89: Chapter 89 Mia Learned Knife Techniques from Watching Videos

Mia, wielding dual shortswords, moved like a butterfly fluttering through flowers as she dealt with Eita, her blood occasionally splattering onto the battlefield.

The [blood rose abbess robe] and [rose form] were both somewhat damaged by Eita's sword qi. Set against the backdrop of the tattered pollen mist on the ground, she appeared even more pitiable.

It was rare for her to face a battle maniac like Eita. Any other Bihe Mountain Shinobi, even Butterfly, would likely have been unable to strike her. After all, Mia's [Charm], combined with her high Charisma value of 22, was truly heaven-defying.

Liang Wuer also brought out his trump card. What looked like red mist flew out of his mouth, heading straight for Eita. This mist was actually a type of small insect that could devour the red Qi protecting Eita's body. It reminded Mia of the Demon-Eating Insects she had encountered in a previous dungeon story.

In an instant, a large portion of the red Qi Eita had released was devoured by Liang Wuer's Qi-Eating Insects.

He reversed his grip on the hilt and stirred the air, swirling the red mist released by Liang Wuer around the blade.

[Kamikaze Slash]! The red mist was shredded by Eita's sword qi and fell scattered to the ground. Liang Wuer was forced to retract his red mist.

"Don't use your hand spikes to block his blade! Not even with [Wu Shao Armor]!" Mia shouted at Liang Wuer.

At that moment, Liang Wuer was facing the incoming slash of [hirumaru]. Hearing Mia's shout, he immediately gave up on countering and jumped back in a panic. Only You Ke was stubborn enough not to believe this young Enshrined Girl's words, leading to him being hung in the secret room for several days. Liang Wuer was no fool.

Having missed his strike, Eita was also somewhat puzzled. He actually wasn't 100% sure he could snap the hand spikes and cut Liang Wuer in two with a single blow. Thus, he sheathed his sword and assumed a Battojutsu stance, his eyes staring intently at Mia.

"Miss Mia seems to know me and [hirumaru] very well?" If other members of the Bihe Mountain Shinobi saw Eita speaking so seriously, they would surely be astonished. He only spoke like a normal person to opponents he recognized in swordsmanship.

"You could say that. At least, I believe the fault doesn't lie with [hirumaru], but with the lack of mental fortitude in its previous wielders. A sword is just a weapon, even if it has a soul..." Mia held her two shortswords, stained with blue phosphorus fire, maintaining an offensive stance.

"Oh? Is Miss Mia mocking my incompetence?" As soon as he finished speaking, his blade arrived. A precise Battojutsu strike was blocked by Mia's dual swords, but the rock wall behind her was sliced cleanly, slowly sliding to the ground.

Squelch! A wound was also cut into Mia's waist by the sword qi, and the blood bag on her [Original Sin Waistband - Modified] was ruptured. For a moment, blood gushed out like a fountain, making it difficult for onlookers to tell how severe the injury actually was.

Eita licked the remnant of Mia's blood from his blade. "Hiss—the taste of a devil, with a hint of fishy sweetness. If I don't kill you, would you be willing to be my sword slave?"

"If you die, I'll give you a grave in a grand cathedral. That's the limit of the humanitarianism I can offer." Mia lunged forward. Her dual blades, wreathed in blue flames, slashed into Eita's red Qi waves like a hot knife through butter before being blocked by him.

Just as Eita was about to chuckle, his eyes narrowed. A spray of blood erupted from his shoulder. It was Mia's sword qi, which had passed through his [hirumaru] to strike his shoulder.

"[hirumaru] carries its own resentment, but I have my fury as well!" As she spoke, Mia's blue eyes erupted with a massive amount of orchid soul fire. "My compatriots who were murdered by invaders will guide me to slay you and the invading army behind you!"

The clashing of their blades left numerous marks on the cave walls. Liang Wuer was left somewhat disheveled in the corner by the stray sword qi. With his superior vision, he could see that Mia was still slightly the weaker of the two.

The girl in the elegant red nun's habit, holding dual ceremonial shortswords with blue phosphorus fire, faced off against the crazed youth in a black school uniform, wielding a long sword and radiating red Qi, as she launched continuous attacks. Mia's droplets of blood falling to the ground quickly combined with the toxic pollen spread by the [rose form], causing many rose vines to rapidly crawl across the floor. Sprouting branches and forming buds, the [Blood Rose] flowers about to bloom soon filled the entire battlefield floor.

After a close-range shortsword slash, Mia, who was much stronger than Eita in terms of physical techniques, used the momentum to spin and climb onto Eita's shoulders. Her legs locked around Eita's neck. [Mia Typhoon] activated!

The phantom of a giant black rose bloomed within the sea of flowers. The center of the flower was positioned exactly at Eita's vulnerable neck. The crisp sound of bone snapping was loud enough to be heard in the silent cave.

Mia did not give up her pursuit; instead, she followed up with two more stabs into Eita's back. The blades slid inward through the gaps in his ribs.

A blade light that seemed capable of severing the stars swept across Mia's chest. Caught off guard, her body was nearly cut in half by this shoulder-to-back slash. The fire in her blue eyes showed signs of flickering out. Spitting blood, she fell backward into the sea of flowers in the cave...

"Cough, cough—ugh..." Large mouthfuls of black blood were vomited out by Eita as he slowly crawled up. His neck bone was indeed broken. But he was Eita the Demonic Man, and he possessed the demon blade [hirumaru], which was why he narrowly escaped death. Mia's two follow-up stabs had severely destroyed his vitality. Now, the red Qi outside his body was no longer flamboyantly released; it was all retracted into his body to suppress the wounds on his neck and both sides of his chest.

For the first time, he felt death so close. Eita seemed to have already smelled the scent of dust on the Grim Reaper's cloak.

A hand spike abruptly stabbed toward his temple from the side. Eita's injuries and the chronic toxins in the sea of flowers made his reactions much slower than before. Barely blocking the attack and snapping the hand spike, he saw Liang Wuer, who had ambushed him. He wanted to kill him with one slash, but he felt dizzy and was about to collapse. Leaning on his blade, he looked at the beautiful, tranquil face stained with blood in the sea of flowers, showing a look of respect.

Liang Wuer's harassing attacks continuously increased the wounds on Eita's body. He was like a heavily wounded, dying beast, only able to occasionally drive away the scavengers eyeing his flesh. The speed and frequency of his counterattacks grew lower and lower, yet he seemed to be waiting for something. He knew she wasn't dead!

Mia slowly woke up from the intense pain. Before the life-and-death struggle, she had pre-emptively swallowed a [Basic Vitality Potion EX] and held it in her mouth. That was why the near-bisecting attack hadn't taken her life.

She slowly climbed up from the sea of flowers. Both Liang Wuer and Eita were stunned. Then, Eita raised his sword and staggered toward her again. He didn't want to die, but [hirumaru] told him that dying at the hands of a swordsman was better than dying at the hands of the petty man beside him; at least it was honorable.

Faint flames overflowed from both Mia's red and blue eyes. With a swift movement, she bypassed Eita and crouched in the sea of flowers.

Eita's already overburdened neck sprayed a jet of blood, having been more than halfway severed by the [zhongzheng sword modified ex] in Mia's hand. His corpse fell heavily into the sea of [Blood Rose] flowers.

A towering, eerie Gothic cathedral seemed to flash momentarily in the air, taking away Eita's soul...

Nikaido Eita—Deceased.