29 Chapter 29

When the smoke dissipated, I saw that the entire floor now became a mess. Well, I just caused an explosion here so that would not be surprising.

Fortunately, given how impactful that explosion must have been, I am still existing with all of my limbs still intact. It's all thanks to my Light Barrier protecting me from it. Though not gonna lie, it almost shattered. I had to literally recast it three times consecutively just to prevent that from happening.

In any case, surviving that explosion is not my goal here, it's to see whether One, the annoying fucker that is trying to kill me now, got done in with that little stunt of mine.

Unfortunately though, that doesn't seem to be the case. Cause just one quick glance around the area, I could already see no remnants of him. Meaning, he avoided it somehow.

Oh well, I am pretty aware anyway that there's no way I could kill him, even with that. Even before this happened, I already lowered my expectations. To some degree, it's safe to say that I kinda expected this to happen.

But that's alright. In the first place, what I did is not entirely for the sake of killing him. At least not all of it. I mean if he died then that's good, if he did not, then that's fine as well.

Though a power that lets you manipulate space itself to some degree, now that I'm dealing with it personally, seems so completely broken huh? Now I'm starting to greatly wonder how the hell the MC of this world even survived fighting against it.

Cause right now...

"BOO!"

While I was busying myself looking around, One suddenly appeared right in front of me, so close that we are just one breath away.

"F*ck!"

Clearly, given how surprised I got, I was caught off guard even though my guard is already at the fullest it can be.

And since that is the case, his swiping attack... I did not manage to completely dodge it.

Now there's no way I can be blamed for not dodging that. I was not the fucking flash, at the end of the day, I am just a little bit better than a regular human. Everything happened so fast that it was almost instantaneous, my reaction time is not that high level.

I mean I dodged it, but I did not manage to get out of that situation unscathed.

"keuk!"

I grit my teeth as I jumped couple more times just to get some space between One and me, enduring the nauseating pain that started assaulting me cause looking down at my right arm... I found that there was nothing for me to look at anymore.

My whole entire right arm was literally gone now since the cut that One did, came from my underarm and then exited at my upper shoulders. Meaning... it was not surprising to see how much blood I'm splattering given how large of a wound I took from that attack.

I immediately tried covering it with my hand and applying pressure to it, but I am aware that what I'm doing is useless. My blood is still gushing out within the gaps that I cannot obviously cover. I'm just delaying the inevitable.

"Heh~ It was only fun at first."

Anyways, looking at One now... well, he looks like a mess.

"... But you struggled too much. Now I'll make sure you die in the most painful way."

It seems that he did not get out of that whole explosion completely unscathed as well. The burns throughout his whole body and ruined figure could not make it more obvious. Now I get why he looks so pissed and decided to finally stop playing around.

I bet that he's so regretting his choice now. Had he pursued killing me right off the bat, none of this would have happened to him.

That's what he gets.

But going on a pretty similar matter, my situation is probably even worse by miles.

I need to kill him with me. That's the exact thing that has been going on in my thoughts right now. I can try escaping but, unless there will be someone who has a healing-type sigil that can treat me right away then, there's no use in doing that.

I already lost too much blood. I am done for. That fact is pretty much obvious. I can't hear what nonsense One's saying cause everything is already blurry but, it seems that he's also aware of my situation that's why he's not even attacking me anymore. Just laughing at me while watching me slowly die.

My breathing is starting to ragged. My vision as well is also getting foggy now.

*Thud!*

I can't even stand anymore as strength suddenly left my legs. Making me fall down to the ground, helplessly convulsing as more blood spurts out of my body.

Just kidding. I mean, I was indeed getting weak as the moment passed by, but not as exaggerated as I'm making it seem. In reality though, I still have the strength to spare and was just acting, seeing if I can somehow catch this b*tch off guard.

So there I was on the ground, thinking. One? Trash talking. My body? Simply Dying.

Now as for how I plan to kill One, well, I really can't think of many, given my current situation and kit. The only logical thing that I could think of right now, as i look at the emergency sprinklers above us going crazy, is electrocuting the ground using my spell.

Which, on a surface level, seems to be a great idea.

True, that might not kill One given how weak the electricity I can produce, but it will stun him for sure and give me enough time to deliver a killing blow using my remaining gun in my back pockets. But, if one were to think about the specifics of that idea, there are really some questionable facts about it.

Such as, me getting electrocuted as well cause, as funny as it sounds to be, I can produce an entire running electricity in my hand, but that doesn't make me completely immune to electricity. So the moment I electrify the ground, I will surely be grounded as well.

So now, I'm kinda stuck in this position where I really can't think of anything more other than blowing myself up with the remaining grenade I had inside of my clothes the moment One gets closer to me. I know it is not a solid plan and One has a high chance of dodging it again but that just shows how out of options I am right now.

*sigh~*

Oh well. In any case, it was a good struggle.

So, sighing heavily, I slowly remove the hand that was pressuring my wound and grab the pin of the grenade in me.

Clearly out of time to think of a more effective plan, I decided to just go for the simpler one. The one where the moment he gets within my range, I will pull this grenade and whatever happens, happens.

"Hmm?"

But as I pretend to be weak and helpless while in reality, I was just waiting for him to get closer, all of a sudden, the door behind us, was forcibly opened. I did not hear it, but I saw the door violently fly past me so I guess that's probably what happened. It seems that someone kicked it so hard it got torn off of its hinges.

The first thing that came into my mind when this happened is that the remaining members of the Eight, the one who's been chasing me since this morning, finally arrived here.

But I guess that doesn't seem to be the case cause looking back at the door, there stand only two individuals. An edgy-looking boy and a young girl who looks pretty cute. Now, these two look outstanding enough that if they are amongst my pursuers earlier, I would surely remember them... but I don't.

But before I could even process what is even happening, the young girl suddenly threw something in my direction. That thing she threw, landed between me and One. Then all of a sudden, from that thing, a huge wall of flame erupted.

Immediately after that, I suddenly found myself being held by the edgy-looking boy from my back.

"Alright, let's go." The young girl hurriedly said.

And before I could even understand what she meant by that, I suddenly found myself in a different place.

I don't... even know what's happening anymore. But I probably won't cause, I am about to pass out.

And most likely die.

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