The Exhausting Reality of Novel Transmigration

d’s head squarely.

Gieeek!

The lizard screeched at once.
It closed its eyes and shook its head.

Meanwhile, it was around the same time that Cassion slashed his extending sword towards the lizard’s tail.

The long, meandering blade of the whip sword wrapped around the tail of the flailing lizard.

A blue flame appeared along the blade.

Graaah… GIEEEK!

The lizard roared and thrashed hard.

As it twisted its tail, the blue flames quickly dug into the lizard’s skin.

Soon, the huge tail was cut off cleanly, and it fell with a huge THUD!

“Kyaah!”

“Wh…What?!”

“Huh? Someone… Who— Who’s on the lizard?!”

“No, there are two people!”

“The lizard’s tail got cut off!”

After the dust had settled around the fallen tail, the desperate people around the area began to talk noisily.

They had been busy running away in fear until now, and it was only then that they noticed the man who was standing atop the lizard’s tail, and the man who was standing tall atop the lizard’s head.

The severed tail.
And a flashing light.

They did not know what exactly was happening, but as they realized that the lizard seemed to be under attack, hope was starting to rise again upon their faces one by one.

“Young Duke Carter?! Then that person…”

“Who is that? He’s wearing a mask?”

“Whoever he is, it doesn’t matter! Stay strong, Sir Knight!”

Unlike the excited commotion down below, the atmosphere surrounding the lizard sank even colder.

The two men, who did not stop their onslaught of attacks, met gazes once more.

One stood on the monster’s head, and the other on its tail, so they were farther away than they had been before.

Even so, despite being so far away from each other, their gazes matched ever so clearly.

One set of red eyes and yet another set of red eyes.

Again this time, it was Leo who opened his lips to speak first.

He raised his head with a much more emotionless expression than before.

“You.
You’re using magic?”

His voice carried the smallest hint of incredulity, but nevertheless, it was there.

Cassion shrugged nonchalantly.

Urging his whip sword to return to its original form, he replied.

“Yes, somehow or another.
I’m using a little of it.”

And again this time, he did not back down.

 

* * *

 

“Lady Alicia!”

“Alicia! Where are you!”

Diana and Rosetta’s voices ran throughout the empty forest.

When they saw that the people who were supposed to be there were not, and were instead replaced by only red bloodstains in that spot, they were pushed into urgency.

Diana stepped down from Rosetta’s back, then she looked around.

Even if she was an injured patient, it would be better if the two of them split up and searched the area separately.

Still, because they didn’t know when or where the monsters would launch another surprise attack, they had to still keep close.

To the point of straining her throat, Rosetta kept shouting Alicia’s name over and over again as she searched through the woods.
However, she suddenly stopped.

At this rate, there would be no end to this.

Was this not like finding a needle in a haystack?

Squeezing her eyes shut, she crouched down.

The palm of her hand touched the ground.

Diana, who was limping as she was searching for Alicia, looked at Rosetta and stopped as well.

She didn’t know what was happening, but she had a hunch that she would get in the way if she were to make any noise or move at all.

And Diana’s hunch was right.

As Rosetta was wrapping her entire body with inner qi, she used her energy as an extension of her senses.

Skin touched by the wind, the rain.

What kind of things had they brought with them all the way here, reaching her.

Through the ground that the palm of her hand was touching, she could feel various movements.

She focused her inner qi on her eyes and her ears, searching relentlessly for distant sounds and invisible sights from afar.

Upon her golden eyes, red veins started to show,

Couuugh.

How long did she stay that way.

It was only a short time, but Rosetta’s lips now overflowed with red blood.

“Lady Rosetta!”

Shocked, Diana ran and limped towards her.

“I’m fine.”

Rosetta staggered to her feet, refusing the help she was offered.

She closed her heavy eyelids and breathed for a moment.

Because she overexerted herself from using her qi, even for a short period of time, she had to recover herself by using respite.[1]

Soon, her closed eyes flashed open.

Her heaving chest regained stability.

Rosetta carried the restless Diana on her back once more, then hurried forward.

She ran so fast that the rain and the wind began to hit them horizontally.

Diana closed her eyes tightly.

And when she opened her eyes again, they were still in the midst of the thicket, but it was quite far from where Alicia was originally hiding.

Rustle, rustle.

There was movement from the bushes.

Also a frightened breath.

Rosetta crouched down, and with a conflicted smile, she swept the leaves aside.

“KYAAH!”

As soon as the leaves were moved aside, a dagger popped out, accompanied by the short yelp.

It was an attack that wasn’t the slightest threat to the opponent.

Instead of dodging it, Rosetta gently grabbed the wrist of the dagger wielder.

Clink… Clatter…

The sloppily handled dagger fell down the damp floor.

It was the dagger that Diana gave to Alicia.

The person who had wielded the dagger blinked slowly.

Tears poured down her eyes.

“Sister…?”

“Alicia.”

At long last, the sisters have reunited.

 

 

¹ Respite (운기조식) – a term used in fictional martial arts which refers to the act of moving qi to regulate one’s breathing. 

 

sidenote: our daily chapters end here~! just in time to see the sisters finally reunite  

thank you for tuning in until now~ the update schedule will be returning to how it had been before (2 or 3 updates per week), so i’ll come back with another new chapter after a few days (i’m gonna have to rest a little, my wrists are aching and my brain is mush hahaha)