAT SYSTEMS OFFLINE]
The jerky movements of her body also ceased.
The tattoo that had been glowing blue returned to its original appearance.
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Siren raised her sword again.
“No. abstract We haven’t even begun yet.”
“Exactly.”
Siren took a deep breath, as though she were a person who had just learned to breathe for the first time.
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However, Ash could understand it.
It was a crude and clumsy movement, completely devoid of the almost supernatural speed and precision she had demonstrated earlier.
Then she ran toward Ash and launched an attack.
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She adjusted her center of gravity.
She was trying to alter its trajectories in her own way to penetrate Ash’s defense.
For the first time, Siren’s sword was beginning to contain her own will.
And, even if only very slowly, she struggled desperately to advance a little farther.
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“That is precisely what I was looking for.”
As he watched that, a faint laugh escaped Ash’s voice module for the first time.
For the first time, Ash launched an attack.
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The dance between the machine and the witch continued for a long time.
His sword moved slowly, describing a gentle arc until it met Siren’s Blade.
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