Chapter 61 – 61. Combat

“John?”

Entering a back alley, Evangeline found a witch trampling on John’s chest. It was a woman who seemed to be a young girl on the outside, but the ferocious spirit emanating from her body made me guess that she was a witch.

And the moment John realized that he had been attacked by a witch, Evangeline used her magic at lightning speed. The magic bullet she used flew and pierced, and Hecaterina burst into giggling as it flew far away.

“What, what, what—is this a new year again?”

Instead of flying away, Hecaterina turned around and stood lightly, smiling at Evangeline. It wasn’t the mysterious witch who teleported her from before.

Considering that even seeing one witch is extremely difficult, the fact that there are two completely different witches beside John was very surprising.

From her point of view, considering John to be a paladin, she wondered if the church had finally started using witches.

“You—what are you?”
“Haha- you know it when you see it, right?”
“Paladin uniform? It looks like you stole it from somewhere, are you a beggar? Pick up other people’s clothes and wear them.”
“…… It’s fun.”

Hecaterina, who fell for the provocation, immediately transformed her leg into a strange one. A monster’s legs that make fear bloom naturally just by looking at them.

Hecaterina’s body, which leapt forward with leg strength far exceeding a human’s dozens of times, was shot out like a bullet.

Seeing the tens of kilometers of bullets, Evangeline did nothing but smiled.

“—!?”

The moment it touched Evangeline’s body, Hecaterina felt her body disintegrate into atoms. This sensation that is naturally released from the part that touches her.

It was a feeling that could not be said to be good even as a joke. However, there was no magic to change the trajectory of her already flying body, and in the end, all the atoms in Hecaterina’s body disintegrated and returned to star dust.

Without even looking at Hecaterina, who had disappeared, Evangeline ran straight to John.

“John! Are you okay!?”
“I’m fine…… Master, are you all right?”
“Because not a single hair was hurt! Okay, look where you stepped on quickly!”

Evangeline said that while taking off John’s clothes and checking his trampled chest. Even though a woman weighing dozens of kilos jumped down from the sky and kicked it, there was no visible break or crack.

It was because John, seeing the woman falling, strengthened his body reflexively, and above all, it was because Hecaterina pressed him down with the intention of subduing him, not killing him.

“I don’t see any injuries anywhere, that’s good… ” ….”
“Because it’s okay.”
“By the way, who is that guy? He seemed to know you.”

In response to Evangeline’s question, John talked about Hecaterina. It’s a witch I met when I was walking around the city with Margaret.

Even after that, she met often, killed Ludwig, and killed his offspring. She was the witch.

Upon hearing that, Evangeline felt relieved and let out a sigh of relief.

“Whew – that’s fortunate. Because John is not like your friend.”

“…… Friends don’t trample on each other like that.”

“Do you have any friends like that? In the first place, Yohan was imprisoned by Beatrice, but he tried to protect her by being friends and all.”

Having been pointed out, John looked at her with a shy smile. As she said, even though he was imprisoned by Beatrice, he kept her as a friend and protected her from Master.

Of course, it wasn’t just because they were friends, but because there were various complex problems.

Shoot aaaaa…….

“…… The rain is getting worse.”
“Yeah, it’s just creepy. It must have been a long time before Ritz came.”

It starts to rain.
The chilly weather, combined with the dark atmosphere of the back alley, made Evangeline feel like something was about to pop out.

Thoughts eat away at emotions. Sensing a bleak atmosphere, Evangeline’s body recalled a being suitable for this atmosphere.

‘That girl looked young on the outside, but the atmosphere was so frightening that if you kept looking at it, your body would tremble…… Just like me….’

Evangeline recalled Hecaterina, whom she had just defeated, and awakened her fear.

If someone is feeling fear, the monster doesn’t die.

“…… Master, back.”
“Back?”

After hearing John’s words, Evangeline cautiously turned her head back. There, Hecaterina, who had been defeated earlier, was standing naked.

A large chest that does not suit a small body and a strong hips as if to support the large chest…….

“Bo, don’t look-!”

Evangeline was started and immediately covered John’s eyes. Whether or not she tried so hard, Hecaterina’s naked body was already in Johan’s field of vision.

Hecaterina, who showed her naked body, clicked her tongue once in annoyance, and immediately used her magic to create clothes.

As far as she knew, it was the most terrifying existence, and thus the uniform of a paladin that even the citizens felt a little fear.

“What are you?”

The revived Hecaterina glered at Evangeline and asked. As far as she knew, there weren’t many beings who could defeat her so mercilessly.

It’s a natural talent, and there is a difference in skill due to experience, but- she was a paladin hunter with outstanding experience as well as talent.

“What kind of magic do you have? … Is such a ridiculous attack possible?”

“…… That’s what I’d rather ask, but to be revived- the immortal witch? No, the immortal witch died right away. Even that magic was alive until recently.”

“If you tell me first, I will answer.”

Hecaterina smiled as she said that. Evangeline, who had finished calculating that there would be no harm to herself whether her words were true or false, cautiously nodded and opened her mouth.

“I am the witch of love.”
“…… Love?”
“Yes, witch of love.”

Hearing those words, Hecaterina started glaring at Evangeline. Then he changed his expression about a dozen or so times in an instant, and then he let out a blank laugh and started giggling like it was absurd.

Hecaterina, who had been laughing for a while, burst into laughter as she pointed at Evangeline.

“Of love, witch, ahahahahahaha!”
“…… What’s so funny?”
“Then don’t you find this funny?”

Hecaterina stopped laughing and opened her mouth, glaring at Evangeline with an expressionless face.

“It looks lovely on the outside, but a witch of love? Where did the curse go? What, is being loved so much by others a curse?”

“Why do I have to explain that? Is it your turn now?”

“Ah- actually, I was trying to explain. I mean… Don’t you want to suddenly tell a blessed witch like you?”

“Blessing?”

At the word that she was blessed, Evangeline also looked at Hecaterina with a smile on her face.

The cold gazes of the two witches collided in the air, and soon after, the two of them rushed fiercely at each other.

It rained.

* * *

Hecaterina thought that if she rushed ignorantly like before, it would only be a series of deaths and resurrections. So, rather than rushing ignorantly, I searched for a way to pierce Evangeline’s magic through the name of the magic I heard earlier.

‘I said it was love magic-.’

I don’t know what love has to do with getting rid of her body without leaving a speck of powder behind, but Hecaterina carefully transformed her hand into something strange.

Then he rotated his finger at high speed and fired. The finger that flew like a bullet completely disappeared as soon as it touched Evangeline’s body.

An invincible spear and shield. Convinced that the wall was absolutely impenetrable, Hecaterina rushed right in front of Evangeline.

And after stopping right in front of her barrier he had identified, he kicked off the ground and the wall and started a three-dimensional maneuver.

People are not accustomed to something that sticks from top to bottom. Evangeline did the same, and the gaps were naturally revealed.

Aiming at the gap that was revealed, Hecaterina landed in front of John, who was hiding behind Evangeline.

“Hi?”

And kick-.
Yohan defended himself with surprisingly agile movements, but he couldn’t withstand the leg strength of a monster that easily surpassed humans, so he flew into the alleyway.

“You are—!!”

Evangeline stretched out her hand at the sight of her pupil being beaten, but she, a human, could not hold onto the monster, Hecaterina.

This is Evangeline’s weakness.
You say you are invincible, but what about the others?

“You are weak.”

For Evangeline, the fact that Yohan was the opposite was noticed from the first time he met her.

And what idiot brings a weakness to a battlefield like this? Of course, they will be targeted, and in front of a powerful witch, a paladin is no better than a bug…….

“Ugh…… Fuck, it hurts.”

At that time, John, whom she had blown away, brushed off the dust from my body and stood up.

Seeing this, Hecaterina tilted her head as if it were strange and looked at John. Come to think of it, even though it was kicked, it didn’t make a hole in the stomach, but it flew far away.

No matter how much he was a Holy Knight, there was no such thing as a power that surpassed that of a human being. In other words, John is not just a paladin, but a being with something special—.

“Hey.”

Grinding support -.

Electricity begins to bounce from Evangeline’s body.
A witch of love? It’s a while to be ridiculous.
The amplified current was directed straight at her.

“Turn it off!?”

No matter how fast she moved, she couldn’t escape the lightning. Shocked in an instant, Hecaterina glered at Evangeline, who slowly walked towards her.

“Caught.”

And-I lost consciousness.