"Maybe I am underestimating everything here, but hey, are you sure you are not doing the exact thing?

Pure physical strength, which is also weakening significantly, every second, against an overload that uses gravitation as a toy?"

Alyndra just shook his head, slashing the glimmering, diamond-white long sword at an unbelievable speed hundreds of times in less than a second.

Kael's flame pillars had vanished, so it was pitch black in the narrow hallway, now add invisible slashes that could turn you into meat paste, thousands of them, tearing through air from every direction. No wonder I could hear some slaves pissing their pants with my enhanced hearing.

"Thank you for telling me you are using gravity to do all this shit. That was really nice of you. My jewel-like red eyes, glowing in the darkness, were still glaring at his blue eyes that had a certain cockiness in them, which could prompt anyone to want to punch him.

He chuckled, His shiny golden armor flaring an ominous aura as his blue eyes glinted, "You think of me as a fool? I only have fought battles I was certain of winning, and that certainty had never failed me."

"Ooo! I am sorry for you. First losses always sting the most…" I said in a rather gentle tone as I punched empty air, a wall nearby instantly faltering completely as I deflected one of the slashes, Alyndra's eyes filling with pure shock.

"…It will sting a lot," I added expressionlessly, Alyndra's face darkening with it.

A little bit of my Arcana had recovered after what happened with Alya. It was enough to use [Eye of Sanguine], which could see through even the slightest fluctuations of Arcana, and [Whisker paws] that made my hand kind of invulnerable.

It was a bit hard for me to sense before because the energy he released was too spread out, but the concentrated slashes were like a whip.

My face paled as a hundred more came faster than the last one, targeted at me and others. I doubted I was fast enough to deflect everything.

As I turned back to Alya, my face brightened. She was spraying her blood everywhere from her joined hands, each of the sprayed blood becoming a separate beam, hitting slashes at precise angles to destroy them.

What made me happier was her beautiful red eyes with long eyelashes, burning with a newfound life, you could say.

"Wait, wait, look out!" I yelled at a teenage girl frantically looking around as three slashes rushed at her. They were strong enough to tear through her and four women and five men behind her.

As I looked around more, it was the same thing. Alya couldn't possibly deflect so many of them.

Even Suge, a saint class, was about to get cut in half, which clearly showed how much the difference between an overload and a saint class was. Without [Eye of Sanguine], no one could see them… Well, maybe one could.

"Subaruuu, I would really love you if you prevented everyone's heads from blowing into smithereens. No hard feelings for letting mine blow before, of course."

"It won't sting!!" Alyndra suddenly yelled.

Huh?

"I won't lose. I know it! I saw it! I can never lose." His nose was flaring with anger. Guess I really rage baited him hard. But the way he was saying "I saw it", it kind of confirmed the suspicion from before.

He can see the future. That's why he ran away before, or let me run away so he could prepare whatever that artifact is.

His statement, "I won't lose", managed to make my heart beat quite faster.

I could feel Subaru nodding before his body vanished with a Swoosh, his pure white katana raised.

His black loose black kimono flowed heroically in the air as he flashed in front of the little girl, destroying the gravity slash completely.

Quickly, he flashed before another coming at Zhenny, and then Suge. Like this, he managed to destroy all of them completely in less than two seconds.

"Hahaha!!"Alyndra's laughter grew wild as his blue eyes glowed exactly like they had back when we first met.

"I will kill every last one of you, soon. Even you." He said while shaking his head regretfully at Subaru.

"Not you, of course." He turned back to me, his eyes filled with hate, "You, like a dirty, cowardly, weak monster you are, will watch everyone you are pretending care about die, and then surrender to me." The dark hallway fell silent with a heavy feeling as he added, "I will make sure to make sure it stings."

Tham! Thum!

Alya's blood beams fell limply on the ground as her eyes widened, then her face burned red with anger, "He won't! I know him! He won't ever submit to scum like you!"

"…Alya." She could read emotions. I saw her eyes widen. She was in shock. It meant she knew Alyndra was not lying…

My lips curled upwards as I straightened my back. Alya, I fucking love you. This much faith in me? Even my mother, the closest person to me, didn't trust me this much.

And, I was someone who had just lied to her about being someone else. It could be considered stupid, but I hadn't and will not betray that faith.

"I see, so you can see the future, but maybe not so far. Make sense." My smile vanished, the most serious, expressionless look I had ever had creeping up.

Sweat ran down my brow, but my eyes stayed steady and unblinking, narrowed with a cold intensity that had no room for doubt. The entire world had vanished, my pupils locked to a single point, Alyndra's face.

"If I were to surrender, it would have only been to find a better way to kill you… I would spend every second of my life going forward plotting to kill you, no matter what."

My voice deepened, echoing in the narrow hallway, sending chills down everyone's spines worse than what they were feeling when they saw the Giants.

"Or what? Giving up, or killing myself because of pain, while letting you be alive… It's not in my bones. So "surrender" sounds like something I would definitely do if put in that situation. And yes, I will make sure too, to make it sting, no… burn."

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