9 Chapter 8: Full counter
"Why do women have butts on their chest?"
Goku (Dragon Ball)
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(Mael's POV)
"Can I have a harem in heaven?"
I asked the most important question that any isekai person wanted to ask. I was not thinking from my dick or making plans to get all the girls like Pokémon but I had the curiosities that I wanted to clear as a genius isekai MC.
She looked at me briefly before turning into a red tomato.
"W-what?! W-what kind of question is this?!" She was flustered.
"Answer me. Isn't that what heaven is for so that men could fulfill their desires that they were not able to achieve in mortal life?"
"W-well I am not sure for the harem part but you could have more than one wife if an angel or virgin human takes a liking to you or if you have multiple wives when you were alive… I am not very clear in this part… Sorry…" She apologized and explained with somewhat uncertainty so I didn't drag this question.
I then suddenly felt an intense chill on my spine but I didn't know where it came from.
'Must be my imagination….' I scoffed off the matter for the time being. However, unbeknown to me, a blond-haired chipmunk heard everything I said.
We then moved to the inner chamber of the church to talk further.
"Ehem! Now on to serious topic…" I coughed and decided to come to the main point. "Who I really am?"
"You are a human named Mael." She answered without any delay.
"That's not what I am asking. You are surely aware that I have fragments of memories of my previous life and I had this weird low stamina. I wanna know the cause." I wanted a brief explanation.
Even though any typical isekai MC would never bother regarding previous life and continue to live meaningless life in the new world, I was not the person who would continue to move in that way.
I had problems and I wanted to solve them and fragment memories of my previous life and my low stamina were two of my main concerns. And surely she must know my real identity as an angel, right?
"Regarding that… I can only say that you are an exceptional case as far as memories of your previous life are concerned. As for your low stamina, it has something to do with you being a 'human'."
"Me being human?"
"I cannot explain any further." She didn't clear her point.
'She is hiding something from me but I think something is better not known.'
Even though I knew that she was hiding something important from me, if she didn't want to say then there is nothing I could do. Besides, I had some other things to discuss.
"Then what is France's future?"
"…."
She remained silent. I then concluded that Britain will successfully conquer France and I had very little time to escape from this country.
I then asked Eliza various questions regarding my mysterious eyes, my ability in archery, and keen reflexes to other things related to the supernatural like demons.
For my eyes, she said that it was indeed power bestowed by God as an exchange for the defect of my low stamina.
She then remained silent and didn't explain how I became so good in archery and hunting and I didn't pester further.
For supernatural,
"Demons indeed exist," Eliza said with a scornful expression.
I nodded as it was the first time that she made that kind of expression.
"Demons…" She gritted her teeth then looked into my eyes and asked, "Mael, they are not something an ordinary human can handle. The best method is to pray as much as you can. Recite holy scripters from the bible and never lose hope. You have to promise me."
"I promise."
Even though many shows depict demons as good guys, I wasn't the guy to believe in that crap. I was a faithful believer so I took her advice at face value.
"Then will God help me?" I asked raising a brow. Whole France was then praying for freedom but anyone could tell that there was no hope unless God descends from heaven and ask Britain to return to their home island. And I don't think that an angel would come to rescue if a human ever come in contracts with such a demon right away.
"…yes. It will keep demons away if you pray regularly… but…" She replied but again looked hesitant to explain something important.
"But?"
She didn't reply but stood from the seat she was sitting in front of me and sat beside me. She then started to pat my head with sadness in her eyes. I felt incredibly warm when she was patting my head like a mother caressing her child.
'Indeed she is an angel.'
"Mael… I shouldn't be explaining this to a human mortal but mishaps between angels and demons are getting worse…" She then sighed and then continued, "Forget about it. If I explain any further then I will fall from grace." She smiled.
"It is okay. I understand." I smiled and nodded. She chuckled in return and then I asked a favor.
"Even though I believe everything you have told me but I wanted to learn something to fight against demons."
I didn't know why but I had the feeling that I would surely get into trouble with them sooner or later. And for such, I wanted to have something to face them. Surely they were called supernatural for a reason that they are stronger than average humans and just with only those future predicting eyes, I didn't think I would last much longer.
She also may have appeared weak when I grabbed her neck but I soon realized that she was far stronger than me and could have easily ended my life.
As such, I needed some kind of insurance to tackle supernatural enemies like demons.
I wasn't planning on confronting them and fighting the evil since I was not the hero type but there is nothing wrong to have one or two trump cards to tackle the unknown.
"All right." She nodded and agreed to teach me something.
She then asked me to pick a wooden sword.
Every house in France had some kind of weapon those days since people can only depend on themselves for their defense and as such, there were few wooden swords in the church too.
I then picked one and she picked the other then we took our position facing each other.
After awakening my memories of my previous life, I was also practicing my sword skills but they were a little sloppy as compared to my archery. So I had a basic understanding of how to swing the sword.
"Mael, I am going to show a rare skill that only I know next to the Lord." She said then smiled and asked, "Come and make your first move."
I nodded and leaped forward. Right, when I was few inches away I swung my sword diagonally.
I thought she would block my sloppy move but instead, she didn't move a single inch, and my sword through her slicing her body.
'Huh?' I was confused since I didn't get a single thing that was happening. She was there standing and didn't seem to have moved an inch so how the hell she even dodged?
And just after a millisecond, I completed my move; she smiled again and swung her sword horizontally before calling the name of her attack, "Full counter~"
For a millisecond I didn't know what happened until something really hard struck me diagonally and I fell on my bump.
"Arg! What the!?" I screamed with pain in my chest.
I had no idea what the hell just happened.
She swung her sword horizontally with little to no visible force so how come I was hit diagonally with so much power.
It was like-
"It was like you have hit yourself with twice the force, right?"
She spoke my thoughts.
"Yes! How the heck is that even possible?" I gritted my teeth while rubbing my chest.
Although it was a physical attack, I refuse to admit she didn't use magic.
"No, I didn't use magic." Eliza answered my thoughts then she continued, "This is a special skill called full counter. It enables its wielder to reflect attacks aimed at them back at their enemy, but with more than double the power; therefore, the stronger the opponent's powers are, the stronger the user's power becomes."
I widened my eyes wide when she explained the mechanism of this bizarre martial art move. She basically took physics and flushed it in the toilet for good.
How is this possible? Even after seeing this with my own eyes, I had a hard time digesting such a phenomenon as a rational person.
She then came near me and offered her hand.
"Mael, do you wish to learn this secret move from me?" She asked with a firm tone.
At that time, I imagined an old man, with a long beard and long white-haired, of some kind of shady sect offering me to be his disciple.
I gently held her hand and nodded, "Yes, Master."
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