My Death Flags Show No Sign of Ending

Both hands holding the sword are heavy. Fatigue increases just by holding the tip of the sword so that it does not go down.

Even Harold, who has been training unusually, is approaching the limit of his physical strength.

More than an hour has already passed since the start of the battle. If you just fight, you can do it without any problems, but if you fight for life in a serious game and the opponent has the same strength as you, the story will change. It is not good mentally to use a longsword for a long time.

Even if it exceeds the speed, the attack that is released by sewing a gap is enough formidable power to decide the victory or defeat if it is eaten properly even with one shot. Even though it is troublesome, the accuracy of the blow is increasing steadily.

I have already guarded it several times inevitably, but I let my strength and mass talk and the damage comes from the top of the defense. Thanks to that, I had almost no grip strength on my left hand, which was very numb, and I had already dropped the black straight sword.

Even if I guarded the worst, I was slashed and there was a risk of becoming a Buddha, so I was relieved to know that I could somehow prevent it, but still my whole body squeaked and I was in pain. My face is about to be distorted.

The appearance of Harold, who is breathless and has no fatal wounds, but blood oozes all over his body, is truly a full-blown wound. The battle with Vincent was so fierce.

Vincent is Zhanmadao 《 Zambato 》 . No matter how big the sword is, it’s not a reachable distance from the free time, but its blade wears a pale aura of azure. Recognizing that, Harold jumped back and widened the gap.

Vincent swings his sword down as if to hit the ground, as if to say that such a thing is okay.

Heavy crushing sound. The ground cracks and turns up.

It turns out that it’s a silly formidable power, but the Life Source for this attack is different. Immediately after Vincent slams his sword, space is distorted around Harold. Its true identity is the densely compressed air created by Vincent’s sword pressure.

The next moment it turns into plasma, engulfs the surroundings and explodes.

“ Bomb Sword 《 Bakujinken 》 ”

It is one of Vincent’s techniques that appears in the original, and it is one of the few non-short-range attack methods for him.

Harold to avoid it at the end. The attack power is not so high in the game, but it just means “for Vincent”, and it is not a good technique to eat.

Above all, in the game, only one plasma with a diameter of about 1 meter was generated at a fixed distance, but here there is nothing in the fan-shaped range from the point where the sword was swung down. Occurs by act. The range of effect of the technique is much wider than the original and it is difficult to avoid. This is because it takes less than a second from the time when the air is distorted to the time when it becomes plasma and explodes.

If you eat even once, there is a very high risk of being chased from there.

Why does plasma occur just by swinging the sword down! I put myself on the shelf fighting at the speed and movement like throwing the laws of physics, and such a phrase is about to pop out of my mouth.

If you think calmly, they are like each other, and this kind of part was a fantasy world.

But it looks like it’s being pushed, and the situation is actually in contradiction. Given that Vincent is more injured than Harold, it may be an advantage.

Through thorough hit and away tactics, we have continued to aim at the gaps in the armor and the thin part of the armor, and have accumulated damage although it is small. The hard objects under the armor, which may be internal armor, have also been destroyed.

As evidence, Vincent also has some scars and bleeding.

(It’s strange that the movement doesn’t slow down …!)

On the contrary, it corresponds to Harold’s movement. It seems that there is no reason or ego to repeat “elimination is the highest priority” like a remark, so if you think that you are ignoring pain and fatigue, you may not be convinced that the quality of movement does not deteriorate. No.

However, if you are in such a state, it is usually more tasty or monotonous. Vincent’s expressionlessness has something to do with Lilium and Wentos, but it’s not as mechanical and straightforward as they are.

Create a gap from outside the space with restraint and disturbance, jump into it, attack and leave. That was Harold’s original strategy. However, when I repeated it to some extent, I adjusted the counter to Harold who jumped in.

If you avoid the attack and continue the attack, Vincent uses the counter as a feint and matches the attack with Harold who evaded it.

This was unavoidable, and I was blown away by several meters because I prevented it with a sword.

If Lilium and his friends are working robots that repeat routine movements, Vincent is a robot that learns with AI and changes movements. There is that much difference.

In fact, Harold’s attacks have become more difficult to pass than in the early stages.

(… Wait, wait, are you really learning?)

I thought of it as an analogy, but possessed by Harold. After that, an unpleasant premonition with a high hit rate raises my head.

If so, you will have a killing machine in front of you that will not be frightened by attacks, will continue to move even if you take damage, and will learn the movements of your opponent. Moreover, since he is also a high-performance player, his attack power is on par with a single blow, and his defensive power is as hard as a fort.

In addition, the battle pattern is different from the game due to the brainwashing state, so the original knowledge does not make much sense.

“Huh, what’s wrong?”

A soliloquy to behave patiently. But when Harold mutters, it turns into something confident and victorious.

It may be a strange story, but that encourages Harold himself-Ichiki.

If there are few known behavior patterns, you can induce them.

If you want to learn this movement, use it.

Harold Stokes can do that. I know it more than anyone else.

I intentionally laughed invincibly to inspire myself. At the next moment, I will jump from the stopped position to the top speed at once.

Aerial dash. The first time I used it in the actual battle was the battle with Ritzelt, the mage of the Sarrian Empire. At that time, he was accelerating and turning in the air with considerable force, but after a few years, Harold completely took possession of the high-speed three-dimensional maneuver.

The speed itself is not the same as that time. But in this battle Vincent responded to that speed.

Harold jumped into his pocket, knowing that it would still be read. Kick the ground at the maximum speed, kick further in the air from the position that jumped up, and take the back.

The aim is the nape of the neck. Of course, such a key point is covered with armor, but the purpose is not to kill or damage, but to “slash” itself. And Vincent caught the blow with his left arm gauntlet, as Harold expected.

Vincent guards against first-time attacks with a gauntlet after the battle begins. After repeating the attack twice and three times from the exact same movement, Vincent switched from receiving by the gauntlet to the counter the third time.

Avoid it and launch an attack while wrapping around behind again.

Vincent fired his back fist with his left arm to pay for it. Rather than attacking, it is a behavior to restrain the opponent’s attack.

However, it has considerable sharpness and formidable power because the sword is not held. Moreover, if you eat it, you will lose your posture, and there is a bonus that a pursuit with a big sword is waiting there.

But Harold dares to accept it, knowing it. It is a formidable power that you have to prepare for one or two bones if you receive it unprotected, if not as much as an attack with a big sword.

And the next moment after enduring it, Life Source’s slash is swung down. If you try to catch this, you will not be able to fight with a single blow, and in the worst case you may die as it is.

Harold avoids such a blow at the last minute.

However, while stepping forward so that the sword that is swung down and a single piece of paper pass each other, where it would normally jump backwards.

It was a bet. I can’t afford to turn to a counterattack. If the timing was slightly delayed, it would have been cut off from the back of the head or back.

I might not have been hesitant without the increase in combat ability with the sword. Still, Harold sneaks through the first deadline, feeling the ground crushing.

Behind Vincent again after passing through it.

But I couldn’t fight back. It was a momentary offense and defense in terms of time, but it requires a high concentration and can be avoided as much as possible. It wasn’t very difficult, but it was difficult to instantly take an offensive position from there.

Harold leaves Vincent’s space to repartition. With this, the current movement will not work anymore. The reason why the battle is prolonged is that as a result of trying various moves while attacking in this way, the behavior pattern was learned without causing decisive damage.

And about the third time Vincent responds to Harold’s move.

(That’s why it’s third time 《 ・ ・ ・ 》 )

Hold your breath and repeat a series of movements with the determination of death. The second time it was even more pronounced, and the wind noise of the big sword passing by the side of my head was heard louder than before. A piece of clothing that would have been cut off by sight had fallen at Vincent’s feet.

It is certain that the second time is following Harold’s movement more than the first time.

If you repeat it three times, you will be killed. If you still have a mind to think about, Vincent should think so too.

If you fail, you will visit death. What Harold is afraid of and has been avoiding awaits.

But I can’t help but run away. In order to live, it was necessary to jump into the dead zone.

(… maybe it’s too late. If it’s true, I had to make that decision sooner)

Harold is now clear I understood. I have not fought the fate of death. I was just trying to escape the fate of death.

The fear of flipping the switch pushed against the remains of Harold that remained in me, and Kazuki himself did not face the fear of death. That tsuke is probably Vincent in front of me.

So now here Kazuki 《 Harold 》 must be done.

Be prepared to fight with Harold Stokes. Be prepared to face your destiny.

Original knowledge, Harold’s ability, and Kazuki’s determination. If you don’t fight with all of them, you can’t beat Vincent and Justus.

“I’m going Wooden puppet 《 Deku Ningyo 》 ! ”

And Harold jumped into the dead ground for the third time.

Go behind and avoid the slashes fired to match it. Even if I take the back of Vincent again, the reaction is even quicker if it is the third time. The back fist flew without a chance to prepare for the attack. Receive it by using the sword as a shield.

Same as before.

A big sword is already approaching overhead. This will be unavoidable whether you step forward or jump backwards. So Harold stays there.

And turned around. Just make one rotation around your left foot and shift it to the left by one body. A large sword passes right beside it at intervals of less than a single thin skin.

However, unlike the second time, the big sword was swung down and did not crush the ground. That would delay the pursuit of Harold, who would be behind him again.

This is the result of Vincent’s learning of behavior patterns. Vincent anticipates the opponent’s next move and optimizes his actions to respond to it.

What happens if he moves beyond his expectations? The answer is the myriad scratches on Vincent’s armor and body.

Most of them were added by Harold shortly after the battle began and before the learning of behavior patterns accumulated. What this means is that there is no decisive hit in the early stages, and the longer the battle, the more disadvantageous the battle with Vincent.

However, there are holes in every way of fighting. The point is that pattern learning is passive.

Vincent responds when an attack is launched, but he does not anticipate or guide the opponent’s movement from his own attack. Perhaps that is the technical limit.

Anyway, this situation is an unexpected pattern for Vincent. The point where Harold moved is further outside the sword swung down with the right hand. The slash is not in time, and the left arm equipped with the gauntlet, which is the key to defense, is the farthest from Harold.

The problem is that this is completely Vincent van Gogh, and in Harold without speed acceleration, the formidable power needed to connect to a combo is just enough to scare the opponent. You can’t hit a certain attack.

This is not the case if it is a mystery technique or magic. However, the technique of exercising magical power requires a small amount of storage. I don’t know if even a normal attack with a sword will come in. In this time, and in front of the opponent named Vincent, even the accumulation becomes a big gap.

What would you do? Harold’s answer is neither a normal attack nor a magical attack.

It was a palm stroke with bare hands.

A jab-like palm that is faster than swinging a sword. In the game, it’s only worth the combo connection technique. . With his left hand, whose grip strength is so weak that he can’t hold his sword, and Vincent, who boasts a higher defensive power, he won’t do as much damage as his hair.

――If this technique is as per the game.

“” Van Gogh, Thunder 《 Ikazuchi 》 ! ””

At the same time that the left palm is struck by Vincent’s chin, an electric shock is emitted from Harold’s left hand.

For eight years of spending time avoiding the death flag, I learned all the tricks Harold used in the game. I also tried to learn the techniques used by other characters. Other than that, I have also made efforts to devise techniques that were not in the game.

Rigid palm and thunder are one of them. As you can see from the name, it is a technique to hit the bottom of the palm and the electric shock at the same time.

To be clear, this is also not a source of damage. This is because, like other techniques, it requires a reservoir to shoot an electric shock that causes damage.

Therefore, this technique completely saved the accumulation time. Releases a hard-hitting palm and completes charging before it comes into contact with the opponent. Therefore, neither physical attack nor electric shock is a great formidable power.

But that’s enough. The electric shock stops the opponent’s movement for a moment-sufficient to paralyze the muscles.

No matter how much the body is brainwashed to eliminate emotions and the pain can be ignored, it cannot suppress the physiological reaction as long as it is a living thing. Vincent is a human being, even if he is a character in the game.

“…!”

Neither speak nor distort facial expressions. But as Harold intended, Vincent stiffened. The momentary rigidity in the battle between the two was inevitably long and deadly.

It’s too late when the body’s rigidity is released.

“” Thunder slash 《 Raiki 》 Ri ”

A mysterious blow that completed the sump caught Vincent’s abdomen. The sword itself turns into lightning, and its giant bends like a dogleg. He still tries to raise his face and swing his sword without falling, but the movement is not enough to threaten Harold.

Without Van Gogh’s sword, Harold’s continuous attacks are struck. The attack increases the formidable power as the number of attacks increases.

The armor was burned down by the sword, and the armor was bent over by the thrust. A strong roundhouse kick is struck into the abdomen where the armor is destroyed and defenseless, and it is cut up from behind before it collapses. “Thunderbird” was driven into the place where it completely floated in the air.

Still, Harold’s combo doesn’t end. This is because he understands that he cannot be defeated by a half-hearted attack. Eventually, Harold fired hundreds of attacks.

Vincent’s body floats exceptionally high. When Harold raises his sword directly below it, the tip of the sword glows violently.

Level limit for the first week, 100 level protagonist HP 《 Hit points > >> is Harold’s strongest technique that scrapes off 60% with a single blow.

An electric shock is emitted from the tip of the sword, and a space rift is created in the ceiling inside the ruins, from which lightning strikes. The two were connected by penetrating Vincent’s body.

And Harold swung his sword to cut Vincent in both directions.

“” Thundercracker 《 Thundercracker 》 ‼ ””

A big thunder roars that doesn’t look like inside the ruins. The entire ruins vibrate, and the dust that has risen due to the storm of thunder stands up.

But it will clear up after a while. And only one silhouette appeared from the smoke.

The lord of the shadow kept breathing wildly, but said to the opponent who fell irresistibly.

“You look good, Vincent-my win”