Domination
“N… n, n…!”
Faced with the bizarre phenomenon unfolding before his eyes, Prince Dogorgon collapsed onto the floor, his legs giving out beneath him.
“M-My… my evil dragon…! It got… eaten!?”
“Ah, thank you very much, Your Highness! It was a truly wonderful present!”
I pinched my skirt and performed my second curtsy of the day.
Plunder complete.
Well then, I got some results out of this, so maybe it’s about time I headed home and went to sleep, just as I was thinking that.
“D-Don’t mess with me…! Give it back! That power is mine! It’s the power I need to become king!!”
Dogorgon started screaming like a child throwing a tantrum.
Then, with bloodshot eyes, he pointed at the giant man beside him.
“Nagaku! Do it! Kill her! Tear that brat into pieces and pull the evil dragon out of her!!”
The instant the order was given…
Nagaku, the guard knight who had been silent like a statue until now, moved.
He’s fast.
The explosive power of Level 64 wasn’t for show.
At the same moment his foot struck the floor, his massive body shot forward like a cannonball.
Raised in his hands was a gigantic curved blade as tall as he was. If something like that hit me head-on, I’d get squashed like a tomato, pop.
For a normal little girl, this would be the moment to scream and accept death.
… But.
I was so calm I could’ve yawned.
Because right now, I had an amazing new toy.
“… Let’s try a test cut right away.”
I stared straight at the steel blade rushing toward me and raised my right thumb and index finger, forming an L-shape.
What I imagined was a perfect cut with no escape.
Two blades closing together, neatly slicing out the space between them like a guillotine mechanism.
Far beyond Nagaku’s perception speed, two gigantic “walls of blades” formed from shadow appeared soundlessly.
Their sharpened edges faced each other, sandwiching Nagaku between them.
The instant his body leapt into their range…
I snapped my fingers shut.
“... Snip!”
Spaaaan!
A sharp sound slicing through the air rang out for just a moment.
The massive blades rushing in from left and right overlapped at the center with flawless precision, as if being drawn together.
Resistance? A scream?
There was no room for something so crude.
Nagaku’s Level 64 hardened body, the obviously expensive armor, the greatsword raised above his head…
Before the crossing blades, they were as fragile as heat haze. Like smoke.
Nagaku remained standing.
With a blank look on his face, as if he didn’t understand what had just happened.
But then…
… Zzz…
A single red line ran down the center of his body.
Thud…!
The body split into two halves and collapsed under its own weight.
The cut surface was as smooth as a mirror. Perhaps his heart hadn’t even realized it had stopped, because not a single drop of blood spilled.
A death too clean.
“Yeah. The sharpness is excellent.”
I placed a hand over my mouth and nodded in satisfaction.
There wasn’t even any sense of impact, just the lightness of slicing empty air.
Maybe he didn’t even realize he died. That’s Alice-chan style mercy.
And then…
Right after Nagaku’s corpse fell completely silent.
… Ding, dong♪
… Dingding, dong♪
… Dingdingdingdingding, dong!!!
Notification sounds rang wildly inside my head.
“W-wah!?”
[Level Up! You are now Level 33] [Level Up! You are now Level 34] [Level Up! You are now Level 35]………………
[Level Up! You are now Level 45]“Amazing…! It won’t stop!”
A warm torrent of power surged through my entire body. My muscles grew denser, my mana circuits expanded to the brink of burning out, and my senses sharpened.
“Mm, nnh…♡”
I accidentally let out a dazed little sound and nearly collapsed to the floor right there.
This feeling.
That sinful pleasure of becoming stronger in an instant.
This is why you can’t quit hunting enemies stronger than you.
Thirteen levels all at once.
At this point, I might be able to smash a rock with my bare hands.
Drunk on the overflowing sense of omnipotence, I let out a hot breath.
Then I slowly lifted my face.
And there…
“H-hii… a-ah…”
Was Prince Dogorgon, collapsed on the floor, his teeth chattering violently… his pants soaked.
I walked over to him and crouched down.
Then, with my freshly leveled-up, glowing skin, I tilted my head in the cutest way possible.
“Hey, Oniisama?”
I played with the black haze still lingering at my fingertips and smiled like an angel.
“Next… it’s your turn.”
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