Chapter 38 – 38. Love

The man runs
It may have been professionally trained, but it accelerates straight to full speed after taking only one step from a standstill.

This is why I couldn’t react to his movements. Accelerating from 0 to 100 in an instant, your eyes can’t keep up.

However, that was only by my standards as a human being.

“Ha, really…… No matter how invisible I am, do I look ridiculous?”

Perhaps it wasn’t that fast by Margaret’s standards as a witch, but she mumbled and used powerful magic.

A witch who used to wear a paladin suit. Spatial magic that was also used on Hecaterina. An instant-kill weapon that blows away the target’s body parts in an instant flies towards the man and pierces it.

However, the moment the magic hit the man’s head, the space itself shook as if it were caught in a mosaic, and the magic bounced back.

“Uh huh?”

While Margaret, shocked at the fact that her magic didn’t work, uttered a puzzled voice, I quickly ran and swung the sword at his sword in the same way.

A mass-produced item that was purchased while traveling around the city.

A sword made of steel collided with a sword made of the same steel. Even so, for some reason, I feel that the opponent’s sword is harder.

Caang-! Kang!

The man who had crossed swords a couple of times in an instant bounced my sword far away with a magic-like movement.

The man who deflected the sword frowned and glared at the place where Margaret was supposed to be.

“What are you doing? Kill me quickly witch.”

Then he lightly stabbed his sword at me. I managed to escape and let go of his sword, but I failed to avoid it completely.

The cut on the back of my neck made me realize how terrifying it is to be stabbed with a long piece of metal aiming for my life, and how terrifying it is to come into direct contact with my body.

‘No, this shit…… !’

It seemed impossible to avoid it twice, but the man immediately retrieved the sword and attempted the next attack. Sensing death and closing his eyes, the man’s entire body is caught in the mosaic as before.

It wasn’t an attack that should have knocked him down, but it succeeded in stopping his movement for a moment – so I pulled my body back straight away.

When the man’s body, which had stopped moving for a moment, returned to normal, he frowned and snarled.

“—You are pitiful. Is this all you can do? So, was it a coincidence that you fainted me then?”

“What is he saying?”
“I don’t know either.”
“Is he crazy or really…… Well, anyway. Got it roughly That guy’s secret.”

Saying that, Margaret gestured toward the man as if to experiment. Then, the man’s body, which had been swaying just before, moved backwards.

Seeing this, Margaret began to grin as if her thoughts were correct. Unable to overcome my curiosity, I asked her.

“What did you do?”

“Looking at it now, that guy- the attack doesn’t work. Simply blowing off the head with magic, burying the body on the ground or throwing it high into the sky–if there is an intention to kill, it will not work unconditionally, right?”

“Yes. So?”

“So this time I didn’t intend to kill it, I just moved it backwards. So voila – did you move?”

And that fact brings about a fact. The fact that you can run far away without having to deal with him.

As long as there is Margaret, the Witch of Space, he will never be able to catch them. Every time it comes, just blow it away.

“Okay then, let’s run away now.”
“…… No. Shouldn’t you run away?”
“What? Are you going to fight that one?”

Nod. It hurts our pride to run away when we haven’t done anything wrong…… Above all, a guy like that is the type that becomes more persistent once he runs away.

A guy who will do anything to achieve his goals. It was better to end it while I could, rather than leaving a guy alone who didn’t know where he was plotting.

But Margaret shook her head as if not.

“You said it earlier. All attacks miss?”
“But…… Didn’t I knock that guy down last time? My attack must work on him.”

If that guy’s invulnerability is the witch’s magic that cursed him, then to me, who can nullify any magic, it’s just a big, fast punching bag.

So convinced, I whispered to Margaret about my plan. Hearing that, Margaret laughed as if it were going to be fun.

Suddenly, the man from far away came right in front of me, but it didn’t matter. The magic has already been activated.

The surrounding scenery changed in an instant, and we returned home.

“Teacher Niiiiim—!!!”

So, to the hut where the world’s strongest witch lives.

“Please save me oh oh oh!!”

Kwaaaaang—!!

The cabin exploded, and Master rushed out of it.

* * *

The surrounding landscape changes. Ludwig, who thought he was going to run away, was relieved to realize that John was still in front of him.

If the enemy witch had the power to transcend space, it would be impossible for her to pursue him.

‘…… Magic that transcends space? Then how did you break through my curse—’

Magic is one per person. Although it can be applied, it cannot go beyond the broad category. No matter how much I thought about it, it was impossible to nullify the magic of immortality that had been placed on me with something like space-jumping magic.

Wasn’t it an invincible magic that made even the blades of paladins miss? The worst curse that forced his life to last for hundreds of years.

But there was no time to think about it. It was because John, whom he was chasing, screamed coldly.

“Master—!! Help me!”

At the same time he shouted, something exploded in the distance. At the same time, someone stepped in front of him.

A bountiful silver hair and a voluptuous body. A woman with an exquisitely beautiful appearance, giving off a terribly repulsive atmosphere to the point that her limbs shriveled up.

Ludwig realized that the woman in front of him was a witch because of the difference between the information he saw on the outside and the information actually embedded in his brain.

Evangeline, who appeared after hearing a voice calling for help, pointed at Ludwig and asked.

“Hey?”
“Yep! And it’s enchanted with impervious attacks!”
“Ha, magic that doesn’t work on attacks?”

Evangeline smiled mockingly and pointed her finger at Ludwig. Then, everything in the world began to oppose him.

The gravity, the air, the wind, the sunlight, the flying birds, the ground he was stepping on, the trees and leaves around him, the bugs that rode on those leaves, even the microbes parasitic on those bugs— .

The whole planet is against him.
It was an attack that would kill you even if you breathed in, so Ludwig realized that his body stopped the moment he took a breath.

The filtering work unique to the magic of immortality hung over him. When attacked, it stops moving and becomes immune to that attack.

But now, for some reason, my body continued to stop.

Evangeline did not miss the gap that was created.

“How dare you target our Yohan?”

Numerous magic bullets are created above her head. It was a simple, ignorant attack that shot magic power together, but its power was certain.

Along with Evangeline’s gesture, the magic bullets fired at Ludwig boasted destructive power enough to rip the ground apart, and swallowed Ludwig’s body in an instant.

“End with this.”

Evangeline, who had dealt with Ludwig in an instant, turned around.

* * *

Having dealt with Ludwig with an overwhelming attack, Evangeline suddenly ran towards Johann.

“Yohaaan-! Master did it! Are you not hurt anywhere!?”
“…… Master. Did you say you got rid of it?”
“Yes? Uh! There won’t be anyone who doesn’t die from that attack…….”
“I am not dead yet! Be vigilant and defend, defend!”

Evangeline was puzzled by the fact that she did not die from that attack, but rather than doubting her pupil, she chose to trust her even if she was deceived.

When he turned his back again and looked in the direction he had fired, a shadow began trudging through the dust.

“Neither you.”

Ludwig, who showed a normal appearance without a single scratch, glared at John fiercely and asked.

“Then do you have any secrets?”
“…… Okay.”
“I got the street number wrong from the beginning. I almost killed someone who could lift my curse with my own hands…… No, is this also part of the curse?”

Ludwig smiled wryly as he said that. Although he was directly resistant to all deaths, if inevitable death came somehow, the situation itself would prevent it from coming.

If an earthquake comes and he is destined to be buried, he is saved by sending the earthquake to another place or by making him not go to the place where the earthquake will occur – even touches on fate and protects him.

It would have been the same this time. Meeting someone who could nullify the curse on him was the same as putting him in danger of dying as a result.

So, he would have killed John himself with his own hands to escape death. Even though that death is what he really wants…….

“I am sorry. So…… Won’t you kill me?”

“…… What if you say no?”

“I make you hate me so much that you want to kill me.”

“Can we just send you away from here?”

“Even if it takes years and decades, I will find you. If you’re dead, find the witches here and kill them. No, killing me isn’t enough, raping and molesting me makes me regret that you didn’t kill me then—”
“Why do you do that?”

Master, who had been quietly listening to Ludwig’s words, looked at Ludwig with a tilt of his head, as if asking why he had to go so far.

After hearing her words of her, Ludwig began to tell his story of her, probably thinking that if they heard her explanation of her, they would have the heart to kill him.

“—I was a paladin.”
“… Paladin? Like that?”
“Okay. A very old paladin who participated in the crusade hundreds of years ago to kill the immortal witch.”

That said, it means that he is no longer a paladin. Haha- Even if John thought about it, it was not a good thing that there were immortal beings who did not die among the priests who believed in God.

The church must have locked him up for the rest of his life or tried to find a way to kill him somehow. As a result, he couldn’t do that, so he’s here now.

“As you well know, I succeeded in killing the immortal witch.”

“…… I know, her death was quite a surprise even among us.”

“As she died, she said to me: ‘Live for me,’ she said.”

“…… Yes?”

But something was strange. The immortal witch told the paladin to live instead? Her witch her is not pessimistic because her own life her is getting old.

Unlike humans who grow old and get sick if they live a little longer, they don’t get old or get sick easily—and they don’t even try to end their lives with depression. There is no reason for her to die after leaving the word her to live to the paladin who came to kill her …….

“Thanks to her, my beloved left me behind. I’ve traveled hundreds of years to see her again, but I couldn’t find her. Because she is already dead.”

Hearing the story, John opened his mouth. Because the story suddenly started flowing into a romance drama.

Then, he carefully began to look into Evangeline’s eyes in her.

“Now I have a way that I might be able to meet her. Kill her me, let her see her again Oh. I…… I want to meet her again.”

Sweet love story. It’s so sad to the point of tears…….
And, Evangeline, the witch of love, was weak to this kind of love story.

“John. How can I not……?”

To the extent that even an enemy would listen to that story.