A mysterious feeling enveloped my chest. The sensation of superiority, a sensation of I can do everything, runs through my veins. Soon after, the warmth of arms wrapped around my neck languidly. I lay my eyes upon Lily and her Fenrir standing frozenly, looking at me dumbstruck.
(Claude, you only have 30 seconds.)
Since our souls haven’t merged completely, I can only use a little fraction of Diana’s power. However, she can forcefully lend me a hand at times like this. Although, it’s not really guaranteed that I can win against her.
(Thanks, it’s good enough)
Taking a large stride, bending my right knees forward. I held the hilt of my sword with both of my hands at the level of my waist, blade parallel to my front leg. This was followed by my eyes locked onto the blond elf and wolf.
[Shifting Point]
In a blink of an eye, I’m in front of Lily and the Fenrir, ready to strike the two. However, the Fenrir reacted cleverly as it instantly created a ginormous wall in front of me, separating the room into two. Despite the wall in front of me, I continued the momentum of my arms and slash through the ice wall.
[Walpurgis Hollow]
After I swung my sword, a blazing bluish-red cleave, shot out of my wooden sword as its void existence decimating the entirety of the ice wall, creating this white fog in front of me—Depriving my sight, making it harder to locate Lily.
“F*ck—! Tsk—!”
From the fog, Lily appeared thrusting her sword directly on my face, blocking it with the front with the blade of Lily sliding to my right hairbreadth away from grazing my right cheek. While we’re in a motion, Lily pulled her wooden sword preemptively which took a step back, and Lily advances forward with a step across, thrusting her sword once again. Noticing it, I ducked down unconsciously, evading the tip of her wooden sword.
Because of the blunder, I can't see anything, so instead, I cast my gaze across between her leg, concentrating on it.
[Shifting Point]
Once again, I teleported, appearing behind Lily with my back against her. Pivoting my entire body, bringing the momentum on striking Lily at the back; however, it got blocked by Lily’s wooden sword hanging on her back. Following that, the Fenrir caught my attention pouncing at me.
(I’ll handle it)
At my side, a violet magic circle manifested right beside me; a black spear pierces the Fenrir right on its chest. As my attention was on Fenrir, the tip of Lily’s sword stabbed me right through the center of my chest. I grumbled in pain.
“Kuh—! Auuugh—!”
I leaped back and got into a stance while still agonizing over the pain. I'm having a hard time breathing because it's directly on my chest. Leaving no breathing room for me, she promptly advances. The exchange of sword strike went for a few seconds before we got interrupted by the Fenrir with its ice needles directly charging at me even though it’s wounded it still manages to recover quickly. Lily backs off retreating to evade the ice needles; seemingly planned all of that from the very start. The intensity of the fight is making my blood boil.
Evading the ice needles by leaping backward, but at that moment, the time limit that Diana gave to me got expired, so I’m all on my own now. Without warning, ice shards manifested below me, blocking it with my sword halfway between my right and left legs; however, one got me, stabbing my left side abdominal. It almost took the entire left side at how big it is. I groaned in pain.
“Aaaugh—!”
(Are you okay, Claude?!)
(I’m fine)
Suddenly, I caught the figure of Lily holding her sword overhand, yelling above me.
“Aaah—!”
“Overload!” I yelled.
A surge of quintessence erupted outside my body, blasting Lily and her Fenrir sending them crashing on the wall. I then successfully got myself out of the piece of ice that stabbed me by pulling myself up. Because of that, I started coughing up blood on the ground.
“*Cough* *Cough*-*Cough* *Cough*”
She’s not showing signs of holding herself on our fight which becomes worrisome for me. If things go on like this, I’ll end up dying. Plus now, I’m clinching the wound on my side, directly applying pressure to hold the bleeding with my left hand. Locking my gaze on Lily, she’s standing up staggeringly. Using the wooden the support my upper body, I held the hilt tight on my right hand. With my eyes overloading in animosity.
“All right stop!”
Master Irene shouted, stopping the fight between me and Lily. After hearing that, a tremendous sigh of relief exuded out of my chest. And then, I flop down to the ground, losing my consciousness.
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“Waaah—!” I abruptly lifted my upper half body.
I looked down and saw my naked self with a white bandage around my abdomen. On my right, I saw Clara standing beside the bed I’m sleeping on with her emotionless expression, as usual.
“You’re awake, young master.”
“U-Ugh, yeah... What happened?”
“You lose consciousness because of blood loss when fighting princess Lily.”
“Oh yeah...”
“If you’re worried about your wound, young master. Worry not, the damage you’ve taken is not severe and you seem to have a regenerative ability, as while tending your wounds; I saw your wounds closing by itself.”
“Really?!”
“Yes, if I may excuse myself, I’ll leave young master.”
“Yeah... Thanks, Clara, as always.”
“It’s my job to take care of Young Master.”
Clara bowed once again before leaving me alone in my room. After she left, I called Diana.
(Diana?)
(Mmhmm...? Claude?)
(Hey, are you sleeping?)
(Yeah... Sleepy~ Healing you took a lot of energy~)
(Oooh... Okay, go back to sleep)
(Okie~)
“Haah...”
Lying on the bed, gazing at the ceiling while mulling over the fight earlier with Lily earlier.
“Where did it go wrong?”
“Sword? Distance? Did I even panic? Or was it because there’s a vast difference between our swordsmanship? From one glance, I can tell she’s experienced at using a sword. Was it because of her spirit? Although the ice barrier really caught me off-guard. I didn’t expect her to still have it since her Fenrir was summoned.”
“If I only struck them faster with the Walpurgis Hollow, they would’ve easily... Wait, that can kill them...”
The sudden realization kicked into me. I almost killed Lily. Luckily, her Fenrir created that barrier, or she would’ve totally been dead right now... Directly getting hit by that would be disastrous. Although no clue how devastating that would be, I got a feeling it’s deadly, plus it’s my first time using it ever. But, she did the same so we're equal on that.
However, at the back of my head, I’ve had a hunch that she’s been wanting to kill me since the beginning. What did I do to her? I do admit that I stalked her like a creep, but other than that... I mean, that alone won’t really... But what if it did? So complicated!
Later on, the door in my room opened. Behind the door would be Lily with an apologetic face. Closing the door, she stood right in front of the door.
“Uhm... Claude?”
I squinted my eyes. “What?”
“I’m sorry!”
Lily bends her upper body in half, bowing to me. Of course, it baffled me because I’m certain she wants to kill me at some point, and even until right now. That’s why I got suspicious of her. I don't buy her apology, there must be a catch.
“What do you want?”
“I’m really sorry about earlier and about last time!”
“You’re only apologizing to me right now?”
“Yes! I’m sorry!”
“It’s no use. So, what do you really want? You’ve been wanting to kill me ever since we’ve met.”
“Eh? Killing you? What are you saying?” replied Lily, as she tilts her head in confusion.
“Don’t play dumb on me, kid. Last time, you clearly had an intention of ending my life right there. Then earlier, you deliberately didn't hold back against me even though it's only sparring. So what’s your game? I’m not someone whom you can easily fool. If you think I’m naïve and a fool, then you’re wrong. Just leave me alone. No matter how many times you apologize, I won’t accept it. Leave me alone and never talk to me. While at it, bring this with you. Think of it as my proper send-off and welcome gift for you.” I gave her the middle finger.
The wound that Lily inflicted hasn't fully healed yet; because of that, it began aching which I groaned in pain. “F*cking b*tch.”
Lily’s eyes widen, and a while later, she lowered her gaze and left my room with tears falling in her eyes. Instead of feeling remorseful about her, it only boiled the anger inside me. If she thinks a simple apology would get me, then she thought wrong.
I have the right to be angry because she's almost killed me. If it weren't for Diana, I would be dead now.
yessssss. this is what i wanted to see. the mc looking beyond the ladies looks. to not care about the horniness
True. All of them have the worst character traits. They all act cold almost all the time, are secretive, when they help there is always a chance the MC will die or get hurt. They say they will train him but they don't and even if they are in their weird do it yourself way, if the MC asks why they aren't training him they should at least explain. There is nothing attractive about Clare, Lily or Irene other then the looks. They aren't compassioned, they seem very selfish, are insane and will do anything to get what they want. Don't care about peoples lives. I don't remember one good thing they did other than give him the sword for his graduation and that isn't worth much really.
@valci. I agree with you. I also believe that they are raping the MC while he is asleep. Any sexual act without explicit consent is rape even if he/she says nothing afterward. If that is true then they really do not care about the MC's feelings. It also begs the question of why Diana is hiding such a thing from the MC.
@SinginOffTone the reason why I stop reading A Reincarnated Demon’s Life of Wonder and it's masochistic MC
Wow, that is... surprisingly satisfying. f*ck off Lily.
i dislike all the girls in this story .The best one known is by far Stephanie .He really needs to figure out what's happening and gtfo of Irene's mansion and preferably go somewhere far away
Yeah, if someone tried to kill me, I wouldn't want to be friends with them. Simple as that.
Nice. At last mc of harem not shruging off cruel treatment he receives from cute girls just because they are, well, cute and of course start crying feeling wronged by not being treated with absolute kindness regardless of any sh*t they pull off. Hope this animosity he feel toward her will last for a while. After all some trauma from his life and death experience should remain and he'll become total joke of character if he stop feeling this way cause, say, his master Irene (who's also hella fishy right now) order him to get along with his ''junior sister''. Thots should know their place
Aside from indirectly benefitting a liitle from Irene's connection and getting quintessence, MC's full routine is just hell difficulty.
He's exploring ragdoll physics everyday, with only him to ponder what went wrong, not even taught f*cking basics nor pointers.
Almost meeting death twice by the same person(though the first one is mostly his own volition).
If not for the Guide being watching and assisting him, he would be already dead at the time he was getting quintessence.
As far the heroine goes, Stephanie's only downside was being a tsundere, other than that, she's more likeable from the others even with less screentime.
Seriously though, I wish Diana would come clean and tell Claude the debauchery that happens every night even if it'll hurt him.
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. . . Really, he needs some decent mentor, and somebody that just sandbags him and left him to self-study without any f*cking pointers.
There first time sparring with spirits and these hoes go “all out” ,both almost killing each other, i find this very funny.
I would like to say hoesmad
what was she trying to do? or what to apologize for? that is the question.
I wanted a chapter showing her view of things.
thanks for the chapter
Same, I'm curious as to why she is apologizing... Maybe because of their sparring earlier?
Oh well.. We can only wait for the next chapter tomorrow.
We don't need her perspective imo. I'd rather the story progress on Claude and him being able to control his powers better. The whole situation with master and Lily is just weird in general. He should just gtfo.
I don't think an entire chapter for just her perspective is necessary. Just space it out doing little third person snippets, glances, or short side conversations for the audience, and only if necessary. She still needs a lot more development before a pov chapter makes sense for for.
If he did it next there would be little substance to it. Like one or two paragraphs. Otherwise it would be mostly fluff. Not enough time has passed.
Think about it. She showed up using some political connections or something and then tried to kill him in a spar with wooden swords in the first day. She even severely wounded him and he might have been in grave danger if not for the divine spirit.
She's got a long way to go and one f*ck up like this isn't going to be enough to bend her out straight.
Part of it is that no one really taught her ethics. In these primitive worlds ethics isn't even thought of as a scholarly subject. They just inherit their close ones perspective. Which obviously isn't going to be great when you were born with a mythril spoon in your mouth.
I already dislike the maid and her master but then the author brings another... not sure if the author is trying to make a m mc or just get us to hate the "love interests" but if it goes the m route I'm dropping I've read enough Chinese mcs...
Whoah 🙂