Pawahara Seijo no Osananajimi to Zetsuen Shitara, Nanimokamo ga Umaku Iku Yō ni Natte Saikyō no Bōken-sha ni Natta ~ Tsuideni Yasashikute Kawaii Yome mo Takusan Dekita ~ (WN) - Chapter 140

[Warrior’s Pride]

““—Grand Hell Destruction!!””

――SLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSHHHHH!

“Graaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrggggghhhhh!?”

A super-powerful slash that ignored defense cut deeply into Boreios’s chest.

Normally, the slash would have divided his sturdy trunk into two, but I guessed I should say as expected of a saint that had been blackdollified by Phinis-sama.

Despite receiving such a gash, his will to fight didn’t diminish even a little bit.

Well, I’d expected him to endure that attack, so it didn’t give me that much of a surprise.

“I knew it. To damage such a stupidly huge body, we need an equally big attack. So unfair~.”

“But our attack just now seems to be working pretty well. Look, he’s stopped moving.”

As I’d said, Boreios was glaring at us, growling “Grrr…”, while holding his wounded chest.

Sure, the bigger the body, the bigger the attack was needed to injure it.

But at the same time, the bigger the target became, the easier it would be to land an attack.

And I suspected Boreios wore lightning armor because he was well aware of that fact. But unfortunately for him, his opponents were immortal and muscle-brained.

Sorry, but your tactics are useless against us.

“What a shame, ain’t it? Old man. Now that your momentum has been cut off, this is gonna turn into a one-sided beatin’. Ah, of course, yer on the receiving side.”

“Graa…” Boreios showed an annoyed look to Ophir’s provocation, but—

“…Ari… adne… Gel… nika…!!”

――Fwoosh!

““—!?””

The moment he muttered some kind of incantation, like he did earlier when he was summoning the lightning armor, his body got enveloped in black aura.

Is it another defensive magic? As I went alert, something that made me doubted my eyes happened.

“H-hey!? The old man’s shrinkin’!?”

Yes, Boreios’s body began to shrink.

Could he no longer maintain his Fantasy Form due to the damage he’d sustained earlier?

“Let’s get down for the time being. Maybe we can purify him as he is now.”

“Wha-, seriously!? I still haven’t had enough rampage!?”

We landed on the ground while I was calming down the dissatisfied Ophir.

Although Boreios had returned to his original size, the black aura was still swirling all around his body, but—

――Basssh!

““!””

All of a sudden, the black aura burst off. His whole body was now clad in black armor, though the face part was open, which revealed Boreios’s original look.

Slowly, his tightly closed eyes opened, and then he said, “…Long time no see, Saintess Ophir. And Savior.”

““—!?”” His words caused us to go wide-eyed.

From his looks, it seemed that he had completely regained his consciousness, but did this mean that he’d broken Phinis-sama’s curse on his own? That was unbelievable.

“H-hey, old man!? Have you regained your mind!?” Ophir asked, astonished.

Boreios nodded, “Indeed, that is true,” and said, “when Goddess Phinis used the Sacred Treasure to erode me, I sealed my ego before it completely took over me. After that, I bided my time until I saw an opportunity thanks to your attack, which I immediately took advantage of to overlay the temporary consciousness with the power that I’d been saving up.”

“O-oh, ‘that so…? I don’t really get it, but in short, your guts ultimately came out on top, right?” asked Ophir.

“Well, you can put it that way. However, my body has been completely eroded. This won’t go back to normal unless it receives that ‘purification’ of yours.”

“Ah, then—” The moment I tried to offer to do the purification.

――Whoosh!

““Gh!?””

Boreios suddenly swung his Sacred Treasure, and the shockwave struck us.

As we knitted our eyebrows, wondering what he was up to, Boreios took a stance with his Sacred Treasure and said, “Don’t get me wrong, Savior. I like my current body. It allows me to bring out my full strength.”

“What…?”

“And in front of me is the world’s strongest man, along with the saintess who makes him the strongest. In which case, there’s but one path I can take, right?”

As Boreios tightened his grip on the Sacred Treasure, Ophir burst into a laughter and said, “Ha, I don’t see why not! Right, Exa! Simply put, he’s askin’ for a second round! He’d taken the trouble to regain his mind to have a match with us! There ain’t no reason for us to decline!”

Ophir sounded very happy, so I had no choice but to comply. I softened the corners of my mouth and said, “…Alright. Then let’s beat him up to the point he can’t even make a sound this time!”

“That’s the spirit!”

Following Ophir’s big nod, we entered the final battle against Boreios.