Fresh blood.


'Hahaha, all the small fry. Haha, haha, haha!


　The girl smirked as she cleaved the sword she was holding. Her face was sticky with blood, and without wiping it off, she continued to swing her sword.

　Cut it off. Cut off. Humping.

　It had happened at night, but she could see it clearly thanks to the moonlight.

　And again, fresh blood. Blood everywhere. The girl slashes and cleaves at the many opponents that come at her. A number of squashed and large bodies fall down. Since it was raining, the sound of it sounded good to my ears. However, I can't pay attention to such sounds now. All we have to do is to kill the enemy. That's all.


''Ahahahahahahaha!


　With a sneer, the girl swings her sword out. You can certainly feel it ripping through flesh and crushing bone as well. She severed all of her opponent's limbs in an instant and then cleaved her neck as it was. And then a flash is swung down into his own brain. However, if you don't catch it in sight and engage it with your senses only, you stab your opponent's heart. When the movement is stopped by it, the head is cut off. I'm not going to be able to pay attention to the head that rolls around and kills the opponent in the same way. With only one sword, he can cut down dozens of opponents like a demon god.


　It's breathtaking. You won't be able to speak. That's how refined his movements were. Even to the untrained eye, her movements were so proficient that they could be understood.


''Oh no. Really, they're all small fry. Hey ... are you guys really that ogre?
....


　It was Edgar who was confronting him. The ogre in the village has already been almost killed. And that too........by this girl alone. When she broke through the wards with ease and entered, she beheaded them one after another as if they were breathing. And Edgar, the head of the village, managed to escape the woman, the child, and dealt with her with the rest of them..........................but that was in vain, and finally Edgar was left alone.


''Hey.... You're entertaining me, aren't you?
....


　There is nothing to talk about. No, we can't talk about it. Edgar understood. This girl's strength was as good as or better than her own. It was not impossible. A lot of things happen in this twilight. Everything is not an exception.


　She licks her lips with a periwinkle and lightly brushes away the blood on her face. Then the girl begins to grin and laugh again. Edgar was desperate not to be consumed by that madness. A girl who single-handedly brings this village to the brink of destruction. Her long hair, up to her waist, is also stained red from the blood that spatters on her body, but she doesn't seem to care about that. I just want to kill them all. In her eyes, that's all she can see.


''Shh!''


　The distance that was a few meters shortens in an instant. Of course, Edgar reacts to it. The girl's weapon is a broadsword, and Edgar holds a tachi sword. The compatibility in close combat is not that bad, but for some reason it is hard to take the option of guarding with a tai-sword. For that reason, Edgar ducks the attack, and even more so, he continues to deal with the girl's sword fire while receiving it off with his taijutsu.


''Fufu........''


　He wasn't caught off guard. Edgar's eyes had firmly caught the girl's sword. Nevertheless, his right arm was flying in the air.


''The ... well, the technique ...
'Huh, how could you react? I was going to take your head off.
'.........Why, why is a higher level demon race, a demon, even a demon, here in this place.......
"?　You don't know?　The war of unification was won by demons, remember?
Well I understand.


　A high level demon race. It is an individual that possesses intelligence among the demon race and has a strength that is distinct from the demons. Ogre is also a type of upper demon race, but demons are different. As an even higher level of existence among the higher level demon race, it's not an exaggeration to say that they are near the top of this twilight.

　But Edgar was also one of the ogres of the past war. In the past wars, he has a solid strength, having faced hundreds of demons and monsters by himself and killed them all by himself. Still.........even if he was that strong, he couldn't reach this girl. Edgar had realized this through the sword fights up to now. That this demon was abnormal. At the same time, he remembered. She was similar. It was a few years ago, that she looked a lot like him.


''Well let's have some more fun, shall we?　Right?


　From that point on, it was just an overrun.



　◇



'Huh ... hah ... hah ... hah ... hah ... hah ...'
It's pretty tenacious. But it's over, isn't it?


　Thirty minutes since then. For Edgar, it had been an eternity. He was defensive. But he was still dealing with the girl with all his might to buy time for the others to escape.

　He was already missing both arms. His left leg was also cut off and he crawled to the ground. Her right eye had also been flashed vertically, and all she could see was her left eye. He has wounds all over his body. Edgar was already on the verge of death. The girl, on the other hand, is completely unharmed. There was no wound on her, except for a splash of returning blood.


'Bye. That was pretty fun, huh?


　The moment the sword is about to be pierced through his own head, Edgar tries to bite her throat as he engages her sword with his last bit of energy. No matter how much of a demon he is, if it is a surprise attack at this distance.......

　That's what Edgar thought. However, the reality is not that simple.



Hmm. I never thought I'd have to use it. You were very powerful.
'This ... this technique ...'


　Edgar's heart was pierced by a blade. But it was invisible to the eye. Nevertheless, the blade was definitely piercing his body and a large amount of blood was pouring out of his chest. This amount was too late.......Edgar realized that it was time to end it.





　In his final moments, Edgar came to the truth. An unexpected fact. But when you think about it, it all makes sense. Demons and humans. What a deep karma........Edgar thought that and stared at the girl's eyes.


''Hmph, hmph, hahaha!　Hey, how do you feel now?　Hey, how does it feel to have one person lay waste to everything?　Hey. Hey?　How's that?


　I look at the girl who raises the corners of her mouth with a ny, and I wonder if it's anger, resentment, or.......


''.........I resent you, girl.
Yeah. Suit yourself?　So, bye bye this time.


　The girl then cleaved the Invisible Blade, the Invisible Blade, starting from her own hand instead of the sword she was holding, right beside her.


''........''


　And the neatly severed head flies through the air. As it dances around, Edgar's head tries to fall to the ground according to gravity, but the girl stabs it in the air.


''Hm. It's like this........
Claire, are you done?
Yeah. It was surprisingly worth playing with.
"...Right. If you're done, we're leaving.
Okay.


　The girl dumped Edgar's head on the spot and set this entire village on fire. There was nothing left of the burning village. Everything was overrun, trampled down, and lives were lost.

　The weak and the strong. That is the truth of this world. The strong survive and the weak die. This time, the girl was strong. That's all.


"Hey, what do we do with the humans?　You've been undercover for a few years now, haven't you?　I can't do anything about it.


　The man responds to the girl's question.


'It's more complicated than I thought. Just as we are not a monolith, neither are we humans.
Yeah. Is it going to take longer?　Hey, can't we see that guy yet?
You will. I'll see you soon. Reportedly, it's almost over. Well, I don't really care which way it goes. You're too cautious upstairs to begin with.
Hmm. Well, that's okay. I'll save the fun for last!


　The girl was still sneering.