My Death Flag Shows No Sign Of Ending

Episode 42

(Harold's POV)

While holding the sword, I asked myself.

Why did Cody pursue me? It's because I was a member of his squad and I left.

Why do I have to fight Cody? It's because he aims to bring me back with brute force.

In other words, all of these are things that were caused by my actions, this is my fault.

Although I assumed that somebody would try to obstruct me for taking action myself in an emergency, this is close to the worst situation possible for Cody himself to chase after me.

More importantly, Cody isn't near Robinson right now. Even if they got caught up in a battle, I thought that if Cody was in the vicinity then that would be able to help to some extent.

This is truly not the ideal situation, it was like I was reinforcing Robinson's death flag instead of destroying it.

Now that I've taken this moment in, I can't waste any more time here.

I need to get through this quickly so I can meet up with Yuno and continue the plan, but it doesn't look Cody will allow that too easily.

Even if I take advantage of my speed and make a huge number of attacks, all of my strikes that I thought were aimed at blind spots are prevented as if he had eyes on the back of his head.

That said, if I forego attack and focus on defense, a sudden outburst of sharp blows will ensue. Although it's still at a level that can be avoided, even the smallest waver in concentration could prove fatal.

As expected of a character who regularly joins the hero's party, albeit limitedly.

What's even more troubling is that the weapon that Cody is using is different than what he uses in the original work. A longsword of the Order. Far different than the fighting style I knew.

In the original work, Cody used different equipment, his Willow Katana and a Bow and Arrow.

Although it's doubtful that such a combination could actually be useable in real warfare, in the game you could instantly change between equipment to respond to both close and long range battles.

The current Cody is using a longsword and magic. It might sound easy to beat in the game, but all of my attacks are being perfectly dealt with. I can't grasp a single clue to what strategy I should take.

Perhaps Cody won't attack me of his own volition and stay on defense to buy time and hold out until reinforcements arrive.

If so, then I'm checkmated.

Even if I try to escape by fully utilizing my speed, he'll just catch up to me again by using his horse.

In that case, I have to take him down here as quickly as possible.

I released a spell as I started growing more impatient.

"<<Trident Blitz!>>"

With a clap of thunder, the three bolts of lightning arc in a spiral towards Cody.

A bolt of lightning that would easily incapacitate an ordinary person. However, Cody wasn't stupid enough to take the lightning for no real reason at all.

"<<Flame Column!>>"

Still, I continued to fire my magic.

This time, huge pillars of flame emerged at his feet, but with a quick leap backwards, his appearance disappeared behind the fire pillar.

Immediately after, the fire pillar was dispersed as if it were nothing.

"Oh, how scary, <<Wind Fang!>>"