The Reincarnated Assassin Is a Genius Swordsman

Chapter 1397 "Very..." Lust curled up her lips as she looked at Evelyn's cheeks that had turned red like a ripe apple. "You're even having naughty thoughts?" She licked her lips with her tongue as if showing what thoughts Evelyn was having. "N-no, I'm not!" Evelyn said absolutely not while blushing even more deeply. "I-I always sincerely toward Raon..." Contrary to her words about approaching sincerely, she bit her lips deeply. "Of course your heart would be sincere. However..." Lust chuckled and shook her head. "You probably never seriously thought about attacking Wrath. You always just ended it at the level of teasing." "Th-that's..." Evelyn couldn't deny Lust's words and lowered her gaze. "In ordinary cases, the man would come on his own, so seducing like that isn't a bad method." Lust smacked her lips, saying that subtly seducing like Evelyn was also good. "But that blockhead is different. If you approach halfheartedly, he'll just back away. You need to charge in openly and sincerely." She clenched her fist, saying that with someone like Wrath, you need to perform a physical charge like a swordsman. "That's why I properly learned swordsmanship." Lust nodded, saying she became serious about swords because of Wrath. "Mmm..." Evelyn's face grew redder each time she heard Lust's words, and now her cheeks had swollen as if they might burst. "B-but you haven't successfully confessed to Raon either!" She furrowed her eyebrows, asking if Lust wasn't in the same situation. "That's why I keep trying. I'm also going to leap at Wrath when this war ends." Lust curled her lips, saying she would also make an intense confession. Strangely, the two were able to communicate even though they were calling him by different names - Raon and Wrath. 'Raon...' Evelyn lowered her eyes while thinking of Raon. Lust's words were right. She loved Raon, and everything she had said to him was sincere. 'How could I not love Raon.' How could she not love the person who forgave her many sins, led her to a better path, helped her find her past self, and ultimately purified even her soul. However, unlike her love for Raon, she didn't sincerely hope that Raon would choose and love her. 'Because there are many people better than me.' There was Runaan, who was naive but always thought only of Raon, and Martha, who had a tyrant-like personality but became a gentle lamb before Raon, and the eyepatch woman who brought information without any compensation, and the long-eared woman currently hiding in the forest. Unlike herself who had committed many sins to survive, there were those who were pure and beautiful, so she didn't dream of receiving true love from Raon. "You're qualified too." Upon hearing Lust say she was qualified, she felt as if the dam that had been suppressing the deepest emotions in her heart had collapsed, and the waters that had been stored to overflowing came pouring out. "Haaa..." Evelyn exhaled deeply and opened her eyes. Her light purple pupils sparkled more intensely, and a deep Authority of Lust bloomed that was no less than Lust's own. "Beautiful." Lust curled her lips, saying that Evelyn had awakened to true Authority of Lust. "Now you're finally acting like a human who received my Authority." She had lived for a long time and seen countless humans and demons. Among them, she had given the Authority of Lust to some who caught her interest and watched their lives, but none had achieved results that satisfied her. But Evelyn was different. Harboring deep and intense emotions for a long time, weaving them tightly together, then overcoming fear and releasing them all - that wasn't something just anyone could do. 'There was a reason I was drawn to that girl.' She finally understood why she had taken a liking to Evelyn from the first time she saw her. The emotion Evelyn had harbored for a long time was the pure love that she herself liked most. "I understand." Evelyn looked at Lust and drew a sultry smile. "I'll confess after this war ends." (E/N: She says confess but I somehow hear another word) She said she would sincerely convey her heart to Raon while looking at the golden flames soaring up in the sky. "Good. Now then..." Lust felt the Authority of Lust rising from Evelyn's soul and smacked her lips lengthily. With not only her hair but even her pupils dyed pink, she looked at Sariel. "It's time to end our fight." * * * "......" Sariel slightly furrowed her eyebrows while listening to Lust and Evelyn's conversation. 'Why?' Seeing those two ignoring her and conversing with each other, she felt a stuffy feeling in her chest. 'Why does my chest feel heavy as if weights were attached?' Normally, she would not have missed the gap when the demon king of lust was off guard and would have coldly prepared to attack. But now, feeling suffocated inside, she could only think about wanting to kill those two. No, more than that, she wanted to defeat those two head-on and show a confident appearance to Lord Uriel. 'Is this irritation?' Sariel realized that the irritation other Archangels and Angels had spoken of was this suffocating emotion and bit her lips slightly. 'Even the superiority I felt before.' My current state is not good. Emotions are imperfect things. Thinking that garbage that only humans would have had gotten on her, she felt an even greater disgust toward Evelyn and Lust. "I'll kill you." Sariel forcibly suppressed the emotions blooming in her soul and spread her eight wings. Paaaaaaaang! The feathers that formed her snow-white wings transformed into transparent crystals and shot out countless rays of divine power. "It's coming." Lust raised her sword burning with pink Authority of Lust and drew a semicircle. "I know." After regulating her breathing, Evelyn brought her hands together and deployed dozens of magic circles. Kwaaaaaaaaah! Lust's sword strike formed a shape like tree branches, and Evelyn's magic circles poured out different colored magic like fruits hanging on that tree, barely blocking Sariel's offensive. "..." Sariel rolled her cold pupils and delicately analyzed Lust's sword and Evelyn's magic. 'The swordsmanship forms have changed, but it's within expected range. The magic has also increased in number, but the changes aren't significant.' She felt she could win without difficulty in this state and increased the number of flashes. Paaaaaaaang! As soon as Sariel increased the number of flashes, Lust and Evelyn, as if they had been waiting, pushed back against the divine light and launched a fierce counterattack. "I expected this." Sariel, as if she had already known about Lust and Evelyn's counterattack, erected a wall with the flashes blooming from her crystal feathers and perfectly reflected both their attacks. "Huh?" "It's coming back! Prepare!" Lust and Evelyn, apparently not having expected Sariel to reflect with her crystal wings, hastily prepared their defenses with surprised looks. "..." Sariel narrowed her eyes as she watched Lust and Evelyn struggling to block her counterattack. 'New information is coming in.' A cool sword wind brushed thinly against her skin. Originally, to her, wind was merely the movement of air due to pressure differences. It was a phenomenon that could be understood through numerical data including speed, direction, and temperature. But the information now flooding her couldn't be expressed in such numbers. She couldn't systematically separate the feelings of 'refreshing inside,' 'feeling pleasant,' and 'scary.' 'I need to suppress them. But...' Sariel furrowed her brow as she looked at her trembling fingertips while feeling emotions. 'It feels good so I don't want to erase them.' She knew emotions were only a hindrance, but the feeling was good so she didn't want to eliminate them. "You're still far off!" "This is just the beginning." Lust and Evelyn didn't miss the moment when Sariel's offensive briefly stopped. Their sword strikes and magic intertwined like grape clusters and fell toward Sariel's head. The human Magician and the Monarch of Devildom unleashed their ultimate techniques one after another, condensing explosive power as if risking their lives. "Mmm..." Sariel bit her lips slightly as she saw a harmony of sword and magic in a form she had never seen before. 'My spine is cold as if ice was poured down it.' Is this what chills mean? She could analyze the angle, speed, and force of Lust's slash, and could understand the temperature and explosive power of Evelyn's flame magic, but the feeling of chills wasn't temperature, so she couldn't accept it. Normally she would have defended or deflected with minimal movement and force, but because of the fear created by the harmony of sword and magic, her head and body wouldn't move properly. Peoooooooong! Sariel hastily spread her crystal wings and erected a wall made of flashes, but it seemed too late as the sword and magic swept past her shoulder and waist. "Mmm..." She trembled her fingers as if the fear still hadn't disappeared. "Analysis impossible..." Sariel stepped back while biting her pale lips, as if unable to analyze for the first time. "Wh-what exactly have you done to me!" She expelled through her mouth the suffocating feeling and heat that seemed to tightly block her chest. "Die all of you!" Sariel screamed in terror at the uncontrollable emotions flooding her and spewed divine light in all directions. Finally overwhelmed by fear, she abandoned analysis and unleashed both the power received from heaven and the destructive force of the horn trumpet, as if to erase everything. Woooooooooong! Countless flashes shot from Sariel's feathers in succession, and a magnificent radiance poured from her as if a god had descended. "How terrifying." Evelyn whistled as she saw Sariel's light pressing in with overwhelming firepower. "But I think I can do it now." She nodded, saying that because emotions were running wild, she thought she could push back Sariel's light. "Good confidence." Lust smacked her lips, sensing that Evelyn had realized how to use emotions. "Good. Now let's end this." Lust grinned and kicked off the ground. As if completely trusting Evelyn, she leaped into Sariel's radiance without looking back. "If you trust me that much..." Evelyn curled her lips as she watched Lust's back running without hesitation. "Of course I have to deliver!" She entrusted her body to the emotions surging in her chest and drew a single magic circle above her palm. Woooooooong! A pink sun rose from the magic circle Evelyn drew. The color was lighter than the sun, but the heat seemed like it would never be pushed back. Kwaaaaaaaang! Evelyn's magic imbued with the Authority of Lust clashed with Sariel's light that had been destroying everything. Chichichichichik! The pink sun and divine flash collided, overturning the earth's surface, and everything around them began to be erased. "This is..." Sariel's lips trembled thinly as she saw the pink sun that had power equal to the light containing heavenly divine power and destructive force. "Is this warmth?" The emotion called warmth wasn't simple temperature. As she felt heat that touched not her skin but her heart, her crystal wings that had been emitting endless light wavered. 'N-no! I need to suppress my emotions...' Just as Sariel forcibly erased her emotions and tried to focus on attacking again, a pink line was drawn across her throat. Chwaaaaaaaak!