Chapter 45

Chapter 45

Right before Charlotte’s eyes, the murderers burst into fragments as Deculein’s steel rotated more than tens of times per second, crushing the area and flinging human flesh around.

The result was as disastrous as it could get.

Charlotte covered Maho’s eyes with her hand and grabbed her close when she tried to lean away from it.

“Come on, why?”

“You shouldn’t see this, princess.”

The situation was still dire.

Some of their enemies escaped from his onslaught safely, and the ‘deanant,’ the most dangerous of them all, hadn’t even appeared yet.

“…”

Charlotte raised her sword even though holding it alone caused pain in her right shoulder due to an injury she hid from the princess.

“Charlotte,” Deculein called. He had been watching them, clutching his cane.

“Leave with the princess. I’ll follow. If you stay here too long, the princess will also be put in danger.”

“… Do you think you can handle them alone?”

“Leave.”

Charlotte hesitated but eventually nodded. They weren’t in a situation where she could insist on fighting together.

She lifted Maho as one of her subordinates caught up with them, who was supposed to act as their escort.

“Captain. Allow me to stay behind and help the Professor.” Roen proposed.

“… Okay.”

As Charlotte turned around with Maho, she finally clearly felt the demonic energy’s rise. Not far away from them, the deanant slowly made its appearance.

Although in human form, its silhouette was faint like the sunset.

and ghosts that fused. What made it difficult to fight was its solid physique imbued with liquid properties.

Charlotte ran, leaving the deanant behind while controlling her speed at the same time. If she were too fast, she’d risk turning the princess into an addict to dark magic.

“… Fweew.” The deanant whistled teasingly. “How far can those two women run?”

Deculein forcibly tightened his reason. From the bottom of his consciousness, instinctive hatred and contempt abounded, but it was tolerable.

“You’ll never be able to kill my vessel with your non-magical steel.” The demon laughingly mocked him, its tone sounding hoarse as if its throat had been scorched. “Well, it isn’t like magic can kill me either.”

As it said, ordinary steel didn’t work against it. Momentaneous magic couldn’t extinguish liquid-like or gas-like beings.

Attempting to do so would be no different from trying to cut or burn air.

To get rid of it, one’s mana quality had to be extremely high. They would also need to take into consideration the canyon they were in, which would force huge amounts of mana to scatter due to the dark magic’s concentration.

The deanant knew and took advantage of that fact excellently.