135-Chapter 134




Satsuki.


We run down the underground space.
The ground is a little soggy with mucus, but it's no big deal when you're running down.

It doesn't matter, it's a great speed.
I feel like I'm kicking the ground with 50% more leg power than usual.
The scenery is drifting behind me as fast as if it were flying, and the swarm of rockworm larvae I'm heading for is quickly approaching.

It must be the effect of Will's magic of physical burst.
It's like power is bubbling up from the depths of my body.
Oh, man.
I feel like no one can beat me now.
I can probably beat the princess and that bastard Glenn.

But that's because I have Will's power.
It's not my own power.

So I'll grab it here.

I don't want to keep losing.
I can't stay with Will and rely on him.
I want to be able to support Will.
To do that, I have to work hard.

But I couldn't see the vision.
How can I be stronger than I am now?
I could keep training every day, but that wouldn't be enough.
I've been thinking that I need something else to break out of my shell.

So I've been thinking, thinking, thinking in my own not-so-smart way, and then I remembered.

A technique that my master taught me a long time ago, but I never learned to do.
I suddenly thought that maybe I could do it now.

I'm almost there.
If I could just get another image...

As I was thinking this, I heard Will's voice from behind me.

'Satsuki... I'd tell you to be careful, but I'm afraid my words might have the opposite effect on you! So I'll put it this way: do what you do best! You know how to do that better than I do!

When I heard Will's words, I thought, "I see.
And I was glad.

He's always telling me to be careful, that I'm not paying enough attention.
So do Mee and Cyril.

But I didn't understand that.
I don't know what being careful is.

I always move in the direction my body and feelings take me and swing my sword.
There is a flow to movement.
If you go against the flow, it won't work.
I move in the direction my body and mind naturally go.
That's my way. I don't know any other way.

But I thought that since Will said it, it must be right, so I tried to be careful, to be cautious.
I thought it would help me grow, so I tried it.

But it still didn't work.
Watching out and being careful just seemed to stop the flow.

And as I thought and thought and thought, I realized.
I thought that Will and I are different.
Will has his own way of doing things, and I have mine, and maybe his advice isn't for me.

I felt lighter after I thought that... and that's what Will just said.
He came to the same place I did.

He's not always right.
He's like me, he's moving forward, little by little, step by step.

And what someone says is what someone says.
What I do is my decision.

I know what's best for me because I'm the one who knows best.

I'll do it!

I regain my strength.
The swarm of rockworm larvae is almost upon us.
And by larvae, I mean giant larvae, bigger than me.

I run down the path with a powerful bounce, thump, thump.

Then, when I was only a few steps away, a tentacle flew out of the corner of my eye.

It's here.
But that's not fast enough for my current speed.

'Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!

With all my momentum, I kick the ground hard and jump.
With that, I head straight for the middle of a swarm of dozens of giant larvae.

Many tentacles rushed to the ground where I had been just a moment before.
Too late, you idiot. You're slow.

But just as I was about to land on the spot where the swarm of giant larvae was, one of them opened its mouth upward to swallow me.

It opened its big mouth, covered in saliva.
It's disgusting, but not scary.

'You're in my way!

I swing my legs in the air and kick him in the jaw.
The power of the kick, enhanced by aura and magic, struck the halfway large body of the giant larva and flipped it over.

Another larva nearby became trapped underneath it and let out a not-so-cute scream.
No, I don't want it to be cute.

As soon as I landed on the ground, I took an instantaneous step forward, swung my sword, and cut down the two bodies first.

'Goooooooooooooooo!

He screamed.
The sword he swung melted and cut off the rocky skin of the rockworm in an instant, slicing down its body in a single vertical line.
Due to the length of the blade, I can't cut it into a complete circle, but it's enough to take away its life force.

'First two. Next...'

Then, the huge larvae around me opened their mouths wide, and their huge bodies shook as they headed toward me.
I don't feel like I'm going to get hit because they're moving so slowly, but it looks like a horror story.

I look around vaguely at the swarm of giant larvae approaching in slow motion, and figure out the 'path' I should take.
I intuitively figure out which route I should take to get rid of the giant larvae without getting stuck.

In the middle of this, I see the tentacle swarm from earlier heading towards me again.
In slow motion, too.

I followed the tentacles to a large tunnel hole.
Just like Will said.

I take that into consideration as I search for a path to that tunnel.

The path to follow came to me in an instant.
I could see the path because of the physical abilities that Will had strengthened for me, and because of that assumption.

I kicked the ground hard to start.
Then he accelerates, turns around, and zigzags like a lightning bolt through the 'path' at lightning speed.
It weaves its way through the small gap between the swarms of giant larvae.

The tentacles that rush in again, and the biting attacks of the giant larvae that pour in one after another, only attack the place where I was a moment ago.
I don't even need to consciously avoid them.



Along the way, he slashes at the giant larvae so as not to kill the flow.
Inevitably, the movements become like dancing, like a dance.

Three, four, five, six, seven, eight...
One by one, the giant larvae scream and fall to the ground.

Oh, this is it.
That's it.
All right, all right, all right. I got it all.
It wasn't hard at all.
I don't know what I was doing.

And so, the profound art of "Ryusui Butoh" is complete!

But this might be hard if you don't have any physical strength.
It might be difficult for me to do it against normal people.
You still need earthly power.
Anyway...

But even if we kill all of them, there'll still be many more.
It's a pain in the ass to kill them all.
I guess we'll have to do this later.

Anyway... here they come... the second wave of tentacles.
The first group of tentacles and the second group of tentacles are both coming at me from different directions.

I immediately look for a way out.
But I can't see a path that satisfies everything I want to do.

Oh, I'll have to collide with one of the tentacles.
It's not so bad if we retreat once, but if we do that, we'll be out of luck,

Incidentally, I think it's a bit difficult to get through a head-on collision with a group of tentacles.
It would be very difficult to dodge them one by one, and it would be impossible to cut off all of them at once.

You'd probably get caught if you ran into one.
But... whatever.

I'll set a course to collide head-on with the second group of tentacles.
That's the shortest route to the hole where the tentacles came from.

I kick the ground in front of me.
A group of tentacles came pouring down on me from slightly above my front...


...


William.


'...... What is that Satsuki's move? It's amazing ......'

I'm not sure what to make of that.

I, on the other hand, could not hide my surprise.
Satsuki's tiny figure moved in all directions, dodging the rockworm larvae.

After she passed, the larvae around her fell to the ground one by one.
The tentacles' and larvae's attacks did not reach her, but rather their dimensions could not keep up with her.

It was an unimaginably terrifying battle, even when you take into account Satsuki's natural athletic ability and the effects of the physical burst.

However, it did not seem to have been achieved by speed alone.
If I had to describe it in words, I would say that it was a 'terrifyingly lean and perfect maneuver.

I don't know how to calculate the movements to make them like that.
It seems to me that no matter how fast you think, there is no way you can achieve that kind of movement.

It's as if we are following a route that has been predetermined from the beginning, as if it were reality.
As if the water in the river is supposed to flow that way, the events happen as they are, and Satsuki's warriors are recognized.

'Ah, but...'

'Mmm......'

But that's why both Mee and I notice it from above.

The second group of tentacles is approaching from the front of Satsuki.
It's like a weir that kills Satsuki's current flow, and it's closing in on the warrior girl.

And then Satsuki herself plunges toward it...