Yuri Hero and Loli Demon King - Chapter 10

No matter the reason, killing is ultimately a sin.

I am not a hero, not a savior, but a sinner.

From now on, it is a war between evil against evil—!

(by Tapfer)

“This ends now!”

Lufulus raised her long sword, ready to deliver the final blow. At the same time, even while lying in a pool of blood, Tapfer defiantly aimed her blade at her enemy.

The outcome was obvious: one striking downward from a standing position; the other thrusting upward from a prone position. When their swords clashed, the winner was all too clear.

“Clang—”

The sharp sound of metal breaking.

With that sound, the blade of the novice sword fell to the ground, Tapfer’s weapon.

But before the blade broke, Tapfer didn’t directly clash with Lufulus. Instead, she took a reckless gamble to deflect Lufulus’s sword.

Another sound of a weapon hitting the ground—that was Lufulus’s long sword.

The ground now held the novice sword’s broken blade and an intact long sword, while both fighters above were left weaponless.

“Hmph, do you think this makes us equals in battle? Even without a weapon, I still have… (this armor).”

Before Lufulus could finish her long, useless tirade, Tapfer thrust the scabbard of her novice sword under Lufulus’s unarmored skirt.

The scabbard wasn’t stained with red, but golden yellow.

“You…”

“Surrender, Lufulus. You should know what will happen if I unleash the ‘Rainbow Crescent’, don’t you?”

She knew, which was why she dared not make a reckless move.”The Rainbow Crescent” is a skill that gathers energy into the blade and releases it all at once upon contact with the enemy, somewhat like a small-scale explosive attack.

“Although I can’t break through your ‘Heavenly Spirit Membrane,’ breaking through your hymen is trivial! If I don’t control the skill properly, it might just blow all your insides to pieces!”

“…!”

This wasn’t just a simple threat. If it was this person—this person who holds the Thief Clan Leader’s head as a trophy—she would… she would definitely blow all my insides to pieces.

“I surrender! I surrender! It’s my fault. Please don’t kill me! Don’t kill me—!”

She quickly raised her hands in surrender, tears streaming down her face in panic.

If it were an ordinary little girl crying and begging like this, a normal person might perhaps forgive. However, she wasn’t just any girl; she was the Thief Clan Leader, the villain who harmed Haitang and Rei.

Seeing no reduction in the anger in Tapfer’s eyes, Lufulus continued to beg for mercy, “Please forgive me. I won’t do anything bad again. I won’t harm anyone anymore…”

To show her complete surrender, Lufulus decided to discard her armor, leaving herself almost completely defenseless in just a dress.

Was it kindness? Tapfer retracted her scabbard and, without hesitation, turned to leave.

She fell for it—Lufulus grinned a sinister smile, quickly picking up the long sword from the ground and thrusting it towards Tapfer.

Since she had anticipated this from the beginning, the whole sequence of actions took her less than three seconds, leaving no time to defend.

It was supposed to be indefensible, yet it was evaded by a sidestep, just as if…

“Just as I thought! Surrender was just a ruse, wasn’t it?”

While sidestepping the thrust, Tapfer circled behind Lufulus, attacking her while she remained in mid-thrust and unable to defend.

“Ahhhhhhh—!?”□□ flowers bloomed, with falling red petals covering the ground like a natural carpet.

Lufulus was in so much pain that she couldn’t stand upright and could only curl up on the ground.

“You’ve lost, Lufulus,” Tapfer stated.

“Impossible—! Impossible, impossible, impossible, impossible, impossible, impossible, impossible, impossible, impossible, impossible, impossible, impossible, impossible, impossible…!” Lufulus screamed hysterically.

“I couldn’t possibly lose to a worthless human like you! Blood Fox… the Blood Fox is the strongest race! All other races should vanish, should just die—!”

Despite the intense pain, Lufulus tried to stand but still struggled to stay upright, bending at the waist to glare angrily at Tapfer.

“Listen, you inferior race! One day, I will come for you again! I will kill you, kill that Shrine Maiden! I’ll show you the power of the Blood Fox race!”

For the first time, Lufulus Xeochi felt a humiliating, hateful desire to kill. Even though she had killed thousands before, that was merely for entertainment or to pass the time. This genuine hatred was a first for her.

If torturing others to death was “entertainment,” then how would one kill out of “hatred”?

“Fate worse than death…”

Yes, that was the correct answer.

“I will make you suffer a fate worse than death, human! I’ll gouge out your eyes, cut off your ears, chop off your nose, and force those organs into your mouth, so you can laugh and chew on your own features! Then I’ll tear your skin inch by inch, strip the muscles from your limbs until just your bones remain, and then…”

Suddenly, the intense pain interrupted her sickening monologue.”Hey, hey, if you don’t stop with your teenage fantasy, your backyard will be demolished by me before you even get to kill me!”

Saying this, Tapfer again drove the scabbard into Lufulus’s body.

“I won’t do those perverse things like you, but that doesn’t mean I won’t uproot your chrysanthemums and plant sunflowers instead!”

“You’re already doing perverse things! You perverted beastly blonde human!”

“Think about yourself before saying that to others, Lufulus,” Tapfer retorted, continuously pulling out and thrusting the scabbard in. “Aren’t you also a perverted beastly blonde? Technically, we are the same! Moreover, even Senior Sister Mao was like us!”

“Senior Sister was a victim of perversion, just like me now!”

“Hey, hey, that’s not true. Senior Sister lost her head, didn’t she? But your head is still intact, right? Your chrysanthemum has grown into a sunflower, hasn’t it?”

“A chrysanthemum turning into a sunflower is proof of perversion!”

Somehow, the tense atmosphere where they were about to kill each other turned into harmony. Is this work of timid girls truly heartwarming? They actually found pleasure in talking and discussing the joy of planting together.

“Listen, changing a chrysanthemum into a sunflower isn’t perverse at all,” Tapfer explained. “In the military, it’s proof of a boy becoming a man!”

“It’s not about becoming a man; it’s about an ordinary person turning into a submissive one! And we’re women, aren’t we!”

“Senior, no, please don’t!”

“That’s my line!”

It seemed Lufulus had also honed her retorting skills to quite a high level, given she could exchange banter with Tapfer in such a situation.

In terms of perversion, beastly nature, and retorting skills, they bore a remarkable resemblance, with the sole difference between them being the Hero and thief concept.

To protect by destroying; to destroy for the sake of destruction—though their initial ideologies were different, both ended with the same outcomes.

Tapfer aimed to protect her companions and thus exterminated, tortured, and slaughtered the thieves, declaring it with extreme perverse delight.

Lufulus, from the start, intended to kill, and followed her instincts, indulging in wanton slaughter.

“You wouldn’t really accept victory this way, would you?” Tapfer suddenly proposed, “Lufulus, if you’re truly determined to prove the Blood Fox is stronger than humans, let’s fight using scabbards!”

Having said this, she retreated to maintain a distance of twenty steps.

“Scabbard to scabbard?” Lufulus let out a few cold laughs. “Do you think with the same equipment, you stand a chance against me?”

To Lufulus’s challenge, Tapfer simply smiled and said nothing.

“Very well, I’ll let you, a lowly human, witness the true power of the Blood Fox! I shall use the same armament and same techniques to brutalize you!”

Golden threads—no, golden vapors like incense smoke—rose from Lufulus’s body, enveloping her completely.

“Hey, hey, what’s that cheat of yours?”

“This is my magic, the power of the Blood Fox…”The solidified golden radiance exploded, and from within emerged a completely different Lufulus.

Golden fox ears, two fluffy fox tails with blood-red flames burning at the tips… this is…

“The Blood Fox.”

Tapfer was not afraid, just smiled wryly, “I didn’t expect you to have this form. Are you a Transformer? You can even transform…”

“Likewise, I’ve been wanting to ask, what happened to the wounds on your face?”

“Huh?” Tapfer was a bit stunned, then she touched her face, “…The wound… disappeared?”

Earlier, her face was smashed into the ground, mangled and bloody, but now only slightly scratched.

What is going on? Obviously, no healing potion was used, and even if it was, potions don’t have such powerful effects.

“No matter, whatever…” The Blood Fox raised her scabbard in front, ready to fight, “Let me make it clear, if I win, as I said before, you’ll wish you were dead, human.”

“Are you talking about gouging out eyes, cutting off ears, and nose removal? Then let me make it clear, if I win, I’ll use ‘The Elder’ to spank this naughty child.”

“What is ‘The Elder’… some kind of split-stick weapon?”

“Exactly, not only will I ravage your chrysanthemum, but I’ll also ruin your peach.”

“Hmph, if you think you can do that, bring it on, human! This isn’t a normal fight, it’s not just slaughter—it’s a brutal hell!”

They both sprinted with all their might, aiming their scabbards at each other’s hearts. What they had just said were merely threats; if they shattered the opponent’s heart with one strike, so be it. As for brutality, talk about it when the opponent can survive this move—

“Vanish!”

Like rainbows crashing to the ground, what should have been a high-altitude display of rainbow light flashed low, two arcs of rainbow intermingling.

Both shouted simultaneously, “Rainbow Crescent—!”

♀ ♀ ♀

Ape Wing Mountain Northern Desert, though the desert was essentially a facade; it was actually the location of the Mage’s Guild, “Fairy Buttocks.”

By the enormous cactus serving as the barrier entrance stood two older maidservants, clearly members of the guild.

Couldn’t they send someone more presentable to greet us? — Tapfer silently complained.”We’ve been expecting you for a long time, please enter the Fairy Buttocks!” said a mage uncle, bowing.

“…Don’t make it sound as if we’re about to engage in something inappropriate!”

The two mages chanted in sync, reducing the time nearly in half compared to when Rei opened the barrier previously—it took only two and a half minutes.

In front of them stood a familiar white stone church, its rooftop still adorned with that vulgar inverted heart shape. Moreover, the once elegant wooden door was now replaced with a steel one!

“Hey… why does this door seem even more tasteless?”

“That’s just your imagination, Sword Fighter,” explained one of the mages. “This is just a regular steel door.”

“Although I understand what you mean, it sounds exactly like a certain indecent term to me!”

Ignoring Tapfer’s remarks, the other mage silently pushed open the steel door.

He pointed to the hall ahead, “Welcome to the Big Intestine, ah, sorry, I mean the hall.”

“So you do think of it like that! This guild really is just an indecent place, isn’t it?!”

Suddenly, Tapfer perceived the warm, pale pink walls of the hall as if they were intestinal walls.

The guild’s interior was designed like a building within a building, with stairs leading from the front of the hall up to the second floor. Rei’s room was situated at the far left end on the second floor.

Just as Tapfer was about to knock on the door, it swung open from the inside, and Rei answered.

“What a surprise, useless hero,” the venomous-tongued shrine maiden smirked. “I thought for certain that Blood Fox would have killed you—it’s such a pity!”

“If it were truly unexpected, you wouldn’t have come to the door, would you?” Tapfer retorted and then shifted the topic, “What about Haitang? How is Haitang’s condition?”

“…”

At the mention of Haitang, Rei’s usual smile faded, giving way to a look of gloom. This gloomy expression didn’t last long before she forced a smile again, though this time it was a forced one.

“Relax, Haitang isn’t like a useless person like you. She’s no longer in life-threatening danger, but she is still unconscious.”

“Don’t make it sound like if it were me, I would definitely die!”

“Even though it’s due to other factors, why is it that an enemy even Haitang couldn’t defeat didn’t kill you?”

“Do you wish I were dead or something!” Tapfer didn’t know how to respond to this wicked witch and explained, “Actually, in the end, I didn’t defeat her.”

“Huh?”

“I lost, you know. In the decisive strike, I was defeated by her.”

Upon hearing this, Rei swiftly pulled out a few talismans from her sleeve and slapped them on Tapfer’s forehead, “Begone, vengeful spirit!”

“I’m still alive!”

Tapfer began to recall the end of that battle—

At that time, we used our scabbards for the final attack, unleashing the same skill. At the moment when our techniques clashed, my scabbard shattered first, while the opponent kept advancing toward me…

I thought I’d surely die then. Indeed, at that instant, a dizziness overtook me, and my vision turned completely white.

“Am I dead?”

As I wondered this, I felt the soreness of my body, and when I suddenly opened my eyes, I found myself lying in the desert.

“…What a poorly crafted tale,” Rei decided to give Tapfer a failing grade on storytelling.

“I’m not making up a story, nor am I crafting a narrative!”

“You’re not seriously telling me that Lufulus spared your defeated self and just tossed you into the desert, are you?”

Impossible.

Given Lufulus’s prior actions, she doesn’t seem like someone who would spare others’ lives.”But at that time, there wasn’t any indication of an escape skill being activated. If she stopped attacking, there must have been no other reason, right?”

“Forget it, let’s not dwell on this issue. The important thing is you’re still alive,” Rei pointed toward the adjacent room. “The room next door is vacant, so it doesn’t matter if you decide to stay or leave.”

“What do you mean? Just to be clear, I’m not joining this indecent guild!”

“Stop flattering yourself, nobody would let you join. Have you ever seen a Mage’s Guild accepting a Sword Fighter? Besides, when it comes to being indecent, no one can beat you.”

“Then I’ll just make myself at home!”

“That’s not something a guest should say!” Rei warned, “If you dare rummage through things, I’ll burn you to ashes!”

“Huh? Isn’t this your room?”

“This is Haitang’s room, mine is next door!”

Seeing Rei so agitated, could she be hiding something embarrassing?

Oh ho, what an adventurous place this might be! Objective: Uncover Rei’s secret inclinations, GO!

“Then I’m off to sleep! I’ll be sleeping soundly, don’t disturb me!” As he stepped out the door, he blew a kiss. “Goodnight, mwah~”

“Get out——!”

Rei yelled loudly enough for the entire guild to hear, rushing to the door like a hungry tiger and slamming it shut with force.

After closing the door, she sighed and whispered to herself, “…Seriously, trying to be cutely annoying is just sickening.”

Despite her words, in the next second, she focused her attention in Haitang’s direction.

“Rei-neesan, I’m going to sleep now! Goodnight, mwah!”

Indeed, the siscon witch’s delusional switch had been turned on.

While indulging in her thoughts, she walked over to Haitang’s bed, leaned down, and gently kissed her on the cheek.

The moment her lips touched Haitang’s face, tears welled up in Rei’s eyes, dripping onto Haitang’s face as she whispered, “Goodnight, Haitang.”